Is it a phone or computer?

I recently took a trip to California and unfortunately lost my brand New I Phone. I previously blogged about how amazing the I Phone 4 was so I was extremely upset after losing the phone. I had apple care but this did not cover loss. So when I finally realized that I was going to have to go without a phone for a few days and be all the way across the country I freaked out. I knew I was really attached to my phone but this just made me realize that I was completely reliant on it for simple things like what the weather is, where to eat, directions, and just all forms of communication. Cell phones hold different meanings for individuals and for me it meant a lot more than just a phone used to make calls when needed. So I felt I had to go get a phone as soon as possible. Luckily, my contract was up and I was due for an upgrade. So when I got to the AT&T store I was set on getting the same phone because I loved it. This did not end up happening. The guy that helped me told me that they just came out with a new phone that had the Android market with more apps and still the 4G service. You also didn’t have to purchase apple care separately and if you purchase insurance and lose the phone you can replace it for only 50 dollars which sold me on the phone because clearly I am very capable of losing it again. He used many different persuasive techniques to persuade me. Like strawman when he said how much this phone was better than the I Phone and testimonial when he said he just got it and loved it. He also

The phone that I got was the Motorola Atrix. This phone is supposed to have the same capabilities as a computer and is one of the fastest smartphone’s out right now. When I first got it I thought that it was way too complicated for me and I would end up returning it but I love it just as much if not more than my I phone. One cool aspect of the phone was that all of my contacts from Facebook were directly synced to my contacts in the phone which is a prime example of convergence. The phone has a huge variety of apps that are free to download and tons of music (which I use my limbic brain to listen to) that I can download for free without having to have I Tunes. I am still figuring out all of the capabilities of the phone but overall it was a good purchase and losing my phone did not turn out to be as disastrous as I thought it would.

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GITMO serious about abuse in prisons

Interrogation in Guantanamo Bay

Essential Facts:

-Guantanamo Bay has a military enforcement team called the IRF (Immediate reaction force) who are a “forced extraction team, specializing in the extraction of a detainee who is combative, resistive, or if [there is] the possibility of a weapon…in the cell at the time of extraction”

*while researching this topic I found little to no information on the IRF and what exactly they do. All the Information came from sources outside the big U.S media conglomerates.

-These teams are of five military men who are assigned a body part to restrain. One former prisoner said he witnessed the abuse by the IRF and suffer serious injuries. He also said that he has seen prisoners be “IRF’ed “while praying or refusing medication

-On January 22, 2009 President Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a year but this never happened and the abuse has said to have gotten stronger.

"the total number of Guantanamo detainees to 180. That's far fewer than the almost 800 housed here at the detention centre's population peak several years ago".(PAPERNY)

-The Center for Constitutional Rights have tried to reach out to the Obama administration to end the use of the IRF teams but they have resisted the help of an independent special prosecutor to investigate the abuse claims.

-Even after the pledge by the president to close the prison, one Guantanamo lawyer stated that there have still been claims of abuse that include “beatings, dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, and applying pepper spray to toilet paper”.

telegraph.co.uk