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FTC recaps consumer complaint data for 2017: Who’s on the list?
Washington, DC - Once bitten, twice shy. That fundamental principle of human behavior is why reputable businesses that work hard to earn consumers’ confidence should support the FTC’s ongoing efforts to fight fraud. According to the FTC’s 2017 Consumer Sentinel Data Book, consumers reported losing a total of $905 million to fraud last year. That’s close to a billion bucks people won’t be able to spend on legitimate products and services from credible companies.
That figure is up $63 million from last year, although the total number of reports received from consumers is down from 2.98 million in 2016 to 2.68 million in 2017.
Topping the list that no industry wants to be on is debt collection, making up 23% of the total number of complaints. But there are two caveats: 1) that number is down from 2016; and 2) the high number of debt collection reports was due in part to reports submitted by a data contributor who collects complaints via a mobile app.
Second on the list is identity theft at 14%. The injury to consumers came in two equally unpalatable flavors. Credit card fraud was the most common manifestation. Tax fraud was next, but the glimmer of hope there is that the total number of tax-related identity theft complaints fell by 46%.
Winners of the dubious bronze medal were imposter scams, with consumers reporting financial losses of a whopping $328 million. Imposters wear many masks: “I’m with [big-name tech company] and your computer is riddled with viruses,” “Help, Grampa! I’ve been arrested and need bail money,” and “We’re from [government agency] and we’ll arrest you if you don’t pay us today.” Nearly one in five consumers who reported an imposter scam said they lost money to the fraud.
For the first time, the Consumer Sentinel Data Book breaks out fraud losses by reported age groups and here’s a result that may surprise you: Consumers in their 20s reported losing money to fraud more often than those over 70. Among 20-somethings who reported fraud, 40% said they lost money. Compare that with the over-70 crowd, only 18% of whom reported a financial loss. But there’s a troubling aspect to that surprising factoid. When older adults did report losing money to a scammer, the loss was much greater. For example, people 80 and older reported median losses of $1,092 compared to $400 for those in their 20s.
Wire transfers continue to be scammers’ preferred payment method and in 70% of the complaints we received, the fraudster contacted the consumer by phone.
The top states for reporting fraud were Florida, Georgia and Nevada, while Michigan, Florida and California had the most reports about identity theft, per capita. Stats cats tell us that they find our state-by-state data dive helpful, so we’ve created a new webpage to make it easier to evaluate the information.
Educate. Use your status in the community to spread the word to employees, industry colleagues, and friends about the latest forms of fraud. One way to stay in the know: Sign up for scam alerts from the FTC.
Report. When you spot a scam, report it to the FTC. We’re talking about fraud directed to consumers and questionable promotions targeting small businesses. Your reports have helped the FTC and other law enforcement agencies put together cases against the con artists behind bogus business directories, office supply flimflams, and other forms of B2B fraud.
Consumer Sentinel is an online database available to civil and criminal law enforcement agencies across the country and around the world. Although non-government groups may contribute data, only law enforcement agencies can access the information.
“Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! I was part of the Citizen’s Revolution. I rode with Correa. I was there when the most substantial changes were made to this country. Of course that is in the past. Things have been done well under leadership that has been tenacious, firm, intelligent, diligent, and at the service of the poor – that of our friend, comrade and leader Rafael Correa Delgado”.
Rafael Correa’s government achieved massive poverty reduction, a huge drop in crime, and greatly improved public infrastructure. The key to this success was a firm rejection of the neoliberal policy menu. It’s hardly surprising that Moreno and others would attach themselves to a popular political project and pledge their support, but the achievements required courageous leadership. It meant confronting the fierce opposition of Ecuador’s traditional elite and its private media.
Very soon after the votes were counted in April, Moreno turned on Correa completely and began trying to give Ecuador’s traditional elites everything they were unable to get during Correa’s ten years in office. A big part of what they want is an all-out assault on the achievements of Correa’s government. They want those years sullied and discredited as years of excessive public spending that resulted in debt and corruption. That’s a crucial first step for returning Ecuador to neoliberalism. Moreno has tried to deliver for the people he ran against with breathtaking speed and cynicism. Recently it was revealed that Moreno even held a secret meeting in early-May with Trump envoy Paul Manafort.
