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The struggle to commemorate slavery
The Virginia Historical Society's "Unknown No Longer" slave names database is just one of the steps toward connecting today's African-Americans to their past. But sometimes giving a voice to the past is not simply a click away.
Since its discovery in 2008, the African Burial Ground in Richmond has been a controversial topic. Now, a community group is doing everything it can to give the burial ground the respect it deserves.
The Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality is made of individuals active in issues such as politics, race and sexism. They have worked to maintain Richmond's black history.
The Defenders' most recent project has been the African Burial Ground, where slaves and/or free blacks were interred in what is now Shockoe Bottom. The group created a special committee to seek recognition and dignity for the African Burial Ground.
The Defenders aren't the only ones looking out for black history in Richmond.
The Richmond Slave Trail Commission was started by Richmond City Council in 1998 to shed light on the history of slavery in Richmond. The commission recently erected markers designating a trail of key sites related to the city's role in the slave trade.
Delegate Delores L. McQuinn, who chairs the commission, said the slave trail means a hidden story is finally being told. She said it means bringing balance to the history of Richmond, and to the people who have been forgotten or unidentified.
"It symbolizes perseverance and fortitude of people who were determined, even though they were considered less than or almost nonexistent other than for labor and economic purposes," McQuinn said.
Besides unveiling the slave trail markers, the commission continues to work with the Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality on the burial ground.
Shockoe Bottom is known for its bar scene. The burial ground was discovered during a ground survey that connected modern urban structures with historical maps. Two of the maps showed a space called "The Burial Ground for Negroes."
Historians believe the burial ground was in use from 1786-1819. Because the word slave does not appear in the title on the map, many think the burial site was used not for slaves but for free blacks.
After it was discovered, the Virginia Department of Historical Resources compiled an assessment of the burial grounds. The department hypothesized that a piece of the burial ground lies beneath a Virginia Commonwealth University parking lot. Since this discovery, community groups have been calling for VCU to remove the parking lot.
The site received recognition this year when it was included among the 17 slave trail markers erected by the City Council. However, the Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality want more for the burial ground. They believe the parking lot should be removed so the site can be properly commemorated.
On April 10, prominent public officials spoke at the unveiling of the slave trail markers. The speakers included Gov. Bob McDonnell, Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones and representatives of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
Many people used the opportunity to protest VCU's continued use of the African Burial Ground as a parking lot.
On April 12, just days after the markers went up, eight Defenders stood in the parking lot, calling for VCU to shut down the lot. The group's vigil began at 6:30 a.m., as VCU employees were arriving for work.
Because they were blocking the parking lot, four of the Defenders were arrested and face a trial date in late May. The group has started an online petition to tell VCU to get its "ass-fault" off the burial ground. Currently, the petition has more than 250 signatures.
McDonnell raised the issue of the African Burial Ground at the slave trail celebration. He announced that he would sign a bill to transfer the property from VCU to the city of Richmond.
"Working together with the mayor as I have over these last few months and years, and with the leadership at VCU, we will do everything possible to tear up this asphalt as soon as possible and properly restore this site," McDonnell said.
Professor Shawn Utsey, who chairs VCU's Department of African-American Studies, said that the governor's announcement is progress and that things are moving in the right direction. But Utsey said more should be done.
Utsey feels passionately about the burial ground. He is a member of the Slave Trail Commission and creator of a documentary, "Meet Me in the Bottom: The Struggle to Reclaim Richmond's African Burial Ground."
"The way I was raised, you didn't park your car – in fact, you didn't walk – on a grave site unless you were going to see somebody whom you had lost. But even then … you would walk very carefully and show respect," Utsey said.
He compared the situation to parking a car on one of the gravestones in Hollywood Cemetery, where many Confederate soldiers are buried. "Try parking your car on top of those and see what happens to you."
Utsey said the next steps are to remove the cars and then the asphalt – and then to discuss what should follow. Some people believe a memorial should be built on the site. Utsey said research should be done to tell the story of the people whose remains lie in the African Burial Ground.
Glen Allen student to perform at Carnegie Hall
Thanks to a first-place win in The American Protege International Vocal Competition 2014, Glen Allen High School student Matija Tomas will travel to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall in December.
At the first-place winners recital in Weill Hall, Matija will perform Giacomo Puccini's opera aria, "Chi il bel sogna di doretta." She will perform with other vocalists from around the world and have the opportunity to win other awards and scholarships.
Locally, Thomas has performed with Richmond's renowned Glorious Christmas Nights, Christian Youth Theatre, and WEAG's Urban Gospel Youth Choir. > Read more.
Gayton Baptist Church dedicates new outreach center
The John Rolfe YMCA and Gayton Baptist Church have partnered in an effort to bring greater health and wellness opportunities to the community.
Through this partnership, the John Rolfe Y will run Youth Winter Sports programs, including basketball and indoor soccer, in Gayton's newly renovated $5.5 million outreach center that features a new gymnasium, youth and teen space, social space with café, meeting space and full service commercial kitchen. > Read more.
Henricus Historical Park to host Publick Day Sept. 20
Citizen Staff Reports 09/15/2014
Henricus Historical Park will commemorate its anniversary during Publick Day, a signature annual event that celebrates the establishment of the second successful English settlement in the New World. In September 1611, Sir Thomas Dale, along with soldiers, tradesmen and farmers, ventured from Jamestown to create the Citie of Henricus. Leaders of Henricus developed the first English hospital, chartered the first college in North America, established tobacco as the first cash crop in Virginia, and created a place where Pocahontas lived and met John Rolfe.
Publick Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free and parking is $5 per vehicle. > Read more.
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Extras sought for AMC's 'TURN'
Paid extras are being sought to appear in the AMC television series TURN: Washington's Spies, which will begin filming its second season in the Richmond area at the end of September and continue through February.
No experience is required, but producers say that extras must have flexible availability, reliable transportation and a positive attitude.
Arvold Casting is holding an open call on Sunday, Sept. 21 and is seeking men, women and children who are Caucasian, African American and Native American, with thin to average builds and who can realistically portray people living in Revolutionary War times. Long hair is a plus but not a must. > Read more.
