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GolFIT Carolina is a golf fitness website dedicated to helping golfers play better, healthier golf. It's author/owner, Bob Forman, is a Certified Golf Fitness Instructor, Author and Speaker who is internationally recognized as a leader in golf fitness programming. He holds a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology and certifications through the Titleist Performance Institute and the American College of Sports Medicine. The articles, videos, and other related material presented here are intended to help golfers enhance swing mechanics and efficiency, thereby increasing distance, improving playing performance and satisfaction, and preventing/alleviating injury. This information is based on Bob's 30+ years in the fitness industry and his work with golfers of all ages and skill levels. New information is added monthly, so please take a look around and come back often.
The shoulder with its complex network of muscles, tendons, labrum, and ligaments plays a significant role in the golf swing. If one or both sides are compromised, it can have a significant impact on swing mechanics, distance, and injury.
One of the main power moves in the golf swing that is often the topic of discussion for the monthly golf publications is a good shoulder turn. The rationale being the further back you can take the club, the greater the distance the clubhead will travel and the more clubhead speed you'll be able to generate.
Unfortunately for many golfers restriction in shoulder rotation, specifically external shoulder rotation, can hinder a good shoulder turn.
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The computer age has done wonders for bringing the world closer together, but it's ruining our golf swings. Sitting all day, hunched over your computer, does not bode well for posture in general, and can wreck havoc on your performance on the golf course.
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- Balance between the chest and upper back muscles for a neutral spine at address.
- Flexible hip flexors to prevent swaying of the lower back (S-posture) at address.
- Adequate range of motion in the mid-back and lats to allow for a good shoulder turn.
- The ability to disassociate the upper body from the lower (X-factor).
- A fair degree of rotational movement in the shoulders.
- Adequate glute strength and lower body stability to avoid excessive lateral and forward movement of the hips.
- Flexible internal hip rotators to allow for freedom of movement in the hips.
- Forearm muscle strength and balance
- Good overall balance
- Adequate cardiovascular fitness to ward off fatigue on the back 9. Fatigue will negatively impact swing mechanics and increase the risk for injury!
Need help with any or all? Seek out a Certified Golf Fitness Instructor.
Pick up any golf magazine and you'll inevitably find an article dedicated to achieving more power and distance. These combined, after all, are the Holy Grail of golf and the right buttons to push from a marketing perspective.
It's one thing to write about the 4 keys, it's another to perform them. My guess is that there's an assumption that golfers have the flexibility, range of motion, strength and balance to step out on the golf course and readily replicate any one or all of the power moves. The reality, however, is that most do not. It's the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about, yet is the foundation to better ball striking, an efficient golf swing and a better golf game.
I've been assessing amateur and professional golfers, young and old, male and female, for nearly 10 years and every single one has had at least 1 physical deficiency that impacted their swing mechanics and/or injury. Most had multiple deficiencies. We all have them.
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Power in the golf swing can be enhanced through better recruitment of the fast-twitch muscle fibers. This power/speed exercise will facilitate that recruitment while also focusing on swing sequence.
- Enhance swing efficiency
- Increase distance
- Improve playing performance and satisfaction
- Identify and correct golf-specific injury triggers
All for much less than what another brand new driver that's going to "fix my game" would cost
The golf exercises are going great. I am hitting the ball the best I have ever hit it. My back pain has gone away also.
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If your Club or organization would like to host an informative golf fitness workshop, contact Bob at email@example.com or 336-509-4610.
Bob came to my club and did a hour long session on the basics of his teaching and philosophy of fitness and how it relates to the golf swing and its performance. My members thoroughly enjoyed the hour and wanted more. I was impressed with his content and explanation. My members were floored with his Q&A and his personal adaptation to their issues. I was impressed with his interaction with attendants of the seminar. If you are looking for someone to integrate your fitness program with the golf program, Bob is the guy to do it! We will be booking Bob to come back to our club next spring.
Shannon Howell, PGA Head Golf Professional
Country Club of Sapphire Valley, Sapphire Valley, NC
"Bob Forman was fabulous! He is a great presenter who shared some extremely valuable information related to how anatomical deficiencies such as: poor posture, flexibility, and balance impact our golf swing. He not only shared what they are and how they impact the swing, but also demonstrated exercises to help correct them."
Ellen Gregory
EWGA-Wilmington, NC chapter
"Westchester is one of the Country's largest private clubs with a membership that has high expectations for service and performance. Bob Forman's seminar on golf specific fitness and flexibility was extremely well received and motivated many of my members to begin a program of evaluation, exercise and follow-ups. I highly recommend Bob for his knowledge, energy , and ability to connect with amateurs concerning golf fitness."
John Kennedy, Director of Golf
Westchester CC, Harrison, NY
Bob has a fantastic ability to understand and combine his expertise of the physical complexities of the human body with the PGA Professional's trained eye with respect to the complexities of the golf swing. Bob offers a refreshing angle that most amateur and professional golfers can understand and embrace. Many times, a golfer will have physical limitations that prevents him or her from moving the way the PGA Professional is trying to instruct. Bob can take the golfer's weakest physical traits and focus a training program to better overcome those obstacles and allow the golfers to ultimately improve their swing.
Dennis Nicholl, PGA Head Golf Professional
The Dunes Golf & Beach Club, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Functional Golf Fitness Training is a comprehensive player improvement resource for golfers of all ages and levels, teaching professionals and coaches.
A great manual for golf teams as well.
Dedicated chapters on:
- the common physical deficiencies most golfers have, how to detect and correct with over 40 golf-specific exercises and drills
- preventing/alleviating the #1 injury in golf, low back injury
- how to fix the more common swing faults
- how to put together an inexpensive home gym
Amazon reviews:
"Very clear explanations of causes and fixes for main physical deficiencies affecting golfers. Easy to follow instructions. While other books may give a whole laundry list of exercises that end up not being used, Forman has selected a few for each issue and puts together a program that doesn't take long to do"
"This book not only tells you what to do but also why you need to do and what results you can expect.
