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Founders Journal · Summer 2000 · pp. 14-22
Why I Am A Baptist
This article will appear as a chapter in the forthcoming book, Why I Am a Baptist, edited by Tom Nettles and Russ Moore for Broadman and Holman.
"A preference for our own faith is reasonable and righteous" J. P. Greene[1]
"Why are you a Baptist?" Though I have been in Baptist churches all of my life, until recently, no one has ever asked me nor have I paused to ponder that question. My Baptist roots go deep. My maternal great-grandparents and grandparents were Baptist. My Baptist parents raised six children, all of whom have professed faith in Christ, been baptized as believers and are active in Baptist churches. I have a brother who is a Baptist student minister and cousins who are serving in Asia, Great Britain, and Africa with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board.
I married a Baptist pastor, who was raised in a Baptist home and we are now raising our six children in the Baptist faith. It would be easy to plead tradition, convenience or even laziness as a reason for remaining a Baptist. But the truth is, I just cannot help myself, I am a Baptist by conviction.
This conviction is founded on the fact that Baptists have always been a people of the Book, a confessing people, a people who openly believe the Bible. As R. M. Dudley, a noted 19th -century Baptist pastor, editor and professor stated,
The fundamental principle of the Baptists is their belief in the supreme authority and absolute sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures; and their separate existence is the practical and logical result of their attempt to apply this principle in all matters of religion. This is the bedrock on which the denomination rests.[2]
J. M. Frost, founding president of the Baptist Sunday School Board echoes that sentiment:
Baptists at different times in their history, and to meet impending claims and conflicts, have issued their confession of faith, and have always given this primal and decisive place to the Word of God as their one authority. This is the bedrock of their faith, the one rule of their practice.[3]
As a mother of six, my belief system and denominational standing do have an impact on future generations. I do not want my children simply to "fall" into the Baptist beliefs and confessions out of tradition or convenience. Rather, I want them to embrace Baptist principles out of commitment to truth. We have a rich denominational history and a promising denominational future and I would love to bequeath this heritage and prospect to my children and grandchildren. I desire to teach them about great Baptist men and women of the faith that believed the Bible and were satisfied in the roles laid out for them. They need to know about people such as Charles H. Spurgeon, William Carey, Adoniram and Ann Judson, Lottie Moon, John Broadus, and John Bunyan. I want my daughters to enthusiastically embrace their calling to be women wholly devoted to Jesus Christ like their heroic Baptist sisters who have gone before them. I want my son to be inspired and challenged by the testimonies of former Southern Baptist statesmen like James P. Boyce, P. H. Mell, John Dagg, and other founders of the SBC. I am persuaded by J. P. Greene, who in 1923 ended three decades of service as the president of William Jewel College in Liberty, Missouri, when he issues this challenge to all Baptists:
We have an honorable and even glorious history, and our children should know it. We keep them in touch with our family history; why not also with our denominational history? . . . If they knew their own history, they would rejoice to belong to such a noble company.[4]
I want my children and their children to believe that the Bible is the unchanging Word of God. I yearn for them to be committed to spreading the saving message of the Book through the work of missions and evangelism, and to be submissive to the authority of the Bible both in doctrine and practice.
My earliest introduction to the Baptist life came through the study of God's Word in Sunday school. I grew up believing that the Sunday school hour was a necessary, integral and non-negotiable part of our Lord's Day observance. My parents faithfully accompanied their six children each week to the teaching hour prior to worship. It was during this time that many loving teachers opened God's Word to me. It was in Sunday school that I learned to love and revere the Scripture as God's holy and unchanging Word. I discovered the exciting and adventurous stories of the Old Testament. I was taught the importance of the observance of the Ten Commandments. I was captivated by the God-breathed words of the major and minor prophets, the poetry of the Psalms and the wisdom of the Proverbs. I was inspired by the testimony of the apostles in the book of Acts and in their letters.
As I have matured in my faith and, through the ministry of God's Word and Spirit, discovered more of His supremacy over all of life, I have come to a deeper appreciation of the role that Sunday school played in my early years. It was there that I was taught from both the Old and the New Testaments that God has a people whom He loves and calls His own. As I continued to study the biblical teachings on God's sovereignty in creation, providence and redemption, I realized that these grand themes were first introduced to me by faithful Baptist Sunday school teachers.
More importantly, my Sunday school experiences and the many sermons I heard as a child were used of God to convince me that I was a sinner who needed Jesus Christ as my Savior. It was in Sunday school that my mind was engaged to know who God is, who I am before Him and what I must do. Coupled with that, it was my mother's Baptist experience that convinced her that her daughter needed to be converted. She was under no delusions (nor was I) that the fact that I was a child of believers in any way made me automatically a child of God. I am grateful that Baptists have historically placed a strong emphasis on teaching the Word of God through the means of Sunday morning Bible study. My life has been forever changed by the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ which was taught to me by my mother and my Sunday school teachers.
Currently, I have the privilege of teaching God's Word to a Sunday school class of teenagers at my church. It is a job that makes me tremble. To help these young people formulate their thoughts of God and to teach them about His purposes is a responsibility I find very sobering. I am grateful that I belong to a Baptist church that puts primary emphasis on the authority of the Scripture, thereby encouraging me to approach my task with great confidence. There is no hesitation on my part that what God's Word says is true and right and relevant to these young people. T. T. Eaton, a 19th century Baptist pastor and editor of the Western Recorder, the Baptist paper in Kentucky, said it well, "What we must believe, what we must be, and what we must do, are set forth in the Bible with a clearness and a completeness found nowhere else. Not a doctrine, nor an aspiration, nor a duty is omitted."[5]
Evangelism and Missions
Because I am a Baptist and do believe that the Scripture is the supreme and infallible rule for my life, I can trust what it says about evangelism and missions. Baptists believe in missions. They have a long-standing and constantly developing system of sending the gospel into the entire world. From my first recollections of church life I have known that evangelism and missions are important to Baptists. I have been involved in various mission organizations such as Girls in Action, Acteens and Women's Missionary Union.
Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, where I am a member, is a missionary church. Because my pastor has such an acute interest in evangelism and missions and desires to see God's Word spread, he has whetted our appetites to pray for the work of Christ around the world. As we have prayed we have been led to support, teach and encourage those that are called into missionary work. We recently sent one of our finest families to a country in Central Asia where they are today trying to proclaim the gospel among an unreached people group. Our goal as a Baptist church is not only to pray but also to send our very best as our representatives into the uttermost parts of the world.
