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Cast of Characters

Since I have so many new followers, I figure I’ll give you a cheat sheet for all of the characters I reference in my posts.

Our Family

Camille – That’s me! I’m a thirty-one year old Yankee living in the deep south.  I’m a text-book Capricorn.  I’m human.  Deeply flawed.  In love with my partner of 8+ years.  More information about me is on our About Us page.

Jade  is my lovely partner.  Born and raised in New York City, she found herself in the midst of culture shock in small town in the deep south about twenty years ago.  As fate would have it, Jade and I crossed paths about ten years ago and have been together ever since.

Peanut & Buster are our fur babies.  Peanut is a  three-year old hyper and sassy maltipoo.  Buster is a mellow eight year old Miniature Pinscher Chihuahua mix who thinks he’s a horse (no seriously, I will have to post a video).  Our sons certainly keep us laughing.

Mama is my mother.  She is the strongest person I know.  Divorced from my father since 1996, Mama has been the constant in my life.  She is tough as nails and sometimes uses harsh words to hide how vulnerable she is inside.  Mama has high expectations of every person in her orbit.  She has a huge heart and is a constant giver.

Dad is my father.  He is one of the gentlest people I know.  He is a big softie, especially when it comes to his daughters.  For many years, my relationship with my father was damaged.  Thanks to Jade, about six years ago, my father and I began repairing our relationship.  We’ve come a long way.

Lucy is my sister. I love my sister but she and I have quite the dysfunctional relationship.  My sister resents me for reasons unknown.  Lucy is Yaya’s mother.

Yaya (also known as BrightEyes) is my niece.  She is quite the dainty little girl.  Yaya has all of the good parts of her mother, me, and my mother all rolled into one small human.  At one, this little girl knows what she wants and knows how to command attention.

Riley is my beautiful two-year old spunky god-daughter and niece.  Because her mother works a lot of hours, Riley is with Jade and I a lot.  Think 5+ days per week.  She has her own room at my house.  Yes, it’s like that.  Riley embodies everything that is good and right in the world.

Farrah (also known as Fancy Face) is Riley’s mother, Anne’s daughter, and Jade’s niece.  Farrah has a heart of gold.  Her smile and air of confidence mask her hurt and insecurities. She is going through a rough divorce from Riley’s father right now so Jade and I are her support system.

Anne is Jade’s sister.  Anne has terminal Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, Polycystic Kidney Disease, and congestive heart failure.  Because of all of her medical conditions, the doctors are unable to treat Anne’s cancer.  She is the queen bee.  Anne is Jade’s oldest sister (about 20 years older than Jade).  She is a force to be reckoned with if you dare oppose her. Anne passed away from breast cancer on October 5, 2013.  Her presence is still deeply missed in my world.

Greg is Anne’s husband.  He is a big bear of a man with a heart of gold.  Extremely stubborn and fiercely protective, once his mind is set on something, there is nothing you can do to convince him otherwise.  Greg was Anne’s perfect match.

Jenny is Jade’s homophobic sister.  She is accepting of Jade and I’s relationship but she is extremely judgmental of gay people as a whole.  She uses the word faggot which makes my skin crawl.  She uses the word dyke in a derogatory fashion and it makes my stomach turn.  Jenny is really a sweet person at her core; her issue is one of lack of exposure and acceptance of people who differ from her.  There’s still hope for Jenny.

George is Jenny’s “live-in partner” (a term Jenny herself uses).  George is one of the best men I know.  A father to four grown girls, he is loving and supportive.  George and Jenny have been together for over fifteen years.  He is our go-to guy for many things.  When my dog died the day before my birthday a couple of years ago, George was there to help.  Seeking holiday spirit? George is your guy.  George has been battling a less aggressive form of prostate cancer for the past few years.  Right now, he seems to be winning the battle.

Our Friends

Rachel (also known as Mabel for reasons only known to her!) has become one of my closest friends over the past year.  Rachel and I work together so we spend a great deal of time with each other.  Rachel is a free spirit.  Born and raised right here in the deep south, Rachel’s ideologies differ largely from most of the people around her.  She is a thinker, an artist, and a genuinely good person.  Rachel constantly seeks information.

Heather is my best friend of more than fifteen years.  She knows me better than anyone (except Jade).  When she is present and fully in the moment, she is a great friend.  Unfortunately, our friendship goes in cycles and sometimes we struggle to stay close.

Medical Personnel

Dr. M is my primary Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE).

Franny is sometimes referred to as Fran or Frances.  She is Dr. M’s nurse.

Dr. S is the other RE at the practice at which I am a patient.

Kate is the IVF nurse at the RE practice.  She is probably my favorite person at the practice overall.

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You can examine hovered-over element’s CSS in Chrome using the Chrome DevTools.

  1. First hover over the element you want to inspect.
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  3. The hover-over elements should still be active. Click on the elements you want to examine.

How to restore your Youtube channel falsely reported as spam or in violation

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Here’s the email I received:

The marked out sport is a link to my flagged youtube channel.

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Install WordPress into a subdirectory, redirect website traffic to it & hide the subdirectory.

  1. Log into cPanel and install WordPress into a subdirectory on the website.
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Convert MIDI(.MID) file to quality MP3 file

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Create video version of the song

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3. Create the video then Export Media (Ctrl -m) with settings Target Bitrate 5 and Maximum Bitrate 5. Set Format to H.264. Also set the ‘Output Name to the right directory.

Upload the MP3 file to Youtube.

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Posts Tagged ‘flying horses’

A poem for these wet summer days…

Summer Lies

Splishy splashy sloshy days

wrung out, strung up, hung out to dry

on dismal damp summer lies.

