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Saturday, March 2, 2013
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BillGuard: Grey Charges Equal Legal Fraud - Blogger News Network
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Grey charge: When you buy something with your credit card and you get charged for something you didn?t want. Often a merchant will tack on additional products and services to a legitimate purchase you make, and you ?sorta? know about the charge?but not really.
For example, you might be in the process of purchasing something and a pop-up windowreading ?Get 25 percent off your order NOW! CLICK HERE!? comes up. And in the fine print below ?CLICK HERE!? it says, ?By getting 25 percent off, you are agreeing to get a free month of a one-year membership to our discount clubfor which you will be charged$19.95 per month after the first month. You may cancel at any time, but you are required to give us 30 days? notice in writing.?
Or something stupid like that.
Then, a couple of months go by and you get your credit card statement and see this charge for $19.95 and wonder what it?s for. You call the number on the statement and someone answers and puts you on hold for an hour. By the time you are done yelling and pulling all your hair out of your head, you will probably end up gettingcharged for two or three months for something you never wanted.
And that?s IF you even pay attention you your credit card statements, because nine out of 10 people don?t check their bills, or merely skim them quickly for large purchases. This is what the scammy merchant bets on when initiating a grey charge.
Is it legal? Well, it?s not illegal?but it IS sneaky and deceptive.
According to?BillGuard?s internal research, one in four users has incurred some type of erroneous or deceptive charge in the last 12 months. And among those users who have been affected, the average of these charges is about $350 a year.
So pay attention to your statements and refute unauthorized or grey charges ASAP. And don?t forget: Read the fine print?and remember that any offer that sounds too good to be true is.
Robert Siciliano?is a fraud prevention and grey charge expert to?BillGuard?and is the author of?99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Identity Was Stolen. See him knock?em dead in this?identity theft prevention?video.?Disclosures.
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Profit falls at utility GDF Suez amid Europe woes
PARIS (AP) ? Franco-Belgian utility GDF Suez says its earnings fell more than 60 percent in 2012 compared to the year earlier because the company booked a ?2 billion ($2.6 billion) impairment on its European assets in anticipation of the region's continued economic malaise.
The company said Thursday that its net income fell to ?1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) last year, down from ?4 billion in 2011. Without the charge and only counting recurring operations, net income would have been ?3.8 billion.
Revenues increased 7 percent to ?97 billion ($127 billion). Much of that growth happened in Asia and the Middle East, where the company is expanding. Its French business also saw a jump as it recoups money from customers after a state body struck down a government-imposed freeze on natural gas prices.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/profit-falls-utility-gdf-suez-amid-europe-woes-065734489--finance.html
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Japan tries make it 3 WBC titles in a row
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2010, file photo, then-Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre walks up the steps after a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Los Angeles. Torre is returning to the top step of the dugout to manage the Americans at the World Baseball Clasic. Team USA have yet to even reach the championship game of this hugely popular international event played every three years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2010, file photo, then-Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre walks up the steps after a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Los Angeles. Torre is returning to the top step of the dugout to manage the Americans at the World Baseball Clasic. Team USA have yet to even reach the championship game of this hugely popular international event played every three years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2012, file photo, San Francisco Giants' Ryan Vogelsong, bottom, looks down at the baseball after giving up a three-run triple to Arizona Diamondbacks' Patrick Corbin as Giants' Pablo Sandoval looks on in the fourth inning during a baseball game in Phoenix. Vogelsong has a little running joke that he is going to plunk Sandoval in the World Baseball Classic to keep the Panda from a three-homer game like the one he produced in Game 1 of the World Series last fall. Sandoval plans to play nice once he pulls on the Venezuela uniform. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2013 file photo, Japan's Ryoji Aikawa, left, is welcomed by manager Koji Yamamoto, right, and coach Osamu Higashio, second from right, after hitting a come-from-behind three-run homer against Australia in the eighth inning of their exhibition baseball game at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, western Japan. The team to beat in the third World Baseball Classic is two-time winner Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? They'll play in the Far East and the Far West ? and in the Caribbean, too. Wherever they are, Miguel Cabrera and R.A. Dickey and dozens of All-Stars in the World Baseball Classic know the team to beat: two-time WBC winner Japan.