As a Baptist I have been taught and believe that every Christian ought to be actively involved in spreading the gospel. I agree with Curtis Lee Law's observation, stated in an article he wrote while pastoring the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, when he said, "the clearest vision that the world has of God is in the life of God's representatives. When the world shall see the Christ life in us, then will the Father be glorified."[6]
Believers' Baptism
One of the most distinguishing principles of our faith is the doctrine of believers' baptism. As a Baptist, I have never doubted the biblical basis for my baptism. I am convinced by Scripture that only those who are saved by God's grace are scriptural candidates for baptism. In Romans 6:4, Paul says, "Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Newness of life can only mean one thing, namely, a life that has been changed. Baptism, in the New Testament, is an external sign of an internal work of grace already attained in the heart of the believer. Consider the account of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. His baptism was warranted only after he had professed his belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?" Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. (Acts 8:36-38)
The same is true for the Philippian jailer and his household, who were all baptized because they all believed. This connection is sometimes missed if the account is not read in its entirety. Acts 16: 30-33 says:
And he [the jailer] brought them out and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' So they [Paul and Silas] said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.' Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.
These four verses on their own might be used to support the baptism of unbelieving children who belong to believing parents. But when verse 34 is included in the account, it becomes clear that the ones who were baptized with the jailer also believed with him. "Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced having believed in God with all his household."
As J. G. Bow, author of What Baptists Believe and Why They Believe It. rightly puts it, "There is not the slightest evidence that anyone received the ordinance of baptism who did not profess faith in Christ; hence Baptists have ever held to believers' baptism."[7] Baptism is an act of obedience to the Scripture in response to the authoritative command of Christ. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19).
I do not believe in baptismal regeneration nor do I believe that baptism bestows any earthly privilege or advantage. It is not essential for salvation. Rather, baptism is a testimony of God's grace in bringing the believer into union with Christ through repentance and faith. It symbolizes this union by depicting burial and resurrection to newness of life.[8]
So, why is all this important to me? Because historically Baptists have held that only those who have a credible profession of faith are candidates for baptism and, consequently, church membership. The new covenant spoken of in Hebrews (8:8-13, 9:15, 10:16-17, etc.) includes only those who know the Lord savingly. If I were not convinced of this, I could easily belong to a conservative Presbyterian or Reformed church. I agree with their regard for the sovereignty of God and their high view of worship but I do not agree with their view of the covenant and how that applies to our children. Like my mother before me, I realize that my children need to be converted. I too am under no delusion that my child because of his or her standing in the Ascol home will be made a child of God. It is all of grace. I do not find presumptive regeneration, infant baptism or confirmation in the New Testament. What I do find is that there is only one entrance into the New Testament Church and that is through believers' baptism. As Acts 2:41 says, "Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them."
Baptism is not the most important doctrine for Christians, including Baptists. It is important enough, however, to warrant a separate congregational identity. As an ordinance of Christ, one should take seriously how baptism is to be administered. Differences among Christians on this issue are unfortunate and inevitable in a fallen world. As J. C. Ryle, a famous 19th-century Anglican Bishop, laments, "the difference is a melancholy proof of the blindness and infirmity which remain even in the saints of God."[9] Nevertheless, maintaining a separate identity because of our insistence on believers' baptism is justifiable.
Consider the testimony of Ann Hasseltine Judson, wife of Adonirum Judson and missionary to Burma. As a newly appointed congregational missionary, her study of the Scripture led her to forsake pedobaptism and embrace believers' baptism. In her journal, dated 1812, she writes:
Sept. 1. I have been examining the subject of baptism for some time past, and, contrary to my prejudices and my wishes, am compelled to believe, that believers' baptism alone is found in Scripture. If ever I sought to know the truth; if ever I looked up to the Father of lights; if ever I gave up myself to the inspired word, I have done so during this investigation. And the result is, that, laying aside my former prejudices and systems, and fairly appealing to the Scriptures, I feel convinced that nothing really can be said in favour of infant baptism or sprinkling. We expect soon to be baptized. O may our hearts be prepared for that holy ordinance! and as we are baptized into a profession of Christ, may we put on Christ, and walk worthy of the high vocation wherewith we are called. But in consequence of our performance of this duty, we must make some very painful sacrifices. We must be separated from our dear missionary associates, and labour alone in some isolated spot. We must expect to be treated with contempt, and cast off by many of our American friends–forfeit the character we have in our support, wherever we are stationed.[10]
The Judsons submitted to believers' baptism by immersion in Calcutta on September 6, 1812. William Ward, a colleague of William Carey, conducted the service. It was costly for the Judsons to become Baptist. They had to give up their association with their own mission support group and seek support elsewhere. It was a great step of faith that was born out of deep conviction.
Regenerate Church Membership
Of similar importance to me in my Baptist walk is the too often neglected principle of a regenerate church membership. Baptists have historically believed that the membership of their churches should be made up of only regenerated, converted people. Unfortunately, the concept and practice of a regenerate church membership has been practically abandoned in many contemporary Baptist churches.
Membership today has been so substantially diluted in many Baptist churches that anyone who desires to join need only walk an aisle or express a desire to be accepted as a member. When the unregenerate are allowed to join the church four things often occur; the unregenerate person is misguided spiritually, the church is seriously weakened, church discipline is overlooked and the cause of Christ is undermined. It is hard to distinguish some Baptist churches from social clubs because they are filled with unconverted people. A study done by the North American Mission Board in 1996 found that the typical Southern Baptist Church had only 30 percent of its total membership who actually attended the worship service on Sunday morning. This is a significant and sad discovery. True converts desire to be under the preaching and teaching of God's Word.
Tom Ascol, my husband, pastor and editor of the Founders Journal has observed, "Those who do not demonstrate a real, saving relationship with Christ and who show no interest in growing spiritually have no business being received into a church's membership. This is not false idealism nor an argument for perfection in Christians. Rather, it is a simple recognition that where there is life, there will be at least some demonstration of it. Spiritual fruit cannot be cultivated where there is no spiritual life. What does not exist cannot be 'formed' or shaped."[11] Belief in and application of the principle of a regenerate church membership will lead a church to exercise preventive or front-end discipline. This is essential before corrective discipline, as outlined in Matthew 18:15-20, 1 Corinthians 5 and other places in the New Testament, can ever be restored.