Rotting strawberries, mounds of mould

beneath wet leaves. Bowed and broken

flower heads, hanging limp, all but dead.

Rolling, boiling, muddied stream

tumbling headlong in between

bulging banks, brim full. Bursting.

Squelching, belching, sodden fields

turned now to new wet worlds,

where sentinel trees stand stranded.

On the green, where party picnickers

should have been. The grass is flattened

churned to mud.

The carousel, draped in plastic,

hides fantastic flying horses, unicorns,

dinosaurs, now bedraggled, damp. Distorted.

Bright bunting slaps and smacks, hangs slack.

A river playing down our street,

a gurgling, dripping, drumming beat.

Again the rain, the waters rise.

Sandbag dams – front door reprise

of dismal drizzling summer lies.

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Becoming a Student at ANPERC and KAUST

Degree Programs & Fields of Study

New Students.JPGANPERC is part of the Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division at KAUST, and students interested in pursuing a M.S. or Ph.D. may apply for admission to the Earth Science and Engineering (ErSE) program or the Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) Program.  The links below provide information for applying to these programs.

Desired Qualities of ErSE and CBE students at ANPERC

In addition to KAUST’s values of achievement, passion, inspiration, citizenship, diversity, integrity, and openness, students working with ANPERC are expected to exhibit unique qualities that set them apart from the majority of students around the world seeking graduate degrees.  ANPERC strives to instill the following attributes:

  • Grounded in the fundamentals of geosciences and fluid flow, synthesizing a diverse set of  disciplines
  • Digital natives capable of leveraging 21st century technology to solve complex problems
  • Inventive and resourceful in their approaches to technical challenges
  • Experienced in collaborative and inclusive workflows
  • Deep exposure to the energy issues in geoscience, and the engineering challenges facing the Kingdom and the world
  • Inherently motivated to develop creative engineering solutions

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Blackbird Café, Sydney

Bob, Owl and I went to Blackbird café at Cockle Bay Wharf for dinner after visiting the Aquarium. We just wanted something quick and simple so we could run along home to do ZA/ZG (which, by the way, is very frustrating). Bob ordered the Portuguese Chicken Burger ($21.90), Owl the Lamb Kofta Burger ($22.90), and I the Roasted Lamb Cutlets ($35.90).

The large burgers were tasty and I am happy to report that the thick chips were freshly cooked and, hence, were deliciously crunchy as supposed to dismally soggy. Bob tried to share her chips with me but lifting the cup from the board only served to scatter the chips on the table since it didn’t have a bottom – sharers be warned! I was rather pleased that my cutlets were very lean and that it was so generously apportioned. It started off well but eventually became a little too salty for my liking so I had to eat some of Bob’s burger after to try to neutralise the saltiness whilst Owl very kindly ate my last cutlet. The only major downside to this dish is that the cutlets were quite tough and did not fall off the bone well despite promises of it being roasted as supposed to pan-fried. Nonetheless, it sufficiently satisfied my lamb craving.

We fought our way to the counter and paid for our meal, for-going dessert as I had a box of pastries from Black Star Pastry sitting at home. Service was prompt yet bordered on the condescending as the restaurant seemed to have lifted its status a few notches since the last time I visited (2007). I suppose we were too casually dressed for a Saturday night out. All in all it was a nice experience if a little overpriced. No pictures since it rather makes me cringe, not being a fully dedicated food blogger. You’ll just have to imagine the yummy food 😉

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Balcony level of Cockle Bay Wharf between the IMAX Theatre and Sydney Aquarium
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Posts Tagged ‘World Series’

Less Than Expected

October 27, 2008

That pretty much sums up how I felt about the show on Friday night. I’m sure there are some things that play in to all of this. The current economic environment sucks, and the fact that we had to change the show wasn’t a help either. We had our smaller crowd since the first show, and while everyone was pretty much into the show, it was certainly a let down. The plus side is that we sold out our stock of DVD’s from the last show, so we had extra money to put forth the next show which appears to be in early December.

The show itself in the ring was pretty good. Maybe the best in ring show we’ve done. I am still hoping that the look of the shows increases, something just seemed “off” the whole night for me.

In unrelated news, the Rays are down 3-1 to the Phillies. It appears that I will be 0-3 in my WS picks since 2006. Worst! At least Heroes is on tonight, I have that to look forward to.


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Decolonising Settler Cities

Symposium, 26-27 September, Perth, Australia

Decolonising Settler Cities is supported by an Antipode Foundation International Workshop Award. The award supports our pursuit in this symposium of knowing the city differently through conversation with Indigenous custodians, activists, scholars, elders and practitioners, and to use this as the basis for rethinking settler-colonial urbanism. Keynote speakers include Tony Birch, Linda Kennedy and Oren Yiftachel.

There is still time to make a submission of interest to Decolonising Settler Cities. The call for participants closes on 1 June; please make a submission of 300 words to Tod Jones at Curtin University ( or Libby Porter at RMIT University ( More information is available on our website here.

Please join us in seeking an agenda for establishing decolonising practices in Australian cities.

We acknowledge and thank the Wadjuk Noongar people on whose territory Decolonising Settler Cities will be held. This symposium is hosted by Curtin University’s Translational Research Centre for Aboriginal Knowledges, the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, and the School of Built Environment in collaboration with the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. We acknowledge support and funds from the Institute of Australian Geographers.

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Not resolved

Update by user May 15, 2016

Well it's been 5 years and I can't say we were ever able to resolve this matter.Eventually the calls from ABC Financial stopped.

