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resent time share purchase: want to end our contract
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resent time share purchase: want to end our contract
My wife and 3 boys were down to florida a little over 30 days ago and ended up purchasing a timeshare from Vacation Village Kissimmee. We live in St. Thomas Ontario, Canada and want to end our contract. What are our legal rights living out of the country? We've had a few changes in our situation and feel it would be a financial burden if we hold on to it. We haven't used it since our purchase obviously but still makes sense for us to get out of this contract if we can. What are our options? Any help on this matter would be appreciated.
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Re: resent time share purchase: want to end our contract
I would like to inform you that your agreement terms govern your right to termination. In this regard, generally there is a right to resell the time share bought by you. Alternatively, you may give a termination notice and in this you may be liable to pay for breach of contract as prescribed in the contract and terminate it. If the sale of time share to you was made on grounds which were fraudulent or inaccurate then you may give a written notice to the company. If the time share company does not resolve the matter then you may file a lawsuit. You can bring to the notice of the court that the agreement was not signed by free will and state the inaccurate information provided to you. The court will decide the matter after considering all the facts. Alternatively, you may report the matter to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Grandma's Gold Cake:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar (1 1/4 cups for high altitude)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour, plus 2 tablespoons
- 3 teaspoons baking powder (1 1/2 cups for high altitude)
- 1 teaspoon salt (1/2 teaspoon for high altitude)
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 cups homemade Shortbread, recipe follows
- 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons salted butter
- Lightly beaten egg whites
- 1 cup whole milk, plus 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup half-and-half
- 2/3 cups sugar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons butter, cubed small
- 1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup salted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup rice flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
Three Milks:
- 1/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon rum (recommended: Bacardi)
- Maraschino cherries
- Mint leaves
- Cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon sugar
- Cajeta
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grandma's Gold Cake Preparation:
Beat butter, add sugar, add eggs, vanilla. Beat for 2 minutes. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture and alternate with milk. Grease and flour cake pan. Line with parchment paper. Pour batter into the pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
Crust Preparation:
Process the shortbread in a food processor, pulsing until ground. Add sugar, pulse more, add butter and pulse until it looks like wet sand and holds somewhat together.
Press into a glass pie pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. Set on stove to cool. Brush lightly with beaten egg whites.
Creme Preparation:
In a double boiler, place 1 cup of whole milk, 1/4 cup of half-and-half, 2/3 cups sugar and cinnamon sticks. Let heat until boiling and turn down to medium-high heat. Separate 6 eggs saving the whites in a separate bowl. Whisk the yolks, cornstarch and the 1/4 cup additional whole milk until well blended. Using a ladle, scoop out some of the hot milk mixture and temper the eggs whisking it carefully and adding it to the hot milk mixture. Take care to continuously stir with a whisk or it will lump up. When thickened pull off of heat source and add vanilla and butter. Cover and put in freezer to cool for 10 minutes. (I use a cake pan liner)
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In a saucepan, boil the corn syrup, salt and sugar. Meanwhile, whisk egg whites in a stand mixer until firm peaks form. Take melted sugars off the stove and in a steady stream, add to the whisking egg whites. Keep whisking until glossy. Cover with a towel.
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Cream butter, add sugars, blend and add vanilla. Add flours and cornstarch carefully by hand. Set aside and chill. Roll out between 2pieces of parchment, set in a cake pan to bake, mark designs with a fork. Bake in a preheated 325 degree F oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool on a rack.
Three Milks:
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The United Nations flag came down outside the Hennepin County Government Center last week after commissioners unanimously voted to fly only the U.S., Minnesota and county flags over the red-brick plaza facing Minneapolis City Hall.
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Orange! Copper teapot with dried flowers on table in backyard.
Monday, October 11, 2010
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I love this copper watering pot. It stands foremost in your image..very bright, large and the center of attention..This is one of my favorites of yours.
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Graduate School Research Poster Conference
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The annual Research Poster Conference provides a unique opportunity for doctoral researchers at all stages of their studies to present their research to a diverse mixed-disciplined audience. The Conference is an excellent practical forum for the development of a range of essential communication and networking skills. It is also a chance for University students and staff to foster productive interdisciplinary links and find out more about the range of exciting research that takes place at the University of Birmingham. The usual resources are required to deliver the event: a venue; catering & catering staff; additional helpers to assist on the day; and a means of producing and displaying the posters. We also provided 3 doctoral researchers with the opportunity to become part of the project team that organised the Research Poster Conference.
Researcher-led training - graduate training reps
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Institution: University of Oxford
Graduate training Representatives
In 2011-12, the Humanities Division will contributed funds to each Faculty wanting to employ a graduate training representative role.
