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I got a used one last time this was on sale from Amazon Warehouse. The receiver had obviously been opened up and the corners of the front of the receiver were scraped up pretty badly. Didn't even come with the original box. Was supposed to be in "very good" condition and it wasn't up to that description. Contacted Amazon on the matter and they gave me a partial refund, so it only ended up being about $106 bucks. I've been very happy with it and the sound quality is great when you use the auto calibration settings.
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Reviews aren't bad - everyone warns you to update the firmware right away. Not listening leads to issues so it's on you.
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The only thing I have to worry about now is selling the HT-S3500 home theater in a box system I picked up from Best Buy for $150. That was supposed to be for my Father but this receiver is a nice step up from the HT-R391 that comes with the other system. If they drop the 509 down another $10 I might pick up another for the shop. WB |
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Once we start to focus on creating our lives -- rather than reacting to them -- "definitely planned work" becomes the next step on the path, according to Chandler in his book "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself." (I would add a note of caution that it's healthy to build in some bandwidth for spontaneity. If not, we could wind up being too regimented.)
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Defend the Vote has publicized the fact that the Dominion/Sequoia voting systems used in Chicago and Suburban Cook County have never passed the error testing requirements set out by the 2003 Voting Systems Standards as required by Illinois Law, and that there are HAVA compliance issues with these machines. (Yes, it's sad but true; machines used nationally to count millions of votes were never federally certified.) We have challenged the validity of the current Illinois State Board of Election's certification of these machines, and assert these machines cannot be recertified in Illinois before the November 2014 Governor's elections. We alerted various authorities of these deficiencies and made sure to let budget departments so they can prepare to fund new equipment this Spring.
Defend the Vote raised the question of the Edge2Plus's and the related WinEDS voting system's certification with Howard Crammer, a VP from Dominion. To date, he has failed to produce any official document proving that the voting systems used in Chicago and Suburban Cook County have been certified by the EAC as passing Federal error testing requirements. The EAC is the government body that does this certification.
On February 19, 2014 at the Chicago Board of Election's Board meeting, Commissioner Cowen requested to place the sale of Chicago electronic voting machines "for parts" on the agenda for April 2014. During the meeting, they commented on an article discussed at an earlier meeting from USA Today that verifies what we said in earlier Board appearances; the manufacturers of electronic voting machines are all discontinuing them because they cannot be secured from fraud, and the entire industry is moving back to paper ballots.
On one hand, this is fantastic news. It comes with an important notation by Executive Director Lance Gough, who said:
"We are still going to keep looking at it. (…) I did put an item into our books for upgrades, so it is something that we are looking at, and getting funding from other bodies, so I think it may be sooner than you think."
This is not the first time that Mr. Gough has foreshadowed that a deal is in the making for new voting machines in Chicago.
Judges of Election – Just how important are they to the security of your vote? For in-precinct voting, which is done on Election Day, probably the most important security measure for the overall integrity of the vote, is to have a strong bi-partisan Judge of Election team. In Illinois, election judges are assigned by the two dominant political parties based on pre-set legal formulas in a 2:3 ratio. When the political party fails to select the election judge, the election jurisdiction can (must) do so.
The way these positions are staffed in Illinois is to have the Party Chairman of each County approve the election judges. Generally the Committeemen in each precinct, township, or ward appoints the election judges. State-wide, the process to select election judges does vary somewhat depending on if it is a city or county based election jurisdiction. (i.e., Chicago is city-based, Suburban Cook is county-based)
The Republican or Democrat Party Chair also has a duty to build a "Supplemental Chairman's List" which contains extra election judges to fill in at the last minute. The election jurisdictions have a legal duty to go to these lists first when there are vacancies.
Can anyone get a fraudulent ballot in Illinois? The short answer is yes, and there are few if any safety measures to prevent or detect this kind of theft.
Here is just one flaw in the system. During every election, Defend the Vote is contacted by voters who report they were prevented from voting or had to vote on a provisional ballot because the poll book showed someone had already voted for them. As part of our goals for 2014, we have decided to research how frequently this occurs.
When we start an investigation, we look at many aspects of the problem to gain the needed information. Most importantly of all, we ask questions.
For example, does the State of Illinois or any of the 110 election jurisdiction keep track of voters who claim that someone voted for them? This can be a difficult question to answer because unless otherwise dictated by federal or state laws, each election jurisdictions sets their own policy; but we have come to suspect that no one keeps track of this type of voter fraud.