To date, nothing has appeared on my credit and seeing how long it's been since this transaction, I don't forsee it becoming an issue again . This has been a good lesson learned as I haven't joined another gym since and have saved hundreds of dollars in not doing so. My husband and I invested in a home gym and we're now in the best shape of our lives.

Can't say we would've achieved these same kind of results at Anytime Fitness.For those of you that are still bound by this place and that ridiculous contract, I can empathize with you and I'd like to say that there is hope for a stress-free future and good health.

Original review posted by user May 03, 2011

I visited my local Anytime Fitness in Jan 2011.Met with a pushy salesperson aka "owner" to discuss the club and what they could offer me.

I had 3 other appointments set up at other facilities for that same day. I politely asked for a few days to think about joining and to take advantage of the "Free week" pass that I brought in from the website. I was then informed that if I did not join then at that moment , that I would no longer be eligible for the "free enrollment". I tried to reason with this pushy salesperson, yet either which way , the story stayed the same.

So I joined and signed the contract. Also added my husband to the membership. We went probably 10 times through the rest of January and February before realizing that this gym was NOT for us. I wrote a request for cancellation a little over 30 days later to receive a response stating that NO WAY, NO HOW , UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN A PERMANENT DISABILITY OR MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTRY COULD I CANCEL THIS MEMBERSHIP!!!

I was immediately infuriated by this. Barely a month in and there were no options! Not even an early termination fee!! I called the club and spoke with the "owner"s boyfriend and explained my reasoning for wanting to cancel.

He was least compassionate towards my situation and advised me that I CANNOT CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP. So, I placed a Stop Payment on the ACH withdraws and changed my checking account number. Since doing this, I am receiving calls from ABC Financial requesting my new account number and billing information.HAHAA I DON'T THINK SO!!! ANYTIME FITNESS IS A JOKE AND SO IS ABC FINANCIAL- TO ANYONE WHO READS THIS...

DO NOT , UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, JOIN THIS GYM!It comes with a contract for life and a bunch of BS!

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Naples, Florida, United States #1318609

All I had to read was that you signed the contract. You could have left. Contracts only become unfair when the person who signed one wants out.

Portland, Maine, United States #1298116

I can't judge you, as I only have your point of view before me here.But I can't help thinking that maybe, just maybe, some of this suffering might have been your own fault because of your negative attitude from the beginning.

I can say that I love being a member of Anytime Fitness, and my original positive review still holds.

Unfortunately, I've had to take a few months off for treatment for my cancer, but I do plan on returning whenever my fatigue lifts again.

The only thing bad I can see about them, even from this website, is their wanting you to adhere to your contract. I left another gym (Fitness Factory) to join Anytime Fitness, and that gym insisted that my wife and I pay for an entire final month, even though we requested termination during the first few days of the month. But I think that is reasonable, and I do not have the slightest complaint about their policy.

They, too, were a great gym, and I still recommend both to those who ask about them.

I wish you the best of luck.I think a home gym was your best result out of this whole thing, even though I wouldn't want one myself.

Carmel, Indiana, United States #1298106

Did they give you a copy of what you signed we are going through this now

Fort Lupton, Colorado, United States #1207015

Im 17 years old and I went in thinking "oh you gotta start losing weight, your friends say this is a good gym, and they are charging you $27 a month, sure why not?" I went in and they were going to charge me $80 as a first deposit and then 40 dollars and they put me on a 2 month contact.Being 17 years old and working only part time, I had to call and see if we could cancel it.

And under bo circumstances were they going to let me.

Is there something I could do that you recommend me doing to stop getting charged?And I can get out if this contract?

to descarce8340 Naples, Florida, United States #1318610

Unless the law has changed, and unless you are legally emancipated, you can not legally be held to a contract under the age of 18.

I am so happy to hear that you and your husband really did buy home gym equipment and are in great shape, five years later.Life offers different solutions for different people.

Different strokes for different folks.It's all good.

I agree.Do not join.

They make promises that they do not keep. extra classes coming soon?

one year contract?NO, they tack on an extra 6 months

They said you couldn't cancel because you were still in your contract.That's standard gym policy for most gyms that do contracts.

You shouldn't have signed up if you weren't for sure no matter how pushy the salesman was. This is you fault and now your mad because you made a mistake.

Once you've met your contract obligation you could have cancelled with a written 30-day notice.It's all right in your contract that YOU SIGNED!

You're hurting your credit. ABC financial is a debt collection agency

As soon as they started the hard sell approach, you should have walked out.When they said if you didn't sign right then, you would not a get the discount, you should have laughed in their faces and walked out.

But since you signed, you should have read what it said about cancellations. Gyms are infamous for being shady and underhanded when it comes to locking in members. They don't give two sh*ts if you use the facility or not, in fact, they prefer you don't. They just want your money.

And the employees that sell the memberships are paid commission only, so if they can't get you to sign up, they make $0.00.Just remember that next time.

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As we start the Lenten season, I am trying to do a few things differently to become more like Jesus, which should be our goal always. As I write this, it is the morning of Ash Wednesday and I am making the following 40 day pledges:

1. I will blog everyday for the 40 days of the Lenten season. (Not on Sundays, as they are excluded from the Lenten observation)

I have wanted to cultivate a better habit of simply writing. First of all I enjoy sharing my thoughts in various mediums. God has definitely given me a desire to share my life and my struggles. Blogging is also kind of therapeutic for me as well. So here’s to 40 days of word therapy. Subscribe to to follow my journey.

