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The cheery and sociable house sparrow is more closely associated with humans than any other widely established North American exotic. Introduced to New York City in 1851, the species today flourishes in both large cities and remote agricultural outposts—just so long as there is some trace of human influence. It aggressively defends nest cavities, possibly to the detriment of native species. It is more gregarious in winter. Polytypic. Length 6.3" (16 cm).
Identification Tame; gregarious. Flight more direct, often higher, than native sparrows. Bill thick, conical; legs short; stocky build. One molt per year, but seasonal variation pronounced. Adult male: worn (breeding) male contrastingly marked; throat and breast black, postoccipital and nuchal regions chestnut, wings russet. On freshly molted (nonbreeding) bird, the blackish and reddish regions obscured by gray feather tips. Bill black in summer; yellowish base to lower mandible in winter. Adult female: mainly gray-tan. Buffy eye stripe; gray-brown crown and auriculars. Bill more yellowish than male's; tip, culmen dusky. Juvenile: variable. Plain overall. Resembles adult female.
Geographic Variation The North American population (nominate ssp.) exhibits extensive geographic variation, with clinal variation: larger birds with shorter appendages in colder climes, darker plumages in more-humid environments.
Similar Species Males distinctive; plainer females and juveniles present a combination of structural and plumage characters that separate them from native sparrows. Flight more resembles the house finch than native sparrows. A female orange bishop may be passed off as female house sparrow by observers unfamiliar with the former.
Voice All vocalizations simple. Call: varied, but 3 notes are prevalent: throaty jigga, usually given by agitated birds; soft chirv, often heard in flight; honest-to-goodness chirp, given in various settings. Song: short series of pleasant chirp notes.
Status and Distribution Locally abundant. Year-round: cities, farms, and other human-transformed environments. Vagrant: several recs. for western Canada and Alaska, outside current range.
Population Some Palearctic populations are in sharp decline, possibly due to changing land-use patterns.
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It took me a minute to wipe the confusion off my face when I saw the cover of W's June issue. But apparently Tom Cruise — in full rock star getup — is just in character for his upcoming role as Rock Of Ages' fictitious rock legend Stacee Jaxx. The movie adaptation of the Broadway hit will feature a staggeringly star-studded cast including Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, and Paul Giamatti to name a few. And while I'm not sure I buy Tom Cruise as a sex symbol, I'm always a fan of a movie-musical! See the trailer below.
I have to admit, with six-pack abs and some pretty convincing tattoos, I hardly recognize Tom Cruise. This film looks to be the next shot at a Moulin Rouge or Chicago, with its period-appropriate glam garb and '80s lingo; and with Adam Shankman of Hairspray fame at the helm, it's likely there will be as many laughs as there are power ballads in this adaptation. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think. The release date is set for June 15 of this year.
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The story of Georgia's Civil War, previously seen on public television, is largely told through first-hand accounts and writings that have been passed down through generations. Learn what really happened to freed slaves. See actual photographs that illustrate the horror of being a prisoner of war in the 1860s. Find out what kind of soldiers the Confederate militia was actually made of. And hear real accounts of the terror of war, including entries from the diary of a 10-year-old Atlanta girl.


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10 Tips for a Zero-Waste Household
A few years ago, my husband and I decided that we wanted a better world for our two boys, now 10 and 11 years old. We embarked on a journey to do our part for the environment: My husband quit his job to join a sustainability start-up; I tackled the home.
We discovered along the way that the benefits of a zero-waste lifestyle go well beyond the obvious environmental impact.
I started by adopting reusable water bottles and shopping totes, but slowly took it further by replacing disposables with reusables (toilet paper excluded), shopping in bulk with cloth bags, bringing glass containers to the store for wet items (meat, deli, fish, cheese, oil...), and even testing more extreme ideas, like shampooing with baking soda and vinegar for 6 months. A year's worth of our household solid waste now fits in a quart size jar.
What we discovered along the way is that the benefits of the zero-waste lifestyle go well beyond the obvious environmental impact. It has not only made us healthier (since the healthiest foods do not come packaged), but it has also saved us a great deal of money. Most importantly, we now have more time to do the things that matter most to us, like spending it with our kids.
We find that we have become a closer and happier family in the process. We have found balance without compromising our goals, aesthetics, or sanity. Zero-waste living is on auto-pilot.
The zero in "zero waste" makes it sound scary and hard to achieve. It is actually not as as hard as it seems, and it is as simple as following these five R's, in order:
Refuse what you do not need.
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3. Declutter your home, and donate to your local thrift shop. You'll lighten your load and make precious resources available to those looking to buy secondhand.
