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the ncf h-carolina chronicle ; or fayettevsje cm m o n d a y septus 6 1790 13 he fo'lcv inglanghal^rfotmance on an oimf iouscharar%t canterbury in fnrland is ccpi^om the lon don oracll funeral cation by the dean c&sjrjkg tex t he died eivftinketh r tends brethren i&briftians li s3 en o liiffinio the word otm mouth all yen row al ien bled,v beiher ireifworr er,br ys or tiru poor onich tymen or gei.tle n en taylori oi bnk btickmakers or law\trs lil-en i i*ay what 1 fhall un fold.-~'you lee rfcyethren oui gre t fr.pj i ne brutus ignore — tvenife whofe genius fhoofliis kicked city lits now a remnant totality — ama . of what little ccnfcjjpce is ma — t \\) day a prince a pm or a tau'ar—to ir.orrow death tak&:ifur<ftih\m the thread of ite is crand is the apojide faid heft'siketh sfav brethren iliall it be with ail — yeje time will come when jaw this ctljmd my/elf together . * id tlie menders rr sl!-jer'»en and corporation fli dl ff-dve and like the bafelefs fabric k ofvifion leave not a fmei behind f " and r.3 r:|rethren i will tell you wh brutus i — he very brutus whofe poor rtmafreit now before us — he was lir.eall|iefcended from ihe celebrated romafrutus marcus d dins whefe daggejtnetrated the boiom of c.far the cjueror not only of britain bu ofthflrld — it is true he vas an humble rjive for his occupa tion was i hat of ly&r but then not all thegenious arjmusd powers of the roman fla^e n.al he abilities oi the liniverf con bin si on id vie wkh him in the working lbutto^l * . u;a 6 va ■r^^w'dt xt^..i -.'■--'■f'l u i lor in ordinary hat r'\>.hty genual of the empen dormic-.r i'ria , my friei d he had i honour to make the txedeiing breeches he celeb ated tacitus when he manic * daughter of that ac complifhed ro'i i having failed up thf harbour cf utcpiufn.,(now called s mdwich he ' ed canterbury v./heie be jjrjnained ui his dea*.b and having kfi the ariofz he making to his poile utj | , # " our brul whoisit(ow bit a fc«w inherited the irtue of hb.gr eat progenitor — a ereditary hatred to all tyranny and t pation travelled down urn he could thereiore patiently he bold that v.ret d conclave of cry car dinal vulgar called aldermen lord it uncontroule ver your municipal af fairs in tie < fe of the people ht glo riovfly qi.dttedlh goofc his thimble his jbfere and his » homers then arming with a pen heicame tenible to thofe arifl erratic minis who detour all the good things oflnteibury here the dtart /, it arifeh a pajiort do they not gormunoixin tttrtk ? — they do voarcioufiy — iuthey not tzlof vtnifin and of the beftfivcr — have they not inarrcwfucl.trjpr dinner zaxdmuuett kidneyt fur fuppl — they have and you jtr.ow it — kailhey notpyes^uihrds jellies whip arfcacoroniat theirtablcs and do-they relet drunk on the richeft wines with cjpc and irifh ufque taugh until ta can renain no longer en their broacfottoms j i tremble at the very thouf of ihe jldrj.rnanic vo luptuoufnefs t reigns n this city — but who pay si all thejb wicked feaft ings ? — you pf for theri my brethren mid have theyflven vom en afpoonful of turtle cup % yonrvoney •? not a fo litary fmcll tcpatify y>ur poor nofes ; no my brethrt your ddirm n fvallow the wholeand are mdt of them fo far and iazy,jhey can b>dly waddle once in a mcjh to churcl where they fnould go theyu-ant much purging in b*y and foul which they will bej wnre \ yon think ihej wai bclcrtly my briren ?— i'll tell you peg tran'um houfe which is ten miles aeyond hell " but why fhould i talk of amend mem in your members aldermen or corpora ion — they are indeed loft mut kit and i drop a tear when 1 coniider e itate of thfdr poor fouls but ihefe ings are but vanity — even turtle eni fon marrow puddings c c nay wine itielf hop but a few hours in the bell and are difmiited as filthy tenants of a if habitation confider this my ids and remember alfo that a wotd or a blaei jehi are alike v hen they this wetched cat cafe of mortality ch yov/ri.v\ives my friends not to ex ihtgoob things of this world but to e i.u ihem,f.n ihe nex u , fo lbjdl vonr l;e peace,\and your night jc devo t'o tranqniiity and reft let us now confider what the duties chriftianare and upon what grounds nay expert to be returned tor a feat reater durability than thofe of ci mr robinfon or mr gipps you id be in the fird place be charitable vc are tt id that iitue coveis amul le of fins — you ihould nei her be in it^or arrogant but like me humble y penitent and obedient — you id not wiite in the devil s miffcella n commonly called anewfpapei or af filt french quacks in robbing the public under pretence of curing the gotr — you fhould not libel yeur neighbours through the medium of a prefs belong ing to z failing fycophant — vou hould not drink punch at he fleecs before din ner or moke your pipes at the shake fpear until morning in a word my biethren you do theie things which you fhould not do and our wives fay you omit doing what you fhould do ; — what then will become of your poor fouls oh frightful fiightful but repent i fay repent — by repentance you will have the benefit of an aft of grace and be nvhite^yajhedl like cur old friend •• nom to conclude and tnzyfianend — u • mhoie poo remain an reme.'ii jer i_w|»us our friend and neighbour was trrfjcherouflv murdered — flail you hould recollect that it is uur dtttj to rray foi the w eked — nape your lives by my example u>r not with landing the ungodly of this ciry have reviled me and have called me parf.n noodle on one day and par/on doodle on another — itiil lave n ; y prayers — farewely aiier this thovirg diicouri the corps will be enclofed in the dims of our mo ther earth and the dean will dine uh mr epps yours arr mr p-ipters tickle the philosophical cobler ttis cottage was fi tu at^fsgrw^i x x margin 1 a lak at thcmyhf^.d^m * quarter of a milefibm the fv?:\t jjtfijt > and at the didance of half / mildffroni any town or village a few fic of ground which he rented the privilege of fifl.ing for eels and other frnall fifties in the lake with the produce of his callings enabled this philofophic tobler to live wd.h eafe and with decent hofpitality j he exercifed by turns the vocations of ] an huibandman of a fidher and of a i cobler we arrived at his humble i manfion in the evening — " you are wel j come ft rangers laid he to my houfe 1 but luxury has made great fliides fince i the fong was firft compofed — 1 a eobler there or and he liv'd in a jiall ■which ferv'd hi?n for par tour j%r kitchen \ and all i step in and you fhallfee the firft ; as to i the iccond pleafe god you hall by i and by be falished of its exigence by ■an appeal to another fenfe befides that \ of feeing i on entering this parlour i was ft ruck 1 with afpecdacle which announced to me m at once that i had the good fortune to fl be received under the roof of a philofo m pher and a humourift as well as an hof m piuble maal a ikclcton of gigantic i dimenfions fixed in a corner of the room fervcd as a cafe for a clock < f which he himielf had been the artificer glafs beads vjaced in the focke's nf the eyes and moved by the moticnofthe peudu lum buck ihefarpriz*d fpectator with horror that lays he is thefkeleton of my grandfather which i made \* ifh the afndbince of a p or fludtnt from ldinbuigh i have fitted vp a clock in the n iddle ofitj which ierves a once as a memento triirl and to n eafure time this ikeleion f call he mimfier becaufc he preache in his tiek tick way and he ieiious eipreflb n ol bis eyes and counte nance mai y an excellent fermon scarcely any oca rrer.ce happens or paf fion idles but one look of ihe mmilter proxccs the happiell ftcct l v^wiad not well recovered ti.e hock which this fight had occafoned whtn a lovely young won an camefrridng into the room wi.h an infant in her arms lit tle n ore than two years f age after a few kind raiutations to m ihe held up her little girl to the fkele on whole rue ful mouth die child kllted with great cordiality and llio k both i's hands fa\b:g dod night dard dada a b<yol hui yearsold f id ci r ircliy at the lame time " good night grat\dfa ther — " theieare ow childeen laid the cobler •' the , in this manner fa lute their grandfather every morning and eveiy evening 1 hat old man whom youfeehufy in the garden is n y father he is to be placed ai'ei his deah by the fide of the mini tier and is to be a fnme for a piece of me hanifn con trived to play r lome fbl'emn church n.uhc fo that he will be in the ilaticn of clerk to the minitter lock how cheerful and brifkhe is under his yeais ; ii i the certainty i altore ycu that l<fj will not be buried in the cold dark and blent grave deprived of all cempap y and off the cheerful bgbt of the fuaejf but every day be a w'wwt fs of v hat is'grdrg on in hi family and beirn braced by l^.rujm grny,uhar iuppnh ! im j jm m od t?i un-j^^^j — . jh , .; m r.ot-u the roller r.aj p-odyjfcn^^p*r . to you a little e:.t avaga:-fflj|^<i|»n eal tir.ee fk let m to alfyrp^hr.cf h;tv r.o ft-nfe tlih'.