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|Agent Rossi... Nice to meet you after all these years...
— Yates being arrested by Rossi in "Profiling 101"
Thomas "Tommy" Yates, a.k.a. "The Womb Raider"[2], was a misogynistic, prolific serial-turned-spree killer who first appeared in Season Seven in Criminal Minds, mostly through flashbacks. He later escaped with twelve other serial killers in Season Eleven and reappeared in Season Twelve.
In May 1966, Yates's mother, then-sixteen-year-old Georgina Yates, was raped by an unidentified man who was apparently never caught, and this resulted in her pregnancy with Yates. Eventually, Georgina gave birth to Yates and had to have an emergency hysterectomy during that time. While the birth was successful, she died from hemorrhaging. As a result, Yates was put under the care of his maternal grandparents, Trudy and Roy. This didn't turn out well for Yates, as he was physically and psychologically abused by Trudy, who viewed him as a demonic bastard because of the circumstances of his conception and birth. A flashback showed her shoving him down a flight of stairs, as well as forcing him to put on a dress and then locking him outside the house. She also starved him, sat on him, and made him sleep in a doghouse.
In school, Yates was also bullied and he began setting fires (making him eligible for one of the signs of the Macdonald triad) and getting himself expelled from two schools. One day, when he was fifteen years old, he eventually became enraged while being bullied and killed his tormentor, stabbing him to death and also kicking him repeatedly. He was tried as a juvenile and forced to spend three years in juvie hall, plus an additional seven years in prison, before being released on parole. As an adult, Yates became a chain smoker and acquired an unspecified day-laborer job. At some point, he began serial killing throughout the West Coast, traveling down the area starting with Seattle. He targeted women who lived either high-risk or low-risk lifestyles, alternating between the two types for unknown reasons.
Profiling 101
"I used to hate birthdays as a kid. That's why I like celebrating yours."
After killing for at least seventeen years, during which he claimed a minimum of 101 victims, Yates returned to Seattle in 2009 after Trudy contracted lung cancer and was placed in hospital care. There, he murdered a prostitute named Rochelle Jenkins. The BAU, who had been devotedly following his case, was subsequently called in. Meanwhile, Yates abducted a soccer mom named Grace Powell. However, after Garcia found Georgina's hospital records and Prentiss and JJ interviewed Trudy at the hospital, the BAU was able to find Yates holding Grace captive in the storage container holding Trudy's old belongings. Grace is rescued by paramedics and Rossi arrest Yates, but not before he taunts the agent since he learned that Rossi was the first BAU agent to take on his case. During interrogation, Yates constantly refused to answer questions given to him by the BAU, staying silent the entire time. Eventually, he was found guilty of his crimes and put on death-row.
The following year, however, he spoke up for the first time to the BAU, specifically to Rossi, when he gave him a list of forty of his victims, those who haven't been found by authorities, and reveals there are actually 101 victims. He then offered a deal to give the name of an undiscovered victim of his annually, on a day of his choosing, in exchange for the upturning of his death penalty as well as his relocation to the East Coast (his grandmother had passed away while he was in prison, and as such, there was no reason for him to remain on the West Coast anymore). Rossi accepts the deal after the BAU is able to find all forty victims. By the end of the episode, in the present day, Rossi visits Yates, who had been conveniently relocated near Quantico. Yates gives him the name of another victim and the location of the corpse before Rossi leaves. The "special day" he has chosen to disclose another victim is revealed to be Rossi's birthday. As a parting gift, Yates sings the 'Happy Birthday' song eerily.
Profiling 202
"If you shoot me, you save her, but then I can't tell you where I buried all those other girls over the years. But if you don't shoot me, I'm gonna kill her."
At some point during his imprisonment, Yates contracted terminal cancer from his chain-smoking. On September 28, 2016, he became one of the thirteen serial killers who escaped from three different prisons, following a series of attacks by a group of anarchists, though this wasn't known at the time. Following his escape, Yates attempted to settle down and live a normal life in Richmond, Virginia. There, he met and dated an introverted woman named Jody Wilson. However, he felt he could not live up to his idealized fantasy, resulting in him killing Jody in 2017. Before he did so, he contacted Rossi to tell him he had started killing again. The next night, Yates called Rossi again, this time from Baltimore, Maryland, and tells him that he was aware of his family. Then, he informs him that he has his next victim, a prostitute named Regina Franklin, and forces Rossi to listen to her last scream before hanging up. After killing Regina, Yates dumps his car and steals a van. The next day, he observes a number of women at a park. As he does so, he begins coughing up blood.
The following night, he goes into a seedier area of Baltimore and lures a prostitute named Stephanie Weatherly into his van. He is initially nonviolent with her and even gives her a cigarette at her request. Then, he starts coughing and asks Stephanie to give him a bag at her feet, which she does. Yates then takes out a knife and holds it to her neck, threatening to kill her if she screams and does not cooperate. He proceeds to hold her captive for three days, starving her all the while. Eventually, he arrives at Rossi's small estate in Quantico, Virginia, with the intention of killing Stephanie and burying her there under Rossi's nose. However, Rossi, who was home at the time, deduces Yates's intentions and confronts him in the backyard, holding him at gunpoint just as he finishes digging a grave. Yates holds Stephanie at knifepoint and proclaims that he doesn't want to die in jail. He then tauntingly says that the agent is faced with an ultimatum: if he shoots him, he will not get to know where he buried all of his undiscovered victims; if he doesn't shoot him, he will kill Stephanie anyway. Despite Rossi's protests, Yates tries to stab Stephanie in the stomach, forcing Rossi to shoot him three times in the torso. Yates then falls back onto the pile of dirt, breathes out a sigh of contentment, and dies.
Modus Operandi
Yates targeted Caucasian women who were surrogates for his grandmother. He had a pattern of targeting high-risk victims such as prostitutes and drug addicts, then shifting his focus to low-risk victims like college students and soccer moms, with the victims always in the same age range as him. It was initially believed that Yates killed two women every time he struck, one a high-risk victim and the other a low-risk victim. When it was discovered that Yates, by his own account, claimed hundreds of lives, it can be assumed that he never followed such a pattern as rigidly as originally thought, or only did so occasionally. He would kill in different cities on the West Coast.