4. Reduce your shopping trips and keep a shopping list. The less you bring home, the less waste you'll have to deal with.
5. Swap disposables for reusables (start using handkerchiefs, refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins, rags, etc.). You might find that you don't miss your paper towels, but rather enjoy the savings.
6. Avoid grocery shopping waste: Bring reusable totes, cloth bags (for bulk aisles), and jars (for wet items like cheese and deli foods) to the store and farmers market.
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8. Buy primarily in bulk or secondhand, but if you must buy new, choose glass, metal, or cardboard. Avoid plastic: Much of it gets shipped across the world for recycling and often ends up in the landfill (or worse yet, the ocean).
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These were awesome! They consist of a layer of graham cracker crust with a thin layer of peanut butter topped by a marshmallow then covered in a thin layer of dark chocolate. The graham cracker crust fell apart a little too easily but luckily it was still anchored to the smore by the peanut butter layer. The marshmallow part was very well done- if you fed this to a non-vegan they wouldn't consider it being vegan for even a second. Every bite results in getting all of the layers which was great, and who can go wrong with peanut butter, marshmallow, graham cracker and chocolate?
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Stroll down the main street of the legendary gold-rush town and relive some of its infamous incidents.
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It was one of the most storied towns west of the Mississippi. In Deadwood, South Dakota, speculators, misfits, and cold-blooded killers came together to stake their claim. In this raunchy, rip-roaring town, primitive technology met bold innovations, commerce and corruption collided, and shootouts were as common as the filth that filled the streets. DEADWOOD TECH examines the good, bad, and ugly technologies of the last and richest gold rush town, including stagecoaches and stagecoach robberies, bull whacking and bull trains, gold counterfeiting, and, not surpisingly, mortuary science.


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|A funeral procession for some of those killed in the Christian towns of Saddad and Haffar
Villages besieged and massacred; believers attacked and murdered; church leaders kidnapped; women and girls raped and forced into marriage and children traumatised: the lives of our brothers and sisters in war-ravaged Syria are being torn apart. What began as a people's revolution in March 2011 is now dominated by Islamists fighting for an Islamic state; they particularly target Christians, who now have few safe havens left.
In one particularly harrowing incident, the Christian towns of Saddad and Haffar were besieged in October 2013. By the time government forces liberated the area, 46 people had been killed, 3,000 people had been used as human shields and 2,500 families had fled. Many of the rebels' abuses, including killing civilians and targeting churches, have been condemned as war crimes. Maaloula, an historic Christian village, was another target of a deadly invasion, in September 2013, and was attacked again in December.
Many of our brothers and sisters are engulfed by an ongoing humanitarian crisis. For example, areas of Aleppo that are home to around 400,000 Christians have been besieged by the rebels for months. Many Christians have become malnourished owing to shortages and skyrocketing prices of food and other essentials. Access to water, electricity and communications is very limited.
It is perhaps the traumatised children of Christian families who are suffering most acutely; some have lost one or both parents; many are in desperate need, and rebel forces have even targeted Christian schools.
Syria used to be one of the easiest places in the Arab world to be a Christian. Until early 2011, its churches were large (about 10% of the population), and Christians were respected by the Muslim majority. They were allowed to worship and practise their faith without much official interference.
But now, with an estimated 600,000 Christians having fled the country or lost their lives as a result of the civil war, Syrian Christian leaders are concerned that the Church may be wiped out altogether, despite its long history. "I am not very optimistic that our Christian community will survive," said one.
