Wherever you’re located, the likelihood of having a choice among several cellular service providers for your wireless needs is high. Major cities usually have a choice between 3-5 major service providers and another 2-4 mini cellular players. The seemingly endless combinations of service providers makes way for some confusing yet interesting options for consumers. This brief article will help new cell phone consumers, and some old, learn the basic ins and outs of cell phone service providers.

First a clarifications on network terms you’ll encounter.

CDMA: Short for Code-Division Multiple Access, this is a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques. Unlike competing systems that use TDMA, such as GSM, CDMA does not assign a specific frequency to each user. Instead, every channel uses the full available spectrum. The frequency of the transmitted signal is then made to vary according to a defined pattern, so it can be intercepted only by a receiver whose frequency response is programmed with the same code, so it follows exactly along with the transmitter frequency. Major CDMA players are in North America are Telus Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and Bell Mobility.

GSM: GSM is currently the world’s largest cellular network. GSM stand for Global System for Mobile Communications. GSM uses narrowband TDMA, which allows eight simultaneous calls on the same radio frequency. Considered the most advanced digital cellular technology, GSM networks are leaders in many typically “digital” services including Short Message Service (SMS), over the air (OTA) configuration and GSM positioning. Many new GSM phones are called “global phones” because they can be used in virtually any country. They also have SIM cards (”Subscriber Identification Module”) that enable unique identification of each user and easy transportation of your data between phones. GSM 900 (transmitting on the 900 MHz frequency band) is Europe’s main digital network. It’s also used in the Asia-Pacific region. GSM 1800 is also used in Europe and Asia, but has not been as widely adopted as GSM 900. GSM 1900 is the system used mainly in the Americas and Canada. Top North American providers are Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Rogers Wireless and Fido.

So the question is now which network do I choose? GSM appears to provide a greater range for those who travel, yet CDMA supposedly has clearer reception. Theoretically having the entire spectrum available for your use should mean greater call clarity, however, this is not always the case. Many CDMA subscribers will attest that their GSM counterparts have better reception in some hard to reach areas.

Consumers should also be mindful of the types of phones available on each network. Manufacturers try to produce phones for each, nonetheless, LG typically produces cell phones for the CDMA network, and Nokia on the GSM, (although Nokia has a huge CDMA portfolio as well.) Take some time and browse the phones and their options — you have a huge selection so start now. Wireless functions such as SMS, or roaming may dictate which carrier you choose. But again, you have plenty of options to choose from, and if you’ve never had a cell phone before, take some time to learn about the hundreds of options you have, both in a phone and with particular plans/carriers. Don’t just compare phones either. Providers nowadays have comparable phones, therefore, the selling feature may be plans and attached options. Price, when evenings begin, add-on costs such as txt messaging, data-transfer, should all be compared and analyzed before purchase. Be sure to take advantage of monthly deals from providers, usually you can get a solid cell phone for FREE! Generally you need to sign up for a contract that lasts 2-3 years, however, if you’re planning on staying with the firm and are confident with your choice, the contract isn’t such a bad idea. Switching providers is also an option with existing customers. Let me explain. Switching carriers is no longer a tedious event. Already present in the US and soon to be implemented in Canada, cell phone number portability will enable customers to switch service providers to take advantage of ‘new activation’ discounts with the new carrier all while keeping your old phone number. This feature can only benefit the consumer. Service providers will likely lower their fees and increase their perks in attempt to prevent a mass exodus from their customer base.

Some other phone options include prepaid options, where you can prepay for a pre-determined amount of minutes, no contract. You can also invest in unlocked cell phones, where you do not have the contract obligations and you own the phone. It works like this: you purchase the phone, usually from an independent dealer, then you activate the phone with a compatible service provider on a monthly plan. This is a pricey option, typically high end phones fall under this category, those that aren’t offered by the carrier but will operate on their network.

So as you can tell there are plenty of phone and carrier options for customers vying to get the best deal. The biggest thing is likely patience. Be patient when it comes to purchasing, better deals likely lie somewhere else. Also, figure out what your needs are. Do you travel? Want to be tied into a contract? Once you know what you want, compare between providers. Do the same type of comparison with phone featuress as well. You’ll be surprised how a little research on phone and service provider quality can save you a load of headaches in the future.