The Japanese are hoping to defend their title in the third edition of baseball's global tournament, having topped Cuba in the inaugural Classic in 2006 and South Korea three years later.
To do it, Japan ? with a roster that doesn't include a single player from Major League Baseball ? will have to win two rounds at home and then the semifinals and final at San Francisco's AT&T Park.
In their way will be an American team led by Dickey, Ryan Braun and Joe Mauer, trying to make up for a couple of underwhelming WBC showings ? and featuring Joe Torre's return to the top step of the dugout.
Team USA has plenty of motivation. The Americans didn't get out of the second round in 2006, then lost in the semifinals to Japan three years later.
"We'll probably be disappointed if we don't make it to San Francisco," said Giants right-hander Ryan Vogelsong, slated to be the No. 2 starter in the U.S. rotation. "First and foremost, we're focused on getting there."
Japan's pro teams are known for their rigorous spring training regimen, which typically begins a couple of weeks before the major league clubs and feature all-day workouts with just a short break to eat.
"It's such a dedicated group of players. I go back to going over to Japan as a member of the Mets back in 74 and just noticing and at that time I didn't think necessarily that the Japanese could play at our level, maybe stature-wise," Torre said. "Even though their game was clean and disciplined, it just didn't look like they were as good as we were. That's certainly has changed."
Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez will play alongside San Francisco's Pablo Sandoval and Triple Crown winner Cabrera for Venezuela. The World Series champion Giants have had to plan carefully this spring to get through the Cactus League with much of their roster headed to the WBC ? Marco Scutaro on Venezuela, Angel Pagan and Andres Torres on Puerto Rico, Vogelsong and reliever Jeremy Affeldt on the U.S. team, closer Sergio Romo pitching for Mexico.
"It's my first time representing and I'm really looking forward to doing it," Pagan said. "The first two Classics I couldn't do it because I was either trying to make a team or I was trying to be the everyday player. It fills my heart to go out there and play in front of my countrymen and in front of my family. I did it when I played in New York and Puerto Rico but it's not the same when you're wearing the P.R. jersey."
And CarGo sure is confident in Venezuela's chances.
"I don't think we need practice ? Venezuela doesn't need practice," he said. "Japan, they train together for a long time and get prepared for that. We don't really get prepared for that ... put the uniform on, let's play."
In all, 45 big league all-stars, including seven MVPs, were on the final WBC rosters.
Many MLB players are torn between playing for their country or playing for the club that signs their paycheck ? especially those who might be on the bubble of making a major league roster or earning a starting job.
Gonzalez said the Venezuelans feel tremendous pressure to take part in the Classic, yet he understands why Seattle ace Felix Hernandez has passed after signing a $175 million, seven-year contract earlier this month that made him the highest-paid pitcher in baseball.
"You have to represent your team," Gonzalez said. "You see all the news about King Felix not playing for Venezuela and the whole country changes, they get upset that you're not going to play for your country. They think it's all about the money but, you know what, we've been working since we were 16 years old and we came from Venezuela to represent. ... I think made the right choice."
The inaugural 2006 Classic featured a pool-play format, while 2009 was double-elimination ? and this one will be a combination of both. The first round will be pool play, with the top two teams advancing. The second round is double-elimination, and the top two teams from each group will reach the semifinals.
The Americans will play their round-robin games at the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field in Phoenix. The other first-round groups will play in: Fukuoka, Japan; Taichung, Taiwan; and, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"The guys who have played this before were excited to get back to it," Torre said. "I think it's still something to get a little used to. Let's admit it, you play the USA team, MLB, even though there are a number of MLB players obviously playing for other countries, it's like putting on your Sunday best, you know, We're excited because we have a chance to beat them at their own game' so to speak."
Semifinals will be played March 17-18, with the championship March 19 in the Giants' waterfront ballpark.
That's where Sandoval cleared the fences three times in a Game 1 World Series win against the Tigers.
The guy known as Kung Fu Panda hopes to find his groove again for his country. If he does, and his nation wins it all, Sandoval will be World Series, Venezuelan and WBC titles to his credit.