-r i f zwqa c mbt vs ib ; bur ii it i'er.v :\ ll i ' er v c :■: cable v»v arepdtl^'-y s » indeed wr arc vei y li.de^.ro^m by reaion we fu 1 :' rr jh|s£p *'" luiions of imaginath n chn cheat ourfclvcs into alitjy^hkjivefs by the fame means m,s f;:iri|h|pgbt hat we llic-'.'l ■:.- ij|:ul o death proceeds from thjlffdl^inatb 5 vve f"m"hov wiihciit^bcctjg or'tne ahfurdiry oi he idea.r.artfcl t^diu'e that b.e^embofomed injie eaoh we thinv hfl fed proloij o'clock a again a roafl pig ws.c laid finokhie *»^ the board befides a larj-e dih cf lev eels my dear laid the coble this is not well done that pig rr.ig have teen fi id forfoui thilling ; s>n at anv rate il you had a kind f dv;vo the fool b affecting a nagr-fiij * above oi ft r'.une it wrulcl ha r bciter o have eieived i for to-r row's dinner being sunday id'he eels i would ba\e excufed as v e live ,.:» tors grace v a vc yet iaivljnc*r flood taik'ng to each other wc '*.;* rr y brother taid tii r csraker two ye ngfnen of modefl n|pc ; inge nuoes appeamnce came into im toorr and r a few words exyftfivd tj,tir a ttifaedtior a|feeipjj u , firf in ir^rca ; nelstolcm^c us 1 he boy diat lonke 4 ! after the cow and pigs.iand a f wvllieep ' that fsd on nn adjoining c mmortc '«?.$ * called nd a lit tie gitl hat her mifbds in the jhoidhold c-nm ns ithe houie d6g,agrnv<e ana cfiec?b nate fea ture wa brought in ; he lat dew by the door and by loot ana mute ge!ru:es ' signified his cr.nfpiacer.cy in ad i ur ftap rineis the cai fat purring bek vr d,«s^i tabl . two cow s it that inftam rarne lowing into ti.e y.\rd the pigs iffuei , cut f ihtir cribs but the fcr tred fi cks 1 ad long gone o red gi ver w as a rrir iiiered ic the cow «, v ho were confidered a a kind oi inuuvid t-od ; and grasrs with rf ots and fomc oi die tffals of the kitchen to the i'wine aril \ rabbits om landlord printed to h " clock as it flrnci nine aii eyes tere fixed upon ibis memento rn'ori i and his ycurgerbrother v.duiee tndcrhei n ai i mais fetmcdtowaitfoi their foodohgod b way of grace read v 1 h a devqut and afiectdi g air the 104 h pfalm the little gvclip of arin;a tlie df m blag <• . of living cteatt res that 1 mdfe die eye " gave infinite effi acy to thefc/afflfi oil er i ex reflions in that divine c e " f r « (" nd h the fpiings i . f o the oh —, . tiich run among thwhills l ! hey gj . ea ink tf>d'e c try beiio oi heh..,j ; ih^m dd aijj qu^;-ktbjix ilv^i.u-y^ij^h h ii tr an viyj : d u fy c v '' : b all iif'jp^l^^fctqfi'os t e they cv at r « i^^l cu'ed^^b tltforth l j 11 m tbefvee ci thl and tk u re jjtt hjh c r p v m earth 1 n m\c fj>'»i and diij fenieie.s ' je :;^ ,. ip>-'ict^j precy^a 1 o o'r ir >}■b,i,i > r v4lsliibea ! ! 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|North-Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville Gazette
|North-Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville Gazette
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|John Sibley and Caleb D. Howard
United States
North Carolina
Cumberland County
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|State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive
|The Monday, September 6, 1790 issue of the North Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville Gazette, a continuation without a change of the volume numbering of the Fayetteville Gazette a newspaper from Fayetteville, North Carolina; substantial damage to this copy, many parts of the paper are missing.
|The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
the ncf h-carolina chronicle ; or fayettevsje cm m o n d a y septus 6 1790 13 he fo'lcv inglanghal^rfotmance on an oimf iouscharar%t canterbury in fnrland is ccpi^om the lon don oracll funeral cation by the dean c&sjrjkg tex t he died eivftinketh r tends brethren i&briftians li s3 en o liiffinio the word otm mouth all yen row al ien bled,v beiher ireifworr er,br ys or tiru poor onich tymen or gei.tle n en taylori oi bnk btickmakers or law\trs lil-en i i*ay what 1 fhall un fold.-~'you lee rfcyethren oui gre t fr.pj i ne brutus ignore — tvenife whofe genius fhoofliis kicked city lits now a remnant totality — ama . of what little ccnfcjjpce is ma — t \\) day a prince a pm or a tau'ar—to ir.orrow death tak&:ifur


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Our chemical world
Here are some of the ways in which man-made chemicals are used in our daily lives:
Food and drinkWatch what you eat: around 1,000 different chemicals might be present in our food!
Most food tins are lined with a resin which contains a hormone-disrupting chemical called bisphenol A, which can leach from the tin into the food inside. Bisphenol A is also found in Polycarbonate (PC) plastics, from which some bottles and storage containers are made.
ClothingMany clothes are made from artificial fibres or from a mixture of natural and synthetic fibres and are often treated with chemical dyes and flame retardants.
Cleaning ProductsThe number of household cleaning products and disinfectants containing anti-bacterial agents such as Triclosan is increasing. Synthetic fragrances are also widely used in household products. They can persist in the environment for long periods and build up in our own bodies as well as wildlife.
CosmeticsBuying cosmetics is a lottery, because we're often unable to determine whether or not hazardous chemicals are present in a product. This is especially true of phthalates. They are found in cosmetics, but are rarely listed in the ingredients. Indeed, the identities of up to 100 potentially persistent or allergenic chemicals are hidden by the use of the word 'parfum' on cosmetics or toiletries.
Research indicates that regular long-term use of hair dyes may be associated with the development of allergic reactions or bladder cancer in some people.
In the living roomFurniture, televisions, other electrical appliances, carpets and rugs often contain chemicals that are stain repellent or fire retardant. Some chemicals used as flame retardants (brominated flame retardants) persist for a long time in the environment, accumulate in our bodies and can disrupt our natural hormone systems.
ToysThere is a temporary EU ban on using phthalates in toys intended to be sucked by children under three, but other toys continue to contain such chemicals.
Reduce your risks
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Gold Coast surf lifesaving club Northcliffe says a provisional suspension against head coach Barry Newman must be lifted by the sport's governing body.
Newman was one of six members of Australia's under-20 team to be suspended in the wake of allegations of sexual assault and illegal drug use during last month's world championships in Adelaide.
A Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) judicial committee and legal inquiry lifted the ban on three of those accused, including young star Jordan Mercer, at the weekend.
But Newman and two others remain suspended after their hearings were adjourned until February 9.
The lengthy adjournment has angered the Northcliffe club, which is considering lodging an application with SLSA for Newman's immediate reinstatement unless the governing body provides further evidence of wrongdoing.
"Mr Newman should be afforded the the presumption of innocence ... he did nothing wrong and the information does not come from a credible source," Northcliffe president David Shields told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
"We were prepared to wait for the hearing last weekend but to wait for two more months will be far too difficult for us to manage.
"We are frustrated and want this put to bed."
Mercer's lawyer, Christopher Branson QC, who claimed the young surf lifesaver had been treated with "grotesque unfairness" by SLSA, said he was in talks with Newman to represent him.


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Watch an audio slideshow of a Lutheran confirmation, a longstanding tradition in Iceland. Between Easter and Whitsun 14-year-olds confirm their faith in God and then invite their friends and family to a party. It is a coming-of-age ceremony and calls for a celebration.
Photos by Hulda Sveinsdóttir and Morten Feldskov Jannerup, narration by Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir. From Iceland Review Online's archives.
The annual appearance of the giant snowman on the town square in Akureyri is a sign for locals that Easter is near. At home, an invitation or two for confirmation parties is waiting in their mailbox.
