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Same here. People are gushing about how the iPhone is suddenly going to get great reception and sound quality, with Verizon. As if Verizons network will magically make up for Apples bad design. The phone has gotten crappy reception for 4 generations now, wise up people, its a design issue not the network. If it does better on Verizon, look to the antenna redesign, though I doubt that was radical enough to seriously improve the i4's reception. Um. Look more into how the industry works, and you may see Verizons butt hurting in a year or two. iPhone customers are usually our biggest accesory sales, however because of the high data usage and how skinny the devices are, their ARPU (after costs) is pretty grim. They also typically spend more time in store setting up, and come back more often, requiring a higher (and more costly) level of service.

Whatever name you hand out, will shape her life forever, including but not limited to, what it looks like on an application or resume. Some names seem to get thrown right into garbage, while others are granted an interview, regardless of education or experience. Its also been proven that teachers give better grades to students with names that start with letters earlier in the alphabet, some kind of subconscious psych thing. Might not be right, but there it it.

I think a VZ iPhone and the Moto Atrix might make AT&T a contender again.

OP, where did you get the phone? An unscupulous (retailer) or incompetent (big box) salesman may have screwed something up. Most obvious is they forgot to reverse the activation before the 30 days. AT&T literally IS the worst, we were ranked worst last year. However, we just built a few new call centers in southern US and those girls are AMAZING. They have been trained for months now and are amazingly helpfull, polite. AT&T is just waiting for them to go live and drop the centers in India or wherever. Once that happens and Verizon gets the iPhone and we lose 6mil of our non-profitable, super-heavy data users that stress the network beyond capacity, we should be set.

Thread is useless without pics of the girl.

Yeah, and airbags can kill you, and a home invader could stab you before you get your safety off, relatively low-probability negatives will always exist. But in the vast majority of complications, in general, hospitals add greatly to the survival of the child and mother. I'll take the risk of a hospital 'malfunction' over some semi-trained nurse in a washtub in my backyard, and I think any rational parent would as well. First, midwives are as human as anyone else, so they have just as many hobbies and occupations that could distract them. They don't have as many professional review processes though, so theoretically, are less inclined to do everything in their power for the safety of their clients. I dunno what nagging you are talking about. CS staffs are not that large. By properly choosing a doctor, like any parent should, a good doctor will keep CS as the last-case scenario, for the safety of both parties. Women who choose 'peace' over safety deserve neither, nor a child in the first place. I think someone else said that once, perhaps more broadly applied. Anecdotal evidence FTL.

CS, we had our son in my hands in appx 60 seconds, no Geronimo involved. I dunno why anyone would have a baby outside of a fully functional hospital. Too many bad scenarios.

The galaxy S is outstanding. However, I would wait till after CES and see when the dual-core phones are going to hit the market.

Got a bed for the wife (and me). Found a tempur knockoff for $305 shipped in 11" queen from Overstock, very firm, great for both of our backs as we get older. Been great so far. I'm going to CES as a combined Christmas/Birthday present, so I didn't get much from the wife.

This is why you need a good lawyer. My understanding is that, at least in my state, there will be THREE cases running concurrently: A legal case, an administrative case, and an internal CPS case. They will all run at the same time, some will affect the others, some won't. In my instance, the legal case ended instantly, because the cops were the only ones smart enough to realize there was no case and do something about it. We were interviewed by two police and a CPS, and it took the cops about 30 seconds after the interview to say it was BS and close the case. However, that had NO affect on the other two cases. Our CPS interviewer outright told us that despite there clearly being no fault, they were trained to press on as if we were guilty. She also told us that if our in-laws were not present at the interview, she would not have waited for them to turn over custody, but issued custody to someone on their list, and they rarely switch custody after its issued. We found that out after the interview. We almost told the in-laws it was just a formality and not to come. We got lucky, but we should have had a lawyer from the very second anyone mentioned CPS involvement. Months and $10+k later, we finally found someone reasonable outside the system, who overturned both cases the way it should have been done from the beginning. For that entire duration, at every step, every person we spoke to said, there is NO case, good parents in a good home, but they had to keep moving us along. In fact we were a hassle because they could find NO plan for us to follow, even multiple psych analysts said it was BS and couldn't recommend anything. The two classes they 'advised' us to take, guess what, we had already taken on our own impetus before our child was born. We knew more about child safety, heath and nutrition than the so-called experts. Get a lawyer. After seeing the incompetence in the system, I consider it money well spent. Who knows what those uncaring a-holes could have done to our family if we didn't know our options.

Anyone else getting a nook color to hack and screw around with? Have to use softkeys and no 3G or video out, but looks fun. I may even hack 2.2 or 2.3 on there and just use the Nook and Kindle apps.

Workers yes, but the department overall gets juiced based on how many kids are placed in foster care. So the impetus is from the top down. That's how my lawyers explained it anyway. ETA: I've personally seen NUMEROUS cases where kids were placed with family, the parent in question moved out of the home so the kid would remain with relatives in the home, or plans were put in place to drive children SEVERAL hours away just so they could stay with family (but then it was determined that removal was not necessary). The way our CPS managers explained it to me, they are taught to assume that unless one spouse outright accuses the other, they assume that the spouse is covering up their husbands/wifes abuse, and until the case is finished they assume the home where it happened is a dangerous area. So that doesn't really work in my state. We managed to get a similar situation, only because our lawyers were breathing down their neck and CPS knew they had to avoid getting sued.

Oh yeah. There will be a short rush of last-minute husbands, after that DEAD. Slow season this year.

It doesn't sound too serious, but still get a lawyer. Just looking up Arizona's CPS I see they recently had a death in their care. When that kind of thing happens, they become twice as draconian, as if breaking up more decent families can make up for them doing a Chocolate Goodness job in the first place. We recently ran into that here. A report came out saying that my states CPS see's the majority of cases among one particular race. The directors response? Pursue OTHER races with twice as much vigor, to 'balance' out the numbers.

Also, if it was very serious, yes they would have taken the child from the hospital. Nurses and Drs are mandated reporters, so would have called them right away. You would be seeing a CPS agent within the hour and the nurses would not have let you alone with the child.