Staff Training and Development Programme
Practice No. 1284
Last modified: 27/10/2011 11:20:31
Institution: The Royal Veterinary College
The courses and workshops outlined in our programme are designed to meet the needs of all groups of staff within the College and offer a wide variety of development opportunities in five key areas:
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Engagement, Impact and Influence Programme
Practice No. 1277
Last modified: 24/06/2011 10:46:44
Institution: University of York, University of york
There is an increased expectation from funders of research on researchers to consider the wider implications of their research on society, culture and the economy. This is reflected in the addition of 'pathways to impact' documents in grant applications. So too, the Vitae RDF explicitly makes reference to the need to up skill researchers in the area of engagement, influence and impact. This includes, working with others, communication and dissemination and KT and impact.
The University of York has piloted a new skills training programme for PhD students and staff which ran November 10 - July 11. This included training in:
Enterprise and knowledge transfer - 'the research and innovation programme' - 8 part series of business planning workshops, aimed specifically at commercialisation of research and industrial engagement. the sessions were 2 hours in duration and covered- Knowledge Transfer, IP, business models for research innovation, Market analysis, financial awareness, business planning and pitching to industry.
Also, the Enterprising Researcher residential programme - 2.5 day intensive school for PGRs and postdocs.
Policy and Practice - Sessions included: Science into Policy - 2 hour session on working in the social sciences and translating research to policy makers. Also includes evidence led policy making advice. Sessions on communicating your research to lay audiences also covered aspects of communicating to policy makers.
Public Engagement - The University is working closely with the NCCPE to pilot a training programme in PE - also, sessions have run on public engagement and communicating research to different audiences.
Impact - specifically around pathways to impact, the programme offered 4 central staff sessions for cognate groups of departments broadly based around research council area, on pathways to impact.
The programme also offered 4 central PhD sessions on research with impact, designed to allow researchers to consider impact from the outset of their research careers.
The sessions are 2.5 hours in duration and pose the following questions:
1. Who will benefit from your research?
2. How will they beneift?
3. What will you do in order to ensure they have the opportunity to benefit.
The sessions are interactive, allowing participants to work in groups on a specific research idea, and build a pathway to impact- they also have the chance to view example pathways and plans, and also to review their colleagues. Where possible, academic input is also used.
Sessions on impact are also being run in the departments as part of grat writing programmes and as bespoke one off courses. Such courses have mainly been for staff in Sociology, Education, Computer Science, Arts, Politics and psychology.
Coaching and one to one support around writing pathways to impact is also offered as part of the programme.
Developing resources for social enterprise
Practice No. 930
Last modified: 25/03/2011 08:55:56
Institution: University of the West of England
Recently there has been growing interest in an alternate business model, social enterprise. This is a different way of doing business that trades for a social purpose whereby the social or environmental aims of the business are of equal importance to its commercial activities. Consequently the skills required for running a successful social enterprise combine those typical of enterprise activities generally with a strong motivation and passion for social improvement. We have found that this aspect is useful in engaging researchers because at the heart of social enterprise is a strong commitment to achieving a better society, a motivation that resonates with that which typically drives the research agenda and researchers themselves. This collaborative project with Vitae has been successful in developing written and associated video materials to explore enterprise skills with early career researchers. There are plans to disseminate the resources via Vitae as part of the ongoing move to produce development resources that are freely available to HEIs as part of the research skills development agenda, this is likely to be in January 2011. -
Ketso - a hands-on kit for effective group work and engagement
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Last modified: 12/11/2010 19:36:05
Institution: University of Manchester
Ketso is an interactive, hands-on toolkit for bringing meetings and workshops to life. It is compact and portable, simple to use and accessible to everyone. Ketso extends people's ability to run effective and enjoyable workshops - virtually anywhere and in any setting. It encourages people to be creative and share in productive dialogue, while also generating real results that can be put into action. Ketso provides a set of tabletop tools that can be used to capture and display people's ideas. It consists of colourful 'branches', 'leaves' and other materials, which can be placed on a felt workspace and easily moved around in response to changing discussion. Ketso is robust and portable, and comes in a handy carrying bag, making it easy to transport to and from events. Ketso provides a series of free resources to help you run effective workshops and engagement processes - such as workshop plans and training videos in planning and running a workshop. -
Postgraduate Enterprise Summer School
Practice No. 975
Last modified: 21/10/2010 11:57:56
Institution: University of Birmingham
The Postgraduate Enterprise Summer School, now in its sixth year, is a week long course that has been designed to teach skills in enterprise and entrepreneurship to postgraduate students at the University of Birmingham. Topics covered include innovation, marketing, business planning, financing, commercialisation and presentation skills. By the end of the course participants will: develop a business idea from the concept stage to a fully fledged business proposition; know the steps required to set up their own business; be aware of the requirements to commercialise research in an academic environment; be able to work effectively in a team environment; and identify which role they are best suited to in a business team. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation team of the Careers and Employability Centre plans, runs and facilitates the week with some teaching input. The majority of training is delivered by other internal staff, external trainers and entrepreneurs. The University's Business School hosts the event providing training rooms and IT suites. Being intensive, all lunches and refreshment breaks need to be catered and one evening dinner is provided, as an opportunity to network with successful entrepreneurs from the region. In recent years, use of software (SimVenture) and the internet, brainstorming tools (Ketso) and profiling tools (e.g. Belbin, eFACETS) have significantly enriched the programme. -
Entrepreneurial Interns Scheme
Practice No. 902
Last modified: 15/10/2010 15:32:14
Institution: University of Southampton
This scheme funds young researchers to work within entrepreneurial technology-driven business to develop: 1) a practical understanding of how to transform research ideas into commercially successful products and services; 2) leadership and transferable business skills. -
Warwick ePortfolios for research students
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The Talent Pool
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Institution: University of Birmingham
The Talent Pool provides a unique opportunity for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at all stages of their studies to engage with external organisations and develop into the next generation of academics, business consultants and entrepreneurs. The Talent Pool offers enterprise training that creates a network of students with various skills and ambitions who are able to make time for work experience, placements, internships, consultancy contracts or the chance to set up their own business, by understanding the important skills and strategies behind business ventures. The Talent Pool can be compared with other programmes that have been used at the University in previous years, such as Medici and SPEED.