Defend the Vote has recently uncovered startling evidence that proves the voting systems used in Chicago and Suburban Cook County are not legally certified in Illinois. Voting systems are defined by Illinois Law as follows: "'Voting system' or 'electronic voting system' means that combination of equipment and programs used in the casting, examination and tabulation of ballots and the cumulation and reporting of results by electronic means." (10 ILCS 5/24B-2)
Voting systems in Illinois must be certified by receiving approval from the Illinois State Board of Elections. Most voting systems are given "Interim Approvals" which lasts for a maximum of 2 years. Each Interim Approval is based on the version of the voting system that has been tested and approved.
Chicago and Suburban Cook use the Dominion/Sequoia WinEDS system, which has multiple versions of its 5 components. These 5 components include: WinEDS - the election management system that records, compiles, and reports vote totals from any election; Edge2Plus - a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine that produces an electronic ballot with a paper ballot recorded as a scroll inside the machine; Insight - an optical scanner that records the vote from paper ballots given to the voter; and the HAAT (Hybrid Activator, Accumulator, and Transmitter) which consolidates, tabulates, and transmits voter data. In addition, a 400c optical scanning machine is used to process absentee ballots.
Over the last year, Defend the Vote has been researching the election systems in Chicago and Suburban Cook County.
We have uncovered startling evidence that proves the voting systems used in both jurisdictions are not legally certified in Illinois. The Illinois State Board of Elections' refusal to acknowledge our claims was in full evidence during the October Board meeting, when none of the officials had a word to say after our testimony; but silence can be as telling as words. If we had no grounds to be challenging the election systems, wouldn't they have told Defend the Vote to stop wasting their time?
Explosive Letter Detailing the Illegal Use of Voting Systems in Illinois
Today Defend the Vote has filed a formal complaint about the election equipment in use in Chicago and Cook County, asserting with documentation that Federal elections in November 2012, the Special Congressional election (Jesse Jackson's District), and the Consolidated Primary and the Consolidated General elections in 2013 were all conducted on illegal voting systems in Illinois.
Our objection lists significant issues which prevent further use of any part of the Dominion/Sequioa WinEDS 4.0 voting system for use in any election in Illinois. Defend the Vote also asserts that the Illinois State Board of Elections has knowingly permitted uncertified voting systems to be used in multiple elections in Illinois by Chicago and Suburban Cook County election authorities.
Our findings include:
Defend the Vote has been investigating the election systems used to tally the vote in Illinois. While our investigations will include all systems in use in Illinois, this particular assessment involves voting systems used in Chicago and Suburban Cook County.
As research goes, we began the investigation with limited knowledge. On September 23rd, 2013 we alerted Lance Gough, Executive Director of the Chicago Board of Elections, David Orr, Cook County Clerk, and Rupert Borgsmiller from the Illinois State Board of Elections, of our initial findings in a Letter, Protest of Further Use of Dominion Voting Non-Compliant Election Equipment in Illinois, Especially in Chicago and Suburban Cook County. Discussed in an earlier article, Is the Voting System In Chicago and Cook County Legal in Illinois?, our letter seeks further information and challenges the status of voting systems in these two election jurisdictions.
As our research developed, what we learned surprised even us. The incompetency, the lack of follow through or oversight is stunning, really. The Illinois State Board of Elections ignores Illinois Law, and most importantly, ignores the voter. Voters should never assume their vote is accurately counted because the ISBE is on the job!
On October 2, 2013, Rupert Borgsmiller, Executive Director of the Illinois State Board of Elections, responded to our first protest letter. This letter is below. We have since replied with our follow-up letter to the Board which can be read here. Explosive Letter Detailing the Illegal Use of Voting Systems in Illinois.
ISBE Response to Defend the Vote Letter Challenging Certification of the Election Equipment 10-02-13
Defend the Vote is investigating the voting systems used in Chicago and Suburban Cook County. As part of this investigation, we sent a protest letter to the Illinois State Board of Elections challenging the certification of the voting systems. State Board's Executive Director, Rupert Borgsmiller, sent Defend the Vote a response including the chart below which lists when the election equipment was certified.
