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On Sunday, Alibaba chairman Jack Ma showed off the new feature while speaking at the Cebit trade fair in Hanover, Germany.
Using Alipay, Ma bought a souvenir stamp from Alibaba's e-commerce site in China. But to confirm the purchase, Ma scanned his face using the front camera on his smartphone.
"Online payment to buy things is always a big headache," he said. "You forget your password, you worry about your security. Today we show you a new technology."
Alibaba, which reigns as China's largest e-commerce player, said Monday that the facial recognition feature was still under development.
Other online payment services have also started using biometrics to confirm user purchases. Apple Pay, for instance, relies on an iPhone's fingerprint scanner.
It's unclear how secure is Alibaba's technology. But the company's affiliated Alipay service is already hugely popular in China, where it has over 300 million registered users.
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Earlier this month, the company announced it would enter the U.S. cloud computing market, by opening a new data center in Silicon Valley.
Alipay, which was spun off from Alibaba in 2011, is also seeking to grow an international user base. Last October, Apple CEO Tim Cook also said he was eyeing a possible partnership with Alibaba Group to bring Apple Pay to China.
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By Norman Solomon Truthout 12/6/06
The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now acknowledge that major media routinely tossed real journalism out the window in favor of boosting war.
But it's happening again.
The current media travesty is a drumbeat for the idea that the US war effort must keep going. And again, in its news coverage, the New York Times is a bellwether for the latest media parade to the cadence of the warfare state.
During the run-up to the invasion, news stories repeatedly told about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, while the Times and other key media outlets insisted that their coverage was factually reliable. Now the same media outlets insist that their coverage is analytically reliable.
Instead of authoritative media information about aluminum tubes and mobile weapons labs, we're getting authoritative media illumination of why a swift pullout of US troops isn't realistic or desirable. The result is similar to what was happening four years ago – a huge betrayal of journalistic responsibility.
The WMD spin was in sync with official sources and other establishment-sanctified experts, named and unnamed. The anti-pullout spin is in sync with official sources and other establishment-sanctified experts, named and unnamed.
During the weeks since the midterm election, the New York Times's news coverage of Iraq policy options has often been heavy-handed, with carefully selective sourcing for prefab conclusions. Already infamous is the November 15 front-page story by Michael Gordon under the headline "Get Out of Iraq Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say." A similar technique was at play December 1 with yet another "News Analysis," this time by reporter David Sanger, headlined "The Only Consensus on Iraq: Nobody's Leaving Right Now."
Typically in such reportage, the sources harmonizing with the media outlet's analysis are chosen from the cast of political characters who helped drag the United States into making war on Iraq in the first place.
What's going on now in mainline news media is some kind of repetition compulsion. And, while media professionals engage in yet another round of conformist opportunism, many people will pay with their lives.
With so many prominent American journalists navigating their stories by the lights of big Washington stars, it's not surprising that so much of the news coverage looks at what happens in Iraq through the lens of the significance for American power.
Viewing the horrors of present-day Iraq with star-spangled eyes, New York Times reporters John Burns and Kirk Semple wrote – in the lead sentence of a front-page "News Analysis" on November 29 – that "American military and political leverage in Iraq has fallen sharply."
The second paragraph of the Baghdad-datelined article reported: "American fortunes here are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals."
The third paragraph reported: "It is not clear that the United States can gain new traction in Iraq …"
And so it goes – with US media obsessively focused on such concerns as "American military and political leverage," "American fortunes," and whether "the United States can gain new traction in Iraq."
With that kind of worldview, no wonder so much news coverage is serving nationalism instead of journalism.
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Let $G$ be a connected reductive group defined over a number field $K$ and $G^{der}$ its derived subgroup.
Let $\mathbb{A}_K$ denote the adeles of $K$.
Then for $G=GL_n$ we have $[GL_n(\mathbb{A}_K),GL_n(\mathbb{A}_K)]=SL_n(\mathbb{A}_K)=GL_n^{der}(\mathbb{A}_K)$. I'm interested in what generality this holds, in other words I'd like to ask:
Question 1: When is the commutator subgroup $[G(\mathbb{A}_K),G(\mathbb{A}_K)]$ equal to $G^{der}(\mathbb{A}_K)$?
As I think this question is really a local one, so let me put it this way:
Let $K_v$ be a local field of char 0. $G$ a reductive group over $K_v$, $G^{der}$ its derived subgroup.
Question 2: Is the commutator subgroup $[G(K_v),G(K_v)]$ equal to $G^{der}(K_v)$?
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It's O-Phil-Cial: G20 Summit trumps Blue Jays/Phillies series
Fans in Toronto hoping of catching a glimpse of Roy Halladay this June will have to wait at least another season to see him return home.
The Toronto Star and the Fan590 are reporting that there will be an official announcement later this afternoon indicating that the series originally scheduled to take place at the Rogers Centre in Toronto will shift to Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia.
It sounds like there would have been too much security around the perimeter of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, which could have not only halted traffic, but Go Trains as well. Even if the series stayed in Toronto, it would have been a clusterf*ck to get to the Rogers Centre.
An ordinary 30 minute commute to the Dome would have probably taken double the time, and would possibly involve security checkpoints, pat downs, etc. And that's even BEFORE you get to the Rogers Centre.
It's disappointing that this series has been moved to another city, but I feel bad for the season ticket holders who now only have access to 78 home games instead of 81. Does that mean they get free tickets to the series in Philadelphia? It makes sense, right … since Toronto will technically be the "home" team in that series.
And what about the folks who have already purchased tickets for that weekend? It's unfair to pull the rug from underneath them like that, and I hope the Blue Jays have some way of compensating them.
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Sources tell WWN that Lohan needs the cash. Her legal costs and her lack of acting gigs have brought her to the brink of bankruptcy.
Hugh Hefner has come in to same Lindsay's financial life. He has paid her to pose for a ten page spread in his magazine. The photo shoot took place right before Lindsay appeared in court on her probation hearing.
