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A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System
- C Paul Morrey,
- Yehoshua Perl,
- Michael Halper,
- Ling Chen,
- Huanying "Helen" Gu
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Terms representing chemical concepts found the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) are used to derive an expanded semantic network with mutually exclusive semantic types. The UMLS Semantic Network (SN) is composed of a collection of broad categories called semantic types (STs) that are assigned to concepts. Within the UMLS's coverage of the chemical domain, we find a great deal of concepts being assigned more than one ST. This leads to the situation where the extent of a given ST may contain concepts elaborating variegated semantics.
A methodology for expanding the chemical subhierarchy of the SN into a finer-grained categorization of mutually exclusive types with semantically uniform extents is presented. We call this network a Chemical Specialty Semantic Network (CSSN). A CSSN is derived automatically from the existing chemical STs and their assignments. The methodology incorporates a threshold value governing the minimum size of a type's extent needed for inclusion in the CSSN. Thus, different CSSNs can be created by choosing different threshold values based on varying requirements.
A complete CSSN is derived using a threshold value of 300 and having 68 STs. It is used effectively to provide high-level categorizations for a random sample of compounds from the "Chemical Entities of Biological Interest" (ChEBI) ontology. The effect on the size of the CSSN using various threshold parameter values between one and 500 is shown.
The methodology has several potential applications, including its use to derive a pre-coordinated guide for ST assignments to new UMLS chemical concepts, as a tool for auditing existing concepts, inter-terminology mapping, and to serve as an upper-level network for ChEBI.
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- Title
- A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
Journal of Cheminformatics
- Online Date
- May 2012
- 10.1186/1758-2946-4-9
- Online ISSN
- 1758-2946
- Publisher
- Chemistry Central
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Unified Medical Language System
- Vocabulary, Controlled
- Semantics
- Models, Chemical
- Chemical characterization
- Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
- Semantic Network
- Authors
- C Paul Morrey (1)
- Yehoshua Perl (2)
- Michael Halper (3)
- Ling Chen (4)
- Huanying "Helen" Gu (5)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Information Systems and Technology, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT, 84058, USA
- 2. Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
- 3. Information Technology Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
- 4. Department of Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007, USA
- 5. Department of Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, 1855 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023, USA


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Julien Le Dem 2011-03-20, 05:45
RE: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1923
Hi Julien,
Thanks for finding and fixing the problem! You need to do a couple of things before a patch can be committed: - Wait for a review and +1 on JIRA before committing the change. I think Richard would be the best person to review this. - Make sure that all unit tests pass - Run test-patch and make sure that there are no new warning. (And post results onto JIRA) Olga -----Original Message----- From: Julien Le Dem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1923 Hi, I just attached a patch that fixes a bug in the Jython UDFs found this week. I'm going to check it in, unless someone thinks otherwise. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1923 Julien |

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Sitting cross-legged on the floor, we chatted over a late supper of flat bread, cheese, and tiny glasses of hot, sweet tea. One of the men was Khoda, a Syrian house painter who had been working in Lebanon before he gave up his job to do this. "In Egypt, the revolution started because of poverty and hunger," he said. "In Libya it started because of misuse of power. In Syria, the main purpose of the revolution is to gain back our dignity and our honour."
"Dignity" was a word I heard a great deal from Syrians explaining the revolution. Here, he was talking about Dera'a, the small southern town where the uprising had begun. In March, 15 school children were arrested for spraying anti-regime graffiti on a wall. Desperate families went to the local security headquarters. According to the widely circulated stories, the officer told them to forget about their children and that his men would rape the mothers to give them more. Two weeks later, the children were released. Some had had their fingernails pulled out. Neither the injuries, nor the insult, were forgotten.
Khoda continued, "Syrians are immigrants in Lebanon, or Jordan, or Libya, because they don't feel their humanity in Syria and they go to search of it elsewhere. The minute you step over the border into Syria, you feel you have lost your humanity again because of this regime."
The next morning, Hassan showed up at the safe house, alive and wearing a triumphant grin. He had been arrested by a Syrian Army patrol, he said, and had pled with the captain to release him, pointing out that he was after all only carrying medicines. He offered to pay a bribe, a common practice along the border, which is frequently traversed by smugglers. The captain said he would like to help but that military intelligence were already on their way. Some soldiers took Hassan outside to a flatbed truck and were about to throw him in when he told his captor, an Alawite: "My family and my tribe know where you live. If I die here tonight, they will slaughter your whole village." He ran, pursued by the bullets we could hear a couple of miles away.
One question -- who is Alawite and who is Sunni? -- was in the background for every moment of my time in Syria, surfacing again and again in the conversations we had with fighters, activists, and local people. [ At the next safe house, I met Haydi Abdullah, who had been a nurse at the military hospital in Latakia before fleeing to join the opposition. After the protests started, he told me, any medical staff whose loyalty was not believed to be 100 percent were sacked. In practice, Sunni doctors and nurses were replaced with Alawites, who were thought more loyal to the Alawite-led government. "All the hospitals now have turned into huge military posts, full of security men," he said. Injured demonstrators "would receive all kinds of insults from the nurses and doctors: 'Bastard. Son of a bitch. Whore. Son of a dog. You spy, you agent of Israel.'" Haydi said he had seen four patients, injured protestors, murdered in the hospital. One man was brought in with a chest injury. "He would have survived but they [the doctors and nurses] beat him and stabbed him with needles. If my face had shown even a sign that I was upset, I would have been sent to jail."
"The medical staff doing this were not just Alawites. They were Sunnis, too," Haydi said, though he accused the regime of encouraging sectarian hatred and fear to shore up their Alawite base, a common perception among activists. But, as his account showed, the regime still has support outside the Alawite communities, including among the Sunni majority. That may be part of why it has survived almost a year of challenges to its authority on the streets. The opposition, for its part, includes some prominent Alawite and Christian participants. Syria has not yet completely divided along sectarian fault lines, though that is what many fear.