He abducted and restrained his victims by their wrists and ankles for days, starving and dehydrating them endlessly in order to keep them weak, referencing how his grandmother would starve him as a child. They were then killed by stabs directed at the genital area with a knife. When he disposed of the victims, Yates would dump the bodies of his high-risk victims as if they were trash, while he took some time to bury the bodies of his low-risk victims. Initially, he would repeatedly stab his victims' reproductive organs, but as he evolved, he began fatally removing said organs completely, referencing his mother being forced to have a hysterectomy and subsequently died when she was giving birth to him. He also escalated to removing his victims' vocal chords post-mortem.
Following his escape from prison, Yates started killing in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. His overall M.O. devolved, since he was dying and he was focused on killing as many women as he could. As a result, he did not go through the lengthy process of starving them, exclusively targeted high-risk victims such as prostitutes (since access to them was easier compared to low-risk victims) and would bury their bodies instead of dumping them, targeted victims of other races, and no longer targeted women in his age range. The only exceptions to that were Jody Wilson, who was a low-risk victim and his girlfriend, and Stephanie Weatherly, who he starved for days in an attempt to return to the peak of his killings. After Yates abducted each of his victims, he would call Rossi with prepaid cellphones to avoid being found. During these calls, he would tell him their names and where their bodies would be found after he killed them to psychologically torture him.
The unsub is a white male in his early- to mid-thirties and is antisocial and has low self-esteem, so he probably keeps to himself. He needed money, so he is most likely a day laborer, with a menial and temporary job, such as a janitor or a handyman. He is personal enough to get a job wherever he went but unassuming enough to not stick out. He held and restrained his victims for days, so the unsub would need a contained space to do that. However, he is also mobile, which means he has his own transport, most likely a truck or van. When he is on the move and not settled, he would most likely live outside the vehicle. He always started with a high-risk victim first, like a prostitute or a runaway, then moved on to a low-risk victim, so it is likely his next victim would be a soccer mom in her 30s. The fact that he buried the bodies of his low-risk victims, compared to how he dumped the bodies of his high-risk victims, suggests he felt more connected towards them and expressed pity and remorse when it came to their deaths.
The removal of the victims' reproductive organs may indicate that he feels a great deal of self-loathing and wishes that he was never born or had a traumatic life-changing event associated with his birth. He could have hated his own mother, as the strained mother-child relationship is a hallmark for many killers. The removal of the vocal cords was symbolic of his own silence since he was raised to believe he was worthless and unwanted, so he never had a voice of his own. His victims became surrogates for his rage and a means by which to exact his revenge.
Following Yates's escape, the BAU expanded their profile on him. Yates removes his victims' reproductive organs because he hates the fact that he was even born. Historically, his victims have been right around the same age he is, but Jody Wilson and Regina Franklin are significantly younger than him. This shift in his victimology is about availability for him. Regina lived a high-risk lifestyle and therefore was an easy target. Also, the age of his victims most likely does not matter to him anymore. He definitely has a vehicle, such as a van or a truck, which he most likely stole.
In the past, he had a pattern of moving from high-risk victims to low-risk victims and then back, but this is no longer the case. He also used to starve and hold his victims for days, but he removed that aspect of his M.O. in the case of his last two murders. It is believed that Yates is sick and that he feels he is running out of time. Unfortunately, that sentiment could cause him to go on some kind of spree in which he kills as many people as he can before he dies. When serial killers know their death is imminent, they typically either feel the urge to confess to their crimes, or they try to achieve a high body count, both so they can go down in history. The fact that Yates is killing again means the latter scenario is in effect and he may do that somehow through Rossi.
Real-Life Comparison
According to Virgil Williams[3], Yates was based on real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. This is a correct revelation, as both killers were physically and psychologically abused by their mother figures (Lucas by his own mother, Yates his maternal grandmother), in which one of the punishments inflicted upon them was forced dressing into girls' clothing. Both also continuously gave confessions to hundreds of unsolved murders in various parts of the country (Lucas's confessions were usually limited to the eastern states while Yates's murders were committed in the western ones), though Yates was sincere and truthful while almost all of Lucas' confessions, for various reasons, were found to be false; some called it a hoax by law enforcement to clear up a number of unsolved crimes, though Lucas may have lied simply for the fame or some other personal reason. Like Lucas (at least during his confirmed murders), Yates also killed his victims by stabbing them. Both also claimed to have killed in multiple states (though it was only confirmed in Yates's case).
In addition to Lucas, Yates may have drawn some major inspiration from Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. "The Green River Killer". Both were raised in turbulent households ruled by a domineering maternal figure (mother in Ridgway's case; it's his grandmother in Yates's) who abused them as children, and both committed their first crimes as minors, which involved them stabbing a young boy (though Yates's victim died whereas Ridgway's survived). During their tenures as serial killers, both Yates and Ridgway killed women in the dozens and likely over the hundreds; targeted prostitutes, runaways, and other high-risk victims (though Yates also targeted low-risk victims); and were active in Washington state (though Yates was also active in California and Oregon). After their captures, they offered to disclose the locations of over 40 then-undiscovered victims in exchange for the judicial system upturning their death sentences. Finally, Yates's relationship with Jody Wilson, which temporarily motivated him to stop killing altogether, may have been an allusion to Ridgway's third marriage with Judith Mawson, which is cited as a possible reason why Ridgway's frequency of kills lowered significantly.
Yates is also similar to Daniel Camargo. Both were prolific and misogynistic serial killers who targeted women, had mothers who died when they were young, were bullied in school by other students, were abused by maternal figures (Yates was abused by his grandmother; Camargo was abused by his stepmother), were forced to wear girl's clothing as part of the abuse, and committed crimes that they were incarcerated for prior to their serial killings.
Known Victims
"It's actually 101 names. And I remember all of them."
- Unspecified date(s): At least one victimless arson
- Unspecified date and location in 1981: Unnamed school bully (fatally assaulted and stabbed repeatedly with an unknown instrument)
- At least 101 victims, all killed within at least 17 years all over the West Coast.
