Turning Remembrance Into ACTION! 10 Years Later... A Memorial Day Retrospective on OUR HIV/AIDS Warriors & Survivors.

 

Friday, May 7, 2004 This little light of his is going to shine bright Michael Connett of Covington tries to improve the world around him where he can. He spreads mulch around plants in a paper-thin sliver of land, hoping to create a front yard. He hangs windsocks and angels and rainbows to turn a bland brick wall into colorful art. He also tries to better the world for others being ravaged by HIV/AIDS. Connett, 49, was diagnosed HIV positive in October 1991. He has been living with AIDS since 1996. And he does what he can for others like him. He has established a living trust, with the funds designated to go to AIDS organizations after he dies. The windows of his home that face the street are plastered with educational material about HIV/AIDS - including a poster with a cow wearing galoshes that says, "Wear your rubbers." He is on no medications for the disease. There is a waiting list for the pharmaceuticals, and he wanted to give up his spot on the drug program for somebody younger. "In the back of my mind, that adds a little more urgency to the things I try to do," he says. Now Connett is doing his best to coordinate a local event for the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial on May 16. "We have to let the people living with AIDS in this area know that people here still care," he says. On that day, thousands of individuals - more than 3,000 communities in 85 countries - will participate in the world's largest and oldest annual grass-roots HIV/AIDS event. The memorial is designed to honor the memory of those lost to HIV/AIDS, show support for those living with the disease and raise awareness. (www.candlelightmemorial.org) Connett was inspired to initiate a candlelight memorial here after seeing the memorials in Batavia for Pfc. Matt Maupin, the Clermont County Army reservist being held hostage in Iraq. "Don't the 28.9 million who have died of AIDS merit some show of support from this community?" Connett asks. "Don't they deserve something, too?" Connett had hoped to launch a grand event: people from all over Greater Cincinnati holding candles on the Purple People Bridge, which links Newport and Cincinnati. Memorial luminaria flickering along the span. Representatives of Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati AIDS organizations, handing out educational materials. Free AIDS testing. The problem is that he's getting very little help. Local AIDS organizations, which rely on very little government money and charitable donations, have too little funds to offer their support. Connett has little funds himself. Most of all, there's way too much complacency and apathy when it comes to AIDS. This disease is still a very real threat - not just to one neighborhood or community, but to everyone. There's just no drive or desire to discuss it anymore. "There's a dinner here or a support group there, but things aren't like they used to be," Connett says. "Everything might not work out this year, but that's OK," he says, hopefully. "But next year when we say we're going to light up the Purple People Bridge, we'll really light the sucker up." The theme for the international candlelight memorial event is "Turning Remembrance into Action." It means doing things like Connett does - print a poster about the event and hang it on a window, light a candle and stand on the Purple People Bridge, tie a red ribbon somewhere. Most of all, never stop talking about the devastating impact of this disease. On May 16, Connett might be the only person standing on the bridge, remembering those who died. But sometimes that's all it takes.

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Greetings Y’All!

The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People living with HIV is one of the world's oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of some 1,200 community organizations in 115 countries.

The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is much more than just a memorial. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. With 33 million people living with HIV today, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as an important intervention for global solidarity, breaking down barriers of stigma and discrimination, and giving hope to new generations. http://www.candlelightmemorial.org/

We will have a Community Support & Education Forum from 2:00 to 6:00 leading up to the CandlLight Processional from 6:00-8:00 pm. We will be set up along the Legacy Mural Walk along Covington Landing. ALL Greater Cincinnati HIV/AIDS Professional, Community-Based & Non-Profit Service Organizations & Agencies as well as Northern Kentucky Social Service Providers are Invited and Encouraged to participate in this CommUNITY Conversation.

DUE TO THE ASTOUNDING APATHY AND INCREDIBLE INDIFFERENCE WITH WHICH GREATER CINCINNATIANS RESPONDED:

THIS EVENT AS WELL AS "RETURN TO DORA'S DINER" IS CANCELLED!

2014: "LET'S Look Back, Consider Advances, Acknowledge Deficiences to OUR Mission then Look Ahead"

December 2013

Positive Networks

People living with HIV discuss self-empowerment...

Pisces: "It seems that you're ready for a major change in your life, Pisces. But take care that you don't implement change merely for the sake of change. Think carefully about what you really want to do. Some introspection just might reveal that the changes you seek are minor rather than major. You may simply want to begin working on your health a bit more. Jogging a few days a week and vowing to eat salads at lunch rather than sandwiches may bring about a wonderful ripple effect of health and well-being in your life."