Edward Hiscox, author of The New Directory for Baptist Churches describes what should be the distinctive characteristics of a Baptist church and its members this way: "They [Baptists] hold that a church is a company of disciples, baptized on a profession of their faith in Christ, united in covenant to maintain the ordinances of the Gospel, and the public worship of God; to live godly lives, and to spread abroad the knowledge of Christ as the Saviour of men."[12] Obviously, this would be difficult to accomplish in a church filled with unregenerate people. He further comments on the class of people that should be admitted as members, "Baptists say that godly persons, baptized on a profession of faith, are the only proper and suitable persons. That all others should be denied admission, and if already within the Church should be cast out."[13]
The newly revised Baptist Faith and Message speaks of the church as the body of Christ consisting of all of the redeemed of the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people and nation. While church membership should be very broad in its inclusion of every race and tribe of believers, it should be very narrow in its exclusion of all but professing believers. To do otherwise would be to diminish the separation between the world and the church. J. G. Bow reiterates this point by saying,
The Churches of Christ are not reformatory schools, are not organizations into which natural men are to be taken and by the process of law, ceremony, or ordinance made children of God, but each ought to be a congregation of God's people, separated from the world. No unconverted man or woman can meet the duties and obligations of a church member, and should not assume such responsibilities.[14]
So why am I a Baptist? Pastor Dudley expresses well what is in my heart, "I am not a Baptist because Baptists practice restricted communion, or immersion, or refuse infant baptism. I am a Baptist because by the fundamental principle of Protestantism I am bound by the Word of God in all matters of faith and practice."[15] The emphasis on teaching, the love of missions and evangelism, the doctrine of believers' baptism and the historical commitment to a regenerate church membership all revert back to a belief in the centrality of Scripture alone. I will say it again, Baptists are a people of the Book. Article I of the Baptist Faith and Message concerning "The Scriptures" was recently and appropriately strengthened by the 2000 Southern Baptist Convention. It reaffirms our desire to live under the Lordship of Jesus Christ by submitting to the authority of the Bible.
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for is matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is himself the focus of divine revelation.[16]
God desires every area of my life to be governed by His Word. As I pursue this goal through the various callings that God has placed on me as a wife, mother, teacher, etc. I derive both strength and encouragement from fellowship with the people known as Baptists.

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Political Climate, Optimism, and Investment Decisions
Yosef Bonaparte
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Brigham Young University
February 26, 2012
AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
We show that people's optimism towards financial markets and the macroeconomy is dynamically influenced by their political affiliation and the existing political climate. Individuals become more optimistic and perceive the markets to be less risky and more undervalued when their own party is in power. These shifts in perceptions of risk and reward affect investors' portfolio decisions. Specifically, when the political climate is aligned with their political identity, investors increase allocations to risky assets and exhibit a stronger preference for high market beta, small-cap, and value stocks. Due to these portfolio reallocations, investors improve their raw portfolio performance when their own party is in power, but the improvement in risk-adjusted performance is economically small.
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Sprint pushes back the Touch Pro
HTC Touch Pro CDMA Specifications
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1. (unregistered)
Sprint FAILS
6. (unregistered)
yes it does
10. sprint is LAZY!!!!!! (unregistered)
what are the people at sprint doing...this phone should of been out by now...they should work harder to get things ready when its DUE and stop delaying things...the instinct was delayed a couple times too and now the dimond and the touch pro??..no wonder their not number one...(im a sprint user) i've been waiting for this phone for a while and everytime im ready to go get it..sprint always finds some lame excuse to set things back..all the other big companies seem to get things done in time..well at least they try to get close to the original release date..(the dimond should of been out online since august 28 and out in stores around mid sept)...!!!!!!!!
11. (unregistered)
And what say you then to AT&T delaying the Bold? Yes, I'm a Sprint customer, but companies encounter problems sometimes. That is also a fact of life. You can never plan to do exactly what you want to do. Something will get in the way or something will distract you, unless you decide to sleep all day of course. >_> And BTW the Diamond is out NOW!!! Only the Pro got delayed.
15. (unregistered)
AT&T's delaying the Bold because of software bugs. Orange in the UK has temporarily discontinued the Bold because of these problems, AT&T delayed it so they weren't releasing a half-assed product.
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It's not a software bug- it's a SHITTY network: http://crackberry.com/friday-rumors-microsoft-buy-rim-again-new-super-blackberry-clues-verizon-s torm-launch-date-bold-dela 5. AT&T Bold Delays - AT&T customers are still waiting for the Bold, though I'm sure the Storm marketing hype has many of you contemplating jumping ship if it becomes available first. We know it is coming soon... but the point of this post is to relay more of a "technical" explanation for what has caused the delays to begin with (it also explains why New York HATED my BlackBerry Bold). The info comes not from me (remember, I'm just the Addict!), but from a trusty source in the know: The issue is with the AT&T 3G Network. The Bold uses Multi PDP context in its data communications and the AT&T network is not optimized for it. It requires a 2-stage network software upgrade by its 3G vendor, Ericsson. Only 30% of the network is upgraded completely and the rest is still pending. If the device is launched without these upgrades the network will suffer bandwidth crunch and speeds would have to be capped at 128kbps! The Tri-State region is one of the market areas that is still in line for the upgrade which makes sense based on your experience with your Bold in NYC. This upgrade effort is high priority and slotted to complete by Oct 31st. Nov 1st week is the planned launch timeframe for the Bold and with the latest firmware the BlackBerry Bold is a rock solid device, despite what you may have heard elsewhere. How do like that explanation?! Have patience AT&T friends... the Bold is an awesome device worth waiting for and should hopefully be here soon.
44. sprint is still LAZY!!!!!! (unregistered)
i've been going tohttp://mobilebusiness.sprint.c
om/8130/index.php?pid=3&?id9=Smuch everyday n till today it doesnt say "will soon be available in stores"...the dimond was suppose to be out since like the 14 of sept in STORES and august 28 ONLINE..so yeah maybe all they do is SLEEP..i've been searching for a good phone for a while now and till now sprint has been the one with the MOST "delays" with their important products...THREE important phones so far for sprint this year and all were dalayed at least TWICE...i've been a customer for 9 years so im not going anywhere (even though right now im what u call SINGLE)..lol..im just waiting to renew my contract when the pro comes out..but i just wished they put some effort..only recently sprint has TRIED getting a sigunature phones like all the other companies have..sprint took out the "instinct" and that was to compete against the "iphone'' hahaha yeah that went well..TMOBILE did a great job with the G1, no delays that i now of.. EM_Google_P_Sprint_HTC...prett y
2. (unregistered)
Just give it to Verizon and let them sell more than Sprint would ever dream of. Why does Sprint ALWAYS get phones? No one ever wants to buy from them. Give the good phones to carriers that matter.
3. (unregistered)
well it has something the to do with the carrier wanting to get the phones. Maybe you should talk to the people in charge of getting new devices at verizon.....
5. (unregistered)
wow did you just crawl under a rock or didnt you notice they have and are still launching a bunch of phones. sorry this isnt 1999
13. (unregistered)
well then why aren't they releases decent phones like cracka above wants?