Cook County |
Systems Tested and Approved |
Dates Approved |
Insight: K2.16.09.0716.1500 (HPX), K1.44.080501.1500 (APX)- |
August 18, 2009/ September 15, 2010/ September 6, 2012 |
September 15, 2010 |
August 18, 2009/ September 15, 2010 |
WinEDS 4.0.175 |
August 18, 2009/ September 15, 2010/ September 6, 2012 |
City of Chicago |
Systems Tested and Approved |
Dates Approved |
Insight: K2.16.09.0716.1500 (HPX), K1.44.080501.1500 (APX)- |
August 18, 2009/ September 15, 2010/ September 6, 2012 |
September 6, 2012 |
Edge2plus: 1.2.77 |
September 6, 2012 |
WinEDS 4.0.175 |
August 18, 2009/ September 15, 2010/ September 6, 2012 |
We recently reported on provisional voting in Illinois. "It's Kinda a Disaster Waiting to Happen" There was a very frank discussion about the consequences of the new law at the Chicago Board of Elections meeting on September 10, 2013. We have taken this 28 minute clip which contains the full discussion and placed it into a separate video. This is a very important bit of information and we highly recommends that you listen to this to truly understand how elections in Illinois are about to change…
Meanwhile, Defend the Vote has been investigating how to prevent this "nightmare" from happening in 2014. We are investigating legal solutions and will be informing the public about this in the near future.
The question of 'what is a vulnerability assessment?' is what Dr. Roger Johnston from Argonne National Laboratory was answering at the September 9th 2013 Chicago Board of Elections meeting.
Defend the Vote has been working on a vulnerability assessment for about a year now. This assessment includes all aspects of voting, and also includes a professional assessment by Argonne National Laboratory of the electronic voting machines. This assessment was delayed last year when Chicago and Cook County both denied the request.
This has not stopped Defend the Vote investigations, and recently Sharon Meroni met with Dominion/Sequoia to work out the assessment. Earlier, we reported on these meetings.
Defend the Vote has been seeking for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners and the Illinois State Board of Elections to video record their Board meetings. Indeed we would like to see all meetings related to elections be broadcast, recorded, and posted on the Internet.
The back story to the posting of this video is that the Board decided to record this meeting and after doing so, we FOIA'd the meeting and the way they answered the FOIA was to post the meeting on you-tube. They also recorded the meeting last week, and we FOIA'd that meeting too, so I am sure it will be posted online.
When complimented for posting the meetings on their website, Chairman Neal replied by saying that the Board does listen to Defend the Vote's suggestions. We compliment the Board on being willing to be transparent to the public. Roy Lipscomb from the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project also complements the Commissioners on their decision! There are many voters who cannot make these meetings, but would love to see them from home.


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Lent and the Path to Freedom: Doing Battle with the World, the Flesh and the Devil
God does not need Lent, we do.
When I was a young man I had a priest friend who I now recall every time we begin the Forty Day Observance of Lent. About a week before Ash Wednesday he would say, "I am looking forward to Lent." The comment would perplex me greatly. Now I understand.
CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - "Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil." (Luke 4:1) "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light." (Gaudium et Spes, # 22, Second Vatican Council)
When I was a young man in College I had a priest friend who I now recall every time we begin the Forty Day Observance of Lent. About a week before Ash Wednesday he would say, "I am looking forward to Lent." The comment would perplex me greatly. In fact, I was dreading Lent, thinking it to be an onerous time with a lot of external practices which I did not really understand.
In my 20 year old mind, mistakenly thinking as most 20 year olds do that I knew everything, I would dismiss the comment from my priest friend as some sort of "weird piety." Now, decades later, I find myself joined with my old friend, seeing the wisdom of his well formed piety. I welcome this remedial season of grace in my life. Now that it has come, I pray that I can enter into its invitation and find the path to Freedom. God does not need Lent, we do.
This ancient practice of setting aside 40 days in order to enter - in Jesus - into the desert places in our own daily lives and confront the temptations and struggles we face is a gift. It comes from the Lord and is offered through the Church who is our mother. The Church as mother and teacher knows just what we need. We all know the truth and need to be honest, particularly so during Lent as we examine our lives in the light of the call to repentance. We all struggle with disordered appetites and unconverted ways of thinking and living.
We also demonstrate in our daily lives a lack of charity in our relationships with others. We have developed unhealthy habits which cause us untold sadness and impede our progress in virtue. None of these set us free or help us to flourish as human persons. They are the bad fruit of sin. The Desert of Lent is where we learn to conquer in the One who both shows us the Way and is Himself the Way.
Lent is a gift given to us by the Lord, but we have to unwrap it and apply its remedial and healing prescriptions. The Lord in whom we now live through Baptism, is Risen from the Dead. He is walking through time now, in his Body, the Church. He wants to save us and set us free as we live our lives in that new world which is the seed of the Kingdom to come. However, as another priest friend of recent acquaintance regularly reminds his parish, "Lent won�t work unless you work it!"
