On November 1, 1751, a bell was ordered from the Whitechapel Foundry in England with the intention it should hang in the State House steeple, now Independence Hall. September 2, 1752, the bell arrived on March 10, 1753 it was hung. It cracked while the sound was being tested. The break was blieved to be caused by flaws in the casting.

The cracked bell was melted down and recast by the local Philadelphia foundry. An ounce and a half to a pound of copper was added in an attempt to make the new bell less brittle. The tone of this bell was not liked and so it was again melted down and recast.

In June of 1753 the bell was hung again but the tone was still not approved of. A new bell was ordered from England. After it arrived it was agreed that it sounded no better than the last. The previous bell was left in the steeple and the new bell was
placed in the cupola on the State House roof and attached to the clock to sound the hours.

Shakey rushed in and announced loudly, “I’ll tell you, some people are a hazard to
traffic!” Driving to work this morning, he looked over to his left and saw a woman in a BMW doing at least 65 mph, with her face up next to her rear view mirror putting on her mascara. He looked away for a couple seconds and then the next thing he knew, was she was careering all over his lane. It scared him so badly that he dropped his electric shaver in his coffee, and it spilled all over his mobile phone!

Tips:

1. Hands free is the way:  A
   good quality Bluetooth or wired hands free device is easy to use and could save a life, maybe even your own! Newer Bluetooth / phone combinations can even voice dial when properly set up. Most Bluetooth and wired handsets can answer your phone with a touch of a button.  A visor mounted hands free device is convenient and easy to use, not recommended if privacy in the vehicle is required.
2. Get to know your phone: Fumbling through a cell phone’s menus while on the road can be extremely dangerous. Practice speed-dialing, redialing and allowing calls to go to voice mail are good ways to make driving and cell phones safer.
3. Get an assist: Ask passengers to answer your phone for you, use their own mobile phones or to do the dialing on yours. Teach older children how to operate your cell phone. The speaker phone feature allows you to participate while driving.
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Do you have an event you need to send out invitations for but don’t have the time to spend writing them out? Or perhaps you just don’t want to unnecessarily sacrifice the life of a tree for your event. Phonevite is the answer. You can send up to 25 invitations through their service. Just go to the website and enter the numbers for those you
want to invite. You can then use your cell phone to record your message which will then be sent to all of the phone numbers you entered. This service doesn’t have to be limited to just parties. Youcan use this for any activity for which you need to contact several people regarding the details; a boy scout meeting, a graduation, a sporting event schedule change, even a baptism or confirmation.

• Reminders for tasks and follow-ups
• Emergency alerts to the team
• Conference call reminders
• Weather cancellations
• Last-minute party/event reminders
• Finding a substitute/volunteer
• Quick motivational message to the team

• Wake-up calls for you and/or your group

Your cell phone can be used as a study tool. Many cell phones are equipped with a voice recorder. You can record terms you need to memorize onto your phone for play back. Since you can pause a voice recording, just hit pause before the answer is repeated to allow time for you to give your answer. Or you can only record the terms and/or questions on your recorder and have the answers written on a piece of paper. This gives you the opportunity to answer the audio question without worrying you might see the answer before you get a chance to test your knowledge.

Phones that can be unlocked: Iphone (2nd gen, 3G, 3Gs, Iphone 4), Samsung, LG, Blackberry, Sony Erickson, Pantech, HTC and almost any phone that uses a SIM Card.

Many service providers lock your phone so that you cannot obtain service on that particular cell phone through any other provider. For those who do not know how  to tell if their phone is locked, just put a SIM card from another provider into  your phone and turn it on. If you get any type of message stating the phone cannot access service, your phone is locked.

What benefit is there to unlocking your phone? If your phone is locked, you cannot access service with  any other provider. This can be especially frustrating if you are traveling and
trying to avoid roaming charges or if you have a good cell phone you still want
to use and want to switch your service to a different  provider.