Many Syrians are retreating into their own communities. During our short stay, as we were passed along a chain of activist groups, we met only Sunnis. We were heading for Homs, now the main center of opposition to the regime, but a divided city where sectarian tensions are probably the most acute in Syria. As we entered the city, Free Army supporters helped us to slip past a military observation post on foot, warning that if the soldiers spotted us, they would shoot. Our final destination was the Sunni quarter, Bab Amr. The place felt as if it was under siege. Armored vehicles sat on the major road junctions. As we drove within sight of a checkpoint, soldiers fired a burst of shots over our heads. We fled, but, half an hour later, a teenage boy was brought past us from the same place, raw cartilage in his knee exposed by a bullet wound. While we were there, a six-year-old boy was killed while playing on his front doorstep, shot by a sniper, locals said.
Bab Amr was run by Abu Mohammed. Tough, squat, shaven-headed, tracksuit-wearing, he would no doubt suit the regime's propaganda, which paints the democracy movement as the voice of a rough Sunni underclass.Abu Mohammed had two degrees, one in economics and one in Arabic literature. The good jobs were reserved for the Alawites, he said, so he had become a tobacco smuggler, a trade that required having a few guns around. He brought out those weapons in April, when the regime started shooting unarmed demonstrators in Homs.
"There were the regular security forces and some intelligence officers but then buses came from Air Force Intelligence," he remembered. "They had black masks on their faces. As soon as the buses stopped, they got out and started shooting. There wasn't a single shot in the air. There were six martyrs and 20 wounded in two minutes." He brought his Kalashnikov to the next demonstration. He was the only one.Soon, though, there were others.
We were talking in his sitting room, a brand new M-16 with a telescopic sight propped up in the corner. "You can't buy a bag of flour unless you are a partner with someone in Assad's family or entourage," he said, explaining his anger with the Assad regime. "They have become so greedy they want a slice of every kind of business, small as well as big. They are not just stealing the natural resources like oil and gas -- OK, we can put up with that -- they are stealing from our businesses as well. That is unacceptable." He went on, "At least Hafez [al-Assad, the previous president] had the sense to give a few jobs to the Sunnis." That has changed. "The regime is 100 percent sectarian now. They only recruit Alawites. The Sunnis are marginalized."
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An integrated development environment, as in the case of CodeWarrior, is a graphical environment incorporating the main elements of software development. This includes managing the project, dependencies, libraries, editing code, compiling, debugging, linking and all of the usual coding tasks. It does not include paint programs or other multimedia tools that could be used in software development. Essentially, the idea of the IDE (not to be confused with Integrated Drive Electronics) is to combine all these things under one interface for easy project management. This is a different approach from using Emacs in one virtual console while running gcc in another and editing the Makefile in a third. An IDE will presumably take care of the entire project, and one can easily call up whichever parts of the program need editing and have the computer keep track of changes to the Makefile (or what would be the Makefile). This approach has its advantages and disadvantages.
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Because development is such a large part of the Linux movement, people are very sensitive to all sorts of programming issues, including devout preferences for certain keystrokes over others and one editor over another. CodeWarrior is flexible in these areas, allowing (or requiring) third-party products such as editors and debuggers. However, some shortcomings are applicable to the open-source, multi-platform world of GNU/Linux.
One advantage of the CodeWarrior IDE is that it eliminates the complications involved in writing and maintaining a Makefile. Probably the main disadvantage is that it eliminates the advanced functionality and power that go along with the Makefile. This means that on one level, anything you write with CodeWarrior cannot be compiled on non-CodeWarrior systems unless you write your own Makefile to correspond with the CodeWarrior .mpc file (not a difficult task). The other side of this problem is that if you want to use CodeWarrior to hack some typical open-source software, you have to convert the Makefile first. Frankly, this is often quite difficult, and it defeats a large part of the purpose of an IDE—you might do just as well or better with Emacs/vi/joe/pico in one window and a terminal running make in another.
One possible solution would be for Metrowerks to add a Makefile importer and exporter. (Macintosh and Windows versions are said to have a Makefile importer, though I have not had a chance to use it.) If there were an open-source version of this converter for Linux, developers who use CodeWarrior could easily cooperate with those who use other IDEs or the usual combination of Emacs (or vi) and make. A two-way converter may be a mildly difficult undertaking, considering the flexibility of make (with configure) compared to .mpc which is quite specialized. Still, it would be nice. So, although CodeWarrior may make cross-platform development much easier, it may slightly complicate cross-UNIX development. KDE developers in particular may be annoyed that it is difficult to use extended C++ class libraries like Qt. (I had trouble getting KDE programs to compile.)
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Are you looking for alfalfa varieties with potato leafhopper resistance or the multileaflet trait for enhanced forage quality?
Either way, you'll find a good selection, plus a number of more conventional options, in the 1998 new-variety lineup.
But don't make any special trait your top variety-selection criterion, warn forage agronomists. Yield potential remains most important by far. Pick varieties that have yielded well in university trials under conditions similar to yours. And look at performance over the life of the stand, not just the first year or two.
Most agronomists discourage growers from planting significant acreages to new varieties. Try a few in test strips, but plant most of your acreage to proven performers, they say.
Here are 1998's new varieties and some of their traits, as provided by seed marketers.
Mycogen Seeds' new TMF 421 is a Totally Managed Feedstuffs variety for Northern growers. A dark green, fine-stemmed variety, it offers a very high leaf-to-stem ratio and a high relative feed value (RFV) score. It's highly resistant to five of the six major alfalfa diseases, including bacterial and verticillium wilts, anthracnose, phytophthora root rot (PRR) and aphanomyces.
It's resistant to the sixth major disease, fusarium wilt, and to spotted alfalfa aphid. It's also highly resistant to pea aphid and stem nematode.
America's Alfalfa, Shawnee Mission, KS, introduces Arriba, a fall dormancy 7 alfalfa for Western producers. Highly resistant to fusarium wilt, it's also resistant to PRR and verticillium wilt.