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Two of the funds whose offices were searched, Diamondback Capital Management and Level Global Investors, quickly sent investors letters assuring them that the funds themselves were not criminal targets.
As the funds' managers clearly realized, sophisticated investors know that criminal inquiries can exact untold damage on corporations, as customers become wary, employees look for new opportunities, credit dries up, and management is distracted from its core business.
An increasing percentage of American business managers are similarly distracted, since over the last 20 years, regulation by prosecution has emerged as a significant new form of government control over the marketplace. This practice threatens not only private-sector businesses but also individuals' rights and the rule of law.
In 1991, the U.S. Sentencing Commission issued guidelines that, in essence, gave corporations and other organizations "credit" for "cooperating" in criminal investigations. The next year, the government entered into its first "non-prosecution agreement" with Salomon Brothers, which paid a civil penalty to avoid criminal trial.
Modern-day regulation by prosecution dates to 1999, when attorney general Eric Holder — then a deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department — issued a memorandum that formalized federal policy for determining whether a business has cooperated with a criminal investigation.
Federal pressure on corporations picked up after the dot-com stock-market bubble burst, and the 2002 conviction of Arthur Andersen, which precipitated the firm's collapse, signaled to companies that fighting overzealous prosecutors was futile.
Subsequently, nonprosecution and deferred-prosecution agreements (NPAs and DPAs) governing corporate behavior became far more commonplace.
After entering into only 17 such agreements in the first decade after the Salomon investigation, the federal government has entered into 136 NPAs and DPAs since 2002. The list of companies that have recently reached such agreements with the federal government reads like a Who's Who of international business.
Government lawyers have thus come to wield enormous power over business operations. Prosecutors have forced companies to reverse long-standing corporate policies, to sack management and directors, and to install prosecutor-appointed "business monitors" to oversee corporate activities.
The exercise of such prosecutorial power is disturbing. Prosecutors are lawyers ill-equipped to understand the complexities of the businesses they target, and when prosecutors hand-pick management with an eye toward complying with legal norms rather than weighing business risks and rewards, the results can be catastrophic.


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Stay in touch
The party's over. Obama won and, although Romney lost, he isn't a loser. The loser always evokes empathy from me whether I voted for the candidate or not. These men and women are hard working, confident, successful and unaccustomed to coming in second. I can only imagine what a bitter pill defeat is to swallow. We are fortunate to have capable individuals vying for support to lead our country. If you exercised your right to vote, and voted for the winning candidate, congratulations. If you supported Mitt Romney; Barack Obama is president. Get over it. Vindictive venom is wasted energy and usually says more about the person spewing it than their target. Let's cooperate to make our government work efficiently.
A democracy demands a well-informed electorate that not only votes but stays in contact with its representatives. We should seek out commentators, and writers, who (as boring as that may be) focus on fact rather than opinion. There is nothing wrong with listening to your favorite red meat commentator, but don't confuse his or her opinion with fact. Stay in touch with your representative. When we don't you can bet the special interest groups are taking your place and staying in touch.
First problem on the agenda, the federal budget debacle. Respectfully contact some of the people listed below. The web has their contact information. I will write to each of these individuals, to encourage compromise (I will ask them to consider budget cuts and increased taxes for the top 2 percent) in their budget balancing attempts. Please join me.
Doc Hastings, Dave Reichert, or Cathy McMorris Rodgers, House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Minority House Whip Steny Hoyer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
Connie Fliegel
The long and short of it
Donors of $2 billion in the presidential campaign could save money based on my memorable images from morning TV programs on CNN, PBS, ABC, and reviews in newspapers and the Internet.