Lent invites us to journey in Jesus, into the Desert. It is there, in that pace of struggle, the field of engagement, where we can learn the root causes of our challenges and be equipped with the weapons of our warfare to fight what the Scriptures and Tradition refer to as the "world, the flesh and the devil."
The "world" in this meaning is NOT referring to the created order. Creation is good and given to us as a gift. Rather, the "world" refers to the system which has squeezed the primacy of the Creator out of daily life. When we succumb to its seduction we give ourselves over to the idolatry of self.
The "flesh" is not our body - which God fashioned and which will be raised from the dead, made glorious by the Resurrection. Remember, the Word became flesh and was raised BODILY from the grave. Jesus was the "first fruits" and we too will be raised in Him. Rather, the "flesh" refers to the disordered appetites which are one of the bad effects of sin at work within us.
The "devil" is not some figment of our imagination, but a malevolent fallen angel who, just as He tempted our first parents and tempted the Lord, now tempts us. These 40 Days of Lent are a classroom in which we learn to conquer the "world the flesh and the devil" so as to live differently, beginning now.
The Author of the letter to the Hebrews reminds us, "we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Heb. 4:15) Jesus, the Word made flesh is our Model. The temptations He engages in the desert are the prototype of all of the challenges we face as we respond to the continuing call to conversion. After all, the Christian vocation is just that - a continuing call to conversion. We respond to the Lord�s invitation.
The first temptation Jesus faced was to His identity. After all, he IS the Son of God! We, through our Baptism, have also now become Sons (and daughters) of the Father in Him. The next temptation was to idolatry. We regularly commit the horrid sin of idolatry, succumbing to its lies almost on a daily basis.
Like the Christians in ancient Rome, we live in an age which has "exchanged the truth of God for a lie, worshipping created things rather than the Creator. (Rom. 1:25) Finally, there was the subtle but deadly temptation to violate integrity, to use the gifts and power of God improperly and put the Lord to the test. How clearly this poisonous serpent lurks in our daily life!
In each of these encounters with the Tempter, Jesus shows us the method by confronting the lies of the truth of God�s Word. He is the Living Word, and we, through our Baptism, now live our lives in Him.That is why I say we enter the desert IN Him. We do this by living within the communion of the Church which is His Risen Body on earth. The Church is not some-thing but Some - One.
There in the Church, living in the Lord, we find the resources we need to grow in holiness and struggle against the lingering effects of sin. There we embark on the journey of holiness, becoming what the Scriptures call "perfected� or completed in Jesus Christ. His Divine Life (Grace) is mediated to us through the Sacraments, in the Living word and the communion of love in which we now live.
We are invited during these 40 days to take every gift, every grace, offered to us. We are invited to learn to wield the weapons of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. By these practices we grow in freedom by putting away the "old man/woman" and putting on the "new man/woman", created anew in Jesus.
It is Jesus in his Sacred Humanity who fully reveals that new man. He is the model, showing us the method. However, in His Divinity He is Himself the Means. In Him we are redeemed. We are also capacitated to grow in holiness and virtue by overcoming temptation. Through His Saving Life, Death and Resurrection, he makes it possible for us to live new lives, in Him - beginning now and leading into eternity.
Too often we forget that sin is a wrong choice, an "abuse of freedom" (See, Catechism of the Catholic Church # 1731- 1739, 386 - 402). We were created in the Image of God and at the very core; the heart of that Image is the capacity to freely choose to respond to his loving invitation to communion with Him.
From the first sin, the original sin, onwards, every sin is an abuse of that freedom and leads us into slavery. However, as the Apostle Paul reminds the Galatians, "It was for freedom that Christ sets us free"! (Gal. 5:1) Our freedom has been fractured and the Cross is the splint which, when applied in our daily lives, restores our capacity to live freely!
In his homily on Ash Wednesday in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI sketched for the faithful the portrait of this Holy Season as he reflected on the 40 Days that Jesus spent in the desert on our behalf:
"That long time of silence and fasting for him was a complete abandonment to the Father and to His plan of love. Going into the desert meant voluntarily exposing himself to the enemy's attacks, to temptation.entering into battle with him on the open field, defying him without any weapon other than his infinite trust in the Father's omnipotent love.