By turning on Correa, Moreno quickly won over the private media and (much like Mauricio Macri in Argentina) immediately had public and private media pushing the same agenda. However, at least in Macri’s case it was basically the agenda on which he had campaigned.
In violation of article 104 of Ecuador’s constitution, which says Ecuador’s Constitutional Court must approve any referendum questions put before the public, Moreno has submitted seven questions to the electoral council which has scheduled a vote for the fourth of February. Weeks ago, Moreno publicly “demanded” that the court quickly approve all the questions. Correa would have been lambasted far and wide for making such a “demand” of the courts but Moreno, allied with the private media barons whom Correa had always combatted, has been given a pass. Moreno has now gone even further and asked that two judges on the Constitutional Court be investigated and possibly sanctioned for not doing as he demanded.
Three of the proposals that will be put to voters are by far the most important.
One proposal (if passed) would re-impose term limits for elected officials and is obviously aimed at preventing Correa from running again. Needless to say, Moreno did not champion term limits as a candidate (his opponents did!) while Moreno was heaping praise on Correa. Note to leftists: elites generally like term limits. It is easy to find cowards and hypocrites who do the bidding of the rich, and much harder to find leaders who won’t. Presidential term limits in the United States were formalized in retaliation against the progressive achievements of FDR’s four terms. Unelected power brokers pose as democrats by pushing term limits while actually removing a potential threat to their illegitimate authority.
Another proposal (if passed) would abolish a land speculation tax that Ecuador’s elite hysterically opposed. Moreno has postured as an anti-corruption crusader, but by pushing the repeal of this tax (incidentally, as a candidate Moreno praised the tax) he is working to entrench corruption. His feeble excuse is that the tax has made the construction industry fearful and that repealing the tax will stimulate Ecuador’s economy. The tax is aimed the super-rich who profit from land speculation. For example, if you made a 7% per year profit selling a $400,000 property (that would almost double the price of the property in 10 years) you would not pay the tax. The tax is on extraordinary profits that often result from insider knowledge of where public works will be constructed. If you made a 20% per year profit on the same property (selling it at over six times its original price in 10 years) then the speculation tax would be over 1 million dollars. You would be left with a profit of “only” $800,000. In a rich country like the United States, what percentage of the public worries about “only” pocketing $800,000 on the sale of property, never mind a poor country like Ecuador? As for stimulating the economy, the devastation caused by property bubbles around the world in 2008/9 showed that land speculation is the last way anyone should try to do that. The power of the private media in Ecuador is so strong that even with Correa in power and using his platform in the public media to fight for this tax, he had an uphill battle. He withdrew it in 2015 in order to spend about a year constantly rebutting lies about it that were spread by the media before it was passed – a tax that only a tiny fraction of the population would ever have to worry about paying. Moreno now has private and public media pushing a dangerous giveaway to elite speculators.
Additionally, for people who accept an “anti-extractivist” critique of Correa’s government, Ecuador’s economy will not be diversified away from basic resource extraction without redistributive measures like the land speculation tax. I’ve written before explaining my harsh assessment of some organizations that have made this “anti-extractivist” critique.
A third proposal would cut short the constitutionally established terms of a committee (the CPCCS) that oversees the selection processes for of the attorney general, electoral council, comptroller general and various other authorities. A “transitory” CPCCS would be appointed. Whatever you think of the existing structure of the CPCCS (and frankly I am not a fan) it is written into the constitution and summarily firing all its existing members and handing its far-reaching powers to a “transitory” authority effectively picked by the President should require the election of a constituent assembly. Under the constitution (articles 441-444) changes to the basic structure of the constitution cannot be made by a referendum but only by electing a constituent assembly. The Constitutional Court is supposed to rule on whether a change must be made through a constituent assembly.