14. (unregistered)
Who, Verizon? Their PDA/Blackberry lineup is pathetic. The only new phones they have been getting are mediocre touch screen phones, or cheap low grade RAZR reincarnations. And I'm a fan of verizon. They need to start focusing on their PDA lineup again, because they're becoming a teen texting device carrier. GIVE ME MY TOUCH PRO! GIVE ME MY BLACKBERRY NIAGRA! GIVE ME SOME NEW PDAS VERIZON!
27. (unregistered)
That is a great point. From thier phones to their adds everything is very teen/family orianted with is nice for people on family plans but does nothing for business users which want high end business phones with full slide out QWERTY keyboards.
29. (unregistered)
why would someone want to go to verizon and pay almost twice as much for slower data then sprint. yes sprint used to suck about getting phones but they are starting to pick their act up and they have the best selection out the for pda's and a unlimited plan that beats everyone else.
31. vzw fanboy (unregistered)
wait for the blackberry storm it will prolly rule all phones. you get what you pay for. if you get sprint in your area and are poor and dont travel then get that. but if you can afford to pay verizons not that expensive plans, biggest 3g coverage and best coverage on average, then get verizon. plus if all your friends and family have verizon i suggest you get that.
36. sprintsupportva (unregistered)
ive already used the storm and i can say it sucks badly. the touchscreen isnt worth the waiting for it to work. as for verizon and htc touch pro they will get the phone but it will come to sprint first. keep in mind it is still a phone. no phone is perfect and no phone ever will be. someone will have something to stay negatively about every phone so just deal with it.
38. vzw fanboy (unregistered)
oh ok. at least it has a nice big screen with all of vcast features and tv. it looks wicked feature packed
41. Grouchstar - No Homo lol (unregistered)
Look The storm is not even out yet how can you say the touch screen sucks???? first of all have you tried the Iphone?? you know who made the touch screen for that phone?? Rim did ok... Rim helped apple with the touchscreen and honestly the iphone touch screen is pretty cool even tho the iphone sucks lol anyway Rim always works wit blackberry, and the touch screen as i hear is like so much better than the iphone's touch screen so dont hate plus the storm is going to be the best pda phone thats going to be out there in the market.. I work For verizon sooo i get in the inside and yes the storm is like no other... thats all i got to say about that.... sooooooooo Dont hate punk.. lol
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No, you're wrong. It is NOT the same touch screen as the iphone. It is an odd new technology called click touch, in which you have to touch the area of the phone twice before the item is selected. That goes for the keyboard as well. The Storm is a lot of talk, but when its released, I doubt it will be worth the price. Something like a CDMA Bold would do much better on the lineup IMO, and an HTC Touch Pro would be nice as well.
4. (unregistered)
I don't know why people keep saying sprint sucks, because I've compared prices with other phone companies and I would pay more and no I don't have the zero plan. I get great service here in Los Angeles. Never had a problem with any part of there service. If anything were sprint fails is marketing there products, I always see Verizon commercials and AT&T. .I hardly ever see a Sprint commercial, especially about there phones. Look I love Sprint because if my phone not working right I take it to there repair shops, 30 minutes to 1 hour later my phone is fix, if not they send me one in 2 days. For those of you that have AT&T and Verizon good for you, there two very good companies, but believe it or not there is actually happy sprint costumers out there
7. (unregistered)
one out of a million, try the lottery! you might win. haha
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34. (unregistered)
he has a good opinion sprint has the best insurance, why pay all that money and if it breaks there is nothing that they can do. with ATT they dont even insure half of their phones.WTH?
39. (unregistered)
they do now, all phones thru att, except the iphone, are insurable, pdas/blackberrys and more high end devices have a $125 deductable vs. $50 for regular phones, just started this summer/fall and insurance remains $4.99/mo
8. SprintDomination (unregistered)
Verizon sucks. Sprint is going to buy them just to sell off the pieces. Verizon=Loser company for Loser people. Now watch the Losers try and defend it.
9. (unregistered)
dis guy is gonna feel sooo accomplished and tough when somebody responds
16. HTCTOUCHPROSPRINT (unregistered)
i like sprint, but r u sure they would be able to afford verizon? idts
25. (unregistered)
They are still hurting from the merger with Nextel. There is no way Sprint can buy VZW... VZW has more customers, more revenue, less churn, and loyal customers.
30. (unregistered)
with the name "SprintDomination" this person must be a winner......and dont be mad at verizon because you came back with a $750 deposit and had to settle for sprint
35. (unregistered)
sprint has faster data and better phones on what they can do. all verizon does is make lots of phones for teens girls who like to text and put the same software on everything so its the same phone but in a different shell. Phones that do more+faster data+better monthly prices. why pay 750 deposit for a service that is going to restrict everything you do. we already have a gov't that restricts and controls us why the cell phone carries as well?
46. (unregistered)
With Verizon you can't even download Opera Mini on the damn Voyager and most phones. You end up paying way more with Verizon. Sprint has great service, fast network, good signal and great prices. Thats way I switched to Sprint and I don't regret it and when the pro comes out its all mine, so what if I have to wait a couple of weeks more.
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no 1. sprint SUCKS i've been waiting for this fone 4 months & i've been a sprint customer for about 12 years. i'm tired of these companies not meeting their obligations. i wish i could not pay my bil cuz i didnt calculate i wont have enuf $$$ when my bill is due. i just got a Q9 in nov 2007 but need a bigger & better display for my eyes, seriously thinking bout jumping ship. really dont care bout ETf
17. (unregistered)
dude I know your piss but you know no other carrier can offer you the same prices sprint can. Plus how do you think at&t costumers fell about them delaying the Blackberry Bold several times, No company is perfect, face it.
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NOTICE to all talking crap about sprint delaying the Touch Pro, AT&T Has DELAYED there version as well HTC FUZE. It was suppose to be released on OCT.23 and it got PUSHED BACK TO NOV 4!!! sourcehttp://www.boygeniusreport.com
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I guess now were all going to hear how at&t sucks because they delayed the touch pro a.k.a HTC FUZE also huh. Things happen, what if Verizon delays the blackberry Storm does that mean they suck? all the company are the same crap, it like some people like chevy while other love ford.
21. (unregistered)
I don't mind the delay that much if they are working on tech issues but.. It must $%^& $%&^ for those people that bought the diamond and want to swap their phones before the 30 days...