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TGIF! Celebrate the weekend at Oak Hall Baptist Church's Community Block Party on Saturday. Learn more about ballroom dancing, art and Colonial times. Or take the kids to Generation Z Games for water play or Southern Season to cook up a Disney-theme meal. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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REVEALED: Man United haven't lost for nearly 10 YEARS when Halsey is the referee... so Everton fans won't be too pleased to know who's in charge on Sunday! Manchester United host Everton at Old Trafford this weekend. You might think David Moyes' talented and in-form side sound like a tricky test for the Barclays Premier League leaders. It seems you'd be very wrong. Why? Because Mark Halsey is due to referee the match. Staggeringly, as Graham Poll points out in his look ahead to the weekend's action, you have to go back to August 31, 2003 for the last time Sir Alex Ferguson's men lost a game when Halsey has been the referee. That game was a 1-0 defeat by Southampton at St Mary's, when James Beattie's 88th minute header sank a United side including the likes of Eric Djemba-Djemba and Kleberson, while a young winger by the name of Cristiano Ronaldo was only able to make the bench. Since that late summer Sunday on the south coast, United have played 21 times with Halsey holding the whistle. Their record in those games reads: Won 18 Drawn 3 Lost 0 Goals for 47 Against 11. Premier League team news They have also won their last 13 games with Halsey as referee. The Hertfordshire official has awarded Fergie's men a penalty in the last three United matches he has taken charge. And here's the really bad news for Everton fans making the hop down the East Lancs for the match this Sunday - United have won all three of their Premier League games against Everton with Halsey as referee. And they haven't conceded a single goal. All in all, since Halsey first took charge of a Premier League match involving United in 2001 (a 2-1 home win against Charlton), the team's record reads: Played 28 Won 22 Drawn 4 Lost 1 Goals for 60 Against 20 Penalties for 5 Against 1 United red cards 0 Other teams' red cards 2. Of course, there is no suggestion of foul play here, and records are there to be broken. But all we'll say to Everton ahead of Sunday's clash is: good luck... [Source: Daily Mail]
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GSS is an acronym for golden shower syndrome; this is a syndrome commonly found in Asian women. It occurs during sexual intercourse when your female partner loses sense of her bladder valve. As a result of this, urine will be discharged through the urethra onto her male partner, thereby owning him.
I just found out George's girlfriend has GSS. Talk about being owned.
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Has anyone out there tried a 5 x 5 routine? and if so what kind of results did you get?, did you do 1 bodypart per week with one exercise or what is a good 5x5 routine....
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Has anyone out there tried a 5 x 5 routine? and if so what kind of results did you get?, did you do 1 bodypart per week with one exercise or what is a good 5x5 routine....
It has squats in the routine although Vince did not like them, anyway its not the exercises Im talking about , its the routine itself
Have any of you read the current issue of Ironman with the 8x8 article? If so what are your thoughts about this training method. I thought it was a very good routine....comments..?
I trust your opinion because after you said it , it made total since to me. I wanted to leave the power cleans on friday so then I have 2 days of rest right after them. Maybe do some cardio on the...
Your probably right, I should throw out the Monday power cleans and friday incline bench. That makes more since I suppose
Monday: Power cleans 5x5
Bench 5x5
Squat 1x20
Stiff leg 1x20
Wed: Deadlift 5x5
Mil Press 5x5
Close grip bench 4x10
Hey shamrock, what school you going into?
Thats the Navy Seal Routine, look it up at a Seal websight, it will get you in shape fast but its more endurance training Ive used it before to train for tournaments a couple of yrs ago.
sounds good to me, you guys know what your talking about so I think I will give it a try........THANKS
Since we had the discussion on the 5x5 training and everyone seemed to like it, do you guys think its possible to gain size off of it? I think you can, has anyone out there made good gains with it?...
I have always liked the 5x5. here is what I did:
Sunday: Deadlift, Bench,Chins,skull crushers.
Wed: Squats,Mil press,shrugs,straight bar curls
Cardio 3x per week on opposite days.
Adam, your right I will probably drop the singles and add another 3 rep set, probably get better gains that way.....Thanks
You think I should keep the sets the same but maybe do only 1 single per week, or maybe every other week?
That was for my Bench as an example, I failed to mention that in my last post...sorry
They are heavy for me.....when I first started this routine my singles were 225. I added 10 lbs every week until I started sticking then switched to 5 lbs jumps. Im now around265-270 range for...
Monday: Bench :8,5,3,1,1,1,5
Db Inc flyes, ss with Db inc press 2x
Skull crushers, ss with rope pushdowns
Wednesday: Deadlift:8,5,3,1,1,1,5
Thought about changing to 1x20 on squats...what night would you put rows in?...should I throw out something in place of them...maybe cleans.....I put them in to help get away from deadlifts for...
My goal is to gain a little mass, cut a little weight, give myself more recovery time, working construction takes it out of me sometimes and I dont recoup quick enough yet on a 3 x per week or 4x per...
I will probably cut the sets down to 4 x 15, and change the squats to 6x6....its not bad if you set your mind to it...
I plan to change the exercises and rep scheme to about 5x15 with a 30-45 sec rest between sets in about 2 mths. right now I rest about 90 sec between sets and 2 mins between exercises


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Here it is, another birthday. Another year passing on the calendar. And can I just say hi excited I am to be working my way into my twenties? I look back at the years before and I laugh. I thought I had it figured out, thought I knew exactly who I was.
And then this year happened and everything I knew changed, in the best way possible. I danced, baked, traveled, laughed, drank, kissed, cried, read, yelled, argued, ate, sang and wandered more than I could imagine.
And it ain't over, folks.
To celebrate another year of crazy antics in this fine city of mine, I stuck with an oldie-but-a-goodie of a recipe. A deliciously rich chocolate cake with gooey, gancache frosting. I mean, if you can't go all out on your birthday, when can you, right? I've never been one to shy away from birthday celebrations, always doing it up. Last year, I went the triple chocolate chip cookie route, the year before I did a Devil's Food Cake with Whipped Cream Frosting. So instead of doing a traditional layer cake, I thought it seemed fitting to forget the fancy decorations and find a recipe that delivered a powerful flavor kick. With crazy frosting, of course.
Bundt cakes aren't looked at as major crowd pleasers but I think this one would sure impress anyone. The chocolate flavor is deep, the cake is moist (hate that word though) and the frosting is tooth-achingly sweet.
Here's to another year, folks. Onward and upward…
- For the cake:
- 1¼ cups plus 1 tablespoon brewed coffee
- ¾ cup Dutch process cocoa powder
- 2¼ cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine grain sea salt or table salt
- 2½ teaspoons baking soda
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 1¼ cups plus 1 tablespoon buttermilk
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- 2½ cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, sifted
- For the frosting:
- 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate (something around 70% cacao), coarsely chopped
- ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup sour cream, at room temperature
- ¼ cup brewed coffee, cooled (omit if you're frosting a layer cake instead of a Bundt)
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees and generously butter a 10-inch Bundt pan (or two 9-inch round cake pans if you're making a layer cake; see headnote).
- Bake the cake:
- Put the coffee and cocoa powder in a small saucepan and whisk as you bring the mixture to a boil. Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature.
- Put the sugar, salt, baking soda, eggs, and yolk into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and blend on low speed for about a minute, until fully combined. Add the buttermilk, oil, and vanilla extract, and mix for another 30 seconds. Add the flour and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes, then the cooled coffee and cocoa mixture and mix on high speed for 3 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan(s) and bake for 50-60 minutes (or about 35 minutes if you're making cake layers). Let the cake(s) cool completely in the pan(s), then invert onto a cooling rack.