Moreno’s legal pretext for forcing through the referendum without a Constitutional Court ruling is that a twenty-day time limit for a ruling had expired. Article 105 of the Organic Law of Jurisdictional Guarantees and Constitutional Control says that the Constitutional Court must approve or reject referendum questions within twenty days of receiving them or its silence can be interpreted as approval of the questions. Moreno’s supporters have pointed out that Correa made use of that law to call a local referendum in 2011 to settle an intense boundary dispute between two provinces. The Constitutional Court did not rule within twenty days after receiving the questions so Correa had the electoral authorities organize the vote. Local residents voted on which province they wanted to officially reside in. It was not a national level referendum and it made no changes to the constitution. For those reasons alone, it’s a ridiculous way to justify what Moreno has done. Less than 0.3% of Ecuador’s voters participated in that 2011 referendum on the boundary dispute.
Moreover, in 2015, article 9 of another law that regulates how the Constitutional Court works was amended to allow the twenty day period to be extended for the Constitutional Court to evaluate additional information. On November 6, a judge on the Constitutional Court explicitly cited article 9 of this law and noted that it suspended the twenty day count in order to call public hearings in which they would hear arguments related to Moreno’s proposed referendum questions. Moreno made no objection until weeks later – lending weight to speculation that Moreno learned the ruling would probably go against him on at least one of the key referendum questions. With the public and private media’s help, Moreno simply by-passed the court. The court’s silence since then on the weighty matter it was investigating certainly makes it appear intimidated.
Speaking of judges who appear intimidated by Moreno and the media, Moreno’s running mate, Jorge Glas (also VP during Correa’s last four years in office) has just been convicted to six years in prison for criminal conspiracy. The conviction is being appealed. Glas had supposedly conspired to get bribes from the scandal-plagued Brazilian firm Odebrecht. Glas oversaw Ecuador’s extensive public works throughout Correa’s time in office. The flimsy case against Glas relies heavily on the allegations of an Odebrecht official whom Ecuador’s attorney general shamelessly declined to prosecute. Hard evidence is essentially non-existent. Glas was also put in preventative detention on the dubious grounds that he represented a flight risk. Glas asked the National Assembly to clear the way for his trial and about the only way he has been able to counter the mass media campaign against him has been through his willingness to stand trial. Correa’s government threw Odebrecht out of Ecuador for several years over a contract dispute. Glas was the driving force behind that decision. The Brazilian government withdrew its ambassador from Ecuador over it.
Very recently, a top advisor to Moreno, Eduardo Mangas, resigned after a recording leaked in which he said that Moreno’s anti-corruption crusade – against Glas in particular – was aimed at disarming the right (i.e. that it’s politically motivated). Mangas was addressing members of Correa’s now bitterly divided party (Alianza Paiz) trying to rationalize Moreno’s about face after the election. Mangas claimed that Glas was imposed on Moreno as a running mate by Correa who (brace yourself for this) exploited Moreno’s deep loyalty to him. Mangas predictably said that Moreno only came to believe the allegations against Glas were true after the election. Moreno was not obliged to run at all, much less run as a Correa loyalist or accept Glas as his running mate. Moreno was perfectly free to resign from Correa’s government, which he was part of at the highest levels for ten years, and run as an opponent which is what he became immediately after the election.
What are the key lessons?
Correa (like other leftist presidents in the region) used the power of the presidency to successfully counter the private media, but opportunities were missed to develop a mass media independent of both the government and the rich. Throughout this piece I’ve stressed that Moreno immediately brought public and private media on his side to push the agenda of the rich. That basically describes the typical situation in capitalist counties that have a significant public media (Canada and the UK for example). A solution to this problem, suggested by John Nichols and Robert McChesney, is allowing each voting age person control over an equal amount of government money (vouchers) that he or she can direct to any non-advertising, non-profit media outlet of their choice.