Salada, also from America's Alfalfa, is noted for its persistent yield performance and impressive salt tolerance. Highly resistant to blue alfalfa aphid and southern root knot nematode, it has a fall dormancy rating of 9.
Breakout, a new variety from Brown Seed Farms, Inc., Prescott, WI, is a multileaflet alfalfa with a 3.5 fall dormancy rating. It offers fast recovery after cutting, excellent fall growth, top quality and across-the-board disease resistance. Its winterhardiness rating: 1.9.
WinterKing, new from Wensman Seed Co., Wadena, MN, is highly resistant to five of the major alfalfa diseases. WinterKing has a fall dormancy rating of 3 and was designed for fast recovery after three or four cuttings. It has high yields, good multileaflet expression, excellent forage quality and very good winterhardiness.
Champion LH, one of the first true leafhopper-resistant varieties, is available from Kaltenberg Seeds, Waunakee, WI. Under leafhopper pressure, the new alfalfa's forage yield and quality are significantly better than those of non-resistant varieties.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International announces five new varieties.
Recommended for use east of the Missouri River, 53Q60 will be the premium non-leafhopper-resistant alfalfa for the area. A medium fall dormant variety, it is to replace 5262, 5312 and 5454. It's highly resistant to PRR, anthracnose and bacterial wilt.
The variety 53V08 is a medium fall dormancy for the northwestern U.S. and Canada, where multiple pest resistance and quality forage production are required. It's suited to areas known to have stem and northern root knot nematode problems.
Targeted to replace 5396, the alfalfa shows high resistance to PRR, anthracnose, bacterial and fusarium wilts, pea aphid and stem nematode.
Pioneer's 54Q53, a late fall dormant variety, is adapted to the Northwest, Intermountain and Plains areas where nematodes are a problem. It also shows high resistance to PRR and bacterial and verticillium wilts.
The late fall dormant 54H55 is adapted to the Southern Plains states where blue aphid is a problem. It's highly resistant to PRR, spotted aphid, pea aphid, and blue aphid.
A non-dormant variety, 58N57 is adapted to the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys of California and low desert areas of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. Replacing 5715 and 5888, it shows excellent forage yield and high resistance to PRR, anthracnose, fusarium wilt, pea aphid, blue aphid and southern root knot nematode.
A new experimental alfalfa from Dairyland Seed, West Bend, WI, has the glandular-hair trait for potato leafhopper resistance. With moderate infestations, DS-9710 provides control without a need for insecticides.
Another leafhopper-resistant variety, LG 9337, is from LG Seeds, Peoria, IL. It offers high yields and excellent disease resistance to promote stand health and longevity.
A new alfalfa from Cargill, FQ302HR, features high resistance to potato leafhopper. It's also resistant to major alfalfa diseases and has a fall dormancy rating of 3. With excellent forage yield potential, the variety's winterhardiness is similar to Vernal.
Millennia, from Union Seed Co., Nampa, ID, combines late fall dormancy (4.4), very fast recovery after cutting and exceptional forage yield potential with very good winterhardiness (3.3).
It's highly resistant to bacterial and fusarium wilts, anthracnose, PRR and stem nematode; resistant to verticillium wilt, aphanomyces, spotted alfalfa aphid and pea aphid. It has a dark green color and high multifoliate leaf expression.
Dekalb Genetics, Dekalb, IL, has four new varieties, all with a fall dormancy rating of 4. DK140 has excellent winterhardiness and persistence, very fast recovery after cutting and high resistance to anthracnose, aphanomyces race 1, bacterial and fusarium wilts, PRR and spotted alfalfa aphid.
DK 141 offers high resistance to all six of the major alfalfa diseases and very fast recovery. Its excellent feed value makes it a choice for producers wanting to maximize profits.
The high-yielding DK 142 has very good winterhardiness and high resistance to aphanomyces race 1, bacterial and fusarium wilts, PRR, pea aphid and spotted alfalfa aphid.
DK 143 has fast cutting recovery and high resistance to anthracnose, bacterial wilt, PRR and pea aphid. It's well-suited for the Western Plains and the Intermountain/Pacific Northwest regions.
Novartis Seeds, Golden Valley, MN, has two new varieties that still go by experimental names.
4G75 is a high-yielding, late fall dormant variety with very good winterhardiness, excellent multiple pest resistance and high multileaflet expression.
3L 104, also high-yielding, is more winterhardy than other varieties with a 4 fall dormancy rating. It performs well over a wide range of environments in the West.
Geertson Seed Farms, Adrian, OR, introduces Monument, an extremely persistent variety resistant to lesion nematode and root-crown rots.
Rhino, also from Geertson, combines high yield performance with resistance to the six major diseases. It's also resistant to pea aphid, stem nematode and leafhopper yellowing.
GCS 2000 GH, from Gold Country Seed, Hutchinson, MN, holds the glandular-hair trait for leafhopper resistance. It resists disease and has strong winterhardiness, fast recovery, high relative feed value and high yield.
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The Future Of The Manual Transmission
stickguy Posts: 16,110honestly not sure how I feel about this, but I would love to try it. It almost sounds like a DSG with no auto mode, and the "pretend" clutch pedal some people have joked about.
actually, sounds like a modern interpretation of the old VW semi-automatic set up.
also sounds like something that could be useful in a semi?2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4i Limited Tech (mine), 2013 Acura RDX (wife's) and 2007 Volvo S40 (daughters college car)
Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 46,446
xwesx Fairbanks, AlaskaPosts: 8,821It almost sounds like a DSG with no auto mode, and the "pretend" clutch pedal some people have joked about.
