Keon
Daniel, who has already been called-up by Trinidad & Tobago, will
not be available for Saturdays game. Daniel said, Im always happy to
play for my country. I think its an honor for every player. We havent
been in a tournament for a while and I think the whole team is eager to
play in a tournament like thisa major tournamentIt will be sad for me to
miss [MLS] games because I love being here to help my teammates. But
life goes on and thats why we are a team and not one player.
John
Hackworth described Daniel as having his most consistent year as a
professional at the highest level, and said of the effect his call-up
will have on the Union, Were going to miss (Daniel), but I think the
most logical player (to replace him) would be Michael Farfan,. I think
its an opportunity for Farfan to come back to a more natural position
for him.
Turning
to Saturdays game against Dallas the start of a four game stretch that
Hackworth said the team has talked about as being pivotal to our success
all year long there are a number of concerns.
Speaking
at Wednesdays weekly press conference (click here to watch video of the
press conference), Hackworth noted that it important that the team put
the euphoria over beating New York for the first time in two years
behind them. It is a challenge, theres no question. We need to try to do
a really good job of staying focused and not still thinking about New
York. So far this week, I think the team has responded very positively.
From what our staff can tell and in the conversations were having in our
training, were fully focused on Dallas.
Saturdays
game is the beginning of a three games in a week that includes road
games against Real Salt Lake on Wednesday and Houston the following
Saturday. Hackworth said, I think well be smart because we have to be.
Anytime youre faced with the selection challenges that we are going into
Dallas and then knowing on the back side that were going to have to
really tough road games, I think we have to play really smart. We have
to know that this stretch of three games is going to be very difficult
to get through and how we manage our roster at the time being and down a
few members is going to be important.
Hoppenot
said, We look at these next three games as being the most important of
the season. Even at the beginning of the season,We printers print with
traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. we knew this was going to be the deciding point of our season.
Myanmar
has announced the results of a landmark telecommunications auction,
permitting investment into the countrys communication infrastructure and
lifting traditional restrictions on cellphone ownership.
Telenor
Mobile Communications of Norway and Ooredoo of Qatar have won 15-year
concessions for the creation of mobile phone networks. Under military
rule, mobile phones were kept in short supply with only three percent of
the population owning such a gadget in 2011. Laos, despite similar
poverty levels,We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China has a mobile penetration rate of 87 percent.
The landmark auction paves the way for additional freedom and access to information for the countrys 55 million people.
Three
years ago, a mobile SIM card cost upwards of $2,500 which meant mobile
devices were luxuries owned by the rich. Now recovering from military
rule, mobile contracts will allow for innovation in the banking and
payment industry,A quality paper cutter or paper endofleasecleaningsydney can
make your company's presentation stand out. which is currently reliant
on cash transactions.With superior quality photometers, light meters and
a number of other iphoneheadset products.
This will be key for Myanmars economic prospects in addition to the
added bonus of improved communications infrastructure.
One
crucial element remains: only 13 percent of Myanmars population has
consistent access to electricity. This in itself will make cellular
transmission towers difficult to place. However, because Myanmar is one
of the worlds last remaining undeveloped mobile markets, the business
prospects remain promising.
Recently,
Myanmars Ministry for Hotels and Tourism unveiled a master plan to
entice more tourists across the border. The plan includes strengthening
tourism-related training and education, expanding international air
arrivals rates,You've probably seen handsfreeaccess at some point. building better transport links and streamlining tourist-based business licensing.
Despite
the long lines and Tarek el-Barkatawy, head of the Egyptian Gas and
Petroleum Company, acknowledging a gas shortage at a press conference
earlier in the week, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sherif
Hadarra denied any shortage on June 26. While Hadarra blamed the long
lines at gas stations on false rumors that the government intends to
halt the supply of gas products, el-Barkatawy reported that the current
rate of gas consumption is exceeding normal levels by 20 to 30%.
Saad
Abdel Magid, a Cairo taxi driver, also pointed to Egypts diminishing
foreign reserves, which are a major factor underlying many of the
nation's problems. The country doesnt have money, so the country doesnt
have gas, he said while staring in frustration at a downtown traffic jam
of cars haphazardly lined up near a gas station.
In
a report issued June 25, the office of the president blamed the lack of
fuel on the lack of foreign currency, but also cited smuggling and the
black market for the shortage.
Oil-rich
Iraq and Libya agreed to deals in March 2013 to supply oil to help ease
Egypt's fuel shortages, but they both fell through in June. Indicative
of a lack of confidence in Egypts economy, the talks ended when Iraq
rejected a guarantee by the Egyptian Central Bank for the $1.2 billion
value of the oil.
For
Manar el-Barrawy, a private language instructor who depends on her car
to reach her students, the lack of financial reserves, smuggling,
hoarding all seem like plausible reasons for the gas shortage. She also
thinks that the governments ineptitude in monitoring fuel supplies and
acting accordingly has a lot to do with the current problem. She told
Al-Monitor, Nothing is really clear.
Click on their website www.ecived.com/en/ for more information.
2013年6月28日星期五
Life as Performance Art
The
more we think about it, the higher our anxiety level. It doesnt help
when someone says soothingly, If youve done nothing wrong, you have
nothing to worry about. We got that advice from our parents and teachers
too, and it wasnt always trustworthy.
It leaves us wondering what other information is being collected and stored that intrudes further into our private lives and who else besides the government is keeping their eyes on us.A few years back a local grocery store offered me a rewards card. If I used it, Id get a discount on certain items.
The first time I turned it down. Its a nice enough grocery chain and Im certain all its employees are fine people, but I couldnt figure out why they insisted I had to sign up and give them all sorts of information to get the discount.
Finally I went along with the plan but gave them a different name and address. Im sure that someone at the White House mailroom is wondering why R.Online shopping for tooling.M. Nixon of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., is getting flyers from a Midwest grocery store.
There is a record of every financial transaction we make using credit or debit cards. Im sure someone has figured out how to create a spending profile on everyone using plastic instead of cash.
What films do you watch or books do you read, and what do you eat or drink? No wonder some hope that cash will soon disappear. With plastic, data gatherers can create better profiles and the friendly folks at the IRS will no longer have to obsess about the unorganized economy where cash changes hands.Do Internet research on the most innocuous seeming topic and it becomes fodder for some entity.
Maybe a friend has been diagnosed with cancer of the big toe, so you want to research it and help. That will raise the eyebrows of some insurance agency bean counter who will want to know if it wasnt really research for some pre-existing condition.Do a little research on any cutthroats around the world, and the next time you want to board a plane, someone may want to quiz you about your real travel plans.
The other problem with all this information gathering is that someone has to interpret it and I dont have a lot of faith in their accuracy. Im plain old-fashioned paranoid.You see, I play bagpipes. Most people think it is the sweetest music imaginable. Others find it offensive, especially in the early hours of the morning.
Her Britannic Majesty, I understand, has a piper marching around outside her house while shes having breakfast, so maybe she likes the sound or has triple-glazed windows.But someone in U.S. Customs once listed bagpipes as an instrument of war. Perhaps thats because they are standard-issue military gear for the Highland Regiments of Scotland.
With all this surveillance going on, those insect-sized drones with cameras and black helicopters flying over Lake Michigan from time to time, Im worried about my bagpipes being lumped in with atomic weapons, mustard gas and automatics with large-capacity magazines.
The prices of Boston Bruins tickets have increased rapidly over the past decade, in part because of basic inflation but also because of the recent success of the team. As a result,Laser engraving and laser glassbottles for materials like metal, fans who could attend games during the early part of the century can no longer afford the cost that comes along with venturing to the TD Garden to cheer on their team.
One fan, 77-year-old Marge Bishop fro Gloucester, Mass., has been going to Bruins home games since the 1960s.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China According to the Boston Globe, Bishop contemplated giving up her seats in 2004 when the price went from $73 per game to $90. However, she received a personal call from Charlie Jacobs, the son of Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, asking her to join the season-ticket advisory board. After the renewal window had closed, Jacobs made sure her tickets were not released to the public. She ended up changing her mind.
But Bishop, who is know by name around the rink because she gives chocolates to the Zamboni drivers between periods, faced the same issue in 2006 this time on a larger scale. Her seats went from $90 per game to $150 per game, and at that point she knew there was no way she could afford the increase in price. Jacobs saved the day again.
It was the most unbelievable gesture, she said. People just dont do things like that. Im just a regular person. And Ive been given this remarkable once-in-a-lifetime gift. Its incredible. Its the most remarkable story.
Since that day, she has never missed a game. Bishop usually brings her husband, but he begins work at his construction job at 5 a.m. and is sometimes too tired to attend. When that happens, she asks anyone from her physician to a random supermarket cashier named Maria to join her at the Garden.
Her name was Maria, Bishop said. She saw I was wearing a Bruins pin and she said, Oh,We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. I love the Bruins! So I asked if she wanted to join me.
And for the record, it was Bishops decision to go public with the story so you cant call it a PR stunt. Bravo, Charlie Jacobs. Maybe there is such a thing as ownership loyalty.Did you know that plasticcard chains can be used for more than just business.
Click on their website www.china-mosaics.com for more information.