"In 1983, the problem was getting the media to pay attention to HIV/AIDS. In 2013, the problem is getting the media to pay attention to HIV/AIDS.

In the beginning, major news outlets ignored the epidemic because it only struck marginal populations. After brief windows of concern, WE have fallen into the same pattern."

http://buddhistthings.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/20-things-to-start-doing-in-your.html

Here are twenty tips to help you find and foster these special relationships.

1. FREE YOURSELF FROM NEGATIVE PEOPLE.

Spend time with nice people who are smart, driven and likeminded. Relationships should help you, not hurt you. Surround yourself with people who reflect the person you want to be. Choose friends who you are proud to know, people you admire, who love and respect you– people who make your day a little brighter simply by being in it. Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. When you free yourself from negative people, you free yourself to be YOU – and being YOU is the only way to truly live.

2. LET GO OF THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY GONE.

The sad truth is that there are some people who will only be there for you as long as you have something they need. When you no longer serve a purpose to them, they will leave. The good news is, if you tough it out, you’ll eventually weed these people out of your life and be left with some great people you can count on. We rarely lose friends and lovers, we just gradually figure out who our real ones are. So when people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you. It doesn’t mean they are bad people; it just means that their part in your story is over.

http://www.cdc.gov/actagainstaids/campaigns/starttalking/index.html

 

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQxt_U2sGCOUWrIxVUJqOpw

 



“It’s very clear that housing works to end homelessness, but there’s nothing to say it addresses everyone’s problems or that it won’t create some other problems,” Henwood added. “It’s definitely a life-altering, complicated move. Any time you give people more independence, there is always risk that comes along with that.”

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Title: AVNK Monthly Dinner/Social/Meeting

Date: Tuesday April 22, 2014
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm All DayLocation: Trinity Episcopal - 4th & Madison, Covington

POZ Email Update April 22, 2014

THIS JUST IN Our top stories and the best of everything else out there The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People living with HIV is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of some 1,200 community organizations in 115 countries. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is much more than just a memorial. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. With 33 million people living with HIV today, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as an important intervention for global solidarity, breaking down barriers of stigma and discrimination, and giving hope to new generations. AS OF NOW THERE ARE ONLY 10 CITIES/LOCATIONS REGISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES! WTF!? South Bank HIVe CommUNITY-Based Network | “A Life lived in Fear, Is a Life Half-Lived...” The South Bank HIVe An Online CommUNITY-Based HIV/aids, Social Service and Survivors Support Network South Bank HIVe CommUNITY-Based Network | Events https://www.facebook.com/events/640254372712317/?ref=5 The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Memorial, coordinated by the Global Network of People living with HIV is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of some 1,200 community organizations in 115 countries. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is much more than just a memorial. The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social consciousness about HIV and AIDS. With 33 million people living with HIV today, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial serves as an important intervention for global solidarity, breaking down barriers of stigma and discrimination, and giving hope to new generations. Resources: Poster International AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2014 The poster for the 2014 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial on 18 May 2014 is now available. The theme ‘Let’s keep the light on HIV’ aims to be positive and forward-looking,… Candlelight Coordinator Manual The Coordinator Manual guides coordinators in the planning, production, and evaluation of their community events for the Candlelight Memorial. The manual provides a general framework for arranging memorials and helpful… http://www.candlelightmemorial.org/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1492080971003402/?ref=5 Sunday, May 18 at 8:00pm - 2:30am The Dock 603 West Pete Rose Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 WE will Remember Michael Dorabek and all the "Dockettes" who have come and gone long before their time... It will be a throwback to the Fundraising Galas under Dora's Design & Direction ;-) CommUNITY Gatherings must have the three primary "F's" in the planning: FAMILY + FOOD + FUN = S.I.N. (Strength In Numbers) Wanna Contribute, Help, Volunteer; give us a Buzzz! Proceeds to be distributed to our lesser know organizations like FACEcincinnati and used for purchase of "Mr Team Friendly CNKY Pins ($25/100) to supply to free testing events.

 

 

No. Ky. Responses: StUP2Cancer Vs Heroin Vs H.I.V. Vs Nicotine Vs Housing Vs Hunger V ...

"The South Bank HIVE = A Community of Collective Wisdom Buzzing through your Network" As part of The AESOP Initiative we proudly present: "H.I.V.Extraordinary"; what we hope will become The New Face, Concept and Campaign for HIV & AIDS Awareness for 2014 and Beyond" 

When "Northern Kentucky's Collective Response To the Heroin Epidemic" was presented at the Convention Center, I was struck by how it mimicked our "National HIV/AIDS Strategy" and paralleled what we should be doing here in Northern Kentucky to achieve the goal of an AIDS-Free Generation. The missing element between the two is "THE WILL" to make it happen...