"Adam was expelled from the earthly paradise, the symbol of communion with God.... Now, in order to return to that communion and thus to eternal life we must pass through the desert, the test of faith. Not alone but with Jesus who proceeds us and who has already conquered in the fight against the spirit of evil. This is the meaning of Lent, the liturgical time that, each year, invites us to renew our decision to follow Christ on the path of humility in order to participate in his victory over sin and death".
Let us choose enter into the desert, in Jesus. Let us welcome Lent by embracing its way of voluntary sacrifice, of fasting, prayer and almsgiving. Lent is a path to Freedom.
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Keywords: Lent, world, flesh, devil, spiritual warfare, fasting, almsgiving, prayer, temptation, Deacon Keith Fournier
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2 years ago
Opened by eyes to the actual meaning of the word desert.
Thank you for sharing this article. -
2 years ago
We all start our journey kicking and screaming how we don't want to do it, because we don't know what we are doing or what the future holds, but they force us. We get better ,but we still don't like the trip, but they make us keep going. As we get better the resistance recedes and the trip gets easier until finally we not only enjoy it, but look forward to each new day.The single greatest lesson of Lent has been this for me. Do what is necessary whether you want to or not. Then do what is possible with the best attitude you can muster and at some point you will be doing the impossible with joy in your heart. I think that pretty much describes Lent and the life of every Saint for that matter..
2 years ago
Well reasoned article, Deacon, an article pointing us towards the roots of our faith as a confrontation with Sin - the world, the flesh and the devil - that seeks to lead us astray and, ultimately, lead us to damnation or salvation: the choice is ours in our exercise of freewill as part of the freedom that Christ - as you rightly point out – has given us through his sacrifice on the cross.
This is precisely the sort of shift in emphasis, in pastoral terms, that we need to adopt in the Church at large, a return to a more measured explanation of the gospel, one that more fully embraces the spiritual richness of our tradition, one that embraces salvation but also the possibility of damnation, the reality of both heaven and hell. Our Church has for a number of decades played down the reality of Sin and Hell as terrible and destructive realities that face each of us. In a world that has turned its back on Christ there is an urgent need to explain both God's saving grace but also the terrible reality of hell and damnation if we reject his offer. It was to save us from this terrible reality that the Word became flesh, to offer us a chance to escape its implacable logic, a chance to triumph over its deadly grip on the human mind and the human soul, through the liberatory logic of love, sacrifice, justice and righteousness, in obedience to the will and commandments of God.
But even more, pronouncing this truth - however unfashionable it may be in today's contemptuous secular progressive society - is a moral imperative placed upon the shoulders of each of us and on the shoulders of Mother Church collectively. A moral imperative the Church has too often neglected, adopting a pastoral approach that has perhaps placed too much emphasis on love, mercy and forgiveness at the expense of an appropriate counterbalancing emphasis on sin, personal responsibility, and the possibility of eternal perdition.
As God himself told us: "If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you will have saved your life." (Exekiel 3: 18-20).
We must, therefore, as Catholics, recover our sense of urgency in the face of the choices before all of us, and before our civilisation, in this specific period of human history in which we live. Lent, and the observance of Lent, becomes a symbol of the spiritual, moral and intellectual struggle we must wage first and foremost with ourselves, to purify ourselves, but secondly, with the world, as commanded by God, in an attempt to warn it, to open its eyes to the reality and potential consequences of its thoughts, intentions and actions, that it may save itself, and avoid the eternal damnation that wrong choices, wilfully pursued, must inevitably lead to. If we do this, we have done our duty. If we fail to do it, if we fail to warn our generation, God has told us that he will not only punish those who wickedly reject his truth, he will hold us responsible too.
2 years ago
Really good, Deacon. Thank you.
2 years ago
Israel in the wilderness made a golden calf to the worship, borrowed from the Egyptian/Heathren beliefs, also signified worship through material, today called materialism & since GOD is in no need of materials as all things of Him are eternal , this act is not to worship God , but the desire of man unto himself off his mind, in other words worship of himself, his mind, to the golden calf & when Moses enquired, Aaron out of fear said that when the gold ornaments collected from the people were put into the fire, the calf came out of the fire, but the bible says the calf was crafted by the tools from melting the gold , which goes on to say that idolatry in any form & its worship is off the carnal mind & the stories wound around the idols are the lies, originally from the serpent from Eden in the continuation to the present day against which is the truth of lent.