Lutheran confirmations are a longstanding tradition in Iceland. Between Easter and Whitsun 14-year-olds confirm their faith in God and afterwards invite their friends and family to a party. It is a coming-of-age ceremony and calls for a celebration.
Among young Akureyri residents confirmed this Easter was Icelandic-Danish Sif Feldskov Jannerup. Preparations for her party included attending a course on how to bake akransakaka, a marzipan ring cake, an integral part of the traditional confirmation. Sif also helped her aunt make a lobster dish for the party.
While food is certainly important for any confirmation party, other preparations are of more importance. To prepare for the confirmation ceremony, Sif was required to attend several weeks of classes at her church to learn about the Christian faith and the meaning of the step she was about to take.
On the morning of Palm Sunday, March 16, Sif arose early with her mother.
After putting on her new dress and finding her Bible, Sif is taken to the hair salon. Traditionally, confirmation girls have long hair so that they can have a fancy hairdo at their party, waves and locks in a twirl, decorated with white pearls or flowers.
Then it is time to pick up the confirmation cake at the bakery. Often parents order a cream-filled sponge cake for their children, with a layer of marzipan on top where the date and the name of the confirmee is written in chocolate.
Now that everything is ready for the party, the family drives off to the Akureyri Church where the actual ceremony takes place. Many teenagers are confirmed at the same time and the church is packed with their relatives.
Confirmees are dressed for the occasion in white robes. They walk up the aisle and then one by one kneel by the altar. They have each memorized a chapter from the Bible which they feel has special relevance to their lives. The teenagers then accept their first Holy Communion and confirm their faith in God, promising to lead a life based on Christian values.
After the serious part of confirmation is over, it is time to celebrate. Some confirmees choose to have their parties at home, while others have special venues rented for the occasion. Family and friends arrive dressed in suits and dresses, congratulate the proud parents and bring presents to the confirmation child.
Then the guests feast upon all the delicacies that have been prepared and ordered for the occasion, like the marzipan ring-cake Sif made herself and the specially-ordered confirmation cake from the bakery. Since it is her day, Sif cuts the first slice for herself.
Congratulations on your confirmation, Sif, and welcome to adulthood.


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Modern hawaiian for an adult male that has the behavioral traits and common sense equal to or less than the children he fathered. Kukupapas are obsessively pre-occupied with female breasts and butt sex. Offspring of a kukupapa and kakamama mating are known as pupukakas. A Kukupapa is commonly found spending all the family's limited money on expensive electronics to give to the pupukakas, which will lose or break such within 30 days or less. Kukupapas routinely "improve" expensive household items by dismantling them inventing new things with them - often resulting in fire.
Poor Tracy, she didnt know he was a kukupapa until he took the new microwave apart to make a remote control anal bead warmer out of it.
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The AUVA
AUVA (Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt - the Austrian Workers' Compensation Board) is the social insurance for occupational risks for more than 3.3 million employees and 1.4 million pupils and students. It is financed mainly by contributions paid by employers. Its legal duties are: prevention of occupational accidents and diseases, occupational medical care, first aid for occupational accidents, post traumatic treatment, rehabilitation, financial compensation and research.
We care for about 170 000 victims of occupational accidents and diseases annually. About 350 000 persons involved in accidents of all kinds are treated in our trauma centres and rehabilitation centres every year. We pay about 73 000 compensations per year to victims of occupational accidents and diseases or their families.
Insured Persons
1.30 million school children and students
0.42 million self-employed persons
1.57 million white collar workers
1.21 million blue collar workers
Legal Duties
- Prevention of occupational accidents and diseases
- Occupational medical care
- First aid for occupational accidents
- Post traumatic treatment
- Rehabilitation
- Compensation
- Research
- Main office ("Hauptstelle" ) in Vienna
- Regional offices ("Landesstellen") in Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna
- Local offices ("Außenstellen") in Dornbirn, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Oberwart and St. Pölten
- Trauma centres in Graz, Kalwang, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna
- Rehabilitations centres in Bad Häring, Tobelbad, Klosterneuburg and Vienna


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Just two days after AT&T announced 4G LTE expansion plans, Verizon announced a plan to double the amount of 4G LTE in the United States by the end of the year. Verizon already operates in approximately 200 markets around the country while rival AT&T is looking to reach 40 markets by the early summer and 150 Americans by the end of 2012. Targeting at least 400 markets by the end of 2012, Verizon believes that the 4G LTE network will be able to offer service to over 260 million Americans across the country. Furthermore, Verizon Wireless CTO David Small repeated the company's strategy of only releasing 4G LTE compatible smartphones for the rest of 2012 according to an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
On Thursday, March 15, Verizon will roll out 4G LTE service within:
- Dothan, Alabama
- Enterprise, Alabama
- Naples, Florida
- Greenville, North Carolina
- Altus, Oklahoma
- Durant, Oklahoma
- Longview, Texas
- Marshall, Texas
Also on Thursday, the wireless provider plans on expanding existing 4G LTE coverage to more effectively cover more sections of
- Elkhart, Indiana
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Columbus, Mississippi
- Northern New Jersey
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- Duncan, Oklahoma
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
- Hilton Head, South Carolina
- Cleveland, Tennesse
- Dallas, Texas
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Washington, D.C.
While more than a third of smartphones sold during the fourth quarter of 2011 were 4G according to a report from NPD, Verizon has only drawn five percent of customers to the faster LTE network. However, the amount of people shifting to the new network will increase rapidly as more 4G smartphones are released and the 4G network expands to new markets. In addition, the upcoming launch of the new iPhone, currently rumored for release this summer when iPhone 4 early-adopter contracts expire, will definitely provide a boost for Verizon. In a related story, a new report from independent mobile carrier analyst firm Rootmetrics showed that Verizon's LTE service dominated AT&T's network within Los Angeles in regards to data network speed.
Editors' Recommendations
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Researchers at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) take advantage of all major methods in cognitive neuroscience to investigate the neural mechanisms of cognition: (1) behavioral measures, (2) electrophysiology, (3) neuroimaging, (4) brain stimulation, (5) study of brain dysfunction, and (6) mathematical and statistical modeling.
1. Behavioral Measures
The ultimate goal of cognitive neuroscience is to explain the neural mechanism of cognitive and affective behavior, and hence, behavior is the most critical dependent variable. Thus, all CCN core faculty investigate behavior using a variety of methods, including choice, accuracy, and reaction time measures derived from manual responses, eye movement, virtual and real navigation, and overt verbal responses.
2. Electrophysiology
Electrophysiology provides a relatively direct measure of the activity of neurons and groups of neurons, and can be measured more directly using intracranial electrodes in non-human animals or epileptic patients awaiting surgery, or less directly using electrodes placed on the scalp. Both methods are used by CCN researchers. The Groh and Sommer labs use intracranial electrodes in monkeys to make single-cell recordings in monkeys, while several labs (Woldorff and Overath) use scalp recordings in humans to obtain electro-encephalographic (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) measures.
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Neuroimaging measures provide one of the most powerful tools for investigating the neural mechanisms of cognition. Neuroimaging provides better spatial resolution than EEG and ERPs, but the latter have better temporal resolution, so some labs at CCN (Woldorff) are combining these two neuroimaging methods. Most CCN labs investigate MRI-based measures of brain structure (structural MRI), white-matter integrity (diffusion tensor imaging—DTI), and brain activity (functional MRI—fMRI). They take advantage of the world-class MRI facilities at the nearby Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, which has multiple top-of-the line GE scanners dedicated to brain research. All CCN labs use the most sophisticated analytic techniques available, including quantitative DTI tractography, multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA), spatio-temporal partial least square (PLS) analysis, representational similarity analysis (RSA), and graph theory analyses.
4. Brain Stimulation
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Nucor Corp.'s decision to buy its scrap broker, David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ), came as no surprise. As I noted in a story following the steelmaker's announcement of the $1.44-billion deal in mid-February, it had been one of the longest marital engagements in the steel and scrap industries. DJJ has been Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor's scrap buyer since the steelmaker was formed in 1969.
Unlike rival Steel Dynamics Inc., which bought major Midwest scrap processor and trader OmniSource Corp. last October, Nucor will not be oversupplied with scrap. DJJ has 12 shredders and 35 yards that can process more than 3.5 million tons of ferrous scrap, but that's only a fraction of the material that Nucor melts each year. The icon of the mini-mill industry is anything but mini, consuming 22.8 million tons of iron and steel scrap last year. DJJ won't be able to feed Nucor's furnaces from its own yards, but its brokers managed to come up with about 20 million tons of scrap from other suppliers during 2007.
