My iPhone 3G GPS thinks I am in Minnesota even though I am in Utah. So I called up Apple support, and here is their simple set of steps to supposedly solve the GPS issue! Did not work for me though.

• Go to Settings->General
• Turn Location Services Off
• Go to Home Screen
• Go back to Settings
• Turn Airplane mode on and wait 20 seconds
• Turn Airplane mode off
• Go to Home Screen and then back to Settings->General
• Tap on Reset, and then Reset Network Settings (WARNING: You will lose all your network settings)
• Go to Home and the Settings->General
• Turn Location Services On

Seriously, is this a joke or some wizard at Apple sat and figured this sequence! Here is a suggestion, Settings->General->Reset->Reset GPS Settings, now that would have been an Apple like solution.

I never had any interest in seeing the movie Stop-Loss.  I didn’t know what stop-loss meant and I wasn’t interested in finding out until I came across a newspaper article in the Ogden Standard Examiner a few weeks ago.  The article was about a serviceman who was in Iraq and his experiences.  To summarize in the best way I can remember, the serviceman was in a vehicle driving along with some others and they hit a mine.  The blast knocked him out and he had been hurt so badly that he was flown to a hospital in Germany.  While he was there he found out that one of his eardrums had been blown out and that he had some brain damage.  The doctor told him that he was not to be around any loud noises and that he was not going back to Iraq.

Days or weeks later another military doctor came to see him and signed him off to return to the fight.  He can’t hear out of one ear, he is brain damaged, and they are forcing him to go back into the war.  I thought this was horrible, but the article just got worse.  He was supposed to be done with his tour in August, but because he got hurt and had to have months of rehabilitation the government is sending him back, brain damaged and all, to make up for the time he was in the hospital.  Stop-loss is the most ridiculous policy I have ever heard of.  This is just one straw in the bale of corruption that our government lives by everyday.

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I have been trying to find a great doctor for a while now. I have gone to a few different doctors, but I have been unhappy with the service I have been receiving. It seems that doctors nowadays don’t want to get to the bottom of the problem. They’re always prescribing something and sending me on my way. I don’t want my body to be reliant on pills. My insurance doesn’t cover the , however my husband mentioned that it would be a good idea to go there because it is more academic in nature, therefore they might be more motivated to get tot he bottom of the problem. I agreed with this idea and decided to make an appointment. I got transferred a lot on the phone until one women put me on my final transfer and said I should try Dr. Angela Chaudhari. She told me that she was young and a really great doctor and transferred me over to her office. I then left a message asking Dr. Chaudhari’s receptionist to call me back so I could make an appointment.

I felt so excited that I had finally found a doctor. I called my husband to tell him and he was also excited. Later that day I got the call back from Dr. Chaudhari’s receptionist. She was nice as she was taking all of my information. Then she asked “So you going to be paying for the visit with cash?” I explained that I would be paying in cash and that I do hold insurance, but they do not cover the University Hospital. I explained that I felt I would get the service at a research based hospital. She then, after taking all of my information, told me that Dr. Chaudhari does not take patients that pay in cash. She only takes patients that have insurance that cover that hospital.

I cannot explain how I felt at that moment. I sat in silence as I drove home and thought about what had just happened. I had just been discriminated against. They drew the conclusion that since my insurance didn’t cover their practice I wouldn’t be able to pay the bill. My thoughts soon turned into tears. I couldn’t believe it. I have never felt discriminated against, but I am sure that this is what it was and this is what it felt like.

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As a second year teacher I have often thought about leaving the profession. I decided to become a teacher when I was in college for reasons that I am not able to fulfill. The decision came in an instance when, on the first day of my class, my professor placed a blank map of the world and a list of nine countries in front of us and told us to place the countries where they belong on the map. I couldn’t do it. The feeling I felt at that moment was indescribable. As I looked around I noticed that there were many more in the class that were unable to fulfill the task. I realized that the only reason I, along with so many other American-born college students, could not meet the task at hand was because of our base education. It is at that exact moment I decided that I would become an elementary teacher so that I could be a better teacher than I had. I actually wanted teach geography.

I have come to realize, in my second year of teaching at a school that is failing the No Child Left Behind requirements, that the students I am teaching now are a lot worse off than I was at there age. My school’s daily schedule is now mandated by the district and consists of math and literacy all day long. They have taken away recess and now only allow elementary-age students to have one ten minute recess. The district has also said that there are to be no more than two field trips a year. This is a sad state in education. We are teaching these students to hate school. We are setting our future leaders up to drop out of school because it doesn’t offer them anything except math and literacy. What will happen when these students reach their twenty’s. Every company will be outsourcing to the better educated, well-rounded individuals. No Child Left Behind is hurting our country more than the politicians realize. I came across this video today. It is a little funny because it is so so true. How sad.

http://notonthetest.com/