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Claas Gutsche

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Claas Gutsche, born in East Germany seven years before the Berlin Wall fell, makes two kinds of work—bronze sculptures and meticulous linocuts—of two kinds of subjects: the bits of nature that city dwellers encounter …Read More

Dan Halter

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Alexa Horochowski

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Though prints are usually thought of as the product of a fixed matrix—carved woodblocks, engraved plates—the history of printmaking is also littered with malleable matrices: the smooth glass of Degas’ monoprints …Read More

Tess Jaray

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Tess Jaray, a British artist and influential teacher at the Slade School of Fine Art, came to prominence in the 1960s through early exhibitions of paintings that aligned her with other optically oriented artists such as Bridget Riley …Read More

John McDevitt King

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John McDevitt King has long devoted himself to the depiction of objects experienced in his imagination. Spheres, coils, candles, plants, light reflections, shadows and shapes float through his ethereal paintings, drawings and prints …Read More

Beryl Korot

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A pioneer of video art and a steadfast weaver, writer and editor since the 1970s, Beryl Korot has spent more than 40 years making works that reveal hidden commonalities between ancient and modern technologies …Read More

Liza Lou

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Over the decades, Liza Lou’s beaded sculptures and installations have transmogrified from illusionistic bedazzlement (as in Kitchen, 1990–96) to more meditative explorations of the process and social implications of beading …Read More

Michael Menchaca

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Michael Menchaca describes his work as a “digital codex”—a phrase that captures the juxtaposition and, sometimes, tension between the pre-Columbian and contemporary cultures that he cites …Read More

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Jordan Nassar, who primarily produces hand-embroidered textile works and self-published zines, has recently begun making prints that blend the visual language of traditional Palestinian embroidery with a contemporary graphic sensibility …Read More

Robert Olsen

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In April 2014, Robert Olsen, an acclaimed painter of somber, luminous cityscapes and still lifes, died of a heart attack in his sleep. He was 44. At the time, Olsen was engaged in a print project with his New York gallery …Read More

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In a departure from the fictionalized, narrative landscapes of her prior works, Serena Perrone’s most recent print editions delight in facts of the natural world, albeit unexpected and dreamlike ones …Read More

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In her art, the Norwegian-born painter Hanneline Røgeberg seeks to “visualize feeling” through a voluptuous vocabulary of bodies, skin and intense physical engagement …Read More

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Title: The Alexander polynomial of a plane curve singularity via the ring of functions on it

Authors: A.Campillo (Valladolid University, Spain), F.Delgado (Valladolid University, Spain), S.M.Gusein-Zade (Moscow State University, Russia)
Abstract: We prove two formulae which express the Alexander polynomial $\Delta^C$ of several variables of a plane curve singularity $C$ in terms of the ring ${\cal O}_{C}$ of germs of analytic functions on the curve. One of them expresses $\Delta^C$ in terms of dimensions of some factors corresponding to a (multi-indexed) filtration on the ring ${\cal O}_{C}$. The other one gives the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial $\Delta^C$ as Euler characteristics of some explicitly described spaces (complements to arrangements of projective hyperplanes). The final version of this article will be published in the Duke Mathematical Journal.
Subjects: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
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US soda giants fund health groups but fight them too: study

NEW YORK: Two major US soda giants, have given millions of dollars to health organisations while quietly fighting anti-obesity measures such as taxes on soft drinks, a new study shows.

The soda giants, from 2011 to 2015, sponsored 96 national health organisations battling public health problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease, said the research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

During the same period, the two soda companies lobbied against 29 public health bills intended to reduce soda consumption or improve nutrition.

“These companies lobbied against public health intervention in 97 per cent of cases, calling into question a sincere commitment to improving the public’s health,” said the study’s authors Daniel Aaron and Michael Siegel of Boston University.

“By accepting funding from these companies, health organisations are inadvertently participating in their marketing plans,” they warned.

Most of the recipients of the companies’ largesse were private organisations, while some were part of the US federal government, such as the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The donations have become larger in recent years, alongside mounting public health campaigns linking soft drinks to the country’s rising obesity levels – related to a growing prevalence of diabetes.

One of the soda giants recently revealed it had spent more than $120 million since 2010, financing scientific studies, partnerships with groups fighting obesity and lobbying.

According to The Centre for Responsive Politics – an independent, non-profit organisation – the other company on average has spent $3 million a year on lobbying since 2011.

Sweetening their image

By supporting health organisations, the companies are trying to improve their goodwill image with the public to distract from their lobbying efforts.

“By being able to say they partner with so many health organisations, they are able to create this image that they are actually contributing to public health,” Siegel said in a phone interview.

That diverts attention away from the fact that “their products are contributing to what is a terrible obesity epidemic,” he said.

About 35 per cent of American adults are obese, and 69 per cent are overweight, according to 2012 official data. Spending on treatments linked to obesity accounted for a fifth of the country’s health care spending.

For Keith-Thomas Ayoob, a dietician and professor at Yeshiva University, the source of the funding is not as important as what is done with it.

“I think there is a place for proper funding from industries,” he said.

“I am only concerned that the fundings go towards the efforts that benefit consumers,” he said, giving as an example helping people better manage diabetes.

Big Soda lobbying

The two major US soda giants engage in intense lobbying to kill any legislation against soft drinks, the study points out, putting the sponsored health organisations in a position of conflict of interest.

That is the case of Save the Children, to which Coca-Cola and PepsiCo gave more than $5 million in 2009. A year later, the non-profit withdrew its support of a tax for soft drinks, a key measure backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to fight obesity and diabetes.

Contacted by AFP, the organisation refused to say whether it was still taking money from both companies.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and the NAACP, the nation’s leading African American civil rights organisation, opposed a proposal by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg to reduce the size of soda cans in 2012, after they received money from the two drinks companies.