- Unspecified dates:
- Victims whose names were seen on Rossi's list (limited to only 40) are:
- Alyssa Grassian
- Uma Fogelman
- Violet Makanui
- Lindsey Kerwood
- Mitry Moyer
- Piper Shuster
- Chloe Cheswitt
- Bianca Carmody
- Inez Mortimer
- Macey Wannamaker
- Bristol Evatt
- Nina Grisdale
- Heidi Navone
- Alison Bayfield
- Laura Fairwick
- Sally Gilford
- Natasha Hillbridge
- Joy Lampshire
- Julie Pargrave
- Fiona Stallworth
- Laura Brassford
- Elaine Trangen
- Holly Vaughner
- Tania Miller
- Jessica Tifford
- Scarlet Sprouse
- Donna Millworth
- Teresa Kensington
- Paige Howfield
- Sarah Thomas
- Gina Riverton
- Marlowe Alderman
- Courtney Shandon
- Karen Toluca
- Victoria Cosala
- Kate Corningham
- Lily Traymore
- Carmen Campecho
- Ivy Sunderman
- Lola Winemiller
- Unspecified location: Unnamed victim (found in 2011)
- Eureka, California: Charlotte Davis (dumped her body in a forest reserve; found in 2012)
- Unspecified locations:
- Unnamed victim (found in 2013)
- Unnamed victim (found in 2014)
- Unnamed victim (found in 2015)
- Unnamed victim (found in 2016)
- Victims whose names were seen on Rossi's list (limited to only 40) are:
- Unspecified dates in 1992, Seattle, Washington (the following were stabbed repeatedly in the lower abdomen and genitals):
- Rachel Moore (a runaway; was stabbed 53 times)
- Tina Dyson (a college student)
- Unspecified dates in 1997, San Francisco, California (the following had their reproductive organs removed):
- Olivia Meyer (a prostitute and crack addict)
- Peggy Esther (a soccer mom)
- Unspecified dates in 2005, Los Angeles, California: Lana Cooper (a prostitute; gave her a hysterectomy and removed her vocal chords post-mortem)
- Unspecified dates in 2009, Seattle, Washington:
- Rochelle Jenkins (a prostitute; gave her a hysterectomy and removed her vocal chords post-mortem like the previous victim)
- Grace Powell (a soccer mom; abducted and attempted to disembowel and kill; was rescued)
- Unspecified dates:
- September 2016(?)-January 2017: David Rossi (presumably stalked)
- 2017:
- January 4-5, Richmond, Virginia: Jody Wilson (his girlfriend; gave her a hysterectomy and removed her vocal chords post-mortem; also robbed)
- January 5-6, Baltimore, Maryland: Regina Franklin (a prostitute and meth addict; stabbed 37 times in her lower abdomen and genitals, and ten times in the throat)
- January 6:
- Unspecified location: Unnamed woman (stalked only)
- Baltimore, Maryland: Stephanie Weatherly (a prostitute; abducted, starved, and attempted to stab; was rescued three days later in Quantico, Virginia)
- Yates is similar to Season One criminal Vincent Perotta. Both were prolific, psychopathic, and organized serial killers who were abused by family members (Yates was abused by his grandmother; Perotta was abused by his father); had signatures that involved torturing their victims; committed hundreds of murders in multiple states; committed acts of arson during their childhoods; exclusively killed victims of one gender with only one exception (Yates killed mostly women; Perotta killed mostly men); and were based on infamous real-life serial killers (Yates was based on Henry Lee Lucas; Perotta was based on Richard Kuklinski).
- With a final body count of at least 103 people, Yates is the fourth of only eight unsubs in the show's history who are confirmed to have claimed the lives of hundreds. The first three killers (all serial killers) are Vincent Perotta (who killed hundreds of people, with an exact number unspecified), Frank Breitkopf (who killed at least 176 people), and Billy Flynn a.k.a. "The Prince of Darkness" (who killed approximately over 200 people), while the next four are Hayman Vasher (a mass murderer who killed 151 people), Sharon Mayford a.k.a. "The Bomber" (a hitwoman who killed at least 173 people), Cat Adams a.k.a. "Miss .45" (a hitwoman who killed approximately over 200 people), and Jake Logan (a serial killer who killed approximately over 379 people).
- Season Seven
- Season Eleven
- "Pariahville" (mentioned)
- "The Storm" (mentioned)
- Season Twelve
- "The Crimson King" (mentioned)
- "Taboo" (referenced)
- "Profiling 202"
- "Green Light" (indirectly referenced)
- Season Thirteen
- "Neon Terror" (mentioned)
- "False Flag" (mentioned)
- ↑ Yates was only known to stalk his victims after his escape from prison; it is unknown if he stalked his victims prior to his capture
- ↑ Possibly an off-color pun on the Tomb Raider series, which had a pornographic parody of the same name
- ↑ Williams' chat with fans transcription


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I just was forced to take early retirement from the Florida school system. I can tell you that not only are faggot and queer used as insults continuously, little is done about those insults. Where as nigger would never be tolerated, anti-gay slurs are often ignored. The word gay is often used to mean lame, and I have heard it used by teachers and campus police, thinking that it will make them cool with the kids.
I'm there to prepare students for work and the community. I never allowed anyone to call me "Dog" and I would correct street language. To assume that minority or low income kids cannot learn that school language is different from street language (you don't talk to Granny the same way you speak with your friends) is insulting.
Just as making the point, that no matter how you personally feel about gay people or black people, and so on, we conduct ourselves in a professional manner while in the school setting. I insisted on this, even with elementary level, and while working with cognitively impaired youth.
While I believe that many young adults move towards a live and let live policy, there is an understanding that we do not use hurtful language in polite society in regards to race, but it is ok when talking about sexual orientation.
Even in schools with a non-discrimination policy, gay people often hide their sexuality and are reluctant to correct anti-gay language, fearing that they themselves will be found out or accused of being gay.
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Students are free to both verbally and physically assault teachers, with often a slap on the wrist, or no consequences at all. Students will openly threaten teachers, that they will report them for sexual abuse.
Then the system dares to tell us that we have to understand their culture. This is what I understand. If I do not do my job properly, and one of my former students walks into an office looking for a job and says, "Hey Dog" and then proceeds to refer to everything he finds negative, as gay, then i know he has little chance of getting that job, and I have failed both him and myself.
I see a lot of speculation about young people and homopobhia in the USA. I work in a large public school district every week. Those of you who think kids today are more accepting and tolerant are deluded! It's NOT true. I hear the word "Gay" and "Fagot" used every week as a form of slander. Spend some time in school rooms before you make assumptions. With adults saying everything is okay, who are the gay kids going to turn to? You're assumptions and apathy about kids today does not solve the problem of rampant homophobia among young people. It is common place.
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Jason, I think you're right. What I have noticed, particularily among the younger generation, is a tolerable acceptance. I think as long as their is no compromise, acceptance will follow. This holds true for anything. Thanks for the comments, my friend. Be well.