26. La VergaEnmascarada (unregistered)
i am one of those people(that got the DIAMOND, but now i want the PRO) I already have something set up with sprint. i already had the diamond for about to months by the time the PRO comes out.The DIAMOND is soooo nice, but come on "business card reader" i gots to know what that is all about. Sprint called me to let me know that yes, it will come out Nov.2 so they told me it WAS going to be past my 30 days, so it was them that told me they can work something out. So i will get the PRO as soon as it comes out. THEY stayed on top of it all just to make me happy! THEY called me multiple times (all calls were made by the same agent, but he would always call me when i was busy"no problem sir I can call you at a later time) I didn't have to call them multiple times and had to talk to multliple agents. ONE agent solved my issue! take that vergayzon, T-mamada, at&crap I am so glad i stuck to Sprint this whole time, and didn't jump ship just to get an Ipitillo. Man, now everyone and their mama has one, even Bunty at the local kquiky mart has one. SPRINT IS COMING BACK BIG TIME AND TRUST ME WITH THIS KIND OF CUSTOMER SERVICE, THEY WILL BUY VERGAYZON !!!!!!!
32. vzw fanboy (unregistered)
i am happy sprint is coming back, i like how there is a different selection of prices/coverage for the cell phone campanies because different ppl want different things. hey dude those are pretty good names but gayt&t sounds better.
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I'll just say it, EVERY CARRIER SUCKS!!! it's the options that work for each person that makes us choose them. Please contribute to something intellectual in these boards. The title is a delay in a phone, not, "you, that hasn't been out of their house, please tell me something sucks."
23. (unregistered)
Best post so far, RIGHT ON!
28. (unregistered)
WTG! I agree, every carrier has their own downfall. I do, however, think that Sprint is quickly on the upswing here. Both with customer service and kick@ss phones.
33. (unregistered)
"Wah wah wah blah blah blah" Three words....... GET OVER IT!!!! I want this phone too, but crying about it isn't going to make it come any faster.
40. BlitzGuy (unregistered)
Some sprint sources say the touch pro will be out on the 24th.That'd be great
42. (unregistered)
as per this press release sprint did promise touch pro on 10/19;http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1195804& highlight=touch%20diamond. guess it was just throwing a 6" rope to a drowning man, screw us, we can wait til they r good & ready
43. (unregistered)
i think getting it to 1st adopters help by spreading the word on pro's amazing abilities. think sprint missed on this 1..a lil built up anticiption thru word of mouth is great
47. (unregistered)
AT&T Has DELAYED there version as well HTC Touch Pro A.K.A HTC FUZE. It was suppose to be released on OCT.23 and it got PUSHED BACK TO NOV 4!!! sourcehttp://www.boygeniusreport.com
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For all of you the touch pro was delayed because of a pressure point found on the slide that would cause the housing to break not because they did it for to piss everyone off.


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Suit Up like Ryan Gosling
Published on 01-17-2013
Let's face it. He's come a long way since The Notebook. Ladies adore him and the reasons are plenty. If Ryan Gosling isn't on a movie set roughing up gangsters or smooth talking some gorgeous chick at a bar, he's probably roaming the streets helping perfect strangers, playing superhero and all the while being captured on camera by paparazzi and fashion photographers alike. And no matter how much your female co-worker/girlfriend/wife/mom/sister loves him, you can't really hate on the guy because his latest string of movies have been pretty damned solid (most recent one notwithstanding). And as much as you may not want to admit it, the guy looks good on and off camera – particularly in a suit.
We've been itching to do a style profile on Gosling for quite some time now, and with the recent debut of Gangster Squad, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to explore and break down not just one, but three of Gosling's looks in three different movies.
Without further ado, the suited Mr. Gosling:
Look #1: The Gangster (Gangster Squad)
So let's start with Gosling's latest movie, Gangster Squad. Set in the 1940s, the era was dominated by zoot suits with famously large lapels, large shoulders and large pants worn by gangsters with equally large personalities. While the film itself won't be an Oscar contender, we know Mr. Gosling would not disappoint on the sartorial front. As is par for the course, his character is not lacking in confidence, making it possible to pull off those extra wide peak lapels without losing a step. Complete with a fedora and a tastefully patterned maroon tie, Gosling shows us how to wear a gray chalk stripe suit (thicker pinstripes) with that 1940's gangster swagger. Add a Manhattan (the cocktail) and you got a little east coast meets-west coast combo that Biggie, Tupac and Lucky Luciano all would have agreed on.
- Black Lapel Sullivan Gray Pinstripe Custom Suit (three-piece) with extra wide peak lapels (available upon special request) and the Classic Fit (still much slimmer than a zoot suit!)
- Black Lapel White Solid Broadcloth Custom Dress Shirt (with point collars)
- Paul Smith Bicycled-Patterend Woven-silk Tie
- Goorin Brothers Tony Knuckles Fedora
- Allen Edmonds Strand Dark Brown Cap-toe Lace-up Oxfords
- Murray's Pomade (old school greasy men's hair product to keep that dapper shine)
- Drink of choice while wearing this outfit: a Manhattan
Look #2: The Campaign Manager (Ides of March)
In "Ides of March", Gosling plays Stephen Meyers, a junior presidential campaign manager for Mike Morris (George Clooney's character), a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary. In a classic Capitol Hill combo of navy suit, light blue shirt and dotted blue tie, Gosling is dressed the way a smart, young campaign manager should be dressed – clean, sharp and somewhat conservative. If you're looking for a Ryan Gosling inspired look for the office, you can't go wrong with this one. While we can't guarantee that you'll get coverage in any style blogs (though you can email us and we promise to consider it), we can guarantee that you'll make some serious headway in your personal campaign towards that next promotion.
- Black Lapel Navy Blue Custom Suit
- Black Lapel Blue Solid Broadcloth Custom Dress Shirt
- Black Lapel Solid Black Double-Breasted Custom Topcoat
- Black Lapel Navy Dotted Tie
- Allen Edmonds Fifth Avenue Walnut Oxfords
- Drink of choice while wearing this outfit: A glass of your favorite whiskey, neat
Look #3: The Successful Bachelor (Crazy, Stupid, Love)
We saved the best for last. Never has anyone made a suit look so good while inhaling a slice of pizza. In Crazy, Stupid, Love, Gosling plays Jacob Palmer, a "professional bachelor" who is on a mission to save Cal (Steve Carrell) by giving him a complete style makeover and teaching him how to meet women. All, we repeat, every single one of his outfits in this film are incredibly well put together, yet deceptively simple. We're not going to go into all of them but let's just say they're all worthy of their own GQ cover. Take this dark pinstripe suit—white shirt combo, for example. He takes a suit that's otherwise reserved for the boardroom and shows us how to turn it into the archetype of cool with a crisp white button down worn with the top button open and a single statement piece of jewelry. (Impossibly cool pose not included.)