It leaves us wondering what other information is being collected and stored that intrudes further into our private lives and who else besides the government is keeping their eyes on us.A few years back a local grocery store offered me a rewards card. If I used it, Id get a discount on certain items.
The first time I turned it down. Its a nice enough grocery chain and Im certain all its employees are fine people, but I couldnt figure out why they insisted I had to sign up and give them all sorts of information to get the discount.
Finally I went along with the plan but gave them a different name and address. Im sure that someone at the White House mailroom is wondering why R.Online shopping for tooling.M. Nixon of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., is getting flyers from a Midwest grocery store.
There is a record of every financial transaction we make using credit or debit cards. Im sure someone has figured out how to create a spending profile on everyone using plastic instead of cash.
What films do you watch or books do you read, and what do you eat or drink? No wonder some hope that cash will soon disappear. With plastic, data gatherers can create better profiles and the friendly folks at the IRS will no longer have to obsess about the unorganized economy where cash changes hands.Do Internet research on the most innocuous seeming topic and it becomes fodder for some entity.
Maybe a friend has been diagnosed with cancer of the big toe, so you want to research it and help. That will raise the eyebrows of some insurance agency bean counter who will want to know if it wasnt really research for some pre-existing condition.Do a little research on any cutthroats around the world, and the next time you want to board a plane, someone may want to quiz you about your real travel plans.
The other problem with all this information gathering is that someone has to interpret it and I dont have a lot of faith in their accuracy. Im plain old-fashioned paranoid.You see, I play bagpipes. Most people think it is the sweetest music imaginable. Others find it offensive, especially in the early hours of the morning.
Her Britannic Majesty, I understand, has a piper marching around outside her house while shes having breakfast, so maybe she likes the sound or has triple-glazed windows.But someone in U.S. Customs once listed bagpipes as an instrument of war. Perhaps thats because they are standard-issue military gear for the Highland Regiments of Scotland.
With all this surveillance going on, those insect-sized drones with cameras and black helicopters flying over Lake Michigan from time to time, Im worried about my bagpipes being lumped in with atomic weapons, mustard gas and automatics with large-capacity magazines.
The prices of Boston Bruins tickets have increased rapidly over the past decade, in part because of basic inflation but also because of the recent success of the team. As a result,Laser engraving and laser glassbottles for materials like metal, fans who could attend games during the early part of the century can no longer afford the cost that comes along with venturing to the TD Garden to cheer on their team.
One fan, 77-year-old Marge Bishop fro Gloucester, Mass., has been going to Bruins home games since the 1960s.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China According to the Boston Globe, Bishop contemplated giving up her seats in 2004 when the price went from $73 per game to $90. However, she received a personal call from Charlie Jacobs, the son of Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, asking her to join the season-ticket advisory board. After the renewal window had closed, Jacobs made sure her tickets were not released to the public. She ended up changing her mind.
But Bishop, who is know by name around the rink because she gives chocolates to the Zamboni drivers between periods, faced the same issue in 2006 this time on a larger scale. Her seats went from $90 per game to $150 per game, and at that point she knew there was no way she could afford the increase in price. Jacobs saved the day again.
It was the most unbelievable gesture, she said. People just dont do things like that. Im just a regular person. And Ive been given this remarkable once-in-a-lifetime gift. Its incredible. Its the most remarkable story.
Since that day, she has never missed a game. Bishop usually brings her husband, but he begins work at his construction job at 5 a.m. and is sometimes too tired to attend. When that happens, she asks anyone from her physician to a random supermarket cashier named Maria to join her at the Garden.
Her name was Maria, Bishop said. She saw I was wearing a Bruins pin and she said, Oh,We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. I love the Bruins! So I asked if she wanted to join me.
And for the record, it was Bishops decision to go public with the story so you cant call it a PR stunt. Bravo, Charlie Jacobs. Maybe there is such a thing as ownership loyalty.Did you know that plasticcard chains can be used for more than just business.
Veteran yard-sale picker Tim Weisberg shares his voyage of discovery
I'm not talking about the stuff you need. I'm not even talking about
the stuff you want. It's the stuff that you didn't know you needed, that
you were unaware you wanted, until you see it sitting on a blanket in
someone's front yard.
For some,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a formalofficdresses for you! there's a stigma attached to yard-sale shopping, that those who buy such things are doing so because they're poor or needy. Wanting someone else's castoffs doesn't seem normal, even if one man's trash is another man's treasure.
But for some, like me, it isn't so much about the items being purchased as it is the thrill of hunting down bargains and striking a deal.
A 2012 study conducted by the Statistic Brain Research Center said that an average of 165,000 yard/garage sales take place in the United States each week, with an average of 690,000 people purchasing something at one. There are some yard sales I have to fight off a good portion of that number just to get a look into a box of old record albums.
The average price of a yard sale item is just 85 cents, according to the study. I don't know where they're shopping,We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China because to me, the average price seems to be $2. Because whenever I ask how much something is, the most common response is, "I don't know, two dollars?"
Yard sales might just be the only capitalist enterprise where the seller is largely unaware of the value of the items they are trying to sell.An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. It's about feeling out the market, and especially the prospective buyer. Those little neon stickers or tie-on tags are a rarity, as most sales are the result of a drawn-out back-and-forth that usually ends with both sides feeling as if they've won.
To me, this often seems ridiculous because the basic tenet of the yard sale should eliminate the need for excessive haggling. Here's a bunch of stuff I don't want anymore. It's not good enough to be in my house, so it's on my lawn. If nobody buys it, I'm going to put it in a box marked "FREE" and leave it by the curb. But no, I can't accept $8 for that $10 pair of cowboy boots.
Yet the haggling has to happen because that's the thrill. It's what Donald Trump called "the art of the deal." So what if he was talking about billion-dollar properties as opposed to boxes full of old dishes? There's still an adrenaline rush associated with scoring the right item at the right price.
During the past couple of weekends, I took to the main streets and the back roads of the SouthCoast in search of yard sale deals and steals. It wasn't like it was in my heyday, when I'd check The Standard-Times for all the yard sale listings and start plotting out a plan of attack days in advance, filling my truck with gas on Friday night so I wouldn't have to waste time on Saturday morning and missing out on "early bird" deals.
No, weekend work and responsibilities have lessened my yard sale time nowadays to just stopping when we pass one on our way from one place to another. It probably irks my wife Jennifer a little that once I see a yard sale sign, I have to follow it or if I'm in the passenger seat, force her to follow it until I see what treasures it might hold. So getting back in the "yard sale groove" felt pretty good.
My first day out on the road, I took Jennifer and our son Adam along for the fun. Both are seasoned shoppers like I am, and my wife and I have buying items on the cheap and turning them around online for profit down to a science. We've been doing it for as long as we've been married, and she's become a first-rate eBayer in that time.
The Statistic Brain study also said that the average profit margin for items purchased at yard sales and resold on eBay is about 462 percent, and that sounds about right based on our experiences. Some say auction websites and the "Online Yard Sale of "?" pages that have popped up on Facebook have ruined the good, old-fashioned all-American yard sale, but trust me, it's still alive and thriving.
After a morning at the soccer fields, we decided to head west. I'd heard about a 16-family yard sale happening in the Brandt Beach section of Mattapoisett. One of the first rules of yard sales is that location is everything, both for the seller and for the buyer. If you're too far off the beaten path, it's going to take a lot of advertising to get the word out, and teaming up with neighbors is a good way to cut costs and help lure traffic.
And buyers know that better neighborhoods mean better items; it may sound socioeconomically biased, but it's true. If you want good stuff, go to the places where people have good stuff.
The 16-family sale, which stretched across three neighborhoods, was the idea of Marissa Perez-Dormitzer,Virtual miningtruck logo Verano Place logo. who spent weeks putting it all together.
"I've always wanted to have a yard sale, and I've seen people have them here and there down this way, so I thought it would make sense to have them all on one day," she said. "It's been a community event. I didn't know all of the neighbors, but now I feel I do after they've been contacting me and I've been visiting them as we brought this all together."
"She recently passed away, and they are things we're not using," she said. "We're in a new phase of our lives with kids, and things I have around like earrings I've had since I was a teenager, I don't need them anymore."
While in Brandt Beach, we encountered Diane Perry and her daughter Laura, who were selling an eclectic bunch of board games and other assorted items for near-retail prices. Admittedly, this was Diane's first yard sale, so she was pretty new to how it all worked.
"I just figured if I could get rid of half the stuff I wanted to, I'd be happy, and I almost have," she said.
The centerpiece of the Perrys' wares was a solid oak corner shelf that had an asking price of $300. It was a beautiful piece, one more at home at a furniture showroom than by the side of the road.
Ah, yes cash. It's still king at yard sales I can't tell you how many times I've given someone a five-spot to hold on to an item while I ran to an ATM and prayed the whole time that they were trustworthy but plastic is starting to make some headway (no self-respecting yard sale seller should EVER accept a check). The new Square and PayPal Here readers that allow smartphones to become credit card terminals are finally showing up at yard sales across the SouthCoast, as sellers are willing to cough up a small percentage in fees in order to move bigger-ticket items. It's revolutionizing yard sales, even if it is putting a bigger dent in my credit card bill.
