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KFC has embraced the trend. In this recent YouTube video, the actor George Hamilton, portraying Colonel Sanders, whispers sweet nothings about pocket squares and enjoys the sounds of KFC's new crispy fried chicken. "This is a community that is absolutely infatuated and enthusiastic about the sensorial experience of sound," KFC CMO Kevin Hochman said in The Washington Post. "There's a lot of comfort that's associated with ASMR, and that's what our food delivers."
According to YouTube estimates, there are more than 45 million ASMR videos uploaded to the site, and, over the past year, there has been a marked increase in children making ASMR-related videos. Richard hypothesises that our brain is probably more receptive to an unknown child than a strange adult, making it easier for some individuals to be relaxed by ASMR videos featuring children.
YouTube pays on average $2 per 1,000 views if you run ads on your videos, but there are many other factors involved in payment. For example, not all clips have commercials on them and different genres on YouTube have different payouts, depending on popularity. Maria says she doesn't think she could sustain a family with her ASMR videos, while Paul, who does have a wife and child, points out that a YouTube career doesn't cover additional costs like health benefits.
It’s not really a physical feeling if that makes sense, but there is a powerful reaction to the sounds nonetheless, to the point where I’m instinctively arching my neck, and a feeling does wash over you that is truly unique, almost addictive. What I don’t fully understand is why my mind chose just now to react when I haven’t had anything close to an ASMR experience before. I’d say that I’ve just found the right trigger, but I’m even reacting to videos that did nothing for me in the past. Like something clicked in my head recently.
While little scientific research has been conducted into potential neurobiological correlates to the perceptual phenomenon known as 'autonomous sensory meridian response' (ASMR), with a consequent dearth of data with which to either explain or refute its physical nature, there is voluminous anecdotal literature comprising personal commentary and intimate disclosure of subjective experiences distributed across forums, blogs, and YouTube comments by hundreds of thousands of people. Within this literature, in addition to the original consensus that ASMR is euphoric but non-sexual in nature, a further point of continued majority agreement within the community of those who experience it is that they fall into two broad categories of subjects.
I spoke to Dr Emma Blakey, Giulia Poerio, Tom Hostler and Theresa Veltri, who as graduate students at the University of Sheffield, are part of the new generation of ASMR researchers trying to do just that. They’re currently working on a study that will aim to see whether people who subjectively report the experience of ASMR also produce consistent physiological measures – for example, changes in heart rate, breathing rate, or skin conductance.
While the Ephemeral Rift YouTube channel features conventional relaxing videos like trees rusting in the wind or someone shuffling wooden blocks, Paul also experiments by playing characters like Dr. Lampert Schade, a psychiatrist with a lampshade on his head, and Corvus Clemmons, a plague doctor who wears a bird-like steampunk mask. All the videos feature soft soothing sounds and no sudden movements.
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Qantas launches inflight BYOD on demand
Qantas customers on WiFi enabled domestic flights will be able to watch their favourite shows, avoid missing out on live sport and listen to almost any song they like, with Foxtel, Netflix and Spotify coming on board to provide content in 2017.
With speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional inflight WiFi, Qantas will offer customers video and audio streaming when the service is switched on its first domestic aircraft later in February 2017. The rest of the airline’s fleet of domestic Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 aircraft will follow from mid-2017 onwards.
The faster connection speeds – which enable streaming – are made possible through the nbn Sky Muster satellite service and represents a significant upgrade over older satellite technology accessed by most airlines around the world. The service uses idle data capacity, with the signal reaching the aircraft as it flies through the satellite’s 101 spot beams across Australia.
Qantas Group Executive of Brand, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Olivia Wirth, said that fast, free Internet would open up a huge range of options for customers inflight. “We know that email, online shopping and general web browsing will be popular uses when we switch on WiFi, but what a lot of people relish about flying is being able to catch up on their favourite TV shows or watch movies they didn’t get to see at the cinema,” she suggested. “Foxtel and Netflix both have huge catalogues that are expanding all the time, so there will be no shortage of entertainment on board.”
“The usage data from the collection of albums we already have on our aircraft shows that music is a great way for passengers to relax as they watch the world fly by. Spotify will open this up so you can listen to virtually any song you like,” she added.
While Foxtel, Netflix and Spotify are all paid subscription services, they will offer free access to Qantas customers on and off the aircraft for between three days and one month after their Qantas flight. Specifically:
Foxtel will offer three days’ free access to its Foxtel app every time a customer flies, allowing customers to stream live sports, news and TV shows as well as its full range of on-demand content. No sign-up to a subscription is required.
Netflix will offer new customers access to the entire Netflix service as part of a 30-day free trial. Existing Netflix members only need to log in to continue watching at no extra charge.
Spotify will offer a 30-day free trial of its Premium music service, which has no ads, shuffle play and unlimited skips.
Customers will log on to the Qantas inflight WiFi via their own devices, and will be greeted by a landing page with a range of options. As well as links to access Netflix, Spotify and Foxtel, this page will feature real-time flight data; hotel, restaurant and transport options at your destination; the latest weather; and personalised information linked to your itinerary and Frequent Flyer account. Streaming of Sky News Australia will also be available.
Qantas is in discussion with a range of content partners on ways to improve the on-board experience using Wi-Fi.
In November 2016, Qantas installed ViaSat satellite-receiving equipment on its first 737 to be WiFi enabled. Hardware and software testing is underway on this aircraft, ahead of the service being switched on for customers soon.
Brian Walsh, Executive Director of Television at Foxtel said: “We are delighted to be able to extend our partnership with Qantas to support this great new service for passengers. With access to Foxtel both while flying and on the ground afterwards, Qantas passengers will enjoy some of the best live and on-demand content that Foxtel has to offer.”
“Qantas passengers will also have access to Foxtel’s deep and extensive library of new and returning signature drama and entertainment programming. In February and March alone these include HBO’s highly anticipated new drama Big Little Lies, staring Nicole Kidman and Reece Witherspoon, The Walking Dead, Call the Midwife, The Real Housewives of Sydney, Selling Houses Australia, The Flash, Arrow, Divorce, The Mick, Gogglebox and much more, plus all past episodes of blockbusters such as Game of Thrones.”
“Qantas is at the forefront of providing free and fast inflight WiFi to their Australian customers,” said Bill Holmes, Netflix’s global head of business development. “Now passengers can settle in and enjoy The Crown, Black Mirror and more shows and movies on their own devices, whenever they want.”
“Travel is an experience made better with music and at 40,000 feet music fans will now be able to access all their favourite Spotify playlists or discover a world of music from our catalogue of over 30 million tracks,” said Kate Vale, Managing Director at Spotify Australia & New Zealand. “We are excited to be working with Qantas on innovating and enhancing the customer experience in-flight by offering access to Spotify’s award-winning service on WiFi enabled Qantas flights,” she added.
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Gogo launches in-air multimedia platform
Over 30,000 hours on-demand at YouView
Southwest Airlines agrees Panasonic, GEE deals
Motive test launches BYOD maritime TV platform
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July 6, 2015 by Julie Phelps
Just a quick selfie on the way to visit Andy and Red in Zihuatanejo.
Ummmm …. Duh.
Because SOME hotels just know how to treat the Crazy Train. Good night Fort Stockton!!!!
June 24, 2015 by Julie Phelps
Still at the Station…
First, welcome to all my new followers! Thanks for following!!!
In case you haven’t noticed, the Crazy Train hasn’t taken many road trips lately. Well, there’s a simple explanation for that.
Swim Season.
Not swim season, like, the kids are in the pool and playing and having fun, but Swim Season like SWIM TEAM and I am carting them to and from practice every day, sitting poolside, sweating my bohonkus off, watching them swim laps and then getting up at 5am every Saturday to go to swim meets. THAT kind of Swim Season.
But, I am hoping that we can start back to our adventures SOON.
In the meantime, I am writing A LOT over at It’s a Beautiful Tree. I’ve got a series right now on Caroline Ingalls and Helen Ekin Starrett that I am loving. So, if you’re into a whole other type of Crazy Train– like those women who took their families all over the place in covered wagons, then check out my work over there!
March 31, 2015 March 31, 2015 by Julie Phelps
Dublin, Texas
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For those Crazy Train loyal followers, I heartily apologize for our absence of late. We’ve been doing the responsible thing over the last few months—homework, scouts, student council, soccer… laundry…. And I have been working on my research for my book (and you can see my progress at itsabeautifultree.com).
The whole Crazy Train in front of one of the many Dublin Welcome signs on the roads into the town. Perfect spots for family photos!
But now that the weather is looking brighter, the bluebonnets are popping up on the roadsides, and summer vacation is within our reach, we have started thinking about road trip possibilities. Mostly, we are thinking about all those fantastic little dots on the map we’ve blown through on the way TO somewhere else. We’re going to start working on making those THE destinations!
And, in my family chaos, I neglected to report on our latest road trip! As our most ardent friends and followers know, it’s not the destination that holds all the fun, it’s the journey. It’s taken me awhile to get it posted. I promise to do better!
This year, we decided that since the Hub had St Patrick’s Day off, why not spend the Irish holiday in DUBLIN? Um, DUH. What red-blooded American of Irish descent wouldn’t want to spend the feast day of St Patrick—the High Holiday of all things green—in DUBLIN? Having received my early education from Irish Catholic nuns FROM Ireland, I spent every single St Patrick’s Day—from kindergarten in the St Bridgid’s Convent semi-basement classroom to the gym or cafeteria stage at St Luke’s Catholic School singing songs about corned beef and cabbage and smiling Irish eyes. It seemed almost a sin to forego to opportunity to celebrate the holiday anyplace else. So, we decided that on the dull and rainy day of March 17th, we would pile into the land yacht and head on over to Dublin.
Did I mention we were going to Dublin, TEXAS?
Um, yeah. Not the same.
Dublin, Texas, has always had a little bit of fame here in the Lone Star State as the home of Dublin Bottling Works—the place where the amazing Dublin Dr Pepper was bottled until the heartless giants of corporate conformity decided that the little guys in Texas who still had their original contract with Dr Pepper couldn’t keep doing their thing. If you don’t know the Dublin Dr Pepper story, here’s the skinny:
At the “end of the line” at the Dublin Bottling Plant. Here’s where the bottles come off the vintage bottling machinery and are checked before going out into the world.
Once upon a time, a tasty carbonated beverage called Dr Pepper appeared on the soda market. It debuted in Waco, and was originally only available there. But in 1925, an independent bottler in the little town of Dublin obtained the first bottling franchise with Dr Pepper to bottle the goodness outside of Waco. Dublin’s distribution territory was limited to a 44-mile radius of the town, which was just peachy until Dr Pepper was eventually sold to Snapple. Weeeelllll…. Snapple quickly learned that people from everywhere were flocking to this little town in Texas for “Dublin Dr Pepper” because they had never changed their formula to include high fructose corn syrup. Dublin Dr Pepper always stayed true to the awesomeness of pure cane sugar, and their loyal followers showed their devotion with their wallets.
This was my most favorite part of the tour. This is the sophisticated dating apparatus on the machine. See the orange highlighter? Since they only bottle maybe once a year on the vintage machinery these days, our tour guide told us that they use whatever color is handy that year. This is the most modern part of the machine. FABULOUS!
So when big ol’ Snapple came along, they saw that this little independent distributor in Texas was making money hand over fist on Dublin Dr Pepper. People were selling it online (not necessarily the bottler) and it was being sold outside the 44-mile radius stipulated in their contract (again, not necessarily by the bottler). Well, big ol’ Snapple didn’t like this one bit, so, although Dublin had less than 1% of the entire US Dr Pepper sales, it was time for them to stop. In 2011, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group sued Dublin Dr Pepper for trademark dilution and stealing sales from other Dr Pepper distributors by selling outside their territory. In 2012, Dublin Dr Pepper ceased to exist.
This part of the machine is the fancy dishwasher. The bottles are recycled, and since they don’t make this size anymore, they are reused again and again. THIS is real recycling! Loved it.
Thanks, Snapple. Thanks for ruining it for all of us. I hope the $7 million in annual sales you recouped from Dublin helps y’all sleep better at night.
Anyhow, now the old Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Plant bottles their own sodie-pop in their super-cool vintage machinery in the same plant where the delicious Dublin Dr Pepper used to be bottled. The new stuff is called Dublin Bottling Works, and it’s not bad. The tour is pretty cool and you can see all the vintage machinery and Dr Pepper collectibles in the Plant and in the accompanying museum. Not a bad way to spend a rainy St Patrick’s Day afternoon. It wasn’t the Guinness Brewery at St James Gate in Dublin, Ireland, but it was much cheaper and took a fraction of the time.
The Dublin Bottling Works was the highlight of our trip. NOTHING else in Dublin was open! NOTHING! There were a few shops in town who’s signage said they’d be open until 5:00 or 5:30, but most places were closed. There weren’t really even any restaurants in town, and NO PUBS! What?!?!? I messaged an Irish friend of mine and said that if the Dublin in Ireland found out that there were no pubs in Dublin, Texas, the entire population of Dublin, Ireland might charter an Aer Lingus jumbo jet and fly over here and beat up the town of Dublin, Texas.
(Let me interject about Dublin Bottling Works for a sec here. As we were finishing up—right around closing time, I noticed a family pull up in front of the Plant with out of state plates. They tried the door, but it was already locked. One of the young employees opened the door and told the mom that they had already closed. “Darn!” said the mom, “we just got to town and we are continuing on and we really wanted to take the tour!” Well, THANK YOU SMALL TOWN, TEXAS for showing them what Texas hospitality is all about! I noticed that you let the family in, and I assume you stayed late and gave them a tour anyway. I just wanted to say, even if you don’t ever read this, that your gesture did not go unnoticed, and this Texan would like to thank you for your kindness. It really made me happy to see something like that. You could’ve just ignored them, but you didn’t. KUDOS!)
Anyhow, back to me. A simple Google search would’ve told us that Dublin, Texas celebrated St Patrick’s Day over the weekend preceding the 17th. Oh well. You’d think I’d have learned by now. But it definitely didn’t stop us from our photo ops, because we ALL know that the hilariousness of trips like this lie in Facebook statuses like “Happy St Patrick’s Day—from Dublin, Texas” and then everyone replies “OMG what are you doing in Dublin?” and I respond, “um, St Patrick’s Day! DUH!” However, I was quite sad that I was unable to obtain a Guinness on the Irish High Holy Day. But I did wear green. And blue (St Stephanie—I always wear blue for you!).
I’m tall and I have long arms, but getting 5 people in a selfie AND the sign in the background in the rain is HARD WORK! Caution: you will receive no Guinness as a reward after your efforts at a selfie in Dublin.
Although Dublin claims to be the Irish capital of Texas, the origin of the name isn’t 100% in support of that theory. Could’ve been for the term “double-in” that the settlers used to yell as a warning cry during Indian raids. Or for the double log cabins the settlers built. Or for the capital of Ireland. Regardless, it’s been there since about 1860. It’s mostly and agricultural town, and sadly, most of the businesses and buildings in the downtown area are in need of some TLC. The Ben Hogan Museum was closed the day we were in town, as was the Dublin Historical Museum. And, like I said, most of the other shops were closed for the day too. Would’ve been nice to have seen all the sights since we LOVE to immerse ourselves in the entire culture of a town while we are there.
Perhaps next year, we will check ahead of time and go on the festival weekend. And we won’t assume that stuff will be open in Dublin just BECAUSE it’s St Patrick’s Day!
March 23, 2015 by Julie Phelps
Hi everyone! With the kiddos in school and soccer and student council and all that other stuff, we haven’t been able to hit the road lately. Such sadness. But I’ve been keeping myself busy at my other blog, so feel free to hop on over there and indulge my nerdy side!
http://itsabeautifultree.com/2015/03/23/the-house-that-william-built/
February 10, 2015 February 10, 2015 by Julie Phelps
Busy, busy, busy!
As you can probably tell, the Crazy Train has been stuck at the station for awhile. Not because we WANT to be, but because the activities and homework and schedules and lives of a trio of children have kept us homebound lately!
HOWEVER, this does NOT mean that I am not writing! While the kids are selling Girl Scout Cookies, bike riding, attending birthday parties, riding bikes, making messes, having sleepovers, going on Cub Scout outings, and other various kid things, you can find me at my other blog: itsabeautifultree.com
Once we hit the road again– or I dig up pics from an adventure we took before, I’ll post! But until then, I’ll be in my treehouse.
January 3, 2015 January 4, 2015 by Julie Phelps
In Praise of Rail Road Towns
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“TRAIN!”
–Gordy, in Stand By Me, 1996
Many of the Crazy Train’s excursions lead us through tiny dots on the map, born of the railroads during westward expansion. Millions of acres lay in wait, untouched by a new breed of American explorers in search of a place to call their own. During the nineteenth century, a herd of iron horses stampeeded westward, forever changing the Western landscape. Likewise, decades later, when the US Department of Transportation paved a spiderweb of asphalt, most of the old railroad towns were bypassed, condemning them to a future of ambiguity. It was on one of these road trips that I made a connection I’d never made before. Usually, when we arrive in a town, I google its history, and we learn about any little interesting tidbits the town had—or still has—to offer. I usually read a little about how the town was founded, its subsequent growth, and its ultimate decline. Or, in some cases, what continues to keep it thriving.