23 years ago, I tested positive for the Human Immnodeficiency Virus (HIV) and began my Journey to and thru Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. HIV-HIV Disease is the one thing that ALL of US diagnosed with "AIDS" have in Common. As we now know after the last 32 years; testing HIV+ DOES NOT MEAN that you have progressed to the final stage of HIV Disease which we know as AIDS, that we can prevent that progression via TESTING & TREATMENT, that we can prevent TRANSMISSION thru Safe Sex, PrEP & PEP and IT IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE! We all have an HIV status. Testing is the only way to find out what your status is now.

HOWEVER, catching H.I.V. and preventing A.I.D.S. IS a Life-Long Sentence of Health Care & very expensive HART medications. There have been so many amazing Breakthroughs over the span of this Epidemic that we now have a Goal and talk about an AIDS Free Generation; NOT DUE TO A CURE FOR HIV but rather Finding, Identifying and then Treating all those who carry the virus. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, HIV DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE OVER WHO TO INFECT. Regardless of any Demographic that describes you; if you have ever shared or share bodily fluids with someone who carries the virus (whether they know it or not ;-)thru unprotected sex or sharing needles during injection drug use, YOU ARE VULNERABLE!

"H.I.V.Extraordinary"

As part of The AESOP Initiative we proudly Launch: "H.I.V.Extraordinary"; what we hope will become The New Face, Concept and Campaign for HIV &  AIDS Awareness for 2014 and Beyond from "The South Bank HIVE = A Community of Collective Wisdom Buzzing through your Network"

Regardless of any Demographic that describes you, if you share or Have shared bodily fluids with someone who has the virus thru unprotected sex or sharing needles during injection drug use, YOU ARE VULNERABLE! 

WELCOME, to Our South Bank HIVe!

23 years ago, I tested positive for the Human Immnodeficiency Virus (HIV) and began my Journey to and thru Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. HIV-HIV Disease is the one thing that ALL of US diagnosed with "AIDS" have in Common. As we now know after the last 32 years; testing HIV+ DOES NOT MEAN that you have progressed to the final stage of HIV Disease which we know as AIDS, that we can prevent that progression via TESTING & TREATMENT, that we can prevent TRANSMISSION thru Safe Sex, PrEP & PEP and IT IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE!
HOWEVER, catching H.I.V. and preventing A.I.D.S. IS a Life-Long Sentence of Health Care & very expensive HART medications. There have been so many amazing Breakthroughs over the span of this Epidemic that we now have a Goal and talk about an AIDS Free Generation; NOT DUE TO A CURE FOR HIV but rather finding, identifying and then treating all those who carry the virus. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, HIV DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE OVER WHO TO INFECT. Regardless of any Demographic that describes you, if you share bodily fluids with someone who has the virus thru unprotected sex or sharing needles during injection drug use, YOU ARE VULNERABLE! ABSTINENCE, Just say No, etc. is a ridiculous, ineffective Prevention strategy.

On the heels of AIDS 2012; a gathering to Come OUT & Stand Up! for Unity in our CommUnities

January 28, 2014

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Mike Alvear, Why Are Some HIV-Negative Guys Writing About HIV When They Have No Clue?

Mike Alvear, your blog posts are infuriating to me for many reasons, primarily your ignorance. You don't have HIV, so from where do you speak? I am writing specifically about your post "Why Are Some HIV-Positive Gay Men Grateful for Their Disease?" So let me answer that questions for you, because HIV-positive people like me would rather not spend the rest of our lives in the punishing, stigmatized coffin you build us with every post.

You equate HIV to a car accident in your family. That accident caused a horrible death. HIV is not the same as a fatal car crash. How can you be foolish enough to compare those two? A tragic accident in your own family and my attitudes and choices about my virus are not the same. HIV is a preventable illness, not a death sentence. Using condoms, PrEP, getting tested, antiretroviral therapy -- these things save lives.

And here I quote you: "[Disease is] an injustice heaped on innocent victims."

Who are you to call me a victim? Ever hear of the Denver Principles? Read them and weep. In the early 1980s, a group defining themselves as the People With AIDS Caucus rejected the word "victim," and HIV-positive people still do. I am not a victim, nor is my virus a burden to me any more than it is to you. Now it empowers me to speak out against you.

You are grieving for a family member and comparing that to HIV, saying positive thinking is bullshit. Erroneously, you go on to say positive thinking is a reason people might go out and infect others. This is HIV stigma based on your own faulty assumptions, not science.

Here are your words: "Don't be grateful. Don't carry the burden of trying to make HIV your friend. Like all friends, it'll expect you to be loyal and introduce it to your other friends."