Rolling down the streets of Fairhaven and Acushnet, we stopped at a number of smaller yard sales that just didn't seem to have anything with pizzazz. It was a lot of clutter that had just moved from the house to the front lawn, and nothing really grabbed me. But as I went from sale to sale, I realized I was starting to see some of the same faces shopping alongside me. This is a common occurrence when one decides to "go yard saling." There is a pretty regular bunch of bargain hunters in any given area, and it often becomes as much about beating out the other guy than getting a good buy.
Fairhaven brought about a good stop in which Jennifer scored a roasting oven and buffet serving inserts that will come in handy when people come over, while Adam found a really cool "home planetarium" that projects the stars and constellations onto his bedroom ceiling, complete with a CD of a 45-minute audio presentation.The feeder is available on drying chipcard equipped with folder only. Yet I still hadn't found anything for myself.
Click on their website www.ecived.com/en/ for more information.
For some,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a formalofficdresses for you! there's a stigma attached to yard-sale shopping, that those who buy such things are doing so because they're poor or needy. Wanting someone else's castoffs doesn't seem normal, even if one man's trash is another man's treasure.
But for some, like me, it isn't so much about the items being purchased as it is the thrill of hunting down bargains and striking a deal.
A 2012 study conducted by the Statistic Brain Research Center said that an average of 165,000 yard/garage sales take place in the United States each week, with an average of 690,000 people purchasing something at one. There are some yard sales I have to fight off a good portion of that number just to get a look into a box of old record albums.
The average price of a yard sale item is just 85 cents, according to the study. I don't know where they're shopping,We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China because to me, the average price seems to be $2. Because whenever I ask how much something is, the most common response is, "I don't know, two dollars?"
Yard sales might just be the only capitalist enterprise where the seller is largely unaware of the value of the items they are trying to sell.An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building. It's about feeling out the market, and especially the prospective buyer. Those little neon stickers or tie-on tags are a rarity, as most sales are the result of a drawn-out back-and-forth that usually ends with both sides feeling as if they've won.
To me, this often seems ridiculous because the basic tenet of the yard sale should eliminate the need for excessive haggling. Here's a bunch of stuff I don't want anymore. It's not good enough to be in my house, so it's on my lawn. If nobody buys it, I'm going to put it in a box marked "FREE" and leave it by the curb. But no, I can't accept $8 for that $10 pair of cowboy boots.
Yet the haggling has to happen because that's the thrill. It's what Donald Trump called "the art of the deal." So what if he was talking about billion-dollar properties as opposed to boxes full of old dishes? There's still an adrenaline rush associated with scoring the right item at the right price.
During the past couple of weekends, I took to the main streets and the back roads of the SouthCoast in search of yard sale deals and steals. It wasn't like it was in my heyday, when I'd check The Standard-Times for all the yard sale listings and start plotting out a plan of attack days in advance, filling my truck with gas on Friday night so I wouldn't have to waste time on Saturday morning and missing out on "early bird" deals.
No, weekend work and responsibilities have lessened my yard sale time nowadays to just stopping when we pass one on our way from one place to another. It probably irks my wife Jennifer a little that once I see a yard sale sign, I have to follow it or if I'm in the passenger seat, force her to follow it until I see what treasures it might hold. So getting back in the "yard sale groove" felt pretty good.
My first day out on the road, I took Jennifer and our son Adam along for the fun. Both are seasoned shoppers like I am, and my wife and I have buying items on the cheap and turning them around online for profit down to a science. We've been doing it for as long as we've been married, and she's become a first-rate eBayer in that time.
The Statistic Brain study also said that the average profit margin for items purchased at yard sales and resold on eBay is about 462 percent, and that sounds about right based on our experiences. Some say auction websites and the "Online Yard Sale of "?" pages that have popped up on Facebook have ruined the good, old-fashioned all-American yard sale, but trust me, it's still alive and thriving.
After a morning at the soccer fields, we decided to head west. I'd heard about a 16-family yard sale happening in the Brandt Beach section of Mattapoisett. One of the first rules of yard sales is that location is everything, both for the seller and for the buyer. If you're too far off the beaten path, it's going to take a lot of advertising to get the word out, and teaming up with neighbors is a good way to cut costs and help lure traffic.
And buyers know that better neighborhoods mean better items; it may sound socioeconomically biased, but it's true. If you want good stuff, go to the places where people have good stuff.
The 16-family sale, which stretched across three neighborhoods, was the idea of Marissa Perez-Dormitzer,Virtual miningtruck logo Verano Place logo. who spent weeks putting it all together.
"I've always wanted to have a yard sale, and I've seen people have them here and there down this way, so I thought it would make sense to have them all on one day," she said. "It's been a community event. I didn't know all of the neighbors, but now I feel I do after they've been contacting me and I've been visiting them as we brought this all together."
"She recently passed away, and they are things we're not using," she said. "We're in a new phase of our lives with kids, and things I have around like earrings I've had since I was a teenager, I don't need them anymore."
While in Brandt Beach, we encountered Diane Perry and her daughter Laura, who were selling an eclectic bunch of board games and other assorted items for near-retail prices. Admittedly, this was Diane's first yard sale, so she was pretty new to how it all worked.
"I just figured if I could get rid of half the stuff I wanted to, I'd be happy, and I almost have," she said.
The centerpiece of the Perrys' wares was a solid oak corner shelf that had an asking price of $300. It was a beautiful piece, one more at home at a furniture showroom than by the side of the road.
Ah, yes cash. It's still king at yard sales I can't tell you how many times I've given someone a five-spot to hold on to an item while I ran to an ATM and prayed the whole time that they were trustworthy but plastic is starting to make some headway (no self-respecting yard sale seller should EVER accept a check). The new Square and PayPal Here readers that allow smartphones to become credit card terminals are finally showing up at yard sales across the SouthCoast, as sellers are willing to cough up a small percentage in fees in order to move bigger-ticket items. It's revolutionizing yard sales, even if it is putting a bigger dent in my credit card bill.
Rolling down the streets of Fairhaven and Acushnet, we stopped at a number of smaller yard sales that just didn't seem to have anything with pizzazz. It was a lot of clutter that had just moved from the house to the front lawn, and nothing really grabbed me. But as I went from sale to sale, I realized I was starting to see some of the same faces shopping alongside me. This is a common occurrence when one decides to "go yard saling." There is a pretty regular bunch of bargain hunters in any given area, and it often becomes as much about beating out the other guy than getting a good buy.
Fairhaven brought about a good stop in which Jennifer scored a roasting oven and buffet serving inserts that will come in handy when people come over, while Adam found a really cool "home planetarium" that projects the stars and constellations onto his bedroom ceiling, complete with a CD of a 45-minute audio presentation.The feeder is available on drying chipcard equipped with folder only. Yet I still hadn't found anything for myself.
Click on their website www.ecived.com/en/ for more information.
Dutch central bank comes down in favour of hard cash
In
a bulletin posted on its Web site, the Dutch central bank says it is
committed to "maintaining cash as a universally useable and available
payment instrument and a smoothly functioning cash chain".
The latest research by DNB reveals that the volume of debit card payments at Dutch points of sale has increased from 81 billion in 2010 to 84 billion in 2012. At the same time, cash withdrawals at ATMs dropped from 52 billion in 2010 to 49 billion in 2012.
So in terms of sales, the card has overtaken cash, but in terms of transaction numbers, cash is still the dominant means of payment, with 3.8 billion cash payments made at Dutch counters in 2012, against 2.5 billion card transactions.
While acknowledging the desirable efficiency gains of debit card usage,Which buymosaic is right for you? the bank points out that cash is still the only means of payment that is accepted virtually everywhere, while it also serves as the principal alternative in case the electronic payment chain should break down. It also has a key role to play in promoting financial inclusion among the underbanked sectors of the economy and preserving the consumer's right to privacy, says the Dutch central bank.
In March this year,Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices. a group of Dutch banks and MasterCard held a special musical, cashless 'thank you' event for the country's shop workers to reward them for their endeavours in promoting the use of plastic cards over physical currency. All 1700 attendees were given PayPass bracelets loaded with EUR7.50, enabling them to pay for refreshments with a flick of their wrists using MasterCard's contactless payment technology.
While not frowning per se on the current experiments with cashless shops, DNB says that it would regard any larger-scale refusal or pricing of cash payments as "undesirable".
"DNB expects cash to remain indispensable for some time to come," says tthe central bank bulletin. "For this reason, cash should remain generally available as an all-purpose means of payment, implying that consumers must be readily able to withdraw and deposit cash from and into their bank accounts. Retailers, in turn, should have easy means at their disposal to deposit counter receipts into their bank accounts."
"I landed in London feeling a combination of jet lag, excitement, and, thanks to the selection of airline food, hunger. So, I went to buy a sandwich. I quickly realised I had forgotten my credit card and had nothing on me but US dollars. I instinctively grabbed for my phone, assuming it would solve this problem like it did so many others. But alas, it didn't," the 22 year old writes.
Duplan argues that money and commerce have been left behind in the Internet and mobile age: "There are close to one million apps in the Apple App Store. Yet, none let you comfortably go a week or even a couple of days without paper bills or plastic cards...In fact, most people around the world still rely on the same technology humans used centuries ago: paper and coins."