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By Sonny Burt, posted: Oct 12I have been with verizon for 8 years and was okay with them until the brought out Alltel. This is were the troubles begin. Everything from bad customer service on prepaid and post pay accounts, to trying to force data packages out to customers, which i did not want. I wanted a month to month plans, because of the features that you get with it. Verizon refuse me and told me I had to be on a contract plan to receive those features. They told me I could to prepaid if I wanted to, which was $20 cheaper than the contract plan but you have to call into customer service to make changes and all. They are getting to big of a company and just want to squeeze money out of the customers - 2.3 overall
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By Allison Kasey Saffle, posted: Oct 12I have been with verizon scents Altel sold out to them. My brother wanted the iPhone. He's on my plan and I agreed that's fine. So he got the iPhone 4S, and paid $200. Less then 30 days later the 4s went down to $100. And Verizon refused to give me the rebate. They had no explanation as to why even though it was within the first 30 day. I have had several problems and this is the last straw. We are considering a new phone company - 1.0 overall
By Dave Donarumma, posted: Sep 12I HAVE BEEN WITH VERIZON FOR OVER 8 YEARS, TRIED TO UPGRADE MY PHONE AFTER MY CONTRACT ENDED, I HAD UNLIMITED DATA PACKAGE, THEY SAID I CANT GET UNLIMITED DATA ANYMORE, SO THEY CHARGE THE SAME PRICE FOR 1 GIG AS THEY DID FOR UNLIMITED, THEY DONT HAVE SINGLE PLANS ANYMORE, I PAY 240 A MONTH FOR 2 SMARTPHONES, IM DONE WITH THESE CROOKS. - 1.0 overall
By Mareena Ferretti, posted: Sep 12So I've been with verizon for 5 year. I haven't had a problem, since i went on my own plan. I put down a $400 deposits. I was never late on a payment! When it came time to give me the deposits back they said no big deal should be at your house it a week. Well since then they used money out of it to pay my last bill before i even received the bill, and now its been two months. I still haven't gotten the money. I call customer service and it take 2 hours they transfer me and hang up and i have to call again. Finallly i go into the store and ask whats going on they tell me it will be there in a week. Another week goes by........... still not here. So to avoid aggravation on the phone i go back in. They say theres nothing they can do they are waiting on this mystery person to send the check and they can't do anything to help me. SO PISSED OFF> NEVER GET VERIZON THEY BALL BIG BALLS! - 1.0 overall
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By TammyC, posted: Sep 12SHOP AROUND BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON VERIZON. I have been a Verizon customer for well over 12 years. Never had a problem with them..actually, they were (at one time) quite willing to accommodate ANY issue I had with great results. But the last year or so they have become worse then the Wall Street Bankers and Investment Advisors. And it all started with getting a smart-phone. I was told by Verizon rep that if I bought 2 smart phones (which I was going to do anyways as we upgraded our son to a smart phone) that 1 was free (mine) and the other (son's) was discounted price WITH a $50.00 mail-in rebate. Got both phones and called them about the rebate as there were no rebate papers included. It was then that I was informed that NEITHER phone had a special...in other words, charged for both with no rebate. Totalling over $500. As I was disputing this for several weeks with Verizon, it 'appeared' that my account was way overdue. They shut all 3 of our phones off. When I 'came unglued on them in a conversation', they 'gladly' turned them back on...WITH A FREAKIN' RECONNECTION CHARGE. By this time I was boiling. So I inquired about shutting them off and going with another carrier. Well, guess what...wait for it...YES - I could do that - but I had to pay an 'early cancellation fee' for EACH phone. And then my phone malfunctioned. So I had to have a replacement (refurbished) sent and it doesn't work right, but they will not send another refurbished one. I have noticed that in the last 8 months, my phone bill is mysteriously creeping upwards every month. The new thing now with them is the data usage. I originally put the limited data plan on my phone as I don't use it. I only needed it if we were traveling, which was maybe once every 5 or 6 months for a weekend. The last 3 months, they have been charging me for 'overage usage on data'. Hmmm. Considering that I do NOT and did NOT use it I find it difficult to have to pay for it. I am SO done with Verizon. I am definetly switching carriers...but I can't do that until MY contract runs out in December. Is it December yet??? And to think that I have steered many many friends to them. VERIZON....GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE. WE THE CUSTOMERS ARE THE REASON YOU ARE STILL IN BUSINESS. IF YOU DON'T WANT US AS A CUSTOMER, THEN SOMEONE ELSE WILL GLADLY ACCEPT US. - 1.0 overall
Verizon fucking sucks!