It was in one of these obscure little ghost towns that I made an offhanded remark to the tone of, “gee. All these towns are named after railroad presidents and train muckety-mucks rather than the town founders.” My words were still hanging in the air above my head in a bubble as The Hub turned and looked at me in that, “you didn’t seriously just say that, did you?” expression he gets that is at times humorous, and at other times annoying as hell. “Oops. Yeah, Right. It’s a FANTASTIC idea to name those towns after railroad presidents!” I exclaimed, with a guilty giggle.
I laughed because, in a way, the Crazy Train has VERY close link to one such town. And what is this link, you may be wondering? In the northern California county of Siskiyou, there’s a tiny dot on the map called Swobe. Depending on which map you use, Swobe, California may, or may not, actually have roads. But, one thing it does not have is a population. Or buildings. Or a sign. Or a zip code. Or a train depot. Or ANYTHING. Swobe is pretty much just a dot on the map.
So just where did the name for this tiny dot originate? Just who was this “Swobe” person, and why is there a dot bearing his name? My great-grandfather, Dwight Milton Swobe, was born in 1878 in Nebraska, the son of Civil War veteran Col. Thomas Swobe and his wife, Alzina. Col Swobe worked his way up the ranks in the Union Army, ultimately retiring as Quartermaster. It was upon his retirement that he became a partner in Shears, Markel & Swobe of the Millard Hotel, Omaha’s premier hotel at the time, and one of Nebraska’s political centers. His company also provided dining cars for many railroads. It seems that Dwight Swobe got the railroad bug from his dad, because all accounts I’ve read have him working for railroads as soon as he graduated from college. The railroads brought Dwight incrementally west, became a widely respected short line railroad man, and ultimately became president of the McCloud River Railroad in 1921. He saw the Railroad through the devastation of the 1930s, making use of the line for lumber transport. The company was beloved by its employees and became known by them as Mother McCloud for continuing to offer its employees credit in company stores throughout the Depression, and then forgiving their debt afterwards. Dwight raised a family in Berkeley, and, sadly, passed away at the age of 65 in 1943. After his death, McCloud River Railroad honored him by naming a “town” after him. It’s actually just a mile of tracks between markers 12 and 13 along a picturesque span of the Railroad, but the real honor was in the gesture. Although we rarely depend on the railroads for transportation these days, The Mc Cloud River Railroad, now the McCloud Railway operates as a passenger excursion train, and an 80 mile portion of the former line is being converted into a multi-use trail for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and other non-motorized sports. For a glimpse of my great-grandfather’s railroad, check out the scenery in the classic movie Stand By Me. The infamous bridge the boys run across to escape the oncoming train is the McCloud River Railroad’s Lake Britton Bridge in Burney Falls Memorial State Park. ***Special THANKS to the people of the McCloud River Railroad and the McCloud Railroad for posting these pictures that I borrowed from you on your webpage. Learn and see more history at mcclourriverrailroad.com, greatshastarailtrail.org/history/railroad-history-summary/, trainweb.org/mccloudrails, ancestry.com, and to my mom, my aunt, and my awesome 2nd cousin Gordon for your assistance in the ongoing Swobe family research!***
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Ethiopia’s 27th National Day: U.S. restates support for PM Abiy’s govt
On the occasion of Ethiopia’s National Day, the United States has restated its support for the current government led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.
Washington said it was committed to helping Addis Ababa in the area of sustainable development, democracy, human rights, peace and good governance.
In a statement released by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Department of State stressed that Premier Abiy had their unalloyed support in his bid to ring governance changes promised by the ruling coalition.
Full text of U.S. Department of State press statement:
On behalf of President Trump and the people of the United States, I send my best wishes to all Ethiopians as they celebrate their National Day on May 28.
The United States and Ethiopia share a long and deep friendship based on our commitment to sustainable development, democracy, human rights, peace, and good governance, as well as on our important and influential population of Ethiopian-Americans, who contribute so much to our own country.
Congratulations to your new Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, who has our full support in his determination to bring greater political openness to Ethiopia and to continue the great economic gains made in recent years. I offer best wishes for a joyous and safe holiday, and I reaffirm the commitment of the United States to our enduring friendship.
Abiy’s Premiership and task of political reforms
Abiy was sworn into office on April 2 this year, taking over from Hailemariam Desalegn who resigned to allow political reforms to be undertaken after close to three years of deadly anti-government protests across the Oromia and Amhara regional states.
The ruling Ethiopia Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) announced reforms in January 2018. The coalition said the reforms were to help foster national unity and open up the democratic space.
Hundreds of people – including top opposition chiefs and journalists – have been released after the government dropped charges against them. Abiy is tasked with continuing with reforms as the country heads to its next polls in 2020.
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Nigeria to focus on mining to boost investment
Nigeria is embarking on a long- term development for its mining sector in order to boot investment.
This is in a bid to reduce over reliance on the oil sector which provides 70% of government revenues, but a slump in crude prices has pushed Nigeria into recession.
The Mining Minister, Kayode Fayemi says that Nigeria has largely untapped deposits of 44 minerals, which include gold, iron ore, coal, tin and zinc, in more than 500 locations spread across the nation.
The west African economy has been trying to attract foreign mining firms. Currently, the only significant foreign investor in the sector, where 80 percent of mining is carried out on an artisanal basis, is Australia’s Kogi Iron.
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Currently, mining accounts for just 0.3% of the country’s GDP but Nigeria hopes that the sector will contribute up to 10 % of the GDP over the next decade.
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Cameroon mourns victims of train accident: at least 75 dead, over 600 injured
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15-year-old charged after leading police on chase while driving ATV
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 15-year-old has been charged with felony evading after leading police on a chase while driving an ATV on the Eastex Freeway.
Humble police confirm the 15-year-old captured his ride on Snapchat. Eyewitness News blurred his face in the video because of his age.
Police tell us it all started Thursday morning when an officer noticed the teen driving the ATV down Wilson Road near Humble High School and tried to pull him over.
It is illegal to drive a four-wheeler on a public street.
When the teen didn't stop, police chased him to Homestead, but that's where they lost him.
Harris County sheriff's deputies caught up with him on Lauder Road and then went over to the freeway in the northbound lanes, where the teen was spotted on Houston Transtar cameras traveling past FM 1960 and then Townsen.
Officers held back traffic while they followed him. At one point, a DPS trooper joined in and was right on his tail.
The hour-long pursuit eventually ended off the FM 1340 exit, where the teen surrendered. Deputies took him over to the Tractor Supply Co. to get the ATV off the freeway and took him into custody.
One driver saw the whole thing while she was out running errands.
"I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know anything until the cop pulls into the car wash and I'm like, 'What the heck?' and then the four-wheeler comes out and the cops start chasing him and I'm like, 'Oh my God,'" said witness Jennifer Rodriguez.
The teen was transferred to juvenile probation.
RAW VIDEO: Teen rides on ATV during chase on Eastex Freeway
A suspect on a 4-wheeler is leading police on a chase through northeast Harris County.
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Burning of Pennsylvania HallNate Schmolze2019-03-02T05:22:46+00:00
Abolition in Pennsylvania has a long, storied history. Philadelphia boasts the first abolitionist society founded in the Americas (AD 1775), and the city became a key frontier in the struggle for African freedom.
Early American abolition was rooted in a philosophy known as incrementalism — the belief that evils can be removed from a culture by gradually working them into submission. These measures would help one individual slave at a time, often through the practice of colonization, where slaves would be taken through the underground railroad, smuggled to freedom, then shipped out to Africa.
Early abolitionists looked at slavery as evil, but rather than work to abolish that evil, abolitionists tried to alleviate it by working within the paradigm of slavery as an institution. They did not try to end the institution itself; rather they simply offered an alternative by helping individuals escape it one slave at a time. Rather than oppose chattel slavery with the gospel of Jesus Christ, they acted as if it could not be ended, and thus did not hold the nation accountable to abolish it.
In the 1830’s however, a new breed of American abolition was born. William Lloyd Garrison reintroduced a philosophy known as immediatism — the belief that evil can only be overcome by making an uncompromising stand, and calling for its immediate abolition.
Assenting to the ‘self-evident truth’ maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, ‘that [clickandtweet handle=”” hashtag=”#AAPA” related=”” layout=”” position=””]all men are created equal[/clickandtweet], and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights–among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
In Park-street Church, on the Fourth of July, 1829, in an address on slavery, I unreflectingly assented to the popular but pernicious doctrine of gradual abolition. I seize this opportunity to make a full and unequivocal recantation, and thus publicly to ask pardon of my God, of my country, and of my brethren the poor slaves, for having shared a sentiment so full of timidity, injustice and absurdity…
On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; –but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest–I will not equivocate–[clickandtweet handle=”” hashtag=”#AAPA” related=”” layout=”” position=””]I will not excuse–I will not retreat a single inch–AND I WILL BE HEARD.[/clickandtweet]
—The Liberator, issue 01
Unlike their predecessors, Garrisonian abolitionists stood squarely on the gospel of God and obedience to His word; therefore they focused on calling the United States of America to immediate and total repentance for the sin of chattel slavery. As their movement gained traction, things came to a head in Pennsylvania when the new abolitionists united in Philadelphia to hold a conference (AD 1838).
Philadelphians opposed the gathering for several reasons. They felt that freed slaves would take their jobs and ruin the local economy. They felt that it was not right for freed slaves and white women to be in a building together, and they were angered by this public showing of equality. Philadelphians opposed it so thoroughly that no building owner would allow the conference to meet in his facilities. So abolitionists raised money to build a new structure — Pennsylvania Hall — as a monument to freedom and free speech.
The Philadelphians became so furious that over the course of the conference, they stood outside of Pennsylvania Hall, rioting and shouting, throwing rocks at the windows, and opposing the call to justice that the abolitionists of slavery both embodied and required. Angelina Grimke, one of the speakers, improvised her words in response to the rioters.
Men, brethren and fathers — mothers, daughters and sisters, what came ye out for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Is it curiosity merely, or a deep sympathy with the perishing slave, that has brought this large audience together? [A yell from the mob without the building.] Those voices without ought to awaken and call out our warmest sympathies. Deluded beings! “They know not what they do.” They know not that they are undermining their own rights and their own happiness, temporal and eternal.
Do you ask, “what has the North to do with slavery?” Hear it — hear it. Those voices without tell us that the spirit of slavery is here, and has been roused to wrath by our abolition speeches and conventions: for surely liberty would not foam and tear herself with rage, because her friends are multiplied daily, and meetings are held in quick succession to set forth her virtues and extend her peaceful kingdom. This opposition shows that slavery has done its deadliest work in the hearts of our citizens.
Do you ask, then, “what has the North to do?” I answer, cast out first the spirit of slavery from your own hearts, and then lend your aid to convert the South. Each one present has a work to do, be his or her situation what it may, however limited their means, or insignificant their supposed influence. The great men of this country will not do this work; the church will never do it. A desire to please the world, to keep the favor of all parties and of all conditions, makes them dumb on this and every other unpopular subject. They have become worldly-wise, and therefore God, in his wisdom, employs them not to carry on his plans of reformation and salvation. He hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak to overcome the mighty…
What is a mob? What would the breaking of every window be? What would the leveling of this Hall be? Any evidence that we are wrong, or that slavery is a good and wholesome institution? What if the mob should now burst in upon us, break up our meeting and commit violence upon our persons — would this be any thing compared with what the slaves endure? No, no: and [clickandtweet handle=”” hashtag=”#AAPA” related=”” layout=”” position=””]we do not remember them “as bound with them,” if we shrink in the time of peril[/clickandtweet], or feel unwilling to sacrifice ourselves, if need be, for their sake. [Great noise.] I thank the Lord that there is yet life left enough to feel the truth, even though it rages at it — that conscience is not so completely seared as to be unmoved by the truth of the living God.
—Angelina Grimké Weld, full speech
The convention met in full force the next day, despite orders from the Mayor to restrict further gatherings to white women only. Fearing for their safety, the building managers handed the keys over to the mayor, who then promptly disbanded the convention and locked Pennsylvania Hall. That night, the mob burned Pennsylvania Hall to the ground.
“The crowd cheered as [the mayor] walked away. Soon after, the crowd broke into the building, destroying the interior and setting fires. The mayor returned with the police, but by now the mob was out of control — any attempts the police made to restore order were met by attacks. By nine o’clock the fires had spread, engulfing the building in flames. Firefighters arrived at the scene but sprayed only the structures that surrounded Pennsylvania Hall. When one unit tried spraying the new building, its men became the target of the other units’ hoses. With no one working to save Pennsylvania Hall, it was soon completely destroyed.” —PBS on Pennsylvania Hall
We have the same conflict growing before us today — the same call for justice and mercy, and senseless antagonism in response. Pennsylvania does not want to end abortion; the people shout and throw things at abolitionists who speak up for those who have no voice. Pro-Life legislators respond only with ineffective, incremental laws while we tout our history of liberty and perpetuate tyranny.
And so Pennsylvania, will we perpetuate tyranny, or cry out for liberty? Both can’t survive; the only true liberty is found in Jesus Christ.
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Abbreviation: Afr. J. Hist. Cult.
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The Psychology of Health
Learning Outcomes (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4).
Upon completion of the module, the student will be able to:
1. Identify and evaluate models of health behaviour.
2. Engage with significant and emerging theories and research with regards to mental ill-health issues in professional practice.
3. Engage with significant and emerging theories and research with regards to enduring illness in professional practice.
4. Critically evaluate psychology of health in relation to self. Wounded healers.
The essay title can be randomly selected by the author and needs to provide brief detail of an illness (can be a fictitious character) that enables further specific focus for deeper exploration as outlined below: (The essay must incorporate an enduring mental health element as it is part of my FdA counselling degree). The core elements of this essay must include the following: Theorists and Theories 1. An overview and objectives 2. Applications of Health Psychology Models of Health Behaviour 1. Respondent and Operative Learning 2. Social Cognitive Theory 3. The Health Belief Model 4. The Theory of Reasoned Action 5. The Communication-Behaviour Change Model 6. The Precede-Proceed Model 7. Transtheoretical Model 8. Vicarious Responses / Wounded Healers / Emotional Labour The essay must also include consideration of Changing Health Behaviours through the following: Counselling Mental Health including: 1. Definition of Mental Health 2. Holistic Model of Mental Health 3. Wellness Model 4. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM 5) 5. Classification of mental ill-health 6. Mental Ill-Health includes * Dementia : Alzheimer’s * Alcohol Intoxication Delirium * Alcohol Dependence * Mood Disorder due to general medical condition * Schizophrenia Disorganised Types * Major Depressive Disorder * Autistic Disorder *Asperger’s Disorder * Gender Identity Disorder Details should also be included indicating how enduring chronic ill health and Mental Ill-health can be supported by the counselling process Enduring Illnesses can include: 1. Definition of enduring Illness 2. Illnesses include: * Chronic Fatigue syndrome * Chronic Respiratory Disease * Diabètes Mellites * Auto-immune Disease (Lupus Erythematosus, HIV/AIDS) * Cardiovascular Disease (heart failure, cardiopathy) * Osteoporosis *Cancer Other points of detail in the essay should include: Supporting Enduring Illness through the Counselling Process The effects of Medication on the counselling Process Essay should end with a conclusion. It is imperative that the following learning outcomes are achieved in developing the essay: Learning Outcomes (LOs 1, 2, 3, 4). Upon completion of the module, the student will be able to: 1. Identify and evaluate models of health behaviour. 2. Engage with significant and emerging theories and research with regards to mental ill-health issues in professional practice. 3. Engage with significant and emerging theories and research with regards to enduring illness in professional practice. 4. Critically evaluate psychology of health in relation to self. Wounded healers.