"I'm trying to get the Triple Crown," Sandoval said.
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WATCH FOR:
? Animated crowds with a different flavor than the regular MLB fans. Expect musical instruments, patriotic chants, face paint and flags. More than 1.5 million fans have attended games in first two WBC tournaments.
? This year's 16-team field was drawn from the top 12 nations in the last WBC, plus four others who qualified in a tournament last year. The WBC winner will be named "world champion" for the first time.
? Americans on a mission: Team USA failed to reach the championship game of the first two Classics.
? Players will be subject to drug testing by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
? San Juan will host games for the third time at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, to be played March 7-10.
? Sparkling new Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the shared spring venue of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, will be on display for the world to see. The ballpark hosts Pool D games between the U.S., Italy, Mexico and qualifier Canada.
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AP Sports Writer Bob Baum contributed to this story.
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Higher cancer risk after Fukushima nuclear disaster: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) - People in the area worst affected by Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident two years ago have a slightly higher risk of developing certain cancers, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
A magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, killed nearly 19,000 people and devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, spewing radiation and forcing about 160,000 people to flee their homes.
It was the worst nuclear accident since a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine in 1986.
"A breakdown of data, based on age, gender and proximity to the plant, does show a higher cancer risk for those located in the most contaminated parts," Dr. Maria Neira, WHO director for public health and environment, said of the Fukushima report.
The United Nations agency said for the general population in Japan the predicted health risks were low. But it was not able to say how many people were exposed in the area where the highest amount of radioactive material was released.
In the most contaminated area, the WHO estimated that there was a 70 percent higher risk of females exposed as infants developing thyroid cancer over their lifetime. The thyroid is the most exposed organ as radioactive iodine concentrates there and children are deemed especially vulnerable.
But experts said the overall risk was small. The radiation exposure means about 1.25 out of every 100 girls in the area could develop thyroid cancer over their lifetime, instead of the natural rate of about 0.75 percent.
"Due to the low baseline rates of thyroid cancer, even a large relative increase represents a small absolute increase in risks," the WHO said.
Thyroid cancer takes a minimum of three years to develop, according to WHO report co-author Dr. Roy Shore of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Japan.
"By the time people reach adulthood, susceptibility to radiation-associated thyroid cancer goes way down," he told reporters, speaking by telephone from Hiroshima.
LEUKAEMIA, BREAST CANCER
The WHO report estimated that in the most contaminated area there was a 7 percent higher risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, and a 6 percent higher risk of breast cancer in females exposed as infants. Overall, girls had a 4 percent increased risk of developing solid cancers.
"These percentages represent estimated relative increases over the baseline rates and are not absolute risks for developing such cancers," the WHO said in a statement.
One-third of emergency workers were estimated to have increased cancer risks, it said.
"The risk among emergency workers would be increased for thyroid cancer particularly, and some circulatory disorders," Neira told a news briefing.
But there was no discernible increase in health risks expected outside Japan, the WHO said in a 200-page report which was based on an assessment by international experts.
"In the rest of Fukushima prefecture and in particular neighboring countries and the rest of the world, the estimated increased cancer risk is negligible. It's within the variation of normal background rates," said Angelika Tritscher, acting director of WHO's department of food safety.
Jim Smith, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Portsmouth in England, said: "Apart from emergency workers, the most affected people were those who remained in some highly contaminated towns and villages to the northwest of the power station for up to four months before evacuation.
"The report found that these people received a lifetime radiation dose of up to 50 milli-Sieverts (MSV) and therefore have a significant, but relatively small, additional risk of contracting cancer in later life."
Smith said the average British person receives more than 150 MSV during their lifetime from background radiation.
Neira said: "The WHO report underlines the need for long-term health monitoring of those who are at high risk, along with the provision of necessary medical follow-up and support services."
Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) earlier this month received approval to tap the Japanese government for 697 billion yen ($7.5 billion) to compensate those harmed by the disaster, taking the total fund to 3.24 trillion yen.