- Black Lapel Midnight Navy Pinstripe Custom Suit
- Black Lapel White Solid Broadcloth Custom Dress Shirt
- To Boot Double Monks
- Black Lapel Solid White Pocket Square
- David Yurman Onyx Signet Ring
- Uniform Series 150 Watch
- Drink of choice while wearing this outfit: Dirty Martini
We end off with a little disclaimer: Try these looks for yourself. Add your personal twists to the outfits. Splurge on an $80 haircut to go with it. Just don't expect to have an entire pinterest board dedicated to your style overnight. That takes a little more time, patience and savvy. Then again, if you're here reading this, you're already a lot closer than you think.
Which look do you like best? Did we leave out your favorite Gosling suited up look? Tell us in the comments below!


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Biggest PR disasters of 2012 named and shamed
- From: AAP
- January 10, 2013
THE carbon tax has been branded 2012's biggest public relations disaster after an analysis of public reaction on social media and mainstream news sites.
Broadcaster Alan Jones was responsible for the second biggest PR blunder, with his claim in September that Prime Minister Julia Gillard's father "died of shame".
And 2Day FM's prank phone call, which preceded the death of British nurse Jacintha Saldanha in December, was labelled the year's third worst PR mistake.
The results were compiled by self proclaimed "PR watchdog" prdisasters.com and online analytics firm, cyberchatter.com.au.
The results were calculated by monitoring and analysing public reaction on traditional and social media sites to the various news events.
"To qualify as a PR disaster the incident must result in sustained, negative media coverage for the brand, business or person at the centre of the story," a spokesman for PR Disasters said.
It is the company's third annual report.
Carbon pricing began in July 2012, but only after months of heated political debate and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's well-publicised claim that she would not introduce a carbon tax.
"Arguably Julia Gillard's most unpopular decision since her time as prime minister," PR Disasters said of the decision to introduce the tax.
"This legislation caused a nation-wide uproar talked about in traditional media, online forums and Twitter."
PR expert Gerry McCusker, author of the prdisasters.com blog, said Twitter is now the website most people turn to when they want to criticise poor PR decisions.
"For the second year running, the biggest critics of PR and reputation appear to be those in the 25-34 age bracket, although the 35-49 age bracket was out in force against the carbon tax," he said.
Other PR blunders named in the report include Olympic swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk posting pictures of themselves on Facebook holding guns.
The January 2012 Tent Embassy riots in Canberra also made the list.
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Bazza the oracle of Perth Posted at 11:43 PM January 10, 2013
I agree with Alan Jones, does my opinion count? Or do we need to have a controlled media as the PM is implying. A media that is closed down whenever there bad new for the government( Every day). This was a PR disaster because the press chose to make it one. Print this PR disaster. Julia Gillard is a communist, a liar, a deciever and only a figment of the leftist press's imagination.
GE of ACT Posted at 7:30 PM January 10, 2013
"A big surprise" ? Really, are you serious? It is no surprise at all. The AG should have the power to sack dishonest politicians..oh wait she does...I guess you need some balls to actually do it though.


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This is a hearty side to accompany whatever Italian entree you might be serving. I made a seitan marsala and a simple salad and this polenta was a great addition to the meal. Play around with the herbs to suit your entree, and be sure not to overcook it into a dense lump.
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- 1 cup polenta
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp dried herbs (sage, thyme, basil, whatever suits you)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup coconut cream (top of the can of an unshaken can of coconut milk), or soy creamer
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2 Add vegetable broth and increase heat to hi. Bring water to boiling then add polenta slowly, stirring all the time. Reduce heat to medium low and cook for 15-20 mins, stirring regularly so it does not stick. It should be like thick porridge.
3. Season to taste with herbs and salt and pepper.
4. Remove from heat and stir in coconut cream. Serve.


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Automation: Faking It the Twitter Way
I'm as sick of some of the so-called "rules of engagement" when it comes to social media tools like Twitter as the next person, but let's get real. You call tech support, customer service, hell anyone.. what do you want more, the automated unhelpful phone crap or a real person?
I think we can all agree that Auto DMs and follow backs are bad robots. IMHO automated tweeting is the unholy stepchild of real-time work pressures, ADD, narcissism and Al Gore's Internet.
Tweeters who automate.. virtually every last tweet. Why bother? Twitter is real-time. If you're not doing it LIVE, it's drive-by tweeting. You're fraking broadcasting, not embracing "the great conversation."
Sync your Facebook, LinkedIn, blog and Twitter. Fine. But scheduling 20-50 tweets a day, when you're only around 5 minutes for real conversations is lame.
A little automation may be okay, but if anything more than 20% of your tweets are preprogrammed, that's bullshit.
Tweeters who RT crap at super (automated) speed:
- Dead links, so I know you aren't really reading. DOH, busted!
- The same crap already retweeted by everyone else. You follow @Mashable. Joy, now find something else worth sharing.
- The next post by @BigName. Within 2 minutes of the initial tweet. Sure Brian Solis may know his stuff, but his posts are like graduate symposiums, don't think you read it that fast. Enjoy your Kool-Aid.
Tweeters who just hype their own crap. If you're scheduling half your tweets, odds are they're mostly about you. Stick to an 80/20 rule: if more than 20% of your tweets are all about you, get over yourself.
Tweeters who are fakers. Unless you're POTUS, you are NOT so important that you can't type the occasional 140-character post. I cackle at the irony that @AndersonCooper is a verified account but at least there's disclosure of the group effort.
Not saying he's the devil but I don't follow Guy Kawasaki. He doesn't tweet himself, automates most of it, rarely replies. "His" stream shares the work of many others without the credit of a retweet, and even after coming out as not tweeting himself, the tweets and replied are not labeled by ghost writers via initials.
Not saying he's doing it "wrong" either. He's upfront that he's all business and AllTop, gotta give him that. I just don't care for his style, but then he has the bigger bank account so what the hell do I know?
Those Pesky Exceptions
You can't watch or feed your Twitter stream all day long, you've got actual work to do. Automation is not a crime, but a little goes a long way.
A great example is Gini Dietrich, who does automate some of her tweets. She also makes the effort to follow in real-time, reply to her stream, retweet others and reply to comments on her blog. She engages, she participates, she "gets" it.
Then there are exceptions like @ShitMyDadSays and @ThisIsSethsBlog. The catch is that I know these "tweeters" are not out here pretending to be anything more than automated feeds.
Do you like automated DMs and RSS feed links, the "set it and forget it" style of Twitter? Fine, embrace your way of faking it.
You'll just have one less follower.
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Hey Stranger: Why I am not LinkedIn with You
You have to set your social media boundaries, and when it comes to my professional reputation I mean business.
I don't know this user. I do not click that button; I think LI needs a better reject or decline option. But if we've never chatted on a message board, haven't talked on Twitter, why would I?