Term limits should never have been in Ecuador’s constitution, but no leader can last forever. No political party, in a democracy, can win executive power indefinitely. It is also not always easy to see through determined imposters and opportunists. Betrayals by political leaders will happen. Betrayals, however, can be deterred and their destructive impact minimized in political parties that deeply empower their ordinary members. Correa’s emphasis was heavy on macroeconomics and other policy details, not on developing that kind of political party. The example of Venezuela shows how devastating macroeconomic errors can be for a left wing government, but Ecuador is on its way to becoming another kind of cautionary tale.
Joe Emersberger is a Canadian engineer with Ecuadorian roots who writes primarily for Telesur English and Znet.
Gregory Alan Bush fatally shot Maurice Stallard and Vicki Lee Jones on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A horrific and reportedly racially motivated shooting at a Kroger grocery store outside Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday (Oct. 24) ended with the deaths of two African Americans. The victims’ families are now left grief-stricken after the suspected white gunman opened fire in a rampage.
The victims — identified as Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vicki Lee Jones, 67, by the local coroner’s officer — suffered multiple fatal gunshot wounds.
Gregory Alan Bush, a man with a violent history who has possible ties to white supremacists, shot Stallard in the back of his head before firing more shots while he laid on the ground, authorities said. He then killed Jones in the store’s parking lot. Bush was arrested at the scene and jailed on two counts of murder as well as 10 counts of felony wanton endangerment, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Details are still coming in about Bush and the victims. Reports identified Stallard as the father of Kellie Watson, the chief racial equity officer for Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. It’s unclear whether Bush knew about Stallard’s connection to Mayor Fischer, who spoke out about the shooting horror.
The shooting tragedy, which prompted Fischer’s comments about an “epidemic of gun violence,” was a “shock” to many in the Kentucky community and Jones’ nephew.
“We just have to cope now,” Kevin Gunn said about the shooting death of his aunt to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
In what will be an important test case in the viability of social media and second screen applications, ConnecTV and 10 broadcast groups are launching its social media platform on June 12 that will offer their viewers a wide variety of social media tools, exclusive content, information and other features that are designed to enhance the viewing of their programming. The launch represents the largest social TV effort by local stations.
"Television programming is driving the social media conversation, but those conversations continue to be fragmented across myriad platforms and provide little local context," said Alan Frank, president and CEO of Post-Newsweek Stations, on behalf of Pearl, in a statement. "We see ConnecTV as a way for our communities to come together in a single, standardized digital extension of our broadcast platforms, and engage in dialogue around the information and entertainment most relevant to them."
The effort is launching initially in top 40 markets today, with a total of 85 local ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW and MyNetworkTV stations integrated into the ConnecTV social TV experience. The companies have plans to expand the effort eventually to 215 stations in the U.S.
"Local engagement is at the heart of all social media, from Twitter to Facebook to Groupon," said ConnecTV co-founder Ian Aaron in a statement. "ConnecTV is the only social TV network with a true investment in the local viewing experience and an unparalleled strategic partnership with the leading media companies in America."
ConnecTV partners for today's launch include a consortium of nine leading U.S. television broadcast groups know as Pearl. These companies include: Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media.
Overall, the Pearl broadcast groups run more than 200 local ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW and MyNetworkTV affiliate stations in 45 of the top 50 markets reaching 76 million households.
As part of their ConnecTV partnership, the companies announced that "Pearl will expand and coordinate the affiliate base of participating local broadcasters, integrate local content, deliver on-air, on-screen and on-line promotions and sell complementary second screen advertising that synchronizes with the broadcast."
ConnecTV is available as a free download for the iPad from the Apple App Store, or for any PC browser at www.connectv.com. Versions for the iPhone and Android smartphone and tablets are expected to become available in the next 45 days.
�?Sam Querrey recovered from a humiliating first set to beat second-seeded Novak Djokovic 0-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the second round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday in Paris.
It was the first time since the Miami Masters in March 2010 that Djokovic has been eliminated so early in a tournament.
