Zips men?s soccer set to host University of Akron Tournament, play VCU and SDSU

The University of Akron men?s soccer team experienced both sides of a 2-1 result in double overtime last weekend.

This week, the Zips (3-1-0) are looking for two wins in regulation in the University of Akron Tournament at FirstEnergy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field.

UA, ranked No. 7 in the national coaches poll, will host No. 19 Virginia Commonwealth (1-1-1) at 7 p.m. today and unranked San Diego State (1-2-0) at 1 p.m. Sunday in its annual event.

St. John?s defeated UA 2-1 Friday in Queens, N.Y., to jump to No. 12 in the coaches poll. UA rebounded from the setback and beat Rutgers 2-1 Sunday in Piscataway, N.J.

?I think this past weekend we found different scenarios for us,? UA coach Jared Embick said. ?We had to rebound from a loss and we had to come from behind to get a win. As a coach, you don?t mind those scenarios at some point in the year. You have things that you can address and you see things that you can do to get better. We didn?t want to take the loss. We were disappointed with that result. We played fairly well Friday, but had a few letdowns that caused us to lose the game. We showed some character to bounce back. We didn?t play very well Sunday, but we showed some resolve and found a way to win.?

Freshman forward Ismail Seremba and senior forward Eric Stevenson both scored a goal and had an assist last weekend. Senior forward Reinaldo Brenes also netted a goal on a penalty kick. Brenes leads the Zips with two goals this season.

?We are a work in progress on the offensive end,? Embick said. ?We are trying to find our rhythm in front of the goal. We have put together chances, but we have not performed well enough. We have to finish more of our chances.?

Brenes and Stevenson have started all four matches along with redshirt freshman goalkeeper Fernando Pina, senior playmaker Aodhan Quinn, freshman midfielder Victor Souto, junior defenders Bryan Gallego and Saad Abdul-Salaam and sophomore defender Andrew Souders.

?I don?t think our defenders are happy with the three goals [allowed] over the weekend,? Embick said. ?In our opinion they were soft goals. ... I don?t think we have seen the best of that crew yet. I think they will be ready for a strong weekend coming up.?

Seremba, senior Robbie Derschang and freshman Adam Najem have appeared in all four matches, too. Senior Zac Portillos, sophomore Matt Foldesy and freshman Louis Cross have played in three matches.

The Zips could be without Portillos this weekend due to a hamstring injury suffered in the match against St. John?s. Embick said that he participated in training Wednesday, and that he is 50-50 to play this weekend.

Notebook

VCU coach Dave Giffard was a UA assistant with Embick under former Zips coach Caleb Porter. ... The Zips? 1 p.m. match Sunday was originally scheduled for 2:30 p.m. but was changed to accommodate San Diego State?s travel arrangements. ... UA coaches and players will be running a free youth clinic for children ages 5-14 with a ticket to the Akron-VCU match Sunday. Boys and girls are invited to participate in the clinic from 12-12:45 p.m. on Shrank Field. Attendees should register on gozips.com and bring a soccer ball. ... Niagara plays San Diego State at 4 p.m. Friday and plays VCU at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Ticket holders to UA matches can use their ticket to watch.

Michael Beaven can be reached at 330-996-3829 or mbeaven@thebeaconjournal.com. Read the Zips blog at http://www.ohio.com/zips. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MBeavenABJ and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sports.abj.

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U.S. Firm Used Call Centres in India to Bilk Consumers

Washington: A U.S. court has banned two American companies from providing various types of financial services on charges of bilking consumers of millions of dollars through call centres in India.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the defendants used phony debt collection calls from India and bogus claims that they would reduce consumers' credit card interest rates to bilk consumers.

Brett Fisher, a repeat offender who settled charges with the FTC in 2009 in a scam involving both advance-fee credit cards and bogus interest-rate reduction claims, masterminded both schemes, the FTC alleged.

The settlements impose a $ 25.3 million judgement against Fisher, and require other settling defendants to surrender available assets to satisfy their monetary judgements.

Defendants Pro Credit Group, LLC, Consumer Credit Group, LLC, and My Success Track, LLC, are not parties to these settlements, are not currently represented, and are facing default judgements, it said.

According to FTC between January 2010 and August 2011, defendants Fisher, Andre Keith Sanders, Pro Credit Group, LLC, and Sanders Legal Group, PA, set up U.S.-based financial accounts for a call centre operation based in India to unfairly collect payday loan debts from consumers who either did not owe them, or owed them to somebody else.

The operation's callers used threats, lies, and abusive tactics to collect debts from consumers who had previously applied for or received loans from online payday loan companies and had supplied sensitive personal financial information that later found its way into the hands of those involved with the scam, FTC alleged.

Although numerous consumers complained to the local Better Business Bureau chapter about the abusive tactics of the callers, and many consumers tried unsuccessfully to get refunds, the defendants continued processing consumers' payments, FTC said.

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Washington State Regulators Seek To Limit Marijuana Industry

By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept 4 (Reuters) - Washington state regulators, aiming to limit the state's nascent marijuana industry, want to cap the amount of space available to grow recreational marijuana at 2 million square feet (185,800 sq. metres) - the equivalent of about 35 NFL football fields.
The limit was among proposed state marijuana rules released on Wednesday, roughly a week after the U.S. Justice Department said it would not sue to block legal pot so long as certain guidelines are met, including keeping the drug away from children.
"This is an important day," said Brian Smith, spokesman for the Washington State Liquor Control Board. "These are the rules we believe are going to govern the system going forward."
Washington state and Colorado became the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use after approving separate ballot initiatives last year, even as the drug remains illegal under federal law. Some 20 states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana to be used for medical purposes.
In addition to limiting the amount of space that can be allocated to growing recreational pot, the new draft rules in Washington state also cap how much non-medical marijuana can be grown statewide at 40 metric tons, and would limit recreational-use pot growers to a footprint of up to 30,000 square feet per facility.
In a departure from earlier draft rules, state pot regulators also sought to keep big business from dominating the recreational pot industry by barring anyone from holding a stake in more than three retail stores or three growing and processing facilities.
In proposing the limits, regulators were seeking to balance having enough marijuana on hand to compete with the black market and the medical marijuana industry while not producing so much that excess pot would spill over to other states where it remains illegal, one of the regulators said.
Chris Marr, a member of the Washington State Liquor Control Board that is tasked with drafting the state rulebook on recreational pot, said production caps were likely to rise in future years.
He noted that state marijuana consultant Mark Kleiman has estimated the legal recreational pot market would account for just 13 percent of pot sold in the state in its first year, with medical marijuana and black market pot comprising the remainder.
The proposed rules will be subject to public hearings next month and are scheduled to become effective in November, two days before the state plans to start accepting pot license applications and a year after voters approved legalization.
The first retail stores will likely open next June, said Sharon Foster, chairwoman of the three-member Liquor Control Board.
The board said it plans to allow a total of 334 stores in the state, parceled out by county. To spread the stores out more evenly, some cities will have separate caps. Seattle, for instance, will be limited to 21 pot stores.
Among other proposed rules, regulators would close a loophole that would have allowed pot candy and other goodies to be packaged in wrappers designed to appeal to children.
They would also require pot businesses be located at least 1,000 feet from schools and certain other locations, measured by walking or driving routes to the facility, rather than as the crow flies, to make it easier for pot businesses to find suitable real estate in dense areas such as Seattle, board members said. (Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Ken Wills)

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