I have every book in print about golf fitness and this book is by far the best."
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Swing mechanics are often influenced by physical deficiencies in the golfer's body. Below are some of the more common swing faults, their physical causes and how to correct.
While correcting the deficiencies, you also need to rewire the brain-body connection in order to break out of the inefficient swing pattern.


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Take a Trip to Rajasthan, India
Today is devoted to travel in Rajasthan. I've outlined a circular itinerary through the mythical land of the Maharajahs that I hope will entice you to click and scroll away. But what have I missed? Where would you go, what would you see, on a winter's trip through India's cultural oasis? Would you endorse a camel-trek into the dunes of the Thar desert, fully-aware of the sore ass that results, and the nasty stink that the camels emit with each clomp through the sand?
(Photo credits: yours truly and my dear friend Maggie)
From Singapore to Hong Kong: Shopping Festivals Across Asia
Check this out. A recent article in the International Herald Tribune highlighted a fantastic new trend: shopping wars escalating across Asia. With every big city in Asia competing to draw tourists, shopping festivals have become the focus of retail-themed vacations. July's Great Singapore Sale generated incredible retail sales and record visitor arrivals. For the eight-week shopping fest, 1.9 million tourists indulged in tourism-shopping sprees. And these folks know how to shop. Apparently, more than half tourist expenditure went to shopping. Likewise, Kuala Lumpur has consolidated three discount shopping periods into the six-week Mega Sale Carnival, running from the end of July to the beginning of September. Not to be outdone, Hong Kong has created its own HK Shopping Festival, which transformed the usual slow end-of-summer-season into another peak travel season. Bangkok's Amazing Thailand Grand Sale also runs during June and July.
What does this mean for consumers? Aggressive marketing campaigns and hefty competition means consumers score big with competitive pricing, give-aways and promotional gimmicks, like free foot massages in Malaysia and Lucky Draw prizes in HK (including diamonds and luxury watches.)
PS. In case you missed the summer's shopping extravaganzas, never fear. The Dubai Shopping Festival takes place from January 4 to February 5, and includes raffle prize give-aways worth $2.7 million, 100 kilograms of gold and 10 cars.
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Situated in the heart of Mayfair, surrounded by charming antique stores, boutiques, and public gardens, the Connaught is a hop and a skip from London's Bond Street stores and all of the best theaters, museums and parks. The 67 rooms and 24 suites boast sitting rooms with open fires and exquisite antiques. But what I'm really lovin' is 24 hour concierge service and butler service on every floor. (And the Penthouse balcony overlooking the Mayfair rooftops, accessed through French windows from the sitting room.) The restaurant MENU, the mahogany-panelled interior designed by Nina Campbell, offers award-winning cuisine by Angela Hartnett. From now until December 31st, check out this special offer. The Inspirational Interiors Weekend is a brand new weekend promotion for those with a taste for Interior Design. Guests are greeted with a bottle of champagne in their room, along with a Connaught handbook of the chicest places to shop. In addition, guests have the option of a chauffeured car service for two hours (additional fee). The Inspirational Interiors weekend is available any Friday/Saturday/Sunday.
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P.S. The Five Best Islands to Live on
Courtesy-- again-- of Island Magazine. Any that didn't make the list? What's your tropical dream?
Islands Mag November Events Calendar
Islands Magazine has put together a pretty snazzy events calendar for this November. Their picks? Hawaii, for the incredible star-gazing of the Taurid meteor showers. (You've never seen falling stars like this!) Moorea, on November 3-6, for Tattoonesia, the island's first International Tattoo Convention. (Ooops, the revival has already come and gone.) St. Barts on November 16, to taste the first Beaujolais Nouveau wine of the year (six hours ahead of France, confined to the traditional midnight uncorking). And Australia, on November 4-13, for the Whitsunday Fantasea Reef Festival, celebrating the marvels of the Great Barrier Reef.
Indoor Water Parks Open in the Northeast: Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos
Live in the Northeast? Don't worry about flying to Florida this winter when you can take your swimsuit to a water park!, a recent AP article counseled. Hmmm, a lodge in the Poconos vs. Miami Beach. Somehow-- I muse-- it's not quite the same thing… But read on, loyal reader, the concept is pretty sweet. The park in question just opened in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains (very convenient to the whole Megalopolis of the East Coast), and another one is opening soon in New York's Adirondacks. Great Wolf Lodge is a 78,000 sq ft indoor water park, with 401 suites (log cabin style), an arcade, spa, restaurants and fitness center. This is a full-service family resort, and the kids go gaga over the water park's 11 slides, wave pool, winding river, and whirlpools. The price ranges from $189 in the off season to $569 for a luxury suite during the holiday peak.
New York's 8th Annual Chocolate Show
Though perhaps a bit trite after my last news alert, I can't resist passing on the news about New York's Chocolate Show. I missed the fashion show opening on the 10th, but Gridskipper and Luxist provided nice descriptive reviews, and reading about it is half the fun! Hurry over to the Metropolitan Pavilion, to get your chocolate fix, before it closes on the 13th.
U.S. Embassy in Beijing Warns of Attacks in Four and Five Star Hotels in China
Devastating news about Al Qaeda's suicide bombers attacking Jordan Hotels (the four- and five-star Radisson SAS, Days Inn and Grand Hyatt) yesterday. After these sickening acts of terrorism, the U.S. embassy in Beijing has issued warnings of attacks at four- and five-star hotels across China.