Others companies, like Commercials Metals Co., Irving, Texas, have a long history in both scrap processing and steelmaking. But the speed with which steel companies are buying up scrapyards today suggests that the scrap industry is a lot more valuable than its name would indicate.
The old timers in the scrap industry used to call it the "junk business," but that was a name that they used only among themselves. It was regarded a pejorative term when it was uttered by others not in the business, much as some of today's scrap recyclers cringe when labelled "scrappies." It's just a word, but it's not one they put much value on.
Many are still family or individually owned and operated, but except for a few big privately held companies like Alter Trading Corp. and Yaffe Cos. in the Midwest, and Carolinas Recycling Group LLC in the South, most are midsized to smaller yards. That was—and for the most part still is—the scrap business.
The scrap business has changed in the past 20 years and continues to change rapidly from the mom-and-pop businesses established at the start of the last century. Today, they are corporate entities. Some stretch from the Atlantic shore to the Pacific Coast—from sea to shining sea and, soon, beyond.
Some have become so large and diverse that their immigrant founders probably would not recognize the businesses they started years ago. The reasons for this success are manifold—some because of the skill and ingenuity of their founders and owners, some because they happen to be in a city or town where scrap steel from industry was more abundant. They were in the right places at the right times.
The first signs of the latest change came not in the mid 1990s but a few years earlier. Second- and third-generation family members who had run the yards founded by their fathers and grandfathers had grown old themselves, and many had no one in the family interested in taking over the business. They needed an exit strategy, and often the only deal to be made was with their competitors across town. Laughter would echo off the oak-paneled walls of their plush offices if you asked a steel or auto executive of the past if they would consider buying a scrapyard.
Their successors are not laughing, for the times have changed.
Ladd R. Hall, executive vice president of Nucor's Sheet Mill Group, exemplified that change in his speech to the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association conference in mid-February, less than a week after his company said it would plunk down the money for its scrap broker. "I think mills are trying to secure their raw material source so they can continue to try to stabilize a very, very volatile market," he told the audience. "The buzz phrase today is raw materials strategy, or what measures must be taken to make sure we have the raw materials we need to continue to grow."
Nucor's purchase of DJJ will not lead to lower scrap export volumes, Hall said, nor will it necessarily end all of the volatility in the market. But there was one prediction in his remarks. "You will continue to see Nucor and others consolidate their raw material sources, and it may not just be in scrap. It may be in scrap alternatives as well," he said.
No, scrapyards have not become the gold mines that some yard owners would tell you they are (if you should want to buy them). They have, however, become an integral part of the steel production system. Thank the inventors of the electric furnace and the entrepreneurial spirit of men like Kenneth Iverson and Marvin Selig, who carved a niche for the mini-mills in the steelmaking business, a niche that has since widened into an entire steel industry plateau.
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The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) craze is sweeping across the enterprise. From large companies to small firms, employees are learning it's not just ok, it's expected that they bring in their personal devices and use them in the office. Upon doing so, the IT side needs to ensure that those products sport the latest and greatest security features and have all of the corporate bells and whistles workers need to do their jobs. It's an additional chore for IT, but it's one that an increasing number of companies are adopting. Wondering why? So was CSC, a company that delivers technology-enabled business solutions to companies. The organization surveyed IT executives worldwide to find out why BYOD is being adopted so quickly, and how that adoption is impacting the corporate world. The survey results are both illustrative and instructive. And they're worth checking out for any CIO that has either embraced BYOD or is looking to do so. Believe it or not, BYOD is the future. And the latest survey from CSC makes that abundantly clear.


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The Jain canonical literature was originally composed in Ardha-Magadhi, but later Sanskrit became its principal medium. There is a lot of variation as to what constitute the original Jain literature. For several centuries even the monks themselves did not have a common agreement on this subject.
The whole literature came into its present format much after the passing away of Mahavira. The works therefore do not guarantee the purity of his teachings.
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In the FCS Huddle: Scholarships all the difference in Patriot
Philadelphia. PA – It was always one thing for Patriot League football programs to lose a high school recruit to a scholarship school.
Coaches at the Patriot schools could rationalize they didn't stand a realistic chance because they couldn't offer football scholarships.
But it was another thing to recruit an interested student-athlete and then come to learn several months later there was never a chance of getting him in the first place.
Like his brethren around the league, Lehigh coach Andy Coen had seen it happen before. An impressive young player would shine at the school's summer football camp, and the Mountain Hawks would try later to recruit him. Several months would pass in the process and then the coaches would learn of the player's family's financial situation, and that it couldn't afford to send their son to the school without a scholarship.
The league's first football scholarship class this year is changing the recruiting dynamic for most of the Patriot schools. Their coaches are anxious to collect signed letters of intent and unveil their recruiting classes on Wednesday, the beginning of the nearly two-month signing period.
"The whole process has been different to us, it's been a much more streamlined process, I would probably say," Coen said. "I think in the past, all the Patriot League schools would go out in the springtime and start their evaluations. Quite often the players that we all valued as players were going to be off the board quickly due to scholarship schools. This year, the process was a lot different for us in a positive way. We did spend more time in the springtime evaluating players, just knowing that we were going to have the opportunity to recruit more of these guys than we had in previous years."
"A lot of players, maybe you would try to go after under the old system but really not have much of a chance to get them because when it came down to applying for financial aid, they may or not have gotten enough to go," Colgate coach Dick Biddle said.
The decision by Patriot schools last February to add 15 football scholarships each year basically ended an unsettled period for the league. Football was the only league sport not allowed to offer them, and Fordham was forcing the issue.
The Bronx, N.Y., school was already two years into offering scholarships, having surrendered eligibility for the league title, and it was planning to leave the league if other schools didn't follow suit with scholarships.
In past recruiting years, the league's coaches often recruited by casting their net as far as possible because they knew so many prospective players would be lost to scholarship programs. In the last year, they could target fewer recruits and concentrate more on them. This time, a coach could back up his offer of a high-end education at the school with an actual scholarship.
"You get your foot in the door," Biddle said, "whereas before the door was very hard to get open. You may get one in 10 or one in 15 (who had a scholarship opportunity elsewhere) to do it."
"We're looking for Division I football players, but also kids with (high) grades," Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore said. "I don't think that initial pool has changed. The big difference, I think, is the best athletes in the pool - the kids at the very high end of that pool - wound up pulling out of the process for us very early because they had scholarships to other schools. The financial consideration in and of itself took them out of the equation or they pulled themselves out of the equation for us because of the financial part of it. I think this year, we started with the same pool and we had a lot of those upper-end kids who started with it for a long time in the process and we yielded, I would say, more of those kids than ever before."
Patriot coaches have found the scholarships aid them particularly with recruits from middle-class families. Tuition at the league's seven football- playing schools - Bucknell, Colgate, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Lafayette and Lehigh - can cost upwards of $50,000-$55,000 annually, and the football programs have had an easier time attracting student-athletes from a lower-income background because they qualified for significant financial aid or a higher-income background because their families could afford the price tag. It was harder to recruit student-athletes who fell in between and didn't qualify for enough need-based aid.
Now the Patriot schools don't have to just hope scholarship-worthy players will commit to them without receiving an actual scholarship, the schools can make a competitive offer to recruits who also have offers from other conferences, such as the Colonial Athletic Association, even Bowl Subdivision programs. The lure of a scholarship also can help the Patriot League win recruiting battles against the Ivy League.
Georgetown was against the decision to add football scholarships and punted on the chance to offer them this year. That puts the Hoyas behind the six other programs and surely will counteract coach Kevin Kelly's recent work to improve the once-struggling program.
The effects may not be felt this season when the Hoyas can return a senior class of 29 players, but it will over time. Kelly is bringing in a class of 22-23 recruits, and he said there are still discussions on campus about going to scholarships in the future.
"We're Georgetown. We're the best school in the league (academically)," he said. "We've got to dig a little bit deeper possibly than some of the other schools. The one thing that we have an advantage is we are a national brand.
"We've got the best location. On the horizon, we're going to have new facilities. I think all those things combined still make us a very, very attractive opportunity for young men. We find guys that are high-need kids and guys that are no-need. The ones that we probably lose out on are the middle- class-type of family that might have to pay half of it, which is still $30,000, which is a lot of money. You're going to lose some to scholarship programs that might be able to give them a full scholarship."
The league's other head coaches, including Bucknell's Joe Susan and Lafayette's Frank Tavani, have the 15 scholarships at their disposal. Most offers are for full scholarships, but the coaches can offer partial scholarships to increase the recruiting class size and create depth for their rosters, which have a maximum of 95 players this season. Need-based financial aid can still be offered to non-scholarship members of the recruiting classes.