- Make the frosting:
- Put the chopped chocolate in a double boiler or heatproof bowl and set over a pot of barely simmering water. Make sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a separate pan. When the chocolate is fully melted, remove from the heat, pour the melted butter over top, and whisk to incorporate. Sift half of the powdered sugar into the chocolate and butter mixture, add all of the sour cream, and whisk to combine. Sift in the rest of the powdered sugar andwhisk until shiny and smooth. Whisk in the coffee (unless you're making a layer cake, in which case skip the coffee and see below), then pour the glaze over the cake, covering it completely. Leave at room temperature until ready to serve.
- If you're making a layer cake, omit the coffee and let the frosting sit at room temperature for 2 hours until it thickens, as The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook authors say, "to the consistency of soft cream cheese." Then, spread about half a cup of the frosting over the first cake layer, top with the second layer, and frost the outside of the cake with the rest. Leave at room temperature until ready to serve.
- Top each slice with loosely whipped, lightly sweetened cream, if you'd like. I like.
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Blue's Clues
s5e24 The Alphabet Train
May 05, 2003
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Eli Dagostino
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Daniel James Fils-Aime
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Jesse Hodges
Alex Liu
Tia McDonald
Manosha Oya
Theresa Randolph
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Joe and Blue are creating an alphabet train, with the help of the Blue's Clues characters. There are going to be boxes from A-Z connected to the train and each one will contain something to represent that letter. We help the characters throughout to figure out what they can put it the boxes and also help to make sure everything is in order. Our skidoo trip takes us into a magnet board, where we find every more things for the boxes. Once train is complete, we join in a song about the alphabet.


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Fuquan Edwin scored 17 points, including the final six in regulation, and Seton Hall rallied past South Florida 46-42 in overtime Tuesday night in the unsightly opener of a last-of-its-kind Big East tournament.
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Even after playing an extra 5 minutes, the teams barely eclipsed the lowest-scoring game in Big East tournament history, Georgetown's 46-41 first-round victory over Villanova in 2003.
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Celebrating the best in Indiana cycling
Bicycling is perhaps the best way to get a true sense of our place in the world. I loved the way the Dirty Kanza organizers, living in a remote corner of Kansas, in the midst of some of the country's last open grassland prairies, recognized the unique beauty of it. They then created from the ground up a community-supported event to celebrate and honor their sense of place and warmly and generously shared it with visitors like us.
I can't forget at one point well into the race when my group of some ten riders were stopped dead in our (double) tracks -- by a literal stampede of about 500 head of cattle blasting across the dusty dirt road just yards in front of us.
The images shown above are courtesy of the event photographer – Adventure Monkey. You can see more at www.adventuremonkey.com or find out more about the event at www.dirtykanza200.com.
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Immortal is probably a judgment call by those who aren't (ie Humans). To us, 500 years is pretty good for age, and we are long dead at that point. For example, the Revolutionary War happened less than 250 years ago. So in the human perspective, the elves are still immortal. The elves are well aware of the literal truth, though.
Just my perspective.
No, they really were immortal without outside measures.
Diseases, aging, all of that sorta stuff simply didn't mess with them.
Stabby metal would.
When the people responsible for the destruction of continents are still hanging out in prison after THOUSANDS of years and haven't aged a day, they are pretty much never going to.


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It was a time at a place, and Maui gave the dialogue the specifics of landscape, textures and smells, hot lava rock under foot, volcanoes over head. We responded to that nature and wanted to make art about how powerful and mysterious it was. The Hawaiian spirit clung to every rock and outcrop, permeated each Ti plant, and voiced itself in stunningly beautiful poetic songs of women and flowers and mist in waterfalls. It was the ambient culture that we walked into and sucked up.
We came into a land that was fresh from being Polynesian. The real influence was this family of islands, of chants and stories, spirits and presences in coves and valleys. Hula was less an entertainment than a religion, and this gaggle of foreigners came and took off their shoes, put their feet in the foaming water and were inspired to write and paint and make art to celebrate this amazing creation, the Hawaiian Islands.
It wasn't about being outrageous, it was about being free in some elemental sense, to walk barefoot, or piss in the forest, to cast off the trappings and restrictions of "civilized" life. The great and lasting attractions to these artists were the waterfalls of Kipahulu, the grey cinder expanse of Haleakala. That's where the spirituality comes from, from that sacred mountain, and from the knowledge it emanates.
What Maui or Lanai was teaching us was that nature was real. It wasn't a media construct, an idea, a movement or a press release. It was flesh and blood; sharp stones that cut your feet, and animals that sting and can eat you. The same thing that waves teach, or strong winds, or wild animals.
Art comes from response, and this covey of haoles who arrived in the 60's or 70's, who brought their disaffection to these islands, saw rainbows - literally - rainbows over the mountains - daily. They saw the crisp starlight night and the transparent sea, and were inspired. When they painted or sang of rainbows it was not an abstraction, it was a description. It was warm. We could stay out at night and connect with the heavens, with Hokule'a and a canoe traveling to Tahiti by starlight and wave direction. It was cultural immersion even if we didn't know it.
Why did the whales needed to be saved? Because they stood for a whole world that needs saving, and then we came to Maui and found that whales were real, and if anything, it was probably the whales that could save us. Many see nature as something out there, an object to revere or "take care of" — but nature blurs self and other, so perhaps the Buddhist view of no separation between self and object is the appropriate one. Our environment is us and we are it.
And yes… of course there was acid and peyote and pot and those aids to consciousness showed us a way to consider what was glowing all around us. Perhaps what they showed us most powerfully is that there is a — now — and that's all there ever really is… and that the now is beautiful and wonderful and scary and ominous all at the same time.
Far Artist Joana Varawa originated the international campaign to make wild furs unfashionable, catalysed the international Save The Whale movement at the Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment, founded Project Jonah, wrote Mind In The Waters: A Book to Celebrate te Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins, The Delicate Art of Whale Watching, Changes in Latitude,
She lived above Manele, Lana'i, watching dolphins from a cliffside camp.
—Excerpted from FAR ART, www.pukapuka.tv
When the solitary-one advances with the torch
Of the one tooth swelling up out of the cloud
To light up each cool leaf of the low-sprawling forest,
The sound of the wind whisks over the stone notches
And whistles with the sound of a small gourd whistle.
It is not the boast of the conch which is heard
Heralding war, or royalty, or grief;
It is the lover's call at night,
Modest with breath,
It is the child's last game resisting rest
Before the sun
Pulls the night
About its back
Turning away from the land,
Sinking into the sea's deep sleep.