By Geoffry Gunawan, posted: Aug 12I've had my laptop for over half a year now and never had a problem with my broadband modem, not until now! Okay so i do use my wifi on my iPhone and iPad as well, so is that the problem?? Do i have to pay another bullshit fee just so i can use my wifi on my laptop? You gotta be kidding me cause that's just fucking rediculous.. How much of my money do you want? After i get this internet problem fixed, i will be watching for one more mishap, because if something stupid like this happens again i'm done with Verizon, you have my word. - 1.0 overall
Verizon is TERRIBLE!!!
By James Sartor, posted: Aug 12Had Verizon 2 months. Phone wouldn't work with my Ford Sync; emails sent to me took a couple of days to get to my phone and then they came in a bunch. People at store didn't know how phone worked, didn't have a clue whether it would even work with Sync but one person did offer to buy the phone from me. Slightly illegal I believe. In summary, two months was too much. Am gladly paying their extortion money of $350 to get out of my plan early. Went to Sprint store; got great service; they synced my phone for me and gave me an AAA member discount and a trade in value for my Verizon phone. Down with Verizon!!!! - 1.0 overall
Shady and dishonest - keep good records you may need a lawyer
By amj_jxn, posted: Aug 12Print screen all your online account billing and contract information! If you don't they will change your information to reflect and benefit their pocket books. I went in store and called Verizon directly to confirm that my contract ended, they both said Yes and you can upgrade your phone if you want to renew your contract. Verizon did not have a plan that would meet my financial needs so I cancelled my service. They then told me that my final bill would be mailed to me and would include a $150 cancellation fee and were going to charge me through the end of the month (billing cycle). They had already instantly cancelled my online access to my account and shut my phone off the day I was in there – I had no access to Verizon whatsoever at that point, but they still were billing me for service I was NOT getting! Apparently Verizon is too big of a company and their executives are more concerned with lining their pockets than being honest with the public! Watch out all new customers and current customers who think they're no longer under contract! - 1.7 overall
Verizon does not care to keep customer after bad experience
By Adrienne Hock Shivers, posted: Aug 12Had a bad experience in Las Vegas retail store, corp customer service, while sympathetic, was not helpful. Win Back department not willing to be responsible for poor service. Retail store would not sell any phone under $350.00 even though many were on display. Verizon refuses to match competitor offer and is still trying to charge early termination fees despite emoployees refusal to sell their own phones. - 1.0 overall
No response to concerns.
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This show smoked all the way through! Amazing musicians, great singing. Can't say enough good things about it. Hope you get the set list fixed and offer the complete show. Several songs are missing above.
Yeah, I just downloaded a copy, found an online decompression tool to unzip it, and am listening to it right now with the default media player. Awesome stuff.
But what I wanted to say was how integral each instrument of Mickey Hart Band is. It occurs to me that only Crystal Monee Hall could pull off Birdsong or Stella Blue at those slow tempos without making them boring. And only Gawain Mathews could jam some of the rifts with his envelope filter in Shakedown St. and Fire on the Mountain so characteristically reminiscent of Jerry Garcia. The whole band deserves props...good people!
Ah ha! All the songs are there, just not listed. Bertha comes in on the heels of Cut the Deck, i.e. Cut the Deck is listed as a 15 min. track. Also, Jingo is there as ending jam on Let there be Light. So, I am soooo happy. Stellar sound! Great download for a great show. Thanks so much!
I agree, this show was tremendous. I definitely want to download that version of Bertha as well as the nice, slow Birdsong and the Stella Blue==>Franklin's Tower encore.
Forever loving the MHB! Awesome albums and tours you've had recently. Thank you. Please keep workin with R. Hunter, that current stuff keeps me goin.
Great show at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, California on 9/7/13; I will definitely download the mp3. Thanks, Mickey...for a real good time!
Just downloaded and re-experiencing 9/07/13 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. What an amazing show! Although beggars cannot be choosers, this I know, please consider lossless FLAC files for archive. MP3 has no place in my Superoganism. Peace and love.
It was an amazing night! His son Taro performed right before him, and he's as talented as his dad. great night. I looked up his music after the show and now I'm enjoying the new generation.
I am curious, I was at that show and there was a Bertha and a blistering version of Santana's Se a Cabo that don't appear on the setlist. What happened?
Id just download this 24bit version instead
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I hope the audio for this show becomes available for download. I need to hear Up on Cripple Creek again!!!