The addition of the scholarships and the fact the league doesn't allow for redshirt seasons - including freshmen - makes it more important to be correct in the evaluation process of players, and not waste a scholarship.
"Whether you're giving aid or not, you don't want to make a mistake on a kid," Biddle said. "If you're bringing in 30 people, you can make four or five mistakes. But when you're only bringing in only 15 or 20, you can't make a mistake. There's a lot that goes into it and I'm sure there's going to be some hits or misses. But your margin of error is extremely low."
Lehigh won an FCS playoff game in both the 2010 and '11 seasons, but there has been no others since Colgate made a run to the 2003 national championship game. The league has a 2-11 playoff record in that span.
Add in that the NCAA selection committee left Lehigh out of last year's playoffs despite a 10-1 record, and the timing for scholarships couldn't be better for the Patriot League.
"I think it improves the profile of the league," Fordham coach Joe Moorhead said. "If you look at the playoff picture and the teams that get in, a lot of the leagues that get multiple at-large teams in are full-scholarship teams. So, hopefully, the decision to go full scholarship in the Patriot League allows us to recruit a better caliber of student-athlete, and it raises the profile of our football throughout the country."


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Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal needed just 38 minutes to defeat Germans Alexander Walkenhorst and Stefan Windscheif in the semifinals of the Asics World Series of Beach Volleyball in Long Beach.
Dalhausser and Rosenthal advanced to Sunday's finals, as did top Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross for the women.
Dalhausser and Rosenthal, the top men's team in the world and the defending Long Beach Grand Slam champions, won in two sets: 21-13, 21-12. Dalhausser served four straight aces in the second set to give the Americans a 20-9 lead and set up match point.
"This was definitely our best match of the weekend," Rosenthal said. "… We were playing steady and not giving anything away."
The Germans were playing in their first FIVB semifinal.
"They didn't play their best match," Dalhausser said. "I think they might have been a little nervous … so we were fortunate for that."
Dalhausser and Rosenthal will play for gold Sunday against Poland's Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel, who defeated Americans Todd Rogers and Theo Brunner in a semifinal.
Rogers and Brunner play Walkenhorst and Windscheif for bronze.
On the women's side, Walsh Jennings and Ross advanced to the gold-medal match with a 21-14, 21-16 win over Natalia Dubovcova and Dominika Nestarcova of Slovakia.
The Americans will play Brazil's Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas De Freitas.
Walsh Jennings and Ross attacked aggressively and set the match's tone from the start.
"It felt like we were in the driver's seat," Walsh Jennings said.
In the first set, they built an 18-10 lead, and Ross sealed the win with a deep smash into the corner.
Dubovcova and Nestarcova kept the second set closer at the start. A light but well-placed tap from Dubovcova brought the Slovakian duo to within three at 12-9 in favor of Walsh Jennings and Ross, but the Americans pulled away to a 19-14 lead. Walsh Jennings won match point with a cross.
Walsh Jennings and Ross worked fluidly together, sharing blocking responsibilities.
"Kerri played amazing defense," Ross said. "That's one of the few matches we've played in playoffs where we split-blocked the whole time. She had a great read on them."
Earlier in the day, Walsh Jennings and Ross won their quarterfinal, 21-16, 21-16, over Madelein Meppelink and Marleen Van Iersel of the Netherlands.
The other American women's team in the quarterfinals, Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat, lost to Spain's Liliana Fernandez Steiner and Elsa Baquerizo McMillan. The Spanish team plays Dubovcova and Nestarcova on Sunday in the bronze-medal match.


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I was promised 1200 free minutes w/ purchase of phone. Was instructed to call Wireless, enter my QVC order # and zip code. I did this and was told my # is not on file. Of course you never get to speak with a human being. Every choice you are given connects you with another automated message. It's impossible to speak with a human being there. They give you the choice of being sent to a customer service representative but before they do, they require you to enter your QVC order # which of course is not on file. I've never been more frustrated in my life and will be returning the phone. I hope to never have to deal with this company again, ever.
HSN, Tracfone, and QVC all deal with the wireless center (ie Simply Wireless). These companies offer simple wireless promotional deals but they only make the major offers LOOK better. If you ask QVC, Tracfone, or HSN about SIMPLY WIRELESS or the WIRELESS CENTER, they are "simply ignorant" about who they hired to give credence/legitimacy to their sale. Ain't it a shame?
VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI -- My tale of woe started with a coupon offer from whom I thought was Cingular. It came in a Cingular envelope, had cingular looking coupons, and so forth, call to upgrade your phone for free. I have a Cingular account. My wife had a ATT/Cingular account, and an old analog phone. I decided to upgrade her phone using the offer, and roll her into my family plan, and get down to one bill. I even upgraded my plan so as to have more minutes. SO I called the number, and over the next 30-45 minutes, told the sales lady that is what I intended to do - migrate the phone.
She put me on hold and asked someone if the coupon I was holding would allow me to do a migration. She came back on and told me, "yes", that I would need to take the phone to my Cingular store to get "ported" so I could keep my number. She was very specific about how to do it. So I agreed, and still thinking I was talking to Cingular, took the offer. We got the phone in the mail shortly thereafter, and I took it to the Cingular store around August 5 to get it activated. No problem.
Then on Aug 11, I got a bill from Cingular for a new account and phone number. I called and they saw where I had ported a new phone and credited me for the new account and closed it. I thought it was a paperwork error, that one cingular person had not done everything right.
On October 6, I got a letter from Simply Wireless stating that I was in breach of the contract I had made with them to keep open my account for 180 days. I didn't even know I had a contract with Simply Wireless. I thought my account was with Cingular. They said they clearly contracted with me to open a new account, and by migrating my phone I had breached the contract, and that since I had not sent the phone back to them before 30 days were up, I now owed them $400. Whoa Nellie, I said, I clearly indicated to the sales rep that I was going to migrate and she told me it was OK and even told me how to go about doing it.
First the "collections specialist" told me I was unlikely to get "exonerated" but that he would see if Cingular would reverse their commission deduction and he'd know in 3-4 weeks. I called his supervisor who finally told me she thought I was not telling the truth, that no one there would do tell me such a thing (about migrating).
She said I owed them $400. Asked me who it was I talked to (Who could answer that?). Did I have a recording of the conversation? I said they know who it was, because she got a commission on my sale. Let's talk to her and see what she says. Supervisor said she has no way of knowing who it was. I said why then did the sales rep give me explicit instruction on how to migrate the phone? It turned in to a circular argument that she obviously was prepared for and I was screwed.
I think, and told them both, that the sales rep said what she needed to say to make a sale. I may very well be on the hook for a $400 phone that I could have gotten for $50 at the Cingular store. So far, Cingular has been helpful in trying to work this out, while Simply Wireless has been brusque and not willing to hear that, maybe, there might have been a little sales deception involved. Never again, say I, and I encourage everyone to use their carrier's direct offices only. If you get involved with a second party, disputes are just that much harder to settle.
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA -- In September of 2005, I entered into an agreement with Simply Wireless.com, to buy four cell phones. The offer stated a $50 (per phone) rebate after 3 months, again after 6 months, and again after 9 months for EACH wireless phone. I verified the details of this offer with the company and retained a hardcopy of the secure checkout page showing it. This series of rebates was offered in conjunction with a qualifying Cingular rate plan of $39.99 or higher, such as the $89.00 plan I agreed to.
At the 3-month interval, I filed all the necessary forms and documentation to attain the rebates. Each filing was submitted properly and timely, including the carefully completed rebate form, personal information, phone number, IMEI/ESN number, phone model, photocopy of the barcode sticker, the original invoice, and a copy of my 3rd month wireless service bill. I very meticulously assembled all this information for each phone and submitted it according to the given timeframe while retaining photocopies of all materials.
I have been denied two of the four 3-month rebates. I attempted to contact the company on numerous occasions to resolve this issue. Initially, several rebates were supposedly "denied" for a variety of untrue reasons such as "Rate plan less than 39.99", "Did not submit wireless bill with rebate", or "Phone number not valid".
On 4/25, I was told by the company that the rebates were denied, nothing could be done, decision final. A supervisor, Kendra, stated that rebates were denied, but not for the written reasons previously provided but for a new reason: She said only two phones qualified due to little known terms of the offer. I told her that I had verified and kept records of the offer but she informed me that her decision was final and the answer was "no".
I contacted her supervisor, Mr. ** on 4/26. He told me nothing could be done about the rebates because they are handled in New York. Mr. ** said there was "some fine print" in the offer limiting the rebate to two phones only. I explained that I had written documentation from the company showing that the rebate applies to all 4 phones, in the form of my original Simply Wireless customer receipt and the Simply Wireless Secure Checkout page that I printed when I entered the order.