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This is no Vegas heist. George Clooney has graduated from robbing Vegas casinos on film, to actually developing them. Clooney, along with night-club extraordinaire Rande Gerber, Related Las Vegas and Centra Properties, have partnered to create Las Ramblas—a $3 billion luxury hotel-condo-casino complex. Its namesake, the legendary boulevard in Barcelona, inspired the urban plan of an outdoor pedestrian promenade lined with European cafes and boutiques. (So guests can feel like they're actually walking through a city! How novel.) The 25-acre development is situated along Harmon Avenue, just west of the Hard Rock. Along with 4,400 hotel and condo units, Las Ramblas will have a 30,000 sq-ft spa, swimming pools, upscale shopping and a 40,000 sq-ft casino. Not to mention the best and chic-est nightlife. After all, these are the guys whose After Midnight Company (evolved from The Whiskey Bar brand) has helped revolutionize and innovate nightlife across the country. Scheduled to open in 2008. Strict dress code, folks.
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Robert Reich: Republicans figure that if they can't sell the pig, they'll just put lipstick on it and find some suckers who will think it's something else.
Time to Fight Is Now
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Mike Price: Rubes, suckers, marks, johns, and other clubbies apparently think that tossing bottles around is the same as good bartending. Wrong. People who need juggling with their alcohol should do their drinking at the circus.
Economic "Recovery?" Not for You and Me
Jim Fuller: The essential hidden fact of economics in 21st century America: What we have is exactly what the tiny economic elite, the one or two percent of richest Americans, wants us to have.
Banks, Markets Now Just Shearing Pens
Jim Fuller: For the first time in the 50-plus years I've been paying close attention to the securities markets and banking and looser attention to commodities markets — most of those years covering such businesses for newspapers and magazines — I am close to concluding that the only place for the modest savings of the average Jane or Joe is a tightly sealed jar buried in the garden or an envelope under a mattress. Maybe in a mixture of currencies.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of Education (DOE) is offering a two-day Transporting Children with Special Needs Conference at several locations throughout the state.
Topics that will be covered include understanding the special-education process; confidentiality as it relates to special-needs students; public and community relations/mandated reporting; student behavior management; proper loading and unloading techniques; special-education evacuation; and special-education policies and best practices.
The conference will be held Feb. 24-25 at Madera Unified School District, March 24-25 at Poway Unified School District and April 23-24 at the Humboldt County Office of Education in Eureka.
The registration fee is $150 per person. For more information, call (916) 375-7100.
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Roach: Algieri's Reach, Jab is Our Biggest Problems
By Edward Chaykovsky
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach is 0-1 against WBO junior welterweight champion Chris Algieri (20-0). On November 22nd, Roach will get a chance to even things up when Algieri moves up in weight to challenge Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at the Venetian in Macau, China.
Roach was working the corner of Ruslan Provodnikov back in June, when the "Siberian Rocky" nearly knocked Algieri's head off in the opening round. Algieri went down twice, suffered a horrific injury to his eye and the end appeared to be near. But Algieri survived and then outboxed Provodnikov to win a twelve round split decision and walked away with the WBO 140-pound title.
"It surprised me because I actually think Ruslan won that fight. [Algieri] got beat up a little bit," said Roach.
Against Pacquiao, Roach is going to focus on overcoming Algieri's reach advantage and his good jab. Algieri is also much taller, 5'10 to the 5'6 Pacquiao.
"Algieri has a good reach advantage and we're going to have to get past that and his jab. That will be our biggest problem. We have ways to do that," Roach said.
[QUOTE=hectari;14884759]Did you guys just see the presser? WOW the height difference is insane, Chris has to be at least 6 foot 1, Chris was like a foot taller much taller than Pacman, and Margarito didnt even look that tall when…Comment by larryusa on 08-25-2014
All Algeri has is a good jab and movement...Manny will take his jab away with his head movement and in and out footwork setting up his lead left..Algeri will get gun shy and we we have a 12 round decision…Comment by jnrwelterweight on 08-25-2014
great reasons to sign an extension with TR and your first exclusive with HBO, and people were complaining about Garcia Salka lmao, have fun paying for this FNF bout on PPV. Manny isn't as relentless as Provo, so I at…Comment by larryusa on 08-25-2014
No sh1t..........Comment by twosweethooks on 08-25-2014
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Skip to comments.Sprint Cuts 1,000+ Customers For Excessive Complaining
Posted on 07/11/2007 6:10:16 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Hundreds of cell phone customers are being given the boot, accused of being too high maintenance.
Sprint-Nextel is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers on grounds the clients call customer service too often and make "unreasonable requests."
The 1,200 people getting dropped will have to find a new carrier by the end of the month.
A Sprint representative said the average customer calls customer service less than once a month, but the 1,200 clients getting the boot call 40-50 times as often.
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At least they can be let out of their contracts.
Well, I've owned a cellphone for four years, and have yet to call customer service even once.
I wonder if these high-maintenance customer have anything else in common?
The remaining millions of unsatisfied customers have already left!! I hear they are also going to drop customers who don't use their phones often enough!! What gall!
Maybe Sprint is on to something. If only we could cut the America haters in Hollywood, the RINOs and the leftie moonbats....if only...
I don't blame Sprint. I have never called them regarding my service or bill.
As a former retail level technical type person, I wholeheartedly know the types of people SN is ditching. High maintenance whiners. Ones who call in to claim a month of credit for one lousy dropped call. Ones who call in to complain about not getting signal strength while in the basement. And of course those who call in and are initially rude to the CSR's.
Only 1200 out of millions of customers... these must be the creme' de la creme' of idiot customers.
Sprint handles it customers the way Congress handles Iraq.
or as quite a few I personally know....getting billed for services they did not subscribe (sign) to or getting double-billed, or charged for overseas calls they did not make....etc.....etc...
Exactly. According to Sprint, these people were logging in 40-50 calls per month. That's more than one call per day on many occasions. The tip-off to me was that the people Sprint is cutting loose were said to often times request information on other user's accounts. Hmmmmm. It reminds me of a lot of the type of people I see come into Judge Judy's courtroom (i.e. losers).
