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Using Maximo Transportation to manage retreaded tires
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Hello and welcome to my first post! After seeing a demonstration from Carey Clarke, Designer & Architect of IBM Maximo Transportation, I decided to write a very easy step-by-step configuration using Maximo core functionalities to manage a great need in Transportation companies - the management of retreaded tires. Introduction Currently, in organizations with a large fleet, tires management is one of the most costly activities. These organizations that have larger number of assets need to consider reuse of existing assets, like... [More]


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How do you fit that much AWSOMENESS INTO A FLASH!!!???!!!???!!! No im not kidding. :\
How do you fit that much AWSOMENESS INTO A FLASH!!!???!!!???!!! No im not kidding. :\
You spend more than half of your years in high school perfecting it. No I'm not kidding. =)
Thanks for reviewing!
Excellent work.
Being an animator of my own drama series, i can definitely appreciate the work that you put into this piece. Good luck on part 2, I'm looking forward to it.
You gotta do this sorta thing to really grasp what's involved. XD Good luck with your own efforts! And thanks for reviewing!
Persona 3 music... nice choice, it fits well^^
Ironically anyone who knows the game gets a little distracted there simply from recognizing it ^^ But thats a price I'm willing to pay. Persona 3 FTW! xD
Thanks for reviewing.
kudos for the effort
i can clearly see that alot of effort was put into this, but as i see it most of it was a half assed attempt at making a mediocre anime something.
i stopped watching it halfway through, i really liked the superb backgrounds
i can tell that just by looking at them you put more effort into them than the characters themselfes or the dialougue etc...
but seriously most of the characters look really ugly you should study how to draw anime or something similair, at the first scene where the girl types stuff on the keys the wrists, arms and fingers are supposed to move, all i saw was floating hands and key sounds.
the shading was really poor, it looked like it was just a spot on their skin when theyre moving as if the light is coming from the camera which is folowing them.
the voices were half assed i could barely tell what the characters are saying even if i turn up the volume.
overall nice attempt but you are trying to do something too big too fast and too soon.
please accept this constructive criticizm.
I respectfully reply that although I don't claim my work to be perfect, far from it in fact, several people appear not to share your opinions on how the characters turned out. Nevertheless, I take all criticism into account. Thank you for remaining civilized in your review.
So far so good...
Loaded relatively quickly and was a good way for pass 14 minutes. XD. The voice-over work could have a better quality and the graphics were choppy, but I'm writing that off as the aesthetics of the whole thing.
It's good to see Newgrounds isn't about random acts of violence and mature jokes all the time. I'll be looking forward to Part 2.
My sound design could certainly use refinement, and as an individual, I could only smooth everything out to a certain extent while still finishing the animation overall in a reasonable timeframe. I wouldn't say its an aesthetic taste, just some of my limits as, essentially, a bad producer XD.
I hope to show anyone I can that animation everywhere doesn't have to be about childish fancies or random violence and jokes. Verbatim has no illusions of being a comedy, and what violence you'll see in it has meaning. I hope you'll still be around when the second part hits!
Thanks for reviewing!

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Own the City with your Friends! Convert civilians to your crowd, eat up smaller crowds than you and avoid the bigger ones! It's a Crowdy Crowd City!
Uncover Grandpa's secret and help The Scruffs save their family home. Search the House for hidden objects listed in Grandpa's notebook.Help
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Author: Mark G. Dziak
305 Pages, Softcover
The Battle of Wyoming: For Liberty and Life explores the infamous 1778 Revolutionary War battle in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. The Battle of Wyoming, and the so-called Wyoming Massacre that followed, was a relatively small event, but its impact would help to dictate the fate of Britain, the American Indians, and the newborn United States.
The Battle of Wyoming rebuilds this important conflict using factual narrative, quotations, illustrations, biographies, and even a guide to battle-sites in modern day Wyoming Valley.
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Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold, because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed.
In this ode to the odious cold, Jennifer Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments - what works, what doesn't, and what can't hurt. She dispels myths, such as susceptibility to colds reflects a weakened immune system. And she tracks current research, including work at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, a world-renowned center of cold-research studies, where the search for a cure continues.
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some mistakes, but the first good book on topic
I will start by saying I am a family doctor who also does urgent care and feel I am an expert on the common cold. It is one of my absolute favorite topics and I devote a fair amount of my professional time reading on it, learning about it, making money on it, etc. I was overjoyed to hear about this title.
Having listened to it on my way to work for several days I would have a few concerns
1. the narrator- I find her voice just a little to silly and doesn't always line up with the topic at hand. She can get very droney during certain passages in the book. She also mispronounces several medical terms which I find enormously frustrating since she is a professional narrator and it would not have been difficult to ask for help from the author or any MD on any of those terms
2. there a few factual mistakes in the book, I think her treatment of pseudoephedrine and afrin were too short in one of the most important sections of the book, and she should have been more detailed of the history of the crystal meth problem with pseudoephedrine
3. this is petty, but I found the historical quotes at the beginning of the chapters really cumbersome to listen to.
That being said, this was a fascinating review of all the recent research on the common cold, an entertaining insight into how the common cold is researched, a pretty good catalogue of all the current remedies, traditional and alternative. Some of the ways she described the immune systems that go in to the common cold have dramatically altered the way I explain the cold infection process to my patients and I will even recommend the book to some of my patients- although it is written on a pretty high technical reading level
all in all, I certainly recommend this book to doctors, and to anyone who finds the cold as fascinating as I do.
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Background Commerce Shopping Cart
Over the past year or so, I've been seeing SamCart everywhere. Commerce Shopping Cart
As an internet entrepreneur, now I pay extra close attention to the shopping carts that people are utilizing and I started noticing more individuals using SamCart.