That sounds like exactly what it is. But, if it has no automatic shifting, then it is still a manual; it's just a different interpretation of it. I'll pass... for now!2010 Subaru Forester, 2011 Ford Fiesta, 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup, 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon -
cdnpinhead Forest Lakes, AZPosts: 3,340
stickguy Posts: 16,110it was never to me about the clutch. It was about the driver having to initiate a gear change (and pick the gear) or else it could not happen. Changing gears makes it a manual. the clutch is just the mechanism to avoid grinding them.
so changing the actuation method of the clutch from hydraulic to electric really does not change the transmission.2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4i Limited Tech (mine), 2013 Acura RDX (wife's) and 2007 Volvo S40 (daughters college car)
cdnpinhead Forest Lakes, AZPosts: 3,340what I've enjoyed since the '70s, when I drove a Datsun 240Z to the terminal and a Kenworth with a 9509 Roadranger away, with a load of boats destined for the Great Lakes or New England, or wherever, was the ability to delay shifts, skip gears, or change my mind and go back into the gear I was just in.
I drove the KW much differently when I was bobtailing than when I was pulling a heavy load. Then there's whether you're going uphill or down and all the rest. The timing between shifts is a big deal. Many of us did it with no clutch at all, but it's nice to have it when needed. -
nippononly SF Bay AreaPosts: 12,695I would agree that is exactly what this would be, and GONE would be the ability to feather the clutch, to finesse the engagement of the gears to get the timing just so, much of the stuff that makes having a clutch fun and useful.
Plus it sounds scary to me when they say they expect it to improve fuel economy by 5 to 10%. To me that smacks of "the e-clutch will do some of your thinking for you in order to maximize your fuel economy".
I don't want my clutch thinking for me. If I had my druthers they would go back to the old chain connection to the clutch plate that preceded the hydraulic systems in use today.2013 Civic SI, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (stick)
xwesx Fairbanks, AlaskaPosts: 8,821I agree that much of the "feel" of the clutch was lost when hydraulic systems came on the scene. It is so easy to feel exactly where the engagement point is on my old Chevy pickup, and use that to maximum advantage. It took a long time for me to get used to a Subaru clutch pedal, which has about zero feel to it. For the longest time, it was just nothing.... nothing.... BAM-engaged! I had to adopt a drive-it-like-you-stole it mentality in order to consistently not stall from a stop.
I'm not sure if this is the case with the transmission cited earlier, but it seems that there is likely not a mechanical connection between the shifter and the gearbox, either. So, the transmission may only shifts after driver input, but the driver clearly isn't the one shifting the car. Still a manual, but an entirely different interpretation.2010 Subaru Forester, 2011 Ford Fiesta, 1969 Chevrolet C20 Pickup, 1969 Ford Econoline 100, 1976 Ford F250 Pickup, 1974 Ford Pinto Wagon -
stickguy Posts: 16,110I think is still has normal mechanical gear change. Nothing in their indicated otherwise. sounds more like the clutch will just automaticlaly disengage, but the trans stays in gear.
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stever Viva Las CrucesPosts: 43,022Or something like that.
"Hyundai has dropped the standard five-speed manual transmission in the base Tucson. All versions of the 2014 Tucson get the six-speed automatic transmission. Hyundai has also added an optional all-wheel-drive model to the base 2014 Tucson trim level. The 2014 Hyundai Tucson is on sale now."
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nippononly SF Bay AreaPosts: 12,695Subaru has just introduced a "Sport" trim of the Legacy. Can you get the "Sport" trim with a manual? Nope, just the dopey and fairly annoying CVT "with 6-speed manual shifting"(LOL!). Doesn't seem like there's much sport in the "Sport". More importantly, Subaru is finally moving away from manuals in most of the trims. It happened to Forester, it happened to Legacy and Outback, it is even happening in the Impreza line now. :-(
Looks like my next car may NOT be a Soob, if all the manuals are gone by then. I'm so sad - it seemed like they might be one of the few to keep the faith. I sure hope the BRZ and WRX continue to offer manuals, but I won't be buying a WRX unless they bring back the 5-door hatch (different topic there, I know). Thing is, they already went CVT-only with the new Forester turbo, so why not the next WRX as well?? :-( :-(2013 Civic SI, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (stick)
hpmctorque Posts: 4,358Different class from any (U.S.) Subise, I know, but have you driven the Fiat 500? After considering a MINI Cooper I bought a POP with manual in April, as a third car runabout, and am very pleased with it. We took it on a 1100 mile trip recently, and it cruises nicely at 70-80 mph. It has all the equipment I need, and the chassis is well sorted out, in terms of handling, steering and ride dynamics. Averaging 41.5 MPG over 7,700 miles, using premium. Good but not exceptional, given its size and weight.
The 500 comes with a 4 year/50,000 mile warranty, versus 3 years/36,000 typically for this class. No problems so far.
I was influenced to some extent by my neighbor, a car guy, who cross shopped the MINI and 500, and concluded that the Fiat's more compliant ride was easier to live with, day after day. Also, besides costing more, the MINI is also higher maintenance.
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nippononly SF Bay AreaPosts: 12,695Actually, I drove the 500 Sport when it first came out, and liked it a lot once the "Sport" button was pressed. I found it rather annoying though that you had to press that button every time and it wouldn't stay in the last mode it was in at shutdown.
In Normal mode the gas pedal was way too unresponsive for my tastes, and it felt like the steering was better in sport mode too.
Ultimately, the distance to the nearest dealer and the firmer ride of the Mini, which I actually prefer, led me away from the 500. But I still love the look and look forward to seeing them on the street. :-)2013 Civic SI, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (stick)
dudleyr Posts: 3,469Finally got some extended seat time in a Miata. I gotta say that despite this being considered one of the best shifters, it feels a little balky to me. Throws are nice and short, but it takes a fair amount of effort to stir the thing. Is this normal?
Little background. This is my bosses car and he offered to lend it to me for a week to see if I wanted to buy it. It is a '95 with only 26,000 miles. He usually keeps in in storage and gets it out for the summers. I wonder if it just needs new tranny oil. He has probably never changed that - given the mileage.
BTW it is a hoot to drive. Reminds me of a Triumph Spitfire I drove some in high school. Sure is a chore to get in and out, but that adds to the experience. -
Mr_Shiftright CaliforniaPosts: 46,446It's a very short stick, so you're getting that same kind of effort as when you buy a short-shift kit, I think. You're losing leverage on such a stubby "oar".