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The LSU-Ole Miss Shootout, Georgia's Tester at Auburn, Notre Dame's heroics at Duke & College Football Week 5 Reaction
Ty and Dan talk through an exciting Week 5 of college football, that featured a little something for every type of fan, whether you're into high-scoring shootouts, defensive slugfests or underdog stories. In this college football podcast episode, we recap Ole Miss's big home win over LSU, Georgia's sudden vulnerability as a rushing defense, Sam Hartman's clutch scramble to keep the Irish alive at Duke, USC's defensive questions, and more. Plus, Oregon State's win over Utah on Friday night, Penn State's sluggish offense, Texas and Oklahoma's collision course in Week 6, Baylor's miraculous comeback, Texas A&M's domination and Clemson's taking-care-of-business showing at Syracuse. Finally, Verballer Reverbs.


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Now that I've sorted out all the SCSI termination headaches on my 1998-vintage slide scanner, I've digitized some more of my old 35mm negatives. Here's a trio of old cars I shot in 1989.
We've got a '69 Cadillac Sedan De Ville, a '66 Dodge Coronet 440 wagon, and a '68 Chevrolet Caprice sedan, all parked on or near the gritty Glascock Street in Oakland's Fruitvale district. These days, there's not so much grit in that neighborhood, as you can see in Google Street View (though the Googlemobile refused to drive down Glascock itself), but you still see some nice vintage iron parked in front of the condos and live/work lofts nowadays. I bought the legendary Hubert The Hatred Bug at a junkyard on Glascock, and the original Oakland Hell's Angels HQ, circa 1960, was just a few doors down.


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The UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory issued an alert about the recent earthquake in California's Napa Valley 10 seconds before it struck. That may not seem like much time -- unless you're a child of the 1950s and 1960s who was trained in school to duck and cover the second you saw a large bright nuclear flash.
Earthquake early warning systems can deliver alerts of impending seismic activity a few seconds to as long as four minutes before the tremors begin. The systems don't predict earthquakes, but a quake's energy waves move slowly enough to create an opportunity for a warning. The length of warning depends on the distance from the earthquake's center.
Even if it sends an alert just a few seconds before an event, an earthquake warning system can help save lives and prevent property damage. But the U.S. has yet to fund an earthquake early warning system. That's not the case in Japan; that nation has a warning system that issued alerts that triggered the shutdown of the transit system when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck offshore in the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2011. No trains derailed.
The cost of building and operating an alert system for the West Coast of the United States has been estimated at approximately $120 million for the first five years.
But investing in a fully built alert system that's integrated into schools, offices and other types of buildings could give rise to a new industry, said William Leith, a senior science adviser at the U.S. Geological Survey. Leith offered testimony on the subject of early warning systems to a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives last June.
"Consultants will advise users on how to use alerts to take protective actions," he said. "Mass notification companies will customize alerts for their clients. Automated control producers will make and install equipment to take actions and sound alarms at user facilities. Entrepreneurs will undoubtedly develop creative new applications specific to various industry sectors."
Joshua Bashioum, the founder of Early Warning Labs in Santa Monica, Calif., is in the vanguard of this industry. His year-old, privately funded company is building hardware systems that can interface with building operational systems and IT networks. What Early Warning Labs intends to do is take earthquake alert data, calculate the intensity at client locations and project the risk of damage at those locations. It will then push out machine-to-machine commands.
The possible action scenarios are almost endless. An automated command could turn on a data center's emergency generators and begin disaster recovery procedures. It could alert surgeons in an operating room of an impending quake, get schoolchildren to take cover, automatically open garage doors at fire houses to prevent jamming, turn off gas pipelines, shut down high-tech manufacturing assembly lines and brace equipment, stop elevators and set off audible alarms. That's not to mention the potential for triggering messages on TV and radio and even activating citywide sirens.
Bashioum said that until the government makes earthquake early warning systems fully functional, private-sector companies can't use the data to issue alerts. All they do now are test installations.
"Our efforts right now are focused on identifying what needs to be done," said Bashioum, who is among those speaking next week at the International Conference on Earthquake Early Warning at the University of California, Berkeley. Saving lives is the main goal, he said.
Large companies may be interested as well.
David Jonker, the senior director of Big Data Initiatives at SAP, said in an earthquake early warning, where every second counts, the challenge is to issue a warning as fast as possible. There won't be time to read disks, and he believes in-memory systems will be the preferred approach for processing warning data.
SAP is already in the warning business; it provides technology for NY-Alert, New York's all-hazard alert and notification system.
Jonker said SMS, as well as user responses, are too slow. "You are very much talking about a machine-to-machine play," he said.
What is clear is that building an early warning system will take time, and that includes the time needed to train the public in how to respond to warnings.
"We're going to be focused on getting the science right and the warning generated correctly, and then we're going to depend on our public sector and corporate partners to figure out how we are going to push it out," said Bill Steele, director of outreach and information services at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.


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Well, I was born in a town called Audubon
Southwest Iowa, right where it oughta been
Twenty-three houses, fourteen saloons,
And a feed mill in nineteen-thirty.
Had a neon sign, said "Squealer Feeds"
And the bus came through when they felt the need
And they stopped at a place there in town called The Old Home Cafe
Now my daddy was a music lovin' man
He stood six-foot-seven, had big ol' hands
He'd lost two fingers in a chainsaw but he could still play the violin
And Mom played piana, just the keys in the middle
And Dad played a storm on his three-fingered fiddle
'Cause that's all there was to do back there folks, except ta go downtown and watch haircuts
So I was raised on Dust Bowl tunes, you see
Had a six-tube radio an' no TV
It was so dog-goned hot I had to wet the bed in the summer just to keep cool.
Yeah, many's a night I'd lay awake
A-waitin' for a distant station break
Just a-settin' and a-wettin' an' a-lettin' that radio fry.
Well, I listened to Nashville and Tulsa and Dallas
And Oklahoma City gave my ear a callus
And I'll never forget them announcers at three A.M.
They'd come on an' say "Friends, there's many a soul who needs us
"So send them letters an' cards ta Jesus
"That's J-E-S-U-S friends, in care a' Del Rio, Texas."