I didn't watch anachronistic conventions, but memorable images of them are Clint Eastwood's stumbling monologue to an empty chair and reports President Clinton energized Democratic faithful. I don't remember images of Romney's or Obama's messages.
After the conventions Romney gave me memorable statements about "47 percent of the people" recorded on a small camera or cell phone. That inexpensive recorder damaged Romney's image of empathy honed by $1 billion in donations.
I didn't watch the practiced rhetoric in the debates. Before dawn after the first debate the Internet reported Romney triumphed. I watched him confidently criticizing Obama, who took notes. He looked like he needed to take notes.
Soon media broadcast images on Facebook and Saturday Night Live of Obama and Big Bird mocking Romney for saying he'd balance the budget by cutting PBS support.
After the vice-presidential debate liberal media praised Biden's smiling fact-laden dismissals of Ryan's "malarkey" and conservative media applauded Ryan's composed, respectful tolerance of a "smirking," "cranky old man."
My ballot arrived. I voted and shut out campaign rhetoric.
Then superstorm Sandy hit and both candidates dedicated themselves to helping victims. Romney turned campaign events into fundraisers, but coverage I saw reported New Jersey Gov. Christie praising Obama's support.
Perhaps Christie and the media were surprised to see Obama doing his job instead of campaigning.
I offer this message to donors of $2 billion, which includes my several small amounts to win a drawing to dine with Obama. I dreamed of lecturing him. I digress.
Donors, lobby to shorten the campaign. You'll save money, reduce random damage to your candidate and give me some relief.
Jim Russell
East Wenatchee
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Vb6 check printer status software: Code 39 Barcode Control For VB6, Unicode Controls and Classes for VB6, Count, quota, control and charge printing and more.
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Type: Demo | Releases: Dec 06, 2003 | ||||
Cost: $89.00US | Developer: SCMLsoftware | ||||
VB6 ActiveX DLL- Print and preview MSFlexGrid controls with formatting output. |
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Star Check Writer is a simple yet powerful application program used to make the process of printing your checks fast and easy. It prints on your own personal checks. Stop hand writing your checks, you have a computer and printer, use them. This program does not print your actual check, it fills in what you already have. There is no risk or costs involved with trying it out. |
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Checks that your default printer is the one you want and not that one in the Business Centre where you were working yesterday, so the confidential report you are about to print need not be read by all your colleagues or competitors. |
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Print Job Monitor is a powerful printer monitoring software to monitor printing jobs in office. With this printer monitoring software, employers can monitor all printer usage and printout activity of employees in the workplace. It will show the realtime printing status of all printers within company, such as the name of files, machine name, page numbers, user name, page size, printer name, and more. |
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The SCML RTF printer allows Visual Basic programmers to: Easily print and preview the content of RichTextBox controls. Set margins for the document. Insert page breaks. Draw a frame around text. Print only selected pages. |
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An easy solution to check if there is an active Internet connection. You will receive an audible alert whenever the connection status is changed. Also, Net Check prevents your Internet connection from appearing idle or inactive. If you are a webmaster, you can use Net Check to monitor your web site. |
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When a shipment is made, companies are poised the cargo to be in perfect condition hence do not really think about the possibility of losing the shipment. The market trend is to deliver the products in an absolute perfect condition, save any malicious intentions, however, it never runs through the trader's mind the consequences if the shipment gets damaged, stolen or lost.
Today the market is well versed with the range of available insurances especially the cargo insurance which falls under the category of marine insurance. This insurance has been significant for any business that requires movement and transfer of cargo either by road, air or sea. Many small scale traders who are of the opinion that cargo insurance or marine insurance may not be required either due to the additional cost or due to lack of knowledge, should think whether there can be any means of safety to their cargo goods whilst it is sailing on high seas.
There are indeed some traders who are of the opinion that taking insurance is merely a formality and a superfluous expense and in case of any damage to the cargo, they will seek revenge from the carrier for such loss and are hopeful to be fully compensated. Firstly, there is no doubt that taking insurance may be expensive depending on the type of cargo that is being shipped or the type of cover that will be purchased. However, for those who try to save money on insurance may face considerable damages or expenses as there is always a risk of an accident, shipwreck, plane crash, civil war, strikes, etc. and of course, all sorts of fraud, theft or even armed robbery being a common factor. It is quite common that cargoes travel several countries and probably more than one mode of transportation is used hence multiple risk on the owner of the cargo. Secondly, with all the laws defining the carrier's liability and limiting them against the cargo owners, it is not always easy to hold the carrier responsible, which may not only be a futile exercise but will also add expenses to the loss.