Here where the root of the fern was devoured by boars and sickness flowed,
Where the last of us gathered—life sucked up to the base of the upturned bowl,
Where the last of us dove, sick with water and lament, crying release to these laughing
Who themselves were tied and did not know, who were bound to the isle raising its head in refusal:
In legions,
With the bird-man's wing
Takes flight into streams,
Over tides which overflow
And are blocked
With the stones,
The pebbles,
And seed,
Which sail down from the mist
Crushed as a sisterly fruit,
Fragments from the white mist lei.
Here are the pools which settle and gather
As the life-tears of the sacred flower stop up,
As life bled
And blows settled
And we fled
High into the notches of the land's last stand
Until the grand, new chief arrives, also lonely
And a different forest clambers up
To snare a naked sun
Whistling with winds rainless and barren of tears.
—Tajiri, Fall 2013
Big pine down on Haole Hill
Stacked repine next wood chip pile
Flesh reduced,
Dry fragments, no smell,
Inert, rubbish now
Do trees bleed.
Sure they do,
You can see it
White sap congealing
Drying in golden glops
Running out of severed trunk
It must seem so strange
To be so disarrayed
Piled without regard
To the intrinsic order
Of circulation that kept
This tree alive
Where are the birds
That perched on branch
And pecked at bugs
Who made their comfy home
Beneath this bark
Where is the wind
That tossed leaves around
To weave a fabric
Of living light and shade
What has happened
To make this tree so dead
Who ordered this execution
For such a fragile thing
As fashion.
Trees bleed
You betcha
And one day will return
To haunt our dreams
Of beauty
Bereft of trees
This last summer, while in the Bay Area, I had the good fortune of watching the America's Cup races (scroll down for earlier story) and being interviewed for a project conducted by Huey Johnson, one of my old friends in saving things…
The edited interview about my experiences "saving" whales follows. You might like to watch it.
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A new study shows that alcohol could reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Swedish researchers studied mice that were prompted to develop rheumatoid arthritis.
Some mice were given plain water, while others were given water that was spiked with 10 percent alcohol.
Researchers discovered that rheumatoid arthritis did not develop as quickly in the mice that drank the alcohol.
When it did develop, it was not as aggressive.
Before you start drinking to ward-off arthritis, researchers say the levels given to the mice would be toxic to humans.


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September 15, 2014
Anne Hull and Dana Priest, of the Washington Post, received a Pulitzer prize for breaking the story of the horrid conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where men were "afloat on a river of painkillers and antipsychotic drugs" Each morning, they were expected to rise at dawn for formation, though most of them were snowed under by benzodiazepines, opiates, alcohol – anything that would push Iraq and the pain away. A year later I too would be snowed under and would fight an invisible war of my own. It wasn't until months later, deep in withdrawal tolerance that I realized my slide into disability was caused by the drugs.
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September 14, 2014
According to a study in the British Medical Journal, benzodiazepine use is associated with a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Some experts have argued in news reports that the findings simply indicate that people with Alzheimer's are more often prescribed benzodiazepines. However, the study authors have pointed out that there appears to be a dose-dependent response occurring. Discuss →
Categorized in: Benzodiazepines, Dementia, Featured News, In the News, Seniors
September 11, 2014
The Boston Globe interviews people who became ever more severely dependent on sedating benzodiazepines without realizing it, because as they tried to stop taking the drugs they thought their withdrawal symptoms were actually symptoms of underlying anxiety problems. "My anxiety was getting worse; I was getting dizzy spells; I was getting sick more often, and my capacity to deal with stress was less," Alison Page told the Globe. "I thought I had a worsening anxiety disorder." (more…)
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August 10, 2014
"Fish that have been exposed to a common anti-anxiety drug are more active and have better chances of survival than unexposed fish," reports Nature. According to the article, a study published in Environmental Research Letters noted that previous studies had only looked at the harms of pharmaceutical pollutants on fish. So a team led by Jonatan Klaminder from Sweden's Umeå University exposed Eurasian perch to the benzodiazepine sedative oxazepam and looked for "positive" effects. Discuss →
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August 8, 2014
In a follow-up to an earlier commentary on the topic, Paula Span discusses the widespread use and negative effects of sleeping pills among the elderly in long-term care in the New York Times, including falls and hospitalizations for adverse drug reactions. She also discusses a new study of tapering attempts. "Of the group that attempted to gradually stop the drug, more than half succeeded, and another 22 percent reduced their dosage," writes Span. "Among those who didn't make the attempt, the greatest reason — get this — was discouragement from their physicians or pharmacists." (more…)
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August 1, 2014
As a prescription drug and addiction expert for The O'Reilly Factor, Fox National News and many other news outlets, I am often called when a celebrity death occurs. While the loss of a talented actor or musician is tragic, I know from personal experience that the magnitude of devastation from legal drugs is happening to millions of innocent people – through psychoactive medications.
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July 21, 2014
It is hard to believe that a year has gone past since I posted Playing the Odds: Antidepressant Withdrawal and the Problem of Informed Consent. The feedback I received underscored the more controversial aspects of SSRI toxicity. Common themes concerned the abrupt onset of new symptoms 3 to 12 months after stopping the drug, reinstatement of the drug failing to help withdrawal related symptoms, the possibility that withdrawal-related symptoms can persist indefinitely and concerns about using benzodiazepines to help with tardive akathisia.
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July 21, 2014
Many personal stories of people struggling with an addiction that they were never told could happen punctuate an article about indiscriminate benzodiazepine prescribing in Oregon's The Bulletin. "You take it for a while and it works, and you think you've got this miracle going on and then it stops working," Carol Brainerd tells The Bulletin. "So the doctor ups it and ups it, and that's where a lot of us get into trouble." Ann Metcalf says, "The Xanax wears off after four hours. I would wake up even more panicked than when I went to bed." (more…)
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May 5, 2014
My name is Leah Harris and I'm a survivor. I am a survivor of psychiatric abuse and trauma. My parents died largely as a result of terrible psychiatric practice. Psychiatric practice that took them when they were young adults and struggling with experiences they didn't understand. Experiences that were labeled as schizophrenia. Bipolar disorder. My parents were turned from people into permanent patients. They suffered the indignities of forced treatment. Seclusion and restraint. Forced electroshock. Involuntary outpatient commitment. And a shocking amount of disabling heavy-duty psychiatric drugs. And they died young, from a combination of the toxic effects of overmedication, and broken spirits.
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April 30, 2014
The other day I talked to a friend who I hadn't seen for quite a while. She told me that she had been prescribed Seroquel for sleep problems about a year ago. But when she started to read about it a couple months ago she got really nervous that it was causing her long term health complications and she stopped taking it – cold turkey – without tapering. I wondered about our conversation afterwards and thought about the countless amount of people who don't tolerate their psychiatric meds and quit cold turkey. This common experience often leads to horrendous withdrawal symptoms that are easily mistaken for underlying "mental illness". This can lead to new diagnoses, increased dosages and polypharmacy. And then people get really stuck.