But the place I remember, on the edge a' town
Was the place where you really got the hard-core sound
Yeah, a place where the truckers used ta stop on their way to Dees Moins
There was signs all over them windowsills
Like "If the Devil don't get ya, then Roosevelt will"
And "The bank don't sell no beer, and we don't cash no checks."
Now them truckers never talked about nothin' but haulin'
And the four-letter words was really appallin'
They thought them home-town gals was nothin' but toys for their amusement.
Rode Chevys and Macks and big ol' stacks
They's always complainin' 'bout their livers an' backs
But they was fast-livin', strung-out, truck-drivin' son of a guns
Now the gal waitin' tables was really classy
Had a rebuilt motor on a fairly new chassis
And she knew how to handle them truckers; name was Mavis Davis
Yeah, she'd pour 'em a coffee, then she'd bat her eyes
Then she'd listen to 'em tell 'er some big fat lies
Then she'd ask 'em how the wife and kids was, back there in Joplin?
Now Mavis had all of her ducks in a row
Weighed ninety-eight pounds; put on quite a show
Remind ya of a couple a' Cub Scouts tryin' ta set up a Sears, Roebuck pup tent
There's no proposition that she couldn't handle
Next ta her, nothin' could hold a candle
Not a hell of a lot upstairs, but from there on down, Disneyland!
Now the truckers, on the other hand, was really crass
They remind ya of fingernails a-scratchin' on glass
A-stompin' on in, leavin' tracks all over the Montgomery Ward linoleum
Yeah, they'd pound them counters and kick them stools
They's always pickin' fights with the local fools
But one look at Mavis, and they'd turn into a bunch a' tomcats
Well, I'll never forget them days gone by
I's just a kid, 'bout four foot high
But I never forgot that lesson an' pickin' and singin', the country way
Yeah, them walkin', talkin' truck stop blues
Came back ta life in seventy-two
As "The Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe"
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin'
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin'
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin'
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin'
Oh, the Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe


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Ahoy Mateys - Happy Anniversary TablescapeJacqueline May 28, 2013
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Gorgeous! What FUN! It seems like it is right out of a pirate movie or a storybook. AND you look FABULOUS darling!!ReplyDelete
Wow what an amazing post. You make a beautiful pirate. Happy 34th you lovely lady!ReplyDelete
Ahoy, matey! Ye outdid yourself on this one. What a fun way to celebrate with the family. Happy Anniversary! Look forward to seeing more.ReplyDelete
What fun! You have a great imagination and a great sense of occasion. I'll bet every member of your crew had a wonderful time!ReplyDelete
You captured it soooo perfectly. What an amazing place! Soooo fun that they have the pirate plates and other accessories. Such an amazing table you set! Kylie is the perfect mermaid. Though here tell there was another mermaid swimming about the water! Love all the pirates. You and Kirk look so great. Happy 34th!ReplyDelete
Happy Anny Jacqueline! Looks like you all sure had fun-enjoy:@)ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary! What a fun way to celebrate! How neat that all of that dinin' finery was on the property. Can't wait to see more!ReplyDelete
Those be the makings of an anniversary memory. Great fun! Congratulations!ReplyDelete
I had a blast right along with you guys seeing these fun photos of you all celebrating an anniversary! Happy many more :)ReplyDelete
Oh Wow Jacqueline, this would be such a fun place to visit. I had to go back and check out the previous posts to see what it was all about. How cool is that? I love it! It's the kind of spot we could only dream about. Thank you for allowing us to stow away for a peek on your grand adventures Matey! Arrr! :)ReplyDelete
You are such a wonderful couple..and I agree that mermaid is so cute..How nice to have shared your anniversary with your whole family..ReplyDelete
Bon Anniversaire!
Happy anniversary.ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary Jacqueline, what a fun place to celebrate. Next thing we know, you'll be in the next Jack Sparrow episode!ReplyDelete
Such a fun experience Jacqueline. Happy anniversary to such a lovely couple. The whole family is smiling ear to ear. Love the Ahoy Matey theme. You make a beautiful wrench....xoxo LindaReplyDelete
How fascinating! Loads of fun for everyone....and what an adorable little mermaid you have there. Happy Anniversary to the two of you!! Blessings.ReplyDelete
What a great Family Birthday Party! I sometimes have Family birthday Parties becaseu that is the day our family began! SO MUCH FUN!!! My crew would LOVE going there! I may need to wait until there are more little pirates to come, but maybe NOT!
You do look so adorable, as always, you make things so much fun! Did you take the clothing with you or is that all available for use for pictures there at the Cove?
Argh, matey! That be one booty-ful tablescape! You must be one kind wench to invite all those scurvy curs along with you on your annivers-aaaar-y! This here buccaneer(me) best be taking you to a movie soon as a poor attemt to say thank you, or they'll be walking the plank!ReplyDelete
The one that says Tyvarian International is me,Shaunna.ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary!!! What a fun celebration!ReplyDelete
This is cooler than cool!!! Wow! What a neat place! And they had all of that in to use already??!?!? Makes it a LOT easier! Napkins are easy to bring along! :-)ReplyDelete
You guys took really great pictures there! What a fun way to spend your anniversary!
I love this tablescape because it shows readers another way to use all of the stuff they have on hand for Halloween. They can totally repurpose it and get their pirate on! :-)
What a fab post, Jac! Loved it, it was like reading a book, I couldn't read fast enough to see what was next! What a fun place!! And they let you set tables, too? Wow. Good advertising for them, fun for you! Happy 34th Anniversary to you and your hubby. xoReplyDelete
OW OW!! you two make a mighty fine pirate couple! Glad it was such a good anniversary! 34 years is just awesome! you guys are the best! Happy Anniversary!ReplyDelete
No, we brought the costumes - I had everyone dress up for the actual anniversary night but I will do that in a later post!ReplyDelete
What a fun celebration! That looks like a great place! It must have been so much fun! Love the dishes! Your story is so cute to read. Congrats on your 34th! We just had our 35th!ReplyDelete
what a great place, I bet that was so much fun!ReplyDelete
What a fun place to spend an anniversary with the family. Happy Anniversary.. wishing you many many more years of bliss! That is one darling table!!! And you brought the right napkins and napkin rings. Fabulous. Can't wait to see the rest. xo marlisReplyDelete
Oh, so much fun! What a wonderful place to celebrate your anniversary and what a magnificent table. The glasses are great! Your napkin and napkin ring really added the finishing touch.ReplyDelete
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This is certainly a tablescape we haven't seen before! So fun! Nice that you took the family as well!ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary!