I think acceptance starts with tolerance. It is impossible without it. I think the move from bigotry to acceptance is in impossible quantum leap for most otherwise.
Great article. Read the comments after. Most seemed to be of the 'tolerant' bent. As in 'I don't care, doesn't affect me, whatever two people want, ' etc. Started me thinking, is tolerance acceptance in these peoples minds? I mean, does tolerance lead to acceptance, or is this just a morally ambigious form of self deceit? Will it lead to a 'deal with the devil', a compromise? As we know personal compromise works, in a limited sense. We can justify it to ourselves. Still doen't make us fully happy. But political compromise doesn't seem to work out as well, just kicks the can down the road for others to wrangle with later. Most of those comments I read I classify as passive tolerance, as in if it happens, okay. If it doesn't, okay. But not acceptance. The fight for acceptance must continue on all fronts. Let me sign off now. Just some of my thoughts when I read the article and comments. As always, be well. Peace.
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Why I Hate the Grammys
The secret committee that alters the membership's nominations, for starters. But there are plenty of other reasons.
It's Grammy time again, as the world's most bizarre awards affair lurches toward its 53rd presentation on Sunday night. There are tackier award-giving groups, to be sure—like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. There are more corrupt ones, too—like, um, like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. But no group matches the goofiness of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences and its annual Grammy awards: the arcane categories, the corrupt process, and the studied out-of-it-ness.
Sure, the Grammys can, once in a while, surprise. Who doesn't think the awards a few years ago to Amy Winehouse—a spectacular, if troubled, artist—were deserved? But such events occur with the frequency of Halley's Comet.
The biggest scandal about the Grammys is the ruling cadre's secret manipulation of its membership's nominations. This is almost never noted in reporting on the awards. The recording academy, like the motion picture academy, has a putative raison d'être that's secondary to the needs of presenting a worldwide TV broadcast. The awards show is an ATM of bovine proportions, funding the group's activities for the rest of the year.
The problem: What do you do when your membership is so out of touch with popular culture that it affects the ratings? Over in Hollywood, the troubles arrive because the academy's tastes have become too rarified. The membership is actually giving nominations and awards to the best movies of the year—even when they are fine films that don't make much money.
The Grammys' problem is that the membership is sentimental, schmaltzy, and stuffy. The Oscars dealt with the problem by upping the best-picture nominations to 10 from five. This way, audience-friendly blockbusters like Avatar and Inception get best-picture nominations—and their fans, presumably, tune in to the show, even if it's unlikely their favorite films will get a statuette.
The Grammys, back in the 1990s, took a different tack. To its credit, the group had spent a decade concertedly trying to create a more youthful and vibrant membership, this after Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down won record of the year over Born in the U.S.A. and Purple Rain. But that didn't work. In 1995, for example, Tony Bennett's Unplugged album won record of the year over a markedly undistinguished slate that included a Three Tenors album, a novelty outing whose nomination enraged the academy's classical membership. The youthful reformers lost out—and the nefarious Michael Greene, the longtime president of the academy, put Plan B into place.
Plan B established a committee whose members' names are not made public, supposedly to protect them from record-industry pressure. The group is allowed to overrule the membership's nominations for its four biggest awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, and best new artist. They take out nominations that might embarrass the academy—one official has hinted that "Macarena" might otherwise have been nominated one year—and replace them with artists they think are more deserving or, more importantly, who will bring in more viewers to the TV show.
The implementation of Plan B came in the mid-1990s, but didn't get much attention. Four years later, the Los Angeles Times's formidable Robert Hilburn got one of the secret committee members to talk about the group's duties off the record. But in the years since, this is almost never mentioned in coverage of the Grammys. This year, for example, I found one passing reference to the process in an L.A. Times blog. If the Oscars tried to pull off something like this, Hollywood would be up in arms.
But the members of the recording academy have been surprisingly compliant. Looking at recent nominations, its pretty easy to see the secret committee's hand at work: The Lil Wayne nomination for album of the year a couple of years ago, along with a record-of-the-year nod to M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes"; or the nomination for record of the year, this time, for Cee Lo's Internet sensation "Fuck You." Presumably, fans think the artists have a chance to win and will tune in. (As with the Oscars, since the voting membership didn't even nominate them, the chances of any of the interlopers' actually winning are fairly low.)
This process is toxic on many levels. No. 1, it shouldn't be forgotten that it's fundamentally dishonest. The manipulation is not discussed on the organization's Web site. NARAS president Neil Portnow will blather on about music piracy on TV Sunday night, but he won't mention that he and some unnamed pals fiddled with the membership's nominations.
While Grammy officials have talked with me about this in the past, it's not clear that the organization is always candid when asked directly about the procedure. I called one of the NARAS publicists for comment this week. She responded to my fairly simple questions about the process with enough vagueness and obfuscation that I couldn't tell if it was deliberate on her part.
"The nominations are the nominations," she said repeatedly, seemingly denying there was an interim step between the nominations and the voting. I asked her to confirm the answer with Grammy officials. She responded the next day with this e-mail:
The following Fields go through this process: General (top 4), Country, R&B, Latin, Gospel, Jazz, Classical, Music Video.
All appear on first ballot to general voting membership. Deloitte [the accounting firm] then informs The Recording Academy of the top 15-30 (depending on category) selections from the first ballot. We present these selections (in alphabetical order) to the Nominations Review Committees, who meet in person for 1-3 days to listen to all of the selections. The committee members then vote at the end of the meeting via secret ballot. The ballots are collected by Deloitte in the room.
Contrast that answer—which confirms that the membership's nominations are changed behind the scenes—with the Grammy Web site's account: "In craft and other specialized categories, final nominations are determined by national nomination review committees comprised of voting members from all of The Academy's Chapter cities." The official account doesn't reveal the thing most readers would be interested in: The fact that the four top categories are "reviewed."
The process is harmful in other ways, too. It induces cynicism in the membership and among the artists—or would, if the process weren't kept so under wraps. It's particularly unfair to those artists who, nominated by their fellows in the business, are unilaterally eliminated from the lineup by the committee.
And, finally, of course, the motivations for the procedure are plain: Sticking some controversial and megapopular names in the top categories to increase ratings for the group's annual TV show/cash cow.
There is one timeless, classic aspect of the Grammys. They are predictably unpredictable—in the sense that you never know in quite what way the membership is going to make a bad decision. In very broad terms, it should be noted that the academy has been quite good with black artists. Leaving aside, say, Public Enemy, stars like Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, and Outkast have generally been appropriately recognized.