- We are not in the same groups.
- We have not done business together.
- We did not go to school together.
- We don't share the same connections.
Even if we are all of those things, it still doesn't mean that I know you. Just because we read the same blog post, like wine and breathe air doesn't mean we're connected.
Networking (adding connections or friends) is not counting marbles, for me it's about professional development. LinkedIn is your online resume, your "professional" face to the world.
Now I know some smart people not on LinkedIn. For the link juice to my own site and blog, IMO it's worth maintaining a strong LinkedIn profile just for the SEO. YMMV.
The Business Side of Social Media
Sure there are virtual friends in my LinkedIn connections, people I know via Twitter, LI groups and blogs. While we may not have met "in real life," very real relationships have been made.
LinkedIn can be a powerful networking and business development tool. I have answered questions, shared blog post and other articles with my groups. It's helped me connect with smart people, increase my blog readership and grow as a professional.
Like anything else with social media, LinkedIn is not "set and forget." You get back what you put in.
You're a Diva, Rock Star, Maven? So big with the NOT caring
Random LinkedIn requests are just as odious as the "thanks for following, here's the link to my useless FREE crap" Direct Messages (DM) on Twitter. Ugg. (I don't do that, promise.) LinkedIn is a social network to be sure, but it's still about making connections, not selling yourself (even if you are looking for a job).
I love meeting and connecting with new people, but I'm not going to help you pad your numbers.
Do you connect with anyone and everyone on LinkedIn? Please share why or why not.
Five to Follow Friday: Challenge Yourself
Another Friday, another day to recommend folks to follow on Twitter. I try and take the time to THINK about who and why I recommend people. It goes back to my first Five to Follow Friday Challenge.
If someone is out here on Twitter, then they kinda sorta already are in social media. After a while, you do tend to see, read, share the same info over and over.
I'm always looking for more. I read that @MackCollier follows 15K Twitterers. I've been more generous with the Follow button lately, but I still feel like a slacking slacker who slacks, not even following 1K.
Here five folks to follow, from different walks of life that hopefully you'll find interesting:
- Everyone eats right? Why not follow local chefs and restaurants in your area, see what they have to share? Among others, I follow Michael Erickson, @FifthGrouper, who's with the Fifth Group restaurants in Atlanta.
- And since you're eating, you gotta drink something right?! Matthew Horbund is @mmWine, a wine blogger from Florida who's good peeps.
- Tim Siedell aka @badbanana I like to bring the funny to #FollowFriday and this is a good feed of quips and oddball goofiness.
- Gila Fox, tweeting for @Valpakcoupons, is a social media pro who's fun, real and gets the whole engagement thing.
- Bryan Cromlish, @bcromlish Why? Because we had a nice little chat this morning about @AmberCadabra's latest post, a Dear John to [clueless] PR Folks. Simple, easy and fun.
See folks, it's not that hard. Got someone new for me to check out, please leave your suggestion in the comments.
Twitter is Work, Damnit!
Inspiring this blog post is Augie Ray of social media and Forrester fame, who tweeted this gem today:
The latest numbers show most people give Twitter a 10-tweet tryout and give up. Augie wanted to know why people quit on Twitter.
He got a few interesting responses including:
- @dan_larkin "There's no "getting started" assistance. A host service looking for those people and engaging with them would fit the medium."
- @digital_chuck "Lack of engagement. First time users give up before they learn how to follow and engage with people who have common interests."
- @geoff_bilbrough "no patience"
- @triveraguy "I doubt that it differs from the typical adoption rate for trying ANYTHING new. Twitter is just measurable & more in the spotlight"
Twitter is not for Quitters
I am not telling you how to Twitter and am all for finding your own way. That typed, 5-minutes a day and 10 tweets isn't engaging. It is drive-by shotgun marketing, just shooting farts into the wind.
Would Coke run five commercials and stop? Would Apple try only one iPod and never make changes? Of course not; you have to try, try and try again. Find what works, make it your own.
My response, which he retweeted (and thanks for that Augie): "Didn't realize Twitter was work. Like anything- you get back what you put in, SM takes investment of time and commitment."
Tough sell: Social Media is Work.
Just this morning I read a post about a blogger who put the time and work in to blogging and tweeting, and as a result is working for P&G at the Olympics. While others consider Twitter a time suck, she invested that time and energy and it paid off for her and her business.
Social media is job and for any kind of connection or business success, networking is essential. Twitter can be a powerful and effective tool, if you commit to it.
Don't get me wrong, I know we in social media, PR and marketing take ourselves (and our blogs and tweets) too seriously at times. I know so many folks with "real" jobs that don't involve any SM, or even online presence and just roll their eyes when I mention Twitter. (I know more people NOT on Facebook than on, just say typing.)
Twitter is not for everyone. If you want Twitter to work for you, you gotta work at Twitter.
The point of this Code Yellow rant is simple: Twitter is Work.
Social Media, Public Relations, Marketing in 2010: Looking Back, to the Future
(aka The obligatory New Year's blog)
Expecting a countdown of best Social Media moments or worst Public Relations goofs for 2009? A list of top SM or social marketing or PR trends for the past year? Not here. Marketing predictions or PR Trends for the future? Nope. A "touchy feely self-help yoga crap" blog full of introspection and optimistic BS. So not gonna happen.
I am closing out the year with a little recap. In 2009:
- I committed to blogging about PR, social media, design and other things marketing. I watched out for The Blind Side, Sweated the Small Stuff and retired some Dead PR Tactics.
- I started tweeting. I came up with my own way to tweet, follow and join the conversation.
- I have invested time networking and connecting. And in many ways, it's been one of my most productive years.
- I've read, shared, linked and retweeted countless blogs and stories. And I added my two pennies worth of comments quite a few times.
- I've taken control of my online identity via Twitter, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, and my Google profile. And locked down (as best I can) the crappy Facebook privacy settings.
- Like other public relations professionals, I studied and followed social media. And now I am applying what I've learned and continue to learn everyday, adapting and using it to help myself and my clients. I have embraced social media and social networks with both hands, and I am a better communications professional for it.
- Oh and I cleaned up my office a little this morning, reducing the clutter for 2010. That is all.
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Describing exactly what is going on here with SpiralArms' FREEDOM is not an easy task. It's appealing to a lot of different audiences, to say the least. Without question, the music will work very well for the stoner rock/metal crowd, although much like Scorpion Child's release it's not a full on, fuzzed out hempfest of a release. Guitarist Craig Locicero's (ex-Forbidden / ex-Manmade God) has a much bigger and fuller guitar tone than the standard stoner rock guitarist. As a former thrash veteran, he also knows how to bring it a lot heavier. Songs like "Dropping Like Flies" prove that there's a lot of metal in this band when they want to showcase it. Other songs, like the driving "Drugs & Alcohol" find Locicero just rockin through some of the chunkier, more galloping riffs of his professional career.