The AND, which broke off its ties to the two, told AFP it had accepted the money “to enable the Academy to reach a wider consumer audience with healthy eating messages.”

The NAACP did not respond to AFP requests for comment.

Rhona Applebaum, Chief Science and Health Officer in one of the companies, was forced out in late 2015 after reports that she helped set up the non-profit the Global Energy Balance Network, which downplayed the role of sugary drinks in obesity and emphasised exercise.

“We may disagree with some in the public health community on discriminatory and regressive taxes and policies on our products,” said the American Beverage Association (ABA).

“But, we believe our actions in communities and the marketplace are contributing to addressing the complex challenge of obesity,” said the industry lobby, whose members include the two US soda companies.

Contacted by AFP, one of the companies referred questions to the ABA, while the other did not respond.

The ABA has vowed to spend millions of dollars in advertising campaigns in northern California, notably in San Francisco and Oakland, to defeat soda tax proposals in November votes.

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Wal-Mart sues Visa for $5 billion over card swipe fees

Wal-Mart Stores Inc this week sued Visa Inc for $5 billion, accusing the credit and debit card network of excessively high card swipe fees, several months after the retailer opted out of a class action settlement between merchants and Visa and MasterCard Inc.

Visa declined to comment on the suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is headquartered.

Visa and other card networks charge retailers fees, called swipe fees or interchange fees, each time a shopper uses a debit or credit card to pay.

In December, a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., approved a $5.7 billion class action settlement between merchants and Visa and MasterCard despite the objections of thousands of retailers that complained it was inadequate.

Wal-Mart, Amazon.com Inc, and Target Corp were among those opting out of the monetary components of the settlement to have the freedom to seek damages on their own.

Those businesses complained about a broad litigation release in the settlement. The release forces all merchants who accepted Visa or MasterCard, and those who will in the future, to give up their right to sue the credit card companies over rules at issue in the case or similar ones they may make in the future.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is seeking damages from price fixing and other antitrust violations that it claims took place between January 1, 2004 and November 27, 2012.

In its lawsuit, Wal-Mart contends that Visa, in concert with banks, sought to prevent retailers from protecting themselves against those swipe fees, eventually hurting sales.

"The anticompetitive conduct of Visa and the banks forced Wal-Mart to raise retail prices paid by its customers and/or reduce retail services provided to its customers as a means of offsetting some of the artificially inflated interchange fees," Wal-Mart in court documents.

"As a result, Wal-Mart's retail sales were below what they would have been otherwise."

When asked whether Wal-Mart would file a suit against Mastercard, a spokesman for the retailer said the company would not discuss its litigation plans publicly.

Wal-Mart contends that that the way Visa set swipe fees violated antitrust regulations and generated more than $350 billion for card issuers over the nearly 9-year period in question, in part at the expense of the retailer and customers.

The case is in re: Wal-Mart Stores, U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas, No. 05101.

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We cannot trust NS with investigation on rigging, tweets Imran

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan in a message on Twitter said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cannot be trusted on the investigation of the alleged rigging in 2013 elections, ARY News reports.

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Imran Khan tweeted that Nawaz Sharif has a record of buying and threatening witnesses.

He also said that Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has sabotaged the First Information Report (FIR) of the Model Town Incident.

PTI Chairman also said that Prime Minister will do everything to influence the rigging investigation if the pressure is lifted off him.

Imran Khan added that Nawaz Sharif also lief about going abroad according to a deal and backed off after boycotting from 2008 elections.

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Optimism is hard but I think (and hope) it’s worth it.

Optimism is a tricky thing. I’ve discovered that I’m incredibly fickle, too. I don’t want to talk about school too much, that old ‘the more you discuss it the more you think about and the worse it seems’ thing. But I feel I should say a bit about it to get it off my chest, so to speak.

I’ve not posted anything this week because I’ve been very busy and tired – going to bed early rather than staying up like I usually would, which means I have less time to do everything. I’ve been cooking dinner every night, which I don’t mind so much, but it does take time up; doing maths homework, which I HATE with a passion; watching a little TV with my family because they want me to; and then collapsing into bed and finding myself waking up in the morning feeling like I’ve hardly slept. I know that’s meant to be pretty typical, but god, that doesn’t make it any nicer! Maybe I should start drinking coffee to keep me going, people always tell me that they never liked coffee that much until they needed it to stay awake for uni or whatever.

Just quickly on optimism – I’m trying hard, and most of the time I can succeed if I don’t let myself think about the bad parts and force myself to focus on the good parts, even just looking forward to the future. To going to France, which will be almost certainly in September, if not before then! To uni, to when I have friends, to when I’m eclectic and alternative and joyous. I don’t know, I like to romanticize my future – I plan on being happy and weird, I suppose. In my mind it’s all just tiny coffee shops with mini-gigs on, and op-shop vintage clothes, and foolishly wonderful friends to hang out with, and I don’t even quite know what else – I’d like to try and write it down in more detail though.

Another time.

Optimism isn’t always easy. I figure I need to just be constantly, foolishly, stupidly optimistic, except when I’m crying in the bathrooms, but then I’ll just cry it out of my system and force myself to be optimistic and think to myself ‘Only 6 more months til I go to France!’ rather than ‘I have no friends here and may never have any here and I think I’m failing the work.’

Ahhh. I want to express myself better, but I really can’t. I just wanted to write something here, I suppose partly as a record – so I can read it again when I’m being pessimistic and be reminded that NO I MUST BE HAPPY, and also so when I’m happy without trying to be, I can read it again and laugh at my foolishness, and finally so that when I’m feeling this way again, I can read it and see that yeah, I’ve gone through this before, and yeah, it ended eventually.