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April 29, 2014
One of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of withdrawal is that feeling of being misunderstood, unsupported and isolated. If someone has diabetes, dystonia or other chronic illness or experiences a life event such as a bereavement, people will more often empathise and offer support. They understand these issues – the required dietary restrictions, medication, etc., and they will be able to tell you the stages of grief. Support of every kind is forthcoming because there is enough awareness, shared through every medium, on these topics.
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April 26, 2014
Being an ex-accountant I am always interested in figures (not to mention that prescribed benzodiazepine drug addiction has played such a major part in my life). According to a yearly booklet released by the Home Office in the UK, benzodiazepine drugs accounted for more deaths than ALL the so-called hard drugs put together.
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April 22, 2014
MIA Blogger Richard Lewis lands an op-ed in New England's South Coast Today: "Not a week goes by without some news headline reporting about opiate-drug-related deaths spreading across many cities and towns in Massachusetts. What has not been reported about this tragic loss of life is a hidden story that desperately needs to be told; a story about the little-known dangers of benzodiazepine prescription drugs. Attention everyone! Documented evidence indicates that over 30 percent of all people dying from opiate-related overdoses also have benzodiazepines in their system."
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April 2, 2014
The Daily Beast dives into the debate over SeaWorld's use of benzoiazepines to stop their killer whales from "acting aggressively toward each other in the stressful, frustrating conditions in which they're confined." SeaWorld has faced widespread criticism for the treatment of its whales, as well as for an incident in which a whale that killed three trainers.
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March 27, 2014
I recently read an article by Fredric Neuman, MD, titled The Use of the Minor Tranquilizers: Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, and Valium. Dr. Neuman opens by telling us that benzodiazepines are "Very commonly prescribed for any sort of discomfort . . . They are called anxiolytics, and they are prescribed for any level of anxiety and more or less to anyone who asks for them." Dr. Neuman has been working at the Anxiety and Phobia Center for 41 years, first as Associate Director and then as Director. So when he says that benzos are routinely given to "anyone who asks for them," it's probably safe to say that he's being accurate.
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March 14, 2014
A "systematic review" of all outcome studies of patients with mood disorders, in the March issue of the Australia & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, finds that "the long-term outcome for patients with mood disorders in the predrug era was reasonably positive. Most patients recovered and the majority seemed to remain well after their recovery." In the modern era, however, "the recurrence of mood episodes appears to have significantly increased." The authors conclude that "These data . . . provide no comfort for those, including ourselves, who have believed that drugs provide an effective prophylactic treatment for at least a substantial minority of patients with affective disorders."
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March 12, 2014
When the benzodiazepines were first introduced, it was widely claimed, both by psychiatrists and by pharma, that they were non-addictive. This claim was subsequently abandoned in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and the addictive potential of these products is now recognized and generally accepted.
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March 11, 2014
Research presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine finds that 12.6% of primary care visits in the U.S. involved prescriptions for benzodiazepines or opioids, an increase of 12.5% each year from 2002 to 2009. Visits involving an opioid prescription were 4.2x more likely to also involve a benzo description. "More research is needed to elucidate the reason behind the increase in benzodiazepine prescription, and a national effort is needed to highlight the danger of co-prescription of benzodiazepines and opioids," said principal investigator Sean Mackey, MD,
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February 6, 2014
Over one third of people with bipolar diagnoses admitted to a Rhode Island hospital were on four or more psychiatric medications, says research published this week in Psychiatric Research. "This increased reliance on polypharmacy does not appear to be contributing to decreased rates of illness chronicity or functional impairment in [bipolar disorder]," according to lead author Lauren Weinstock. Women were significantly more likely than men to be on combinations of antidepressant, anti-anxiety, and/or stimulant medication, all of which are controversial treatments for bipolar and which, together "lack an evidence base."
Categorized in: Adult, Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Benzodiazepines, Bipolar, Disorders, Featured News, In the News, Mood Stabilizers, Psychiatric Drugs, Research, Stimulants
January 30, 2014
MiA blogger Jeffrey Lacasse's study of psychiatric prescribing in response to perinatal/neonatal death (co-authored with Joanne Cacciatore) finds that 37% of participants in an online bereavement support community were prescribed meds. Of those, 80% were prescribed antidepressants, and 20% were prescribed benzodiazepines. 32% of prescriptions were written within 48 hours, 44% within a week and 75% within a month. Most of the prescriptions given shortly after the loss were prescribed by obstetricians or gynecologists, and most who were prescribed antidepressants ended up taking them long-term.
Categorized in: Adult, Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Depression, Disorders, Featured News, In the News, Psychiatric Drugs, Research
January 15, 2014
Note: The episode did not air as expected. ABC indicates it will air Tuesday, January 21.
Six weeks ago a producer from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer contacted me. "ABC wants to do a piece on addiction and prescription drugs," she told me. "Would I agree to an interview?" I was not without reservations. I have a healthy disregard for much of mainstream news, but I also realize their reach and potency. The proposition was risky, but one which I decided to take. It's a cliché, but one with truth: If one person can benefit, then it's worth it. I said "yes."
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November 25, 2013
Research from London and Taipei finds that neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is associated with the number of different antipsychotics used (polypharmacy), rather than the overall dose. The researchers also found an association between NMS and Haldol, Abilify, benzodiazepines, and depot flupentixol. A correlation between NMS and non-white ethnicity was also found.
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November 25, 2013
Researchers in Taiwan found a 3.33x greater risk of benign brain tumors in patients who had been prescribed benzodiazepines for at least 2 months. The research drew on data from the National Health Insurance System of Taiwan on 62,186 patients who had been prescribed benzodiazepines matched against 62,050 controls. The study appears in Journal of the Neurological Sciences.
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November 24, 2013
If I had remained med compliant I wouldn't understand the simple joys of caring about my hygiene and my surroundings. I've wanted to write about this for a long time but I've not done it and I think it's because I still have shame around how slovenly I became. I hid it from others fairly well most of the time, but I couldn't hide it from myself. The fact is the drugs stripped me of some very basic elements of human care. When one doesn't care about their immediate environment and their bodies, they really just don't care about themselves. It's a very painful place to be and yet when it's caused by drugs it's all muted and weird and not really who we are at all and so really all that is left is horrible shame.
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November 22, 2013
"My studies in this area lead me to a very uncomfortable conclusion: Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them. It is inescapable that their availability creates more harm than good."
- Peter Gøtzsche, MD; Co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration
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B.S. In Kinesiology, I personally trained many individuals all in different fitness levels. I did track and field in college and learned alot in Sport Specialization Training.
Luminaries thrive when they are working with ideas and people. They like expressing their creativity to others. Being part of meaningful relationships where they can express their emotions and sensitivities is very important to the Luminary. They greatly value helping people through their creative outlets.


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Spotlighting shadows
The Dominican Republic is the first country where the index is being implemented. Article drawn from poster presentation at the Mexico AIDS Conference 2008.