The Church has existed in Syria since Biblical times. In the book of Acts it was on the road to Damascus, capital of today's Syria, that Saul was stopped short in his mission to destroy the early Church. The risen Christ asked him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" (Acts 9:4). It was in Damascus that Saul regained his sight after being struck blind, and it was here that he was filled with the Holy Spirit, was baptised and began his ministry as an apostle.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- To: Whom It May Concern,
I was a loyal Bloomingdale's and Macyâs customer that without a doubt paid my monthly bills in a timely manner without hesitation for my Bloomingdaleâs and Macyâs accounts. But unbeknownst to me I recently noticed my accounts for both stores had been closed. I inquired as to the reason and was told they were closed due to excessive returns. I was also told I had been given several chances to explain, but according to the (3) individuals I spoke to, I had not responded. This is the first untrue statement. I spoke to numerous individuals over the phone and I responded via email about my return habits. The next thing I was told, and I wasn't told this until I got to the store today, is that I will not be allowed to return any more merchandise on this account. Therefore, items that are too small, too big, or just not the right size or color cannot be returned. I will have to leave them on my account and continue to pay my bill like the valued, loyal customer I've been for the last 3 or 4 years. I would like to know how this could possibly make sense to any honest hard working American today. I am treated like a loyal, valued customer while paying my balance off, but when I attempting to return any item that is not worn, or damaged I am treated like a local criminal. I started off by asking myself why would a store I have spent more money in than I have returned merchandise cancel my account without any regards to me. I mean just as a valued customer, which is what I am being told I am each and every time I provide my credit card number to customer service electronic voice for assistance. Which is quite the opposite of the (2) individuals from your credit department I spoke to on the phone today in the customer service department (September 20th â around 4:30), they were really rude and nasty towards me and thatâs putting it mildly. In fact, when I asked the man (credit department) what am I supposed to do with the items I just received from UPS that did not work for me and made a special trip to the store to return today, his reply was, he did not care what I did with the items. I know I deserve more respect than that, no matter what the circumstances are behind Bloomingdaleâs actions. And I was totally appalled to say the least by his and his supervisorâs behavior. The treatment I received from this credit department agent along with his supervisor belittled me and made me feel as though I am being singled out and targeted for something more than the fact that I have made numerous merchandise returns to your store. I was told by numerous sales people in Bloomingdaleâs that customers return on a daily bases and no one ever question these customers. I was also informed that these large returns are usually made by Bloomingdaleâs customers that are middle aged, white females. But me being a Black Female that returns merchandise that has never been worn, merchandise that is never damaged, merchandise that has the tags still on them and ready for reselling, that only have one thing that doesnât fit the Bloomingdaleâs image - Iâm Black, and I cannot make returns without being chastised. I come into Bloomingdaleâs to do legitimate transactions and Iâm being scrutinized for making returns. I feel I have been treated unjustly and I will not stop unveiling my concerns until someone addresses this matter further.
Policy for in store returns: (copied and pasted from Bloomingdales.com online site)
New In-Store Returns Policy: Online purchases can be returned at any Bloomingdale's store. Please take unused item(s) with price ticket(s), and invoice/receipt, to a register in the appropriate department. In-store exchanges are subject to store's availability. Your account will be credited immediately when making an in-store return.
***No where in this return policy (which I copied from the Bloomingdales.com site do I see stipulations on returns pertaining to frequency of returns, amount of returns, monetary value of returns, or race of the customer). Iâve actually gone through the entire Bloomingdales.com site to see if there is something I could be missing; something I could have possibly overlooked explaining to me the circumstances upon which I am being punished for normal online customer transactions.
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***Again, no where in Bloomingdale's contract policy is it listed that an account is subject to being closed based on Bloomingdales illegal discretions.
Kelly Brown
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spiderman2 on 09/22/2009:
I would love to know how much you are buying and returning. I have never heard of an account being closed for excessive returns, it must have been an incredible amount for them to notice and take this action.
PepperElf on 09/22/2009:
I've heard of stores doing that
when customers return excessive amounts it can hurt their business
and they start getting suspicous that the person is basically "renting" instead of buying.
I.e. the buy the item, use it or wear it once and then try to return it for a full refund.
basically if they cut off your returns it's because they suspect a scam
lili1018 on 09/23/2009:
Don't play the race card. The credit company has no idea what you look like.
Anonymous on 09/23/2009:
And if you know your size, you should not have to return for a different size that often. Do they not have dressing rooms?
I agree. You must have had a LOT of returns. Stores are not rental places.
clutzycook on 09/23/2009:
I actually felt sorry for her until she went and played the race card.
You're better off without them anyway. I have never found anything worth buying at Macy's. I was ticked when they took over Famous Barr and those stores (not that FB had anything either).
forcomplaintsonly on 09/23/2009:
I too, stores do not care about your race, all they want is your money. I, too, would like to know how many things you have bought and returned? Especially if the tags are removed, it would draw suspicion, like others have said, as to whether a person was basically "renting" the clothes for free. If I had that much trouble with sizes and I do, because I am tall and it is hard to find clothes that fit good, I will try them on in the store and for this reason, under no conditions would I ever buy clothes online.
As far as Macy's they are overpriced, but when they have a sale, you can get good deals then. Not their regular sales, my wife and I go in and look around, sometimes we find bargains sometimes we don't, I have never bought anything other than their clearance items, or when it is a really really good deal. I won't pay over $10.00 for a shirt or a pair of pants(I like dress shirts and dress pants) and I know I can go in and get them for that, not every time, but every once in a while.
goduke on 09/23/2009:
A store has every right to stop doing business with a customer.