COPING MECHANISMS, GUYS. This is one of mine, I guess.

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Locally-focused Nextdoor aims to help neighbors meet, share recommendations and become more aware of safety. While mainstream social networks have become more location-aware, neighborhoods are finally benefiting from a dedicated site to increase communication.

Neighborhood-based social network could benefit local merchants

While the spread of social networks has done wonders for global friendships and former classmate finding, it has done little to encourage new and local relationships. San Francisco-based Nextdoor hopes to address this underserved area of human interaction with their neighborhood-centered site. To become a member, a visitor to Nextdoor.com enters and verifies their addres through a postcard sent to the home, a $0.01 charge to a credit card, or by phone. After this step appears a familiar social network profile layout with optional Facebook integration, and some locally relevant questions: how long they have lived in the neighborhood, what they love about living there, their hometown, etc.

Privacy-minded profiles are kept separate from other neighborhoods

The Nextdoor dashboard page includes a neighborhood map and posts from nearby members. It also shows the level of local adoption - for example, 8 of 1,340 Williamsburg-Northside households have joined at the time of this writing. Members can send invitations by email, postcard or by printing out flyers, as well as sharing a neighborhood link. Residents can access a neighborhood directory with opt-out detail, and choose whether to share their contact information or just general area and interests. SMS notifications are also an option - these alerts can be set to receive updates from neighborhoods on suspicious activities, missing children, natural disasters and local evacuations.

Local stores can get recommendations and potential high-value customers

Recommendations, classifieds, groups and other resources are given navigation bar space, which gives a potentially great spotlight to local businesses. Nextdoor may run local service ads according to USA Today, but the immediate benefit for businesses will be the Recommendations tab. The Recommendations page is organized in categories, and is currently the most popular category of Nextdoor user posts - about 26 percent of content is in this part of the site. With focus on their local customers, shops could benefit from patrons that are more likely to be repeat and frequent purchasers.


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Drivers Too Confident In Texting Skills: GA Car Accident

Distracted Driving in Atlanta, GA : Texting

Distracted driving kills thousands of people every year. Yet many drivers continue to text behind the wheel because they think they are good at managing both tasks.

In 2011, 3,360 people died in car accidents connected to distracted driving. In 2012, that number dropped slightly to 3,328. However, the number of people injured in distracted-driving accidents increased from 387,000 to 421,000.

A 2009 study from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute indicated that people take their eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds when sending or receiving a text. This would allow the driver to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph without looking up.

Underreported Cause of Accidents- Texting: Atlanta Car Accident Lawyer

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is trying to determine how many drivers are texting and causing accidents, but coming up with an accurate estimate is difficult.

According to NBC News, experts say police need to have distraction-related questions on their accident reports. Currently only some do. This means that only some accidents caused by texting while driving may be reported as such. In other words, distracted driving crashes are underreported.

A 2013 survey from State Farm sought to get the public’s input on how often distracted driving occurs. About 35% of respondents admitted to sending or receiving a text message behind the wheel. This figure is especially troubling when you consider that it has climbed from 31% in 2009.

The same study found that three-fourths of those surveyed supported an all-out ban on texting while driving and more than half supported a prison sentence for causing a fatal crash while texting.

Downplaying the Danger: Distracted Driving Car Wreck Lawyer Atlanta

A study this year from Sustainable Strategic Management found that 4 out of 5 college students texted while driving, the Los Angeles Times reported. Many of them (especially males) downplayed the danger, believing their own driving skills would save them from an accident.

Women in the study sent more text messages than men on any given day, but men were more likely to text impulsively behind the wheel. The researchers suggested that this is because women were more likely to recognize the dangers of texting while driving. According to the LA Times, the men in the study showed less appreciation of the dangers of texting while driving.

It seems that distracted driving campaigns are working—people know it’s dangerous. Still, too many drivers believe they are the exception.

Good drivers and bad drivers alike are involved in accidents. Distracted driving, no matter how adept at texting you are, increases your risk of a serious car wreck. Though the laws in the state of Georgia are stricter than those of some other states, we still have a long way to go in curbing distracted-driving accidents.

Car Accident Lawyers GA: Texting and Distracted Driving

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China: World’s 2nd largest Economy in decline … as GDP and industrial production drop + a real estate bubble ready to explode

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Captain Rick: Gross domestic product in China grew 7.7% over the previous year during the first quarter. That is great by U.S. standards, which are hovering near 0%, but a significant loss from the 10% annual GDP that China has averaged during the past three decades, which propelled it to become the the world’s second largest economy. Reports on industrial production and retail sales disappointed. Economists are worried about a rapid expansion in credit and a red-hot housing market.

Fitch ratings agency warned China of excessive debt levels and issued rare local currency downgrade
The ratings agency said it issued the rare downgrade because of three factors: Structural weaknesses in China’s economy, an expansion of easy credit and the rise of an opaque shadow banking system.
Credit in China has expanded quickly in the wake of the global financial crisis, with much of it issued to local governments and used to finance infrastructure projects.
Fitch believes local government debt levels are now so high that Beijing will, at some point, be forced to assume some of the burden.

In response to the global financial crisis in 2008, China moved to stimulate its economy by increasing the amount of available credit.
Banks and other lenders responded, with credit in China growing since 2009 at a quicker pace than gross domestic product. Only one country — Qatar — was issuing credit at a faster rate.
By the end of 2012, credit issued by Chinese banks to the private sector reached 136% of GDP, the third-highest level of any emerging market country rated by Fitch.
Much of the credit was issued to local governments, and used to finance infrastructure projects that helped China sustain rapid economic growth in the wake of the financial crisis.