International or cross border trade has always been the genesis of shipping, therefore, with the variety of languages it becomes hard to understand as to who will be responsible for insuring a cargo especially when a cargo can change several hands before it has arrived at the destination. Therefore, in order to identify the responsibilities International Chamber of Commerce has published Incoterms, which are wildly used in the industry. There are 13 different terms and each Incoterm refers to a type of agreement for the purchase and shipping of goods internationally. Though this article will not deal with all the terms, however, the terms do identify the responsibility of a seller or a buyer: for example CIF (Cost Insurance and Freight) and CIP (Cost and Insurance paid to) terms would require the seller to contract for carriage on usual terms at his own expense. Therefore, the seller would have to pay transport cost and also the insurance cost.
The Insurance companies will however follow a set of terms for cargo insurance policies which has been voluntarily adopted as standard terms by many international marine insurance organizations, including the Institute of London Underwriters and the American Institute of Marine Underwriters. The present insurance policy and clauses were introduced in the 80s and is also known as Lloyd's Marine Policy and the cargo clauses are described as Institute Cargo Clauses ('ICC') A, B and C. In addition to these three sets of cargo clauses, there are various other clauses such as the Institute War Clauses (Cargo) and the Institute Strikes Clauses (Cargo).
The question that may be asked is what are the risks covered. Widest insurance cover is provided under ICC (A), whereas ICC (B) and (C) only cover risks which are restrictive in nature. The exporter who, in order to save on the premium, does not wish to insure under Clauses A but prefers to insure under Clauses B or C, should make sure that the specific risks to which his cargo may be exposed are expressly covered, and also are not excluded by the provisions of Clauses B and C. In particular each of these clauses contain (i) a risk clause; (ii) a general average clause; and (iii) a transit clause.
Risk Clauses differs in each of the clauses as the widest cover is provided by ICC (A), whereas ICC (C) restricts cover to the effects of major fortuities, viz. fire, collision, etc. As per ICC (A) the meaning of the words 'all risks' is a very wide term and the clause 1 of ICC (A) reads: "this insurance covers all risks of loss of or damage to the subject-matter insured except as provided in clauses 4,6,6 and 7 below". It is a settled practice that as long as the assured/insured can show that the loss was caused by a casualty or something accidental without proving the exact nature of the casualty or accident which caused the loss would suffice the purpose.
ICC(B) however restricts the loss of or damage to the cargo reasonably attributable to fire or explosion, the vessel or craft being stranded, grounded, sunk or capsized, the overturning or derailment of a land conveyance, the collision or contact of the vessel, craft or conveyance with any external object other than water, the discharge of the cargo at a port of distress and earthquake, volcanic eruption or lightning. This clause also covers loos or damage to the cargo caused by general average sacrifice, jettison or washing overboard and the entry of sea, lake or river water into the vessel, craft, hold, conveyance, container, liftvan or place of storage and lastly the total loss of any package lost overboard or dropped whilst loading on to or unloading from the vessel or craft. The highlighted risks are not covered by ICC (C).
The effect of Transit clause in ICC (A), (B) and (C) is to extend the sea voyage to include the risks whilst the goods are transported from the inland warehouse or place of storage to the time and place of loading, as well as the risks from the time of discharge to the delivery at the final warehouse or place of storage at the named destination. Therefore, an assured can, under this clause, for example, insure a consignment of goods from port of Niteroi to Changchun provided these placed are named in the policy as the commencement and destination of the transit.
Under the transit clause, the goods are covered from the time they leave the warehouse at the place named in the policy for the commencement of the transit and continue to be covered until they are delivered to the final warehouse at the destination named in the policy or a warehouse, whether prior to or at the destination named in the policy, but the policy provides an overriding time limit of 60 days after the completion of discharge alongside the overseas vessel at the final port of discharge; on the expiration of that time limit cover ceases even through the goods may not have reached a warehouse. If before the expiration of the 60 days after discharge the goods are forwarded to a destination other than that named in the insurance, the cover terminates when the transit begins. The 60 day's cover is very valuable for the insured if, for some reason, the goods cannot proceed to the warehouse, for instance, because the buyer has not paid the import duties, and the insured cannot dispose them quickly. The term "warehouse" has to be given its ordinary and natural meaning. The principal underlying these provisions is that the insured shall be covered until he or his buyer can reasonably be expected to have made further insurance arrangements for the goods.
ICC (A), (B) and (C) have also a clearly defined exclusions that will not be covered viz. loss/damage due to willful misconduct of the insured, ordinary leakage, ordinary wear and tear, ordinary loss in weight or volume, loss or damage due to unsuitability of packaging, loss or damage due to inherent vice, loss or damage proximately caused by delay even though the delay is caused by an insured risk, loss or damage due to insolvency or financial default of the owners/managers/charterers/operators of the vessel. As noted above ICC (B) and (C) will have additional exclusions compared to ICC (A). Further, if the cargo is being shipped to a troubled boundaries then it would be imperative to look into War Exclusion Clause which is present in ICC (A), (B) and (C), however, will attract additional premium. Such insurance covers loss or damage to the cargo caused by war, civil war revolution, capture due to covered risks or derelict weapons of war.