Just attended the presentation of Rhythms of the Universe at the Smithsonian. Great film and Q&A session with Mickey and George Smoot. If I'm not mistaken, Mickey said that the open-sourced, "sonified" mp3's were available for download from his web site -- haven't found them -- does anyone know where they are?
Amazingly, BEAUTIFUL, intense show!!! I never saw/heard anything like it before ever!!!!!!!
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More and more folks are becoming concerned about the takeover by wealthy, extremely conservative families of the political landscape in this county.
One key example would be the Koch Brothers from Kansas who, according to the New Yorker magazine, "are trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies."
A case in point was the Wisconsin fiasco initiated to strip public employees of their labor rights. Spending vast millions, brothers David and Charles Koch have established Super PACS such as Americans for Prosperity to support an ultra right wing libertarian agenda following in the footsteps of their father who co-founded the John Birch Society and called Dwight Eisenhower a communist agent.
The Koch empire is everywhere, including pipelines, refineries, Stainmaster Carpets, and Georgia-Pacific, which produces building materials as well as paper products such as Brawny towels and Dixie cups.
The Koch Brothers are not merely into lavishing huge amounts of money into Super Pacs, the new campaign forces unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. They are also into systemic change for the long-haul. Shrewdly, they have "purchased" professors and programs in business and economics at over 250 universities, including West Virginia University.
When I arrived at WVU to study economics, it was a new program staffed by moderate faculty members such as Dick Raymond, Bob Saunders, Don Purcell, Gil Rutman, Bob Britt, Jim Thompson and Leo Fishman. Benedum Professor William Miernyk, who founded WVU's Regional Research Institute, was a key faculty member, and he became my dissertation chair as I focused on the impact of the 1950 UMWA/BCOA Mechanization Agreement.
One recent night, I dreamed that I talked to Dr. Miernyk and told him that the WVU economics area was sold to the Koch Brothers for slightly more than a half million dollars plus another quarter million for graduate students. He turned over in his grave.
The primary WVU agreement, signed by Jane Martin and Wayne King, who were recent top WVU administrators, states that WVU will hire two professors and prescribes that they will teach under the direction of Professor Russell Sobel. One of the professors would also have a joint appointment with Miernyk's Regional Research Institute. Another component funded several doctoral fellowships and the Koch brothers also agreed to provide operating expense money to the WVU Foundation. The contract is similar to those signed by ultra conservative Grove City College and schools like Clemson. Clemson, however, may have lost the Orange Bowl to WVU but it bowled over WVU with a Koch contract that was twice as large.
Russell Sobel, who was tenured and has been a professor at WVU for 17 years, emerged as the libertarian darling in West Virginia. He wrote a book about the virtues of unleashed capitalism in solving all economic and social problems and was courted at business functions. He advised those in state government and penned columns about the virtues of deregulated capitalism in The Charleston Gazette. Basically, Sobel was a spokesperson for the Koch message of entrepreneurial economics without government regulations, and his recent work was published by the Public Policy Foundation, a Morgantown-based Koch-funded think tank.
Suddenly last November, a few weeks prior to the end of the academic semester, Russell Sobel abruptly vanished from view. He left in limbo eight graduate students and many undergraduate students in his one class in basic macroeconomics. His WVU email address was removed. Efforts to find out what happened went nowhere. The professor vetted as a star became a professor that nobody knew existed. Calls and emails to his home and WVU office by Gazette reporter Paul Nyden were never returned. Then, two months later, he suddenly emerged at the College of Charleston in South Carolina as well as a fellow at the South Carolina Policy Council, which describes itself as that state's "premier think tank focusing on limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty" and is another Koch-funded program. Fearful of losing Koch funds, WVU immediately sought a replacement in the Koch-funded Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in its College of Business and Economics.
While clarity on what happened remains elusive, the episode does reveal that entire academic areas at universities can be bought just like politicians. The difference is that universities are supposed to permit open dialogue and exchange of ideas and not be places for the indoctrination of innocent students with dictated propaganda prescribed by outside special interests. David Koch stated to Brian Doherty, editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, that "if we are going to give a lot of money, we'll make darn sure they spend it in a way that goes along with our intent and if they make a wrong turn and start doing things we don't agree with we will withdraw funding."
If WVU complies, whether with Sobel, his replacement or in any other form or fashion, it will compromise its independence and integrity as a top ranked research institution and do a disservice to the people of West Virginia.
David, an economics professor at WVU-Tech, is a Gazette contributing columnist.