How's that Fiat 500 in a crosswind? Sandman says it's a handful for him.
the Fiat is certainly cheaper than the Mini. A loaded MINI can bust $30K!MODERATOR --Need help with anything? Click on my name!
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stever Viva Las CrucesPosts: 43,022Looks like the 7 speed manual is standard. (2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray Z51 Long-Term Road Test)
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dudleyr Posts: 3,469I would bet the Corvette gets top speed in 5th or even 4th. 6th is still pretty darn tall. Top gear in recent Corvettes has been about 1300 rpm at 60 mph so with a 6500 rpm redline that would be a top speed of 300 mph. So you would need to be geared 1/3 lower for a 200 mph top speed, so probably a 2 or 3 gear drop.


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Pastaworks is excited to announce that starting Tuesday, June 17th, The Meating Place will be setting up shop at what has been the Pastaworks meat counter.
The Meating Place is a full-service butcher and meat shop with, until now, one location on Cornelius Pass Road in Hillsboro. From 1974 - 1998 owner Steve Crossley and his staff were known for their jerky, sausage, smoked salmon and wild game processing. In 1993, 15-year-old Casey Miller was hired as a part-time clean-up kid, and when The Meating Place closed in 1998, Casey went on to manage other meat markets. In 2013, Casey was able to purchase The Meating Place and reopen.
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An In-Depth Review of Chris Farrell Membership
I've received more review requests for Chris Farrell Membership than any other program. Combined with the ridiculous number of positive reviews out there, I couldn't put it off any longer. I paid my $4.95 7-day trial fee, created my account, and this is my review.
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Chris Farrell Membership is an introductory training program for beginners looking to learn Internet Marketing. It was created by none-other than Chris Farrell, a good looking English chap with an accompanying accent. The goal of his site is to provide you with the training, tools, and support to build an Internet Marketing business from home.
You can try the program for 7 days for only $4.95. After the first seven days, you will be billed $37.00 every month that you remain a member. This membership fee includes access to every training program he created, unlimited support from the support staff, and unlimited web hosting (usually costs $20 a month by itself!) You really do get your money's worth here.
Almost all of his training is video-based. Personally, I much rather prefer text-based training. I like being able to learn at my own pace. With videos you have to constantly rewind, pause, and rewatch segments to make sure you understand it all. If you're a visual learner, this is definitely a course for you.
Chris started his Internet Marketing career late 2007/early 2008 and within less than a year, he was making enough online to comfortably live in Beverly Hills. His training is a collection of tutorials he wrote after finding what works online. It's very much a "follow in my footsteps" type program. Chris himself is seen around the site frequently answering questions and providing help.
Yeah, but does it work?
Chris teaches tried and true methods of Internet Marketing. These are methods that I personally use on a near daily basis so I know that they DO work. But, I have found a few of his methods outdated and there was little mention to recent developments in the Internet Marketing world. Take the recent Google "Panda" update for example. This was HUGE news to Internet Marketers worldwide, but I was only able to find one mention of it on his entire site. Someone created a forum post about it and received 3 replies. That was it.
His teaching is also very basic. He starts at an absolute beginners level. I'm talking "I-just-know-how-to-browse-the-Internet" level. His videos are VERY easy to follow and Chris does an exceptional job as a teacher.
Is it possible to make money following ONLY Chris's teaching? Absolutely, 100% yes. But, I do believe you'll be spending quite a few months trying to do so and will ultimately seek out help from another program. This is where it gets tricky though. Without Chris's help, you wouldn't have the basic knowledge required to seek out and learn more. So while you're not going to get rich from his training, you will need this basic foundation of knowledge to get started. Does that make sense?
What I Liked
Tons of Training
The amount of information readily available to you is astounding, to say the least. There are over 1,000 different training videos and 20+ different training programs to follow. You are absolutely getting your money's worth when it comes to the quantity of content you receive.
Consistent Updates
The site is updated often. Chris is constantly working on providing his subscribers with more. There are new additions made almost daily and every new feature is included with your membership.
Chris & His Likability
Damn is Chris likable. He has a sincerity about him that is unmatched. It's hard to put into words. When he speaks, you can tell he's genuinely interested in helping you build an online business. Above all, he is a great teacher.
It's quite obvious Chris Farrell isn't in the business of ripping people off. Immediately after creating your account, Chris provides you with cancellation instructions should you feel the need to leave the program. It's honestly the first piece of instruction he offers. You don't have to jump through any hoops, or fight your way out of a contract. Login, cancel your account, and be done with it.
Timely, Quality Support
I was most impressed by the support staff. There is a dedicated support team and they offer round-the-clock help. I've been browsing through the forum and nearly every question was answered within a few minutes with a detailed, helpful explanation.
It's really hard to find such quality support these days. Most programs will try and sell you some sort of "support" add-on package or offer additional coaching at thousands of dollars per month, but not Chris. It's all included with your membership and well worth the price of the membership alone.
What I Didn't Like
The Navigation
I really do not like the site's navigation. It feels very clumsy. It's like Chris set out to build this grand mansion, but built it one room at a time with little regard to previous rooms he built. There's no real sense of direction either. There are five different introduction pages all explaining different ways of getting started. The site just doesn't flow.
A face-lift would do the site wonders as well. Even though it's updated daily, it feels very outdated. I don't see this happening any time soon (if ever) since his videos frequently refer to areas around his site. This unfortunately means the site will only continue to fall behind in terms of design.
Chris really just needs to go through and browse the pages of his site. The entire site needs to be proofread. I found plenty of typos, randomly capitalized words, the text 'click here' with no links, and plenty of other mistakes. Take this for example. This is the text that shows up when you click to Chris's blog…
Please note that right now (August 2010) I have had to take my blog offline – as I have had interest by a publisher to turn it into a book.
This publisher is currently taking a look at this – but my blog WILL be back online here – by the first week of October.