Similarly, the Strikes Exclusion clause is present in all three clauses, however will also attract additional premium if required in ICC (B) and (C) as the perils are not within the specific risks covered under these clauses. Such insurance covers, with specified exception, will insure the loss of or damage to the cargo caused by strikes, locked out workmen or persons taking part in labour disturbances, any terrorist activity or by any person acting from a political motive.
It is imperative for the trader to understand the importance of the insurance and the liabilities or responsibilities being attracted as there is no question of doubt that it is necessary to have cargo insurance taken up to protect against loss of or damage to cargo while being transported/shipped either by air/road or by sea. In today's competitive market, it is comparatively quite easy and straight forward to get the cargo insured. When a trader first enters the international trade arena, they often become confused by the various trade terms that are bandied about by their international suppliers or customers. The marine cargo insurance do tend to get complicated, however, it is merely a matter of clear understanding of the terms.
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At School Soup we want to help you on your Bill and Account Collectors Career path. Here in our Bill and Account Collectors career section, we have lots of great information to help you learn all about Bill and Account Collectors. If you're interested in other possible careers, please select a career from the dropdown menu below to learn more about that specific career.
Nature of the Work
Bill and account collectors,
called simply collectors, keep track of accounts that are overdue and
attempt to collect payment on them. Some are employed by third-party collection
agencies, while others, known as "in-house collectors," work directly
for the original creditors, such as department stores, hospitals, or banks.
The duties of bill and account collectors are similar in the many different organizations in which they are employed. First, collectors are called upon to locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts, usually over the telephone, but sometimes by letter. When customers move without leaving a forwarding address, collectors may check with the post office, telephone companies, credit bureaus, or former neighbors to obtain their new address. This is called "skiptracing."
Once collectors find the debtor, they inform them of the overdue account and solicit payment. If necessary, they review the terms of the sale, service, or credit contract with the customer. Collectors also may attempt to learn the cause of the delay in payment. Where feasible, they offer the customer advice on how to pay off the debts, such as by taking out a bill consolidation loan. However, the collector's objective is always to ensure that the customer first pays the debt in question.
If a customer agrees to pay, collectors record this commitment and check later to verify that the payment was indeed made. Collectors may have authority to grant an extension of time if customers ask for one. If a customer fails to respond, collectors prepare a statement indicating this for the credit department of the establishment. In more extreme cases, collectors may initiate repossession proceedings, service disconnections, or hand the account over to an attorney for legal action. Most collectors handle other administrative functions for the accounts assigned to them. This may include recording changes of addresses, and purging the records of the deceased.
Collectors use computers and a variety of automated systems to keep track of overdue accounts. Typically, collectors work at video display terminals that are linked to computers. In sophisticated predictive dialer systems, a computer dials the telephone automatically and the collector speaks only when a connection has been made. Such systems eliminate time spent calling busy or nonanswering numbers. Many collectors use regular telephones, but others wear headsets like those used by telephone operators.
Bill and account collectors held about 400,000 jobs in 2009. About 1 in 6 collectors work for collection agencies. Many others work in banks, department stores, government, hospitals, and other institutions that lend out money and extend credit.
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areas requiring collectors. With insurance reimbursements not keeping up with
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patients. Government agencies also are using collectors more to collect on everything
from parking tickets to child-support payments and past-due taxes. An increasing
number of mergers between collection agencies may reduce the overall growth
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in a bigger, more efficient firm. Contrary to the pattern in most occupations,
employment of bill and account collectors tends to rise during recessions, reflecting
the difficulty that many people have in meeting their financial obligations.
However, success at getting people to repay their debts is better when the economy
is good.
Median hourly earnings of bill and account collectors were $13.20 in May 2009. The middle 50 percent earned between $10.87 and $16.28. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $9.22, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $20.10. In addition to a basic rate of pay, many bill and account collectors earn commissions based on the amount of debt they recover.
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First Premier Bank - Platinum MasterCard Through the web, it said I would get an answer in a minute, I wanted to find more info on card limit. $179.00 bill is on my hand Siux Falls, , South Dakota
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Got the offer through regular mail..using the web, tryed to get more info about what credit limit and interest rates they had to offer. The only way is to fill out an application and get an answer in 60 seconds (acording to the page in question).
Next page I see, says that I've being aprooved and should get my card in a few days.
But guess what..I got the card, hoping to get at least a $4000 limit (since I do have good credit) with only a $400 limit,,with the paper attached to it, stating that this card is already activated and I have my first initial fee of $179.00.
What if the card would have being stolen in the mail..Already activated?
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AUTHOR: Volvo350ci - (Puerto Rico)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, December 24, 2009
To be fair,
I made a phone call to this company to fix the problem, and was attended by a very educated nice guy..No hassle, he understood my situation (I was looking for a lower interest rate, since one of my other cards just kept going up with their rates without any reason, and that one has a $5000.00 limit, so I needed about a $4000.00 limit) and he told me that they work as high as $400.00 and no more in order to help people fix or start building credit..He said "No Problem", He canceled and told me to ignore the bill, cut the card in little pieces and trash it..