Then I started seeing advertisements from SamCart, so that I signed up for their email list. I got a few mails from their service being hyped up by them, so I decided to give it a shot.
So, did it live this up into the hype? Here is my honest SamCart review.
What Is SamCart?
SamCart is a web-based checkout platform Includes conversion-optimized checkout templates together with upsell, arrange bump, subscription and payment plan capabilities that are designed to maximize profits.
How SamCart Works
Here are the exact steps that SamCart walks You to help you market your merchandise on the web:
Add a new product (digital or physical)
choose the payment arrangement you need (possibly a one-time payment, payment plan, or subscription)
Select the checkout page template you would like (SamCart's templates are all amazing and they have been demonstrated to convert)
Customize the checkout pages to match your personal website and manufacturer
Add upsells, create coupons, split-tests, etc..
If you are a person that wants to set up a shopping cart SamCart is for you. You can get up and running in under thirty minutes. I set all of my things up but that is probably because I saw a few YouTube videos about it.
Click here to start your SamCart free trial.
SamCart Characteristics
The reason that SamCart has managed to Because they offer numerous features that help retailers earn more money, grow so fast is. Whether you're running an e-commerce shop or selling information products, these attributes can help you earn more money and have SamCart pay for itself rather quickly.
Affiliate Center
Among the greatest things about selling goods on the internet is that you can enlist an entire army of affiliates to market your stuff. You do not have to spend time promoting your own products, nor do you have to spend a dime on advertisements. You only pay them if they create a sale for you, if you're able to get affiliates to spread the word. Commerce Shopping Cart
SamCart lets you make your own personal army of affiliates that will sell your goods for you together with the Affiliate Center. SamCart automatically creates an Affiliate Signup page for you – .
You're going to get a link to this page, so that you may send it out to potential affiliates, place it on your website, or send it out to your email list. I invite them to become affiliates whenever my email subscribers go without buying anything from me. Hey, if they are not purchasing anything, it's still a way for me to profit from them.
When a possible affiliate fills out your application, they will be shown a message which their account is"pending approval". You will find a notification which they applied via email when that occurs. It'll also have buttons to approve or deny the person's application. If you want, you can even set this up to accept affiliates.
SamCart's default affiliate commission is 50%. However, this payout to whatever you want can be customized by you. You can pay your affiliates a flat rate commission (a set dollar amount per purchase ) or a proportion. I have had a great deal of success by raising the affiliate payout for top-performing affiliates to provide them a bonus to market even more.
Checkout Pages
One of the coolest things about SamCart is that they have 18 professionally designed templates which are demonstrated to convert. Frankly, I don't think ALL of the templates will be great, but I really do love almost all of them. My favourite is the template.
The apparent huge advantage here is that the templates have been used by other proven marketers, so you can avoid the countless hours of designing and analyzing your own pages.
All the templates have trust components like testimonials, guarantees, and security reassurances that give your customers the reassurance they need to boost your conversions.
Once you pick your checkout page, then it is easy to customize it by changing the colours of the header, footer, buttons, etc.. You can even choose the fields you would like to add and you can add custom bullet points to describe the product your client is purchasing (I have found bullet points to be particularly useful, and that's the reason why you see them on all of my earnings pages).
All the pages are mobile responsive, and it is very significant in our ever-increasingly mobile globe. One reason I switched to SamCart was since my prior checkout page provider wasn't as responsive as I wanted it to be. Commerce Shopping Cart
I do a good deal of advertising on Google AdWords, in which most of my traffic comes from mobile. I found that at a rate, which meant I flushed my ad spend down the toilet, folks were abandoning with my previous cart. SamCart assisted my increase my conversions.
Plus, they have a trendy"sandbox" mode, which enables you make certain everything is working before going live with your product. With my shopping cart that is previous, test it and I had to publish everything. I hated doing this. With SamCart, I will test obligations without going live and without charging your credit card (and messing up your stats).
One Click Upsells
Once I told my friends that I was composing a SamCart review, they told me that I should stress how awesome their click upsells are, and that I concur.
If you're selling online and you are not offering upsells, you're leaving a lot of money on the table. In reality, back in 2006, Amazon reported that 35 percent of its revenues were from its efforts that were upselling. If Amazon is currently earning that much money from it, do not you think it deserves your consideration?
An upsell is a strategy that helps you increase your average order value. You do not even understand it and experience upsells all the time. You do not HAVE to get the elongated warranty for your vehicle, but it is there as an upsell for people who don't wish to worry about maintenance. You do not HAVE to get dessert after dinner, but restaurants sure like to provide it.
Continuing with the dessert case, these little $8 cakes aren't a huge sum of money, however if you are the restaurant selling tons of them every night, the money adds up.
SamCart causes this process seamless by offering upsells where all of the client has to do is click on one single button and buy your offer. According to them, SamCart users that use one click upsells normally boost their average customer value by a whopping 68.1 percent. Commerce Shopping Cart
Click here to start your SamCart free trial.
One Page Checkout
This attribute is unique because it offers you the ability to include many different payment choices onto one checkout page. For my 997 online training course, Teachable is used by me, and they do not provide this feature. If a customer wants the payment program, I must have separate checkout pages. I WISH I could use SamCart because of that.
The one page voucher takes multiple payments into a completely new level because it keeps traffic on the webpage while they determine how to cover. You realize how important it's to keep your traffic, if you have ever sold anything online.
Cross Selling Bumps
Cross-selling is a strategy to sell products which are associated with the one the customer already owns. If a customer purchases a vehicle a cross-sell would be auto insurance or gasoline.