Thank you – and please do feel free to check back here then.
My apologies for it being temporarily unavailable.
Chris Farrell, August 2010
It's not a big deal since this doesn't impact your training, but these little things start to add up.
The Discussion Forum
Man, the forum desperately needs better organization and an updated design as well. It is very text heavy. There are literally hundreds of thousands of posts in the 'Troubleshooting' sub-forum alone. This could easily be broken up into different categories. I can't imagine how hard it would be to find a topic you saw a few days ago and wished to read again.
I took a screenshot of the forum to show you what it looks like.
The Positive Reviews
I was drawn to Chris Farrell Membership mainly due to the overwhelming number of positive reviews about the program. This both intrigued and worried me. While Chris doesn't ever say "Go here and give me a positive review," he does ask that you leave a testimonial and review the program. Any one this far into the course will have been with Chris for a while and will likely have nothing but nice things to say about the guy and the sheer amount of positive reviews drowns out any legitimate qualms another user may have with the program.
Little Focus on WordPress/CMSs
This is the number one issue I have with training at Chris Farrell Membership. The main focus of his training is teaching beginners how to build static HTML pages pretty much from scratch. In this day and age, that's entirely unnecessary. There are tools (mainly WordPress) out there that will build complex, easy to update & manage websites for you within seconds. Why bother spending all that time trying to design, build, and manage a website when you can have WordPress do all of that work for you?
There ARE a few training materials on WordPress, but the videos are from 2009. WordPress is entirely different today. The concept is very much the same, but it functions entirely different today. You won't get any of the benefits of WordPress (plugins, proper SEO, the ability to connect with your readers, instant & easy changes to your site) without a ton of work on your part with a static website.
If you follow Chris Farrell's program, you will be wasting a lot of time learning basic HTML and trying to build your own website. Hell, the first few days of his 21 Days to Success program are all about learning about different files on your computer and how to resize images. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff here.
The Bottom Line
So, do I recommend you join Chris Farrell Membership?
Well, yes and no. I suppose if I had some sort of rating system on this blog, I'd give Chris Farrell Membership 2.5 thumbsups out of five.
The training isn't bad, but it's not exactly great either. Chris Farrell is a fantastic teacher and he's very knowledgeable on all topics Internet Marketing. With that said, his training is mainly geared toward complete beginners. He teaches older methods of building websites and I just think there are much easier ways of learning Internet Marketing. Experienced Internet Marketers will be bored to tears and likely won't stay past the 7-day trial.
His training is good if you want to start venturing out into Internet Marketing, but don't want to commit a whole lot of money up-front. You'll learn the basics and get a real good grasp on the foundations of Internet Marketing; however, I firmly believe that you will need to move on from Chris's training to make a substantial income online.
Chris Farrell Membership is 100% NOT a scam.
I hate not having a more definitive answer for you, but take everything you read here, click here and take a look around Chris Farrell Membership, and try and decide if the program is right for you.
Feel free to leave questions in the comments below and I'll try and answer them as well.
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I've read through all of these reviews above, and they make some interesting reading – and I would venture to say that I am well qualified to contribute some comments of my own here about Chris and his membership site.
I've been a member of Chris Farrell Membership since November of 2009, and I still AM – and hey, get this, I have paid EIGHT HUNDRED (UK) POUNDS to attend an exclusive closed-door weekend training workshop which he is hosting LIVE in person, here in the UK in London, on the 26th and 27th of July. He is calling this training/coaching event 'WHAT'S WORKING IN 2014′. . .
It would have been one thousand pounds (which I would have still gladly paid anyway) but he decided when he first announced this in his emails to offer a 'super early bird discount' of two hundred pounds, which I duly decided to take full advantage of. . .
To put this in his own words: Why is this priced so highly?
Answer: So that the training doesn't have to be 'watered down' in any way to reflect and justify any lower or cheaper cost for people to attend, AND to enable him to separate out the PRETENDERS from those who are genuinely serious and committed towards wanting to make money and build a business online!!
I KNOW Chris (on a conversational and face-to-face level at first hand already from several previous meetings I've had with him here in the UK, and I can vouch for the fact that he is an all round honest and nice guy who really cares about his members succeeding with all this online money making stuff
I am VERY excited about this closed-door training workshop because I've been waiting for several YEARS for Chris to finally get around to doing something EXACTLY JUST like this!! (It's limited to a maximum of thirty people, including myself) – and to pay this kind of money upfront is a huge and unreserved leap of faith on my part.
There must be a few of you reading this who are beginning to really envy me here and wishing that they could be in my place
I will echo what's been said above about Chris being a fantastic and extraordinary internet marketing teacher
and also on the flip side, about much of his stuff being somewhat outdated now, BUT he's got that all covered and fully resolved to the extent that his site has just this week (backend of June 2014) been massively updated and overhauled with a whole new look and structure, and a much easier and better system of content navigation all factored in!
There is the self-evident promise here of some truly great things yet to come from him for all of his members
(both now and in the foreseeable future) who are SERIOUS about wanting to make money online.
I already know that my investment in this forthcoming training event of Chris's is going to be worth every last single penny! I can't wait!!
And yes, I can attest already to the fact that his methods WORK!! It's all a matter of just how much you want to scale everything up that he is able to teach you as to how much income you can generate
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Hi. I understand your point of view. But it is well out of date. Site has been redesigned. Is WP focused now. So ALL course matetials based on WP. Agree with trackin of podts etc within forum BUT the support is outstanding. Svailable 24hrs.answers within 30mins mostly. Also hz privat ticket system so personal details r not in public forums. Been mem 4 some time. It is the support that keeps me there,where question regarding more advanced issues r deslt with promptly, the updates of current changes. Will there come a time when I will leave. Possibly, but not till I know a lot more advanced stuff. That team are fantastic. B
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Thanks for the review you provided me with exactly the information I was looking for with regards to his program. I will likely not purchase it but agree that he seems like a standout guy.