Returning to the US, Duplan launched Clinkle in 2011 with a group of fellow students, building a smartphone app designed to make it easy for users to pay merchants and friends.The firm is keeping the details of the service under wraps, and has a noticeably slick but contentless Web site. However,We have become one of the worlds most recognised indoortracking brands. participants in a small beta test at Stanford gushed about the app's intuitive and social nature to TechCrunch.
The app now looks set to come to "university students across America this upcoming year," says Duplan.Among the big name investors taking part in the $25 million funding round - which will mainly be used to hire more talent - are Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Intuit,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other iphoneheadset products. Thiel, former vice chairman of Wells Fargo Bob Joss, and VMWare co-founders Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum.
Brad Smith, CEO, Intuit, says: "It's clear to us that Lucas and his team have achieved impressive technological breakthroughs. Financial transactions are ripe for disruption and we're excited about Clinkle's potential."
RentMoola claims to be the first online service in Canada that enables renters to collect rewards and points by paying with plastic. The service allows for one-time or routine payments to be made through a registered credit card online or on mobile devices.
The company charges the renter a 2.75-per-cent fee for each payment, which, it argues, is offset by Air Miles and other rewards collected by the consumer.But Scott Hannah, president of the non-profit Credit Counselling Society, warns theres a cost to the convenience and renters should beware.
Relying on credit to pay for life necessities such as rent is dangerous financial practice, he said. Plus, RentMoolas claim that credit card kickbacks will offset its fee is unlikely to hold true for most renters.
Looking at the best reward points where you might get maybeAulaundry is a leading luggagetag and equipment supplier. two per cent (back), its unlikely that its going to work in your favour, he said.Paying rent by credit card is typically not an option because landlords arent willing to pay processing fees to credit companies. By law, they cant pass these extra costs on to tenants.
Click on their website www.jnzzl.com for more information.
The latest research by DNB reveals that the volume of debit card payments at Dutch points of sale has increased from 81 billion in 2010 to 84 billion in 2012. At the same time, cash withdrawals at ATMs dropped from 52 billion in 2010 to 49 billion in 2012.
So in terms of sales, the card has overtaken cash, but in terms of transaction numbers, cash is still the dominant means of payment, with 3.8 billion cash payments made at Dutch counters in 2012, against 2.5 billion card transactions.
While acknowledging the desirable efficiency gains of debit card usage,Which buymosaic is right for you? the bank points out that cash is still the only means of payment that is accepted virtually everywhere, while it also serves as the principal alternative in case the electronic payment chain should break down. It also has a key role to play in promoting financial inclusion among the underbanked sectors of the economy and preserving the consumer's right to privacy, says the Dutch central bank.
In March this year,Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices. a group of Dutch banks and MasterCard held a special musical, cashless 'thank you' event for the country's shop workers to reward them for their endeavours in promoting the use of plastic cards over physical currency. All 1700 attendees were given PayPass bracelets loaded with EUR7.50, enabling them to pay for refreshments with a flick of their wrists using MasterCard's contactless payment technology.
While not frowning per se on the current experiments with cashless shops, DNB says that it would regard any larger-scale refusal or pricing of cash payments as "undesirable".
"DNB expects cash to remain indispensable for some time to come," says tthe central bank bulletin. "For this reason, cash should remain generally available as an all-purpose means of payment, implying that consumers must be readily able to withdraw and deposit cash from and into their bank accounts. Retailers, in turn, should have easy means at their disposal to deposit counter receipts into their bank accounts."
"I landed in London feeling a combination of jet lag, excitement, and, thanks to the selection of airline food, hunger. So, I went to buy a sandwich. I quickly realised I had forgotten my credit card and had nothing on me but US dollars. I instinctively grabbed for my phone, assuming it would solve this problem like it did so many others. But alas, it didn't," the 22 year old writes.
Duplan argues that money and commerce have been left behind in the Internet and mobile age: "There are close to one million apps in the Apple App Store. Yet, none let you comfortably go a week or even a couple of days without paper bills or plastic cards...In fact, most people around the world still rely on the same technology humans used centuries ago: paper and coins."
Returning to the US, Duplan launched Clinkle in 2011 with a group of fellow students, building a smartphone app designed to make it easy for users to pay merchants and friends.The firm is keeping the details of the service under wraps, and has a noticeably slick but contentless Web site. However,We have become one of the worlds most recognised indoortracking brands. participants in a small beta test at Stanford gushed about the app's intuitive and social nature to TechCrunch.
The app now looks set to come to "university students across America this upcoming year," says Duplan.Among the big name investors taking part in the $25 million funding round - which will mainly be used to hire more talent - are Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Intuit,With superior quality photometers, light meters and a number of other iphoneheadset products. Thiel, former vice chairman of Wells Fargo Bob Joss, and VMWare co-founders Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum.
Brad Smith, CEO, Intuit, says: "It's clear to us that Lucas and his team have achieved impressive technological breakthroughs. Financial transactions are ripe for disruption and we're excited about Clinkle's potential."
RentMoola claims to be the first online service in Canada that enables renters to collect rewards and points by paying with plastic. The service allows for one-time or routine payments to be made through a registered credit card online or on mobile devices.
The company charges the renter a 2.75-per-cent fee for each payment, which, it argues, is offset by Air Miles and other rewards collected by the consumer.But Scott Hannah, president of the non-profit Credit Counselling Society, warns theres a cost to the convenience and renters should beware.
Relying on credit to pay for life necessities such as rent is dangerous financial practice, he said. Plus, RentMoolas claim that credit card kickbacks will offset its fee is unlikely to hold true for most renters.
Looking at the best reward points where you might get maybeAulaundry is a leading luggagetag and equipment supplier. two per cent (back), its unlikely that its going to work in your favour, he said.Paying rent by credit card is typically not an option because landlords arent willing to pay processing fees to credit companies. By law, they cant pass these extra costs on to tenants.
Click on their website www.jnzzl.com for more information.
2013年6月26日星期三
Learning to love the mobile wallet
For decades, the word loyalty in marketing has naturally been
followed by the word card, and there are many brands still making this
traditional form of customer relationship management (CRM) work. Costa
Coffee Club has won successive Marketing Week Engage awards for CRM that
primarily fuses plastic cards with personalised email.
But today the proliferation of media channels means brands have more options for making their loyalty schemes available to consumers in the places that are most convenient for them.
At loyalty brand Nectar, marketing director James Frost says: We have seen the user base of our Nectar mobile app grow by 70 per cent in the past year, 40 per cent of the statements we send out are electronic and we believe loyalty is going to be critical to companies that want to win the mobile wallet war.Laser engraving and laser glassbottles for materials like metal,
He says the brands aim is to create an experience for the customer whereby they can live out the Nectar journey end to end on a mobile device. The main features involved in achieving this include paperless coupons and location-based targeting.
In the case of the former, a coupon is sent via the Nectar mobile app and the customer is prompted to accept it; having done so they will automatically have it applied to the purchase the next time they use their Nectar membership when shopping. Nectars location-based communications, meanwhile, work by reminding consumers of live offers in nearby stores that are Nectar partners.
In both cases the customer benefits from being freed from the constraints of a physical voucher, while Nectar benefits from being able to use personalised push marketing that, in theory at least, is seen as helpful by the recipient.
Similarly, Games new director of insight and loyalty Fred Prego recently told Marketing Week (MW 13 June) that the video game retailers app is now fundamental to its reward programme, for example offering a store locator function and the recently launched accolades initiative. Accolades are awarded for carrying out actions such as trading in a game for the first time.
But thats not all the app does. Prego adds: Not only does it add tools for the customer, it also helps us gain an insight into each customer and how they are using the app, through which we are listening, monitoring and talking to them,Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier. and launching new functionalities they need and have been asking us for.
Mobile devices are now crucial to loyalty, according to Mark Stevenson, managing director of mobile network O2s Priority loyalty scheme. He calls them the remote control to our customers lives, which allows us to have two-way conversations encouraging engagement and building loyalty with an ongoing interaction.
As with Nectar, one of the O2 Priority schemes main selling points is location-specific offers, or Priority Moments, which the brand has developed with strategic agency Cherry London. They include exclusive deals on retail vouchers, cinema tickets and music gigs.
Stevenson explains: We knew when we launched Priority Moments it was go big or go home C O2 had to offer its customers something they couldnt get anywhere else. At the heart of Priority Moments is location-based technology and valuable customer insights, as well as the sequencing of relevant experiences and rewards, which enable us to reach and excite over 23 million customers, wherever they may be.
Mobile, then,The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. is clearly the key way many brands loyalty programmes are evolving. But it is not the only one. The full list of channels that O2 Priority uses to communicate is long and varied, according to Stevenson. As well as mobile communication via the app, instant messaging and text messages, Priority also connects with consumers through email, 460 high street retail stores, contact centres with around 3,500 staff and brand experiences such as O2 angels, who give out free lunches from Upper Crust kiosks at train stations.
Whats more, brands are now realising that people will inevitably take to social media to comment on their experiences of giving companies their custom and that being able to respond helpfully can increase loyalty.Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier.
Health retailer Holland & Barrett, as part of its current brand campaign with agency RKCR/Y&R, recently began offering consumers 20 per cent off purchases if staff on social media are unable to give them a satisfactory answer to an enquiry.The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. Similarly, Game is enthusiastically adopting social media at a local level, using individual store Twitter accounts linked to its loyalty app to promote events.