Slimjim on 09/23/2009:
I stopped reading when the race card got played too. Poster, you really are clueless on this. You are not a "valued customer" as obvious indicated by them cutting you at the knees. Clearly you buy sight unseen and just return items constantly. That cost them money and aggravation. It has nothing to do with you being black. It has everything to do with you not knowing the color or size you want before you buy stuff, open them, then repeatedly bring them back. It sure does appear to them (and us), that you are renting for free their clothes. Heck, you're even trying to make another return on a fresh purchase.
MSCANTBEWRONG on 09/23/2009:
You must have a tremendous amount of returns. Playing the race card invalidated your complaint.
Anonymous on 09/23/2009:
Showing the race card shows you yourself know you are in the wrong and instead of being a man (or woman ) about it, you got to have a back-up. I am getting might sick of having the race card thrown when a black doesn't get their way. No other nationality does this which makes me question the 'race problem' this country reportedly has. Race don't fly with me.
Anonymous on 09/23/2009:
Now that Obama is in office WE don't have racial issues anymore! *dripping with sarcasm*
Come on Turner, the only color that businesses like is GREEN, they don't care about your hue.
leopard on 10/05/2009:
Why are you buying clothing that is the wrong size and color? Don't you know what size you are and what colors you like? And why would you return something you damaged? The store can't resell it if you damage it. All this does is eat away at the store's profits and cost people their jobs.
IComeFirst on 12/30/2009:
I have shopped at Bloomingdales in Maryland since 1982. In the last 5-7 years, merchandise, saleshelp, and customer service have taken a nose dive. Quality merchandise is a thing of the past, and this includes their furniture department! They've replaced the better furniture lines (Baker, Ralph Lauren) with their own crappy label which essentially means you really don't know what you're getting. The clothing and shoe departments, in case you haven't noticed, are also letting go of their better lines and replacing them with ho hum Chinese shoddy merchandise that one would find in Macy's. Stands to reason, they're both owned by Federated. Customer service is horrible at Bloomindales, especially in bed and bath and kitchenware. Very unprofessional and too willing to argue with the customer!! This used to be a store where customers came first and were treated with respect and care. Not anymore. I don't blame this customer for thinking the rudeness may have been race related. What else is one to think when treated in such a disrespectful and unprofessional manner? When I am confronted with an ignorant salesperson who obviously hates their job, I always ask very nicely when their day off is so that I can return then. Some sales people mark down merchandise at more than 1/2 off and then they stash it in those drawers under the displays where extra merchandise is sometimes stored. I know this because I accidentally came upon a "stash" recently when I was looking for a sushi knife and I found boxes of Shun steak knives marked down from $492 to $89!! And a saleslady hired during the holidays was very helpful and rang me up. When I returned a week later to see if anymore boxes were available, a nasty foreign saleslady kept hassling me about opening the drawers. I told her I had just purchased something a few days before with no problem from anyone and she lied and said something about knives being dangerous!! (I'm not kidding) After I questioned her for a good 20 minutes about her hesitancy to open the drawers for me, she finally spit the truth out that the manager's sister had already come in and bought up all the extra boxes 2 days ago. Nice. It's funny....just today in the Washington Post, there was an article on department store thefts and how most of them are being traced to inside sales people. So there it is. You get what you don't pay for. We, the consumer, have never paid more for crappier merchandise and empty headed sales help. Isn't the 20-40% discount enough for the sales help? Also, let's not forget about cosmetics. Remember all the wonderful samples we used to get when we bought something? You know where they went? E-BAY. Cosmetic sales help take these samples and now sell them. Nice. Don't you just love it?
IComeFirst on 12/30/2009:
Former employee of Bloomies on 03/22/2010:
As a former employee of Bloomingdale's who left the company because of my many issues with it... racial discrimination was not one of them. So called customers like you are eventually flagged because you buy and return a huge percentage of what you purchase. The return policy is very liberal at Bloomingdale's, but you obviously must have gone overboard. It is exceptionally rare to close your account for that reason. Without knowing you, I can say, you obviously deserved to have your account closed.
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Terrible shopping experience
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Bloomingdales have put me through a kafkaesque situation and I could not place an order.
I have lost a lot of time and some money in calls. Bloomingdales have lost a 2.8 k order. And a client.Â
First, I have tried to buy online. Â When I have finished and have include 34 items in my shopping cart and given all personal info and credicard, my order was not accepted. No clear info why, seems to be a credit card issue.
I called my credit card company on US. No problem on their side. Call Bloomingdales after trying the live chat (by the way, very poor service) and they explained me that the problem was the IP origin, I was acessing from Brasil and this is not accepted.
WHY THERE WAS NO INFO REGARDING THAT ON THE WEBSITE???? Why not showing a message before I include 34 items in the shopping cart????