Where is this? How much fun, and you took it over the top with your penchant for creativity and delight. Thanks for inviting us to the party and Happy Anniversary! Cherry KayReplyDelete
Yo-ho-ho! Happy Anniversary to you and your pirate hubby! Love your sense of fun and booty for the table! What an adorable mermaid you found too! Since you're such a fun loving wench I bet you already know that you can turn on pirate speak on FB just for kicks and giggles :)ReplyDelete
I remember Pirate's Cove from before, Jacqueline. Your family has the best time. Thanks for sharing your family's adventure and Happy Anniversary to you and your sweetie.ReplyDelete
Hi Jacqueline, Here's the link for pirate speak on your FB page, fun to get your notifications that way :)ReplyDelete
What an awesome time your family must have had being pirates for the day...Happy Anniversary and many more!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on your anniversary! Looks like you had a fabulous time!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Happy Anniversary! Fabulous celebration!ReplyDelete
Looks like a great adventure matey!! I love all the decorations, especially the skull goblets. The night shot is so pretty. Happy Anniversary.ReplyDelete
What a fun post! Happy 34th Anniversary ad many many more adventures ahead!ReplyDelete
What an amazing anniversary adventure! You look absolutely darling as a pirate, and I know your family had the BEST time together! My grandchildren would LOVE that place!ReplyDelete
How much fun is this! You do have a wonderful way of making things special, and I'm sure everyone enjoyed your anniversary.ReplyDelete
What a fun day, I love the pictures!ReplyDelete
How nice of you to take your whole family on your anniversary celebration trip! But, then, if the two of you didn't 'hitch up' then there wouldn't be a family to help celebrate :)ReplyDelete
What a fun place! Love the pictures of you, hubby and the mermaid is priceless :)
You are sooooooo talented! I am always amazed at your creativity and sense of adventure. Your photos are wonderful. You and your hubby are great looking pirates!ReplyDelete
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When I had my first son I hadn't planned to go back to work. I suddenly had to return to the workforce when he was three months old. I was completely unprepared and my son went from an exclusively breastfeeding baby to a mostly formula baby within a short period of time. I learned a lot from my experience with him and was much more prepared when I had my daughter. I was able to exclusively breastfeed her and work full time. Because of what I went through, the emotions of trying to pump enough milk for the next day, I wanted to gather up all my tips and write them down for others to use. I hope that you find these tips helpful.
1.Plan ahead if possible. Get a freezer stash going before you go back to work.
2.Do not just pump at work. Pump at home on your days off and before and after work.
3.Pump while nursing. Pump on one side while nursing on the other.
4.Find a good place to pump, where you are comfortable and can relax.
5.Make sure everyone at work knows how important breastfeeding is and not to interrupt you.
6.Drink plenty of fluids through out the day. Drink a large glass of water about an hour before you are going to pump.
7.Use a good quality double breast pump like the Ameda Purely Yours.
8.If your supply is dwindling rent a hospital grade pump.
9.Find other moms to talk to that are breastfeeding and pumping.
10.Do not get discouraged if you don't pump a large volume at once. Most moms pump around three oz per pumping.
11.Pump frequently. Pumping frequently is more important than how long you pump.
12.Try to pump at least every three hours.
13.Pumping is NOT as efficient as nursing. Do not gauge your milk supply by how much you pump. Your baby will get more milk from nursing than you will make from pumping.
14.Before you nurse, relax and do a quick breast massage.
15.Any time you give your baby a bottle make sure you pump in place of that.
16.Nurse frequently at night or try reverse cycling. Reverse cycling is when baby nurses more at night than during the day.
17.Co-sleep with baby if you are comfortable so he can nurse more at night. Nursing at night will help your supply.
18.Try drinking Mothers Milk tea.
19.Eat a bowl of oatmeal in the morning. Oatmeal is really good for boosting milk supply.
20.Avoid giving bottle to baby before he is three weeks.
21.Use a slow flow nipple for your bottles.
22.Find a day care provider that is a breastfeeding supporter. An uneducated day care provider can sabotage your success.
23.Take Fenugreek or Blessed Thistle
24.If you need to supplement when you are home use a Supplemental Nursing System.
25.Do not assume because baby is fussing it is your supply. Many times baby will fuss for other reasons.
26.When preparing bottles for day care, store them in three oz portions. Your baby will likely only need three oz at a time. If he needs more up it to four.
27.Send small 2 oz bottles of breast milk for day care provider to give to baby if you will be picking him up soon. This way baby will be ready to nurse when you get him home.
28.Nurse on your lunch break if you can.
29.Take picture of baby with you to work. Look at your baby when you are pumping. It will help with your let down.
30.Have a nurse in. On the weekend spend the entire weekend in bed with your baby and nurse as frequently as you can.
31.During pumping session, take a break when your milk stops flowing. Massage your breast and use nipple stimulation to get a second let down. You will usually get another oz or so if you can get a second let down.
32.Cut down on caffeine. Caffeine will hinder your supply
33.Don't do extreme dieting. Eat a healthy diet.
34.Contact a La Leche League Leader or lactation consultant for advice.
35.Avoid using bottles and pacifiers when you are home.
36.Try switch nursing when you are home. Nurse on one side then switch to the other when baby seems to be getting fussy. Switch sides two or three times while nursing.
37.Remind yourself of all the benefits your baby is getting and that it's worth it!
38.Keep your pump pre-assembled so that you can keep your pumping breaks shorter.
39.If your using a pump with horns put them in a Ziploc bag and store them in the freezer between pumpings. This way you can just wash them when you get home.
40.If you can, do paperwork while pumping. This way you can have more pumping breaks and you will relax more if you are not focused on pumping.
41.Don't watch the pump. Staring at the pump watching for milk will make your session more stressful.