You might be familiar with this as bundling. You can raise your profits on each sale, when you package auxiliary products and the merchandise jointly. McDonald's does by purchasing fries and beverages with their 14, so exceptionally well.
Subscription Saver
When I first started selling subscription products online, I was naive enough to believe everybody would pay on time, every moment. I guessed that if I had been good enough to pay my bills and honor my duties, so would everybody else.
Boy, was I naive. Figuring out that there are some losers online. People who decline fees or cancel credit cards to get out of making payments. Your subscription income is already gone usually once this happens. Barring any legal action (like sending a demand letter… if you have the client's address) you can't receive your cash. Sad.
But now with SamCart, your subscriptions are being safeguarded from diminished payments and expired credit cards. A payment fails, SamCart sends your customer an email on your behalf – the email has a link where clients can update the payment they have on file, right . That means you don't need to waste your time hounding your clients .
When a customer fails to update the payment information after several attempts, SamCart automatically simplifies the registration. SamCart marks them as"delinquent" in your account so you understand who they are and so you have the chance to reach out to those clients. Commerce Shopping Cart
A/B Testing
Isn't it bizarre that people talk about split testing their sales pages, their sites that are supersized, their email subject lines, and much more… but they do not ever talk about examining their homepage?
It seems mad, right?
When you figure that most of your potential clients are abandoning your checkout site, do not you think that a half-decent split test might let you get one more customer??
I do also.
Fortunately, SamCart delivers the ability to conduct live split tests. In the world of shopping carts, this is AMAZING. If you have a abandonment rate along with your snags you just ONE extra customer, you will double your sales. Yes, DOUBLE SALES. Much like that.
SamCart lets you change almost any setting you want, so you can test any variation that tickles your fancy. You can change the template, try out a different warranty (I have discovered that the more, the greater ), remove some areas (I've found the less, the better), and more.
Once you've got your variations created, SamCart automatically tests involving your variations. You don't need to do anything except watch the results roll in. You can head over to the"AB Test" part from the item's settings to see how the variations do. Once you locate a winner, SamCart allows you to easily disable the loser.
The one thing you can't split-test using SamCart is your product's price. Run a test between these two products and you are going to have to create two different goods if you would like to do so.
When it comes to A/B analyzing, experience tells me that you should test the big stuff first (like entirely different templates) and work your way down to the minute particulars. Oh, and wait till you've got a statistically significant sample size before you call it.
Why Checkout Pages Suck
Based on what study you read, 80% of people That"add to cart" on your site will abandon that cart. You may add a significant quantity of cash if you can get only a small quantity of those people to convert.
SamCart will help you boost conversions. Commerce Shopping Cart
SamCart's whole value proposition is that their checkout page templates have been analyzed to the gills and they've been demonstrated to convert better than their competition. Should you sell items online, you ought to ensure you're optimizing your conversions, and SamCart can help you do so.
Plus, most checkout pages aren't designed to maximize the total amount of profit which you get from each sell. Things like order bumps and upsells enable you to include more profit to every sale.
By way of instance, I sell a $97 PDF on my website. I wouldn't have the ability to bring an upsell When I used a checkout form. But since I provide an upsell, roughly one out of every 3 people take my offer .
Due to the one simple feature, I am adding an average of $20 to each and every order of that item. That's like giving myself over a 20% raise simply. Which means I can spend an extra $20 on advertising to acquire a customer and grow my business even faster.
My Favorite SamCart Feature
My favorite SamCart attribute is hands-down the Great training and client support they provide. They have tons of videos in what is called their"Knowledge Base" which teaches you how you can use their software (although it's already fairly simple ) and they supply a lot of education on how to make more money if you are selling online.
They have a complete library of product info, tutorials, webinars, and more. The education alone is well worth the price. I had to add this fact in my SamCart review.
SamCart Integrations
I didn't have a chance to integrate SamCart with a Lot of resources because I don't use that many. I use mainly utilize Stripe, Drip, PayPal and OptinMonster.
Interested in learning more about OptinMonster? Check out my review . If you're interested in knowing more about Drip, I wrote an overview of that also.
SamCart allows you to seamlessly sync with a bunch of tools, such as email, marketing automation, registration, and payment processing. It was super easy for me to incorporate my system together with SamCart and I imagine that it would be the same for nearly all people out there.
I've been studying on different forums how easy it was for people to incorporate Kajabi, Infusionsoft, Hubspot, MailChimp, Aweber, and much more. My motto is rather simple, so I can not talk about this in depth in my SamCart review. Commerce Shopping Cart
Does SamCart Price?
SamCart has three strategies:
Basic ($19 per month)
Guru ($99 per month)
Premium ($199 a month)
At the Premium level, SamCart is a complete steal with the features they give you. I've found that the Basic is good enough however you wish to acquire the plan, if you're doing a lot of business online.
Also keep in mind that if you're looking to save a little cash, they give you a discount if you pay annually. I suggest that you make the most of their free trial (to make sure that it's definitely right for you) and then paying annually to save money. If you pay annually, the Pro plan is $888 per year (that saves you $300) and the Premium program is $1,788 annually (which saves you $600).
SamCart Offers a 14-Day Free Trial (and Money-Back Gurantee)
If you're on the fence about attempting SamCart, they Offer a free trial.
This means you could try them out absolutely free, and if they don't make you more cash than your previous shopping cart (or you just hate it for some reason) then you can fire them. You can cancel and walk away.
Plusthey have a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee anyhow, further reducing the risk.
Based on SamCart, the average SamCart seller constitutes to 5X over the ordinary seller on other platforms. What do you need to lose? Get started now. Commerce Shopping Cart
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Update: PayPal Holds Half of Indie Developers' Money
Developers for original 2D fighting game Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm only receive half of their funds from PayPal.
Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are wonderful for getting independent games off the ground, but things don't always go as planned. Nyu Media, independent publisher for a 2D fighting game called Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm, successfully completed their IndieGoGo campaign last month, raising double what they posted as their goal, but they have received only a part of the funds. In an update posted on their campaign page last night, Nyu Media founder Seon King announced PayPal had restricted the company's account.
"The email from PayPal advises us that they have 'reserved' the funding and will release 'up to 50% of the funds' before Yatagarasu AoC is released and the rest only after they have verified copies of paid invoices," King said. PayPal advised Nyu Media to contact them closer to the release date beginning of next year to arrange the release of the remaining funds.
King said Nyu Media has already given PayPal documents "providing the bona fides of Nyu Media, the developer, and the campaign." Access to only half of the funds for the game concerns King. Without access to all of the funds, "it potentially derails game development."
Similarly, PaypPal restricted funds earlier this year for the independent developers who raised money to create new DLC characters for Skullgirls, another 2D fighting game.
King will contact PayPal's customer service. King said their best case scenario would be "reason and PayPal's new "Customer First" direction bring this to a swift conclusion." If that doesn't work, Nyu Media may refund PayPal contributions and arrange donations by other methods.
Source: Indiegogo
Update: As of this afternoon, PayPal and Nyu Media have resolved the problem. PayPal issued the following statement via email:
And this is why I refuse to use Paypal.
It's not like this, or even the whole Skullgirls thing, was the first time Paypal decided to hold out on giving people money. There's several other indie title, the titles of which sadly are escaping me, that had the same issue. Paypal is a service, nothing more and nothing less. It does not, nor should not, have the power to "police" whatever they feel they want to, and lock people out of money already paid to them.
Ok, maybe I'm missing something here, but what exactly gives PayPal the right to do this?
I would assume the user agreement that everyone agrees to when they sign up for the site. It's not necessarily right, but I expect that it something that people agreed to without necessarily realizing it.
Why do people even bother with PayPal?
I know it's convenient, but from the stories I've read lately, it's like riding an angry tiger home from the zoo "because it's more convenient than walking".
So I see I'm not the only one that'd previously stopped using Paypal in this forum
Any chance we can get everyone else to do this too? Maybe they'll just go away (probably taking a lot of people's money with them) if we don't pay attention to them
Yay, donate money to fund development, money won't arrive until development is complete. And PayPal collects the interest on it.
By not being a bank PayPal can fuck you over however they want without the law interfering.
PayPal are complying with anti money laundering laws. They have to, by law, hold proof that money is not laundered and tax is being paid properly. The level of proof that the law requires varies on amount of money in the account. You can provide proof that you are an LLC but they need further information with higher amounts. If PayPal fail to collect the information they face criminal prosecution. Any other company doing the same thing is also covered by the same law. Barclay's bank settled a case with the US government by paying a fine of $298 million. Governments are very serious about getting the tax that they are owed and if you aid the evasion of tax by not checking they are going to hit you very hard.
Can we get Paypal's side on this story too? I see people already making far-fetching conclusions based on very little information.
I still have a PayPal account, but I'm rapidly reaching the point where I don't have to use it anymore. There's finally other options out there for epayment, and businesses are starting to use them. So no, for convenience sake, I won't just be cancelling my PayPal account (even if there's part of me that wants to), but when given the choice, I DO prefer other services. Amazon Payments seems to be one that's stepping up rather quickly.
... paranoia makes me wonder how long until they start doing questionable things as well...
This sounds rather shady on paypals side I must say. I wonder what the real reason for withholding the funds were though. That said it seems that they did a 180 after the news about their actions started spreading if the new post on the indiegogo is anything to go by. One helluva fast 180 turn I must say...
Then they would put a temporary hold on the account, investigate, & release it once the tax information had cleared; not hold half the money hostage
They are allowed to use the money under the previous threshold.
a. Because the number of people in situations like this is vastly smaller that the number of people who have good experiences.
Before reading below I will state that I am not speaking on behalf of PayPal or eBay. Any opinions or expressions in this post are purely my own. I do not represent either of these companies.
You are partially right and without knowing the exact parameters behind the developers account there could be more to the story than what we see. A little background, I happen to know the PayPal system and lets just say I'm familiar with it inside and out as a seller. PayPal has two ways that they usually handle situations like these. Part of it is through limitations where they request documentation. Once this is done full access to the account is restored. Limitations don't necessarily have to restrict your access to money. As explained above AML laws are strict in this regard and any transaction that takes place on PayPal is not the Account Holders responsibility but the responsibility of the company facilitating the transaction (i.e. PayPal). So basically PayPal does as anybody would do in that same exact situation. Look at it like this, if you were in charge of a room full of people, and these people were all exchanging money for something. It could be a service or it could be an item. An officer walks in and says, "if anybody in this room exchanges money for purposes that is against the law, we will come after you". Wouldn't you be asking questions? Wouldn't you want to stop some of the people walking in and asking what's going on?
I know I would if it was my neck.
The second type of action is based on other risk factors. PayPal may make a decision that based off of what you are getting money for, who its going to end up benefiting and the risk of people filing to get their money back in its complaint process. This decision is known as a reserve on an account. Reserves hold a specific amount of money either as a lump sum or a % of the amount incoming on each individual payment. It holds these funds as collateral.
The example I give here are concert tickets. The reason be obvious if you look at the situation objectively. The concert could get canceled, the person selling the tickets may be selling fakes, or some other act that puts PayPal in a position as a payment processor.