The Serb entered the court wearing a Darth Vader mask on Halloween, and continued to put on a show by winning the first set in just 21 minutes.
Djokovic started to waver under the relentless accuracy of the American�s big serve, and made too many unforced errors the rest of the match. Querrey hit 18 aces and converted his second match point when Djokovic�s return sailed long.
Djokovic had already secured the year-end No. 1 ranking after defending champion Roger Federer pulled out of the tournament to rest for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London.
�?Caroline Wozniacki defeated Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the semifinals of the Tournament of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria. Russians Nadia Petrova and Maria Kirilenko earned straight-set victories in their first group matches. The second-seeded Petrova defeated No. 6 Zheng Jie 6-3, 6-3, handing her Chinese opponent a second loss in two days which will likely leave her without a chance of reaching the semifinals. In the other match in the group, the third-seeded Kirilenko beat Tsvetana Pironkova 6-1, 6-4. Pironkova broke for a 2-0 lead in the second set but Kirilenko then won the next four games to take firm control of the match. Petrova and Kirilenko will meet today.
�?James Harden agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract extension with the Houston Rockets. The Rockets acquired the reigning Sixth Man of the Year in a stunning trade with Oklahoma City on Saturday night.
�?Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry signed a $44 million, four-year contract extension that will keep him with the club through the 2016-17 season. Curry missed 40 of 66 games last season and sprained his twice-surgically repaired right ankle again in the preseason.
�?The Memphis Grizzlies exercised the fourth-year option on swingman Quincy Pondexter, keeping him under contract through the 2013-14 season.
�?Center Daniel Orton rejoined the Oklahoma City Thunder, four days after being cut by the team following training camp.
�?Matt Barnes missed the Los Angeles Clippers� season opener on Wednesday night while serving a one-game suspension issued by the NBA after he pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor for resisting, delaying or obstructing a police officer. He was arrested in Manhattan Beach in July on suspicion of threatening a public official, which is a felony. The 32-year-old forward was arrested after an officer who was aware he had an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor traffic violation approached him on foot.
�?UCLA freshman forward Kyle Anderson was cleared by the NCAA to play basketball this season. Athletic Director Dan Guerrero said the school was told that Anderson can play after the NCAA �found no evidence to substantiate claims of violations in his case.� Anderson was being investigated for potential recruiting violations. Still unresolved is the status of freshman Shabazz Muhammad, a top recruit who is the subject of an NCAA probe involving alleged improper benefits he received in his recruitment from boosters of his AAU team in Las Vegas.
�?Minnesota freshman wing Wally Ellenson has a broken left hand and will miss six to eight weeks.
�?Columbus Crew defender Chad Marshall underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle. The Crew medical staff in Columbus removed a bone that was causing problems. Marshall will begin rehab immediately and is expected to be sidelined for the next six to ten weeks. Marshall started in all 24 matches he appeared in this season. He recently surpassed Mike Clark as the Crew�s career leader in games played (223), starts (220) and total minutes played (19,582).
�?Kauto Star, the steeplechase great who won the Cheltenham Cup twice and the King George VI Chase five times, has run his last race. �The end of an era has finally arrived,� trainer Paul Nicholls said Wednesday in announcing the 12-year-old horse will retire. Kauto Star was pulled up midway through last season�s Gold Cup, and Nicholls and owner Clive Smith had been considering his future.
The 2014 Colorado Music Festival season, running June 28 through Aug. 8, is both traditional and transitional. The "traditional" part comes from the programming, which consists almost entirely of music by established, well-known composers, and the "transitional" from the search for a new music director to replace Michael Christie, who departs the festival after 13 seasons. Season subscriptions go on sale today.
The festival orchestra concerts on Sunday, Thursday, and Friday nights will be handled by seven guest conductors, including three official candidates for music director. If the conductors for the "Patriotism and Pops," "Mash-Up," and "Young People's" concerts are counted, the total is 10.