Beijing has tried to get a handle on credit issuance in recent years, moving to cool the housing market and cut back on local government debt.
But when combined with low wages, Fitch said the persistent nature of the trends has created growing risks for China’s financial stability.

Real Estate Bubble heating up and ripe for explosion

The housing market is heating up, leading some analysts to worry about the development — and possible deflation — of a housing bubble.
China’s central government is already stepping up efforts to cool prices, and Beijing has directed local governments to institute control measures of their own.
Several cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, have responded by announcing higher taxes and fresh restrictions on property purchases.
20% capitol gains tax has been added on home sales as well as higher interest rates and down payments for anyone buying a second home in cities where real estate prices are sharply on the rise.

China is the second largest holder of U.S. debt (Japan is the largest)
China held about $1.15 trillion in U.S. bonds through August, the most recent reading available from the Treasury Department.
China had been buying U.S. Treasuries as a way to keep its currency, the yuan, pegged to the U.S. dollar. That helped lower the value of the yuan and made China’s exports more competitive in markets such as the United States.

Captain Rick’s Words of Caution: Notice I said China ‘had been buying U.S. Treasuries.’ Latest indication is that that has stopped. This could have grave consequences on Americas gigantic thirst for deficit spending. Japan remains the only major purchaser of American debt and those days could be numbered as well due to economic conditions in Japan not being anything to ‘write home about’. Our world is skating on very thin ‘fiscal ice’. Countries of our world, including China, depend on America to be a leader of fiscal responsibility. America has not been setting a very good example with its legislative gridlock on solving its monumental thirst for deficit spending. The world can only hope that America will wake up from its deep sleep and do what is necessary, before its speeding train goes over the ultimate ‘fiscal cliff’ and takes the world with it.

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What are Google’s crimes and illicit activities:

What are Google’s crimes and illicit activities:

War Profiteering
Google’s investors and executives promoted the deaths of soldiers and civilians in order to control lithium mines in Afghanistan for Google car, phone, device and Goldman Sachs partnered commodity market rigging. (Click for more details..)

Google spies on everyone –

Every single thing that Google does is designed to spy on people, capture their private information, create a psychological profile and use their own information against them for illicit political and profiteering purposes. (Click for more details..)

Google uses Stasi tactics to manipulate the public –

Google uses Stasi propaganda psychological subliminal messaging, mood manipulation and influencing tricks to manipulate the public into voting for things that only Google owners believe in. (Click for more details..)

Sexual Deviancy –

Google’s people are documented engaging in a huge number of sordid sex scandals which indicate the moral structure of Google. (Click for more details..)

Tax Fraud –

Google has been documented evading tax contributions and thereby cutting off funds for American schools, infrastructure repairs, fire houses, medical services and other public needs paid for by those taxes. (Click for more details..)

Bribery –

Google has been documented bribing political officials. (Click for more details..)

Election Rigging-

Google has been documented rigging U.S., India, British and other elections. (Click for more details..)

Murders? –

Numerous news articles have charged that Google executives or venture capitalists had Forrest Hayes, Rajeev Motwani, Gary D. Conley, Karl Slym, David Bird, Andrew Brietbart and a number of other persons killed because they threatened to expose Google’s political manipulations(Click for more details..)

Organizing a Government Coup –

Google is widely documented placing hundreds of it’s staff inside the White House and decision points throughout the U.S. and California state government including the DOE and USPTO (Click for more details..)

Attempting to kill off patent protection for U.S. inventors –

Google funded a program to change U.S. patent laws to prevent inventors from collecting the money that Google owes them for stealing their products. Google put it’s lawyer in control of the U.S. Patent Office. (Click for more details..)

Taking advantage of naive young employees –
Google has been sued by numerous employees because Google uses them and takes advantage of them. (Click for more details..)

Promoting the loss of American jobs by massively importing overseas labor –

Google funds, hires and promotes cheap non-domestic labor. (Click for more details..)

Google found to be a racist organization –

Google hires almost no blacks and has almost no black upper management. (Click for more details..)

Running a cult-like environment –

Google puts employees through “mindfulness” brain washing and keeps employees on it’s buses, food courts, parties, social media and email in order to control all aspects of their lives and push scientology-like Google-thinking. (Click for more details..)

Google promotes misogyny and the use of women as “sex objects” for billionaires –

Google has almost no women employees and only promotes “girlfriends” of the founders and VC’s. (Click for more details..)

Google founder Larry Page makes a career of stealing ideas and technologies –

Read the New York Times article that blew the story wide open. (Click for more details..)

The European Union, Russia, China, Spain and most non-U.S. controlled countries have filed charges against Google –

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Google was funded by rogue elements of the CIA that went wildly “off the reservation” –
See these Corbett Report documentaries and associates articles… (Click for more details..)

Google created the failed “Arab Spring” –

Arab Spring turned out to be one of the most failed democracy movements in history and led to the deaths and torture of many people.(Click for more details..)

Stock market rigging –

Google works with Goldman Sachs to rig news to coincide with illegal stock market “pump and dumps”, “Flash Boy Algorithms”, “Buy bots” and “Skims”. (Click for more details..)

Google co-operated the Cleantech Crash –

Google put Steven Chu in the Department of Energy to provide kickbacks to Google VC’s in a scam that cost American taxpayers over a trillion dollars in losses. (Click for more details..)

Google owns part of Tesla in an illegal payola scheme –

Tesla was funded by political bribery in exchange or campaign rigging by Google. Tesla is a corrupt organization support by Google’s corruption to exploit Google’s lithium mine holdings with Sachs. Google/Tesla were also given parts of NASA as part of the payola including contracts, airfields for private jets and free jet fuel. (Click for more details..)