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The development of thrombocytopenia in the course of untreated chronic hepatitis C may be caused by autoimmune phenomena or the infection of platelets with hepatitis C virus (HCV), but it generally denotes portal hypertension or, in other words, advanced hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis [1], so it carries a bad prognosis. The only therapeutic option for patients with chronic hepatitis C at present is a regimen of interferon plus ribavirin, and as the dose of both interferon and ribavirin is crucial for an optimal response [2], the haematological toxicity of this regimen must be managed with the addition of haemopoietic factors rather than by reducing the drug doses [3,4]. Experience with recombinant thrombopoietin in patients with low platelet counts is scarce, and its efficacy seems to be low [3], therefore the development of thrombocytopenia with less than 50 000 platelets/μl is a frequent cause of treatment withdrawal. On the other hand, advanced liver disease is associated with a more severe thrombocytopenia, which precludes optimal treatment in the group of patients that more critically need it. Apart from splenectomy and splenic irradiation, there are no effective therapies for this kind of thrombocytopenia. Splenic irradiation has not been proved to increase platelet counts in patients with HIV-related thrombocytopenia, and has a negative impact on immunological status [5]. Splenectomy brings about a considerable morbimortality, particularly in patients with portal hypertension, and carries an increased risk of immediate and delayed infectious complications [6]. There have been good results with laparoscopic splenectomy, but it renders patients asplenic, and data on safety in HIV/HCV-co-infected patients are lacking. Partial splenic embolization (PSE) has proved to be a useful method to resolve thrombocytopenia caused by hypersplenism [7,8]. Here we report our experience on PSE in eight HIV/HCV-co-infected patients unable to tolerate an interferon/ribavirin regimen because of thrombocytopenia secondary to hypersplenism (Table 1).
All the patients, formerly intravenous drug users, had HCV-associated liver disease, and at the time of PSE all had cirrhosis; one was in Child–Pugh class B and the remainder were in class A. Hypersplenism was diagnosed by the observation of an ultrasonographically enlarged spleen (range 480–4224 ml) and reduced blood platelet counts (range 53–134 × 109/μl). All were on successful antiretroviral therapy, with undetectable plasma HIV viral loads and CD4 cell counts of 74–667 cells/μl (median 407). Pneumococcal, Haemophilus influenzae and quadrivalent meningococcal vaccines were administered, and, after written consent, a catheter was placed, via the femoral artery, in the splenic artery distal to the dorsal pancreatic branch. Embolization was performed injecting polyvinyl particles of approximately 500–700 μ; antibiotics were also injected and continuous angiographic control was performed, so the procedure could be stopped when approximately 70% of the splenic parenchyma was embolized. All patients received intravenous analgesic (meperidine) and antiemetic (metoclopramide) medication and antibiotic prophylaxis during and after the procedure. Complications were remarkably absent, except in one patient in whom the procedure was very difficult and resulted in a massive splenic infarct, sterile peritonitis presumably caused by the injected material and later secondary bacterial peritonitis. Another patient was readmitted for persistent fever, which was proved to be secondary to a subtotal splenic infarction; in addition, he was diagnosed as having an asymptomatic splenic and left portal branch vein thrombosis. Pain was always present and required narcotic analgesics in most cases; fever was also common, but it was caused by an infectious complication in only one case. A normal platelet count was achieved in every case, and all except two patients have been able to tolerate the subsequent regimen of full-dose pegylated interferon and ribavirin; in one patient thrombocytopenia relapsed (later, several accessory spleens were discovered at laparoscopy), and another developed neutropenia refractory to granulocyte colony-stimulating factor during such regimen (another patient stopped treatment against medical advice). Five out of eight patients completed a 48-week full-dose regimen; of these, three are sustained viral responders, one is an end-of-treatment responder and one, who was an end-of -treatment responder, died later from a septic shock.
PSE preserves some residual splenic function and can restore a normal platelet count without major complications. It has recently been recommended as a pretherapy in HCV-infected patients with hypersplenism [7], including liver transplant patients [8]. Foruny et al. [9] reported their experience with eight patients, of whom three were HIV/HCV co-infected, and in all cases thrombocytopenia corrected after PSE, allowing the completion of a full-dose anti-HCV regimen in 75% of patients. In that series asymptomatic portal thrombosis developed in four patients, compared with one patient from our series.
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Peter Salisbury
|Peter Salisbury
On stage with The Verve in Madrid, 2008.
|Background information
|Birth name
|Peter Anthony Sailsbury
24 September 1971
Bath, Somerset, England
|Alternative rock
Psychedelic rock
|Years active
|1989 – present
|Associated acts
|The Verve
Richard Ashcroft
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Charlatans
Peter Anthony Salisbury (born 24 September 1971 in Bath, Somerset) is an English rock drummer, best known as the drummer for The Verve, whom he co-founded in 1989.
Personal life[edit]
Salisbury currently resides in Buxworth, Derbyshire with his wife Pam, sons Ben and Isaac, and step son Joe. He has also recently adopted another son called Al Hurd.
The Verve[edit]
The Verve reunited in June, 2007 for a new tour and a future album. Pete is believed to have been the one behind getting the ball rolling in terms of reuniting the band. After Ashcroft learned that Salisbury, was in contact with the former guitarist, Nick McCabe, over a possible side project, Ashcroft used this as an excuse to call McCabe. Ashcroft made peace with him and bassist Simon Jones and the band reformed. In a band interview with the NME in 2007, Salisbury mentioned that the problems between them weren't that bad in the first place.[1]
Other musical projects[edit]
After the band's demise in 1999, Salisbury played with various bands including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. He filled in on a UK/EU tour in 2002 when their original drummer Nick Jago could not get a working visa[citation needed] for BRMC's British gigs. Salisbury owns and runs a drum shop, "Drummin", in Stockport, England. He played drums on the first three of Richard Ashcroft's solo albums and this was his most notable musical contribution away from The Verve. In October 2010, he played drums on The Charlatans UK tour while their regular drummer Jon Brookes was undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.[2] Brookes died in late 2012, and Salisbury has continued to work as The Charlatans drummer since then, though he has not been made a full member of the band. As of 2013, Salisbury has continued to support Richard Ashcroft's live performances.
- ^ "Jon Brookes will rejoin us for Hogmanay gig after beating cancer, says The Charlatans' Tim Burgess". The Daily Record. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "The Charlatans soldier on at gig". The Sun. UK. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
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