Well, in a stupid decision, I follow the suggestion from the chat representative to place my order by phone. And I have done that!! Â 34 items with a very patiente representative. She told everything was OK and placed the order. I gave her my brazillian phone. She said nothing about it.
As I received no status from my order I called again. Discover that my email address was spelled wrongly and my order cancelled, but that I could replace it, however many items were not available any more. Well, I gave all personal and credit info again, billing address, shipping address, both on US. And my brazillian phone again. And I got happy because the info was OK, as she told me.Â
It wasn't. I received a message saying there was a problem on my order, to call customer service. I did, and the representative explained there was a problem in my credit card, that do not accept my order. I called my credit card. No problem in their side again, they told me that the order was accepted.
I called again customer service. New info then, the problem was that the phone I gave did not match with the credit card phone record. I called again the credit card, confirm the phone.Â
Called again customer service, inform the phone number as register on the credit card. And received the last stroke. I should provide a phone in US that should be register in my name where Bloomingdales could reach me. As I do not have a US phone, I would not be able to buy.
By the way, Â I have placed an order same day at Bergdorf Goodman. They have already ship it!!! Â I have bought before at Amazon and Net a Porter and have never faced problems.
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spiderman2 on 02/03/2011:
I'm sorry for your troubles, but it took me about 30 seconds to find the information on their website that states they do not accept international orders. http://www1.bloomingdales.com/customerservice/shipping.jsp#international?cm_re=FLASH%20PAGE-_-Customer%20Service%20Page-_-International%20Delivery%20Link
raven2010 on 02/03/2011:
I agree with the OP. Not only did they talk to several reps, but they placed the order repeatedly with reps who should have known the international order would not go through.
leet60 on 02/03/2011:
These policies are in place at many retailers to protect cardholders from theft. Most stolen card information is used to purchase from and ship to foreign addresses. I think they were in the right.
raven2010 on 02/03/2011:
The company was on the right, but the employees the Op talked to and placed the order with MORE THAN ONCE were complete fools.
madconsumer on 02/03/2011:
I love bloomingdales!!!
although they are no better than a high class walmart.
Venice09 on 02/04/2011:
Raven, I agree. The OP should have been told from jump that Bloomingdales does not accept international orders. You can clearly hear the OP's frustration, and I can't say that I blame him/her.
hbackes on 02/05/2011:
All, in fact it was not an international order. I used an US credit card, with an US billing address to be delivered in an US address. My fault was not having an US phone. And this info is not on their website and no one told me that.
raven2010 on 02/05/2011:
Does the US address the items were to be delivered to have a phone number you could have used?
spiderman2 on 02/05/2011:
I know you are frustrated and don't want to see this, but I'm sure their fraud indicators go up when these things don't match up. US/US/US/foreign.
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We Provide Services to Bloomingdale and Dealt With Chronic Slow pay....We Discontinued Our Service and Are Now Still Owed
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CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND -- For almost 6 years we provided to Bloomingdale (at their request) weekly pick up and delivery service for repair service for shoes and handbags. All went well at first and we collected at each delivery the amount owed for repairs done...it then turned into a slow pay and then a slower pay...much time was wasted on collecting and many promises were made to improve and get to timely payment...then all payments stopped.
After listening to hollow promises for too long we discontinued the service but the balance owed is almost $1000.00 for services we have provided. Emails and phone calls are not effective. The Better Business Bureau locally forwarded our complaint to the BBB in the city where the headquarters is located and that BBB does not handle B to B complaints.. We have a staff of three and we can no longer waste production time chasing them...nor sit in small claims if that is even possible since we are told "it is headquarters" to blame and they are many states away!
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Irene from Conn
Yesterday I tried to order some cosmetics online. No problem with my profile pulling up, all correct information. When I tried to check out however, it asked for a 5-digit zip code. The zip code was correct, and after a couple of phone calls, I was told that their system did not read the 0 in the zip code (leaving out a good part of the country with a zip code starting with 0). Then I tried placing the order by phone, and my Bloomingdale's credit card was declined, much to my surprise as I had no balance. Turned out they reduced my credit limit because I hadn't used the card in a couple of years (mind you, I had just finished paying on a 0%/1 year purchase). What the credit limit was reduced to, nobody could tell me, though I know it was below $143, as that was the amount of the purchase. I am not sure my credit limit would allow me to buy a lollipop. They said I could use another credit card or requalify for theirs, not bloody likely! I cancelled my card and told them to go to hell. Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks are happy to take my money.
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Sophia Marie on 04/13/2011:
Sounds to me like they canceled your credit account because you hadn't used it in a couple of years. You will find that Nordstrom, etc. credit departments have the same policy.
lovemyson on 04/13/2011:
Most store credit card get cancelled after a year of inactivity... this is normal...
trmn8r on 04/13/2011:
You must mean NJ. Right you are!