Lets take a look at the case in point. Sure PayPal does have some information, but the information provided does not necessarily guarantee nothing is going to happen with the developer. PayPal does not know if this developer will deliver or not, whether people will start issuing chargebacks midway through their development, and since they are located out of the country PayPal doesn't have as many options to fight back if things go sour. As enthusiasts of the industry, we all know developers go out of business all the time at any time. Who's to say that will not happen here? The reserve is meant to cover some of the loss should this event happen.
In conclusion, although there are some consumer (or business) unfriendly practices, there are many consumer (or business) unfriendly threats as well. Would PayPal be able to protect consumers and make the claim that by using its product its the safest way to pay. If you were the owner of PayPal would you be able to stay afloat if your company suffered heavy losses like this should it not go as planned?
Funny enough, I've never trusted Paypal to begin with, although it might also have to be due to me being paranoid and refusing to even use a credit card for anything, except Steam stuff, cuz that's not my card and billing comes out almost instantly for those transactions.
You are more liable have your credit card information stolen than PayPal, I keep mine on a security key and their fraud prevention measures are pretty good. Sometimes too good.
I've used them for years, and haven't had too many issues.
A. This
B. This as well, PayPal does do a good job. Is the system perfect? No, its a system. Systems are by design faulty. But they do work with you a lot more than what they did before.
They have an obligation to follow US laws, usually it not paypal/Amazon holding onto the money but a proxy account setup by paypal/Indiegogo or Amazon/Kickstarter.
It not like Paypal/Amazon want to do this stuff, it looks bad on them. It just that there are people out there who will likely and often abuse the system.
Rubbish, for a start its an EU registered bank and all of the relevant laws apply in the EU and while its only classified as an intermediary in the US and not subject to direct Federal regulation a whole bunch of laws like "Electronic Fund Transfer Act" and the "Truth in Lending Act" are applicable. State laws also apply but I don't really know anything about those.
As for around the world, every country will have financial legislation and consumer protection laws of varying descriptions.
This was silly, but was no doubt based in greed and nothing more. Paypal wanted interest from withholding the money for a few days. Don't make me hate you, Paypal or Mr Musk.
#Edit, nevermind, I appear to be about half a decade out of date...
Did you even read the update or the posts in this thread? I said before the update that its anti money laundering laws that caused the problem and then the update confirmed what I said
And in particular the following line
Sounds good on paper but I'd like to hear a statement from Nyu Media that the issue has been resolved.
The person who is holding the money of someone else doesn't get to be the one who says "It's all good now, guys. No really."
There's already been an update to the story which I assume came after you posted, but just to be fair here, this isn't the first time that PayPal did this exact same thing. It's happened to several other indie developers in the past, and apparently they haven't stopped.
Hilarious that PayPal does this to prevent citizens from money laundering, but no one is able to do shit about over half the Fortune 500 companies laundering money in off shore tax havens, holding back an estimated $740 billion in federal tax revenue every year.
This is like the 4th or 5th time they've done this to a crowd sourced production. Why the HELL is anyone continuing to use them? I haven't heard of Amazon payments doing this to any indie campaigns. I hate PayPal and endevour to use it as little as humanely possible, but of course until there is a widely trusted online payments competitor, like Dwolla or Amazon payments, I am sometimes stuck using them.
This may be legal behavior, but it still doesn't stop the fact that holding back half the money needed to make something until it's made is a completely ridiculous situation. It's like telling they can have the other twenty-five gallons of gas when they reach the end of their fifty-gallon's worth trip. I don't care how legal it is, or how justified they claim this to be, it's pretty stupid.
I think there is a far more nefarious reason paypal regularly does this and it most certainly has nothing to do with looking out for the customer or making sure money laundering doesn't happen.
After all money laundering and tax fraud is rarely committed by regular peeps. No these are privilege crimes committed by the wealthy. I think there is some kind of paypal fraud going on where they use the money they withhold from so many people for some kind of scam of their own.
Tax avoidance and tax evasion are not the same thing. Tax evasion is the deliberate attempt not to pay tax by breaking the law. Tax avoidance is the legal minimisation of tax paid and is perfectly legal.
They don't have a choice, if they fail to comply with the law PayPal gets fined. If you want things to change take it up with the US government because its them who make the rules. If Paypal followed a strict interpretation of the rules they should frozen the account and not allow new debits or credits until the company provided the information required by US law. SO by allowing the use of half the money Paypal are actually doing them a favour.
Of course laws/regulations are important & any business would comply as best they could to avoid penalties. My issues was not with their reasons, but with their methods.
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The only reason it is legal is because the government refuses to close the loopholes in the tax code that MAKE it legal. In short, the criminals are running the banks. Companies finance campaigns for politicians, and in exchange, politicians don't close the loopholes, and the rest of the country gets a shiny steel dildo up the ass.
Fair enough. But why did they say they were holding half the money until after development was complete? Why not say that they would hold it until they had finished their inquiries into the client company?
Lies and misinformation,
It is a fully registered bank under EU law, it was granted a banking license from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier.
You know it would be nice if people actually started a campaign to call Pay-Pal out on their bullshit. If anyone needs to be knocked off their hoity-toity throne it's these fuckers. They are just a money transfer service, they need to start acting like it and stop using policies to block simple use. They also shouldn't be allowed to let politics get in the way (they're very christian from what I understand) and will even ban your account if they catch you buying adult material. Pay-pal is simply way to big to be using 'Ma & Pa business' sensibilities.
The reason why its legal because governments can't enforce their law outside of their country. This leads to competition between nations to create less onerous tax regimes. If the US government decides to effectively impose double taxation on foreign profits, which what is required to to make these schemes unattractive, companies will just move their headquarters to another country. This will lead to the reduction of tax income to a lower level than is currently paid. The only way to stop this is for rules to be introduced globally to prevent tax variations. This is very unlikely because even developed countries like Ireland are reliant on income brought in by their low corporate tax rate. Seeing that the Irish economy is in very bad state, the only way that Ireland could afford to agree to global tax rules is by slashing public services and pensions.