I often hear people say “He made me angry!” or “I couldn’t help being livid!” or “It just happens before I even know it!” These statements put the blame for becoming angry on someone else, or circumstances. The good news is that you can, if you wish, minimise anger almost immediately. With a little time and effort you can overcome it and manage or convert the energy you might have wasted on anger, into something more useful.

Anger is the result of frustrated desire. The steps to it are short and swift. You start off by having a desire or wish. Nothing wrong with that, but when you add impetus, energy or concentration to that desire, it develops quickly into a demand. As soon as the demand encounters frustration, you’re into anger. The simple solution would be to say, “Then don’t be demanding.” But as we all know, that’s a lot easier said, than done.

It’s helpful to go back a few steps in the observation of our thought patterns. Some of our “thinking” is not at conscious brain level at all. We have lots of parcels, audio and video tapes, CD ROMs, flash discs, e-mails, memos, letters and documents in the subconscious mind. They may have been recorded, filed, archived or stored there, years ago. Yet they can still negatively influence our thinking and responses in certain situations.

Whether or not we’re aware of it, any behaviour starts off with thought. That thought creates a second level of activity, which is feeling or emotion. At that stage, we may “feel” angry, depressed, humiliated or whatever. But the feeling was preceded by a discussion. Perhaps along the lines of, “How could he speak to me like that? He’s got some nerve!” We might not even be aware of this internal dialogue, but we’ll experience the result, as emotion.

Our emotions inevitably translate into a third level - behaviour that’s visible to others. In some people, it’s like viewing a synoptic chart. A high pressure system here, a depression there! The sequence then, is thoughts-feelings-behaviour. Much like an archery target. Thoughts in the centre, surrounded by feelings or emotions, with behaviour being external and the biggest, most visible circle of all.

Thoughts are like bubbles at the bottom of a fish tank. As they first peep out of the sand, they’re tiny, travel slowly and can quite easily be caught. As they rise and the water pressure reduces, they grow larger and travel faster - until they explode through the surface. What’s needed, is consciously to become aware of our thoughts, at the earliest stage of their formation.

When you’re upset, you’re out of control, low on constructive resources, illogical, and it may take hours to return to a state of equilibrium. Meantime, you may have caused significant or even irreparable hurt through what you said when you were angry.

Here’s a suggestion. Start noticing which comments or thoughts irritate you. What it is that makes you flare into anger. Become aware of their presence in your mind - only sooner than you did previously. That you even notice them now, is a significant step forward in the direction of anger management, control or conversion.

You’ll reach a stage of awareness where you’ll catch the thought early enough to make a conscious decision not to get angry. You’ll choose an alternative to stay in balance, equilibrium or harmony.

Having observed and then caught the thought bubble, you’ll be into the management phase of your thinking. Instead of other people or circumstances “pressing your buttons” or “making” you angry, you’ll now enjoy a choice in your response. One choice is not to be angry. If you are angry, it’ll be because you choose to be.

You won’t have an immediate one hundred percent success rate. This is an incremental self-awareness and growth exercise and hiccups will occur. Control of your thoughts, emotions, behaviour and mind, will though, be taken out of the hands of other people, and given back to the rightful custodian - you. It’ll be a relief and an energy saver.

If your business spends as little as $400 per month on it’s communications services, then the answer is yes! This would include local dialtone, long distance, and business level dsl.

An integrated T1 line is a direct circuit from the local phone company to your business which carries both voice and data.

There are several benefits of having an integrated T1 line. The speed of a T1 line is much more consistent than dsl service, because dsl is oversubscribed. Another benefit is reliability. Most companies guarantee 99.999% uptime for a T1.

Plot points are linear links that make up the chain of traditional Aristotelian 3-act dramatic structure. This classic structure worked well in Hollywood for almost a century now. Although young movie makers are forcing the limits of this structure, plot points still rule the day as the “tent poles” that hold up of the circus of our dreams. Here are the plot points of Frenzy (1972), a Hitchcock classic, as I see them.

Frenzy (1972)

Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Anthony Shaffer (Screenwriter), Arthur LaBern (Story)

ESTABLISHING SHOT: A grand bird’s eye view of London. Flying over River Thames towards the London Bridge.

INCITING INCIDENT: Another victim of “necktie murders” found swimming naked in River Thames. The public is mortified.

PLOT POINT 1: Robert Rusk, the fruit wholesaler, strangles his old friend Richard Ian Blaney’s ex-wife, Brenda Margaret Blaney.