In the rock world, the precise opposite is the case. To cite one crude measure, the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll rarely coincides with the Grammy for album of the year, and in the vast majority of cases, the Grammy winner is barely mentioned. In other words, the Grammy designation of what a great record is has little to do with what an actual critic would say. But that's the membership's right, of course. So let's look at its track record.
Artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who, Elvis Costello, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, the Clash, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, and Sly Stone never won a major award during their formative recording periods, and most weren't even nominated for one. (It should be noted that for a time in the mid-1970s, the awards opened a bit with acts like Elton John, the Eagles, and Paul McCartney garnering nominations. The Stones even got an 1978 album-of-the-year nomination for Some Girls.)
A few, like Steely Dan or Bob Dylan, were given awards late in their careers. And once in a while, when newfangled sounds are coming up, the organization covers its ass by sticking things like Nevermind in a "best alternative album" category. What Grammy likes best is a PR angle. Any hackneyed all-star collection—Santana's guest-heavy Supernatural, Quincy Jones utterly forgettable Back on the Block, Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company—is practically guaranteed an album-of-the-year trophy. Just two years ago, Herbie Hancock—once a vibrant artist—won record of the year for a quickly forgotten collection of Joni Mitchell covers with a raft of guest stars.
Last year, of course, Taylor Swift, the speedboat-eyed, insubstantial country artist, was alleged to have recorded the album of the year. That's reminiscent of the best-new-artist category, in which Grammy invariably awards comely and pliant young female artists—19 in the last 30 years. (It helps if you have just one name, as recent nominees Ciara, Feist, Duffy, Adele, and Ledisi will testify.) Recently, this tendency has gotten worse: In 2008, four female artists were nominated, along with Paramore, a punk-lite outfit headed by a female lead singer. (Amy Winehouse, definitely not pliant, was again a major exception.) And, historically, of course, the best-new-artist awardees is strewn with novelty acts, industry roadkill, and mediocrities: The Starland Vocal Band and A Taste of Honey, Arrested Development and Shelby Lynne, Evanescence and Hootie & the Blowfish.
One thing NARAS has never been able to do is keep a lid on the number of categories. Right now there are about 110. This allows the members of more than 1,000 acts per decade to go around saying they're a Grammy-winning artist—and five times as many, or 10,000-plus people, to brag they were nominated.
This seems a bit much.
It is probably hugely unfair to the artists involved to say this, but do we need a "Hard Rock Performance" category and a "Metal Performance"? Are there really five great New Age, Hawaiian, or Native American albums a year? And then how about the bloat in the religious category (which, by the way, includes both white and black music): gospel performance; gospel song; rock or rap gospel album; pop/contemporary gospel album; Southern, country, or bluegrass gospel album; traditional gospel album; or contemporary R&B gospel album.
NARAS finally jettisoned the polka category a couple of years ago; there were less than two dozen qualifying albums, making the nomination chances for any guy armed with an accordion and a recording contract about one in four.
And the process for determining eligibility is bizarre as well. Dylan won a folk Grammy for World Gone Wrong, back in the 1990s. It was a collection of acoustic folk and blues songs, and the award seemed appropriate. Since then, his last three normal (by his standards) rock albums were nominated—and won—in the category of contemporary folk. This is unfair to actual practitioners of the genre, who will never win over such a big name in the category, which he doesn't belong in.
Finally, the Grammys have always had the most wrong of eligibility periods. Traditionally, the period ended at the end of September. This created a big disconnect, particularly since a lot of important albums generally get released to coincide with the Christmas season. It also allowed the record companies to game the system, releasing an album or advance single just before the eligibility period ended to qualify for one year and then going for a second round of awards the following year.
That's why when you look at this year's record of the year nominations you see 18-month-old songs like Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." Folks have complained about the eligibility period for decades. Recently, the recording academy did something about it. In 2009, it pushed the eligibility period back another month, to Aug. 31. A year later, it reversed the decision, and now we're back to the Sept. 30 cutoff date. It could have pushed the period up to Dec. 1, catching most of the Christmas releases in that year's nominations and adding just a little bit of sanity and sense to the group's undertaking. But at the recording academy—where nominations aren't nominations, Bob Dylan is still a folk artist, and a cute young thing from Nashville is the artist of the year—moving ahead invariably puts you right back where you were before.
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The Darkest Seduction Paris – Darkest Lord of the Underworld Immortal warrior Paris is irresistible – yet this comes at a terrible price.
Possessed by a depraved demon, he must seduce someone new every night, or die. But the one woman he craves has never truly been his. Sienna, possessed by the demon of Wrath, is compelled to punish everyone around her.
Yet in Paris's arms she finds peace and insatiable desire.As Paris and Sienna's bond grows it reignites a blood feud between ancient enemies. With battle raging between gods, angels and demons, Paris and Sienna must fight a supernatural war that could destroy their love.


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Listen to LCD Soundsystem's Cover of Franz Ferdinand's 'Live Alone'
It was recorded pre-MSG.
Technically, it doesn't count as a return, since the cover was recorded pre-MSG (for a Franz Ferdinand Covers EP tied to Record Store Day). But it's like a nice Nicorette patch of LCD to ease you through the withdrawal. Pro-tip: subsequently listening to Franz Ferdinand's "All My Friends" cover negates any positive effects this new track may have.
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7.1 A number of accidents are caused when drivers are
unaware of other road users near their vehicles because of the
existence of blind spots around the vehicles, especially goods
vehicles. Directive 71/127/EEC sets out the current technical
standards for rear-view mirrors of vehicles. But under the Directive,
Member States have discretion to limit the application of the
Directive to light and heavy commercial vehicles. For example,
in the UK, existing UK legislation does not require the fitting
of mirrors to certain heavy goods vehicles to specifically address
the blind spot that lies directly under the front windscreen.
In the recent past, the lack of a clear view of the front of the
vehicle has caused a number of fatalities when drivers have driven
forward unaware that a child was crossing the road in front of
the stationary vehicle. The Government estimates that the elimination
of this blind spot could save around 16 fatalities per year in
the UK. There are also blind spots at the side of certain other
vehicles which are not dealt with under existing rules.