Hotel group Accor, which owns the Sofitel, Novotel and Ibis brands, uses Facebook as its main social media channel. Guests can use it to check in at a hotel and then earn additional loyalty points, or to tag hotels in their Facebook updates and recommend them to their friends. Accor senior vice-president for loyalty Isabelle Birem adds that customers can also use social media to contact the companys multi-language customer care teams.
Click on their website austpay.com for more information.
But today the proliferation of media channels means brands have more options for making their loyalty schemes available to consumers in the places that are most convenient for them.
At loyalty brand Nectar, marketing director James Frost says: We have seen the user base of our Nectar mobile app grow by 70 per cent in the past year, 40 per cent of the statements we send out are electronic and we believe loyalty is going to be critical to companies that want to win the mobile wallet war.Laser engraving and laser glassbottles for materials like metal,
He says the brands aim is to create an experience for the customer whereby they can live out the Nectar journey end to end on a mobile device. The main features involved in achieving this include paperless coupons and location-based targeting.
In the case of the former, a coupon is sent via the Nectar mobile app and the customer is prompted to accept it; having done so they will automatically have it applied to the purchase the next time they use their Nectar membership when shopping. Nectars location-based communications, meanwhile, work by reminding consumers of live offers in nearby stores that are Nectar partners.
In both cases the customer benefits from being freed from the constraints of a physical voucher, while Nectar benefits from being able to use personalised push marketing that, in theory at least, is seen as helpful by the recipient.
Similarly, Games new director of insight and loyalty Fred Prego recently told Marketing Week (MW 13 June) that the video game retailers app is now fundamental to its reward programme, for example offering a store locator function and the recently launched accolades initiative. Accolades are awarded for carrying out actions such as trading in a game for the first time.
But thats not all the app does. Prego adds: Not only does it add tools for the customer, it also helps us gain an insight into each customer and how they are using the app, through which we are listening, monitoring and talking to them,Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier. and launching new functionalities they need and have been asking us for.
Mobile devices are now crucial to loyalty, according to Mark Stevenson, managing director of mobile network O2s Priority loyalty scheme. He calls them the remote control to our customers lives, which allows us to have two-way conversations encouraging engagement and building loyalty with an ongoing interaction.
As with Nectar, one of the O2 Priority schemes main selling points is location-specific offers, or Priority Moments, which the brand has developed with strategic agency Cherry London. They include exclusive deals on retail vouchers, cinema tickets and music gigs.
Stevenson explains: We knew when we launched Priority Moments it was go big or go home C O2 had to offer its customers something they couldnt get anywhere else. At the heart of Priority Moments is location-based technology and valuable customer insights, as well as the sequencing of relevant experiences and rewards, which enable us to reach and excite over 23 million customers, wherever they may be.
Mobile, then,The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. is clearly the key way many brands loyalty programmes are evolving. But it is not the only one. The full list of channels that O2 Priority uses to communicate is long and varied, according to Stevenson. As well as mobile communication via the app, instant messaging and text messages, Priority also connects with consumers through email, 460 high street retail stores, contact centres with around 3,500 staff and brand experiences such as O2 angels, who give out free lunches from Upper Crust kiosks at train stations.
Whats more, brands are now realising that people will inevitably take to social media to comment on their experiences of giving companies their custom and that being able to respond helpfully can increase loyalty.Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier.
Health retailer Holland & Barrett, as part of its current brand campaign with agency RKCR/Y&R, recently began offering consumers 20 per cent off purchases if staff on social media are unable to give them a satisfactory answer to an enquiry.The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. Similarly, Game is enthusiastically adopting social media at a local level, using individual store Twitter accounts linked to its loyalty app to promote events.
Hotel group Accor, which owns the Sofitel, Novotel and Ibis brands, uses Facebook as its main social media channel. Guests can use it to check in at a hotel and then earn additional loyalty points, or to tag hotels in their Facebook updates and recommend them to their friends. Accor senior vice-president for loyalty Isabelle Birem adds that customers can also use social media to contact the companys multi-language customer care teams.
Click on their website austpay.com for more information.
Diluted oil sands crude poses no higher pipeline risk
The heavy oil sands crude that would flow through Keystone XL is no
more likely to cause pipelines to corrode and fail than other crudes,
according to a government study Tuesday that could give a boost to the
controversial TransCanada Corp. project.
But the report by the National Academy of Sciences did not examine the challenges in cleaning up any spills of dense Canadian bitumen that can only be transported through U.S. pipelines after it is diluted with lighter oils.
And critics said the study focused too much on the risks of pipeline transmission of diluted bitumen in comparison with other heavy crude not lighter oils and petroleum products that historically have been the mainstay of the U.S. pipeline network.
As a result, environmentalists said, the 114-page report released Tuesday doesnt shed enough light on potential risks of bringing more of the Canadian oil sands crude into the United States, whether by TransCanadas proposed Keystone XL or other pipelines.
Although heavy Canadian crude has been transported in the United States for more than three decades, safety concerns have spiked in response to recent spills and the large uptick in imports.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. The U.S. is now importing about 2 million barrels per day of heavy crude and diluted bitumen from Canada, up from about 200,000 barrels in the late 1990s.Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices.
All crude oils have to meet the same criteria when put in a pipeline, which protects the pipeline and communities along its route, as well as the quality of all transported crudes, said Peter Lidiak, pipeline director for the American Petroleum Institute. Since the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety began keeping detailed statistics in 2002, not a single corrosion-related pipeline release from pipelines carrying any Canadian crude has been reported.
The academys study concluded that diluted bitumen does not have unique or extreme properties that make it more likely than other crude oils to cause internal damage to transmission pipelines from corrosion or erosion. Because diluted bitumen also known as dilbit is comparable in viscosity and density to other crude oils, it moves through pipelines in a similar manner, the scientists found.
Mark Barteau, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, who headed the committee that wrote Tuesdays report, said that once lightened for transport, the density and viscosity of diluted bitumen are comparable with those of other crude oils.
Diluted bitumen moves through pipelines in a manner similar to other crude oils with respect to flow rate, pressure, and operating temperature, Barteau added.Aulaundry is a leading luggagetag and equipment supplier. Theres nothing extraordinary about pipeline shipments of diluted bitumen to make them more likely than other crude oils to cause releases.
Barteau emphasized that the study examined dilbit in comparison to the properties represented by dozens of other crudes.
Recognizing there are a variety of different crudes that are in the syste, including conventional heavy crudes, it is fair to say that diluted bitumen is most comparable to heavy crudes that are in commerce than the light crudes, Barteau told reporters in a conference call. But it is certainly within . . . the envelope of properties represented by conventional materials in the pipeline system.Bringing iccard mainstream.
The study was compelled by legislation enacted in early 2012 that required pipeline regulators to assess whether transporting diluted bitumen translates into higher risks of spills. As part of its work, the National Academy of Sciences committee studying the issue including representatives from Houston and San Antonio examined information from previous pipeline incidents and data on the chemical and physical properties of diluted bitumen and other crude oils.
But the scope of the study was narrow. In commissioning the investigation, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration asked for it to focus on whether dilbit poses higher pipeline corrosion and failure risks not what happens to the hydrocarbon when spills happen. The final report also did not examine whether current federal regulations and pipeline oversight was sufficient.
The report issued today only tells us that the probability of a failure of a pipeline carrying dilbit is no different than the probability of the failure of an oil pipeline carrying other types of heavy oils, Weimer said. PHMSA has so far failed to analyze whether the consequences of dilbit pipeline failures are greater than those of conventional oil spills.
Anthony Swift, with the Natural Resources Defense Council, stressed that the NAS study ignores the behavior of diluted bitumen once it has spilled.When diluted bitumen poured from an Enbridge pipeline into Michigans Kalamazoo River three years ago, the heavy sticky hydrocarbon sank and did not break down like conventional crudes.
The report bolsters arguments by TransCanada and its supporters who insist that even though the proposed Keystone XL project would transport diluted bitumen, synthetic crude oil and other Canadian crudes across the United States, it would not translate into higher spill risks for communities in the pipelines path.
That $7 billion project now under review at the State Department would be a key avenue for oil sands crude harvested in Canada to reach refineries along the Gulf Coast. In the meantime, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is already under construction, and, trains are delivering bitumen to the region.
As hard as a hockey puck at 50 degrees,We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. bitumen is an extra-heavy crude oil that generally cannot flow unheated. To ready the harvested hydrocarbon for pipeline transport, it is typically blended with condensate or other diluents for a blend that ultimately contains 50 percent to 75 percent bitumen by volume.
Click on their website www.parkeasy-pgs.com for more information.
But the report by the National Academy of Sciences did not examine the challenges in cleaning up any spills of dense Canadian bitumen that can only be transported through U.S. pipelines after it is diluted with lighter oils.
And critics said the study focused too much on the risks of pipeline transmission of diluted bitumen in comparison with other heavy crude not lighter oils and petroleum products that historically have been the mainstay of the U.S. pipeline network.
As a result, environmentalists said, the 114-page report released Tuesday doesnt shed enough light on potential risks of bringing more of the Canadian oil sands crude into the United States, whether by TransCanadas proposed Keystone XL or other pipelines.