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OnLine Order
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TEXAS -- I placed an online order at Bloomingdale's on line with expedited delivery for an additional shipping fee. I paid for delivery today or tomorrow. I just received an email telling me delivery won't be until Monday. No explanation, no reason. I need my order before Monday, that's why I paid extra for expedited shipping. It's my first and last order with Bloomingdale'. So frustrated!
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NY, NEW YORK -- I see the same complaints on Macy's and Bloomingdale's websites about the barbaric collection agency they use.
Who do we contact besides the BBB and Attorney General's office?
Why is there no number to speak with customer Service? Why have these companies gone down hill so rapidly?
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Slimjim on 08/10/2012:
Collectors are supposed to be rude and aggressive. They can't violate laws, however. If you believe they are collecting outside the boundaries of law, then usually the FTC is the protection bureau that tends to enforce these things. Best bet is to get a layer and sue them for it. They have to be in violation though. Don't waste a second writing to the BBB over this and even most state attorney offices don't seem to investigate collectors often.
Anonymous on 08/10/2012:
I used to work for Macy's in their collections department. I have no idea what barbaric tactics you are referring to, but there's little info here to go off on. The phone system works off an automatic dialer and if nobody answers when called, the dialer is set up to call them a few hours later. This is legal. But, if someone does answer, then they won't receive another call that day. The department was open and functional 7 days a week until 9 pm. The dialer would not call after 9 pm. This is also legal to call up to 9 pm (8 pm in Oregon), any day of the week. It is not illegal to call on Sunday. I am mentioning these points because people seemed to think it was illegal to be called multiple times a day, or get a call after 6 pm, or get a call on a Sunday. Again, not illegal and not in violation of the FDCPA. I do hope the OP comes back and clarifies. I would be happy to help further.
DebtorBasher on 08/10/2012:
Slim, what do you mean, 'Collectors are supposed to be rude and aggressive.'...in all the collection agencies I've worked for and trained collectors in....not one of them had 'Rude and Aggressive' as a requirement in the job description.
Anonymous on 08/10/2012:
Basher, we weren't allowed to be rude or aggressive either. Our calls were monitored by management regularly to make sure we weren't being rude.
DebtorBasher on 08/10/2012:
Yeah...I was the Quality Assurance Supervisor at NCO and I was the one who trained and monitored the calls...no aggressiveness from our collectors...even it the tone of their voice started to change...I'd be onto them.
trmn8r on 08/10/2012:
Collectors are persistent, but I don't know about rude. Looking at my distinguished co-members' replies, rudeness is not a desirable quality in a bill collector.
leet60 on 08/11/2012:
I have experienced aggressive and rude collectors on occasion. Overall, this has not been my experience. I think when most receive a call from a collector, they subconciously become defensive, as they know they owe the money, and likely don't have it. Rather than being defensive or potentially rude one should listen and negotiate. Most will work with you if you make an effort. The moment you become rude to them you set the call up for the potential to become difficult at best. It is human nature when being accosted to respond in kind.
Anonymous on 08/11/2012:
I once dealt with the Macy's collections department after it took them 5 days to process a payment I made via their website, which made my account go past due. And they called me several times after I answered their call. This was 3 years ago though.
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False Advertising
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BOCA RATON, FLORIDA -- This morning (Saturday, 7/31/10), my wife and I went to the Bloomingdale's in Boca Raton for their advertised, "One Day Home Sale." We were told that one of the items we wanted (Wusthof Gourmet 14-pc block set closeout) was sold out at a Pre Sale prior to this One Day Home Sale. What? My wife and I traveled from Delray Beach to buy this item, only to find out that their one day home sale was false advertising.
We were going to purchase other items, but after this, walked out of the store absolutely disgusted with the way Bloomingdale's does business.
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Weedwhacked on 07/31/2010:
Sold out doesn't mean false advertising.
PepperElf on 07/31/2010:
indeed it does not.
another case of
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
jktshff1 on 07/31/2010:
call ahead maybe?
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"We had a total of four teams to make it to the State Championship. There was a total of 45 boats in the tournament," said Head Coach Cody Napier.
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Coach Napier stated that the school had two teams that finished in the top 5. Zach Warner and Ridge Porter finished 2nd place with a 2 day weight of 32 lb. and 7 oz. and Jacob Bowles and Hunter Hampton finished 4th place with a 2 day total of 30 lb. and 5 oz.
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The team had two other boats that finished 31st (Chase Geary and Billy Hardison) and 40th (Michale Engle and Cole Noffsinger).