The limit of overseeing startling and sudden events that chafes gatherings and changes in affiliation culture is known as crisis organization. Starting late we have had the ability to palpate transboundary crisis, that have affected accomplices in different structures. For example, the 2011 tsunami of Japan, which meddled with creation organize wherever all through the world, especially in the auto business (Crandall, Parnell and Spillan, 2010). This specialty of overseeing crisis requires aptitudes and data to deal with accomplices' recovery. Crisis organization prepares the person to make capacities in an amazing and antagonistic conditions inside the relationship of an emergency response with fortitude and confirmation. The coordination of the emergency responses to a more broad scene that incapacitates to hurt and wreck structures, ability to work suitably and capably. The continuum evaluation of the masterminding and customized scene response transforms into a vital bit of the strategy in a crisis organization outline. Legitimate resources available in a crisis in Dominican Republic. According to Crandall, Parnell and Spillan (2014) there are countries and social orders that are known as "crises masterminded", because they have had the ability to get ready and support any crisis needing to overcome their deficiency. The Dominican Republic isn't the extraordinary case, when a crisis develops the gathering and Dominican Civil Defense are the first to respond to the emergency, as individuals accessible if the need arises. Everything considered, few out of every odd individual is set up to help another person or acknowledge a piece of activity amid the time spent an emergency crisis. The national emergency and correspondence system, known as the Center for Emergencies Operation, [COE], in its piece of the primary office the nation over in a crisis, and responding affiliation has had the ability to make expertise and abilities to enable potential crises and manage the ones that at last to happen. The Center for Emergencies Operation, [COE], is fit the bill for make, overview, execute and get ready workforce, volunteers and the gathering in reference to the national game plan and organization for emergencies the nation over. The Dominican Civil Defense, are the individual accessible as needs be for the scene of a calamitous occasion or crisis. This is one of the emergency social affairs, in any occasion, most alluded to in the country as readied masters available to come back to work for an emergency. The Dominican Civil Defense began their gathering benefits as a social occasion of volunteers to the gathering by giving correspondence benefits as radio learner by 1963. Their first expert help to the gathering was with Hurricane Flora, where they showed how they were effective in giving correspondence the nation over under an emergency fiasco as a typhoon. The Dominican Red Cross empowered them to station their central correspondence inside their center. By, 1966, the Dominican government requested the Law 257, which made the Dominican Civil Defense as an official living being to help emergencies. Thusly, transforming into an official state foundation under the umbrella of the Center of Emergencies Operation, COE. In September 22, 2002, the assembly founded the Law 147-02 by which the risk organization, transformed into the official emergency regulatory Agency in charge of working up the national emergency and correspondence plan close by its controls. As general measures they keep to guarantee, organize, take an intrigue, demonstrate balancing activity and decentralize organizations. Their fundamental target is to maintain a strategic distance from or diminish loss of lives and farthest point property damages of consistent people and government from disastrous occasions or fake catastrophes. The Dominican Civil Defense, is one the animals under the umbrella of COE, and moreover the Dominican Red Cross, Energy Conservation Department, Fire Department, Police Department, Dominican Port Authority, Health Department, Environment and Natural Resources Department, Dominican Seismological Institute, National Housing Department, among others, have been seen as an emergency crisis gathering of specialists and specialists adjacent, national and comprehensively for its work assemble in light of a legitimate concern for those in require and the gathering. Because of the Dominican Civil Defense, their work is made out of 95% of reliable arranged volunteers, an official boss, an officer corps, and departmental directors who, as demonstrated by their academic preparation begin working for the gathering and the benefit of the country. As showed by Treurniet, Van Buul-Besseling and Wolbers (2012) the gathering may be portrayed as a get-together of people living in a comparable region and having a particular properties in like way of being a man. Besides, as needs be, they will have a place with different social affairs and gatherings, sharing their perception of a certified dynamic gathering work, towards each other. By 2014, the Dominican Republic executed unprecedented for its history the organizations of 911. As one of the new emergency resource organizations center, its specialists in control needed to educate immensely the people about the usage and preferences of 911. The correspondence procedure was colossally used (TV and radio) in the midst of the going with two months going before the incitation of the 911 system the country over. Pearson and Mitroff (1993) conveyed that there is a need of collaborating with the gathering, since it gives a sentiment being part powerful inside the gathering. In addition, they cleared up that the gathering can share their wants, assessing their necessities and targets of the people who are needing support. Amid crisis, the learning of collaborating formally or calmly with relationship in accomplishing one target of helping another person transforms into an adaptable lead (James and Gilliland, 2013). In the Dominican Republic, Center for Emergency and Communication Operations, [COE] would be similar in its ability to what FEMA is in the United States. The Dominican Civil Defense is doled out under the umbrella of the COE. This Center would be part fundamental of the Crisis Management Team, CMT and the Crisis Management Plan, CMP. COE sorts out enduring trainings with national and worldwide associations who are moreover overseeing emergencies and crisis remembering the true objective to exchange experiences and get ready with new methodology. Today, the Dominican Civil Defense has ended up being one of the associations of the Government that has exceptional contrasted with other correspondence organizes in the country after the Armed Forces. They have a correspondence system in the UHF band or ''ultra-high repeat" starting late presented, and a naval force structure is national in scope, despite common phones. Starting at now, the Dominican Civil Defense has a radio station, which is the soul of the foundation in crisis and emergencies that work 24 hours for every day and the 365 days of the year (Dominican Civil Defense, 2014). Crisis Theories. Speculations impact a couple of assumptions to give an illumination of a given situation. A couple of makers, for instance, James and Gilliland (2013) clears up that the Eclectic Crisis Intervention Theory includes an intentional and consider particularly planned significant thoughts and procedures to help the setbacks from different techniques. This particular speculation begins filling in as an endeavor centered theory, instead of using thoughts. A couple of vital endeavors perceived in this theory are: Recognize parts in all systems and to facilitate them into an inside dependable whole giving a more exact behavioral data to be cleared up. >
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Cradle VSA Blood Pressure Monitor
The Cradle Vital Signs Alert Blood Pressure Monitor
The Cradle VSA is the world’s first medical device to detect shock and high blood pressure in pregnant women could cut maternal deaths in developing countries by up to 25%, saving more than 70,000 lives a year.
Cradle VSA now available through APEC
The Cradle VSA is the first such device in the world to achieve World Health Organisation standards for use in under-resourced settings. It is accurate and the battery is suitable for the developing world as it can be used with USB phone chargers. The hand-held device measures blood pressure and pulse to calculate the impending risk of shock; the device requires minimal training. It has a traffic light system that clearly indicates the risk of shock or high blood pressure: (i) green if a woman is not at risk, (ii) amber if she needs to be carefully monitored, (iii) or red if she requires emergency treatment.
“We’re very proud of this device, it is unique for use in pregnancy. Not only can it accurately detect when a woman is in danger from high blood pressure or shock, but it also indicates, to untrained people when to act on this. I use it in my NHS clinic as it is superior to most existing devices for measuring blood pressure.”
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How to use the CRADLE VSA to detect vital signs during pregnancy (skilled health workers)
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Keith Urban Makes Nicole Kidman Blush With Surprise Serenade [Watch]
Keith Urban can still make his wife blush.
The country guitar god, who was the star of Spotify’s Fan First event in Nashville Monday night (April 23), entertained a small crowd for the private show. His wife, star actress Nicole Kidman, was also in attendance.
The crowd was none the wiser until Urban — in the middle of his stripped-down set — pointed Kidman out in the audience. Kidman acted shy and hid for a moment, then finally just raised her hand high in the air in "fine, that’s me" fashion.
Pics: Keith and Nicole Cozy Up on the ACM Awards Red Carpet
As if her cheeks weren’t turning rosy enough, Urban then invited his wife to come onstage with him to sing his recent romantic release "Parallel Line." Hesitant at first, Kidman finally gave in to the cheer of the crowd who wanted her to grace the stage with her country music hubby. Kidman slowly walked to the stage and sat down in front of the microphone but kept a fair distance as Urban led the vocal charge.
It was a cute moment for the couple who continually sang the chorus of “Take a little bit of my / Heart tonight / No, I literally don't mind / Just please don't misplace it / Take a little bit of my / Heart tonight / No, baby be mine now / Baby, be mine now / Maybe it’s time we put our hearts in a parallel line.”
Kidman put her head in her hands with an embarrassed smile near the end of the song, and Urban shouted “You did it though!” to the approval of the crowd. It was a highlight of the night, which was a Spotify-focused event to promote Urban’s new album, Graffiti U, which drops on Friday, April 27.
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Source: Keith Urban Makes Nicole Kidman Blush With Surprise Serenade [Watch]
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DWTS 2019: Sam Johnson Wants To 'Keep Kicking Cancer In The Face Hole'
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Samuel Johnson gets candid about dancing for his late sister, Connie.
The moment that lovable actor Samuel Johnson walked into rehearsals, greeting dance partner Jorja Rae Freeman in his "tutes" (that's a tutu, FYI), we knew it was going to be a fabulous season of Dancing With The Stars.
But despite his sunny disposition and phenomenal energy, Johnson is competing to win $50,000 for a worthy cause that's very close to his heart.
Love Your Sister is a charity he created with his late sister Connie back in 2012 when she dared him to ride around Australia on a unicycle following her terminal breast cancer diagnosis.
He had already raised a staggering $6 million (and had even broken a world record) when, in 2017, Connie succumbed to the disease and died with her family by her side.
"My sister battled cancer across three decades and lost," he told 10 daily.
"So I'll keep kicking cancer in the face hole until I can't. It's got to go. It's absolute nonsense. I'm just proud to be one of many millions involved in the fight against it."
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After Connie died, Sam became more determined than ever to hit the $10 million donation mark he promised his big sister -- so what better way than to join the DWTS team?
"We're now over $9 million," he said.
"So it feels like I'm dancing towards $10 million."
"My sister wanted us to raise this $10 million with joy because she always told us, 'cancer can take my life, but it won't take my joy'. So I'll be dancing as if she's watching," he said.
With Connie being such a huge influence in the Gold Logie winner competing in the series, it seems only fitting that he would pay homage to his sister who, Sam added, would have been "so jealous" that he was on the show.
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"I've got my Connie dance coming up in week three," he continued.
"So I really don't want to get booted out this week! I'm doing an amazing dance to represent our brother and sister relationship -- it'll be like our whole life story in one dance."
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As for what exactly he believes Connie would say if she were watching her baby brother perform?
"She'd be happy for me, but now that we're into it, I reckon she'd be a little bit jealous," Sam laughed.
"She would have loved the chance to do it herself, so she would definitely be trying to hide her jealousy!"
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Fic: Strangers in the Night
Spike/Illyria // ~800 words // R for violence
He never stops provoking her, testing her. A part of him, the superstitious, romantic side he likes to play off as good common sense, believes the bruises on his body will reveal the key to her. But no matter how she breaks him, the morning after his bones only show hard-won regret.
Still, he never stops. Flying into her fists is the only way he knows. And so it's on her to learn how to pull her punches or else lose herself another pet.
He doesn't delude himself into believing she cares for him. He fascinates her, though; as much as she'd refuse to admit it, she finds him intriguing. Nine times out of ten, no matter the time or place, he's what her eyes settle on with that unblinking regard. He's gotten used to her eyes following him; too comfortable even. If he's her pet, then she's his shadow--only difference being he knows shadows can kill you when you're not looking.
"Your ritual is futile. You can never hope to contain the power of transformation. Your demon magic's been diluted to a whisper swallowed by the wind. When you would be still, you cannot help but grow. You are a mockery of immortality."
He lifts his head from the sink, his eyes peering over his shoulder, his fingers rifling through his wet locks. "Yeah, well I happen to think a little upkeep's not too much to ask."
"Your efforts are wasted. You cannot hide your weakness." With impossible control, she lifts one supercilious eyebrow while inhaling through her left nostril. "You reek of human corruption."
"It's called bleach. Besides, hiding's not the point. Well, I guess it is, but not in the way you mean."
"You're burning. Dead flesh sizzling under the poison you splash about your head." She's behind him now, her hand ghosting over his leather jacket tossed across the kitchen table. Her lip curls into a snarl. "More dead flesh. Is that all you are?"
He snorts before dunking his head back under the faucet for a final dousing. Thirty seconds under the cold water gives him too much time to think about her words and his burning flesh--though not in the way she means--so he whips his head up and shakes off like a wet dog.
Illyria hisses and recoils, her skin turning brilliant blue till the water falls from her body like shards of ice breaking off a winter roof. "You dare assault me with your dregs?"
He grins, wide-mouthed, flashing his teeth and wagging his tongue. Too far? he wonders, and then he's being ceremoniously tossed through the window. Lost in freefall, he marvels at her: everything she does carries a momentous grace.
His cheek smashes against the pavement; bits of dust and rock cling to his hair. Quite a picture, he's sure. And then her armored boots land inches from his nose, tossing debris into his eyes. He spares a moment in gratitude for her consideration--she could've finished that four-story jump by driving her heels into his skull--then he groans when she slams her foot on top of his ear. Not hard, mind you, just hard enough that he knows she wants him to groan.
Leaning over him, she tosses her head to the side, letting her hair stream across her shoulder, a curtain of blue so long it brushes against his temple. Her eyes are shining and her snarl's melted into a smile.
Straining to catch her gaze out of the corner of his eye, he works his jaw bone free from underneath her boot. "Happy now?"
Watching her smile broaden, he waits for the pressure to let up before he snakes around, wrenching her by the ankle and tossing her into the dumpster pressed against the alley wall. He's on his feet before the metallic echo fades, and a second later, she snaps to a standing position, spine elongated, forehead tilted towards the moon.
She's going to break him again, there's a promise in the way her armor slices across her knuckles, and damn if that doesn't send shivers down his spine. In a flash, he sees blood flowing, blood he's losing, blood he'll drink, it's all blood to him -- and no more dead flesh, not when there's blood pounding through him.
A howl breaks free as he leaps into the night air, anticipating the force of her fists, stinging sweeter than a lover's kiss, and they're dancing, flying, blue-tinged hair and black-slicked leather. Every wound sucks in her fists, rock armor and dead flesh, and he comes within a breath of knowing what's written in the bruises she leaves behind.
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2016 – The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior
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Written by: Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper
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Original release: March 18, 2016
Other cast: Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, Theo James
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Harriet And Seymour Koenig Collection Soars Past Estimates In Cowan's Spring American Indian And Western Art Premier Auction
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An exceptional collection of pottery, textiles, fine art, and katsinas from the southwestern United States led the way in Cowans Spring American Indian and Western Art: Premier Auction on April 5. The collection of Harriet and Seymour Koenig accounted for over $250,000 of the $1.3 million total. Prices reported include a 20-percent buyers premium.
The prices today prove just how great an eye Harriet and Seymour had when assembling this beautiful collection, said Danica Farnand, Cowans director of American Indian and Western Art. Bidders could feel the passion and love of the region exuding from every piece.
The top lot from the collection was a late 19th-century Zuni polychrome olla that sold for $33,210. A large form, having a concave base, sharp shoulders, and slightly flared rim, the olla was painted boldly with stylized rainbirds, birds with flowers in their beaks, and finely crosshatched winged elements.
Other highlights from the collection included a Nampeyo of Hano (Hopi, 1859-1942) attributed, pictorial pottery jar, which sold for $18,000; a Navajo Germantown weaving for $15,600; a Navajo Teec Nos Pos room-size weaving for $10,200; an Acoma four-color polychrome jar for $10,200; a Chilcotin imbricated pictorial basket for $7,200; and a Cochiti figure for $6,600.
The top lot of the day was a massive grizzly bear claw necklace that sold for $60,000. Made up of 31 honey-colored grizzly claws of graduating size strung together on a hide thong, the necklace measured 18.75 inches from end to end. Included with the lot was a half-length oil portrait miniature of Thomas Willard Hough (1807-96), the original collector of the piece, housed in a half plate pressed leather case, ca. 1842-43.
It was a good day for beadwork, with an Assiniboine beaded hide shirt taking the top honor in the category, selling for $39,000. Thread and sinew-sewn, the softly-tanned hide shirt featured beaded strips along arms, chest, and bib using the colors of light blue, red white-heart, cobalt, greasy yellow, pumpkin white, and cut brass. Adding to the allure, the shirt had descended directly from a chief of the Assiniboine tribe in Harlem, Mont.
Other highlights from the beadwork category included a Blackfeet beaded hide knife sheath with Jukes Coulson dag knife, which sold for $24,000; a Sioux beaded hide dress for $9,600; Sioux beaded hide saddle bags for $7,800; Ute beaded hide saddle blankets for $7,800; a Sioux child's full-size beaded hide pictorial cradle for $7,200; and a pair of Mescalero Apache beaded and painted hide moccasins for $7,200.
While the stars of the pottery category came from the Koenig collection, the enthusiasm for the medium was contagious. A Tammy Garcia (Santa Clara, b. 1969) blackware pottery seed jar from the collection of William H. Saunders, M.D., and Putzi Saunders was the top lot in the category outside of the Koenig collection, selling for $10,455. Other standouts included a Grace Medicine Flower (Santa Clara, b. 1938) polychrome pottery jar that sold for $7,200; a Nancy Youngblood (Santa Clara, b. 1955) carved blackware pottery jar for $5,700; and a Tammy Garcia (Santa Clara, b. 1969) carved redware pottery jar for $5,700.
Katsinas and pottery figures also fared well during the auction. The top lot in the category was an early 20th century Zuni Shalako katsina, which sold for $9,600. Other notable lots included a Hopi Hemis katsina from the second quarter of the 20th century that sold for $6,600; a Wilson Tawaquaptewa (Hopi, 1871-1960) katsina doll for $6,600; and a Wilmer Kaye (Hopi, b. 1952) katsina sculpture for $6,000.
Other highlights from the auction included a Henry Farny (American, 1847-1916) gouache titled In Luck, which sold for $26,400; a Chumash polychrome basket for $20,400; a Helene Nez (Dine, 20th century) Navajo multi-award-winning sandpainting weaving for $15,600; an Alfie Collinson (Haida, b. 1951) argillite lidded box titled Transformation, Man Into Killer Whale for $13,200; a J. Wilson (American, 19th century) attributed, engraved pipe tomahawk from the collection of William H. Jensen (ca. 1887-1979) for $12,000; a Charles Loloma (Hopi, 1921-99) 14-carat gold and turquoise ring for $11,400; and a Kutenai buffalo hide painted two-sided fringed parfleche case for $9,840.