"The report was not looking at mental health or psychological impact of three major events - the earthquake, tsunami and accident at the nuclear power plant. But we know for sure that the psychological consequences and their impact will be very high," Neira said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-risks-higher-worst-hit-fukushima-area-093400519--finance.html
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?Shakes? on a plane? FAA probes midair Harlem Shake
If Samuel L. Jackson was flying on a recent San Diego-bound Frontier Airlines flight, he no doubt would have screamed, "I've had it with these @#$!% shakes on this @#$!% plane!"
Jackson wasn't on board, but the "Harlem Shake" video shot midair might not be as harmless as originally thought.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the recording that shows members of a Colorado college Ultimate Frisbee team doing the dance. Recorded on February 15, the video has been viewed more than 430,000 times on YouTube and is one of the countless versions of the viral video meme that exploded earlier this month.
In them, groups of people dance in a silly fashion to a song, appropriately called "Harlem Shake."
The FAA is involved "to make sure no federal regulations were violated," agency spokesperson Allen Kenitzer said. The investigation will include interviewing flight crew and passengers.
Frontier wouldn't comment specifically on the FAA probe, but, regarding the dance, spokesperson Kate O'Malley said: "All safety measures were followed and the seat belt sign was off."
There's little wonder why the crew was OK with the in-flight video: Employees killing time on a layover recorded their own version days earlier.
Though various culture critics have called for its demise, the Harlem Shake meme clearly still has wings.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/shakes-plane-faa-probes-harlem-shake-frontier-flight-1C8623939
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MSR Online ? Designing a healthy approach to life
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But as we?ve seen, without that bangin? inspirational song, or the help of ?liquid courage? (alcohol), those spur-of-the-moment, conquer-the-world leaps of faith sometimes fall flat. Goals without a plan don?t work.
Health and fitness are some of the top-10 New Year?s goals. And good ones to have! One of the things we?re doing at the Robbins Urban Wellness Retreat is helping people design their own wellness plans. As part of our overall lifestyle design model, we are helping people change their approach and relationship to their goals ? from their health and fitness goals to their total life goals.
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Reframing the approach to health
Most people approach their goals as simply items to check off their ?to-do list,? such as ?I want to lose 20 pounds,? ?I want to quit smoking,? or ?l need to lower my cholesterol.? While some find success, it can be short-lived without the support, tools and coaching to maintain the results.
Helping people understand that developing healthy eating and fitness habits should be a way of life, not a temporary solution, demands a different level of thinking, a higher level of commitment to achieve longer-lasting results. The results are vastly different when you?re just trying to ?get through? something versus adopting it as a way of life.
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Getting to the root of it!
By consulting with a lifestyle and nutrition coach, you?re able to work with someone who can design a plan for you tailored to how you actually live, around your actual circumstances, helping you set reasonable, attainable goals. By taking this total-life approach, the consultant may uncover habits or barriers to your success and/or signal other issues.
For instance, most smokers quit drinking to be effective at quitting smoking; or, women who have a hard time battling the bulge, despite diet and exercise, could be holding unresolved stress, stemming from other deep-seated issues.
As the saying goes, one thing leads to another. If the underlying causes of behaviors, issues or habits go unresolved, any efforts to deal superficially with them will be unsuccessful.
Creating a plan to support your goals is a way to hold yourself accountable to those goals and ensure that you succeed. It?s easy to kid yourself or not take yourself seriously, quickly relegating your goals to the background at the first sign of failure or distractions.
Or, you might even be tempted to give up. By working with a coach to design your plan, your goals become less intimidating, more realistic, and you?ll have fun along the way!
There is no greater feeling than when you?ve hit a personal milestone. The feeling of dignity and self-respect is irreplaceable and will likely inspire even greater accomplishments. The sky?s the limit, with the right support, information and tools, to lead a healthy life?one goal at a time!
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Anika Robbins is a beauty and wellness expert. A cosmetology educator, she is the co-owner of the Robbins Urban Wellness Retreat offering programs on chiropractic, nutrition, massage and beauty. She travels extensively promoting health, beauty and empowerment through her company, ANIKA INTERNATIONAL. She welcomes reader responses to 612-670-6355 or via email: [email?protected]
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