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I was actually a member 2 years ago. But I've already managed to learn what I needed at CFM so I moved out. Anyway, back then I never knew anything, nada, zilch. But because of CFM, I managed to learn the basics. Just the basics though. If you're an average or a professional marketer, your better off somewhere else. If you're a newbie, then I suggest CFM. You're in good hands.
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WOW! Steve this was a great review, thanks. It sounds great to me. And he is likeable just like all of us should be for our visitors.
I am not a new newbie, but I am basically new because I still am not making money.
The training sounds great and it sounds like you can stop anytime. He sounds honest.
His price is good just to access the training. and I am going to go in and leave when I have gleaned what I need. Thanks again, this review was respecttful to all of us! Thanks, Mary↓ -
This is an excellent review. BUT
All the training now is based on setting up an online biz using Word Press .
Whilst at the same time continuing via the formum, support of those who still use HTML .
Been a member since 2011, don't know what iwould do without it.
Most people I believe working towards an on-line income, work full time or have heavy commitments. So yes it takes as ling as i takes for each individual.
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About the question: "Has anyone made money with Chris's methods?"
As mentioned in the review (Yeah, but does it work?), Chris teaches fundamental list building strategies. Use a squeeze page to capture email, follow up with an autoresponder series, build a relationship with your list and profit from sending affiliate offers and your own products to your list.
This is a tried and true method of making money online taught by many programs with many success stories in every niche imaginable.
To get you started right away, Chris offers a squeeze page and resources to market his member site. This is common with many programs, including WA recommended by the author.
That is so you can get started right away learning the technical side of things with an opportunity to profit as an affiliate.
My opinion is that affiliates that offer reviews like this or have their own marketing lists probably do better than new students sending traffic to the Chris Farrel squeeze.
In order to be "successful", as some have asked, you need to grow from the Chris Farrel course using the fundamentals he teaches to create your own sales funnel, your own product and a list in your own niche.
The squeeze page->list marketing model is the primary Chris Farrel model.
Although there is some information, he does not teach how to build a blog- hence the very basic (and now outdated) WordPress training.
Chris Farrel is a fan of using Facebook Pages to build your reputation and relationship with your followers to drive traffic rather than your own blog.
Many people have made lots of money "using Chris Farrel's methods" because he teaches proven fundamental IM strategies.
That is different than asking: "Has anyone made money using the Chris Farrel default templates to sell his course as an affiliate?"
If all you do is plug in the default Chris Farrel squeeze page and use the canned follow up emails "from Chris" you aren't really "building a relationship" as the program recommends.
You need to use what he teaches you as a model for your own business.
Since Chris Farrel is also very basic and getting outdated, you will probably need to "graduate" to another program at some point to really grow. That is also noted by the author.
This review is very accurate in pointing out the pros and cons of the program.
The big (only?) plus for the Chris Farrel Membership is, if you are really new, totally lost and technically inept, Chris Farrel really holds your hand.
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Hi Steve
very good review, I really like it – transparent and honest! keep up good work!
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What other course would you recommend that has a similar step
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I'm not a member but the biggest attraction for me is the unlimited web hosting (currently I'm paying NZ$35 a month to host one site). As this review mentioned 'you really do get your money
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I agree with same comment Henry White has made. I have read many glowing testimonials about how Chris Farrell is a brilliant teacher and his methods are great for a complete newcomer. What I cannot find are testimonials from those who have 'completed' his course and teaching methods and are now making a living online because of it. Has anybody created an online income from his methods?
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Please don't take this as a slam on Chris. As a matter of fact. I like the little guy. I have only one problem. I can't for the life of me get a clear answer to this question from anybody. Is there any one of Chris' graduate students making a decent living with his program? Thanks for your reply.
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Can not recommend Chris Farrell. No Support. Never answers email. Issues from members go unanswered. If you make an unwelcome comment or email he cancels your membership without warning.
Some of his Training Videos and Methods do not work and when members call him on it, he ignores the problem.
The FORUM is worthless and support non-existant.
I do agree some of his videos are well presented and informative.
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I think I figured Chris out. He will teach you exactly how he made money online 3 years ago, which is pretty much by teaching people how to make money online.
He will teach you the methods he used on how to make six figures or more teaching people something. So it's good to go through his course if you want to make money by teaching people something, growing a list and having a relationship with that list – just like him.
But he teaches it as if it's the only way to make money online. I hated his method because it wasn't for me. It will be good for you if you are a teacher/mentor at heart. I am not.
I finally started making money online after I left his course and decided to try another course that taught a totally different method of IM – without the need of list building. So Chris is a great teacher, but he teaches one approach out of maybe thousands.↓ -
I was a member of Chris Farrell's site in 2009. Back then he had an older design and there were no Facebook courses.
However, I have to say that this review is dead accurate and the best I've seen online. Chris's program is best for the brand spanking new affiliate marketer, the kind whose internet experience is basically email. It's for the beginner of the beginners or the confused of the confused.
If you're not a newbie to internet marketing and are looking for more technical improvements like increasing sales, SEO, traffic, you're already WordPress proficient, already understand how an autoresponder works, etc., you're better off checking with experts elsewhere.
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I have been researching the you-know-what out of this program and have been on the fence about it. I finally found some "bad" reviews after hours of research. It sounds like it's not a scam, that the focus is on selling Chris' products (ugh) and that not many people have admitted to making money. The other thing I'm questioning is that so many sites recommend more and more products and software… so would you need that stuff to help out SEO?
Sure, he might lay it out and make it simple for people, but does it perform when it comes down to the wire? Ic an't find enough proof.
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Thanks for the review. I was wondering if it was only me who thought it wasn't up to snuff.
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This review is very helpful …thank you !!
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Thanks for the review. For an affiliate marketing newbie, trying to figure this stuff out is really overwhelming. When I started reading this review of Christ Farrell's program, my first thought was "Wow! This is what I need; a basic introduction". However, if there's one thing I've learned during my adventures in self-education it's that outdated information makes it harder to succeed. Everything changes: procedures, technologies, business methods, etc.