This auction held in Cowans Cincinnati, Ohio, salesroom had 704 bidders, a record for an American Indian and Western Art sale at Cowans.
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Antonio Brown is the Best Route Runner in the NFL—Here's What You Can Learn From Him
STACK examines Antonio Brown's route-running, one set of skills that make him the best wide receiver in the NFL.
Antonio Brown is the best receiver in the NFL. This is not up for debate. Since his breakout season in 2013, he has thoroughly dominated the leagueâand he keeps getting better. Brown isn't the biggest guy (he's listed at 5-foot-10, 181 pounds), but his other attributes more than make up for any lack of size. One thing in particular that makes him a defensive back's nightmare? His elite route-running ability.
Route running is an art form, a chaotic cat-and-mouse game in which a single well-placed step can be the difference between suffocating coverage or getting wide open. Thanks to years of honing his craft, Brown knows all the little tricks that are the key to successful route running. Watching him play can give young players great tips on what makes a good route, so let's dive in and check out some of Brown's skills.
Antonio Brown is the best receiver in the NFL. This is not up for debate. Since his breakout season in 2013, he has thoroughly dominated the league—and he keeps getting better. Brown isn't the biggest guy (he's listed at 5-foot-10, 181 pounds), but his other attributes more than make up for any lack of size. One thing in particular that makes him a defensive back's nightmare? His elite route-running ability.
1. Brown's Out Route
It looks like Brown is running a simple Out route here. On paper, it has him running 3 to 5 yards straight downfield before cutting at a 90-degree angle toward the sideline. But good route running almost never looks exactly like the lines in the playbook.
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Watch how the defender moves over Brown's outside shoulder right before the snap. This affects how Brown decides to attack him at the line of scrimmage. Brown knows that if he releases inside and tries to run his route, the defender will be underneath him when he cuts toward the sideline, taking away the throwing lane.
So Brown decides to attack the defender's outside shoulder. Notice how he uses a basic "dip and rip" move to fight through contact. Once he gets that outside release, he pushes hard downfield and leans into the defender, forcing him to backpedal in an attempt to stay in front of Brown. As soon as he reaches his landmark, Brown sticks his inside foot in the ground and cuts sharply toward the sideline. The defender tries to react, but since he is now firmly on Brown's inside shoulder, he really has no chance.
The Takeaway: Think about the route you're planning to run and how the defender's initial position can affect it. It's all about having a plan. Brown knew that an inside release would make it tough for him to get open on this particular route, so he went for an outside release and was physical enough with his hands and body to make it work.
2. Brown's Streak Route
Brown is facing press coverage and running a Streak route. It looks like the defender is either head-up or slightly inside of him. This leads Brown to conclude that he should take an outside release, which he does.
Brown first steps inside with his right leg, causing the defender to freeze before he bursts outside. Brown again uses his hands to cut through contact and get the defender off him. Notice the way Brown refuses to get pushed toward the sideline. Once he has a step on the defender, he works to get on top of him. This is known as "stacking" the defender. It not only makes it more difficult for the defender to make a play on the ball, it also gives the receiver room on either side to make a catch. Brown easily burns the cornerback before the safety comes over to provide help. The safety commits too early, allowing Brown to make the catch even though the pass from QB Ben Roethlisberger is underthrown.
The Takeaway: Stacking the defender is a great way to get into good position on a vertical route. It prevents the defender from staying on either your inside or outside hip and allows you to use your body to shield him. Even if you're running a corner or post route, stacking the defender before you make your cut makes it much more difficult for him to stay with you.
3. Brown's Curl Route
It looks like this is a basic 12-yard Curl route. Brown does nothing dramatic, but the little things he does make a big difference. When he lines up, he notices that the cornerback (No. 28, Greg Toler) is slightly outside of him. If Brown runs straight downfield, the defender will easily stay on his hip.
So instead of running straight downfield, Brown runs right at Toler. This is known as "stemming"—you run the initial part of your route in a certain direction to make the defender move that way. Toler widens slightly and then slows his feet until he sees which way Brown will cut. Look how close Brown gets to Toler before he cuts. This technique is sometimes known as "stepping on the defender's toes"—you run right at him to freeze him before you make a last-second cut. You get so close, you nearly step on his toes.
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When Brown cuts inside, notice how he uses his hands to perform a club and swim move. This prevents Toler from getting his hands on him and slowing him down. Now Brown has a step on Toler, which makes his next move especially effective. Brown suddenly sticks his foot into the ground and comes back toward the football, while Toler's momentum forces him to drift downfield and away from the play.
The Takeaway: Stemming is a huge part of good route running. By slightly angling the initial part of your route in one direction or another, you force the defender to react that way before you cut in the other direction. "Stepping on the defender's toes" is another great technique to use on various routes. It forces the defender to stay in front of you and wait on you to make a move. The key is to use your hands to fight through contact, as Brown did here with his swim move.
4. Brown's Corner Route
It's tough to say exactly what this route is, but it looks like either a Corner route or a Slant-Corner route. It probably has a different name in the Steelers' playbook, but that's not important here. What is important is the way Brown uses both his eyes and his pace to get open.
First things first. Brown takes an inside release because he notices the corner over him (No. 20, Kenneth Acker) is on his outside shoulder. Since Brown knows the initial portion of his route requires him to run inside, he takes an easy inside release. Once Brown approaches the goal line, things get interesting.
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Brown begins to slow down and turns his eyes toward the QB—movements you would expect from a receiver who's about to receive a pass. This freezes both defenders before Brown suddenly bursts toward the corner of the end zone. A good pass makes for an easy touchdown. Acker actually had the right idea at first, as he seemed to be dropping back toward the corner of the end zone. However, once he sees Brown slow down and look back toward the QB, he quickly stops dropping and tries to react. By the time his reaction step hits the ground, Brown is on his way to the back corner of the end zone, and Acker is burnt toast.
The Takeaway: Not every single portion of every single route has to be run at 100 percent full speed. Changing your pace at the right time can toy with defenders and help you get open. Your eyes are another tool—defensive backs normally look at the receiver rather than the QB. If you look back toward the QB, the defender will assume that you're expecting the ball.
5. Brown's In Route
When your routes are this nice, even Joe Haden can't keep up with you. The play starts with Haden in press coverage directly over Brown. Brown uses a quick fake to get an inside release. He then begins running straight downfield, but notice how he sort of leans into Haden as he runs. This is intentional.
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One, it ensures he can run the route vertically and not let Haden push him off course. Two, It allows him to perform a mini push-off when he cuts inside. It's not enough to warrant a penalty, but you can clearly see Brown extend his right arm to get Haden off him. Another reason for Brown's success is the sharpness of his cuts. Many receivers fade upfield when they cut in, rounding off the route and giving defensive backs an area to intercept the pass. Watch how Haden's momentum carries him back as he tries to cut in to follow Brown. That's similar to the issue many receivers encounter.
The Takeaway: Don't be afraid to use your hands at the top of a route. Offensive pass interference is obviously illegal, but you're allowed to remove a defender's hands from your body. Also, making a sharp, flat cut on any type of In or Dig route is crucial. It should almost feel like you're running back toward the line of scrimmage. It takes a lot of practice, but it pays off.
6. Brown's Improvisation
A major part of football is improvisation. Things often don't go according to plan, and the ability to think on your feet and make a play is important. It looks like Brown was initially going to run a Corner route here. But Roethlisberger gets flushed out of the pocket and has to scramble.
As soon as Brown sees this, he adjusts the course of his route to give his QB an area to throw to. When he puts his hand up, you can see that he's expecting the ball on the Corner route. But an instant later, he notices there's no way his QB can make that throw under the circumstances. So he sticks his foot in the ground and cuts to an area where his QB can find him.
The Takeaway: When your QB is in trouble, you've got to improvise. You can't keep running your route like you would if he had a perfect pocket. The basic rule is that if you see your QB scrambling right, bend your route to the right. If you see him scrambling left, bend your route left. The worst thing you can do is just stand there and watch your QB run for his life (unless you're wide open, of course).
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No Spec? No Problem: Testing When Nothing’s Written Down
Written in collaboration with Efrat Wurzel
Got a new product to test, and the most documentation anyone can provide is an e-mail saying “wouldn’t it be cool if we got drunk and then wrote some code”? Don’t worry – testing without a spec is not quite the disaster you were expecting. Using some exploratory testing techniques and some stubbornness, you can reach excellent coverage of any product – and you might manage to have some fun with it.
Understanding the Context
Start by figuring out what the product does, and what it was intended to do. In a product without a spec, the difference between the intention and the implementation can be staggering. Use your common sense to understand the goal of the product (although, really, someone should be able to explain at least this much), and how it tries to achieve that goal.
Next, explore the product in very general terms. Figure out the work-flows and the main options. You don’t have to get bugged down in details yet.
Now research the field your product is in (photo editing, games, word processing, e-commerce, etc) and make a note of things you expect to see in the product. Certain basic concepts and actions are bound to be relevant. Explore other products in the field and see what expectations users might have developed.
Exploring the Product
At this stage you have two goals: to discover how the product works, and to start planning testing. A bonus of this stage is that it will reveal a lot of bugs. A very large lot of bugs.
To achieve your goals you need to answer a lot of questions; any question that comes to mind. Don’t assume a question is too big or too small for this stage.
Before you start, you probably want to sort the product into sections, to help you organize your exploration. Pick whichever division you’re most comfortable with – by window, entity, work-flow or anything else. It’s up to you, and it’s important that you’re comfortable with your sorting method and can always tell where you are within it.
Your own Q&A
Some questions you can ask yourself about your product (this is by no means an exhaustive list):
Beyond the basic work-flow:
1. Who are the main entities in the product? What are their characteristics? Which of those characteristics is mandatory?
2. What can generate an error, and how are errors handled? How are they communicated to the users? Do you have access to logs?
3. Are the work-flows one-way or can the user undo? How many actions can be undone? Which actions can never be undone?
4. Are there multiple input and output types? Are there limitations on inputs and outputs?
5. How do you handle missing information? How do you handle corrupt files or failed processes?
1. Does the product require an internet connection? How do you connect to the internet (Ethernet, 3G, WiFi)? What’s your network usage, and does it match what commonly used networks can support? How do you handle moving from one connection method to the next? How do you handle losing all connectivity?
2. How many servers do you use? Is there load-balancing? What services are on the server? What functionality is done on the servers, and what is done by the clients?
3. What’s in the post and what’s in the get? Do you use cookies? How long does a cookie live, and is it updated? What do you do if cookies are disabled?
1. Do you accept payments? Which methods? Do you handle the payments, or do you direct the user to an embedded third-party payment processing section? What information do you store? What are the different states of services or goods that require payment?
2. Does the product have different states to maintain? Are they maintained in the database, or the session, or a cookie?
3. Are there configurations? Which can the user change, and which can only an administrator change? Which are only available in a configuration XML? Do you support exporting and importing configurations, or directly copying them?
4. Can users upload files? How? How can they view them? Can they edit or delete them? Which file types do you accept? Are there size limits? Can they download files?
1. Is there a database? What are the tables and columns? What are the indexes? What’s the rational behind these decisions?
2. Do you connect to third-party APIs? Do you offer an API to others? Do you use your own API? How do you query the APIs, how do they return information?
3. What’s done to information when it’s sent to the database, and what’s done when it’s sent back from the database? What manipulations on displayed information can users do? What’s editable, what can be entered by the user but never be edited, and what is system-generated?
4. How do you query the database? Are there stored procedures? How are results returned? Are there jobs that run only once a day, or once a week?
5. Are there XMLs? How many, and what’s the rational behind the number?
1. What forms are available? Can users contact you? Can they contact each other? Can they send requests? How are forms validated?
2. Which languages do you support? Do you support right to left languages? Do you support languages with multiple input methods (like Japanese)?
4. Which input and interaction methods can be used (mouse, keyboard, voice, touch-screen)? Was the product built to support accessibility? Power-users?
10. If it’s a mobile application, does it use the GPS? The gyro? Does it have landscape and portrait modes? What does it do if the GPS is turned off, if the device doesn’t have a gyro, if landscape mode is locked etc?
1. How do users register? How many types of users are there? Can you suspend users? Can you delete them? Can they delete themselves? What do you do with their information?
2. Are there functions that are only available to logged in users?
3. How long does a log-in live? How are sessions identified, and how are they closed?
4. How much of a user’s history do you display? What can the user do with it?
5. Can users see each other’s information? How can users hide information?
Where and how does it run?
1. Where (other than where you’ve been working) can your product run? Windows, Linux, Mac, Android or iOS? If it’s browser-based, which browsers? Are there version limits? How does the product adjust to different operating systems or browsers?
2. How is the product installed? If it’s for mobile devices, which permissions does it require and what does it do with them? Are there dependencies? How are installations errors caught and displayed to the users?
3. What’s an acceptable memory usage? CPU usage? Is there a limit on how much storage you can use? What do you do when you run out of space?
4. What hardware do you need? Speakers, web cameras, microphones or special monitors?
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World Cup 2019: Vijay Shankar ruled out; Mayank Agarwal's inclusion can put pressure on KL Rahul
Mysterious are the ways of this Indian cricket team. Vijay Shankar was yesterday ruled out of the World Cup and Mayank Agarwal was called up as his replacement.
According to the BCCI, Vijay sustained "a non- displaced fracture of the left big toe which needs a minimum of three weeks to heal after his condition worsened
"a non- displaced fracture of the left big toe which needs a minimum of three weeks to heal after his condition worsened following the June 27 Match v West Indies."
Vijay gets Toed away: Mayank Agarwal will replace injured Vijay Shankar
BIRMINGHAM: A day after he sat out the match against England, India all-rounder Vijay Shankar was on Monday ruled out of the World Cup with a fractured left big toe....
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Toe injury rules Vijay Shankar out, Mayank Agarwal to replace him
Vijay Shankar, the Indian all-rounder, was on Monday ruled out of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 because of a toe injury and is likely to be replaced by Mayank...
World Cup 2019: ICC approves Mayank Agarwal as replacement for injured Vijay Shankar
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have officially announced Mayank Agarwal as the official replacement of Vijay Shankar who...
Cricket World Cup 2019: Mayank Agarwal replaces injured Vijay Shankar in Indian squad
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday approved BCCI’s request to call up Mayank Agarwal as a replacement for injured Indian allrounder Vijay Shankar in the ICC...
Cricket Country 2019-07-01
2019 World Cup: ICC confirms Mayank Agarwal as replacement for Vijay Shankar
Indian all-rounder Vijay Shankar was on Monday ruled out of the ongoing World Cup due to a toe injury and will be replaced by batsman Mayank Agarwal, who is yet to make his ODI debut. Shankar is the second Indian player to be ruled out of the tournament after senior opener Shikhar Dhawan exited due to a thumb fracture, sustained in the game against Australia. Rishabh Pant had...
Shankar out injured; Mayank named replacement
The toe-crusher from Jasprit Bumrah during one of the practice sessions on June 19 in Southampton has cut short Vijay Shankar’s World Cup campaign, with the all-rounder being ruled out of the remainder of the event. Karnataka opener Mayank Agarwal has been summoned to replace the injured player. The all-rounder, who had recovered from the injury to play two matches after K L...
Mayank Agarwal to replace Vijay Shankar in Indian squad
India all-rounder Vijay Shankar has been ruled out of the rest of the 2019 World Cup, with Mayank Agarwal announced on Monday as his replacement in the 15-man squad. "Vijay Shankar sustained a non-displaced fracture of the left big toe, which will require a minimum of three weeks to heal. The injury rules him out of the ongoing World Cup," said a statement from the Board of...
Mayank Agarwal replaces injured Vijay Shankar in India World Cup squad
BIRMINGHAM – India all-rounder Vijay Shankar has been ruled out of the rest of the World Cup, with Mayank Agarwal announced on Monday as his replacement in the 15-man squad. "Vijay Shankar sustained a non-displaced fracture of the left big toe, which will require a minimum of three weeks to heal. The injury rules him out of the ongoing World Cup," said a statement from the...
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World Cup 2019: This is why Mayank Agarwal is the perfect Vijay Shankar replacement for ...
Young wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant and veteran batsman Ambati Rayudu were named among the standbys for India's World Cup squad. Rayudu - who was called India's first-choice No.4 by captain Virat Kohli - was not been selected and in his place, Vijay Shankar was taken. With the selection not going down well by the batsman, he indirectly took a dig mentioning about ordering the 3D...
DNA India
Vijay Shankar out of World Cup Mayank Agarwal set to join team
Karnataka opener Agarwal, 28, who made his Test debut against Australia last year, has not yet played in the ODI format. "Vijay got hit on the toe by a Jasprit Bumrah delivery once again. His situation is not great and he won't be able to take part in the tournament. He is going back home," a senior BCCI official told PTI. "The Indian team management is likely to ask...