42.Adjust the suction controls, experiment with the speed and suction until you find what works best for you.
43.Keep spare parts readily available for your pump so you don't have any emergencies.
44.If you own a hands free pump like whisperwear try pumping on the drive to work.
45.Massage your breasts while you pump.
46.Pump in the morning. Your supply is best in the morning.
47.Bring a baby blanket or item of clothing that smells like baby. Use your senses to visualize your baby.
48.Close your eyes and picture baby nursing.
49.Keep a back up pump at work or in your car in case you forget. The Avent Isis is affordable and a great pump to have for a backup.
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list of participants for the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, 20 November - 15 December 2009. The only change to the American roster from CLO's last update is that popular CLO writer GM Josh Friedel will play, replacing GM Hikaru Nakamura, who declined
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A number of African leaders were present in Maputo as Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi was sworn in for a second and final term Wednesday after five turbulent years in office amid two armed insurgencies.
Nyusi won re-election in October with 73% of the vote, while the opposition alleged irregularities. Aside the African heads of state, the president of Portugal, the former colonial power, also attended the inauguration in the southern African country of 30 million people.
African leaders present included the following:
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
Mogkweetsi Masisi, Botswana
Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe
Paul Kagame, Rwanda
Edgar Lungu, Zambia
Joao Lourenco, Angola
Ssekandi, VP of Uganda
The crowning achievement of Nyusi's first term was meant to be the peace agreement signed in August with the armed opposition Renamo. Instead, it triggered fresh violence in central Mozambique by dissidents unhappy with the terms of the accord.
More than 15 armed attacks on vehicles in central Mozambique have been reported in recent months, killing 21 people.
Nyusi's government is also battling to contain deadly attacks in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado by extremists reportedly linked to the Islamic State group. An estimated 300 people have been killed, including by beheading, since the attacks began in 2017.
Cabo Delgado, Nyusi's home province, is home to two giant natural gas projects worth billions of dollars that Mozambique hopes will transform it into a middle-income country.
Work has begun on one of the projects, which changed ownership last year from U.S.-based Anadarko to French oil major Total, with the aim to start producing liquified natural gas before Nyusi's mandate ends in late 2024. The second project, led by ExxonMobil, is set to reach a final investment decision this year.
Nyusi is expected to announce his cabinet in the coming days. International investors will be watching closely to see if the finance minister, Adriano Maleiane, will be replaced.
Maleiane has guided the economy through exceptional difficulties following the discovery of $2 billion in debt taken on by three state-linked security companies, with government guarantees whose validity has been contested.
Maleiane's predecessor as finance minister, Manuel Chang, has been in a South African prison for more than a year contesting extradition to the United States to face charges in connection with the deals.
Last year Mozambique had to restructure its first-ever sovereign eurobond after it failed to make the first payment.
The inauguration comes as the rainy season again brings flooding to parts of Mozambique, which was hit last year by two major cyclones in less than two months, causing hundreds of deaths and major destruction. Recovery continues and widespread hunger has been a concern in the hard-hit rural areas.
Last week, the U.N. migration agency said the latest flooding destroyed the temporary shelters of almost 200 households that had been resettled in the central provinces of Tete and Zambezia.


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Facebook said the staff at Spool, the startup developer of a mobile bookmarking application, is joining the company, in what appears to be the latest acquisition by the social networking company to get technical staff on board.
"The Spool team has deep expertise in mobile software development and a passion for making content easy to consume," Facebook said in a statement over the weekend. "We're excited for the team to join and accelerate their vision at Facebook," it added.
Facebook did not comment on whether it was acquiring the company and its technology or only hiring its team.
Spool allowed users to create and share a read later list, save videos to watch later, or move content between devices. By Saturday, it had informed users that the service was closed down, and advised them to move their bookmarks to their computer or device browser or to another service.
"We started Spool to make content easy to consume on a mobile device. To accomplish this, we built some very sophisticated technology and developed a deep expertise in mobile software development," Spool said in a blog post on Saturday. "We are proud to announce that today we will be pursuing our vision as a part of Facebook," it added.
Spool in San Francisco raised US$1 million in funding in January this year from SV Angel, Felicis Ventures, Charles River Ventures and others. Its application went into private beta in September last year.
Facebook acquired earlier this year the team behind file-transfer startup Caffeinated Mind, but said the staff would work on tools that will help Facebook employees share files internally, and will not be working on a file sharing service for consumers. In a similar deal, it also said in March it was acquiring the team at webcam eye-tracking startup GazeHawk, but not its product and technology.


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A torchbearer died of a heart attack after carrying the Olympic flame as part of Russia's torch relay leading up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games in February, an official said on Monday.
Mr Vadim Gorbenko, 73, a sports school director and Greco-Roman wrestling coach, felt ill after walking 150m with the torch in his home city of Kurgan in western Siberia, said Mr Roman Osin, spokesman for the Sochi 2014 torch relay.
"He returned to the gathering place and was photographed, then he said he was not feeling well and was taken to hospital, but the doctors were unable to save him," Mr Osin, who travels with the relay, said by telephone.
"We express our deepest condolences to his loved ones."
Mr Osin said Mr Gorbenko, who had trained top Russian wrestlers and won state honours, had suffered two heart attacks in the past. He was conscious when he was taken to hospital and had spoken to his son at his bedside before his death.
Russia's four-month, 65,000km torch relay has been clouded by mishaps.
The flame has gone out dozens of times since President Vladimir Putin handed it off in Red Square on Oct 6, and last month a torchbearer's jacket caught fire as he carried the flame though another Siberian city.
Cosmonauts took an unlit torch on a spacewalk last month. The Olympic flame has been to the north pole and Lake Baikal on a journey that will end at the opening ceremony in Sochi on Feb 7.
Mr Putin appears eager to improve Russia's image and build his own legacy by hosting the country's first post-Soviet Olympics, but he has faced criticism over legislation seen in the West as anti-gay and some world leaders are staying away from the Games.
The 14,000 torchbearers in the Sochi 2014 relay are not asked to sign releases but are warned that it involves some physical exertion and their health is their own responsibility, Mr Osin said.