I'm glad there's still some good people around...I Thank Him.
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Apparently they do send to anybody with good credit
AUTHOR: Volvo350ci - (Puerto Rico)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Stop Fooling yourself...
AUTHOR: Robert - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
..I got the card, hoping to get at least a $4000 limit (since I do have good credit) with only a $400 limit,
- First Premier is a SUB-PRIME card they do not send their credit card offers to people with "good credit". Now, you may not have had horrible credit as their credit limits start at $250 and you got $400. But if you seriously thought you were going to get a $4,000 credit limit you were just fooling yourself.
I noticed you said you went onto the web to get more information on the credit limit and interest rates. I guess you missed the "Fee Disclosure" that they put with the Credit Card offer. That disclosure has ALL of the fees and interest rates involved. But as with other credit cards, they don't put any information on the credit limit you will receive(if any) because until they actually run your FULL credit report they do not determine that.
As for sending the card "activated". They are apparently one of the last few remaining cards that do this. You are correct it can be very dangerous, and can cause problems if the card is stolen. But it is apparently the way they can assess that $179 fee right away. Depending on how your credit actually is, you can often do better with a Secured Card or look around at other banks that do not charge a ton of fees up front.
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Super Mario Kart is a racing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1992 and re-released in 1996 as a Player's Choice title. It was also released in Japan on June 9, 2009; in United States on November 23, 2009; and on April 2, 2010 in Europe and Australia as a Virtual Console title. It is the first game in the Mario Kart series and the game that set precedents to the kart racing style of video games.
[edit] CharactersAs well as the eight playable drivers, various other Mario series characters appear in Super Mario Kart. Thwomps, Piranha Plants, Monty Moles and Cheep-Cheeps are enemies that serve as obstacles in certain tracks and Boos appear in the background of other tracks, as well as serving as a usable item. As stated in the Super Mario Kart manual, Lakitu is the owner of the Super Mario Kart Race Track, and as such, he oversees all races. He holds up the starting signal and various other signs and for the price of two Coins, he also uses his fishing rod to lift any fallen drivers back onto the racetrack.
[edit] Button controls[edit] SNES
[edit] Modes of play[edit] Mario Kart GPThe Mario Kart GP is the main mode for Super Mario Kart. Here, players can race against seven other opponents in a five-course cup. The four best drivers will receive Driver Points for placing in the top four. First place gives the player nine points, second gets six, three points for third and only one for fourth. If players get fifth or below, they can try again using one of three limited lives. If they get it four times, the mode is over. A single extra life was earned by placing the same position three times. The maximum score in a GP cup is forty-five. The three best drivers will move on to the award ceremony where they can receive their trophies. Third place gives the player a bronze trophy, second gives them silver and gold for the winner. Each race is five laps long. If the player wants more of a challenge, he or she could highlight his or her character and press the A, B, X, and Y buttons at the same time. Their character will be permanently small until the player presses these buttons again. [edit] Match RaceIn this two-player mode, players can race against each other to see who is faster. The player who crosses the finish line after five laps wins the race. Hazards will also be placed on the track to add to the challenge. [edit] Time TrialIn this single-player mode, players can get the fastest time within the required number of laps. The best lap time and race time is recorded after all of the laps are played. [edit] BattleIn this mode for two people, players can battle against each other with balloons. To pop them, the player must hit their opponent with an item. The Item Panels will automatically restock after all of them have been used. Each player gets three balloons to begin the battle with and the first person to pop all the other players' three balloons wins the battle.
[edit] DriversSuper Mario Kart has eight available drivers, divided into statistically identical pairs of two. These four categories have no official name, but are referred in the manual as different classes. Later Mario Kart titles categorize characters into weight classes to organize their stats.
[edit] Courses[edit] Racing courses[edit] Battle courses[edit] Items[edit] RivalsSuper Mario Kart has a different rival system from the rest of the series; the rivals contain one very fast driver, one fast driver, one medium driver, one slow driver and three very slow drivers. It is notable that when one of the three slower drivers gets hit, that kart will keep its place, while when one of the faster cars gets shot, it will usually resume its previous place very quickly unless unable to catch up fast enough before the race ends. For this reason, the drivers (except the human racer) will (if unaffected) always finish in the exact same order. Also if the player tries to hit an opponent a majority of the time, they jump over the item. The rivals for each driver are always the same, the list will be in the order the line up for the first race. It is possible to change the order if the rivals can't recover their place at the end, (Eg. If someone is playing as Luigi and Yoshi finishes last, Yoshi will then become one of the three slower drivers while everybody takes the next position up) The rivals are determined by the current points standing, meaning that if Yoshi was still only second to the player, he will boost back to first position from the start.