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Australia’s Prince of crooning and love ballads, Harrison Craig, returns in 2019 to embark on a national tour honouring the emotional, intimate and soulful love songs of the great, Sir Elton John. After an extensive tour that saw Harrison perform an impressive 54 shows in 2017/2018 supporting his Kings of Vegas album, Harrison has never been more ready to belt out the love songs that were made famous by Sir Elton John and that are featured in the soon to be released musical drama motion picture based on the life of Elton, titled ‘Rocket Man’.
This show will be a delicately curated set of Elton John’s love ballads the likes of “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”, “Circle Of Life”, “Candle In The Wind”, “Sacrifice” and of course the title track, “Rocketman”, all performed with Harrison Craig’s trademark rich vocal tones and accompanied by piano.
Add to this a selection of Harrison’s own hits as well as showcasing his brand new original song that will be released later this year titled “Even If You Say So”.Harrison Craig made his mark as he was crowned The Voice of Australia winning Channel 9’s “The Voice” in 2013 and since then Harrison has been a force to be reckoned with. He has achieved a #1 ARIA and platinum selling album with 2013’s “More Than A Dream” which spawned a sell-out national tour, followed by the release of his #5 ARIA Album with 2014’s “L.O.V.E” which remained in the ARIA Top 10 for six consecutive weeks. In 2016, Harrison indulged in his passion for the gentlemen who at one time or another performed on the glitzy strip of Las Vegas – the likes of Frank Sinatra Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley… to name a few, to inspire his third album “Kings Of Vegas” which also topped the ARIA Album chart.
As an artist, Harrison has had the unique experience of working with the likes of Seal, David Foster, Baz Luhrmann, Diane Warren, Barry Gibb (The Bee Gees) and Australia’s own Olivia Newton-John.
Harrison’s passion for creating a legacy doesn’t stop having written and released his first Children’s Book titled ‘Harrison’s Song’ in 2018 citing that no matter what your vice or hurdle is, you can overcome that. ‘Harrison’s Song’ is now part of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – the early literacy initiative bringing free books and education resources to children in disadvantaged communities. So far more than 3500 copies have been sent to Australian families as a means of building vital early literacy skills and ensuring more children can start school ready to learn.
As a United Way Australia Early Learning Ambassador, for which he has represented since 2017, Harrison recently returned from a global philanthropic summit where he performed for the likes of Dr Ban-Ki Moon (8th Secretary-General of the United Nations), along with leaders from governments, the private sector and civil society, who came together in a bid to inspire greater collaboration between public, private and third sectors in creating sustainable global change.
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THE GTBANK FOOD AND DRINK FAIR: TWO DAYS, ONE ESSENCE
GTBank has become a nursery bed for stories and memorable experiences for, while the Fair was ending, several other stories could surely be beginning. Stories of inspiration: New businesses would emerge in the coming days, inspired by the GTBank Food and Drink Fair; already existing businesses would dream new dreams, aim for new heights, new vistas, and gain renewed passion.
On Sunday, the 30th of April, 2017, the much talked about GTBank Food and Drink Fair began. As the sun began to warm the venue, gently, no one was yet certain about what to expect. Guests streamed in, vendors called out, the comperes kept the place alive over the speakers… While all that was going on, the first Masterclass by Chef Abiola Akanji (aka Chef Stone) went underway. By the time the tall, slender chef was done with the preparation and presentation of his Salmon Wellington, his students emerged from the classroom to a different event. The hitherto mellow venue had transformed into a gigantic food carnival. The crowd had become so huge that movement was tough. The DJ, at the peak of his powers, had vendors dancing while they sold. There was palpable joy, and you could see that this was beyond everyone’s expectations. First credit: In spite of the mammoth crowd, the atrium was comfortably cool.
At the outdoor exhibition area, well, the Sun came to the Fair. It was sweltering. The Farmers’ Market area had beautifully thatched sheds, and the grill areas too – enough places for people to take shelter, but many found no logic in evading the sun that was, and still is, Nature’s biggest gift. Under it they lay, their backs against the fine synthetic grass, sun shades covering their eyes… and they savoured the moment.
Guests were milling gleefully about, dazed by the sheer amount and variety of food on offer. From goat rotisseries, to barbecues, grilled seafood, sandwiches, rolls, steak… Inside the atrium there were all shades and flavours of ice creams, smoothies, waffles, muffins, pastries, coffee, milkshakes, baby food, on and on. Trust Nigerians to appreciate the foreign, but know that they looove the indigenous. The longest queues led to where akara and koko were sold; amala, ewedu, gbegeri; ewa agoin, boli and fish, pounded, roasted, fried yam; cocoyam, snailwarmer, gizzard, name them. As Masterclass after Masterclass was packed full, you felt the sacrifice people were making to leave all this food for a while to go sit through hours of lectures. The classes had to be worth it, and boy were they! Up until the point when Chef Brian Malarkey came to shift the focus from cooking to starting and running successful restaurants, students had been mesmerized by spellbinding cuisines and their preparation methods from Chef Stone, Chef Jehan Powell from the Caribbean, and Chef Lerato Umah-Shaylor. The reward for attention and active participation in the classes was a chance to taste the food that was made, and that pact kept the class awake and lively. For Chef Malarkey’s class, not just a chance to taste was on offer, he handed out a couple of his very voluminous cookbooks too. Then came Chef Tolu Eros to seal the day with a delicious culinary wand.
For each day, the Fair was billed to start at 10am and close at 8pm. As the curtain fell on Day One, you sensed that people had no qualms trooping out of the premises, thoroughly satisfied. The reason for such eager obedience wasn’t immediately decipherable, but it wasn’t farfetched either. As the organizers would learn, tomorrow was another day; whatever missed opportunities, whatever unexplored menus… tomorrow was there to look forward to.
Monday dawned with uncommon audacity. In complete contrast to the day gone by, one of Lagos’ heaviest rains in recent times took over the morning. It was as if the rain was jealous of all the fun the Sun had a day earlier. Day Two, the rain came, and it did so pretty early. The argument for who the better cosmic guest was can go either way, but Monday set out to be equally unique. When the rain had subsided to showers, people’s patience to wait for it ran out; they came thronging again. And under a very clement weather, Day Two proceeded.
The Italy-trained Chef Benedict Okuzu’s Masterclass came first. In the front row of his class were Europeans who concurred with his every move as he made his signature four-course Italian meal over remarkably high heat. When the time to taste came, people’s eyes were closing as their mouths were opening; the aroma was apparently disarming, and the taste put participants in a state of inertia. Such was the taste.
Chef Nkesi Enyioha followed, with kitchen instincts that formed in Port Harcourt, and have been molded and refined by Nigerian gastronomic desires.
Chef after chef, the thrill heightened. Chef Rafael Duntoye, a returning Masterclass anchor, didn’t just retain his kitchen appeal from last year’s event, it was amplified. By the time he was done, he had accumulated much more fans, and much more young people jostling to be his protégés.
All the while, the children were ensconced in their own arena, having their own Masterclasses mixed with a big dose of fun and games. Every now and then adults disappeared into those quarters to enjoy the beauty of happy children working, learning and playing.
Back on the big stage, the Food and Fitness enthusiast and chef, Kevin Curry, was up next. The Texan confessed to being awestruck by the level of energy in the room. Surprised and impressed, he had as much fun as his heart could hold – even taking a selfie with the over 300 students in his class.
The last Masterclass was by Chef Ronke Edoho. Her down-to-earth presentation brought the room to a deafening silence as she made some piercing quips. The most solemn of them all was when she asked, “Do you know how blessed you are, to be able to just stretch your hand and pluck a sweet mango?” She explained that in some developed countries children may not practically know that mangoes come from trees out in the fields, not the mall. It made everyone pause and think for a while. Chef Ronke said that her food craft was formed around the incompatibility of her love for food and love for a flat tummy at the same time. That conundrum led her to the discovery that, love for food isn’t necessarily farewell to a fit body. Much like Kevin Curry, she urged that one can eat great, and still eat healthy.
8pm had come, had passed, but the fun was nowhere near abating. It was the last night – for this year, at least – and people were simply unwilling to let it go. A general feeling of nostalgia rent the air, but it was intruded upon by the DJ’s relentlessness. Nigerian music became the food of the night as speakers blared from every corner of the vast GT Center. About three shawarmas left, thirty people on the queue. Seven smoothies left, twenty nine people waiting to buy, on and on. Vendors sold out; mission accomplished. But GTBank has become a nursery bed for stories and memorable experiences for, while the Fair was ending, several other stories could surely be beginning. Stories of inspiration: New businesses would emerge in the coming days, inspired by the GTBank Food and Drink Fair; already existing businesses would dream new dreams, aim for new heights, new vistas, and gain renewed passion; and as beautiful people we lured out by food and drink to this sprawling carnival, who knows, budding love stories anyone?
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Adele Opens the 2017 Grammy Awards With A Powerful ‘Hello’
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Adele opened the 2017 Grammy Awards with a powerful performance of her hit 2015 single "Hello," which you can check out below.
The 19 singer won two awards before the ceremony took place, walking away with Best Pop Vocal Album for her 2015 release 25 and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Hello."
Hosted by James Corden, the 59th annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 12, broadcast live on CBS. The 2017 Grammy Awards nominees were announced on December 6, with a tribute performance to Prince.
Our 2017 Grammys host Aja Dang is on the red carpet for us this year: keep up with everything happening live on Facebook, follow us on Twitter at @PopCrush and join the conversation on social media using #GrammysPC!
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Source: Adele Opens the 2017 Grammy Awards With A Powerful ‘Hello’
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The map of white people
Fri Apr 11th 2014 by abagond
The map of white people was not on the Internet, so I made one. Conversely, it is a map of people of colour.
The map (click on it to enlarge) uses four colours:
dark blue: 75% to 100% white
medium blue: 50% to 75% white
light blue: 25% to 50% white
grey: 0% to 25% white
majority POC: grey and light blue
majority white: medium and dark blue
multiracial: light and medium blue
But who is white? For this map two kinds of people are:
Those who self-identify as white, like in a census.
Those who belong to an ethnic group that is historically Christian or Jewish, with roots in West Eurasia.
That means white Hispanics, Armenians and Lebanese Christians are in, most Africans and Muslims, even Albanians, are out.
In the case of self-identification, note that someone who is considered white in one country might not be considered white in another.
I tried different definitions. This one is clean, easy to use and a good, general approximation.
Notes on each region:
North America: While the rest of the map is based on data from 2006 to 2011, Mexico is based on the last census that asked about race: in 1921! For the US, Hispanics who identify as white are counted as white. Doing otherwise led to paradoxes outside the US. Notice that Canada is not as lily-white as many imagine.
South America: Argentina, the pope’s home country, is extremely white. Its most “diverse” province, Chubut, is close to 90% white.
Most whites in South America, like in North America, live outside the tropics, which run from Havana to Rio. Worldwide most whites live in the temperate zone, 23.5 to 66.5 degrees from the equator:
Europe, North Africa and West Asia: Albania and Kosovo are mostly Muslim so they do not count as white, even though they are in Europe. I did not use “Europe” or “European” in my definition of white because then I would have to define Europe too! Not a battle I wanted or needed to fight.
Siberia: The people in the dark blue region are mainly ethnic Russians. Russia and Kazakhstan keep very good records on ethnicity.
The rest of Africa: The surprise here is South Africa. I thought at least the Cape would be light blue. Whites are less than 25% in every single province. The way they complained you would think they were like a third of the country. It is galling to see this.
The rest of Asia: The dark blue at the top is the tail end of Russia.
Oceania: The North Island of New Zealand is more multiracial than Australia, mostly because of the Maori.
Because Australia, Siberia, Canada and Argentina are large but thinly settled, the map makes it seem like there are more white people than there are.
To correct that, let’s scale each region according to its total population and put the map back together:
Notice that whites are not the main part of the world, but only a sixth of it.
Sources: Mainly the English and Russian Wikipedias (2014), the census of Argentina (2010) and New Zealand (2006) and the graphic that inspired this post (2011).
The map of Black people
Black Canada: a brief history
Peters projection
demographically weighted history
Geographical terms:
guns, germs and steel
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 03:24:22 Atillah_kasimeyoglu
This is awesome. I really appreciated the time it took to make this.
I see one glaring problem:
You wrote that you couldn’t count Albanians as white because they were Muslim. This doesn’t make any sense.
There are plenty of white Muslims!
Albanians are of Illyrian background, pre-Indo-European. Bosnians, Chechens, and even some Turks are pretty white looking people. Just curious why you’d erroneously link religion to race.
Otherwise, enjoyable piece.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 03:53:59 qweerdo
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. So dang informative, especially the part where you put everything to scale at the end.
Notice that Canada is not as lily-white as many imagine.
Who on earth imagines that? I suppose the same people who thought “American” meant “white”?
Also, I noticed that quite a few people in Argentina were likely mestizo, but identified as “white”. In any case, Buenos Aires looked a lot more white and European to me than any large city I have ever been to in North America.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 05:17:42 Brothawolf
Fascinating.
As a side note, I suspect the reason why most people thought Canada was “lily-white” is due to media images. Most of time. white Canadians are in front of the camera, not much of anyone else.
Costa Rica is an interesting exception – the only country in the tropical zone that is majority white. But of course, so is Northern Australia.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 08:12:54 Kiwi
It’s interesting to see how Israel is basically a white settler colony. But then again, so is America. Pretty much every “white” country outside Europe is a product of racism and imperialism. Even Russia, a non-Western “white” country, has colonized land all the way across Asia.
In 1900, Europe alone made up 25% of the world population, and Europe was nearly all white. It was during the age of New Imperialism, when Europe’s population was bursting at the seams, that you saw white people flooding into white colonies like the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and basically any place outside Europe that had weather similar to back home. Whites felt entitled to take over nonwhite-inhabited lands and swamped those lands with their numbers. And now whites are turning around and complaining that nonwhites are infesting “their” land, most of which was taken from nonwhites, anyway.
You categorized Mother Teresa as white. Are Albanians white simply because they’re Christian or nonwhite simply because they’re Muslim? I’ve known a handful of Muslims who were definitely white by American standards. Their own white acquaintances were often extremely surprised to learn that their fellow white compatriots practiced “the enemy’s” religion.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 09:04:08 Teodor Constantin B
Very weird definition of white. How can you link race to religion? Have you seen albanians? They are white as shit, just like bosniak and lots of Chechen, blond hair with often blue eyes.
Here’s a picture of’em. they are very white. they are whiter than Greeks and Romanians who have a majority of dark hair, darker skin than these guys and I’ve seen algerians who could be taken for white or european. If I go to France or England, there is a big possibility of being called gypsy thieves (as it happened), but these people, especially Bosnian and Albanians are taken for white. Also I have met really dark skin Lebanese christian. This white thing I think it refers to Westerners, that is Anglo Saxon, Scandinavian, Finnish, french, Spanish (Catalan) because easterners and westerners look really different at least for me. and of course the ashkenazi in Israel, the very light skin, blue eyes type are not really jewish by blood.
A question.
Would there even be a map of “white” people, or diverse racial classifications if Africans were not forcibly removed from their native lands, tied up in chains and made to produce free labor elsewhere in many parts of the western world??
If Africans are no longer being made to work for free by “whites,” why on Earth are they (especially in the USA) still categorizing themselves as “white?”
Last question.
What real purpose does being “white” serve in today’s current world?
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 09:51:19 Kartoffel
That Map also highlights that white settler colonies only “worked” outside of the “old world” (except for Israel). The attemps to populate South Africa, Namibia and Algeria with white people failed.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 11:52:39 lifelearner
This map is great! Definitely points out their narcissism. South Africa has little representation and yet they own most everything regarding political/economic power-SMH
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 12:26:10 Bulanik
@ Teodor Constantin B
Very weird definition of white. How can you link race to religion? Have you seen albanians? They are white as sh-t, just like bosniak and lots of Chechen, blond hair with often blue eyes.
Here’s a picture of’em. they are very white. they are whiter than Greeks and Romanians who have a majority of dark hair, darker skin than these guys and I’ve seen algerians who could be taken for white or european.
There ARE some Albanians who look like the children in your link, some Balkan people are pale and blond, but with that one, random photo, you seem to be suggesting that that appearance is “representative”of what Albanians really look like.
But it’s not really the whole picture is it? Some, or many, are very blond, true, but some are unmistakably “dark”. I am amazed you didn’t notice that, too, only their whiteness.
I wonder whether YOUR definition could be weirder than Abagond’s!
Over many, many generations, didn’t some Albanians intermarry with darker Balkan neighsbours, like Serbs, and Greeks? Or is that a fallacy?
What about the Turks in Albania?
Also, I heard that the (Ottoman) Turks had African men in their military, and African women as concubines in their homes, and this could explain why some (*cough*) supposedly “white” people in South East Europe don’t look all that white.
Take a fairly well-known person like Rita Ora, a child of Albanian parents, who is often mistaken for black or at least mixed race: http://shrani.si/f/3q/fc/RppDesI/46469.jpg
Come to think of it, I can think of a few more fairly well-known Albanians who would certainly be considered “dark”, rather than blond.