MID POINT EVENT: Rusk kills Blaney’s girlfriend barmaid Babs Milligan.

PLOT POINT 2: Blaney is found guilty of killing both his ex-wife and his girlfriend Milligan, and is sent to jail.

3rd ACT RESOLUTION: Rusk is caught by Chief Inspector Oxford and Blaney right after he kills yet another girl in his apartment. A surprise and quick ending.

This Christmas, discover your inner elf… At least, that’s the tagline for Elf, one of the funniest films of 2003. Packed with a cast of Hollywood all-star talent, Elf is guaranteed to make you laugh. The touching story about an adopted elf who discovers he’s really a boy is sort of a bizzaro-Pinocchio story that opened to such widespread critical acclaim that it unanimously swept zero Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards ceremony! Nevertheless, Elf is worth the price of admission. Although Christmas Vacation still holds the title as the top Christmas comedy, Elf is still a great night’s entertainment…

Buddy (Will Ferrell) is an oversized elf working away at the North Pole. Always wearing a smile, he dwarfs his comrades and never seems able to find his niche in the toy-making arena. Eventually, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) is forced to reveal the truth to Buddy. He’s actually a human. He’s not really an elf at all. The elves love buddy just the same, but Buddy feels the need to strike out on his own and try to find himself - and maybe even his family too…

Scouring the streets of New York City, Buddy must learn the urban rules of life. In due time, he manages to track down his biological father, a successful publishing executive named Walter (James Caan). But despite the prodding of his wife Emily (Mary Steenburgen), Walter is reluctant to start a relationship with the over-eager grown-up child…

In the meantime, Buddy spends his days working at Gimbel’s department store where he stars as a department store Santa’s elf and a Christmas season decorator, creating a magical wonderland that thrills customers and employees alike. Striking up a relationship with fellow employee Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), Buddy’s life is slowly transitioning from elf to human… But will he be able to survive in the big city? Will he be able to rekindle a relationship with his father? Elf thoroughly entertains us while we find out…

With a great cast of writers, Elf manages to keep the laughs rolling throughout the entirety of the film. Although lacking in some areas (it’s not one of the greatest comedies of all-time), Elf is a hilarious movie in its own right. Will Ferrell turns in an amazing performance as Buddy. Like Tom Hanks in Big, he’s actually believable as the innocent man-child roaming the streets of New York City. It’s this farcical innocence that provides Elf with the charm necessary to keep the audience involved in the story beginning to end. Because of its laugh factor, and the surprisingly small number of decent Christmas-themed movies, Elf is a definite must-see film… Check it out this Christmas!

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Elf (DVD).

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I am astonished at the impact that that Jo Frost, TV’s Super Nanny was having on parents of young children. A quick show of hands at any of my presentations for parents of young children indicates that one out of every two parents has watched the show at least enough to be familiar with her behaviour management methods, in particular the infamous naughty chair.

Just how parents can get their kids to the naughty chair and keep them there seems to be a new parenting challenge. Should they be in the naughty chair for one minute every year of their age or should they leave it when they decide? is the question on the lips of many mums and dads.

Super Nanny is the modern parents’ dream because she is the bad cop that many mothers and fathers cannot and won’t be. She is the parent who stands firm and asserts herself. She is the parent who takes no prisoners and who at the end of the program can still get a kiss and cuddle from the children she has tamed.

It could be argued that Super Nanny is meeting a genuine need and that she is educating parents who certainly need some help in essential child-rearing methods.

But I am not sure Super Nanny is doing parents or children a favour in the long term. In an era when the community at large is intolerant of children what we don’t need is a program that primarily portrays kids as pests that need to be corralled, tied down and tamed.

Parents aren’t exactly shown in a positive light either. In nearly every episode parents are portrayed as likeable yet gormless dolts who devoid of behaviour management skills are victims of their wretched children’s behaviour.

Super Nanny is also narrowing our definition of effective parenting to being little more than pest control. The ability to get some cooperation from kids is a basis of effective parenting, however it is just one aspect of the child-rearing puzzle. The ability to promote confidence, resilience and build strong relationships are all essential aspects of effective parenting that spring to mind.

Super Nanny has an instructional element but first and foremost, it is entertainment. It is not representative of children, parents and family-life today. Bring me your worst and I will tame them is the theme of Super Nanny. Each show presents a new and more grotesque twist on the kids-gone-rampant theme bringing increasingly greater challenges for Super Nanny.