The receipt states that Applicable Rebates are $50 PER PHONE, PER EACH 3, 6, & 9 month interval. Furthermore, the Secure Checkout page details the $50 Simply Wireless Rebate, QUANTITY OF FOUR (4), rebates of $50 each, totaling $200 for EACH of the 3, 6, and 9 month intervals.
Now that I have faxed them proof, they are not returning my phone calls. I believe that the company's refusal to pay rebates is a purposeful and orchestrated strategy. I am being treated as another irritating customer, begging for a rebate. Most of the employees I have spoken to are part of the strategy, which is to: deny the rebate, get you disconnected so you can go back in the hold queue. 15 - 20 minutes is the minimum hold time if you think about calling back. No employee from Simply Wireless has ever returns any of my calls.
The reasons they give for denying my rebates have changed many times. At some point most customers would probably just give up and allow themselves to be cheated. Many people don't have long hours to spend on hold, attempting resolution. I believe it's wrong in principle to cheat customers by winning business on the promise of lucrative rebates, then refuse to pay the rebates. A simple "Google search" indicates numerous customers are undergoing similar refusals with regard to Simply Wireless rebates.
I have been rebate scammed by www.simplywireless.com. The Simply Wireless salesperson told me that all 4 of the phones I was purchasing qualified for rebates and they would ultimately cost $50/each (after rebate). I double & triple checked that the plan I signed up for (a family plan with a 2 year contract with Cingular) qualified for rebates on all 4 of the phones and I was assured that it did and my end cost was $200.00.
When the phones arrived via DSL delivery, they failed to include the Cingular "welcome package", the accessories and the wrong rebates were included (Nextel rebates rather than Cingular). I called customer service and was assured that I could use the Nextel rebate for Cingular - I refused, once again went over my qualifications for the rebate and required that they send the correct rebates, and the welcome kit.
The new set of rebates came. They were for Cingular but now they had the wrong date of sale. Once again I called and was told that they would be fine and accepted because that date is generated by the computer and they couldn't change it and I have my dated receipt. When I asked about the welcome kit, I was told to call Cingular directly to get that.
I called Cingular and the young man basically said I should deal with a local Cingular store front, not simply wireless - they do not stand behind any online store front sales. He said he would do me a favor and send the welcome kit, never did receive the welcome kit. The accessories never came and I had all kinds of problems canceling the order. Then my Cingular Bill comes and it is ridiculously expensive - YIKES - I know for sure now that I have been scammed.
Just to add insult to injury, I believe the phones were refurbished or used. They didn't look "new" and one stopped working for a day (it was stuck in camera mode) then for some reason started working again. Another of the phones was already replaced by Motorola as the screen stopped appearing. In the 15+ years I have had cell phones, I never had a problem with them or the company - reception problems yes but this is fraud.
In November of 2005, it is time to collect on the first set of 3 month rebates. I mail all the typical "Rebate" stuff and having a "bad feeling" about all this, I send it via registered mail, return receipt so that I can't be told that they didn't receive it on time. I get the return receipt, I wait, and wait and it is now February 2006... and I still don't have the rebate. It says that the rebate would take up to 10 weeks. It is 12 weeks now.
Simply Wireless sales people verbally confirmed with me many times that the family plan & all 4 phones qualified for the rebates. I confirmed that my end cost would be $200.00. I called the rebate department as I did have "further questions". After much complaining on my part she offered to rebate another phone. So now, supposedly 2 of the 4 phones (for this round anyway) will get a rebate. Of course I haven't seen one cent yet.
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- I decided to buy a cell phone for my son and to migrate my phone from ATT to Cingular and get a new phone for myself. I stopped at one of the Simply Wireless booths at Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA. He had a deal for me! I could get the hottest MP3 phone for my son for $150 and a V3 Razr for myself for 69.99 and get a rebate of $50. I also got a free bluetooth headset. I could get a 700 min. shared plan for $59.99 no extra charge for the second line. So I bought the phones and some accessories. I paid them $271.
The next day while looking at my razr phone I found that the address book was loaded with phone numbers. They sold me a used/returned phone. I had specifically asked if they were new. They exchanged the phone and apologized. That evening... when looking at the usage, I saw that they had only given me a 550 min. plan. Well I was mad. I had more min. on my old plan. I further looked into it and they had signed me up for $23 of additional monthly charges that I had not asked for nor been offered.
I called cingular and they took off those charges but said I had to go back to the store to get the rate plan changed. I called the store and the manager who answered stated they don't have that rate plan, I could bring everything back. I said "can you give me my old AT&T account back?" He said "yes but it would take about an hour" - that I should call. I said "I would wait". I decided that they were shady and I had better call.
I called cingular and told them everything. They gave me the migrations dept and they changed everything back right away with no trouble. I took the phones back to Simply Wireless and when I told them I had already changed my phone back, he said, "that's impossible. Once you change you can't go back". I said "then why did you tell me that on the phone?" He said "I didn't tell you that. I don't know who you talked to". I said "well my phone is working". He tried to tell me that I was stuck with the two phones. I said "OH no I am not and if you would like me to tell every customer standing here what you did to me, then give me some more trouble".
He went and called cingular asking them why they reverse migrated my phone and he was furious. He was counting on telling me I couldn't go back and then I would keep the phones. They told him something cause he came back and refunded all of my money. It just so happened a Cingular rep was there and she got all the lowdown on what they had done. Later that day, I found that the phone I paid 150 for, Radio Shack had for 49 with a 25 instant rebate. Live and learn right. Go to the Cingular Stores!
Because that my active acct. with AT&T Wireless was due to expire and that I was going on an extensive vacation during the time my contract would be expiring, I did a search on the Internet for wireless phone companies and started making some inquiries. I called Simply Wireless on March 13, 2004, to inquire about the plan options and phones they had to offer. I had intended on using Simply Wireless until the salesman I was speaking to told me it would take 10-14 days for me to receive the phone. I told him that it would not work out because I was going on an extensive vacation, a cruise and a trip to Las Vegas, and wanted the phone several days prior to leaving to make sure the reception would be good beings I live in a very small town and many of my friends had complained they had bad reception with their phones. Also, it was important to me to get a new phone right away so I could have the opportunity to try the new phone out while my service with AT&T was still active in case I had any problems.
The salesman offered to have the phone shipped to me over night express at my expense with an approx. cost of a $17.00 (my previous servers had shipped the phone to me overnight express at their expense and I assumed this was pretty much the practice of all servers). I told him that I did not want to pay that expense, I would just continue using my current AT&T service (enclosed copy of my AT&T service contract for your reference). I did tell him that I would check in with them another time and see if they still had any good deals going. He was not real happy about the situation and tried to talk me into paying the overnight express charge (he implied that I was just cheap) I was firm and said no. I did not want to pay the additional shipping charge since my AT&T service was still active and working fine. I was not going to allow him to talk me into paying for a phone that would arrive while I was on an extended vacation.
When I returned from our extended vacation, mid April 2004, I noticed the package left at my front porch. I opened the shipping box (please note that I opened the shipping box, but I never and have still never opened the phone box) and was shocked to see it was a phone. I'm shocked that Simply Wireless would ship an activated phone and have it left on the porch, where it could have been stolen. I read the invoice and realized that the Simply Wireless salesman had activated an account for me without my permission. In fact, I told him NO I did not want to do business with them at this time. Now having just returned from an extensive vacation and trying to get myself ready for a major surgery that I was scheduled for on April 28, 2004, I had to take my time to call Simply Wireless and get their scam straightened out. I called the customer service number, which I found on the invoice in the shipping box, on April 12, 2004 not April 1 as Ms. XXXX stated. I spoke with a young lady and told her I was unhappy about them starting an account for me without my permission, and then I explained the whole story to her. She apologized and said she would stop the service immediately. I also told her that I needed to get the phone back to them and did not feel I should have to pay the shipping. She said she would send a mailer. At this point, I figured it was all cleared up. The account, which I did not give permission to set up, would be nullified immediately and I would send the phone back to them once I received the mailer.
Ms. XXXX stated in her letter that I said I forgot to mail the phone back. This is not a true statement. I tried to explain to her that I set the phone aside while waiting to receive the mailer, which I never did receive. Beings I was having surgery on April 28, 2004, with a six-week recovery, the phone was the last thing on my mind.