The document
7.2 The existing Directive will be replaced by the proposed
Directive. The Minister summarised the main changes proposed as
" the Directive would be mandatory (i.e. it would
have to be applied to all categories of vehicle, except motorcycles)
the current Directive only has to be applied to light
and heavy commercial vehicles if Member States choose;
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7.3 The Minister tells us in his Explanatory Memorandum
that blind spots are a significant problem for drivers of large
vehicles in the UK. He says:
"UK legislation currently requires new heavy goods vehicles
over 12 tonnes to be fitted with additional 'close proximity'
and (in the case of articulated vehicles) 'wide angle' mirrors
to address blind spots to the sides of the vehicle. However, there
are currently no requirements for mirrors to cover the blind spot
which exists below the windscreen of many high vehicles.
"The main effect of this directive will be to require new
goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes to be equipped with a mirror to
cover this blind spot. The additional mirror may be combined with
one of the vehicle's existing mirrors. Where a mirror is not feasible
a camera system, may be used instead."
7.4 The Directive also extends the requirement to fit
wide angle and close proximity mirrors to goods vehicles in the
3.5 to 12 tonne range. This measure will also apply to left hand
drive EU registered vehicles which can currently use UK roads
without close proximity mirrors and can cause particular risks
in certain traffic conditions, such as when changing lane on a
7.5 The Minister tells us that the proposed measures
can make a significant contribution to the Government's road casualty
reduction targets. However, he also says that there are certain
aspects of the proposal that could be improved. For example, he
says that while a proposal to require the exterior mirrors to
cars and light goods vehicles to incorporate "aspheric"
zones as used in many car mirrors would provide a wider view of
blind spots, these larger mirrors pose an increased risk to pedestrians
and cyclists. The Minister says that the benefits achieved by
providing wider vision to drivers may be offset by the increased
risks from the slightly larger mirrors. The measures will be examined
as part of the Regulatory Impact Assessment.
7.6 The Minister says that, as a conservative estimate,
the casualty savings of requiring the fitting of additional mirrors
on goods vehicles could be around £16 million per year whereas
the cost of fitting the additional mirrors would total around
£3 million per year. The Minister also suggests that it might
be more beneficial to require blind spot mirrors to be fitted
on buses (which are not addressed in the Directive) than cars.
7.7 The use of blind spot mirrors and other measures
to improve drivers' vision and so reduce road casualties are clearly
to be welcomed. However, we note the Minister's comments that
certain aspects of the proposal could be improved. In clearing
the document, we call upon the Minister to press the case for
incorporating these improvements in the text.
7.8 The Minister has provided an indication of the
likely scale of costs and benefits associated with certain aspects
of the proposal. However, we call upon the Minister to provide
a full Regulatory Impact Assessment as soon as possible. We also
ask the Minister to clarify whether the fitting or non-fitting
of the proposed mirrors would have any legal and insurance consequences
for motorists, especially in the event of an accident.
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I haven't cooked for a year! No really, I haven't!
Not enough to write home about anyway.
I have been caught up in life happenings, work obligations, family matters and health issues.
Although none of those are better, well health seems to be heading in the right direction, I am itching to make some new dishes and some new recipes for you guys to try.
I perfected this dish today.
We have red potatoes coming in right now and I like them anyway they can be whipped up. Hubs does not care for them as a regular potato salad with mayo dish.
He will devour a baked potato peeling out in a steakhouse but he snarls his nose up when I have the nerve to leave a red skin on his taters that he grew himself!
Crazy fella!
The red potatoes also remind me of something his sister in law said one time.
Her and the family were at our house, actually my father in laws home where we lived when I was just a baby, and I had little red potatoes out of our garden that I had boiled with the peeling and then browned them up in some butter.
When she was offered some of them she said "I do not care for red potatoes because they taste like the earth."
Sorry but that seemed so odd to me at that time! LOL
I can now see where that came from. Red potatoes do not keep very long and can become dry and mealy......whatever mealy means!
With this recipe I have a feeling that you will not have to worry about them turning mealy.....
Rustic Roasted Red Potato Salad with Brown Sugar Vinaigrette
4 pounds Red Skinned Potatoes
3-4 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 teaspoon Dried Dill Weed
1 Tablespoon Kosher Salt
Fresh Cracked Black Pepper to taste
1 Cup diced crunchy sweet pickles (I use my home canned Lime Pickles)
1/2 - 1 Red Onion sliced thinly
1 Cup White Vinegar
2/3 Cup Light Brown Sugar
1 Tablespoon Honey
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Dried Dill Weed
a little kosher salt and cracked pepper to taste
3-4 slices Bacon, cooked drained and broken in small pieces
Wash and cut potatoes in approximately 1" cubes and place on a large sheet pan with room enough to be only one layer of potatoes so they can roast evenly.
Drizzle with the olive oil, dill weed, salt and pepper. Toss to cover potatoes evenly. Roast at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until browned and tender. Allow to cool to almost room temp.
Mix chopped pickles, onion slices, vinegar, brown sugar, honey, garlic powder, dill, salt and pepper in a small glass bowl. Taste this and add to it as to your preference of sweet/tanginess. Allow this to steep while potatoes are cooling.
Place potatoes in a serving dish and pour dressing over.
Sprinkle bacon pieces over.
Toss gentle every so often to make sure coated evenly.
Serve at room temperature for best flavor.
ps. Hubs loves red skins now!!!
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Stay safe in open water22 December 2016
With extreme heat forecast over the next week, Mayor Kevin Mack has added his voice to the river safety message, urging all residents and visitors to Albury to take care in open water.
Master plan for popular attraction13 December 2016
A long-term plan to upgrade and beautify Monument Hill has been developed and is now available for public comment.
Council to consider 'social benefit' in revised policy13 December 2016
Businesses competing for AlburyCity contracts will need to demonstrate 'social benefit' to the local community under a revised procurement policy being considered by council.
CCTV for Albury CBD a step closer12 December 2016
Closed circuit television for Albury's CBD could be operating by mid-2017 after Council tonight accepted a tender from Coffs Harbour City Council (Trading as CitySmart Solutions) to install the surveillance system.
Albury to host AFL pre-season match07 December 2016
AFL powerhouse the Sydney Swans will take on St Kilda in the final weekend of the re-badged pre-season competition at Lavington Sports Ground on 12 March.
360L recycling bins now available for households05 December 2016
AlburyCity is offering residents who need greater capacity to manage their household recycling to upsize to a bigger bin.
Christmas memorial for families02 December 2016
We are inviting members of the community to join in the annual Christmas Remembrance Service at Glenmorus Gardens on Wednesday 14 December.