Although heavy Canadian crude has been transported in the United States for more than three decades, safety concerns have spiked in response to recent spills and the large uptick in imports.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. The U.S. is now importing about 2 million barrels per day of heavy crude and diluted bitumen from Canada, up from about 200,000 barrels in the late 1990s.Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices.
All crude oils have to meet the same criteria when put in a pipeline, which protects the pipeline and communities along its route, as well as the quality of all transported crudes, said Peter Lidiak, pipeline director for the American Petroleum Institute. Since the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety began keeping detailed statistics in 2002, not a single corrosion-related pipeline release from pipelines carrying any Canadian crude has been reported.
The academys study concluded that diluted bitumen does not have unique or extreme properties that make it more likely than other crude oils to cause internal damage to transmission pipelines from corrosion or erosion. Because diluted bitumen also known as dilbit is comparable in viscosity and density to other crude oils, it moves through pipelines in a similar manner, the scientists found.
Mark Barteau, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, who headed the committee that wrote Tuesdays report, said that once lightened for transport, the density and viscosity of diluted bitumen are comparable with those of other crude oils.
Diluted bitumen moves through pipelines in a manner similar to other crude oils with respect to flow rate, pressure, and operating temperature, Barteau added.Aulaundry is a leading luggagetag and equipment supplier. Theres nothing extraordinary about pipeline shipments of diluted bitumen to make them more likely than other crude oils to cause releases.
Barteau emphasized that the study examined dilbit in comparison to the properties represented by dozens of other crudes.
Recognizing there are a variety of different crudes that are in the syste, including conventional heavy crudes, it is fair to say that diluted bitumen is most comparable to heavy crudes that are in commerce than the light crudes, Barteau told reporters in a conference call. But it is certainly within . . . the envelope of properties represented by conventional materials in the pipeline system.Bringing iccard mainstream.
The study was compelled by legislation enacted in early 2012 that required pipeline regulators to assess whether transporting diluted bitumen translates into higher risks of spills. As part of its work, the National Academy of Sciences committee studying the issue including representatives from Houston and San Antonio examined information from previous pipeline incidents and data on the chemical and physical properties of diluted bitumen and other crude oils.
But the scope of the study was narrow. In commissioning the investigation, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration asked for it to focus on whether dilbit poses higher pipeline corrosion and failure risks not what happens to the hydrocarbon when spills happen. The final report also did not examine whether current federal regulations and pipeline oversight was sufficient.
The report issued today only tells us that the probability of a failure of a pipeline carrying dilbit is no different than the probability of the failure of an oil pipeline carrying other types of heavy oils, Weimer said. PHMSA has so far failed to analyze whether the consequences of dilbit pipeline failures are greater than those of conventional oil spills.
Anthony Swift, with the Natural Resources Defense Council, stressed that the NAS study ignores the behavior of diluted bitumen once it has spilled.When diluted bitumen poured from an Enbridge pipeline into Michigans Kalamazoo River three years ago, the heavy sticky hydrocarbon sank and did not break down like conventional crudes.
The report bolsters arguments by TransCanada and its supporters who insist that even though the proposed Keystone XL project would transport diluted bitumen, synthetic crude oil and other Canadian crudes across the United States, it would not translate into higher spill risks for communities in the pipelines path.
That $7 billion project now under review at the State Department would be a key avenue for oil sands crude harvested in Canada to reach refineries along the Gulf Coast. In the meantime, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is already under construction, and, trains are delivering bitumen to the region.
As hard as a hockey puck at 50 degrees,We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. bitumen is an extra-heavy crude oil that generally cannot flow unheated. To ready the harvested hydrocarbon for pipeline transport, it is typically blended with condensate or other diluents for a blend that ultimately contains 50 percent to 75 percent bitumen by volume.
Click on their website www.parkeasy-pgs.com for more information.
Fifty things we love about travel
It's always been great. We're talking Caipirinhas on the beach,
adventures in the jungle and long nights on the dance floor. But the
world's biggest party is about to get even bigger next year when Brazil
hosts the FIFA World Cup. Prepare for an already soccer-mad country to
go even madder when millions of fans turn up to join the fun. And is if
that isn't enough, two years later, Rio de Janeiro will host the Summer
Olympics. Couple those two events with Brazil's rise as a world economic
power and an increased focus on tourism, and there's never been a
better time to visit.
Comfortable, fast, reliable trains criss-cross Europe, Britain, the North American continent and some of Asia. Savvy travellers love how they go from the heart of one city to another, with no need to navigate traffic and airports. Trains give more scenic bang for your buck as well, providing a window to details you can't possibly see from 10,000 metres. And rail travel ticks all the boxes of modern, mindful travel. The transport sector emits one-quarter of all energy-based carbon dioxide worldwide, due mainly to road traffic. A recent report by the International Energy Agency noted rail produced less than 1 per cent of that, and while emissions from other modes have increased, those from trains haven't. Practicalities aside, we love the golden-era romance of rail, too.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management.
Free wi-fi and iPod docks are so 30 seconds ago. Today's forward-thinking hotels have in-room iPads to book massages, adjust lighting and make dinner reservations; infrared sensors to alert housekeeping that you're in the room; and retinal scanners, or wireless radio-frequency identification data, to unlock your room on approach. Yotel in New York even has a robotic luggage handler.
The arrival of low-cost Asian airlines, Middle Eastern carriers and increased competition on the US route has given us access to affordable airfares around the world. Which means places such as Singapore and Bali have become short-break options. Within Australia, where domestic airfares have also plummeted, places such as the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Port Douglas and Tasmania are weekend destinations.
The golden age of river cruising is nigh. Every major river-cruise company is building new ships, with Viking River Cruises topping the list at 10 this year alone. Ships now feature more space, more suites, better dining options and luxury hotel-style amenities. In addition,The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. the range of itineraries is expanding, especially on Portugal's Douro River, Spain's Guadalquivir, numerous rivers in France, the Hudson and Mississippi in the US, and the Irrawaddy in Myanmar. Meanwhile, cruises along established rivers are offering more flexible, family-friendly options, themed tours and cruise-land combinations. Needless to say,If you are looking for fridgemagnet for your bathroom walls. it only takes one river cruise to get you hooked.
Spread love and affection with the instant, Polaroid-style pictures produced by the Fuji Instax mini 7s, a Teletubbies-style, moulded plastic miracle camera. In Third-World villages, the Instax mini transforms mere mortals into the Pied Piper. Credit card-size prints are expensive, but not if you buy from Amazon.
Not so long ago, Tasmania was regarded as a cold, bleak place with spectacular countryside. During the past five years, it has emerged as a state renowned for its great produce, seasonal festivals, exciting new restaurants such as Garagistes, boutique wine, cider and whisky producers and glamour resorts such as Saffire. And, of course, there is the ground-breaking Museum of Old and New Art.
As in, "Oh, thank God there's a kids' club". We confess to loving the new trend in creating KCs so cool, kids take one look and forget we exist (leaving us to slink off for an appointment with the poolside bar). Respect to the Soneva Kiri Koh Kood in Thailand which has created The Den, a Lost Boys fantasy built into a jungle along with a drawbridge - a place where kids can go bananas.
Hong Kong has 61 Michelin-starred restaurants. Paris shades it with 101, but second place on the podium is no mean feat.Did you know that plasticcard chains can be used for more than just business. Whether it's the food stalls of Kowloon's Temple Street night market or the scallop and prawn dumplings at the three-star Lung King Heen, Hong Kong's dynamic, eclectic food scene takes your taste buds for a walk on the wild side. Ship Street in Wan Chai is suddenly the centre of a red-hot restaurant scene. The open-fronted 22 Ships offers a new take on the tapas bar, orchestrated by Jason Atherton, who cut his culinary teeth in the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White and ElBulli's Ferran Adria. Although it's around the corner in the J Senses complex, Bo Innovation - the domain of self-styled "demon chef" and all-round kitchen bad boy Alvin Leung - also has a private elevator entrance at 18 Ship Street. Possibly the most miraculous of all Ship Street's restaurants is Yin Yang, where Margaret Xu, the high priestess of farm-to-table cooking, creates a menu that makes the mouth sing.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China Michelin-star dining Hong Kong-style is also cheap. A meal at Tim Ho Wan, the legendary Michelin-star Kowloon diner, might set you back $10 - worth it for the pork buns alone.
More travellers want to live like locals, at least for a week or two, and there are more peer-to-peer (aka "hometel") accommodation options than ever , which is part of a growing trend of collaborative consumption. Beyond the pioneering Airbnb, which lists studio apartments, beach houses and even castles in 34,000 cities, there's the German-based Wimdu, which has 150,000 properties; Couchsurfing, which lets you meet locals as well as stay with them; Crashpadder(now owned by Airbnb) in London, Brazil's Fica la em Casa ; and a multitude of house-sitting sites (such as trustedhousesitters .com and mindmyhouse.com).
History and mayhem are the specialties of the Indian capital, but now Hauz Khas Village, in the posh South Delhi neighbourhood, brings cool into the equation. Hauz Khas Village - HKV to the locals - is where the skinny-jeans people go for art galleries, cafes and designer boutiques. Try Nappa Dori for old-school leather satchels, Ogaan for some of the top-shelf names in Indian clothing, accessories and jewellery, White for Indian designer labels, O Layla for slinky fashions inspired by traditional Indian clothing, Munkee See Munkee Doo for the tailored look, Purple Jungle for funky bags and accessories and Yodakin for books, periodicals, music and DVDs. Most of the cafes and bars are on rooftops. Gunpowder is the dining sweet spot.