And, then you mention Chechens, who are also mostly “white as s**t … blond hair with often blue eyes…”
Well. I don’t think all ethnic Russians would agree with you at all, because some have, or had, a tendency to refer to people from the Caucasus region (and southern Russia) as “black”! That’s due to the common “dark” appearance of those people … Is thatperception also “weird”?
Perhaps they Russians perceive them as ASIAN, rather than anything else..?
Of course there are pale skin and light eye and hair colours among these different groups of people, but I have to wonder about your generalisation, because it absolutely depends on who is doing the looking.
@ Abagond: excellent maps!
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 12:53:49 v8driver
interesting point: to wit, perhaps the image of ‘white christ’ provides a rallying point like that for ‘white identity’
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 15:04:00 Da Jokah
Thanks abagond. I don’t know what whites would do if they didn’t have racist negros to tell them who is and isn’t white. Though I don’t think I can take any map seriously that omits people solely on the basis of religion. By that logic someone could change their race simply by changing their religion.
@dj you can change anything
…like social constructs, and such.
Religion is definitely a social construct, race not so much. But I’m not naive enough to think I could change your beliefs on that any more than I could change someone’s belief on creationism. When you claim race is a social construct you’re actually putting yourself in the creationist camp by denying evolution. Congratulations. You’re a religious nut even if you don’t recognize your belief as religious.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 16:19:02 Chris
Can you explain how Israel is a “white” country? It seems that this is a common misconception. The Ashkenazi Jews who founded the country are still Jews. They’re still descended from an ancient indigenous population that was exiled from Israel. They have some European admixture genetically, but so do African-Americans. They were never counted as truly white in the European imagination, yet when they return to the land where they have ancient roots, people flip the script on them and claim that they were white Europeans all along. Seems to me that the main reason that people single out Israel is the role of Ashkenazi Jews in founding the country. Had they been brown-skinned Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, the country would be seen as an organic entity with a right to exist.
Otherwise, the map is pretty interesting, and I really dug the note about Australia being sparsely populated but geographically huge, making it seem much more “white” then it is in terms of raw numbers.
I’m also curious about your reasoning on Lebanon. Is it because a good chunk of Lebanese are Christians?
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 16:33:28 King
When you claim race is a social construct you’re actually putting yourself in the creationist camp by denying evolution.
Haha! That is about as ridiculous a statement as can be offered. Classic Jokah!
^ Yes, classic derailment. Soon he will be discussing chimps and orangutans (after all, their original habitats are in different continents).
Not at all. If someone is going to deny the evolutionary basis of subspecies by calling it a “social construct” then it’s not much of a leap to deny the evolutionary basis of species by calling it a social construct as well. The difference between the two is merely a matter of degree.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 17:08:30 biff
This is interesting and thought provoking. White populations seem to be in decline in all of these places. Aside from Russia and maybe part of Eastern Europe, the primarily white areas seem to have heavy migration of non-whites.
Re: Argentina, white in BA. Not so much in the countryside, even though they might identify as white, they are not treated quite the same.
Yes Jokah, except that the preponderance of opinions do both biologists and geneticists agree that the phenotypic differences that we see within human beings are not actually different “sub species” but that there is only one categorically defined “species” of human.
Only stupid people (like part-time HBD bloggers) think that humans are divided into subspecies by evolution. NO major university on earth teaches this.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 18:25:36 eco
“The surprise here is South Africa. I thought at least the Cape would be light blue. Whites are less than 25% in every single province. The way they complained you would think they were like a third of the country. It is galling to see this.”
Congratulations! You now understand how Europeans feel about Africans and Asians in Europe.
the phenotypic differences that we see within human beings are not actually different “sub species” but that there is only one categorically defined “species” of human
Yes, the differences between human populations are clinal, not at the level of subspecies which would require actual DNA differences among all of the individuals between the two populations and no interbreeding between the populations, even though it might be possible. No such phenomenon exists in modern human populations.
ie, there is an evolutionary basis for subspecies, but this does not apply to humans. Any attempt to use subspecies arguments for humans is already specious, not to mention inducing that from differences between species.
would like to see the links to the sources that this spurious line of reasoning is being lifted from.
on Sun Apr 13th 2014 at 18:59:13 Legion
The surprise here is South Africa. I thought at least the Cape would be light blue. Whites are less than 25% in every single province. The way they complained you would think they were like a third of the country.
No, one would not necessarily think that white numbers were large. One would think whites consider themselves large in some sense. It’s common for conqueror peoples to control a much larger conquered populace. You have to smash the people you’re invading initially in whatever way you think will be most effective but after you’ve smashed them you don’t necessarily need large numbers of conquerors to keep watch over the conquered. (British in India as an example, but I think this has been common through history.)
What I’m getting at is whites controlled the economic capital during Apartheid, in that sense they were large and important, putting aside the evil of the regime for a moment. Whites are economically entrenched in S.A., they are still control a lot of capital, it would be on that basis that they would complain as though they are ‘large’ by some metric, and they are.
@ eco
I don’t know what you mean. Can you explain it.
*No, one would not necessarily think that they are a third of the country.
was what my first sentence should have been.
White is not strictly biological or genetic. There is a cultural component to it. It is not the same thing as “Caucasian”, which goes all the way to the Ganges. For example:
1. When I put Yasmeen Ghauri, 100% Caucasian, on my list of beautiful white women, commenters told me she was not “white” because her father is from Pakistan. Many adjustments later, I found I could just slip in Lebanese or Armenian women on my list, but nothing more. Kim Kardashian (Armenian American) is herself a grey case.
2. The Arab Trader argument. It implies that Arabs are not white. Arabs are the “they” of “They did it too!”, to prove that WHITES are not uniquely evil. No one has ever advanced a Portuguese or Dutch trader argument.
3. No one in the US sees, say, Ralph Nader, Christa McAuliffe or Steve Jobs as anything but white – all of Arab descent. No perpetual foreigner stereotype for them. Americanized Arabs seem to count as white, at least if they are not Muslim.
4. For years and years I have been reading in The Economist about whether Turkey is European. Cyprus is part of the EU, yet all kinds of excuses were made not to let in Turkey, a sturdy NATO ally that is in much better economic shape than, say, Greece. Or Cyprus. It seems to boil down to their being Muslim.
5. The Western prejudice against Muslims, even among scholars, is well-documented. The whole thing about Obama being a Secret Muslim takes such prejudice for granted. Muslim American civil rights are arguably in a worse state than even Black civil rights. They are racially profiled along with Black, Latino and Native Americans.
So, yeah, Muslims in the main are not “white”. They did not take part in the European Expansion. They have been the VICTIMS of Western imperialism. QUITE UNLIKE Israel.
Israeli Jews are as white as sin. It is one of the CRUEL IRONIES of the past hundred years. At Auschwitz they were NOT white. As rulers of one of the most openly racist regimes on earth, complete with US backing, they are white. They put South African whites to shame and that is damn white. The only way Americans can stomach Israel’s crimes is because they share their racism.
Huh? In what European country are only Africans or Asians allowed to vote and own most of the country’s wealth?
The whole point of “white” is to excuse Western crimes – like slavery, genocide (even now, though those things are largely in the past) and theft (of native land, ongoing inequality and imperialism). In the US it is used to blind voters to their class interests.
So your definition of white is dependent on whether or not you see the people as racists and oppressors? US backing? If you dumped a bunch of Israeli Jews in NYC, people would approach them trying to speak to them in Spanish and NOT because they were taken for Spaniards. The cruel irony is that Zionism was created as a bulwark against European racism and is now considered to be of a piece with it.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Your completly right that religion plays a huge part in the cunstruction of whiteness an europeanness. But I would differentiate between religion in general and the religion of an individual or a relativly small minority. Predominantly muslim societies are precieved as non-white, but a muslim of turkish decent in France might not. Because Albanians and Bosniaks are seen as part of the Balkan people (who in general today are regarded as European), they are also seen as European. With Arabs it’s the other way around.
It just seems that for Abagond, “white” is just a catch all for things he doesn’t like. So people of color can become “white” at the flick of a switch if there are considered to be oppressors. Its like what happened to George Zimmerman’s racial identity, only extrapolated across the entire globe.
@ Kartoffel
Predominantly muslim societies are precieved as non-white, but a muslim of turkish decent in France might not..
An example, please. And, could you explain why this is so, if it really is so.
I appreciate the point of this post, but I’m still wondering about what you said about Siberia — if you are saying the population doesn’t count (?), then neither should Alaska’s. Siberian cities have bigger populations than Alaskan ones and more than most Canadian ones.
Sam made that point, and I think that’s still true.
I should have said “non-european”, not “non-white”. An example for what, the perception of societies or individuals?
On the question why that is. I think it’s down to how we perceive “otherness” and construct our identity. Religion is certainly a very important marker to determine otherness, but it can be “overruled”. So Albania is perceived as “non-european” because of Islam, but as “european” because the whole region is now regarded as mainland Europe.
Even if that were true, reality isn’t determined by a show of hands or by an appeal to authority. But it isn’t true because no such consensus exists. In fact, surveys show that a majority of physical anthropologists acknowledge biological races.
Who should I believe — you or my lying eyes?
I think it is a matter to be looked upon for all society and not just Abagond. All too often a person who looks to be a poc is argued to be white by certain white men only if said person is a law biding citizen. Once a crime is committed is when they are deemed the other. Great example is during the Zimmerman debacle a white man proudly stated …”of course Zimmerman is not white because he got caught. ” I am sure others will see this statement as they please, but it implies to me that had he not then he would be accepted as the honorary white.
Societies and/or individuals.
I’d just like to understand what you mean from your earliest comment.
Societies: In the contemporary concept of Europe the borders of Europe are pretty much the ones between Islam and Christianity/former Christianity, with some muslim and orthodox-christian societies with undecided status.
Individual: A native German who converts to Islam is still regarded as german and european. For example we have the converted muslim radical Pierre Vogel who nationalists have called a lunatic, a traitor or terrorst. But I’ve never heard that he was called non-european or non-white.
That’s what I meant in short: A muslim society/people=not european. A muslim person=might be european.
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@kartoffel from what i’ve seen, personally? a man declaring as muslim would be that first. american christian? not so much
Your definition of white is very bizarre.
The “dark” ethnic Albanians are no darker than southern Italians, who are classified as white and colonized a bit of Africa. They’re still very western looking and have been in Europe for a very long time.
Again- I find it a bit amazing that people somehow link religion with a race. This is one of the dumbest, most ignorant ideas I’ve ever heard of. There are many white Muslims. Chechens, Bulgarian Pomaks, Bosnians, Albanians. I enjoyed this map until that fact ruined it.
My god haven’t y’all seen Malcolm X?
Remember the scene where he goes to Meccas and realizes Muslims are of all colors and changes his views on humanity completely ?
But you seem to be saying religious conversion will racialize someone.
It doesn’t work the other way either: if Muslim and renounce their faith, it will not suddenly make them Another Ethnicity that they weren’t in the first place.
Are you serious when you say the borders of Europe are now cut depending on where Christianity ends and Islam begins? As if it were so clear cut! Religion is only one cause of division in Europe.
And, whatever happened to secularism in Europe?
I was under the impression that the separation of Church and State was not a contemporary thing but went back a few hundred years…
However, what I was curious about was this:
…Predominantly muslim societies are precieved as non-{European}, but a muslim of turkish decent in France might not.
You mean compared to Arabs?
What do you mean: I am trying to understand your point.
From what I know of Turks in France, this percepton would not generally be so (beyond the French republican ideal of citzenship).
@ Atillah_kasimeyoglu
I gave no definition of “white”, and when I think about, most of the Muslims that I know you would fall over to class as “white”, even though they personally wouldn’t.
I’m quite familiar with pale and dark “whites”, even ones that have intermarried somewhat with Asians (or Africans) over generations.
@ Attilah…I just re-read what you said, and can only conclude that you did really read what I said.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 00:20:28 eco
@Legion
Sure. I think Abagond experienced a feeling a lot of Europeans know very well. It’s being irritated by non-native minority groups who don’t seem to be aware how insignificant they really are, and are responsible for an amount of whining that’s completely disproportional to their deserved role in society.
The obvious difference is that the white South Africans whined about losing power they did not deserve to have to begin with, and Africans and Asians in Europe tend to whine about not being able to gain the power and privileges they do not deserve, because of their numbers and non-native status. By “power and privileges” I mean political representation, wealth, representation in popular culture and the media, religious and cultural freedoms, etc.
Large segments of both, white South Africans and Africans and Asians in Europe, seem to think that for some reason the native population should adjust itself to them and consider the non-native voices as at least as equally important as their own when it comes to national matters.
That’s not the kind of analogy I was making. I see how my previous comment was vague, but I think I explained my point of view in this one.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 01:18:59 King
Haha! Eco are you typing that with a straight face, or is this some kind of elaborate joke?
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 03:14:49 Mady Preece
The only reason I had to post on this article as well, is to simply say:
Stop spreading your hatred of white people on the internet.
If we met in person, I am sure you would like me very much; I am extremely friendly funny and attractive (at least I think I am). I am trying to humanize myself, rather then hiding behind a computer screen. So please, do the same and have so god damn faith in humanity.
I guess I’m trolling a bit, because I know this kind of stuff is inflammatory and I intentionally used a few completely unsubtle phrases, but overall I’m serious. I genuinely think native people should be privileged over non-natives. Even over non-native citizens. It seems to me that true, perfect equality is unobtainable and of all possible solutions, that allow geographically distant cultures to coexist peacefully, favoring natives is the least of all evils.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 03:38:21 jefe
What is native people? Descendent of indigenous peoples, the people that got there first?
How do we handle a place like Hawaii? or Mauritius?
What’s more, many of the descendants of the non-native people may be so ethnically or racially complicated that they have no other place to “return” to. Where do the Cape Coloureds in S.A. or the Singaporean Eurasian call home?
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 05:46:59 Kiwi
From loads of experience, I’ve found that people who make the “Nothing is perfect!” argument (like for racial equality) don’t really care about equality at all. It’s just a lazy, rhetorical deflection tactic they use to paint any effort at civilization as tautologically futile. Why? Well, I just said. They don’t care.
I agree with eco’s argument, though, that natives should be favored over non-natives. Whites who don’t live in Europe can start by not complaining about minorities when they keep snapping up the lion’s share of success at nonwhites’ expense. And yes, I was being facetious. All of a sudden, equality starts to sound more favorable to non-European whites.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 05:58:24 gatobranco1
It is really ilogical to classify Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbians, Armenians and Georgians as “white”, while considering Chechens, Daghestanis, Azeris, Albanians, Kosovars, Bosnians, Turks(of Turkey) as “non white”. All these people and some other, as Kurds, Lebanese and also many Afghans, Iranians, Tajiks, Pamiris etc. are best considered as “darker Europoids”. In Russia they are often called “people of Caucasian appearance” and distinguished both from white Slavs as well as from Mongoloids ar Blacks. Although some of people of these nationalities may look as central Europeans.
In Russia, even some Italian, Spanish and Portuguese people very likely would be considered Caucasian, rather than White or European, especially in the street when nobody knows who they are.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 07:23:45 Legion
You’re only trolling if your insincere. You are serious about this view of yours though. Actually Eco, it’s quite an interesting view (and has quite an air of danger to it).
I genuinely think native people should be privileged over non-natives. Even over non-native citizens.
Well you can think/feel that but it’s not a sound view. Putting aside the issue of fairness, your view simply isn’t sound. It’s a recipe for immigrant criminal underclasses and a vicious circle of incarcerating the “ungrateful” immigrants, because they should be overjoyed to live in a society that locks them into 2nd class status.
I don’t believe that immigrants should be permitted to over turn the cultures of their new home countries through political power plays. Cultural change should take place organically, I think.
It seems to me that true, perfect equality is unobtainable and of all possible solutions, that allow geographically distant cultures to coexist peacefully, favoring natives is the least of all evils.
^That is a statement about protecting something. What is it you want to protect? Culture?
“Arabs” would be very difficult to classify according to race, some of them in Sudan or Mauritania, are definitely black, some as in Lebanon or Syria – most likely white, while North Africans, including Egyptians, are probably of mixed race there are plenty people there who are not white by any criteria, but some may look as Southern Europoids.
An interesting fact is that Hausa speaking black Africans call all white Europeans ‘Bature” which taken etymologically means “Turkish”.
In Russia there are some nuances related to race. A person, who has a Caucasian appearance and, let’s say, partially Georgian ancestors, but who is Russian in language, culture and upbringing, would be considered nevertheless a Slav and European, not a Caucasian by people who know him. He however could be taken as a Caucasian by strangers in the street and even hurled racial insults against him, especially in times when there are tensions between Slavic Russians and “Caucasians”, however these people if becoming aware that he is a Russian, would treat him as Russian and probably even apologize for taking him as Caucasian.