It is fast becoming a freak show and many parents just can’t wait to get their Super Nanny fix. But then It’s cathartic to observe just how awful other people’s children can be. It makes us all feel a hell of lot better to see children that are worse than our own. I call that therapy, not education.

Michael Grose is a popular parenting educator and parent coach. He is the director of Parentingideas, the author of seven books for parents and a popular presenter who speaks to audiences in Australia, Singapore and the USA. For free courses and resources to help you raise happy kids and resilient teenagers visit http://www.parentingideas.com.au

The Live 8 and Post Katrina phenomenons were wonderful displays of Hollywoodism. Take Brad Pitt for example. This ageless wonder stands on a stage and tells US why it would be a good idea to donate OUR money to a cause. Why doesn’t he and his Beverly Hills pals donate their next movie paycheck entirely to a cause instead? Why doesn’t Madonna donate a year’s worth of profits to something worthwhile? Why don’t professional athletes “donate” a season to charity? Are they really going to miss their salary from 2006 when it’s part of a colossal 10 year contract plus signing bonus? Did the “Friends” do “charity” shows when they were each pulling in $1 million per episode? We think not.

But we should pick up the phone and donate my $25 along with 5 million other Americans so then we can creep towards some inane goal and ultimately not reach it. Why do you have to stand there and waste time trying to nickel and dime the common people with your celebrity status when in reality your measly contributions to the cause are a small fraction of your disposable income.

The math is simple…collect $10 from 1 million people out there….obviously a daunting task that demands some sort of “hard sale”, in the form of some Hollywoodite standing there and acting compassionate by reading off of cue cards. OR, you can collect $1 million for 10 different multi millionaires. For Brad Pitt, $1 million would be the equivalent of pocket lint or breakfast table donut crumbs for someone of my stature. Not to take everything out on Brad, the poor guy, it’s just that your pretty face and compassionate imagery along with that wack-assed bleach blonde hair that you had for awhile made such an impression on us.

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The B’n’B Number 116 is new, quiet and peacefull situeted on the forth floor of an high class building in curtain, provided of doorkeeper. We have single room, duoble room or with three beds. The rooms are bright and provide of all optional to guarantee your stay in full autonomy and comfort, to spend your holiday as a real roman. The prices are moderate.

The wide rooms are entirely indipendent, as the big bathroom, that it is shared with all the rooms. The apartment has also a terrace, where is possible to dwell with the other guests.

The B’n’B Number 116 is located in a lively area and is very well connected by many lines of pubblic buses to get in few time every tourist area of Rome.

The popularity of the B’n’B Number 116 is caused also by its location (Via Anagni 116 Roma) between Prenestina Street and Serenissima Street, just 15 minutes far from Termini Station and 15 minutes far from Tiburtina Station. This location, tanks to the many bus lines, guarantees easy and fast transfers to every part of Rome. Besides when you arrive you will receive maps and informations to make your travel more confortable.

Number 116 overlooks the biggest square of the area. On the square and in the near street there are every tipes of services, included a payment car box, supermarkets, internet point, laundry and many others.

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From Termini Station
Take the tram n° 14, directed to Palmiro Togliatti ( the bus stop is in Via Giovanni Amendola behind the McDonald in Cinquecento Square), get down after 16 stopes in front of Villa Cordiani (after the second IP car service), cross the street and come in Via Bellegra, at the end of the street there a little square, largo Agosta, there you will find Via Anagni. We are at n°116, stair B, 4th floor, door n° 13.
Estimated Time: 15/20 min.

From Tiburtina Station
Take the subway B directed to Rebibbia, get down at Monti Tiburtini( after 2 stopes), go out the subway station and cross the road, take the bus n°542, directed to Serenessima/Tor de schiavi, get down after 8 stopes, go 30 metres on the right, you are arrived in Via Anagni. We are at n°116, stair B, 4th floor, door n° 13. Estimated Time: 15 min.

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Plot:After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called ‘Stay-Alive’, a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as ‘The Blood Countess’. However, after playing the game when they know they shouldn’t, the friends realize that once they die in the game - they die for real. As their numbers begin dropping and as they begin dying in the ways they died in the game, the remaining friends realize they must defeat the Blood Countess or accept their fates.