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The defendants in error, who were the plaintiffs below, and are hereafter so called, brought an action in the supreme court of the District of Columbia on December 10, 1904, against the plaintiffs in error and others, hereafter called the defendants, on a bond, and obtained a judgment, which was entered February 24, 1905, for $5,000 and interest thereon from that date. On appeal the court of appeals of the District affirmed the judgment (26 App. D. C. 193), and the defendants (the two McGuires) brought the case here by writ of error.
The declaration in the action alleged the execution of a bond by all of the defendants in the action, dated the 11th day of September, 1903, which bound the defendants in the [204 U.S. 489, 490] sum of $5,000, to be paid to the plaintiffs, subject to the condition therein stated. The recital in the bond was that Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire were desirous of purchasing merchandise from plaintiffs, 'now and from time to time hereafter, which the said John F. Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire have bound and hereby bind themselves to pay for in four months after the date of each respective purchase,' and the condition was as follows:
The defendants John F. Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire were principals, and the other defendants, William McGuire and John W. Clark, were sureties. Clark sued out a separate writ of error, which is hereafter disposed of. It was further alleged in the declaration that, on the days set forth in the particulars of demand annexed, and which formed part of the declaration, the defendants Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire purchased from the plaintiffs merchandise aggregating the sum of $14,497.16; that they had paid on account thereof, at various times, as shown in said particulars of demand above mentioned, the sum of $9,100.48, leaving a balance overdue and unpaid amounting to $5,396.68, which it was averred the defendants had not paid or caused to be paid to the plaintiffs, and that the whole balance was still due to the plaintiffs, to their damage of $ 5,000, with interest, besides costs.
The statement annexed to the declaration showed merchandise sold to the defendants by the plaintiffs, commencing September 24, 1903, through almost every month from that time up to and including July 27, 1904, and amounting to the total sum stated in the declaration. The credit side of the [204 U.S. 489, 491] demand also showed payments by the defendants from and including October 27, 1903, up to and including November 11, 1904, and amounting to the sum stated in the declaration, and leaving a balance due as stated therein.
Judgment by confession was obtained against the defendant Monaghan for $5,000, with interest and costs. The defendants J. Charles McGuire, one of the principals in the bond, and William McGuire, one of the sureties therein, filed two joint pleas to the declaration, and the defendant William McGuire, subsequently filed three separate pleas, and, still later, three additional pleas.
The plaintiffs first demurred to the joint pleas of the defendants J. Charles McGuire and William McGuire, and to the three separate pleas of the defendant William McGuire. They thereafter filed a demurrer to the three additional pleas of defendant William McGuire which had subsequently been filed. Both demurrers were sustained, and, the defendants refusing to amend their pleas, final judgment was entered against them.
The first (so numbered in the record) joint plea of defendants J. Charles McGuire and William McGuire alleged the indebtedness of the plaintiffs to the defendants John F. Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire in the sum of $10,000, because that, on the 25th of August, 1903, the plaintiffs entered into an agreement with Monaghan and J. Charles McGuire ( the two principals in the bond), by which the plaintiffs agreed that if the principals would form a copartnership for carrying on, in the District of Columbia, a wholesale liquor dealer's business, and deal in spirituous liquors, to be furnished by the plaintiffs, and would also furnish to plaintiffs a bond in the sum of $5,000, with the defendants Clark and William McGuire as sureties, conditioned for the payment to the plaintiffs of the amount of the indebtedness to be incurred by Monaghan and McGuire in the purchase by them from the plaintiffs, from time to time, of such merchandise, that then, in consideration thereof, the plaintiffs would sell and furnish to [204 U.S. 489, 492] Monaghan and McGuire, whenever requested by them, from time to time, at and for certain prices then specified and agreed upon by the parties to that agreement, the merchandise required in said business and so to be requested, and would allow to them for the goods so requested and required a continuous credit of $10,000, and that they should sell such merchandise to their customers tomers in said business upon such terms as to time and otherwise as they should find and believe to be the best terms obtainable, having in view the establishment and maintenance in said District of a demand for the plaintiffs' goods, and that the said Monaghan and McGuire would not be required to pay for the goods so sold to their customers until they could make collections therefor from their said customers. It was then further understood by and between all the parties to the said agreement, and as part thereof, that said Monaghan and McGuire would enter upon said business without means or capital to sustain the same other than the continuous credit aforesaid, and that, in order to perform their part of said agreement, they would be required to make sales of said merchandise to their customers on credit, to be paid for by said customers in periods varying according to circumstances, as stated. The plea then set up that, on the date first mentioned (August 25, 1903), the said Monaghan and McGuire formed a copartnership for the purpose stated, and thereafter furnished to the plaintiffs a bond (the one in suit) prepared by the plaintiffs, and which the plaintiffs accepted, and the defendants then entered upon and fully established the business mentioned, and in all respects performed their said agreement, so far as they were permitted by the plaintiffs to perform the same. That they had obtained a large number of customers, to wit, from seventy to eighty, at great labor and expense, to whom they sold on the terms mentioned goods purchased by them from the plaintiffs, and that, from the 24th day of September, 1903, to the 10th day of December, 1903, the plaintiffs furnished to Monaghan and McGuire, from time to time under said [204 U.S. 489, 493] agreement, merchandise amounting in the aggregate to $10,617.55, which they in turn sold to their customers, excepting only a portion of said merchandise, which they returned to, and which was accepted by, the plaintiffs. That the plaintiffs, on the 10th day of December, 1903, wrongfully, and with the intent to destroy the business so established, and to sell goods directly to said customers, drew on said Monaghan and McGuire for the sum of $1,500 on their said account, and sent through various banks the draft to them, and on the 11th of December, 1903, the plaintiffs wrongfully refused to furnish merchandise to the above-named defendants at the price stated, but demanded a large increase over those prices, and, on the 13th day of January, 1904, wrongfully refused to furnish more goods under said agreement or further to perform said agreement, and forced the said Monaghan and McGuire to abandon their said business, which they had established at great expense, to wit, an expense of not less than $10,000 and in which their profits were very great; whereby the plaintiffs wrongfully destroyed the credit and business of said Monaghan and McGuire and violated the agreement of August 25, 1903, and the said Monaghan and McGuire were and each of them was thereby injured and damaged in the sum of $10,000, for which sum the said J. Charles McGuire claims judgment against the plaintiffs; and the defendants aver that they are willing that the same may be set off against the plaintiffs' demand.