Ethnic Russians with Asiatic admixture(there are quite a few of such especially in Siberia would be mostly also considered as Slav Europeans, especially if the admixture of asiatic features is not too much.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 11:19:06 abagond
Right, Siberia has more people than Canada and way more than Alaska. I scaled the last map, though, by region, not by country or state. So Canada and Argentina got scaled with their continents. They would each be about the size of Oceania or Siberia if scaled on their own. To scale the map at the country or state level I would need one of those cartogram programs.
Oppression is hardly whites-only. I would not consider Hutus, Arabic-speaking Sudanese, Mao, Mobutu, Pol Pot, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice or Barack Obama to be “white”.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 12:21:14 Bulanik
Come now, King. 😀
You know eco behaves like that because Poland never succeeded in nabbing any colonial territories, not formally anyway. It never materialized…
(Sniff, sniff.)
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 12:42:08 Bobby M
About giving native born citizens more privileges:
While naturalized citizens should have most of the rights of the native born – they (immigrants) should have to change their culture and language to fit in with the country they move to, not the other way around.
Poor Poland 😦 Everyone deserves a colony.
Poland never aspired having colonies overseas. In 16-18, Poland, or more exactly Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth ruled vast territories in the East Europe, comprising modern Lithuania, Belarus and much of Ukraine. However in the end of 18 century weakened Poland was partitioned between three large empires – Russia, Prussia and Austria. It reemerged as souvereign state only in November 1918 only to be again partitioned by Communist Russia and Nazi Germany in 1939. In 1945 it reemerged again this time as a puppet state of the Communist Empire and finally became a truly souvereign state in 1989-1991.
Never aspired?
In the September session of 1937 of the League of Nations, didn’t Poland demand colonies? I also recollect hearing that in the same era, wasn’t there some kind of treaty signed between Liberia and Poland (which favoured Poland), and didn’t Poles try to settle there?
I’ve heard of this of a proposal called the “Colonial Theses of Poland”, which was produced by Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but have not have read it:
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=168422
They also had settlement ambitions in Brazil.
http://www.polishroots.org/Research/History/poles_latinamerica/tabid/241/Default.aspx
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 13:55:54 Brothawolf
eco said,
Here we go again. Is it me, or does it seem like whites are scrambling to find any hint of being the victim of reverse racism? Instead of self-reflections, they prefer to have the tables turned, not to learn how it feels like to be the “other”, but to condemn nonwhites.
gatobranco1, we are aware of the history. We’re just ribbing eco because he is making nonsensical statements. Two can play at that game!
Additionally, before I forget: the Senegalese who explained that part about Liberia, also said an area of Gambia was leased by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at one time, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_The_Gambia
There’s probably a lot more info out there than that…
Probably you have in mind the colonial plans of Jacob the duke of the Duchy of Couland and Semigallia(now part of Latvia), which was in 17 century a vassal state of Polish Lithuanian commonwealth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couronian_colonization
In Polish and Liothuanian history these attempt played extremely marginal role. Both Polish and Lithuanian nobles were of continental not of seafaring mentality, they were interested in the lands in East.
As for colonies in period before 1939, not only Poland ranted about colonies, but even in Lithuania, a country with just 2,5 millions of population some people had dreams about establishing a Lithuanian colony in Africa:) A professor of Kaunas university Pakštas even made a travel to Africa in order to look for places where Lithuanians could settle:) He described his impressions in the book “from Kaunas to Kapstadt”(Nuo Kauno iki Kapstadt’o). I have read this book long ago, but I remember the passage where professor described the Portuguese colonizators in Angola with deep admiration for the “civilizational work” which they have made.
Thus colonialism wa really a fashion then:)
No, not at all gatobranco1. It’s not something I “had in mind”.
As King says: we are aware of the history.
Saying “it was the times”, or colonialisation was merely a fashion in the olden days, or “extremely marginal”, is an OPINION — and changes nothing.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 15:58:16 Sharina
Bobby M
Please provide and example of where it is the other way around? Oh and nothing made up please because I am not in the mood to waddle through your imagination.
@ brothawolf
Nope. Not just you at all.
@ Legion
Well said. Though I agree with economic in that he might be trolling if his goal was to stir the pot, but seeing this is his actual view I am confused as to if it it trolling. Can it be both?
The trolling thing is questionable with Eco. I still can’t take his comments on the “white American music thread” seriously.
@jefe
“What is native people? Descendent of indigenous peoples, the people that got there first? (…)”
I’m talking about something I consider a general ideal, not a precise rule that should be enforced globally. I have no desire to tell nations, ethnic/cultural groups other than my own how they should live their lives and who they should see as one of their own.
I think of nativity the way I think of race. It’s not a real, material thing. In a lot of ways it’s a social construct. The concept of nativity does break down in many contexts. You are absolutely right about that. BUT! So does race. I’m aware of the limitations of the term “native” as much as I’m aware of the limitations of “race”. I think it’s as reasonable to talk about a land’s native people as it’s reasonable to talk about its black or white population.
@Kiwi
“I’ve found that people who make the ‘Nothing is perfect!’ argument (like for racial equality) don’t really care about equality at all. It’s just a lazy, rhetorical deflection tactic they use to paint any effort at civilization as tautologically futile. Why? Well, I just said. They don’t care.”
It’s not lazy. It’s selfish and cynical. It’s not about not wanting to do the work. It’s about recognizing that if you are a native, a member of a dominating majority, multiculturalism is not going to benefit you. Since it requires mutual compromises you can only lose because of it. So why should you want to do it?
“It’s a recipe for immigrant criminal underclasses and a vicious circle of incarcerating the ‘ungrateful’ immigrants, because they should be overjoyed to live in a society that locks them into 2nd class status. ”
True, but that’s pretty much what’s happening in the supposedly multicultural societies, isn’t it? Somebody is always getting the short end of the stick, some group always needs to be the underclass. I think it’s ultimately a choice between glass and concrete ceilings.
“That is a statement about protecting something. What is it you want to protect? Culture?”
Yeah, that’s accurate, but I’ll phrase it in a more general way – it’s about the groups’ right to self-determination.
You said that “cultural change should take place organically”, I’m taking it further – I think the initiative to change should only come from within. In the case of the native/non-native dynamic, natives are not required to do anything, not required to make any concessions. Why should they be?
Based on that principle I wouldn’t support the white South Africans’ right to vote. They have no right to tell the native people what the natives should do with their country. Unless, of course, the natives decide on their own to expand the non-natives’ rights. I apply that reasoning whenever it makes sense to speak of nativity.
“I still can’t take his comments on the ‘white American music thread’ seriously.”
😀 You mean the stuff about socially conscious rap?
@ legion excuse my typos. This auto-correct is killing me. Should be eco not economic.
on Mon Apr 14th 2014 at 23:49:00 Chris
That’s what I don’t get. If you want to make the argument that the Jews went from Auschwitz to apartheid, I can see the argument. I’m not in total agreement, but I can see your argument. I just don’t get where the white racial categorization comes in. It seems to me that your argument is that:
1. In 1943, the European Jews were subject to racist policies backed by a mighty Western war machine.
2. Today, Israelis are subjecting another people to racist policies backed by a mighty Western war machine.
But, I don’t get what the relationship is between that argument, and race, which I see as an extension of how a person looks. I mean, blacks were oppressed by the West for many years, but now the foremost Western military power is headed by a black man who has taken unprecedented liberties with regard to war powers, allowing himself the right to take out anyone, anywhere for any reason. He also authorized the NSA to scoop up enough information to make George Bush II seethe with envy. But he’s still black. Because he looks black and the USA has a one-drop rule. He didn’t become white when he attained massive institutional power.
As a side note, there is a popular French singer named Enrico Macias. The guy would certainly be considered to be a man of color in the USA. He is a Sephardic Jew who was exiled from his native Algeria upon that nation’s independence in 1962. He was never invited back to Algeria, or to any Arab country, for that matter, because he has always expressed staunch solidarity with the Jewish state over the years. This year he announced that, after having spent half a century in France, he would be moving to Israel full time and taking up citizenship there. I don’t think that at the tender age of 75, his racial identity will change based on his new citizenship.
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 00:02:13 Chris
To illustrate my point regarding Macias, here he is in 1973 singing “Hava Nagila” with Charles Aznavour, another great French chansonnier. He’s stylin’ in that purple suit! I put this comment separately, lest it get snagged in moderation. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTRS3oB4b6s)
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 00:39:33 v8driver
who is aipac going to lobby in the usa?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lucey/113th-congress-by-the-num_b_2737382.html
“Gender/Ethnicity.
• A record number 100 woman serve in the 113th Congress: 80 in the House, including 3 Delegates, and 20 in the Senate.
• 43 African Americans will serve in the House and 2 in the Senate. This House number includes 2 Delegates.
• A record number 38 Hispanic or Latino members are represented in the 113th Congress: 34 in the House, including 1 Delegate and the Resident Commissioner, and 4 in the Senate.
• 13 members (10 Representatives, 2 Delegates, and 1 Senator) are Asian American or Pacific Islanders.
• 1 American Indian (Native American) serves in the House.”
http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/aipac-outspends-other-religion-related-advocacy-groups-in-washington-d-c/
israel was granted a wide autonomy after wwii especially to expand and defend their acquisition over there, they got the dice roll, and they are going with it, man.
and to spell it out if you aren’t with me so far as the song goes, it would tend to suggest a support for a ‘judeo-christian’, american is a christian nation ‘partnership’, thank god they didn’t take out the reactor in iran
i’m still unclear on where abagond comes down on north african/arab/semitic as ‘white’ persuant to the “sub-saharan africa thread,” i guess it would fall under what i understand his preference to 3 race only theory, as previously stated; however north africa and ‘the middle east’ are grey in this picture so i am totally confused on that one.
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 04:51:17 abagond
Ideas like “race”, “white”. “black”, “savage”, etc, are largely a side effect of Western imperialism. Whiteness comes from the barrel of a gun. The idea that it comes from physical appearance and biology is a self-serving fairy tale used to make Western crimes seem inevitable, acceptable, part of the natural order of things, to make racial inequality seem “just”. I have read enough ancient Greek history to know that racism and the racist status quo are hardly “natural” or some kind of inevitable outcome, to know that it is excuse-making for those in power.
In 1943 Jews were at the “wrong” side of that gun barrel. Now they are on the other side, going above and beyond the call of duty as hired guns for the US. They have ordered their society in a racist fashion, almost like a mini US where Palestinians play the part of Blacks and Natives rolled into one. They even have the Manifest Destiny thing down: that they have a God-given right to other people’s land, people whom they dehumanize and massacre. On top of all that, Jews are accepted as white in the US.
Archaeologists will see Israel as an extension of North American society, as part of the European Expansion, Why would they not?
@ v8driver
North Africa is grey not so much because of its genetics but because I do not see most Muslims as “white”:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/the-map-of-white-people/#comment-227425
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 05:34:30 gatobranco1
[No, not at all gatobranco1. It’s not something I “had in mind”.
Saying “it was the times”, or colonialisation was merely a fashion in the olden days, or “extremely marginal”, is an OPINION — and changes nothing.]
I just wanted to say that all these attempts at “colonialism” from the side of Polish or Lithuanians or Duchy of Courland or maybe also Czechs, Hungarians or Lichtensteinians(who knows:))) are rather comedy and farce:)) 99.99% of the people in these countries knew nothing about any colonial plans:)
Perhaps the only book that the most Polish knew anything at all about Africa and other far away countries was the book of the author Henryk Sienkiewicz “In Desert and Wilderness”(W pustyni i puszczy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Desert_and_Wilderness about two white children who succeed in escaping during the rebellion of Sudanese Mahdi, and have to pass through unexplored parts of Africa. The book is full of stereotypes about Africans prevalent in the 19 century Europe. Sienkiewicz apparently never visited Africa, he took his “wisdom” from descriptions of French and British colonialists.
As regards Brasil, in the 30ies of 20 century Brasilian government indeed had concerns that some of European nations may use their immigrant communities in Brasil in order to carve up colonies. Poland apparently was one of the states that caused concern for Brasilians, but of course the source of the most concern was Germany and Italy, since these nations had more potential, obviously strived for colonies in other parts of the world and had quite large imigrant communities in Brasil.
Besides that the most of Brasilians were quite unsatisfied that German, Italian, Polish and other immigrants do not want integrate in the Brasilian society, but instead strive at maintaining their own closed communities, their own language and culture, their own schools, press, churches etc. Besides, many of these immigrants even in the second and even third generation did not speak Portuguese or spoke very little, especially in rural areas. In 1937 the President Getulio Vargas adopted stringent laws that closed all immigrant political and cultural organizations and even banished speaking in public other languages than Portuguese. After stepping down of Vargas in 1945 these laws were repealed, however they have intiated swifter assimilation of imigrant communities into Brasilian mainstream.
It is not quite correct say that in 1941-45 Jews were killed by German Nazis because they were viewed as “non-white”. German Nazis had more complex racial hierarchy than just “white-nonwhite”. The highest group was not just “white”, but “Nordic”, Germanic” or Aryan”. Jews obviously were at the lowest rung of the hierarchy, Black African on the second lowest, yet the Slavs – Polish and Russians especially(who are “white” by any standards) – were also viewed as “Untermenschen”(subhumans), not very much better than Jews or Blacks. However Nazis had much higher regards for some other Slavic peoples, such as Slovaks and Croatians, as well as for Turkic and Iranic peoples. Asiatic Japanese were allies of Nazis in the WWII.
As for Israeli Jews after 1948, I think your assessment is largely correct. There indeed is much resemblance in the racist mentality of WASP and Israelis, and this hardly surprising since the racism of both stems from the same source – the Old Testament of the Bible, which is full of the stories of racial exclusion and genocide. Catholic nations read much less of the Bible in former centuries, and if they read it was the most often the New Testament, not the Old. This situation had its reflection in the fact that the racism of Spanish, Portuguese of French, which certainly existed, was nevertheless more attenuated, less exclusionary and segregationist, that that of White Anglos, Dutch Afrikaaners or Israelis. E.g. if I am not mistaken there was no “one drop rule” in French Louisiana, and “quarterons” were often accepted as whites or at least there was no stigma on intermarriage.
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 07:34:00 sami parkkonen
@abagond: Very interesting. Two comments:
I wonder why you do not see muslims as “white” when there are hundreds of thousands of “racially” white muslims in Europe. Bosniaks, albanians etc. consider themselves as whites in racial sense. Is your view based on the fact that you do not see arabs as pure whites, regardless what they think about themselves and thus all muslims are not white, or is this american view on the subject? I personally would not class anybody racially based on their religious views or beliefs. There are hundreds of million africans who are christians who are in racial cathegories clearly black and yet if there ever was a “white european” religion it is christianity.
Siberia seems to be a bit of mystery for most of the people. Usually its colonization by the russian is linked on race too but reality is something else. There were white natives in western parts of Siberia millenias before the first russians. Starting from the west of Urals, the people called Ves/Vepsä lived in the east from the White Sea and Lake Ladoga and they were white finnourgic people. The bjarmians who also lived on the west from the Urals were also white etc.
Also the hungarians came from the Urals as late as 800’s and they too are of finnougric stock. They migrated to their present day Hungary in early 800’s and lived nomadic life on the present day Ukraine much of the early part of 800’s. And they too are white as can be.
The northern parts of the present day Russia were also lands of other finnougric people, the Murom, Mari, Meretsh etc. The söavic tribes migrated to that region only from 700’s onwards. So the native population of the western half of the Siberia was white by the usual racial definitions from as long as can be traced.
Also the Saami/Sami people of Lapland are white by the usual racial definitions and yet they are natives of the whole Fennoscandia region.
All of these native peoples of the north east and Siberia were colonized and some even wiped out from existence by the new comers from the west. This happened also in Prussia in medieval times where some of the native people were completely wiped out by the germans and other invaders.
All of which also show that racial definitions are a huge load of BS and, just like you say, based on the economics, exploitation and colonization by white minority.
As seen in here:
@sami parkkonen
I think that you do not orient very well in geography:) The ugrofinnic people people that you have mentioned – Vepsä, Permians, Murom, Mari, Meshchera have never lived in Siberia, they lived in the European part of modern Russia. The Vepsä inhabited areas near the lake Laattokka, for example, are quite close to St. Petersburg and to Finnish border which is quite a way to go from Sibiria:))
Siberia as it is usually defined as land to the east of Urals. I strongly doubt if peoples who lived to the East of Urals – Siberian Tatars, Khanty, Mansi – were “white”.
Concerning Hungarians, the most of modern day Hungarians are not the descendants of Magyar Onogur tribes, but rather of Slavs that Magyars found on arrival and Germans that settled in Hungary later. Perhaps it would be quite difficult tell to which racial group ancient Magyars belonged, the origin of their language – Ugro-Finic or Turkic is also not very clear although many scholar classify them as Ugro-Finic.
As for the population of Sibiria proper, the indigenous people belong to several groups as Samoyed(as Nenets, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup – partly also in European part of Russia as well), Khanty-Mansi(condidered as “ugro-finic” yet theIr language has very little similarity with either Finnish or Hungarian), Turkic(Siberian Tatars, Altai, Tuva, Khakas, Saha Yakut, Dolgan). Mongolic(Buryat), Tungusic(Even, Evenki, Nanai, Oroch, Oroqen) and so-called “Paleoasiatic” not a single group but including several unrelated groups(Chukchi-Koryak, Nivkh, Ket, Yukagir)
I think that racially almost all these groups were Asiatic(Mongoloid).