One conductor who will not be appearing is Christie himself. He had been slated to direct a "farewell" concert, but his wife is due to give birth to their second child in the week that was reserved for him, and it was impossible to switch the schedule to accommodate both him and the official candidates. His return is now being planned for the 2015 season. Because he has been named the festival's Music Director Laureate, it is hoped that he will return in several subsequent seasons.
CU-Boulder Law professor Christopher Mueller, who serves as program committee chair for the CMF board, spoke to the Camera about the upcoming season and why it contains so much "standard" or "traditional" programming.
"While we want to give our candidates a lot of leeway, we realized at the last search in 2000 that people don't come to concerts to see the conductors," Mueller said. "They come to hear the music. And without an established music director, that means a lot of traditional programming."
Still, Mueller said, the board wanted the candidates to take charge as much as possible to demonstrate what kind of programming they would choose as director. He stressed that music of 27 composers from nine different countries will be heard.
Each official candidate will conduct two programs, one on a Sunday "chamber orchestra" concert and another on a Thursday-Friday "festival orchestra" pair. There had been a plan to present four official candidates, but scheduling conflicts arose with the fourth. All the candidates have a strong resumé, but Mueller stressed that the job is not guaranteed to go to one of the three. "Michael had a very thin resumé in 2000, but we knew instantly that he was the right person," Mueller said. "There were over 50 strong applicants, and the three candidates have been thoroughly vetted. Still, we need to make sure we once again get the right person."
The first guest conductor, though not a candidate, is perhaps the most exciting for Boulder audiences. Boulder Philharmonic music director Michael Butterman will take the Chautauqua Auditorium stage June 29 in an extremely rare cross-collaboration between the city's two largest classical music organizations. Joining him will be pianist and Boulder native Christopher Taylor, who will perform the Burleske for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss. This year is the 150th anniversary of Strauss's birth, and two of his works will be performed on each of the season's opening and closing concerts.
Butterman also includes music by Mozart and Brahms. "We knew that we couldn't give the opening concert, which falls before July 4 weekend, to a candidate," Mueller said. "It seemed like the perfect time to bring him in, and I'm delighted that he will be opening our season."
The three official candidates are all international. British maestro William Boughton takes the programs on July 6, 10 and 11. He will be joined by two solo violinists, the CMF's Joseph Meyer and guest Chad Hoopes. His programs include works by Ravel, Sibelius, Britten, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Elgar.
Mexico's Carlos Miguel Prieto takes over on July 17, 18 and 20. He conducts one program including Spanish and Latin American music by Falla and Ginastera, and another that includes Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The Ginastera/Falla concert will also include Stravinsky's "Petrouchka." Soloists for Prieto's concerts have not yet been determined.
Finally, Canada's Jean-Marie Zeitouni closes the season Aug. 3, 7 and 8. Renowned violinist Jennifer Koh joins him Aug. 3 with the Bernstein Serenade for Solo Violin and Orchestra. He directs the season finale, which includes two great Strauss tone poems, "Don Juan" and "Ein Heldenleben."
The other guest conductors include Rice University's Larry Rachleff, who conducts Ravel and Beethoven, along with Canteloube's "Songs of the Auvergne," in which he will be joined by his wife, soprano Susan Lorette Dunn, on July 13.
The youngest guest maestro, Joshua Gersen, brings cellist Brook Speltz with him July 24 and 25. The program includes Schumann's cello concerto and the monumental Third Symphony by Copland.
Finally, conductor Andrew Grams of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra will take two programs, although he is not an official candidate. He covers dates originally meant for the fourth candidate and for Christie, July 27, 31 and Aug. 1. Joined by guest pianist William Wolfram and CMF horn player Amy Jo Rhine as soloists, Grams conducts an all-Mozart program and an all-Russian concert.
Mueller was particularly effusive about the season's three chamber music programs at eTown Hall on alternating Tuesdays (July 8 and 22 and Aug. 5). Assembled brilliantly by CMF concertmaster Calin Lupanu, the chamber concerts are performed by select orchestra musicians. A highlight is Anton Bruckner's monumental, but rarely performed String Quintet.