When I received a bill from T Mobile for $274.11, I immediately called T Mobile and told them the whole story about how an account was activated in my name by Simply Wireless which I DID NOT give permission to do. The customer service lady apologized and cancelled the bill. I mentioned to T Mobile about the phone (which I had not opened, used, or even looked at) and that I had not received the mailer that Simply Wireless said they would send me. She said T Mobile was not the one that would be mailing the mailer. She told me to wait a bit longer because she was sure I'd be receiving the mailer soon. Mind you this all was taking place while I was at home from the hospital recovering from major surgery.
Every time I would get a letter or a call from Simply Wireless I would call T Mobil and give them the information so they could note my account. I am in the process of trying to obtain a copy of the notes on my T Mobil account.
After all this had transpired I still had not received the mailer to return the phone to Simply Wireless. I tried on several occasions to find out from Ms. XXXX how they could activate an account without my permission and that I would like to send the phone back to them but I hadn't received the mailer. Ms. XXXX states she informed me that they would not be able to accept the phone at the late date as the manufacture would not give them credit, THIS IS NOT TRUE. At the suggestion of T Mobile I mailed the phone back to Ms. XXXX, at my expense, to end this problem. If Ms. XXXX had told me she would not accept the phone I sure would not have wasted my money mailing the phone back to her at my expense.
Ms. XXXX has mailed the phone back to me and has turned my unauthorized account over to a collection agency. I am really blown away by the fact that I have been scammed and am having to spend so much of my time clearing up this problem. I'm now out the shipping cost, my time, and am being harassed by a collection agency. I would not do something so foolish. Ms. XXXX said I stated I would die before I pay this bill, she is accurate, I refuse to allow Simply Wireless to take advantage of me this way, and I do not appreciate their scamming tactics.
I have copies of my surgery bill my cruise itinerary and hotel bill plus my AT&T phone bill which was active until late April. My cruise started March 21, 2004 to April 5th, 2005, we we in Vegas April 5th, 2004 to April 9, 2004. The phone was left activated on my porch March 24th, 2004.
I'm not sure if I could use the Customer Service Managers name so I used XXXX's
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- My girlfriend and I wanted to find a phone that worked in our apartment as well as was an organizational tool. Upon doing research, we settled with the T-Mobile Dash. Simply Wireless had a kiosk located in Landmark mall. Upon speaking with the sales person on December 9, 2006, we were told that we could test the phones for 14 days to see if we appreciated the service.
I asked the salesperson if we could port over the old number from Verizon if we liked the service. The salesperson (AJ) stated that we could contact T-mobile and port the number later. On December 18 I ported the numbers over from Verizon. Well within the 14 day time period.
In March, I received a charge for 800 dollars from Simply Wireless. I called Dominick on April 13 and asked what the charges were for. He stated that I had changed the phone numbers on December 18 and per the contract I was not to change my phone number for 121 days. I stated how AJ, the salesperson, stated that I would be able to change my phone number and he said that I simply had to cough up the money and take it up with the store.
I spoke with the store manager (Rodrigo) who states that Simply Wireless was charging me the 400 dollars per phone line because they lose their commission with T-mobile if the phone numbers are changed. Therefore, I would have to request T-mobile to reimburse Simply Wireless. The sales commission and Simply Wireless would reimburse me the credit. T-mobile indicates that they are aware of no such agreement.
In addition, I mailed the rebates on December 18th to receive back 100 dollars per phone and have not received any monies back. I will never purchase from Simply Wireless again, and upon speaking with the cities of Alexandria, Arlington and the counties of Fairfax Virginia, there are apparently multiple complaints against them.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- Simplywireless.com has been a bitter/sour experience. It all started when I was shopping around for a good deal for cell phone service. I happened on Simplywireless advertisement on the net search. I clicked on the link, and there began my tale of disappointment. At first they are really great. They provide you with info. to entice you into purchasing their cell phones, with rebates etc. I happened to be interested.
I signed up for cingular service with their special offer of a free phone, and w/ a family plan ordered additional phone which I was told I would receive rebates for. So I did as I was pretty impressed with the deal. Lesson learned. So far it's been 7 mo. into, and I still have to receive my rebates for the phones. As others have mentioned, they have a very impressive scheme, of runarounds and emails back and forth, keeping you pretty busy for rebates that the company promised you in the first place when you placed the order.
In my last email, they even said, I should go ahead and put up a complaint with Better Business Bureau, taking a stance that I was pretty much nothing, and that my business wasn't that important. No customer satisfaction there, I even told them, I'm not going to recommend their services to anyone, that didn't even bother them. I wished I had done a thorough investigation into Simplywireless before laying out the money to get phones from them. If I only had I would have seen these complaints and not done business with them.
Thank you for such a site that provides information for the consumer. Hopefully this review of the company helps. Do not buy any services with this company, because there's no real customer is important ideal with them. Now they have my money, and will not pay me back my rebates. Simple ploy to hold the money. I don't think this practice will last long. So I sacrificed my hard earned money, to them. Hopefully this message will help others and tell others not to do business with them.


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Kanye West Channels Abominable Snowman at Atlantic City Concert
Kanye West got his face masks on during his Dec. 28 concert in Atlantic City, NJ. Yeezy tried out a new stage production that took concertgoers on a journey through nature at the first of three year-end gigs at the Revel resort and casino. Sky, water, earth were all interpreted to the stage with his music, but snow was the element that really stood out after West came out donning a feather mask and all white everything ensemble that channeled the Abominable Snowman. The creative rapper also sported a couture bejeweled mask by Maison Martin Margiela. The whole thing looked pretty dope.
All photos via Kim Kardashian and Team Kanye Daily.


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African Agency in International Politics
Jonathan Fisher
International Relations theory has tended to overlook the role of Africa and Africans in the international system. Traditionally, the discipline's most influential theorists have focused instead on relationships between and perspectives of "major powers." A growing body of work, however, has challenged these more limited efforts to conceptualize African agency in international politics. This scholarship has emphasized the significant space available to, and carved-out by, African states in molding the agendas of international institutions, and the role of African governments and advocacy networks in influencing the trajectory of major international debates around issues such as aid, development, trade, climate change, and migration. The study of African agency in international politics continues to wrestle with two key debates: the meanings of "agency" and "African." Much of the literature focuses primarily on the role and influence of African states rather than that of African citizens and communities. This focus provides, at best, only a partial and qualified view of the ways in which African agency is secured and exercised at the global level, particularly given the significant structural constraints imposed on Africa by global economic and political inequalities. The extent to which contemporary analysis captures the breadth of African engagement with the international system is also compromised by current state-centric approaches. It is thus necessary to examine a range of approaches adopted by scholars to deepen and nuance the study of African agency in international politics, including work on agenda-setting, mesolevel dynamics and microlevel dynamics.
Gender Inequality and Internal Conflict
Erika Forsberg and Louise Olsson
Prior research has found robust support for a relationship between gender inequality and civil war. These results all point in the same direction; countries that display lower levels of gender equality are more likely to become involved in civil conflict, and violence is likely to be even more severe, than in countries where women have a higher status. But what does gender inequality mean in this area of research? And how does research explain why we see this effect on civil war? To explore this, we start with reviewing existing definitions and measurements of gender inequality, noting that the concept has several dimensions. We then proceed to outline several clusters of explanations of how gender inequality could be related to civil war while more equal societies are better able to prevent violent conflict, as described in previous research. It is clear that existing misconceptions that gender inequality primarily involves the role of women are clouding the fact that it clearly speaks to much broader societal developments which play central roles in civil war. We conclude by identifying some remaining lacunas and directions for future research.
Gender, Politics, and Corruption
Helena Stensöta Olofsdotter and Lena Wängnerud
It is widely recognized that corruption, or the act of using public power for private ends, is a major destructive force for humans and human societies. Research has shown that corruption is one of the most detrimental factors currently afflicting the economies of developing countries. It further undercuts various dimensions of human well-being such as health, access to clean water, and education, and it negatively affects subjective dimensions of life such as self-reported well-being and happiness.
It was against the backdrop of corruption as a major destructive force that researchers at the World Bank in the late 1990s started to explore new directions in research such as the relevance of the gender perspective. In their groundbreaking study, "Are Women Really the Fairer Sex? Corruption and Women in Government," Dollar and colleagues demonstrated that higher rates of female participation in government are associated with lower national levels of corruption. They measured corruption using data from the International Country Risk Guide, and they included a broad range of variables in their analysis to control for various underlying institutional characteristics that could be responsible for a spurious correlation. In a follow-up study, Swamy, in 2001, presented a more comprehensive empirical analysis, but most importantly, also a more elaborated theoretical framework. Swamy and colleagues suggested that women may follow laws to a greater extent than men because they feel protected by them. Further, girls may be brought up to have higher levels of self-control than boys, which may prevent them from engaging in criminal acts. For women in power, the most important argument for why an increased number in government would affect corruption was that women might lower corruption levels not only by being less involved in corrupt behavior themselves but also by initiating policies to fight corruption or to recruit staff who are less corrupt.