Cast: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Sophia Bush, Jimmi Simpson, Adam Goldberg, Milo Ventimiglia.

My Thoughts:What it lacks in style when it comes to the kills, it makes up for with an original story.

Review:Movies like “Stay Alive” usually have me leaving the theater going “what the hell was that?”. But oddly enough, that’s not the way I felt about “Stay Alive” after seeing it. While the movie did have it’s problems from the standpoint of being a balls to the wall horror movie, it works really well as a dark mystery with horror elements sprinkled in. The jist of “Stay Alive” centers around a weird video game that someone created and found a way to send out into the world. The bad part of the game is, if you die in it, you die for real, and weirdest of all, you die in real life the way you died in the game. I admit this movie would’ve been hella lame if the game started frying people or killing them in freak accidents ala “Final Destination”, but writer William Brent Bell is smart enough to give us a villain or should I say villainess that we can identify with, in the legendary countess Elizibeth Bathory. For those of you not familiar with this historical ghoulstess, she killed countless young women back in the dark ages and bathed in their blood, believing that doing so would grant her eternal youth. The dark aspect of the movie makes it’s presence felt early on because when victims number 1,2, and 3 are claimed, it’s by the countess character that appears in the game as it’s boss villainess, if you will. The mystery and burden of one of the first victims death falls upon his avid gamer friends Hutch (Jon Foster), Abigail (Samaire Armstrong), Phineus Bantum (Jimmi Simpson), his sister October (Sophia Bush), Miller (Adam Goldberg), and Swink (Frankie Muniz). Bell manages to keep the mystery of the film fresh, dark, and intriguing as the gamers soon start playing the game in honor of their deceased buddy, and begin to unlock it’s dark secrets. One of the biggest ones being about countess Bathory, and just how the heck can she be back as a video game character? Although this all sounds pretty cheesy in some ways, watching it all play out on screen with these particular actors is quite entertaining and creepy in alot of ways. Alot is revealed about the countess such as how she killed her victims, and when the first of the gamers dies at the hands of the games countess, Sophia Bush’s character begins to draw conclusions connecting the eerie circumstances surrounding his death, to that of past incident involving a few murdered local girls. “Stay Alive” slinks on blood, guts, and other related nastiness, and instead relies on it’s strong solid mystery aspect. It is after all a pg-13 flick, and while some horror fans might be turned off to the fact that the film is shy with it’s graphicness, the mystery of what is occuring is so engaging, it acts as a distraction from the fact we aren’t seeing people chopped to pieces on screen. “Stay Alive” also manages to keep Ms. Bathory well hidden most of the way, not fully showing the countess until near the middle of the movie…where one female character in peril utters a pretty bad ass one liner before she’s offed, in what is about the only graphic or semi-graphic death scene in the whole movie. The countess character is pretty creepy looking, and makes for a fantastic villain, especially because she sports a pair of rusty hedgeclipper like weapons in one hand when she pops up on screen…and has a very demented twisted look to her. Bell does show a weakness in his writing though when his story nears the end, which is where the remaining gamers after discovering a way to destroy the blood countess, visit the house of their dead friend to do so. Many things take place in the final act that don’t make sense and work to create more questions while giving little to no answers. That doesn’t do much for the story since there were already many unanswered questions from act 1 and 2 that had yet to be answered - and for those who didn’t pick up on it early on in the movie or who just weren’t paying attention, the films ending manages to square away one of “Stay Alive”’s biggest mysteries for you all. Despite it’s story-flawed final act, “Stay Alive” manages to “Stay Alive” (no pun intended) with an interesting and intriguing story and a pretty creepy looking and viciously wicked villainess, which manages to ensure that the viewer will be able to “Stay Awake”.

Pros: A very Dark,sinister, intriguing, and interesting story. Pretty good acting, great villainess, and nice sceneries especially in the movies climax which shifts locations from a large house, to a cemetary, to a forest. The ending was also a total curveball.

Cons:Again the story is too open ended and alot of questions about the countess are left unanswered at the conclusion. Another graphic death or two would’ve helped as well, too many cut aways.

Overall:I liked it alot more than I though I would, and I think you might too. It’s not a splatterfest, but in terms of it’s strong story, it’s a movie that will leave you thinking after it’s all over, and is mostly for the horror fan that can appreciate a good mystery with strong horror elements included.

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