Spotlighting shadows: An index to measure stigma developed and implemented by people living with HIV
In the Dominican Republic, a team of researchers from two of the national networks of people living with HIV (ASOLSIDA and REDOVIH) have been working alongside Profamilia (the national family planning association) to carry out the research. To date almost 900 interviews have been completed, in four geographical regions covering 20 of the 32 provinces. In addition to asking questions about stigma, discrimination and living with HIV the index has also included a special focus on women, gender violence and young girls.
Initial findings
The findings from implementing the index in the Dominican Republic will be collated and analysed in September 2008. Initial lessons learnt include:
- Joining policies and practice: From the process of conducting the interviews, the interviewers have valued meeting new people in the field and sharing information about rights, laws and policies that support people living with HIV
- Forging partnerships: Working with the two network leaders (ASOLSIDA and REDOVIH) as interviewers, team leaders and quality controllers has strengthened the research process and highlights the importance of partnerships that cut across all levels of implementing the index
- Raising awareness about HIV stigma: The interviewers found that people often did not consider that they had been 'stigmatized' or 'discriminated' against because of their HIV positive status. For example they may answer 'no' to a question asking them if they have experienced stigma, yet then relate a story which vividly indicates that they have
- Supporting people living with HIV: The research shows that support for the interviewers is just as important as supervision to assure the quality and sensitivity of the research process
- Unearthing sensitive issues: The process of referral and follow-up is very important after each interview, but this can be difficult where the interviews are anonymous and confidentiality has been assured
Linking qualitative and quantitative research: The index is valuable tool in documenting the experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by many, yet the individual stories also illuminated the realities of people living with HIV in the Dominican Republic. Qualitative case studies and life stories can compliment the findings of the index and strengthen the research process and outcomes.
Next steps
The findings of the research will be disseminated and used to promote debate and advocate for effective policy and programmatic change. Specific areas include:
- Inform and influence the national review of law 5593 (a national law to protect the rights of people living with HIV) in the Dominican Republic. Key advocacy points:
- More effective communication, education and outreach about the law so that people living with HIV know their rights
- Increased advocacy and public awareness about the law so that the general public is aware of the legal institutions in place to protect the rights of people living with HIV
- Inform policy and practice relating to rights, confidentiality and testing, especially for young people
- Incorporate findings into the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) review of key issues concerning barriers to accessing HIV services and care in Latin America
- Promote the human rights of people living with HIV, for example advocating against the forced sterilization of women who are diagnosed HIV positive
- Improve the outreach and services provided by Profamilia in meeting the needs of people living with HIV and integrating HIV with sexual and reproductive health services
The index results and follow-up case studies will continue to advocate for evidence based policy and practice that is grounded in the real experiences and perspectives of people living with HIV.
The rollout in the Dominican Republic has been supported by GTZ as part of the 'Backup Initiative'


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This was easy & delicious! I used a little less water, a few dashes of Tabasco, some seasoning salt & used semi-sweet choc chips for the chocolate (apprx 3TBSP). The sour cream was a must, really makes the flavor savory. A keeper.
Mole Chili
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- Calories: 127
- Calories from fat: 0.0%
- Fat: 4.7g
- Saturated fat: 2.2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.4g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.2g
- Protein: 17.3g
- Carbohydrate: 8.2g
- Fiber: 1.8g
- Cholesterol: 40mg
- Iron: 1.9mg
- Sodium: 597mg
- Calcium: 25mg
- 1 pound ground round
- 1 cup chopped onion (about 1 small onion)
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- Reduced-fat sour cream (optional)
- Chopped fresh cilantro (optional)
- 1. Cook beef in a large saucepan over medium-high heat until browned, stirring to crumble. Drain, if necessary, and return beef to pan. Add onion and garlic to pan; cook 4 minutes or until tender. Add tomatoes and remaining ingredients; cover and simmer 7 minutes. Serve immediately. Top with sour cream and cilantro, if desired.
- Serve with: Jalapeño Corn Bread Mini Muffins
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- CUISINE: Mexican
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Beef, Vegetables
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Kenneth Gyles
Gender: Male
City: Carlisle
Country: United Kingdom
About Kenneth
I work for the Northern TUC and live in Carlisle. My interests are cycling and golf. I am also raising money for my daughters charity "The Emma Gyles Bursary" after she died at the age of 24 of ovarian cancer. I have raised £12,500 .
First Game
cant remember
Favourite Everton Moment
Winning the league and FA cup
Favourite All Time Player
Howard Kendall. Class player and one of the best midfielders of his time.
Favourite Current Player
Mikel Arteta. Class act and could play in any premiership team
Favourite Manager
David Moyes. As turned the club around and built a team that can challenge for honours
Favourite Game
Semi final against munchen gladback in cup winners cup. I was at this match and was truly brill
Favourite Goal
Andy Grays in semi final of Cup winners cup
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5.8: Net yards-per-attempt for Eagles' passing offense.
Although the Eagles possess a big-play offense, they've struggled moving the ball through the air in 2012, ranking just 25th in net yards per attempt (YPA). Remember, net YPA factors sacks into passing stats, and only two teams in the entire league have allowed more sacks than the Eagles. Philadelphia has yielded nearly twice as many sacks (27) as the Cowboys (14).
4.5: YPC for Philadelphia on the ground.
The Eagles rank ninth in the NFL in rushing efficiency, due in large part to their scrambling quarterback. Vick has 300 yards on the ground and 5.6 yards per carry (YPC) this season. LeSean McCoy and his shifty running style is obviously a huge threat as well; together the duo has combined for 85.8 percent of the Eagles' rushes in 2012.
More telling than YPC, which can be thrown off by a couple of big runs, is success rate – the percentage of rushes that increase an offense's probability of scoring on a given drive. The Cowboys have successfully increased their expected points on just 39.4 percent of runs, compared to 53.8 percent of their passes. Meanwhile, the Eagles rank fourth in the NFL with a 47 percent rushing success rate.
41.2: Michael Vick's passer rating when pressured.
Getting to Vick has obvious benefits outside of bringing him down. Specifically, Vick has always been somewhat reckless with the ball when throwing in the face of pressure, as evidenced by his 41.4 completion rate and 4.3 percent interception rate when pressured in 2012. Dallas might want to avoid excessive blitzes against Vick, however, for two reasons: First, the Cowboys' four or five-man pass rush should be able to reach Vick anyway; secondly, Vick can be deadly against man coverage, running for big chunks of yards when defenders have their backs turned to the ball. Plus, Vick has a 5-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio against the blitz this season.
3.12: Number of seconds Vick has to throw, on average.
That might seem like the blink of an eye, but Vick has actually had more time to throw than all but one quarterback. In comparison,
4.2: YPC allowed by the Eagles' defense.