Grow and shape our Creative Economy Strategy28 November 2016
AlburyCity is calling on locals who either work or play in a creative field to be part of a new research project.
Albury's young people celebrate café opening25 November 2016
While the name may be symbolic with a bygone era, the opening of Albury's trendy new Retro Lane Café overlooking QEII Square is all about the future.
More award accolades for AlburyCity24 November 2016
AlburyCity has been recognised with another impressive award, this time for the Albury Airport named the 2016 Regional Airport of the Year at the National Airport Industry Awards in Canberra.


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'From the beginning," said Pope John Paul II at his weekly general audience on Jan. 17, "God intended man to be the steward of creation and to live in harmony with his Creator, his fellow human beings and the created world.... There is an urgent need for 'ecological conversion,' directed to safeguarding not only the natural environment but also the human quality of life." Over the past decade one group of American bishops after another has echoed the pope in urging Catholics to awaken to the moral dimension of the ecological crisis.
The latest report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released last month at a meeting in Shanghai, contained very bad news. The panel's previous report, issued five years ago, had cautiously concluded that human activity was "a discernible influence" in global warming, and had predicted a further spike in temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit sometime in this century. This year's I.P.C.C. update does not equivocate: for the first time human activity is categorically named the number one factor in the heating-up of the planet over the last 50 years. The projections are dire: Earth's average temperature may well increase between 2.7 and 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century—with disastrous consequences.
These findings lend urgency to the ongoing negotiations over how to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls upon three dozen industrialized nations to cut their combined emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases to roughly 5 percent below 1990 levels. From the outset, the sticking point has been how to go about achieving this goal. Poor countries have sought billions of dollars to help them adapt to climate change, while rich nations have aimed to blunt the economic impact of the treaty by finding the least costly way to reduce their emissions. The United States, which produces one quarter of the world's fossil fuel emissions, has resisted making the kind of steep reductions Kyoto demands; instead, emissions have actually soared and are expected to rise by 35 percent by 2010.
The Clinton administration wanted an easy way out. Last November's negotiations in The Hague broke down over how much credit big forested countries like the United States should get for photosynthesis—that is, for all the carbon dioxide that is removed from the atmosphere and stored for hundreds of years in soil and trees, particularly old growth forests. The Clinton administration had calculated that our vast forests, by absorbing 300 million tons of carbon a year, could help us get halfway to the pledged target under the Kyoto treaty. Rather than clamp down on smokestacks and tailpipes in our own back yard, the United States also prefers to pay for forest protection and "clean" technology in other countries, where costs are lower. Most of Europe, which has endured high fuel prices in part to meet tough emissions standards, finds U.S. tactics a devious way of getting a free ride.
Where will the Bush administration come down in these negotiations? Already Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has asked for a delay in the summit meeting planned for May in Bonn, Germany, in order to give his chief global warming negotiator time "to read himself in" on the complex issues. "I'm not going to let the U.S. carry the burden for cleaning up the world's air, like the Kyoto treaty would have done," said President Bush during the recent campaign. Of course no one is asking that, only that we carry our fair share. Although he opposes sharp cuts in the burning of fossil fuels and trusts free market mechanisms to cope with the problem, even Mr. Bush conceded during the campaign that global warming is scientifically established, and something must be done about it. The question, if we don't want the whole world to look like sun-baked West Texas, is what?
The beginning of an answer came last November, right in the middle of the stalled Hague talks, when the U.S. Department of Energy issued a study headed by Dr. Marilyn Brown of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The study argued that we could go a long way toward cutting carbon dioxide emissions, the dominant greenhouse gas, by making some fairly simple, inexpensive changes in energy policy: 1) raise the standards for energy and fuel efficiency; 2) increase spending on government and private research into renewable energy sources like hydrogen fuels and solar, wind and geothermal power; and 3) adopt a national trading scheme for carbon dioxide cuts that gives industry a financial incentive to surpass required reductions in emissions. The payoff would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but would also lower energy bills, lessen dependence on imported oil and reduce smog and acid rain. These modest policy changes would not constitute a full-fledged "ecological conversion," but they would be a start.


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A Day in the Life of a Radically Unschooling (Christian) Family
New unschoolers ask all the time "what does a typical day look like?" I wrote a response 5 years ago, when we were not yet radical unschoolers but full unschoolers. After sharing it once again I also wrote up our day today so I thought I would share.
My kids are older now and our typical days change based on what projects they are doing, what they are interested in, what their current goals are, and what my husband and I are doing (I work full time outside the home for this season, he writes and programs- freelance). I think today went something like this:
I got up at around 9am, hubby was still asleep, Rachel (16) still asleep, Issac (12) got up at about 4:55am, Es (14) got up at 6 or so. Rach got up around 12? Shamus got up around 11am?
I take my supplements, have my tea, have my breakfast, sit at the computer and look over Facebook- check admin stuff that needs done for the Facebook group. Younger two have been up watching "Malcom in the Middle" (in between projects, though middle daughter is currently working on a Minecraft texture pack). The tv show has been watched several times through recently, lots of questions answered about the time period, various topics that come up, the humor. Es watches a lot of shows to learn more about pacing and humor as she writes and wants to write better humor and wants to pace her animations and comics better.
Issac did the dishes (he is saving up for a harddrive and all in family get paid for their work by the hour). Es decided at the last minute to come with me to take my grandmother shopping (every Tuesday) but decided to do a social experiment and dressed up in a steam punk style outfit and brought a card and crayon to make notes about reactions. She wants to write a tumblr post documenting her social experiment- how many people react, how they react by demographic. Shamus wakes just before we leave- he is writing today. Rachel wakes as we leave. She is working on a Minecraft world she and her best friend are designing and needs to work on the texturepack.
On the way to my grandmothers Es and I discuss prophecy vs demonic possession, staying close to God during times of extreme spiritual stuff, what the Bible says about fortune telling and prophecy. We stop when Grandma gets in the car. Es explains her project to Grandma. While Grandma and I get groceries, Es goes off around the store to see and document reactions. She then comes back to us, helps a bit, then goes pick up some things she just remembered she wanted.
We go to Subway because Grandma is hungry. We discuss expanding Esther's social experiment and what she would need in order to do that as well as other people's experiences with colored hair, dreads, piercings and peoples reactions.