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When asked how it feels to be on her own again after so many years, she was honest — it feels good.
"I feel a sense of joy and freedom and excitement, truly, about a new chapter in my life," Dewan shared. "And I have no attachments to how that's going to look, or what that's going to be. I feel really open, and I feel hopeful."
As someone who's experienced this myself, I can't tell you how important I think it is for wives and mothers going through divorce to take heart in this part of Dewan's message. Divorce doesn't have to mean an end. It can mean an opportunity for you to start a new path heading toward a purpose you wouldn't have been able to get to otherwise.
Dewan also told Bazaar that she's investing a lot of time exploring her spirituality and doesn't skimp on time spent surrounded by her supportive girlfriends. (She obviously knows that making room for good things to come her way is key.)
"It is a new dawn," she shared. "There is a joy and there is a vulnerability to it. But I have a lot of hope for what the new chapter of my life will be."
So do I, Jenna. So do I.


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We're not a music blog…but…CLAUDE VIOLANTE – FOR YOU
May 23, 2012 § Leave a comment
Ok so lately we've been posting a couple of Music oriented posts, mainly being because one of the Milly and Olly household favorite band: White Arrows (which we strongly recommend) were playing in Paris and I was lucky enough to get to go to both their gigs!
So even though were not music themed, ever since I hear this song: FOR YOU by Claude Violante on one of my favorite blogs: TRENDLAND. I had to download it and the rest of the songs on the disk, great voice, great electronica rhythm and very addicting lyrics.
I hope you will enjoy it too…have a lovely tuesday!
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As one of the nation's leadingCatholic universities, SetonHall provides over 90 rigorous academic programs that are highly ranked, like our Business Leadership program that's ranked #1 in the nation. Seton Hall offers all the advantages of a large
Seton Hall University is located14 miles from New York City in suburban South Orange, New Jersey. Just a short walk from campus, you can hop on the train and be in New York City in 30 minutes, where lots of fun and excitement await—not to mention internship and job opportunities.
Type of SCHOOL: Catholic; oldest US Diocesan university; founded in 1856 by Reverend James Roosevelt Bayley
Size of Campus: 58-acre park-like campus with central green space where students play Frisbee and relax; six residence halls, two apartment buildings, and eight academic buildings as well as a student center, Dunkin' Donuts, state-of-the-art library, science and technology center, gym, and radio station
Number of Students: Undergraduate enrollment: 6,000; average class size: 21
Number of Faculty: 460 full-time faculty, of which almost 90% hold the highest degrees in their fields; many faculty are Fulbright Scholars, authors, and researchers well known in their fields. At Seton Hall, faculty teach courses—less than 4% of courses are taught by graduate students—so you will receive close personal mentorship from the faculty.
Colleges, Programs, and Degrees: 90+ majors and programs (see listing to the left)
Geographic Diversity:
• Diversity rate: 40%
• States represented: 50
• Countries represented: 70
International Student Services: ESL program; Office of International Programs; International Student Association; International Student Festival; International Orientation; organized field trips to New York City, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, etc.; regular social programming, activities, and trips to local stores like Target
International Student Budget:
Tuition and Fees $42,470
Room and Board$14,500
Financial Aid:
• Seton Hall dollars given to students annually: $98 million
• Students receiving financial aid: 98%
• International students are automatically considered for scholarships at the point of admission as long as they submit an SAT or ACT score.
Test Score Requirements:
Freshman application profile:
• Average GPA: 3.5
• Average SAT (CR+M): 1215
• Average ACT: 25
Results of the TOEFL (550, 213, 79) may be submitted in lieu of the SAT or ACT, but then the student cannot be considered for scholarships.
Application Deadlines and Fees:
• Early Action I: November 15
• Early Action II: December 15
• Regular Decision I: February 1
• Regular Decision II: March 1
• Scholarship deadline: January 5
• $55 application fee
Majors and Programs
• Accounting#
• Accounting (five-year BS/MS dual degree)∞
• Africana Studies#
• American Humanics√
• Ancient Greek?
• Anthropology#
• Applied Scientific Mathematics?
• Arabic?
• Archaeology?
• Art (Art History#, Fine Arts)#
• Art (BA/MA in Museum Professions)§
• Asian Studies#
• Athletic Training (five-year BA/MS or BS/MS dual degree)∞
• Biochemistry
• Biology (BA or BS)
• Broadcasting and Visual Media#
• Business Administration#‡
• Catholic Studies#‡
• Catholic Theology#
• Chemistry#
• Classical Culture?
• Classical Languages?
• Classical Studies#
• Communication Studies (BA/MA in Communication or Public Relations)§
• Computer Graphics√
• Computer Science#
• Creative Writing
• Criminal Justice#
• Data Visualization and Analysis√
• Digital Media and Video√
• Digital Media Production for the Web√
• Diplomacy and International Relations#
• Early Childhood Education (integrated with Elementary and Special Education)
• Economics (BA or BS)
• Education with Speech-Language Pathology (six-year BSE/MS dual degree)∞
• Elementary Education (integrated with Early Childhood and Special Education)
• Engineering (Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical)§
• English#
• Entrepreneurial Studies√
• Environmental Sciences?
• Environmental Studies#
• Ethics and Applied Ethics?
• Finance
• French#
• Gerontology
• Graphic Design
• History#
• Information Technologies√
• Information Technology Management‡
• International Business?