Contrary to popular belief, Philadelphia's rush defense isn't near the bottom of the NFL barrel. They've struggled to stop the run at times, but they've allowed just one-tenth of a yard more per carry than the Cowboys. All told, the Eagles rank near the middle of the NFL in both rush and pass defense efficiency.
11: Eagles' sacks.
Shockingly, the Eagles rank 31st in the NFL in total sacks. That's particularly surprising because Philly led the league in sacks in 2011. Their sack rate is down from 8.8 percent last year to 3.8 percent in 2012.
98.2: Percentage of Trent Cole's snaps on the right side of the defense.
Cole is one of the few pass-rushers who rarely switches sides, so he'll be matched up almost exclusively against left tackle
6.7: YPA allowed by cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
Although the Eagles brought in cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha to shut down the opposition's top receiver, it has been Rodgers-Cromartie who has played the best ball in Philadelphia. The cornerback has allowed 6.7 YPA and a 46.3 passer rating on the 40 balls thrown his way in 2012, compared to 10.8 YPA and a 112.4 passer rating for Asomugha on 37 targets.


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Posted by Dave Walsh on September 12th, 2009
If you know this site and myself, you know that the Diaz brothers are regarded as some of the best around. Both are incredibly skilled, yes, both also exude this natural aura around them; they do what they want and could care less what you or anybody else thinks. But the reality is that they are two hard working guys who came from a modest background. The San Joaquin Magazine has what I would regard as an incredible fluff piece on two guys I would never imagine being written about this eloquently. Ridiculous.
Enter Nick Diaz. Almost like the MMA gods were punching out cookie-cutter molds of young men and decided this would be the ideal model for a fighter, both boys are slim where they need to be and all muscle where you'd expect them to be. Long hyped in the media since they broke onto the fighting scene, they both wear the tentatively healed wounds of a fight for 'every three months since they were 16'.
Inside the ring they're all nightmare—two separate men, two separate fighters, two different levels of the sport, all bound by blood. Whether it's their own blood or that of their opponents, MMA affords the fan plenty of both. Where wrestling and boxing both limit fighters to what's legal and illegal in a brawl, MMA draws the line only at the most inhumane eye gougings and crotch shots. In other words, when you step into the 'cage' someone's leaving on their own accord and someone might have to be carried off the floor. Pummeling opponents with a flurry of punches, kicks, attacks, and takedowns, the sport is relatively new and has become popular in recent years based on a few simple merits—it's brutal (Nick has been bloodied so many times above the eye that he underwent a new surgery to reduce the ability for that rehealed cut to bleed), and it's as high adrenaline as a sport can get.
Very understanding of the fact that there's 'life inside the ring' and 'life outside the ring', this is where the similarities meet the differences. Polite but not warm, the boys seem to have a calculated amount of personality they are willing to show to a journalist. Never raising their voices above a conversational tone even amidst the thumping of workout music playing in the background, the boys offer up answers to everything I want to know and nothing extra. More important than the Q and A of understanding their training (they compete in Ironman triathlons), and what it's like to have a brother in the same sport ('It's great, I get to learn from his mistakes"), our short sit-down reveals one very apparent thing—they know their goals and they're here to accomplish them.


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- 1.0 overall
What a piece of CRAPBy Kathy Fish, posted: Jun 13I actually give tracfone customer service a 00000. I have attempted to have a number and minutes transferred to another phone that I bought from Tracfone since the 12th of June and today is the 22nd. I have spoken to at least 15 different people and they are giving me the run around. I have asked to have the original phone re-activated and the one I bought returned for credit. I get nowhere. They tell me to ask for the Port Dept. and the first rep will not transfer me. I ask for a supervisor and the girl told me that she couldn't help me anymore than she did. If you call make sure you are recording all their lies. They need sued by a group to make this fulfill their promises.
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Wish I could give less than 1 starBy Candy Slackman, posted: Jun 13Customer service is disgraceful. Every email I ever sent resulted in the same response: Call customer service. If I had wanted to call I wouldn't have emailed. Calling is a nightmare! And, did you know that your minutes expire if your phone is inactive for more than 60 days? I didn't, because they don't make it evident and they don't bother to warn you when expiration is imminent. It happened to me the first time after 10 years, and when I requested the minutes back they literally told me that they would rather lose my business than give back the 200 minutes that cost them exactly zero dollars because I already paid for them! A company that would rather lose 2 accounts of over 10 years over about $20 that they they've already collected is not a company I want anything to do with. I'll be looking for a new service!
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Customer service useless waste of time and money, rendering phone service sameBy annearendt, posted: May 13I have been working for weeks (starting on 5/19/2013) to get my phone, a Net10 (company owned by TracPhone) LG900G, to be able to send images (it can take photos but you cannot send them although it will charge you for each attempt but will fail) with customer service. Over and over and over again I have to do the same steps, as if they have no record of what had passed before. I have spent between 50 and 100 dollars in minutes now trying to get this resolved (for which I am told I can only get reimbursed after the problem is fixed which it is not). I actually have two of the exact same phone (one for me and one for my son) which are LG900G and they both have exactly the same problem (and have have the problem since we got them). Finally they sent me a SIM card for one which did NOT fix the problem and yet they closed my ticket although it is unresolved (help desk ticket 1070211487). I have over 8 hours of phone time with them on this single issue. I have filed a better business bureau complaint over a week and a half ago (BBB case #90206603) and have yet to have any resolution or even movement on the issue. I cannot say enough about how bad this experience has been. And what is sad is that I had been a customer for years but now cannot say a single good thing about them. Update on 5/31/2013 I have yet to get any response from the better business bureau case contact named Shelly. She left a note on the BBB message site saying she tried to contact me once but there is nothing on the call logs of either my phone or my son's. I have attempted to call her every day this week during business hours and have sent a corresponding BBB message after each one.
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Customer sevice has no clue as to how to helpBy firstname.lastname@example.com, posted: May 13I forgot to go into my account when my credit card expired and was notified only after they had cancelled my account. I was on a family value plan and I went and updated my cc information and tried to get the phones reactivated but was only able to activate one of them. I called customer service and had to go over and over that I need to reactivate the other 2 phones and it was supposedly taken care of but I wasn't that lucky. I got another email the next day saying that my phones were deactivated so I called again and was told that because the 2 phones were not due to expire for another month I couldn't add them to the family value plan because their computer system wouldn't let them. I even asked to talk to a supervisor and that went know where too. I spent almost 2 hours on the phone with them for nothing. So beware of their customer service they are completely clueless and be sure and keep your credit card information up to date with them.
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Customer ServiceBy acuffc84, posted: May 13Today I had to call the 1-800 number to get my new phone activated with the minutes witched over and the number from the old phone to the new one.Was a total waist of time. Was placed on hold over and over again after giving them the proper onfo need to do so. Gave me a ticket # and stated that I would not be able to use my phone for 24hrs because of whatever reason it was. Was bull if you ask me, because in the past had to do the samething no problems then. This is coman with this comany all the time. To people out there thinking of going with this comany think again. BEWARE THIS COMANY SUCKS!!!!!