The initial studies spurred a heated debate on the direction of causality—what effects what—and after more than a decade of research on gender and corruption, it is clear that the link between the two factors is complex: For example, the relationship between levels of women in government and levels of corruption appears in democracies but not in authoritarian states. Moreover, the expected pattern that a high share of women is related to low levels of corruption appears in analysis focusing on the proportion of women in elected assemblies, such as national parliaments, but not in analysis focusing on the proportion of women in the bureaucracy—that is in positions related to the implementation of policies. There is also considerable subnational variation both in levels of corruption and in the share of women in elected assemblies. Studies elaborating on the gender perspective also show the need for reconsidering the definitions of corruption; women are particularly vulnerable in transactions including sexual "services."
Gender-Sensitive Parliaments
Sonia Palmieri
While women have succeeded in promoting a feminist agenda in some parliaments, the international research shows that this is not always possible, and accordingly, not a realistic expectation for women. Parliaments, like any institution, have specific cultural norms and practices, some of which actively work against the advancement of gender equality. Understanding the conditions under which female—and male—parliamentarians might succeed in promoting gender equality outcomes has become an important avenue for research and development practice. The focus on gender-sensitive parliaments allows for a framework to identify, and encourage the development of, those conditions.
There are four key elements of a gender-sensitive parliament. First, it accepts that the responsibility to achieve gender equality, both as a policy outcome and as a process, rests with the parliament as a whole (its male and female members and staff) and with the organizations that drive substantial policy, procedural, and normative development (political parties). Second, a gender-sensitive parliament is guided by institutional policies and legal frameworks, which allow the parliament to monitor its achievements toward gender equality and allow follow-up and review. Third, a gender-sensitive parliament institutionalizes a gender mainstreaming approach through its representational, legislative, and oversight work to ensure that all the parliament's outputs consider, and counteract, any potential discrimination against women or men, girls or boys. This element requires a reconsideration of the process and structures of the parliament, including the respective roles and capacities of members and parliamentary staff. Fourth, a gender-sensitive parliament constantly strives to eliminate institutional cultures that sanction and perpetuate discriminatory, prejudicial norms and attitudes in the workplace against women members and staff.
National Secession
Philip G. Roeder
National secession seeks to create a new sovereign state for a nation residing on its homeland that is currently located inside another sovereign state. This goal distinguishes national secession from regional secession, autonomy, and decolonization and shapes the strategies, operational objectives, and tactical choices of the leaders of national-secession campaigns. Explanations for the success of some campaigns—particularly, success at getting on the global agenda—have focused on the identities, grievances, or greed of their members. Explanations for why some campaigns have turned to protracted intense violence have focused on these motivations and on tactical-logistical opportunities.
The existing literature suffers from its failure to agree on theoretical and conceptual fundamentals. As a consequence, empirical studies focus on very different universes of cases and operationalize key variables in diverging ways. The existing literature frequently does not consider how the goal of national secession constrains the strategies, operations, and tactics of such campaigns. And so, it often fails to consider whether studies with another dependent variable can be extended to the study of national secession. Explanations stress indeterminate or substitutable causes and remote constraints on most national-secession campaigns—causes and constraints taken "off the shelf" from theories about conflicts operating under very different strategic and operational constraints. Missing from these explanations is the authenticity and realism of the programs for national secession in the assessments of the populations that each program presents as a nation with a right to a sovereign state of its own. Explanations and recommendations for responses by common-state governments, their allies, and the international community often fail to understand the centrality of the war of programs between national secessionists and common-state governments and the ways this constrains what compromises are possible and what responses are most likely to lead to domestic and international peace in such conflicts.
Pro-Government Militias and Conflict
Sabine C. Carey and Neil J. Mitchell
Pro-government militias are a prominent feature of civil wars. Governments in Colombia, Syria, and Sudan recruit irregular forces in their armed struggle against insurgents. The United States collaborated with Awakening groups to counter the insurgency in Iraq, just as colonizers used local armed groups to fight rebellions in their colonies. An emerging cross-disciplinary literature on pro-government non-state armed groups generates a variety of research questions for scholars interested in conflict, political violence, and political stability: Does the presence of such groups indicate a new type of conflict? What are the dynamics that drive governments to align with informal armed groups and that make armed groups choose to side with the government? Given the risks entailed in surrendering a monopoly of violence, is there a turning point in a conflict when governments enlist these groups? How successful are these groups? Why do governments use these non-state armed actors to shape foreign conflicts whether as insurgents or counterinsurgents abroad? Are these non-state armed actors always useful to governments or perhaps even an indicator for state failure?
We examine the demand for and supply of pro-government armed groups and the legacies that shape their role in civil wars. The enduring pattern of collaboration between governments and these armed non-state actors challenges conventional theory and the idea of an evolutionary process of the modern state consolidating the means of violence. Research on these groups and their consequences began with case studies, and these continue to yield valuable insights. More recently, survey work and cross-national quantitative research contribute to our knowledge. This mix of methods is opening new lines of inquiry for research on insurgencies and the delivery of the core public good of effective security.
Space, Mobility and Legitimacy
Ettore Recchi
While migration has always existed, and its consequences have always been important, few people have lived a mobile life in the history of mankind. Population immobility has recurrently been part and parcel of political strategies of social control and domination. Since the second half of the 20th century, however, the extent of geographical movements of individuals has expanded enormously. In particular, the size and scope of international travel has increased at an exponential pace. Favored by globalization and technological progress, transnationalism, initially linked to migration, has emerged as a relatively widespread phenomenon that involves a growing portion of the general population, especially, but not only, in developed countries. Mainly on the basis of research carried out in Europe, there is evidence that transnational practices tend to strengthen cosmopolitanism and the legitimacy of supranational polities (particularly the European Union [EU]), while it is less clear whether they entail denationalization. Further research is needed to improve the quality of independent and dependent variables in this area and assess the effect of international mobility and transnationalism outside the European context.


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Superman-Themed 2013 Kia Optima Hybrid: Chicago Auto Show
- Kia Optima Hybrid gets Superman look.
- Sixth of eight Justice League-inspired Kia concepts.
- Promotes DC Entertainment's "We Can Be Heroes" relief campaign.
At the 2013 Chicago Auto Show, Kia unveiled a Superman-themed car based on the 2013 Kia Optima Hybrid. The Superman Optima is the sixth in a series of Kia show cars based on Justice League characters. Created in collaboration with DC Entertainment, the Justice League vehicles promote DC's "We Can Be Heroes" campaign, which aims to help people affected by drought and famine in the Horn of Africa.
Finished in blue and red and emblazoned with the iconic "S" emblem on its hood, the custom Superman Optima emulates the Man of Steel with special details like flared fenders for a muscular look and a grille designed to resemble the superhero's belt buckle. Its red headlights suggest Superman's heat vision, while the red-painted decklid and C-pillars evoke his cape. An adjustable suspension gives the driver push-button control of ride height.
Inside, the color scheme is black and blue, but the look is dominated by an oversized red and yellow "S" emblem at the center of the steering wheel. From the rear seat, two monitors mounted in the front seat headrests play a video about the African hunger crisis that "We Can Be Heroes" is working to end.
Including the Superman Optima, Kia has unveiled six Justice League-inspired cars, with two more on the way. This latest one joins the Flash Forte Koup, Aquaman Rio 5-door, Cyborg Forte 5-door, Green Lantern Soul and Batman Optima. A Wonder Woman vehicle will be next, followed by a final vehicle that represents all seven members of the League.
Michael Sprague, Kia's executive vice president of marketing and communications, said the company is proud to be part of the "We Can Be Heroes" effort.
"Each of our Justice League-inspired vehicles are remarkable collaborations between the automotive and comic book worlds, and all for a worthy cause," Sprague said. "To that, Kia is very proud to be partnering with DC Entertainment to raise awareness for the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign."
The 2013 Kia Optima available at dealerships may be more Clark Kent in comparison to this Suped-up version. But many agree that Kent is handsome, even if he's not a superhero.
What it means to you: You may not be able to get your hands on your own Superman-themed Kia Optima, but you can see it at the Chicago Auto Show and learn how you can help be a hero to those suffering from famine and drought.


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"66gnes", Bérénice Belpaire et Pandora's Box
Réécriture multimédia d'un conte des frères Grimm « Les six cygnes ».
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