• International Relations
• Italian#
• Italian Studies?
• Journalism#
• Latin?
• Latin America and Latino/Latina Studies#
• Law (dual-admission program with Seton Hall Law)∞
• Legal Studies in Business?
• Liberal Studies
• Management
• Marketing
• Mathematics#
• MBA (five-year BA/MBA or BS/MBA dual degree)∞
• Medicine (Joint Bachelor's/MD program)
• Modern Languages
• Music (Comprehensive, History, Performance#)
• Music History?
• Music Technology?
• Musical Theatre?
• Nonprofit Studies?
• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy (six-year BA/MS dual degree)∞
• Online Course Development and Management√
• Philosophical Theology√
• Philosophy#
• Physical Therapy (seven-year BS/DPT dual degree)∞
• Physician Assistant (six-year BS/MS dual degree)∞
• Physics (BA or BS)#
• Political Science#
• Pre-dental*
• Pre-law*
• Pre-medical*
• Pre-optometry*
• Pre-veterinary*
• Psychology (BA or BS)
• Public Relations#
• Religion#
• Russian?
• Russian and East European Studies??
• Secondary Education (optional integration with Special Education)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Social Work#
• Sociology#
• Spanish#
• Special Education (integrated with Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education)
• Speech-Language Pathology (4+3 with Psychology or Education)
• Sport Management#
• Supply Chain Management√
• Theatre#
• Web Design√
• Women and Gender Studies?
• Writing?
?Minor only
#Minor also available
√Certificate program only
‡Certificate program also available
§Dual-degree program with NJIT
∞Seton Hall dual-degree program (please contact the Office of Admissions for details)
*Pre-professional program; must also select a major
Personal attention
With a 14:1 student-faculty ratio and average class size of 21, faculty know more than just your name. At Seton Hall, you can begin working on research projects with faculty as early as your freshman year, and many students even attend conferences with faculty. At Seton Hall, you'll benefit from the close mentorship of faculty and a community dedicated to challenging and supporting you.
Hands-on learning
At Seton Hall, you learn from doing.That's why in addition to countless opportunities for research and scholarship, students can write for one of our three newspapers, work for the #1ranked college radio station in the nation, conduct research for our MarketResearch Center, create public relationsplans for local businesses, develop lesson plans for student teaching, or work in the sports polling center conducting polls commissioned by ESPN.
Career advantage
Nestled in the suburban village of South Orange, New Jersey, Seton Hallprovides the safe, quaint charm of asmall town and the hustle and bustleof New York City life only 30 minutes away. Just hop on the train in the center of town and the worlds of entertainment, art, publishing, finance, andfashion; the United Nations; and thousands of major corporations are at your doorstep. This translates to a competitive edge and unprecedented job opportunities, not to mention lots ofcareer advantage. Seton Hall offers more than 17,000 internship opportunities, and more than 81% of studentshave an internship—or two—on their résumés before graduation. In fact,Seton Hall is ranked #4 in the nationfor providing internship opportunities. Seton Hall students have a 90% employment rate and mid-career earnings 50% higher than the national average. Seton Hall offers a comprehensive Career Center, and your career counselor begins working with you freshman year.
Seton Hall students have had internships or found employment at:
• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley
• The United Nations, World Food Program
• Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall
• Merck, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson
• The New York Times, Wall Street Journal
• Secret Service, FBI, DEA
• New York Mets, New York Giants
• Prudential, AIG
• Deloitte, KPMG
• The Museum of National History
• Google, Amazon
"I love everything about Seton Hall. The classes are small and the faculty are so friendly and helpful; they really care about you. This is a great community. I feel so welcome here. My roommate Liz made me feel at home right away; we go into town for ice cream, talk all night, and hang out on campus together. Plus, I love that New York City is only 30 minutes away and the train from campus is so easy. My friends and I go into NYC all the time and we have lots of fun exploring."
— Hye Ji Shim
English Major
Paju, South Korea
"My internship advisor was so supportive and encouraging; she helped me with my résumé, presentation, and networking skills and connected me with two amazing internship experiences: one at the US Indian Chamber of Commerce, where I helped launch Starbucks's entry into India, and the other at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, where I was able to serve as a delegate to the UN and negotiate on behalf of India. Seton Hall definitely helped me build an excellent résumé. The opportunities I received at Seton Hall have really given me an edge and made me competitive for my next chapter as I pursue my graduate degree at Oxford and for my future career aspiration to join India's foreign service."
— Sagarika Gujar
Double Major: Diplomacy & International Relations and
Modern Languages with Chinese & Spanish
Mumbai, India


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2009 MLK Day of Service is Largest Ever
The Corporation for National and Community Service has released their findings on MLK Day 2009: "Fueled by President Obama's call to service, the 2009 King Day of Service experienced a historic level of participation, as Americans across the country honored Dr. King by serving their communities on the January 19 King Holiday. In total, more than 13,000 projects took place, more than doubling last year's record of 5,000 projects. This historic turnout is the largest ever in the 14 years since Congress encouraged Americans to observe the King Holiday as a national day of service and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service with leading this national effort." Read the rest of this article
Contributing to this amazing feat, Alums across the country made an impact in their own communities. Check out some the great projects and what Alums had to say about them here. The DC Alums MLK project video is featured below… kudos again to everyone for an amazing day of service!


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Early use of renewable energy solutions ensures that their profile remains high throughout a disaster and into its recovery and re-building phases.
There are many aspects of livelihoods that can significantly impact on the environment. As practitioners it is our place to ensure resilience and sustainability are embedded into projects we support.
Shelter is essential for the physical protection and privacy of people but can also be a substantial impact on the environment.