Too funny, work with customers long enough, and this becomes a Dream Scenario..the stuff that makes a smile come to your face for no apparent reason to anyone but you...
Sort of like the guy from the enzite commerical "Bob"...
I am thinking of letting my husband go for the same reason.
Nextel's walkie-talkie beep is aggravating anyway.....
Maybe the customers were calling to complain about dropped calls-something that happens A LOT with sprint-I know, I'm one of their customers.
Also use to have a retail store, restaurant and lodging, same thing. A few whiners took up half our time and all of our sanity. I no longer give this personality type the time of day.
If I tried to drop my phone plan, they'd insist on me paying through the remainder of the contract. Wonder how that works when the phone provider drops the customer...don't they have to honor the contract until it expires?
My bet is Nextel callers were calling about lack of coverage or dropped calls.
Do you call and complain 40-50 times a month?
not I, but I'm considering dropping sprint when my contract expires anyway. I'm tired of the dropped calls (I'm talking 5 bars to zero in the blink of an eye, then 5 bars etc..on clear days, not rainy, foggy, etc..) and quit calling to complain years ago..
They also dropped the troops (in Iraq and other places) for excessive roaming. However; when this made the news, Sprint backed down-this is a company on its way out.
As a former call center guru, I can tell you that it costs the company between $4 and $8 (depending on what level of training costs). If these folks were calling 40 times a month, they were losing money. If the calls were not legit, the company is right in dropping them.
At the bank I worked at we had folks call two or three times a day to check their balances. The customers never understood that we processed deposits once a day, and they could call all day long and the balance wouldn't change.
After 20 years as a customer service professional and consultant—I can tell you that the customer is rarely right—they dont understand services and they usually have unrealistic expectations. However, they are always the customer and should be treated with respect.
Consider, if the call center reps are not spending five minutes with these nut jobs—your hold time just dropped a few minutes...and your call is probably legit.
In the end, it comes down to profitability. These customers were not profitable (and we do NOT run charities do we?) They were right in cutting them lose. There is no constitutional right to cel phone service. There was a contract and the company worked within that contract and decided it "just wasn't working out."
I applaud Sprint for having the guts to tell these folks to take a hike. If more companies did this, service would get a lot better.
Dropped customers don't have to pay any balances and are let out of their contract. I saw it on another post.
*Maybe Sprint is on to something. If only we could cut the America haters in Hollywood, the RINOs and the leftie moonbats....if only...*
Haha! That was my thought, too. If only we could!
It's probably more along the lines of 'Stop over-charging me for stuff my plan is supposed to cover for free'. My ex-bf is being suddenly (once again) charged for overtime minutes (around 900)....all because he just upgraded his phone last month.
This same thing has happened 4 or 5 times in the past years (everytime he upgrades to a newer/better phone). He didn't change his plan at all, but somehow Sprint always manages to change it FOR him. They drafted over $350 out of his bank acct in ONE month for what he was normally being charged only $100/mo. for, and they're charging him a similar amount for July too.
They really have some racket/scam going there. Screw the customers and then drop the ones that complain about getting screwed!
Yep, some people have created miserable lives for themselves and just want to take it out on somebody. My wife Scan58 works customer service, and runs across a few who call mad and stay mad, no matter how she tries to make things right.
I always try to treat service people with respect. It's amazing the lengths they'll go through to help you just by your treating them like human beings. (It's not their fault the company they work for won't hire enough reps to avoid your having to wait on hold.)
I am thinking of letting my go for the same reason.
If it is a typical one-sided contract Sprint probably has a "we'll drop your ass any time we want to" clause in it.
Having experience in the customer service area, I can well imagine what type of people these whiners are. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's only 1000 - I'm sure there are many thousands more who deserve the boot as well, but I think Sprint decided to make an example out of these idiots in hopes that the rest will sit up and take notice.
It's probably a good thing you never had a problem. If you had, you would have sat on "hold" for hours, then finally reach some 'quota hire' who has no clue what they are doing, but would cop an attitude with you because you revealed their stupidity. Heaven forbid if you had a problem with your billing, because they couldn't understand their own system.
I guess the call centers in India are complaining about customers complaining!
You two sound like a potential marriage made by Verizon! LOL!
Customer service people in many cases do not follow through and are often rude because as the poster who worked in customer service indicated-they don't like their customers and consider them pains in the neck. This attitude is very common, and very unfortunate.
I am in the process of getting a mortgage and will close the end of the month. Thus, I could not 'fire' this company. You better believe, I am going to either pay off the car or refinance the car as soon as my mortgage closes. I will not remain with this company one minute longer than neccesary. They did not deliver the appropriate level of customer service,wasted considerable amounts of my valuable time, and I believe this insurance thing is a scam.
I take notice...I would never use Sprint after reading this.
There was a contract and the company worked within that contract and decided it just wasnt working out.
I know there are troublesome, high-maintenance customers. Any service provider should know this also.
Was a limit on customer service stated in the contract?
Would they let a customer walk from the contract if the customer decided it "just wasn't working out"?
I'm considering changing to T-Mobile when my sprint deal expires, but am currently undecided.
Those 1000 customers should fall to their knees and thank God.
My elderly parents had a sprint cell they bought in NV years ago. They never used it, just kept it for emergencies. When they got it, their plan was around 25/month.
Sprint kept bumping them up till they were paying 39/month. Then their charger failed, Sprint sent them another one that didn't work, claimed they never recieved it when my parents sent it back, and they never got the credit. Sprint also tried to extend their contract for another 2 years for no reason.
Last Christmas I bought them a pay-as-you-go phone from Cingular, charged up with 1000 minutes. I'll 'recharge' it every year at a cost of around $100. Screw Sprint.