The current plan is for each chamber program to be played only once rather than last year's twice-a-night repetition. Mueller said the repeats did not significantly increase sales, but warned of almost certain sellouts at eTown Hall.
Finally, the "Mash-Up" series, which debuted last year, is placed in a more isolated position, alternating on Tuesdays with the chamber series (July 1, 15 and 29). Conductor Steve Hackman returns with a Beethoven/Coldplay mashup on July 1. July 15 will feature music of women singer/songwriters. The 29th will bring the band San Fermin to perform with the CMF orchestra.
Mueller called last year's mash-up concerts "popular but divisive," though he also stressed that many feel better about them than about some of the less successful "world music" guest concerts of the past. "We decided to keep them strictly their own series this year," Mueller said.
Lawrence Golan returns to conduct "Patriotism and Pops" on July 3. Young People's Concerts are the mornings of July 28 and 30.
For full season details, subscription information and sales, visit COmusic.org or call 303-665-0599 ext. 109.
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Vacaville High girls soccer coach Drew Talton had forgotten all about it. But his team had not.
So after the Bulldogs clinched the Monticello Empire League title Wednesday on senior night at home against Will C. Wood by a 6-0 score, the girls made him do a little dance while they joyfully surrounded him and cheered him on in the post-game huddle. Earlier in the season, they had made him promise he would do the dance if they won the league.
It was all good for Vacaville, which took the title by a Bulldogs nose. League standings are determined by a points system: three for a win, one for a tie, and zero for a loss.
Before tonight’s games, at 7-1-1, Rodriguez had 22 points; Vacaville had 21 points at 7-2; and Vanden had 20 points at 6-1-2. To win the league, Vacaville had to beat Wood, and Vanden had to either beat or tie Rodriguez.
And that’s what happened. Moments after the end of the Vacaville-Wood game, as the Bulldogs girls gathered on the field to celebrate their win, someone relayed the final score of the other game: Vanden 2, Rodriguez 1.
The Vacaville girls and their fans erupted in cheers as the girls hugged each other on the field, knowing they had won the MEL title for the third time in a row, a feat never before equaled in program history.
Talton took over as head coach four years ago, moving up from the junior varsity coaching job.
The building was erected much quicker than expected, the Bulldogs tying Armijo for the title three years ago, then winning it outright the last two.
Vanden’s victory over Rodriguez resulted in these final totals: Vacaville (8-2), 24 points; Vanden (7-1-2), 23 points; Rodriguez (7-2-1), 22 points.
The Bulldogs took full control, jumping to a 6-0 lead at halftime, the score holding there the rest of the game. Imani Darden converted a beautiful crossing pass from the left corner by Toni Detomasi five minutes into the match for the first goal.
Eight minutes later, Brittyan Belluomini placed a perfect corner kick and Makayla Oliver capitalized to make it 2-0. At the 22-minute mark, Jillian Ferreira blasted a shot on goal off another great corner from Belluomini. When the shot deflected off the Wood goaltender, Jenna Bosetti followed it in for the score.
Seven minutes later, Belluomini got in on the scoring when she blasted a penalty kick into the bottom left corner of the net, giving the goaltender no chance. Speaking of no chance, at the 38-minute mark, Lindsey Cole drilled a fantastic direct free kick from about 40 yards away directly over the goaltender’s head and beyond her reach into the net for a 5-0 Vacaville lead.
As the period drew to an end, Belloumini collected her third assist on a corner kick, this one turned into a goal and the final 6-0 margin by Kamryn Bubak.
Matt is a reporter at The Vacaville Reporter, mainly covering local high school sports.
NEW DELHI: Indias third largest IT exported Wipro Ltd's Chairman, Azim Premji, today said he would reduce his existing holding of over 82 percent in the company at an "appropriate stage", but did not specify a timeframe.
"There is an intent to reduce the holding from over 82 percent at an appropriate stage. This would enable more float in the stock," Premji said.

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