We take Grandma home, put away her groceries. We stop by my dad's place to take some pictures and visit a bit. Talk about the old butternut tree that fell down which my dad is turning into a coffee table (and teaching himself all the steps- lots of new stuff happening there- made a new type of joint today and spent months planing the wood and making the boards). Es talks to him a bit about her experiment.
We stop at the thrift shop to look a t the formal wear for ideas for other skirts and outfits. Found a pair of shoes, a Doctor Who scarf, and a silk skirt that will be awesome. Get home. Issac is putting together a new puzzle we had just gotten. He is in a "bored" stage- his friends (who he talks to on Skype) have all been busy, he wants to have a new hard drive so he can do more, and the weather is cold and supposed to warm up so he doesn't want to go outside till it does. So he is watching tv, putting together the puzzle and complaining about being bored. Es realizes she is hungry and tired so makes herself some cream cheese pancakes and sits down to watch. Rach makes herself some regular pancakes. She has been working on the Minecraft world while we were gone and has just gotten working on the texture pack. Hubby is taking a nap.
I realize that I messed up about a birthday party Es was supposed to go to (her first one that was just her going for her friend and I messed up.) We shop on Amazon instead, she writes her a note on the gift, and we make plans to get together soon.
In an hour I leave for work (12 hr shift over night) but in the meantime I am back on the computer trying to problem solve and come up with solutions for running a huge facebook group while lacking the proper tools to do it.
And there you have it. Our day today.


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IKEA follow-up
I posted before about an issue I had exchanging a defective cabinet at IKEA. Proving the "it's not what you know it's who you know" theory, someone that I know that works at IKEA happened across the blog post and talked to someone with the abilty to make a decision on my behalf and I received yesterday a gift card for the price of the cabinet. While this is good for me, it still points out the issues that people can have when employees are not empowered to do what is right by the customer.
IKEA's flawed exchange policy
Dear IKEA -
I would like to suggest that you examine the exchange policy that is enforced for items with manufacturing defects. In my opinion, it is unreasonable to require a receipt for an even exchange that is being requested only because IKEA failed to properly manufacture an item.
Earlier this summer, I purchased, among other things, 3 birch Effectiv wall cabinets (supplier code 13662, item number 30050140) paying $45 each. Today, I finally had a chance to assemble and hang the cabinets but the 2nd cabinet assembled had a gap on one corner of the face of the cabinet where the laminate from the adjoining side did not properly meet. Unfortunately, I did not notice this manufacturing defect until I had already assembled the unit. I hung the two cabinets that didn't exhibit this defect and decided that I had room to hang two more cabinets above the two that were already on the wall.
It is a 20-mile trip each way from my home in Brooklyn Park to your store in Bloomington, but I decided I had time this evening to make the trip before you closed. I brought with me the assembled cabinet to exchange and I also planned to purchase a second cabinet and four sets of cabinet doors and handles to finish this project. I also planned to look at several other items including some lighting, organizational products, bedding, and furniture for my daughter's bedroom.
I arrived at your store shortly before 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2009. I waited only a couple minutes at the returns/exchange area before I was helped by young lady. I didn't note her name, unfortunately, but I told her my story and showed her the defect on the front face of the cabinet and explained that I would like to exchange it a new cabinet. She said that she could not process and exchange without a receipt, which surprised me since it wasn't like I was requesting an exchange for a different item – I merely wanted what I had paid for when I purchased this particular cabinet, which was a cabinet free from material defects.
She did go into the back room for a few minutes to see if she could find a replacement for the defective part, but she returned after a fruitless search. She offered me the following options:
- Go home and get my receipt and come back to the store with it to process the exchange.
- If I couldn't find the receipt (a near certainty) I could bring back a credit card statement showing the date of purchase and she could look up the receipt.
- She would give me a phone number that I could periodically call to see if a replacement part happened to show up that I could then pick up at the store. In the meantime, I guess I would either have to not hang this cabinet on the wall or I would have to remove it from the wall when/if a replacement part arrived.
None of these options struck me as being particularly good ones for someone in my situation. I told the refund/exchange clerk that I had the credit card that had been used for the original purchase but she explained that she couldn't look it up without the date of purchase as well. Feeling out of options, I told her to throw the cabinet in the trash as it was no use to me given the manufacturing defect. She tried, briefly, to get me to take the cabinet with me but I left it there on the cart and set off to do my shopping.
I purchased two more Effective birch wall cabinets and four sets of doors and hardware for a total purchase (before tax) of $239.95. The barcode at the bottom of my receipt (dated 9/26/09 at 19:50) has this number: 212001110320092609 if you care to look it up.
There are several reasons that I believe your exchange policy is flawed and that there is an opportunity to change it to bring it more into line with what honest people expect of IKEA:
- The item I was exchanging had a clear manufacturing defect. Because your items are sold unassembled, I had no way to know of the defect until I had assembled the item at home.
- I was seeking to exchange the defective item for an exact replacement item. I was not seeking a different color/size/model nor was I seeking a cash refund. I only wanted what I had paid for in the first place. I don't know what IKEA is trying to protect itself from in this case. Are there really scammers out there that would go to the trouble to return an item for an exact replacement just to stick it to the retailer?
- It is quite clear that I purchased the item at IKEA – there isn't anyone else that sells IKEA products so unlike some retailers you can't fear people returning items they purchased elsewhere.
- I could have defeated your exchange policy by not telling the truth, which was that I had purchased the item earlier this summer. Instead, I could have purchased a new cabinet and then used the receipt I received from that purchase to process the exchange for the defective cabinet. I would have still left your store with two new cabinets, but would have saved $45 plus tax.
I do acknowledge that your return/exchange policy is clearly spelled out on the back of your receipts and through signage in your store and that it does clearly state that a "receipt is required for all returns and exchanges." So you are well within your rights to follow and strictly enforce such a policy. Still, I feel that it is unreasonable for you to require a receipt in a case such as the one that brought be to your store tonight and that I have detailed above. If I were not forced to purchase two more cabinets from IKEA to finish the product I am currently working on, I would have left your store without purchasing a thing. As it was, in my anger I decided not to purchase several other items that I had planned on buying tonight and I will seriously consider whether or not I will visit IKEA in the future when the need arises.
You have an opportunity to make this situation right by refunding me the $45 I paid to buy another cabinet to replace the one that I had to have your employee throw in the trash. A better solution, though, would be to inject some common sense into your exchange policy to prevent others from having this experience in the future.


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