I wonder what God foresaken country their calls go to?
I work for one of the service providers.Belive me, these are non-revenue generating customers.50 to 60 calls to customer care a month.Some have not paid a bill in years - monthly credits on account.
No big loss!!
Sprint was dying before they swallowed Nextel. Nextel had almost four times as many subscribers as Sprint, and with good reason: Sprint is the "No Service" zone.
Why don't you try calling Sprint too many times and then they'll drop you and you won't have to worry about waiting for your contract to expire (just kidding, but if you called them and told them you didn't like the way they were doing business...they sure wouldn't let you out of your contract.)
I'm in CS, too. The only reason why I think Sprint or any other company would drop a customer is if that customer was costing them more money than they were making off of them.
That being said, I'll never use Sprint again. I absolutely hated their support system and their policies. So, I would bet these folks who got the boot will be happier with another service anyway.
Now all the other Sprint customers know how to get out of that lousy service contract!
Sprint has stumbled onto Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean Solution. Rather than change the law, replace the electorate
"I hear they are also going to drop customers who dont use their phones often enough!! "
I was a member of Book of the Month Club for years and years. They got a new president or some such and decided purging the rolls of those who bought an insufficient amount of books would be the thing to do.
So they dropped me.
A year or two later I got a letter pleading for my patronage again. Apparently they nearly put themselves out of business.
I smiled as the wadded up solicitation made the waste basket in one.
Interesting. Bump for later reading.
According to Sprint, the 1,000+ customers were those who were 'scamming' the customer service system to get free phone credits.
Some of these people had acquired more than $1,000 in free air time credits - simply by calling and complaining - over and over and over and over - with the goal of building more free air time credits.
See details at http://consumerist.com/consumer/exclusives/sprint-customers-terminated-for-complaining-too-much-were-scamming-sprint-for-free-service-277026.php
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We are partly through the semester and we have just learned that Dr. Walter Hatch from St. Mary's College of Maryland will be giving a live webcast about his work on Chemical Communication in Soft Corals that was conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Since we'll be in lab at that time, the class is going to watch the webinar live. We have been in contact with Dr. Hatch and he has agreed to conduct a live chat with our class following the seminar. So we want to use Moodle to set up a live chat room so our students will be able to interact with and ask questions directly to Dr. Hatch. So to do this we'll simply scroll down to the week of April 13 to April 19. And we'll click on the dropdown menu for Add an activity and we'll select Chat from the options.
We will give the chat room a name, Live Chat with Dr. Hatch. And in the Introduction section we'll simply put 'At 5pm PST, Dr. Hatch will be available for a live chat with the class to discuss his work on Chemical Communication in Soft Corals.' So we'll go ahead and scroll down and we are going to set the next time the chat is going to be available and that's going to be on the 15th April 2009 at, remember this is in 24-hour time, and so we'll scroll down to 17:00 hours. We are not going to repeat any session so we are not going to publish any additional chat times but if we were setting up a chat, then we wanted to have live chats with the class on a repeating basis, we could do so here.
We do want to go ahead and Save past sessions, so that this live chat can be archived and be accessed later on. So we'll go ahead and say 365 days. And everyone can view past sessions, so we'll say Yes. This is an extra activity that we want to be able to provide this opportunity for our students to be able to go back and review the chat session. For Group mode, we'll go ahead and set to No groups, because we want everybody in the class to participate on this. We do want the Visibility to set to Show. We don't need an ID number. And we are not going to grade this assignment, so we'll go ahead and leave this as Uncategorized.
So we are going to go ahead and click the top option and you can see that it has logged us into the chat room and any responses that we go ahead and type up here would be appearing up in the top. And it's going to show our name and our picture that we added as part of an earlier movie. And the Auto Scrolling is set to on. So if wanted to go ahead and type in a quick note here, I'll just say Hello. And hit Enter or Return on my keyboard, it's going to just simply pop up that message up into the chat room. Now if we had additional people inside of the chat room right now, we would see their names listed here on the right hand side and we would also see any messages that they were chatting about, showing up in the middle of the chat session.
We will go ahead and close the chat window now. And we can go ahead and return back to the course. And that's all there is to setting up a chat. It's pretty straight forward, it's pretty easy and it's a great tool to use if you have the opportunity to bring in either a guest speaker or if for some reason you need to hold a class session online and you need to be able to chat back and forth live with your students. Another great use for the live chat is office hours. If you have regular office hours, you can go up and set a recurring chat session to be open during your office hours and then any students in your class, if they need to get additional help from you, they can actually log into Moodle, go into the chat room and have a live chat with you.
This is a really nice feature because you may find that a student is more likely to approach you for additional help through a mechanism like an online chat. And as they begin asking questions back and forth and interacting with you, you can prompt them to show up to your office and get more face-to-face time with the student and really figure out what is the issue that the student is having and work through it. So there are several different uses for the live chat. It's a great feature that's here in Moodle for you to enhance your course with.
- Installing and configuring Moodle
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H&R Block Losses Widen As Customers Delay Filing
March 22, 2016 – 2:09 pm
As consumers wait longer to file their taxes, H&R Block is feeling the pinch. It was revealed on Thursday that the long-established tax services company had posted greater-than-expected losses for the last quarter due to consumer delays. The company is also facing currency headwinds impacting business from overseas.
Typically, H&R Block has posted losses for quarters outside the normal tax season; however, these recent losses revealed a deeper downturn for the same period last year, missing expectations from Wall Street. As a result, shares slipped 5.1% in after-hours trading, leaving the stock at $31.22, which is down 2.5% for the year so far. The company also reported that total U.S. tax returns had slipped more than 6% for the first three quarters of the year.