The second joint plea of the same defendants (so numbered in the record) set up in substance the same agreement as the first, except that agreement was alleged to have been made September 11, 1903, and the bond was conditioned for the payment by the principals for all merchandise to be furnished by the plaintiffs on four months' credit. The plea also omitted the agreement that the principals (Monaghan and McGuire) would not be required to pay the plaintiffs until they (the principals in the bond) could make collections from their customers. The plea also alleged that the plaintiffs, shortly [204 U.S. 489, 494] after the execution of the bond in suit, wrongfully refused to sell to the principals therein merchandise on credit to the amount of $10,000 at and for the prices stated in the agreement, and wholly neglected and refused to perform the agreement between them and the principals in the bond, whereby Monaghan and McGuire were forced to abandon their said business and lose all the money and time expended by them in and about the same, and amounting to not less than $10,000, and were, and each of them was, injured and damaged in the sum of $10,000, for which sum the said J. Charles McGuire claimed judgment against the plaintiffs, and the defendants were willing that the same should be set off against the claim of plaintiffs.
Thereafter the defendant William McGuire filed three separate pleas. The first separate plea (numbered 1 in the record) alleged an indebtedness of the plaintiffs to William McGuire in the sum of $5,000, for that, on the 11th day of September, 1903, and in consideration of plaintiffs agreeing to sell merchandise to Monaghan and McGuire at and for certain prices named in the agreement, and to give them a continuous credit of $10, 000 for merchandise sold to them by plaintiffs, the defendants did agree to and did sign the bond mentioned in the declaration, but the plaintiffs wrongfully refused to perform the agreement, or to sell to Monaghan and McGuire merchandise at the prices named in the agreement, or to allow them the continuous credit mentioned therein, whereby they were prevented from paying for the merchandise purchased and mentioned in the declaration, and the defendant thereby incurred great liability, and was injured and damaged in the sum of $5,000, and claimed judgment therefor, and was willing that the same might be set off against the demand of plaintiffs.
The second separate plea (numbered 2 in the record) set forth the same agreement and bond and consideration therefor that is mentioned in the first separate plea, and added that the plaintiffs, on December 11, 1903, and, again, on the 23d day of March, 1904, without the knowledge or consent [204 U.S. 489, 495] of the defendant, entered into other agreements with Monaghan and McGuire to sell to them, at different prices and terms of sale, the merchandise purchased from plaintiffs by them, and that since December 11, 1903, the plaintiffs have refused to sell merchandise to Monaghan and McGuire at the prices named in the agreement, though requested to do so, whereby the defendant was discharged from his liability.
The third separate plea (numbered 3 in the record) alleged that the merchandise mentioned in the declaration as having been sold was purchased by the defendants Monaghan and McGuire under an agreement not under seal, entered into before and since the 11th day of September, 1903, between them and the plaintiffs, and not according to the terms of the bond mentioned in the declaration, wherefore the defendant prayed judgment if he ought to be charged with the said debt by virtue of said bond.
Subsequently the same defendant filed three additional pleas. By the first additional plea (which is numbered 4 in the record) he alleges that prior to signing the bond plaintiffs agreed with the principals therein to sell the merchandise referred to in the bond at and for certain prices specified in a letter dated August 25, 1903, sent by the plaintiffs to the principals in the bond. The plaintiffs represented to the defendant that the agreement was applicable to all merchandise to be purchased under the bond, and plaintiffs thereby intended to induce defendant to sign the bond, which he did in reliance upon that statement. Thereafter the principals purchased from the plaintiffs merchandise amounting to $14,477.16 and no more, and the sum of $10,617.55 was for merchandise purchased at the prices agreed upon, and the balance, $3,859.61, was for merchandise purchased at greatly enhanced prices, made under an agreement entered into on or about the 11th day of December, 1903, without the knowledge or consent of defendant; that the principals paid plaintiffs on account of said sum of $10,617.55 the sum of $9,100.48, leaving due to the plaintiffs under the bond $1,517.07 and no more. [204 U.S. 489, 496] By the second additional plea (numbered 5 in the record) the defendant set up substantially the same agreement as to signing the bond and the consideration therefor, and then made the additional averment that the agreement was that the plaintiffs would not at any time exceed the sum of $10,000 in their sales to the principals, but the plaintiffs failed to perform the conditions, or any of them, and refused to sell at the agreed prices, and also permitted the indebtedness of the principals to continue from December 10, 1903, to January 21, 1904, to be greatly in excess of $ 10,000, by all of which defendant was discharged.
By the third additional plea (numbered 6 in the record) the defendant alleged the partnership agreement between the principals in the bond, but did not allege that there had been any time ever agreed upon for the continuance of such partnership, and further alleged that during the year 1903 the principals in the bond had established a good business, and the bond was executed and delivered to the plaintiffs for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the credit of the principals with the plaintiffs; but that, on or about January 12, 1904, the plaintiffs, for the purpose of securing the customers which the principals in the bond had obtained for themselves, and for the purpose of selling directly to those customers, wrongfully induced Monaghan to withdraw from the partnership and enter the employ of plaintiffs, which Monaghan did, and that thereby the business of the principals was wholly destroyed, and by reason thereof they were unable to pay for the merchandise referred to in the bond and declaration, all of which was without the knowledge or consent of the defendant, by reason whereof defendant was discharged from all liability under the bond.
Mr. Lorenzo A. Bailey for plaintiffs in error.
[204 U.S. 489, 498] Messrs. Eugene A. Jones, Simon Wolf, and Myer Cohen for defendants in error.