So if I choose a positive attitude, I will then become a gift giver, ready to pass along my virus to everyone? What a dirty lie. HIV is my journey, not yours, and I'll treat it any way I want, using everything available to keep me healthy and active. As a matter of fact, those who know their status and choose positive thinking don't go around saying, "Let's go raw!"

The majority of transmission occurs when people don't know their status and assume everyone is negative. So you're promoting a lie, that HIV-positive people who choose to improve their mental health will eventually share the load. You're stereotyping HIV-positive people and asserting that we shouldn't work toward treating our mental health, that instead we should feel shame and live in your angry cage.

I have heard many an addict, gay and straight, say to me that HIV is the best thing that ever happened to them, a gift. And you know what? They are right, not you. They have lived it, and they might be dead in the streets otherwise. You live in a gay man's plastic bubble. I've been blessed to spend many years with recovering addicts, prisoners and the homeless. Many of them said to me that HIV was a gift because it turned their lives around. And to put it in personal terms, I've been on death's door from drug addiction, incarcerated, homeless, and eating from a dumpster. Your post smells the same as that garbage can. The humility and humanity that HIV brought to my life is a gift. The people it brought into my world are a gift. Nobody signs up for it, but to say we should all just stop thinking positive is irresponsible and deadly.

It is generational, and you and a generation who think like you need an education. Your posts on HIV are a particularly egregious example of stigma. We deserve better than to be lumped together as victims, our status a burden, our positive approach to our own mind and bodies... well, that just leads to barebacking and "gift giving." You don't have HIV and never walked a day in my shoes or those of anyone else with HIV. That is as clear as a bell.

You are pathologically AIDS-phobic, and it was a very foolish choice to be writing about HIV, especially when you choose words like "victim" and "burden" and tell me how I should think or react to my status. It is irresponsible to write your HIV blogs. Your words are loaded with hate and stigma: Don't think positive. Be angry at yourself instead. You deserve that, HIV-positive people. That's been your message.

So all illness should be marginalized and not looked upon with grace? You have no idea what it is like to be HIV-positive, homeless, or lost in this world. And you are the worst HIV/AIDS writer I have ever read. And for the record, you wrote a similar piece last week about sero-sorting blow jobs. Sero-sorting is a values decision, and your values don't jibe with mine or follow any medical science; they follow your own illogical thinking. There arezero cases of anyone contracting HIV through oral sex with a man on ARVs, with a low viral load, who takes care of his body through a positive approach to his health care. Again, you list no science to back up your claims; it's just another essay filled with prejudice.

And what do you mean by this?

Here's what I say to all my HIV-positive friends: Don't be grateful. Don't carry the burden of trying to make HIV your friend. Like all friends, it'll expect you to be loyal and introduce it to your other friends.

This is gay-male homophobic panic-in-the-streets sensationalist nonsense. Your tone reminds me of those anti-gay videos that evangelical churches churned out in the early '90s: The Gay Agenda all those hate-mongering films. You can re-title your piece "The HIV Agenda" and then send it out as a fundraiser for the religious right.

Mike Alvear, you are dealing in deliberate distortions as a way of stigmatizing anyone with HIV. Yours is not a blog post about the politics of thinking about different responses to viral infection. It's a post blaming people for getting exposed to a virus. And it's about shaming them for wanting to live happy, healthy and full lives. You go for fear and hate mongering:HIV + gay men = a fatal crash. And the rest of us negative guys had better hope that we're not on the parkway when those HIV-positive people spin out. It's ethically irresponsible essay-writing, though to call it "essay-writing" is to glorify it well beyond its meager aesthetic range. Your post reaffirms the need for our community to educate not just ourselves but the larger culture about what it means to be HIV-positive, because discrimination against HIV-positive people is replacing homophobia as an acceptable form of social and legal hatred, and you are one of those many men behind the bullhorn of intolerance.

It also angers me that anyone would turn to a man who's not HIV-positive and seemingly anoint him an oracle of HIV. Why are HIV-positive people treated as if anyone could speak for us? Or about us? Whether you realize it or not, to treat HIV-positive people as a community of pariahs distorts the truth.

You also stigmatize people who find spirituality, or God, through illness. Meanwhile, someone who seroconverts becomes ridiculous and spiritual by default. You are grossly overreaching. You're ignorant to health science, positive mental health, and the effects of transmission, criminalization, all logic in regard to HIV.