H&R Block's chief executive, Bill Cobb, stated that this tax season was being impacted by continual instances of fraud as well as the ongoing trend of returns being filed later in the season by taxpayers. This also causes tax refunds to take longer to process. Cobb also noted that there were significant measured being taken by both the federal and state governments to fight tax fraud, which would create some material changes in the industry.
H&R Block reported a total loss of $81.7 million for the quarter, or 35 cents per share. This is compared to a loss of $36.9 million a year earlier. After adjustments, H&R Block earnings was down 34 cents a share as sales increased by 6.8% to $475 million.
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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) From The IRS
October 24, 2015 – 10:12 pm
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs are a part of the IRS that assist individuals in calculating their tax returns. One can volunteer in any of the programs helping your community in preparing 2015 taxes.
As a serious tax volunteer, you will undergo some training that is provided online or in a classroom before the actual volunteering begins. The tax sites are opened at nights and during the weekend where anyone can choose a volunteer location close to them.
Why become a volunteer?
No past experience needed as volunteers receives exclusive training and can serve any role, example, helping those who do not understand English.
Free tax law training is offered by IRS. They provide the required materials to volunteers for the preparation of income tax returns to individuals.
Flexibility of working hours. Per week, volunteers only serve 3-5 hours
Widely distributed volunteer sites. The volunteer locations are everywhere including libraries, malls and even schools. In addition, a free electronic filing, TurboTax 2014, is available in both VITA and TCE sites for federal and state tax returns.
Duration. A volunteer will be part of the VITA and TCE programs for more than 40 years assisting people filing their tax returns free of charge.
As a volunteer, you will assist low income individuals. Many people volunteered in 2013 to make a difference and you should too. Help your community by emailing your Form 14310,TCE/VITA Volunteer Sign Up, to [email protected]
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Tax Deductions Most People Miss On TurboTax
May 6, 2015 – 10:35 am
Discover the Most Overlooked Tax Benefits
Reduce your taxes by claiming tax deductions. The following is a list of tax deductions most people miss on Intuit's Turbotax.
1. State Sales Tax
When doing business, payment of sales tax to the state is often necessary. For individual taxpayers, moneys paid towards sales tax can be claimed as tax deduction. For instance, if you purchased a car, you can claim a deduction equivalent to the sales tax rate for your state on the value of that vehicle.
2. Reinvested Dividends
This is not really a tax deduction but it can save you a significant amount of money. If you reinvest mutual fund dividends in additional shares, you can increase you tax saving-loss, or reduce the taxable capital gain, when you dispose of your shares.
3. Personal Charitable Contributions
The little costs you incur when supporting a charitable cause matter a lot. For instance, if you bought postal stamps to send invitations to potential contributors for a fundraiser, or bought ingredients to make soup for the guests, you can claim the deduction.
4. Interest Paid on Student Loans by Parents
If you are not listed as a dependent by your parents, you can claim a deduction equivalent to interest payments made by your parents, up to a maximum of $2,500. The IRS assumes that your parents gave you the money and you made the payments, so you qualify for the deduction.
5. Moving Expense Related to your First Job
If you land your first job, which requires you to move from where you currently live, you can take comfort in the fact that you can claim a tax deduction on the moving expense. The best thing about it is that you can still get the deduction even if you do not itemize. The standard rate is 23 cents for every mile, provided you moved more than fifty miles.
6. Child Care Tax Credit
This is a credit, not a deduction. It applies to expenses incurred while raising a child. Parents and guardians can claim this deduction if they spent up to $6,000 on child care-related expenses. This tax credit can reduce your tax bill by over $200.
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Slimming Pills Are Flying Off The Shelves This Summer
August 14, 2014 – 11:29 am
The quest for a bikini body is an elusive one. Majority of people have a difficult time finding the right combination of diet and exercise to achieve their goal. Life also has a way of derailing workout plans and sabotaging nutrition targets. What are beach-goers to do given these challenges? Purchase slimming pills, apparently.
For many, these tiny pills are their salvation in a bottle. Supplements of this nature have soared in popularity in the UK according to a Kantar study. The numbers don't lie: products sales shot up 74% from 2 years ago to the tune of 19 million British pounds. Vitamin Planet, one of the largest retailers of supplements, says that Metaburn saw an incredible 3700% rise in sales in just one month. Metaburn is slimming product that combines a trifecta of ingredients for blockbuster appeal: green tea extract, green coffee bean, and raspberry ketones.
Green tea extract's claim to fame is its abundance of polyphenols. These work towards increasing metabolism so people can burn more calories during the day. They make fat breakdown much easier as well.
Green coffee beans, meanwhile, contain a substance called chlorogenic acid. This has been shown to prevent sugar from entering the bloodstream. Thanks to this low absorption, blood sugar levels can remain stable despite the intake of sweet food. Another bonus is that it can delay aging at a cellular level.
Finally, raspberry ketone has established itself as a prime ingredient for those who wish to enhance their fat-burning capacity. It does this without adversely affecting energy levels so productivity is not impaired unlike resorting to crash diets.
These three make a potent combination but they still need to be used in conjunction with the right type of exercises to bring about the desired effects. Be cautious when choosing slimming pills and make sure that you are getting a good product with proven results.
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Oz Is Passionate About Raspberry Ketone
June 18, 2014 – 3:55 pm
Renowned talk show host speaks out on behalf of raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia and raspberry ketone.
The "Dr Oz Show" is currently into it's fifth season and Dr Mehmet Oz, the cardiac surgeon, come chat show host has been awarded three Daytime Emmy awards for his efforts. He frequently talks about his weight loss supplements and he often refers to them as miraculous products. However, Senator Claire McCaskill challenged Dr Oz about raspberry ketone and other popular weight loss products.
Senator McCaskill felt that he dramatized the benefits of the dietary supplements like raspberry ketone. The senator added that the talk show appeared to peddle dietary products in a bid to boost sales. Raspberry ketone and numerous other dietary aids featured on the show encouraged scam artists to use deceptive advertising to sell questionable goods. The Senator expressed her fear that the mixture of entertainment, news and medical advice on the show could prove harmful to consumers.