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Mr. Justice Peckham, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court:
The declaration in this case is attacked by the defendants under the rule that the court will go back to the first substantial defect appearing in the pleadings before the filing of the demurrer. The criticism made by the defendants upon the declaration is that it does not sufficiently show a violation of the terms of the bond. The defendants say the bond limits the liability of the sureties to pay for such mer- [204 U.S. 489, 500] chandise only as was sold on a four months' credit, and that the declaration does not show that the terms of the sale of the merchandise were those which were set forth in the bond. The declaration shows a failure to pay for certain merchandise alleged to have been sold to the defendants, amounting to a stated sum on the date set forth in the particulars of demand, which demand was annexed to and forms a part of the declaration. This demand showed that the last item of sale was made July 27 prior to December 11, 1904. The condition of the bond meant that the defendants should not be called upon to pay until after the expiration of four months from the date of each of the respective purchases. The defendants had, as the pleadings show, paid for all the merchandise purchased, except the balance therein stated, and four months had in fact elapsed since the last sale. The defendants have, therefore, obtained four months after the purchase before they were called upon to pay. We think the declaration was sufficient.
We are also of opinion that the two joint pleas of J. Charles McGuire and William McGuire, and the first separate plea of the latter, which, it is contended, set up offsets to the plaintiffs' claim, did not allege facts with sufficient distinctness to constitute a defense to the action. Neither of these pleas is sufficiently distinct to constitute a good pleading. What the special agreement was that is alleged to have been made between the principals in the bond and the plaintiffs, in consideration of which the bond was signed by the surety, is not stated with any degree of particularity. It simply states that the agreement in this respect was that the merchandise should be sold to the principals in the bond at and for certain prices specified in the agreement, but the pleas do not set them forth, nor do they state for how long a time such agreement was to remain in existence, nor how the defendants suffered damage to the extent named in the pleas, or to any extent. It is impossible for a court to see how these damages would necessarily or probably flow from a violation of said [204 U.S. 489, 501] agreement, or that they could form a basis for any legal demand flowing from not longer fulfilling the terms of the alleged contract. The damages alleged in the pleas are most remote, vague, and shadowy in their nature, such as could not have been contemplated by any party to the alleged agreement, as the probable result of its violation. While rules of pleading have become more liberal in modern days, yet, in order to found a cause of action on the alleged shortcomings of another, they must at least be so far plainly set up as to show actual damage and the wrongful act of the other party as the proximate and natural cause. The particulars of the alleged resulting damages should be so far set forth that the court may be able to see therefrom that such alleged damages are neither obscure, vague, nor shadowy, but might, and probably would, naturally result from the acts complained of. Within such limitations, which have always existed, the three pleas are insufficient.
The next succeeding plea is marked in the record the second separate plea of the defendant William McGuire. The court below treated this plea, together with the third separate plea of the defendant, and his fifth (in truth, the second) additional plea, as together resting upon common ground. We think they may be properly so regarded. It is seen from the whole record that the principals in the bond sued on were expecting to have business transactions with the plaintiffs, by purchasing from them liquors, which they expected to sell to others at profit, but the plaintiffs did not care to sell the goods to these principals without some security for payment of the goods sold when cash payment was not exacted. The bond in suit was thereupon agreed to be given as security for the payment of the merchandise to be sold by the plaintiffs to the principals, and which the principals were bound to pay for in four months after the date of each respective purchase. This is a clear and separate contract between the plaintiffs and the signers of the bond, and there is nothing in the declaration or bound which shows the existence of any [204 U.S. 489, 502] other agreement than that mentioned therein, or that an alteration in the prices of the goods sold to the principals by the plaintiffs could, or would, have any effect upon the liability of the sureties. The bond being complete in itself on its face, it cannot be seen that any future alteration of the prices for the sale of the merchandise, arrived at between the plaintiffs and the principals in the bond, would be material to or alter the liability of the sureties for the payment of the merchandise sold and delivered at the prices agreed upon, after four months from the date of purchase. There is no allegation in these pleas that any separate agreement was in writing, and the bond itself does not show the existence of any other agreement or the sale of the property upon any other conditions than those mentioned in the bond itself. Under such circumstances evidence by parol going to show any other agreement between the principals of the bond and the plaintiffs would not be admissible. Seitz v. Brewers' Refrigerating Mach. Co. 141 U.S. 510 , 35 L. ed. 837, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 46; Domestic Sewing Mach. Co. v. Webster, 47 Iowa, 357. In holding these pleas insufficient we think the court below was right.
This leaves the fourth (the first additional) and the sixth (the third additional) pleas. The fourth plea alleges that the merchandise referred to in the bond was to be sold at and for certain prices specified in a letter dated August 25, 1903, and sent by plaintiffs to Monaghan and McGuire. What those prices were is not stated in the plea, while the representations alleged in the plea to have been made, that the agreement was applicable to all merchandise to be purchased under the bond, would require parol evidence, as there is no pretense that these representations were made in writing, or that the letter referred to them in any way. The same consideration existing in regard to the pleas last mentioned would operate here and render the plea insufficient.
The third additional plea (marked 6 in the record) attempts to set up a cause of action against the plaintiffs because, as alleged, they induced the defendant Monaghan to dissolve [204 U.S. 489, 503] the partnership between him and McGuire and to enter the plaintiffs' employ, for the purpose, on plaintiffs' part, of increasing the plaintiffs' profits and with intent to wrongfully destroy the business of the defendants Monaghan and McGuire. As the court below well says, there is in this plea no allegation as to how long the partnership was to continue, and no action would lie for terminating or inducing the termination of a partnership at will. Karrick v. Hannaman, 168 U.S. 328, 333 , 42 S. L. ed. 484, 488, 18 Sup. Ct. Rep. 135. We do not see how any legal damage to the sureties under such circumstances can be said to be the proximate, natural, or probable result of such action on the part of the plaintiffs. After the dissolution of the partnership of course no sales could thereafter be made, and in relation to sales already made with credit according to the terms of the bond, it is impossible to see how it could be said that the ruin of the business of the principals of the bond, and hence the damage to the sureties, could be regarded as the probable consequence of the act of the plaintiffs in procuring Monaghan to dissolve the partnership and enter their employ. Whether treated as an offset or recoupment, or simply as an independent cause of action, the plea does not set up facts sufficient to constitute a valid set-off, recoupment, or cause of action.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals was right and is affirmed.
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