And It's not as if you wrote a piece where you canvassed a range of people who are HIV-positive, of various genders, sexual identities, races, ethnicities, economic situations, and regions of the globe, and gave an overview of the different ways in which people adjust to having HIV. That would be a great post. And that, frankly, is the level of thoroughness and seriousness with which HIV needs to be discussed, and is, as far as I can tell, never discussed by you or anyone else.

Mike Alvear, you're the worst AIDS writer. You're full of stigma. Gratitude is not your game, nor is HIV. So I wish you would stop writing about HIV/AIDS, because you know nothing about it except how to exploit the fear of it, then promote HIV stigma for your own personal gain.

I call on every HIV-positive person who agrees with me to speak out against your bigoted and baseless writing. Until you learn the facts, you will always be a menace to HIV-positive people, especially to those who fought with their own lives, their bodies, to improve medical science and the lives of HIV-positive people everywhere.

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Newsfeed : Super Bowl Downloads of U2 Single to Fund HIV/AIDS Fight

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The single will be free on iTunes for 24 hours after its debut.

FYI: While this is great -For Africa!; I find it distressing that this Great American Tradition & Event will be used with no benefit to Our HOME Team! As you may be aware, we've made the decision to push forward on our intentions to become a fully credentialed 501(c)3 Non-Profit. I will be working with a long time dear friend of mine who's an executive at Key Bank to set up our Banking Account & System and will take what funds are needed from my February Social Security check. In addition, we have bills to pay for our Domain Name registration, quarterly web-hosting invoice, Adobe Dreamweaver monthly subscription, etc. I am committed to sign on as 1 of the incorporators and will serve as the initial Full time, Volunteer (unpaid) Executive Director and am actively recruiting (hopefully, other HIV+) people to serve on the initial Board of Directors and slate of Officers. What will make The South Bank HIVe & Friends different from what has come before us is FULL, OPEN & HONEST Communication with our Public & Supporters. WE will answer all questions from the Cincinnatiti BBB and submit to their Charity Standards review. Thank you for your past help and support for our Endeavors and we look forward to its continuation in the future!  

Charity Contact Information

Name:	AIDS Volunteers of Northern Kentucky
Address:	314 War Horse Place
	Crestview Hills, KY 41017
Phone:	(859) 261-2143 (859) 261-2143

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2014: "LET'S Look Back, Consider Advances, Acknowledge Deficiences to OUR Mission then Look Ahead"

 

December 2013

Positive Networks

People living with HIV discuss self-empowerment.
Advocates from a variety of networks of people living with HIV held a roundtable discussion earlier this year. The topic of the day was the networks themselves and the value they can have in our communities.
The roundtable, held in New York City at POZ headquarters, was based on the belief that people living with HIV should be full, active participants in the response against the epidemic and in decisions that affect them, be it within the positive community itself, on boards for local AIDS service organizations, or in governmental policy-making efforts.
This fundamental human rights concept is rooted in The Denver Principles, a self-empowerment manifesto written in 1983 by people living with HIV/AIDS. The idea was advanced at the 1994 Paris AIDS Summit with the GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living With HIV/AIDS) Principle.

http://www.poz.com/articles/positive_networks_feature_2806_24771.shtml 

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If your Primary Care Doc -HealthCare Provider Don't Ask & You Don't Tell; are you getting Quality Health Care!?  "Fear of stigmatization prevents many people from identifying themselves as vulnerable to, at risk for, Living with, eligible and qualified for... As many as two thirds of physicians never ask patients about their sexual orientation. Some health care professionals assume that their patients are heterosexual. Others may be homophobic and hostile and prefer to avoid the issue."

 Topic in Review: Sexual Health Care; Services, Treatments, Medications, Issues, News... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

"About 10% of the population is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. These people face health care risks that are often not addressed because of lack of knowledge of the patient's history.

Pisces: "It seems that you're ready for a major change in your life, Pisces. But take care that you don't implement change merely for the sake of change. Think carefully about what you really want to do. Some introspection just might reveal that the changes you seek are minor rather than major. You may simply want to begin working on your health a bit more. Jogging a few days a week and vowing to eat salads at lunch rather than sandwiches may bring about a wonderful ripple effect of health and well-being in your life."

 

"In 1983, the problem was getting the media to pay attention to HIV/AIDS. In 2013, the problem is getting the media to pay attention to HIV/AIDS.

In the beginning, major news outlets ignored the epidemic because it only struck marginal populations. After brief windows of concern, WE have fallen into the same pattern."

 Media Suffering From AIDS Fatigue? www.edgeonthenet.com

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The Psychological Dark Side of Gmail: Google is using its popular Gmail service to build profiles on the hundreds of millions of people who use it:

“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about. Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button!? -Eric Schmidt"  This article first appeared on PandoDaily.

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