Dr Oz stepped in to defend himself. He said he believed in the products and he felt the raspberry ketone and green coffee extract helped many to lose weight. Dr Oz felt the raspberry ketones were a miracle in a bottle and the miraculous weight loss product had helped thousands to burn unwanted fat.
The Senator asked the doctor to ensure the scam merchants were unable to profiteer from his claims, however, he stated, that many people had benefited from his ground-breaking weight loss plans. Dr Oz feels raspberry ketone is a miraculous product that can help to bust body fat forever. His famous dietary products like raspberry ketone were extravagantly labelled as safe and effective weight loss supplements and the doctor felt this was justifiable. Dr Oz is passionate about raspberry ketone and numerous other fat burning supplements, and he wanted his fans to remain passionate too.
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The Best Gadget Of Our Generation
May 31, 2012 – 3:50 pm
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Technology is developing every second all across the globe, but there is always that one item that stands out from the crowd, gets the people talking and in its path has thousands of replica's. For my life scoop and people of my generation it appears that the iPod is the gadget of the century. Beginning with the original and small device, it became a way to store a substantial amount of quality music in the one place. The walk-man and disc-man became figures of the past. Plus they where to heavy to especially when it came to working out or doing some power walking with music in your ears.
The iPod then increased to the iPod classic, yet again simple but amazing with even more storage space for music. The improvements here got me very excited with the ability to store movies, clips and even photographs. Despite it being a bit heavier and wider though it was far from a downfall to the original smaller device. It simply got better with the ability to do more and be worthy of your hard earned cash.
Finally, we have the very best that our generation has to offer that came in the form of the iPod touch. This beauty was all about the touch screen, applications, social media, pictures, facetime and even video's. It is basically a very small, delicate computer that fits right in the palm of your hand. It is down to the beauty and intelligence of this device that so many cell phones have followed suit offering similar applications and touch screen formats. For me the iPod touch remains the very best and has very little to complain about, accept it needs a good clean after heavy use and a nice sturdy screen to avoid damage. Thus concludes my life scoop on the best gadget of our generation.
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How To Buy Raspberry Ketone Supplements
May 27, 2012 – 2:56 pm
The raspberry ketone diet is one of the latest weight loss trends. Ketones are substances that are found naturally in raspberries, like in many other berries and fruits. However, if you wanted to get enough ketones from raspberries to actually have any weight loss benefits, you would have to eat large amounts of the berries every day. A much easier way to use raspberries for weight loss is to buy raspberry ketone in supplement form.
Ketones are found in many plants, vegetables and fruits. They are aromatic compounds that can also be created in a laboratory synthetically, but natural ketones are believed to be better for diet purposes. Ketones are thought to regulate the amount of a protein called adiponectin in the body. This can make the body burn off calories extra fast and to speed up the metabolism, helping you to get rid of excess fat. A typical dose of raspberry ketone is 100 mg daily and the easiest way to get the correct dose is to take a standardized supplement.
When you buy raspberry ketone products, always check how much of the active ingredient the supplement contains. There are supplements on the market with varying amounts of ketones and it is important to get an accurate daily dose. Some supplements should be taken twice a day and some should be taken just once a day. To make sure you get a quality product, it is best to buy raspberry ketone supplements that are reputable and have received good consumer reviews.
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5 Overlooked Tax Deductions From Turbo Tax
March 16, 2012 – 1:43 pm
According to the website Turbo Tax, there were over 51 million current tax payers who listed tax deductions over the year 2007. They claimed more than 1.33 trillion dollars in tax deductions. At the same time, more than 91 million people claimed the regular standard deduction. They managed to reduce their tax by 654 trillion dollars. These numbers look good for tax players who are doing standard deductions. However, you need to look at both methods of tax deduction when you are preparing to do you taxes. If you don't, you may miss out on some great deductions.
The following are five tax deductions that are often overlooked. They are reinvestment dividends, state sales paid tax, charitable contributions, moving expenses and student load tax deductions.
State Sales Tax
This deduction is for people who live in those states without any state income tax. If you live in one of these states, you can deduct this tax. Most of the time, when people file for this kind of deduction, they overlook several things. These include taxes on automobiles, boats, airplanes, any any sale tax they may have spent on building supplies for the home.
Reinvested Dividends
If you have sole any mutual funds during the previous tax year, and have good capital gains, then you should calculate your reinvested dividends correctly and thoroughly. Because the amount that was paid for your investment increases each time that the dividends get reinvested, your capita gain may not be as big as you thought.
Charitable Contributions
Any small items which you may have purchased while volunteering for charities are tax deductible. It is not only the larger contributions that you can receive deductions for, but these smaller ones as well. Keep track of what contributions you have made, such as driving mileage, or any small purchases.
Student Loan Interest
Any interest paid on students loans are able to be deducted. Whether the payment was made by a student or a parent they qualify for this deduction. This is because the IRS counts the interest payment as a gift. This is a good little deduction that students can capitilize on to reduce their tax liabilities.
Moving Expenses
One last good deduction is the moving expense tax. If you just started your very first job any time throughout the previous tax year and have been required to travel over 50 miles for work, this can be be deducted. This tax deduction can be claimed as part of the cost of any driving and the costs of any moving. However, it is only the moving and driving expenses which qualify. Costs of securing the employment are not included in these deductions.
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A mother and three baby foxes were found in an area behind a fence in the rear of the school, he said. As a precaution, school public safety officers were at the school this afternoon. Animal control was also called.
A fox den has been found at Lake Forest Hills Elementary School, according to Director of Public Information Louis Svehla.