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The Pickup
Loot and Other Stories
In one of the stories in Nadine Gordimer's collection Jump (1991), a working-class family in England takes in a lodger, a quiet, studious young man from the Middle East. The daughter of the family becomes intimate with him and falls pregnant. He proposes marriage; dubiously the parents consent. But first, says the lodger, the girl must travel, alone, to his home country to introduce herself to his family. At the airport he secretes a bomb in her suitcase. The plane is blown up; all the passengers die, including his unborn child.
From her reliance on the stereotype of the diabolical Islamic terrorist, one would guess that, at the time she wrote the story in the 1980s, Gordimer had not thought deeply about the question of why, in the human family, young Muslim men have assumed the role of the bad boy, the delinquent. A decade later, as if to make amends, she revisited the kernel situation of the story: the Arab who for ulterior motives woos and marries a Western woman. In it she found the potential for a far more original and interesting development; The Pickup (2001) is the fruit of that development.
Julie Summers is a white South African from a wealthy family. She is young, she is liberal in her attitudes, she has a job in public relations. Her life is going well, or well enough. One day Julie's car breaks down in the center of Johannesburg. The mechanic who deals with it is handsome, dark-eyed, foreign. She befriends him.
Abdu, as he calls himself, turns out to be an "illegal," one of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners in South Africa without papers, working on the fringes of the formal economy. Most of these illegals are from other African countries, but Abdu is from the Middle East, from a country that is not named but is described as small, poor, backward, and without oil. South Africa is only one of several destinations he has tried: he has already had spells in Britain and Germany doing jobs the locals turn up their noses at.
For the land of his birth Abdu has only contempt. It is not even a proper country, he says, just a patch of desert demarcated by lines some European once drew on a map. His burning ambition is to become a legal immigrant, preferably to a wealthy Western democracy.
Abdu and Julie begin an affair. The sex is wonderful; for the rest they have little in common. She reads Dostoevsky; he reads newspapers. She, with her South African background, sees people in terms of race and class; he sees them as legals or illegals. He dislikes her circle of friends, disaffected members of the new, post-apartheid intelligentsia, black and white, whose lifestyle he disapproves of and whom he considers naive, ignorant of the real world. He prefers Julie's father and his banker colleagues, of whose crass values and moral vacuity Julie herself is ashamed, and who in turn want nothing to do with the penniless foreigner she has picked up.
Abdu presses Julie to enlist her family on his side in his struggle with the immigration authorities. But Julie is reluctant, and anyhow Abdu has left it until too late: notice arrives that he is to be deported.
At this point he expects Julie to drop him, as he would drop anyone whose usefulness to him has expired. Instead she goes out and buys two air tickets, which she holds out wordlessly to him. The gesture shakes him. For a moment he sees her in all her mystery, an autonomous being with hopes and desires of her own. But then the old barriers go up again: if this woman cleaves to him it is because she is in thrall to him sexually, as all women are subject to their passions; or because she is involved in some complicated moral game of the kind that only the idle rich have time to play.
Julie's decision to leave South Africa with him creates a problem, however. He cannot introduce into the bosom of his family a woman who is no better than a whore. He will have to marry her first. So hastily they are married in a registry office.
Why does Julie take the momentous and apparently foolish step of abandoning a not unsatisfactory life in not uninteresting surroundings to run away to a benighted corner of the world with a man who, she must know, does not love her, who switches his very smile on and off as a way of controlling her?
One reason is sex, with the meaning that Julie, with Gordimer behind her, gives to sex. Even when words lie, sex can be relied on to tell the truth. As long as sex with Abdu remains profoundly satisfying, there must be some potential to the relationship. Furthermore, in Julie's feelings for Abdu there is something maternal and protective. Beneath the surface of his hard male contempt she finds him touchingly boyish and vulnerable. She cannot abandon him.
Most of all, however, Julie is tired of South Africa in a way that, while it may be hard to believe in someone of her age, twenty-nine, is all too easy to accept in someone of Gordimer's generation—tired of the daily demands that the country, with its history of exploitation and violence going back centuries, and its disheartening contrasts of poverty and affluence, makes upon the moral conscience. Wistfully Julie quotes to Abdu (who is indifferent to poetry) lines by the poet William Plomer:
Let us go to another country
Not yours or mine
And start again.
But for the fact that James Baldwin has already annexed it, "Another Country" would be a fitting title for Gordimer's book, capturing its central concern—how to make a new life—better than "The Pickup."
So Julie and Abdu arrive in Abdu's disdained country of origin, and the true name of Abdu the abductor is revealed: Ibrahim ibn Musa, brother to a butcher's assistant, a waiter, and a domestic servant. Ibrahim returns not full of glory as the son who has made a successful life abroad, but as a deportee, a reject.