I can also tell you from personal experience that designing web pages from scratch is a real bear. You have a lot of things to consider including usability, navigation, cross-browser compatibility, aesthetics and target audience. Believe it or not, there are still places in this country where people use dial-up connections. it takes forever shove a graphics- and animation-heavy web site down a standard analog connection.
I would not recommend this method for Chris Farrell's target audience of people who just know how to browse the web. Sure, if you're motivated enough, you can learn to hard-code in standards-compliant HTML or use a drag-n-drop WYSIWYG program like Serif WebPlus, but the learning curve will be a lot longer than for learning how to use WordPress.
I agree that Wealthy Affiliate is still the best deal on the web. I tried it and dropped out because I couldn't see how anyone could make any money from affiliate marketing what with all the competition. Then I started studying Kyle's & Carson's ebook on Google Adwords (after kicking myself four ways to Sunday for being a total idiot for spending my money on it) and now affiliate marketing is starting to make sense. If you need a basic introduction to affiliate marketing, get a a copy of "Beating Google Adwords" from Kyle & Carson. Haven't made any money yet, but I'm confident I will soon.
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As a member of Chris's site for almost a year, I agree with most of what you have said here. Especially the site navigation and teaching some dated methods of web design.
Your observations about Chris's likeability and his skills as a teacher are bang on.
When I joined, I had been trying online marketing for a while but had not understood the concept and power of building a list and using squeeze pages. The Chris Farrell Membership site really clarified how to set up an online business and look at it as a long term strategy.
One thing overlooked in this review and something I find very valuable on Chris's member site is his knowledge and teaching of facebook.
Chris's "Understanding Facebook" course is a very comprehensive look at facebook from a beginning introduction to quite advanced topics. His ideas for traffic, getting fans and promoting your facebook site go beyond what I have seen in many courses.
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Thanks for this review. You saved me the trouble of joining. As someone that is not a novice at internet marketing, I probably wouldn't get as much value. I definitely agree with the organization aspect. It seemed a bit all over the place. But I've heard people argue that about our favorite training program WA. LOL
Not focusing on a wordpress to teach people how to build a website is a disservice to newbies. But at the same time learning basic html will help them appreciate wordpress when they eventually discover it on their own. However the reality is newbies should learn html so they can gain the simple technical skills they'll need to build a link, add an image, copy and paste, etc. It's amazing how that stuff stops a lot of newbies in their tracks so it's good that Chris focuses on it so that people can fully take action on the marketing aspect.
Sounds like this is a great starter course to take before graduating into something like Wealthy Affiliate. I guess it's like the regular school system, they don't just throw you into college. lol You have to learn your ABC's first and this sounds like a perfect elementary school for novices to start with.
Thanks Steve!
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Definitely not a scam, but when I started, I also felt like I was going back into a time long forgotten as I dived into learning html and Kompozer.
One thing that did help me was the autoresponder training, and being able to learn and do at the same time using his available free material to practice with (that some have even gone on to make money with).
However, it seems as if the time has come to take my leave since I feel like I've gotten all the basics I need, and can't justify the cost of staying.
Overall: Great site, the honesty is refreshing, especially in this oh so shady industry. I'm glad to have experienced it.
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Again, thanks for this review Steve! Well, though it's not a scam, I wouldn't like joining Chriss Farrel too. I'm already in Wealthy Affiliate and men, I like it.
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I receive Chris's news letter though I am not a member of his program. I agree
his is as likable a person you'll meet on the net or anywhere else for that matter. I have been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for about two years now and
like that program very much. But I agree that Chris's program is definitely not
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I have had nothing but bad customer service from DirecTV. When I began getting bad reception on both my TV's, I called the tech support people multiple times. Two different technicians thought the most likely problem was that the receivers and/or cables were old and had gone bad, therefore needing to be replaced.
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Their only record of my conversation with her is that 1 receiver needed to be replaced. I feel this is a scam to get a few more bucks out of me, because they knew I needed both pieces of equipment. I was very clear about the problem.
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Posted by contact on 07/14/2008
On behalf of DirecTv, I am hereby authorized to send each and every account that has outstanding balances to CBE for collections. This is my job. Pay your bills on time and in full, and we would not have to do this. Being poor/broke is not an excuss, you ordered the service, you pay the bill.
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This sounds just like my story. First, they tell you you are a loyal customer and then they treat you like garbage. I got the new receiver and three days later it does not work. They have lousy customer service and what is worse you have to talk to the Phillipines One tech support rep told me they are not really tech support but they are given a book to look up a problem and read what to do. I asked to speak to a manager and I was told they only take calls from their supervisor. Then I tried to schedule a service call and was told only case management could do that and they would call back in two hours. They never did because they were calling a number in Nebraska and I live in Texas. Today I finally received a call from case management after five hours (they don't take calls either) and was told it would be a week which is the next day they have available. The customer service from the billing, tech support, etc., is rude, unprofessional and could care less about their customers. I am cancelling, they can eat the cancellation fee and going with DishTV.
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Called and spoke to David (U2631) at DIRECTV he informed me Amanda would return my call within 2 hours.
Amanda (R9631) at DIRECTV called offered me 60 days credit I politely refused and again informed DIRECTV that I would be suing in small claims court and filing criminal charges for unauthorized use of a credit card. Amanda kept telling me that DIRECTV had spoken with me and I had not called DIRECTV to confirm the disconnect and that DIRECTV had billed me for approximately 30 months before I noticed. I stressed to Amanda that I had never been contacted by DIRECTV after my initial E-mail in July, 2006 and that I had never spoken to DIRECTV about this account until February 24, 2009 when I discovered the fraudulent billing.
DIRECTVs position appears to be that I did not catch DIRECTV soon enough so DIRECTV intends to keep most of the funds that DIRECTV fraudulently removed from my bank account because I did not catch DIRECTVs fraud quickly enough. The approximately $100 credit DIRECTV offered does not equal the approximately $1600 dollars DIRECTV obtained fraudulently.
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