Solid Waste
Inappropriate disposal of waste will damage the environment and may lead to public health issues.


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DIS Unplugged Podcast – 02/21/16 – Disneyland Show
In the news this week, SeaWorld San Diego announces a new attraction, budget cuts hits Disneyland after delays in Shanghai, and listeners Brian and Frank talk about their visits to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood, plus Mary Jo suggests adding a side trip to Newport Beach or Laguna Beach to your Disneyland vacation. To get in touch with the team, check out our contact page.
News, Housekeeping, Rapid Fire
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IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) welcomes a new report by cross-party think tank Demos, which urgently calls for a 'new deal' for the self-employed.
Commissioned by IPSE, Demos's report – 'Free Radicals: Britain's self-employed millions urgently need a new deal' – confirms that the extraordinary rise in self-employment since 2001 represents a structural, not cyclic, shift in the UK labour market.
With 4.8 million people, it argues, self-employment is almost as big as the entire public sector and must be brought into mainstream political discourse.
Policymakers, it says, have simply not kept pace with the rate of change in the labour market, however, leaving many self-employed with concerns about tax, over-strict government regulation, pensions, and a general lack of support. 'Free Radicals' argues for a new deal to address these concerns and bring UK policy up-to-date.
The report – launched today at the IPSE/Demos Policy Conference 'Modern Working: The Age of Self-Employment' – makes 30 recommendations to form part of the new deal, including:
- Writing a definition of self-employment into law;
- Introducing an 'engagers tax' on businesses using self-employed labour;
- Delaying the rollout of IR35 changes to the private sector;
- Making Universal Credit work for the self-employed;
- Exploring a range of flexible pensions options to help the self-employed save for later life.
IPSE CEO Chris Bryce commented:
"The extraordinary and permanent rise of self-employment – which now rivals the public sector is size – is the most significant story in the UK labour market this century. We commissioned this landmark report with Demos to reveal the realities of self-employment today, open up much-needed discussion about it, and find ways to promote and support this vital and burgeoning sector.
"We especially agree with its call for a 'new deal' for the self-employed, and welcome almost all of the 30 recommendations to make this happen. We are also very glad the report backs IPSE's calls for a statutory definition of self-employment being written into law, and for the Government to halt the roll-out of the disastrous changes to IR35.
"Overall, this report should help not only push self-employment to its rightful place at the heart of political discourse, but also make a vital contribution to the debate about the future of this sector."
Alan Lockey, Demos's Head of Modern Economy and the report author, commented:
"The rise of self-employment is one of the biggest changes to the modern economy in the last couple of decades. We need to think pragmatically about whether we should actively encourage it – it could be that it is the British solution for a more flexible, less rigid approach to life and work in the future, as it already is for millions of people. That means we need a new deal to boost security for the self-employed."


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Nursing Shortage
Compelling evidence suggests that regions of the United States face a nursing and physician shortage that our legislators, health officials, and medical professionals must address. To ensure that quality medical care is not harshly impacted, the hospitals and public health leadership, in general, will need to tackle the nursing shortage with solid long-term solutions.
It is no secret that the United States faces a critical nursing shortage, a trend that potentially threatens to undermine quality medical care. One single area of concern does not affect the shortage. In fact, the hospitals, and nursing in particular, are witnessing a combination of problems that range in salary structure, medical economics/cost containment, post-graduate education, and an aging workforce (pending retirements of baby-boomers). The public health industry is not sitting idly by to address the shortage. It is critically reviewing the needs for both existing professions. Definition of Nursing Shortage
Nursing shortage is defined as the inadequate number of qualified nurses to meet the projected demand for nursing care within a healthcare setting, where the demand for nurses is greater than the supply. History of Nursing Shortage
Historical knowledge is important to analyze the present and prepare for the future. As we can see from the current shortage in America today, we learn that it is not a new problem. However what makes this current nursing shortage situation unique is that the causes are related to a multifaceted range of issues. The current nursing shortage is connected to supply and demand factors, demographic changes, population growth, and fewer students enrolling in nursing schools, RNs who are retiring or leaving the workforce and a growth in the baby boom population who will demand more healthcare services in the near future. These factors are occurring while many nurses are retiring and more jobs are being created. In addition, the nursing shortage is actually a worldwide phenomenon with areas like Western Europe, Australia, Canada and the Philippines facing shortages as well.
Economic factors have also contributed to the nursing shortage in the United States. Mark Genovese, spokesperson for the New York State Nurses Association explains, "For many decades the shortage was cyclical but as the economy tightened and as the insurance industry moved to a managed care model, there was less money in the system and hospitals had less money to work with and tighter budgets."
Budgetary limitations affected the nursing workforce as many nurses began leaving the profession altogether. "They were forcing RNs to do more with less, handle more patients and work more hours. RNs started to leave the workforce because of the working conditions and fewer RNs entered the system," explains Mark.
Americans are also demanding more quality healthcare services while many RNs are retiring, further exacerbating the problem. The HRSA has stated: "to meet the projected growth in demand for RN services, the U.S. must graduate approximately 90% more nurses from U.S. nursing programs."
Decreased staffing means that there are fewer nurses to work with patients. This impacts job satisfaction and causes work related stress. In some cases it has led to many nurses leaving the profession altogether. A 2010 study published in Health Services Research found that over 75% of RNs feel that the nursing shortage is a huge problem that affects their quality of work as well as patient care and the amount of time that nurses can spend with individual patients.
Another important factor contributing to a lack of nurses is that there is a shortage of nursing school faculty to train a new generation of nurses in colleges and universities. The AACN's 2008-2009 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing report found that nursing programs in the U.S. did not enroll 49,948 qualified students into their bachelor and...
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