Having settled his wife under his mother's eye in the bleak provincial town where they live, Ibrahim repairs to the capital, where he spends his time haunting embassies, pursuing contacts, in quest of the elusive visa.
For Shakespeare's Hamlet, "the insolence of office," having to kowtow to bureaucrats, is good enough reason to put an end to one's life. No one in our times has to endure more of the insolence of office than a third-world visa petitioner. Ibrahim, however, will swallow any amount of it as long as the beacon of "Permanent Residence" continues to blink. Permanent Residence is a blessed state. Permanent Residents own the world. They have only to show their magical papers and all doors open.
What Ibrahim has to offer the world is a dubious degree from an obscure Arab university, a halting command of English, a deep thirst to shed the identity he was born into, a strategic readiness to accept the West at its own valuation, and, now, a trophy wife, "the right kind of foreigner."
While he is waiting for word from on high, Ibrahim sits in coffee shops with his friends talking politics. His friends are representative young Arab nationalists. They want the modern world but do not want to be taken over by it. They want to be rid of their corrupt government, by revolution if necessary, as long as revolution is driven by morality and religion.
Ibrahim is quietly skeptical. Getting involved in national politics will, in his eyes, doom him to permanent residence in poverty and backwardness. His longings are of another kind; they arouse him in obscure ways and set him apart from his fellows.
Australia turns him down, then Canada and Sweden. But after a year of petitioning the United States comes through with two visas. Ibrahim is jubilant. He and Julie will live in California ("Everyone wishes to live there"); he will go into information technology or else, with the help of Julie's stepfather, into the casino business. He cannot believe his ears when Julie announces she is not coming. She will remain with his family, she says; she has found another country, and it is not America, it is here.
Ibrahim's friends want a new, better Islam that incorporates the best of the West. Ibrahim's family has the same vision, though in a more down-to-earth form. They want big cars, soap operas, cell phones, gadgets. As for the rest of the West, they prefer to have nothing to do with it. The West is a "world of false gods." They cannot understand why Ibrahim wants to go there.
One explanation for why Western-type democracy has failed to take root in the Middle East despite a century of democratic movements and uprisings is that Arab nationalists have wanted to pick and choose from the Western cornucopia, taking over science and technology and/or educational systems and/or institutions of government without being ready to absorb their philosophical underpinnings as well, the false gods of rationalism, skepticism, and materialism.
If, in this account, Ibrahim's friends are in the process of falling into the same trap as their fathers and grandfathers, while Ibrahim is in the grip of a delusion, where does Julie stand? Plunged into her husband's family, Julie is at first dismayed by her lowly position as a woman, as well as by the absence of the comforts she is used to. But she soon knuckles under and becomes a good daughter-in-law, doing the humbler household chores, contributing to the community by offering English lessons, commencing a study of the Koran, and generally adapting to a new rhythm of life.
This is no mere show, nor is it an exercise in cultural tourism. We are unambiguously given to understand that in the course of the year she spends in Ibrahim's home Julie undergoes a fundamental change of a spiritual if not religious nature. She begins to understand what being part of a family can mean; she also begins to understand how life can be so deeply infused with the Islamic code that everyday behavior and religious observance can hardly be distinguished. None of this comes about because Ibrahim's family is a particularly exemplary one. Though his mother, who becomes Julie's model and who gradually warms to his foreign bride, lives a deeply spiritual life, the other members of the family are unexceptional people of their place and time.
The question of Julie converting to Islam is not raised. The spiritual development that takes place in her is determined not by doctrine but by what one can only call the spirit of the place. Ibrahim's home is near the town limit. A few blocks away starts the desert. It becomes Julie's habit to rise before dawn and sit at the edge of the desert, allowing the desert to enter her.


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The Main Entrance: Enjoy the headspring from a viewing deck, walk along the river on paved trails, see the ornamental gardens, and enjoy an easy stroll through the Real Florida. Visitors can enjoy a meal from the restaurant with a view of the spring. Glass bottom boat rides and canoe and kayak rentals are offered through our concessionaire. There is a $4.00 per boat launch fee if you bring your own canoe or kayak. There is no land access from the water along the river and in the headspring area except at the canoe and kayak launch ramp.
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Since the PlayStation 4 cat is officially out of the bag, Sony is seeing fit to squash some persistent rumors about its new console. The system won't require an always-on Internet connection, and Sony has also now confirmed that it won't be blocking you from playing used games.
Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida told Eurogamer very plainly that "used games can play on PS4." He said the "general expectation by consumers" is that when they "purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere."
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