We love the pod. We especially love the pod at dawn, for its civilising influence and strange ability to enhance wilderness views from our lodge, cabin or suite. Our love never waivers because we recall when there was only granulated Continental Roast in thin, slippery sachets and the answer to ''Coffee?'' was ''Not so much ...''
You can now travel with pocket knives and sports equipment such as ski poles in your hand luggage on US airlines, thanks to the easing of airport cabin restrictions by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA has also stopped using its controversial full-body ''nude'' scanners, and passengers over75can leave their belts, jackets and shoes on for security at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports.
More Australian luxury hotels are welcoming furry guests. Pet-friendly properties include Accor's waterfront Sebel Pier One in Sydney's Walsh Bay and Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains at Leura, along with 8Hotels' Altamont in Darlinghurst, Diamantin Potts Point and the delightfully quirky Albany Motel in South Yarra.
Click on their website www.artsunlight.com for more information.
Comfortable, fast, reliable trains criss-cross Europe, Britain, the North American continent and some of Asia. Savvy travellers love how they go from the heart of one city to another, with no need to navigate traffic and airports. Trains give more scenic bang for your buck as well, providing a window to details you can't possibly see from 10,000 metres. And rail travel ticks all the boxes of modern, mindful travel. The transport sector emits one-quarter of all energy-based carbon dioxide worldwide, due mainly to road traffic. A recent report by the International Energy Agency noted rail produced less than 1 per cent of that, and while emissions from other modes have increased, those from trains haven't. Practicalities aside, we love the golden-era romance of rail, too.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management.
Free wi-fi and iPod docks are so 30 seconds ago. Today's forward-thinking hotels have in-room iPads to book massages, adjust lighting and make dinner reservations; infrared sensors to alert housekeeping that you're in the room; and retinal scanners, or wireless radio-frequency identification data, to unlock your room on approach. Yotel in New York even has a robotic luggage handler.
The arrival of low-cost Asian airlines, Middle Eastern carriers and increased competition on the US route has given us access to affordable airfares around the world. Which means places such as Singapore and Bali have become short-break options. Within Australia, where domestic airfares have also plummeted, places such as the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Port Douglas and Tasmania are weekend destinations.
The golden age of river cruising is nigh. Every major river-cruise company is building new ships, with Viking River Cruises topping the list at 10 this year alone. Ships now feature more space, more suites, better dining options and luxury hotel-style amenities. In addition,The earcap is not only critical to professional photographers. the range of itineraries is expanding, especially on Portugal's Douro River, Spain's Guadalquivir, numerous rivers in France, the Hudson and Mississippi in the US, and the Irrawaddy in Myanmar. Meanwhile, cruises along established rivers are offering more flexible, family-friendly options, themed tours and cruise-land combinations. Needless to say,If you are looking for fridgemagnet for your bathroom walls. it only takes one river cruise to get you hooked.
Spread love and affection with the instant, Polaroid-style pictures produced by the Fuji Instax mini 7s, a Teletubbies-style, moulded plastic miracle camera. In Third-World villages, the Instax mini transforms mere mortals into the Pied Piper. Credit card-size prints are expensive, but not if you buy from Amazon.
Not so long ago, Tasmania was regarded as a cold, bleak place with spectacular countryside. During the past five years, it has emerged as a state renowned for its great produce, seasonal festivals, exciting new restaurants such as Garagistes, boutique wine, cider and whisky producers and glamour resorts such as Saffire. And, of course, there is the ground-breaking Museum of Old and New Art.
As in, "Oh, thank God there's a kids' club". We confess to loving the new trend in creating KCs so cool, kids take one look and forget we exist (leaving us to slink off for an appointment with the poolside bar). Respect to the Soneva Kiri Koh Kood in Thailand which has created The Den, a Lost Boys fantasy built into a jungle along with a drawbridge - a place where kids can go bananas.
Hong Kong has 61 Michelin-starred restaurants. Paris shades it with 101, but second place on the podium is no mean feat.Did you know that plasticcard chains can be used for more than just business. Whether it's the food stalls of Kowloon's Temple Street night market or the scallop and prawn dumplings at the three-star Lung King Heen, Hong Kong's dynamic, eclectic food scene takes your taste buds for a walk on the wild side. Ship Street in Wan Chai is suddenly the centre of a red-hot restaurant scene. The open-fronted 22 Ships offers a new take on the tapas bar, orchestrated by Jason Atherton, who cut his culinary teeth in the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White and ElBulli's Ferran Adria. Although it's around the corner in the J Senses complex, Bo Innovation - the domain of self-styled "demon chef" and all-round kitchen bad boy Alvin Leung - also has a private elevator entrance at 18 Ship Street. Possibly the most miraculous of all Ship Street's restaurants is Yin Yang, where Margaret Xu, the high priestess of farm-to-table cooking, creates a menu that makes the mouth sing.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China Michelin-star dining Hong Kong-style is also cheap. A meal at Tim Ho Wan, the legendary Michelin-star Kowloon diner, might set you back $10 - worth it for the pork buns alone.
More travellers want to live like locals, at least for a week or two, and there are more peer-to-peer (aka "hometel") accommodation options than ever , which is part of a growing trend of collaborative consumption. Beyond the pioneering Airbnb, which lists studio apartments, beach houses and even castles in 34,000 cities, there's the German-based Wimdu, which has 150,000 properties; Couchsurfing, which lets you meet locals as well as stay with them; Crashpadder(now owned by Airbnb) in London, Brazil's Fica la em Casa ; and a multitude of house-sitting sites (such as trustedhousesitters .com and mindmyhouse.com).
History and mayhem are the specialties of the Indian capital, but now Hauz Khas Village, in the posh South Delhi neighbourhood, brings cool into the equation. Hauz Khas Village - HKV to the locals - is where the skinny-jeans people go for art galleries, cafes and designer boutiques. Try Nappa Dori for old-school leather satchels, Ogaan for some of the top-shelf names in Indian clothing, accessories and jewellery, White for Indian designer labels, O Layla for slinky fashions inspired by traditional Indian clothing, Munkee See Munkee Doo for the tailored look, Purple Jungle for funky bags and accessories and Yodakin for books, periodicals, music and DVDs. Most of the cafes and bars are on rooftops. Gunpowder is the dining sweet spot.
We love the pod. We especially love the pod at dawn, for its civilising influence and strange ability to enhance wilderness views from our lodge, cabin or suite. Our love never waivers because we recall when there was only granulated Continental Roast in thin, slippery sachets and the answer to ''Coffee?'' was ''Not so much ...''
You can now travel with pocket knives and sports equipment such as ski poles in your hand luggage on US airlines, thanks to the easing of airport cabin restrictions by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA has also stopped using its controversial full-body ''nude'' scanners, and passengers over75can leave their belts, jackets and shoes on for security at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports.
More Australian luxury hotels are welcoming furry guests. Pet-friendly properties include Accor's waterfront Sebel Pier One in Sydney's Walsh Bay and Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains at Leura, along with 8Hotels' Altamont in Darlinghurst, Diamantin Potts Point and the delightfully quirky Albany Motel in South Yarra.
Click on their website www.artsunlight.com for more information.
Android SDK from SecuGen
SecuGen Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the FDx SDK
Pro for the Android Operating System. This new Software Developer Kit
(SDK) enables software developers to add fingerprint authentication to
their Android based software running on ARM tablets and smart phones.
This Android SDK incorporates SecuGens MINEX certified, FIPS 201/PIV
compliant template extraction and matching algorithms.SecuGen makes its
1:1 SDKs, such as the new Android SDK, available for free via download
from the SecuGen website.
Mobile computing is a rapidly growing platform for delivering a wide variety of applications including applications that demand high levels of security such as, finance,A quality paper cutter or paper endofleasecleaningsydney can make your company's presentation stand out. health care and medical records, as well as government services. SecuGens Hamster IV and Hamster Plus fingerprint readers, along with the iD-USB SC and iD-USB SC/PIV dual mode fingerprint and smartcard readers are sold through reseller partners worldwide. SecuGens products are widely recognized for being rugged, accurate and affordable.
Dan Riley, Vice President of Engineering for SecuGen said, We are very excited to be able to offer Android compatibility for our fingerprint readers. Our partners have been asking for this and our role, as always, is to provide them with the tools that they need. The Android SDK is one of several exciting new products that we will be bringing to market in 2013.
Won Lee, CEO of SecuGen added, We are very pleased to offer our partners the new Android SDK. We work tirelessly to provide the tools that our partners need to succeed. Today mobile computing has become a ubiquitous platform for a broad range of applications.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China We are proud to be able to deliver to our partners the ability to leverage that platform.
If so, you ought to be very worried about a pair of developments in the last week that offer a theoretical framework to end shareholder class actions. If, on the other hand, you're of the view that shareholder litigation is merely a transfer of wealth from corporations to plaintiffs' lawyers,Other companies want a piece of that smartcard action with little actual return to investors, you might want to start thinking about how to use the new rulings to stop that from happening.