Google is part of an illegal Cartel –

A Cartel is an illegal monopolistic alliance. The Silicon Valley No Poaching Lawsuit, The AngelGate Scandal and numerous investigations prove that Google runs 2/3 of Silicon Valley via an illegal Cartel while being protected by political officials Google bribes. (Click for more details..)

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[INTERVIEW] Overthrust to play ORLIE Festival in Angola

The next couple months will be busy for Ghanzi, Botswana-based deathmetal band Overthrust. First, they head up to Angola to perform in the ORLEI fest in Huambo, and then depart for Europe to play a slew of gigs in Germany and Holland. Overthrust made a name for themselves worldwide last year when they rocked the audience at Wacken, the world’s biggest metal festival. After which they proceeded to play several other gigs in Germany and Switzerland, winning countless new fans. No doubt, they left a strong impression that got them invited back to Germany this year, while catching the attention of the organizers of ORLEI, Angola’s rock and metal festival.

So we here at Audioinferno spoke to the vocalist of Overthrust which goes by the name of Tshomarelo Mosaka who is also called VultureThrust. Enjoy the Interview

Audioinferno: So how did it come to be that you are playing in Angola?

After playing in Wacken and with a very good performance, the whole word knew about us and they started googling about us on the internet and liked our music and everyone wanted us to play in their countries.

Audioinferno: Everyone, that’s wonderful. It’s great to see that Overthrust has progressed over the years. I can proudly say, it’s one of the biggest and known death-metal bands in Africa. How do you feel about that?

That’s great, we have so grown to be the most famous deathmetal band in Africa without even us recognising it and that’s because we do what we love best with passion and commitment without putting money at the far front, we think metal first and our music called old school death metal before thinking about making money from it because money can destroy your carrier if you put it before anything. I thank all our fans for the support.

Audioinferno: Do you think your presence in the ORLEI Festival could help grow the popularity of metal in Angola, or at least foster wider acceptance amongst those who have misconceptions about the genre called metal?

Of course yes, for the past 10 years now of our existence as an underground band we have displayed a positive attitude, total opposite of what some narrow minded judging people thought negative of us and that has lead to number of people changing their negative thinking about us to positive attitude. I can tell you currently that we have a lot of followers that at first were criticising us and because we didn’t give up it worked for us. Our annual charity metal festival that we do also present a positive image to the public about metal people.

Audioinferno: Overthrust is well known for having international gigs and representing Africa internationally wise. What have other countries in Africa Overthrust played in?

South Africa: Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Audioinferno: What’s your say about the metal scene in Africa? Do you think it’s popular in Botswana and what African metal bands do you listen to?

Metal scene is growing very in Africa. South Africa have a huge scene in Africa and in the past years we have seen African metal scene coming together as one and bands getting exposed to the world. We have a small population in Botswana but the scene is so identical and special. We are so old school and we had always kept it that way, I listen to any metal band available from anyway in the world and back home-Africa my favourite bands are Noisey road, Metal Orizon, Wrust, Crackdust, Skinflint, Dust N Fire, Remuda, Raven N Flesh and as for South Africa metal bands, Maximum Carnage, Ardoned in Ashes, Bleeding Spawn, Demogoroth Satanum and Bloodbeast.

Audioinferno: So! Just about 2 weeks until you play the ORLEI Festival in Angola, tell us how excited are you knowing that you will be playing in Angola?

Very excited. We played Gorofest in 2015 in South Africa and there we did share stage with a band from Angola “Last Shout” the band was good and there were 2 ladies in the band, damn!! very cute and that i said to myself all Angola ladies must be very cute, haha…something extra that has fueled us to even want to play in Angola. Well after all is all about metal. We are a family obviously we are so excited to go meet our metal brothers and sisters in Angola.

Audioinferno: The drummer and the vocalist of the Angolan death metal band “Last Shout” are quite pretty. Especially the vocalist, she growls like a beast in human flesh. So I heard you’re playing in Kenya later this year, how true is this?

Is not confirmed yet. It was a proposal from one of the organizers but possibilities are for next year April.

Audioinferno: What would you say are the ultimate 5 item package for a great festival weekend in Angola? 5 things you would NEED for it to be brutal?
  • Brutal sound

  • Brutal lights

  • Brutal stage

  • Brutal crowd

  • Beeeeeeeeeeer

Audioinferno: Haha! Awesome Vulturethrust, I thought you were going to add Vultures to the list because of the fans that will get hit up as a result of your brutality on stage so your Vultures can eat them up.

Haha, thanks bro and yes add it.

Audioinferno: Nice, so anything you like to say to your Angola fans as you grace their shores?

Overthrust is so amped and ready to give them the best of Overthrust non stop. Overthrust merchandise will be available.

That is all for the interview. Angola metal fans, hope you are ready to experience some brutal dosages of brutality. Their merchandise will be also available so get ready, buy a tee shirt and be ready to mosh till your necks fall off.

You heard that right, get your merch, bring some beer (18 or 21+) and get ready to have the most brutal rock experience ever.

But whatever you do, be responsible

Support your local Bands!!!!

Name is Austin, peeps call me Austinrock. I like to interact with bands. You DO NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained here \m/{*¿*}\m/ …THERE…OK. I’m a huge Melodeath metal fan. I’m proud to be a METALHEAD. Metal isn’t for everybody, it’s for the chosen few. Most friends I have tell me they don’t understand why I like metal, that it is too much noise. They just going to have to listen beyond the noise and the truth is they don’t have to figure it out, it is either in you or it isn’t. Metal is my morning coffee and it’s my night sleeping pills…

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