A mother and three baby foxes were found in an area behind a fence in the rear of the school, he said. As a precaution, school public safety officers were at the school this afternoon. Animal control was also called.
Destroy them!
There is no need to destroy them! Just relocate them somewhere the kids can't bugthem and let them be.
I was joking
Leave the foxes alone!!!! Please!!!! Obviously, they have been there a while to have had kits (i.e., baby foxes). That school borders the Forest Hills Golf Course, which is probably where they spend most of their time roaming. Foxes eat mostly small mammals (mice, rats), and wounded birds. They are probably helping keep that school clear of rodents. PLEASE, LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Bring them out to my house and make them a new den. They will rid the place of the bushy tailed rats. The fox that was living here some A## run off thr road to hit her.
if you take away all the foxes, then you'll be overrun with rats and mice. leave 'em alone. they'll move on when they can.
These are nocturnal animals in urban settings and very shy. Also, quite beautiful and behaviorally, similar to our domestic house cats. Mother and kits should have been left alone.
Has anyone called Augusta Animal Control to find out what's been done with them?...Chronicle...looking at you.
Once animal control is called.. they are doomed!!
If you begin allowing foxes to live at schools, the next thing you know there will be wolves, and then panthers, and then saber tooth tigers, and then dinosaurs! You know how this ecology stuff works! Stop them now and break the food chain - before it's too late!
Yea....Leave them and then make sure that all students are fully protected against rabies.
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May 7, 2014 at 7:35 am #185621
Da Vinci's Demons has been renewed for a third season but series creator David S Goyer is being replaced by as showrunner by John Shiban.May 24, 2014 at 9:32 pm #186401
The Enemies of Man:
Penultimate episode of season 2.
Quite shocking when Clarice killed a villain by stabbing him in the eye.
Quite literally a fiery end to this episode.July 28, 2015 at 12:54 am #213890
Da Vinci's Demons will end with its third season.August 5, 2015 at 5:25 am #214422
The third and final season of Da Vinci's Demons makes its world debut in the US on October 24.December 17, 2015 at 2:11 am #219064
Semper Infidelis:
Season 3 opener.
First episode written by new showrunner John Shiban.
Enjoyable opener to this the final season.
What a shock for Leonardo that he faced a Turkish tank one that is of his own design.
As Leonardo ponders, how does he defeat himself.December 26, 2015 at 9:49 am #219317
Season 3, Episode 2.
As Da Vinci's Demons came as a result of a production deal following Torchwood: Miracle Day, it is worthy to note that since this Da Vinci's Demons episode called Abbadon it is worthy to note in context that a beast called Abbadon had appeared in the Torchwood season 1 finale.
While still on the subject of Doctor Who-related things, this Da Vinci's Demons episode marked the series writing debut by Amy Berg and she had included Doctor Who references in Leverage episode that she had written.
Vanessa sure had a hard time convincing members of Florence's republic in getting them their influence.
Sure horrifying that this episode ended with Leonardo making it in time to see Piero's execution.January 6, 2016 at 2:43 pm #219488
Modus Operandi:
Season 3, Episode 3.
Shock that Clarice dies here and by her being crucified in the water.
Quite eerie when Leonardo had a hallucination of her with dissected body.
Funnily enough whilst watching this episode I suddenly remembered that both Tom Riley (Leonardo) and Lara Pulver (Clarice) both took part in the Robin Hood legend but each in different versions of it.
Riley had played Robin Hood himself in Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood and Lara Pulver was in the final season of the 2006-09 series of Robin Hood playing Isabella.
In fact the said Robin Hood series was Lara Pulver's first ever role and the first time I ever saw her.January 19, 2016 at 10:00 am #220280
Anima Venator:
Season 3, Episode 5.
Series directorial debut by Mark Everest and is the first person to have directed both Torchwood & Da Vinci's Demons although with the former he wasn't a director on Miracle Day, the circumstances of which led to Da Vinci's Demons.
Tense situation with Lucrezia becoming a prisoner underneath a house.
What a revelation on Lorenzo's current location.
Captain Dragonetti is murdered and sure shock to Leonardo on finding out on who killed him.January 26, 2016 at 8:39 am #220444
Liberum Arbitrium:
Season 3, Episode 6.
Pretty impressive with Riario in his possessive state including how he tricked those soldiers in freeing him.
Quite good of Lucrezia in tricking her captive as she free herself of that captivity.February 2, 2016 at 1:07 am #220587
Alis Volat Propriis:
Season 3, Episode 7.
Directorial debut in the series by Colin Teague and becomes the second and final person to have directed both Torchwood & Da Vinci's Demons after Mark Everest.
Lorenzo goes back to Florence and takes charge again and I don't really like his new approach to things.
What a tragedy at the end when Leo's mother got killed whilst on another plane talking to Sophia.February 9, 2016 at 10:38 am #220725
La Confessione Della Macchina:
Antepenultimate episode.
Not bad return of Vlad.
Quite harrowing seeing Nico in that contraption.
Intriguing end to the episode with the presentation of the skyFebruary 16, 2016 at 8:54 am #220906
Angelus Iratissimus:
Penultimate episode.
Intriguing truths about Leonardo's newly discovered sister Sophia including that they are only half-siblings.
Quite a sight of battle at the end in the lead-up to the end of the series.March 25, 2016 at 9:32 pm #221184
Ira Deorum:
Series finale.
Written by showrunner John Shiban, his second and last for series after writing the final season opener Semper Infidelis.
Not bad final battle.
Tragic that Lucrezia got killed.…
In retrospect should not be surprising that Riario got himself out of his execution and then killing Sixtus.
Not bad final scene marking the end of the series.
It took me sometime to get through this final episode and in the meantime saw two key cast members elsewhere with Laura Haddock (Lucrezia) in Luther season 4 and Elliot Cowan (Lorenzo) in The Frankenstein Chronicles.
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