[edit] DevelopmentSuper Mario Kart was born out of the idea of making a two-player racing game following F-Zero, which was exclusively single-player [1]. The prototype initially only featured a generic "guy in overalls". The decision to include Mario characters and concepts was made three to four months in development, when the developers added Mario driving one of the karts because they were curious about how the game would look, and decided that it looked better [1]. The battle mode was implemented because the developers thought it would be a good idea to include a form of one-on-one battles that didn't involving competing for ranks during the races [1].
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In addition to the above, a prototype cartridge of the game features several differences, such as the presence of animations on the podium screen when the player ranks 2nd or 3rd place, a music track for Vanilla Lake 1 that does not appear in the final build and a different Battle Course 3 set in Choco Island. [edit] ReceptionSuper Mario Kart met with very favorable reviews. The game was placed 32nd in the 100th issue of Nintendo Power's "100 best Nintendo games of all time" in 1997.[2]. In the book, Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition for 2009, Super Mario Kart was placed as the #1 best console game. The game was placed 33rd in the 200th issue of GameInformer's "Top 200 Games of all Time" in December 2009. The game was awarded the Most Critically Acclaimed Mario Kart Game by Guinness Book of World Records Gamer's Edition 2009 - 2013. [edit] Staff
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This about killed me. My quads are aching, my IT band got a good stretch, and it hurts to change gear when driving now.
However, it was great. Agony, but really good. This was a hard workout. Worke... read more
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good Trainer - on the deck 9.37 mi 00:45 12.5mph pace
Decent ride tonight. Just cruised at a relatively good pace. Better than Saturday anyway. Shoulder was aching a fair bit, so spent most of it riding sitting upright. The benefits of the trainer.
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Run 20 minutes in zone 2
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Approximately $3 million in historic gold nuggets were stolen from a display at the Siskiyou County Courthouse in Yreka, Calif., early this morning. All the gold found in the display was found in Siskiyou County, where thousands of gold-seeking forty-niners settled in the 1800s to make their fortunes.
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A man who dodged police last month allegedly spent two days below ground eluding authorities, according to police.
John Uranga is counting his lucky stars after a freak accident on Sunday night. "About 6:30 p.m. Sunday, I went to pick up my boy and ... I saw (someone) throw something out of a car," Uranga said. "And the next thing that I knew it went through the windshield and (the glass) shattered all over me and cut me on the forehead, on both sides of my face."
A J.C. Penney employee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to giving friends and relatives huge unauthorized discounts.
Police say a Massachusetts man's home security system showed him firing a gun into the air at his house Saturday and then hiding the gun after he heard police radio calls saying officers were at his house.
A Massachusetts man found sleeping naked on a residential porch Monday seemed too drunk to tell officers why he was there, police said.
Two juveniles were arraigned in court Monday morning after allegedly trying to set fire to a garage and an apartment building with makeshift Molotov cocktails. The 12- and 16-year-old boys had been playing "Grand Theft Auto" video games Saturday night before their alleged pre-dawn crime spree. "They appear to have crossed the line from virtual reality to reality," Police Chief Lou Pacheco said.
Utica, N.Y., police are trying to determine whether syrup and baby oil spilled across the hallway floors at a local high school early Monday morning were part of a senior prank or some other mishap.
Two men led police on a chase through area backyards after crashing a pickup truck into a traffic island and mowing down several traffic signs. One of the men was bitten in the buttocks by a police dog after he refused to surrender, police said.
The Coca-Cola Company would no doubt be unhappy with a West Roxbury, Mass., woman who allegedly had 11 plastic bags of cocaine concealed in a Coca-Cola can that had a screw top.
A senior prank went too far at Bartlett High School when six male students spread vegetable and baby oil throughout some hallways and stairwells Friday morning.
Lots of people behaving badly in this week's roundup of weird news as reported by GateHouse newspapers.
A heist involving Hostess snack cakes ended with the arrest of two men Tuesday morning.
In this week's edition, a man gets prison for tattooing a baby, police arrest a "ninja," a man is hurt by a falling ottoman and more.
A judge has sentenced a Louisville, Ohio, man to three years in prison for tattooing a toddler's bottom with the letter "A."
A Rockland, Mass., man was charged with receiving stolen property after police uncovered stolen GPS units at a local pawn shop along with a GPS device bearing his home address.
Police arrested two men and summoned a third to court, saying the trio - one of whom was dressed as a ninja - robbed another man in a Massachusetts state park on Monday.
A Perry Township, Ohio, police officer used his Taser gun to subdue a man Saturday who reportedly walked out of a hospital restroom with a knife in his his chest.
Police say a homeless man broke into a Framingham, Mass., home on Monday and stole a monkey wrench. He was caught the next day after a resident spotted him carrying the same pilfered tool.
A man wearing what looked like a fake mustache and a toupee robbed the Bank of America branch in Quincy, Mass., making off with an undetermined amount of cash.
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