Let's look first at the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision last week in American Express v. Italian Colors. That case, as you know, was brought by small businesses that believed American Express was abusing its monopoly in the charge card market by requiring them also to accept Amex credit cards carrying higher fees than competing credit cards. The Supreme Court said that even though the merchants had statutory antitrust rights under the Sherman Act, they had given up their right to sue Amex as a class when they signed arbitration agreements barring such suits. It was of no matter, the majority said, that the cost of arbitrating an individual antitrust claim would dwarf the recovery of any single small business: The merchants signed contracts that included arbitration clauses and those contracts bound them. (Or, as Justice Elena Kagan put it in a memorable dissent: "Here is the nutshell version of today's opinion, admirably flaunted rather than camouflaged: Too darn bad.")
The Amex ruling immediately drew the ire of consumer and employment rights advocates, who argued that it gives corporations the power effectively to insulate themselves against all sorts of legitimate claims by cutting off escape routes from class action waivers in mandatory arbitration clauses. But what about shareholders? In a very smart column on Monday, Kevin LaCroix of D&O Diary raised the question of Amex's potential impact on securities fraud and shareholder derivative class actions. Does the court's ruling, he asked, mean that "the broad enforceability of arbitration agreements reaches far enough to include the enforceability of arbitration agreements and class action waivers in corporate articles of incorporation or by-laws?"
Why shouldn't it, after all? Shareholders sue corporations and corporate boards under a pair of laws passed in the 1930s, meaning that their federal statutory rights are no more powerful than those of the merchants who tried to sue Amex under the Sherman Act. So why can't corporations, as LaCroix suggests, impose mandatory arbitration and class action waivers on shareholders?
They may well be able to under this Supreme Court, Duke law professor James Cox told me Tuesday. Cox said he believes that sooner than later, some private start-up or company engaged in an initial public offering will include a mandatory arbitration provision in its corporate charter. The company will have to be able to show that shareholders consented to the provision, just as the merchants in the Amex case agreed to mandatory arbitration, Cox said, "but I could easily imagine this court fantasizing that when you buy shares of the company, you consent."
What about the Securities and Exchange Commission? When the private equity fund Carlyle floated the idea of shareholder arbitration in an IPO in 2012, the SEC quietly objected and Carlyle ended up dropping the proposal. Though the SEC has never permitted the IPO of a company with a mandatory arbitration clause, Cox told me he believes the SEC "has limited power" to block such provisions if a corporation really wants to litigate the issue up to the Supreme Court.
Doomsday has not yet arrived for shareholder litigation, and perhaps it never will. Another Harvard law professor, Jesse Fried, cautioned in an email that forum selection by-laws are "very different animals from arbitration provisions, especially when the shareholders can change the by-laws if they are really unhappy about them." Strine's ruling Tuesday included a caveat noting that forum selection by-laws regulate just where suits are brought, not what suits shareholders may bring (nor, by extension, whether they can bring suits at all). Fried and Coates both told me that Delaware courts will question whether mandatory shareholder arbitration clauses are consistent with a board's fiduciary duties to shareholders. Fried added that corporate defense lawyers may also be philosophically (and financially) opposed to moving shareholder claims to arbitration; Coates posited that corporations may prefer to resolve shareholder claims through class actions rather than through endless individual arbitrations.An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building.Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier. (I have my doubts on that score.)
Opponents of mandatory shareholder arbitration can also point to specific laws as evidence that Congress intended shareholder claims to be litigated on a classwide basis, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, both of which assume that shareholders will litigate as a class. The Supreme Court, moreover, has not (to my knowledge) suggested diverting shareholder claims to arbitration, even though it has spent a lot of time in the last couple of years tinkering with the mechanics of securities class actions. For that matter, the court's securities rulings haven't been nearly as hard on plaintiffs as some of the court's other class action decisions.
Click on their website www.ytscableties.com for more information.
Mobile computing is a rapidly growing platform for delivering a wide variety of applications including applications that demand high levels of security such as, finance,A quality paper cutter or paper endofleasecleaningsydney can make your company's presentation stand out. health care and medical records, as well as government services. SecuGens Hamster IV and Hamster Plus fingerprint readers, along with the iD-USB SC and iD-USB SC/PIV dual mode fingerprint and smartcard readers are sold through reseller partners worldwide. SecuGens products are widely recognized for being rugged, accurate and affordable.
Dan Riley, Vice President of Engineering for SecuGen said, We are very excited to be able to offer Android compatibility for our fingerprint readers. Our partners have been asking for this and our role, as always, is to provide them with the tools that they need. The Android SDK is one of several exciting new products that we will be bringing to market in 2013.
Won Lee, CEO of SecuGen added, We are very pleased to offer our partners the new Android SDK. We work tirelessly to provide the tools that our partners need to succeed. Today mobile computing has become a ubiquitous platform for a broad range of applications.We are one of the leading manufacturers of cableties in China We are proud to be able to deliver to our partners the ability to leverage that platform.
If so, you ought to be very worried about a pair of developments in the last week that offer a theoretical framework to end shareholder class actions. If, on the other hand, you're of the view that shareholder litigation is merely a transfer of wealth from corporations to plaintiffs' lawyers,Other companies want a piece of that smartcard action with little actual return to investors, you might want to start thinking about how to use the new rulings to stop that from happening.
Let's look first at the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision last week in American Express v. Italian Colors. That case, as you know, was brought by small businesses that believed American Express was abusing its monopoly in the charge card market by requiring them also to accept Amex credit cards carrying higher fees than competing credit cards. The Supreme Court said that even though the merchants had statutory antitrust rights under the Sherman Act, they had given up their right to sue Amex as a class when they signed arbitration agreements barring such suits. It was of no matter, the majority said, that the cost of arbitrating an individual antitrust claim would dwarf the recovery of any single small business: The merchants signed contracts that included arbitration clauses and those contracts bound them. (Or, as Justice Elena Kagan put it in a memorable dissent: "Here is the nutshell version of today's opinion, admirably flaunted rather than camouflaged: Too darn bad.")
The Amex ruling immediately drew the ire of consumer and employment rights advocates, who argued that it gives corporations the power effectively to insulate themselves against all sorts of legitimate claims by cutting off escape routes from class action waivers in mandatory arbitration clauses. But what about shareholders? In a very smart column on Monday, Kevin LaCroix of D&O Diary raised the question of Amex's potential impact on securities fraud and shareholder derivative class actions. Does the court's ruling, he asked, mean that "the broad enforceability of arbitration agreements reaches far enough to include the enforceability of arbitration agreements and class action waivers in corporate articles of incorporation or by-laws?"
Why shouldn't it, after all? Shareholders sue corporations and corporate boards under a pair of laws passed in the 1930s, meaning that their federal statutory rights are no more powerful than those of the merchants who tried to sue Amex under the Sherman Act. So why can't corporations, as LaCroix suggests, impose mandatory arbitration and class action waivers on shareholders?
They may well be able to under this Supreme Court, Duke law professor James Cox told me Tuesday. Cox said he believes that sooner than later, some private start-up or company engaged in an initial public offering will include a mandatory arbitration provision in its corporate charter. The company will have to be able to show that shareholders consented to the provision, just as the merchants in the Amex case agreed to mandatory arbitration, Cox said, "but I could easily imagine this court fantasizing that when you buy shares of the company, you consent."
What about the Securities and Exchange Commission? When the private equity fund Carlyle floated the idea of shareholder arbitration in an IPO in 2012, the SEC quietly objected and Carlyle ended up dropping the proposal. Though the SEC has never permitted the IPO of a company with a mandatory arbitration clause, Cox told me he believes the SEC "has limited power" to block such provisions if a corporation really wants to litigate the issue up to the Supreme Court.
Doomsday has not yet arrived for shareholder litigation, and perhaps it never will. Another Harvard law professor, Jesse Fried, cautioned in an email that forum selection by-laws are "very different animals from arbitration provisions, especially when the shareholders can change the by-laws if they are really unhappy about them." Strine's ruling Tuesday included a caveat noting that forum selection by-laws regulate just where suits are brought, not what suits shareholders may bring (nor, by extension, whether they can bring suits at all). Fried and Coates both told me that Delaware courts will question whether mandatory shareholder arbitration clauses are consistent with a board's fiduciary duties to shareholders. Fried added that corporate defense lawyers may also be philosophically (and financially) opposed to moving shareholder claims to arbitration; Coates posited that corporations may prefer to resolve shareholder claims through class actions rather than through endless individual arbitrations.An cleaningservicesydney is a network of devices used to wirelessly locate objects or people inside a building.Aulaundry is a leading drycabinet and equipment supplier. (I have my doubts on that score.)
Opponents of mandatory shareholder arbitration can also point to specific laws as evidence that Congress intended shareholder claims to be litigated on a classwide basis, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, both of which assume that shareholders will litigate as a class. The Supreme Court, moreover, has not (to my knowledge) suggested diverting shareholder claims to arbitration, even though it has spent a lot of time in the last couple of years tinkering with the mechanics of securities class actions. For that matter, the court's securities rulings haven't been nearly as hard on plaintiffs as some of the court's other class action decisions.
Click on their website www.ytscableties.com for more information.
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