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Don't waste your time and moneyBy JRG1, posted: May 13i bought air time and minutes from customer service, they said i needed a new sim card, after i recieved the new sim the phone still wouldn't work. They said the new sim card, #2, was expired and would send a new one, #3. Weeks laterand about 5 calls to customer service, well over two hours on the phone, still no service and no new sim card. I tried to get a refund from them and they refused, i finally disputed the charge on my credit card. They are morons and thieves, beware
- 2.7 overall
Not as bad as some sayBy Tim Kiess, posted: Apr 13I haven't experienced the problems I am reading other than poor customer service. What I don't like is my smart phone is dumbed down by tracfones service. I can't upload my photos and when I email them the phone shuts off . Not to mention apps are hard to come by.
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crap customer serviceBy humaninput, posted: Apr 13phone deactivated itself .. contacted tracfone and was promised a new sim card in the mail .. 2 months and 5 calls later still no sim card.. forget about it. Worst service ever!
- 0.3 overall
Phone was Deactivated for no ReasonBy woodchuck, posted: Apr 13I have been a loyal Tracfone customer for more than three years. I was fairly content with my phone and service, even though the phone was a relic and the service was mediocre - the price was right given my needs. I was never negligent with my payments. Out of the blue, my phone was deactivated, even though I had ample airtime and minutes on the phone. I spoke with numerous customer service representatives and each gave a different answer for why the phone was deactivated; they claimed I had been negligent with payments, then said that there was something wrong with the phone. They claimed that the only way to fix the problem was to buy a new phone and plan (seemed like a scam to make more $ or drop low-revenue customers). They sent me no email notifications that this would happen, and offered no refund for the airtime and minutes that I had already paid for. To add insult to injury, this happened days after my mother died when I had to make arrangements for her funeral. Despite the fact that I was initially impressed with the service quality and overall value, I can't fathom giving Tracfone a rating better than 0 across the board. Their customer care is non-existent - absolutely terrible to say the least.
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GPLG430GB Easy to Use - LOUSY OPTIONSBy Christopher Plumley, posted: Apr 13I like this phone, small, simple and cheap to use. However, once you take pics or video the only option for downloading is Bluetooth and that is limited too. Talked to Carlos and Irene in New Delhi and they both did not understand or speak American English .. Long Live the King ... Guess I'll bit the bullet and find another phone ... After all this one is 5 months old and way out of date.


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This is a guest post from Saskia Vogel. Vogel has worked as an art model, an editor for an adult entertainment news magazine, a reporter on all things fruit and vegetables, and all the other gigs one takes while writing. She is now the publicist for Granta magazine and is working on a memoir exploring sex and society. She blogs at saskiavogel.com.
Last November Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, an Egyptian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself on her blog, as Islamists were securing power in Egypt. She tweeted the photo with the tag #NudePhotoRevolutionary. Elmahdy and her boyfriend were subsequently criminally charged with "violating morals, inciting indecency and insulting Islam."
On 8 March 2012, I joined thirteen other women to stand in solidarity with Elmahdy as part of the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar. Each of us submitted a black and white photo of ourselves totally nude, showing our faces, with our real names and a short quotation explaining why we believe in this cause.
Maryam Namazie, the activist behind the calendar, responded to Elmhady's action on Freethoughtblogs: "Showing her body, particularly at a time when Islamists in Egypt are securing power, is the ultimate act of rebellion. Don't forget Islamists despise nothing more than a woman's body. To them, women are the source of corruption and chaos and must be covered up at all times and not seen and not heard."
Why did I join? I believe that policing nudity encourages a perverse relationship to the body, self and sexuality. Those who advocate censorship of the naked body, even in its most innocent forms such a breastfeeding or tasteful depictions of the body, should question the origin of their impulse to censor. Do they feel they have to take the world to task for urges they cannot reconcile within themselves? This impulse to censor all expressions of the naked female body speaks to an anxiety about the body, which extends to anxiety about (female) sexuality. This extends to the public discourse and how we (and policy-makers) are able to think about topics like abortion, access to contraceptives, fact-based sex education for young people… the list goes on. To create a culture that thinks sanely about sex and the body, we still need to assert the idea that a woman's body is not a source of shame and not in need of regulation by the government.
When we think of censorship and the body, we have to consider the Miller Test, a three-pronged test to determine what is obscene, outlined as a result Miller versus California in 1973. The verdict of this trial reasserted that obscenity is not protected by the first amendment. As a result of the trial, a set of criteria were drafted that must be met for a work to be subject to state regulation:
- whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards (not national standards, as some prior tests required), would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
- whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law; and
- whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Community standards. I learned in my time working as an editor at Adult Video News, where the legal reporter Mark Kernes reported on issues of obscenity, that when 'community standards' are asserted, the community isn't necessarily consulted, and when they are the result can be much more open-minded than initially suggested.
My particular frustration with the notion of community standards being asserted to censor speech is directed at Facebook, a place where micro-communities are cultivated by people of all sensibilities, but all users are still subject to Facebook's idea of community's standards. According to their logic, as reported on from Gawker to the Guardian, images of crushed heads are OK to post images of, but exposed female nipples – even visible female nipple bulges – are in violation of their community standards.
When I was managing Coco de Mer's daily posts on Facebook, this feminist-run, education-focused luxury brand's posts were repeated flagged for obscenity. Not for Coco's salacious videos and photo spreads, which I never posted on Facebook, but for sedate catalogue images of underwear models. Surely, we are sophisticated enough to tell the difference between obscene content and a representation of this season's lingerie. The female body, the naked body, is not inherently pornographic or obscene.
Coco's fan page was restricted to adults 18 and over. You had to 'Like' the page in order to access its content, and a landing page explained the brand to those who did not yet 'Like' the page. The closed community who had access to our content had already opted in. If they didn't want to see these images, they could 'Unlike' us.
Shouldn't we be able to cultivate our online network and regulate it as we see fit? As our lives become increasing connected by organizations whose mores govern our terms of use, we must become increasingly vigilant of our internet freedoms. This extends to so many forms of speech. The form I choose to advocate for is sexual speech. We need more refined classification criteria for obscenity and how community standards are determined and in which kinds of communities they can be asserted to regulate speech in the private and public sector
Participating in this calendar certainly does not put any of us involved at risk in the way that Elmadhy's action did. But the battleground for women's rights and freedom of speech is complex and shifting at home and abroad. For me, the Nude Photo Revolutionary project reaffirmed my commitment to activism and connected me with a wider, like-minded network. Together, I hope we will make a difference.


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For Eastside residents that use the Washburn Tunnel, a reminder it is closed this weekend and next so crews can install security cameras.
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