Most of the population of Siberia today speak Russian and identify as Russians and Slavs. Since there was neither “one drop rule” nor ban on miscegenation in Russia, many of Russians in Siberia have admixture of Asiatic(Mongoloid) blood in their veins. Many indigenous people today are also speakers of Russian, the local languages with the most speakers are Buryat, Saha-Yakut, Khakass, Tuva, Siberian Tatar. Everyone is bilingual in Russian as well.
A question to Abagond
could this gentleman be considered white in the USA?
And how about these girls
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmdPjhTgPNY)
@ Gato Branco #1
The gentlemen looks kind of Asian, kind of white, but if he spoke with a Texan accent, I might not notice that. The singers look white to me.
BUT I am TERRIBLE at telling whether someone looks white. I used to think these women looked white:
Anne Curry
Patricia Ford
Yasmeen Ghauri
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27000000/bipasha-bipasha-basu-27092317-400-300.jpg
I see no earth-shaking difference between them and, say, these “white” women:
Marlo Thomas
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Sally Field
Or these women, who I am still not sure whether they are “white” or not:
http://www.topnews.in/files/paula-abdul-2.jpg
So it is extremely hard for me to buy this idea of “white” as strictly genetic or just a matter of objective physical appearance. If it were that clear-cut or objective, I should be able to easily tell the difference.
Ann Curry looks like Filipina, definitely not white, Paula Abdul like Latina or Filipino Mestiza, Patricia Ford, Yasmeen Ghauri, Maya Rudolph, Bipasha Basu and Kim Kardashian would appear rather like Iranic(Iranian/Tajik/Afghan) or Caucasoid(Azeri/Georgian/Armenian/Chechen) although they could also be taken as Mediterranian(Italian/Spanish/Greek), but probably not as truly Central Europeans.
Nevertheless none of them(except Ann Curry) would look very out of place in the street of a Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian or Lithuanian city
For other ladies whom you call definitely “white” it is difficult to say, but all of them are rather of Mediterranian type, some may also look as Tajik/Iranian. Megan Fox has in this picture eyebrows made up as Tajik ladies do, but otherwise she looks more like Spanish senorita.
You indeed are right that it is not always easy to determine “whiteness” according only to looks, especially for the people who are born in Mediterranian/Middle East/Central Asia however religion(Christian or Muslim) is also a poor criterium, since there are lots of Muslims, especially in Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo and Turkey who look definitely white, even like Central European. Probably the best thing is to accept that not everyone can be neatly and easily classified as white or non-white.
@gatobranco:
Thanks for reply. However your definition of Siberia is, typically, quite limited. As for the finnourgic people, such as the Vepsäläiset and others, they lived way up east.
The area west from Urals is known as West Siberia, but granted, not very widely known fact. Actually, geographically, the whole Finland belongs to the western Siberia, but if we feel to be picky, then the whole land mass east from the White Sea is Siberia.
The hungarians of present day are mixed. naturally, but their original home is in Urals. So the white hungarians originated from Siberia.
I understand that it is very hard to realise that there is whole multitude of white natives anywhere outside the west european area, but so it is. Siberia included.
Yes, in east Siberia the natives are more asian BUT still many of them belong the peoples who speak uralian languages.
Like so
The point here is that dividing world by races is in my mind pretty stupid. Culturally yes, but “racially” it is silly.
@ Sami
I thought of using both linguistics and genetics to define “white”. The trouble is that, either way, Iran, Pakistan and much of India would become part of “white”. That was not the sort of white I had in mind. Linguistics would also leave out Finland and Hungary – or, if I included Uralic languages, I would also have to let in all Indo-European languages, which would again bring in India. Religion fell much closer to the fault lines that defined the sort of people I had in mind. I am not saying it is perfect, but is a better approximation than the alternatives I could think of.
I commented on my thinking on Muslims and whiteness here:
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 17:05:28 Bulanik
@ gatobranco1,
Perhaps the only book that the most Polish knew anything at all about Africa and other far away countries was the book of the author Henryk Sienkiewicz “In Desert and Wilderness”(W pustyni i puszczy)
Haha. 😀
I’ve heard of this book as well! 😀 Also “Murzynek Bambo” (“Bamboo, the little black child”), a poem of some charm — but how does this makes any difference to the argument?
You see, as farcical as you think Polish attempts at colonisation were, I’m not sure if your reading of European histories has caused you to consider the links between imagination and ideology… Those harmless, if stereotypical references to darker, foreign people from faraway places, can, at times, utlimately lead to “civilizing missions” by even well-meaning Europeans.
You only have to look at the example of India and the emergence of the British in that country to realize that.
(*Amal Chatterjee’s “Creation of India in the Colonial Imagination” explains the the early colonial ideas about the “exotic East” which later led to “primitive subject nation” perceptions.)
When you said the Poles never aspired to be colonialists, it was clearly not so.
From what Taras Hunczak says about Poland’s colonial ambitions, they weren’t, at one time, as “extremely” marginal about it at all. I had to smile at the irony of this, as Poland and other Eastern Slavs were perceived as “Kolonie” (colonies) by Germany who settled in those territories for centuries…
I don’t mean to say that the facts you provide aren’t insightful.
However, your analysis of “extreme” marginality simply isn’t supported.
A government’s decision to colonize other places is not arrived at from dubious and derivative ideas in children’s books alone.
* http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Representations-of-India-1740-1840-Amal-Chatterjee/9781283653176
on Tue Apr 15th 2014 at 22:45:47 Kiwi
Interestingly, this map labels Greece, Israel, and South Africa as Western countries. I remembered seeing it some years before and this post reminded me of it. Methinks the decision by the creator to include those countries under the umbrella of Western civilization is politically motivated.
on Wed Apr 16th 2014 at 04:40:20 gatobranco1
@ sami parkkonen
Your definition of “Western Sibiria” is indeed a novelty, since usually Western Sibiria is defined as the territory between Ural mountains in West and Yenissey river in East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Siberian_Plain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Siberian_economic_region
I think you should give at least some refrences where Norhern part of the European Russia or even Finland is referred to as “Western Siberia”. I have never heard such definition yet.
I have never seen other people on the earth so “racially aware” as North-American White Anglos or WASP, with such obsession on “whiteness”. For the most peoples of Central and Eastern Europe “whiteness” is maybe important however it is ethnical origin that matters the most.
For the most of Muslim peoples the issue whether they are “white” or “non-white” is rather non-issue at all. The most important thing is whether one is Muslim or not. Muslims classify people not according to race, real or presumed, but according to religion.
Many Muslims were pround of their ancestry, whether Arabic, Turkic, Kurdish or Iranian, yet what really mattered to them was the ancestry only from paternal side, not from maternal. Whether their mothers were free Muslim women or slave concubines of African, Asiatic or European origin(Sharia allowed for free Muslim men 4 free spouses and illimited number of concubines), the progeny were free if their father was free and had the same inheritance rights according to Sharia and could inherit father’s property, quite differently to the situation of the children of white slaveholders and their black concubines in the North America.
A very important point is that slavery was not racialized in the Muslim world, their were slaves of almost all races and nations in Muslim lands. Arabic or Swahili slave traders brought black slaves from Africa, while Crimean Tatars sold their Polish, Ukrainian ans Russian captives. Other traders could by bringing slaves from Asiatic countries.
Emancipated slaves were given the same rights under Sharia like free Muslim people and they sometimes could rise very high in the social hierarchy, sometime becoming even viziers and rulers. For example, Egypt was run quite a long time by ex-slave sultans of Turkic Qipchak or Circassian origin.
Because of all that there is much less racial awareness among Muslims, and I suppose that Muslim emigrants asked about race, prefer to answer that they not white and black or asian or something of that kind, but are just “Muslims” or “Turks” or “Arabs” or “Iranians” so creating the impression that “Muslim” is a race.
Indeed if the WASP imagination has constructed several ancestry based races( White, Black, Asian, Pacifical Islander, Native American) and one “race” based on language and culture(Latino) so, according to white Anglos, why it couldn’t be one more “race” based this time on religion? Indeed, an average White Anglo is happy only if he is able to neatly categorize people in “racial” categories. If there are some people who defy such categorization, “whites” feel deep psychological pain and anxiety as if the world were about to collapse:)
even if you have classified Linda Perry as “white” but to me she looks indeed black. It is more visible in a better picture
As for Julia Louis Dreyfus, in this picture she looks very much like Turk or Iranian http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Julia_Louis-Dreyfus_VF_2012_Shankbone_3.jpg
A little bit about “beauty standards” in dependance of race.
For me who live in a country where many women are blonde, and most of the rest are rather “gray”(neither blonde nor dark) rather than dark haired, the most attractive “white” women for me are exactly those who are dark haired, of Spanish/Latino, South Italian, Turkish or Iranian/Tajik type, not very high in stature and rather thick-set. While the beauty standards of Mediterranian, Arabic and Iranian guys are the exact opposite – they are really crazy about tall blonde girls:)
As for “non-white” the most pretty for me are women from Philippines and Congo. This of course does not mean that I consider the ladies from rest of world as ugly:D
Not only Muslims are difficult to classify in the racial optics of White Anglos. Another “hard nut to crack” are Filipinos. There are plenty discussions of the internet the participants of which try to answer deeply philosophical question – whether Filipinos are Asians, Pacific Islanders or Latinos. Sometimes these are questions of white guys, sometime of Flipino Americans who are puzzled by insistant questions of their white neighbors and colleagues about their “race”.
Indeed they are in geographical Asia, have a smattering of Confucian values, but mostly do not look like typical Asians(Chinese, Korean, Japanese); many of Filipinos indeed look similar to Pacific islanders and are remotly related to them linguistically yet Philippines has never been considered a part of Oceania; Filipinos have many Spanish elements in their culture(as Catolicism, musical traditions, many Spanish borrowings in local languages) as well as Spanish surnames, some, especially Filipino Mestizo, can even look like typical Latinos, yet the absolute majority of them speak no word in Spanish but instead Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano and some 100 more languages together with English. Really a puzzle for racial classification:))
Besides that, Filipinos could even be considered black since many have admixture of the blood of Agtas(“Negritos”) who are black beyond doubt although differ from African by their much lower stature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito
on Wed Apr 16th 2014 at 18:41:49 sami parkkonen
Well, do not take my word. Check this program. It is a finnish documentary series “Finnougric people in Thirty Days”, part 6: The Mordvans and the Komi, who live in Siberia. I guess even you would admit that the Komi live in Siberia proper, the one even you can accept as Siberia. And you can look yourself if the Komi are “black”, “asian” or what ever, or “white”. They are finnougric nation, have lived in Siberia from times immemorial etc.
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1783782
And yes, Komi is west from the Urals
on Wed Apr 16th 2014 at 21:17:10 Bulanik
@ gatobranco1
…Indeed they are in geographical Asia, have a smattering of Confucian values, but mostly do not look like typical Asians(Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
Just to say, whenever I come to this blog, I always have to remember that “Asia” starts in the Eastern part of the continent, somewhere around China, roughly, very roughly, and Asians are, as you say Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. Typical Asians never, NEVER, ever look like this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQAFScAGSxk/TyKUkgNQSxI/AAAAAAAAANA/jgmcjwC6gRk/s1600/indian+skin.jpg,
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-aDEIME0xlyDsjWc-8hJbFIKxyprX_5TKpQqbGzE3pGzcHE2f
…even though there are well over 1.6 billion of them, right in the middle of Asia.
I do see what you mean, gatobranco — it’s just general observation I am making.
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 05:44:38 gatobranco1
Unfortunately, the video does not load but it can be found on you tube as well I’ll see. Kiitos paljon:)
I think I know sufficiently well about finno-ugric people. All they(Komi Zyrian, Komi Permyak, Udmurt, Mari, Erzya, Moksha) except Khanty-Mansi live in the European Russia to the West of Urals, not in Siberia. All finno-ugric people to the West of Urals are white. As for Khanty-Mansi living to the East of Urals, from the pictures I have seen on the net, they appear rather Eurasian but not truly Asiatic/mongoloid. Some even may look white
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Khanty
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/khants.shtml
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/mansis.shtml
I have however some doubts whether Khanty and Mansi are truly related to Finns. I have found textbooks of Khanty and Mansi languages on internet. These languages have not a slightest ressemblance with Finnish, but neither they do resemble Hungarian. Finnish and Hungarian does not seem to be related either. There are a dozen Hungarian words which resemble Finnish but there are much more which resemble Turkic or Chuvashian.
Chuvash, a non-ugrofinic people living in European Russia (distantly related to Turkic) are also white. Volga Tatars I tink are also mostly white since most of them are descendant of ancient Bulgars and spoke once a dialact similar to Chuvash before they switched to Qipchaq. Some are of Qipchaq extraction and can have Asiatic features.
Regarding Bulgars there is hypothesis that they once lived in the mountainous area in the Central Asia. Probably the name of the city Falghar(Tajikistan) located on the Turkestan range can be related to the word Bulgar. Later they migrated to the North Caucasus area and from there they went and established north to the Black Sea. In 7 century attacked by Khazars they split into several groups, one of them went to Volga region, another led by Khan Asparukh migratred to South of Danube where they established their own powerful state bud made only minority in it(about 20-30% how it is believed) and later slavicized.
It is difficult to tell what language Bulgars spoke, but probably they were a tribal confederation different tribes of which spoke Turkic or rather proto-Chuvashian, Iranic and remaining maybe Finno-Ugric or Proto-Hungarian languages. However these language(s) are not attested. What remains are only some 200 words in modern Slavic Bulgarian which are believed to be “proto-Bulgarian”.
Anyway it is quite probably that these ancient Bulgars were white, and not mongoloid how it is assumed by some scholars.
concerning the concept Asia.
Geographical Asia – in the East it includes Philippines and the most of Indonesia, but does not includes New-Guinea island, Melanesia, Micronesia or Polinesia which are considered to be part of Oceania. In the West, geographical Asia’s limits are Urals mountains, Caucasus range, Bosphorus straits, Egean Sea, Suez Channel and Red Sea.
Asia as used for the purposes of sports competitions, UN agencies etc. – sometimes it can include parts of Oceania or Australia/NZ, sometimes not. Turkey, Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia are often included into Europe
Asian as “race” in the USA – it includes chiefly representatives of the peoples of the Confucian culture – Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese, but also may include all those peoples who have more or less “mongoloid” appearance(narrower eyes etc.), as Thai, Burmese, Cambodians, Mongolians, Tibetans, Central Asian and Siberian Turkic peoples etc. It can inlude Indonesians and Filipinos as well
Asian as “race” in the Great Britain – in the GB Asian it means Indo-Pakistanis.
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 07:49:25 Pay it Forward
^^ I have commented several times in the past on this as well.
“Asian” in the US context = East Asian, but is sometimes extended to include the others as listed by gatobranco.
In Britian, however, East Asians are variously known as Chinese, “Oriental” etc., with the group /racial designation of “Asian” going to South Asians, who in the US are typically referred as Indians or “East Indians”, I have also heard “Gandhi Indians” and “Hindus” (actual religious affiliation notwithstanding) by older folk, as well as a least two derogatory identifiers which I will not list here.
In this same vein West and Southwest Asians in the USare not typically referred to as “Asians” either. They are Middle Easterners or “Arabs”
Not using the identifier “Asian” for US-based Indians and other South Asians is not intended as a snub, just as — and I will assume — no snub is intended for British-based East Asians in the regard of typically assigning South Asians, rather than East Asians, the general and more encompassing designation of just plain “Asian”.
Concerning the definition of “who is white” there is some interesting historical cases:
An Indian man(Sikh) who wanted to prove that he is white and thus eligible for naturalization(at the time when the Us law allowed only white and black African persons for naturalization)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind
Another example a Japanese man who wanted Japanese reclassified as white also for naturalization purposes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozawa_v._United_States
However both claims were rejected at that time(1920ies)
Probably that one of things that perpetrates the racial stereotypes and racial thinking is the use of the concept “race” in thie official censuses of the USA
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf
Interesting enough the census qualifies as “white” people “having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicated their race or races as “White” or wrote in entries such as
Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.”
Thus according to the USA census, all Muslims of North Africa, Arab countries, Turkey, Iran, Albania, Bosnia, maybe also from some other countries would be qualified as white. Thus it goes against the popular perception of the US white Anglos(reported by Abagond) that “Muslims are not white”.
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 17:24:55 abagond
@ Eco: Comment deleted for making personal remarks.
More: I deleted your comments about Bulanik’s Polish friends. You are dragging in her private life to smear her. Not cool. I know you think they are imaginary, but you have no way to prove it, at least not on an English-only forum like this one. You will just have to let it go.
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 18:08:04 Sharina
gatobranco1,
Well then the obvious question is are all Muslims of North Africa? If they are not then can you reasonable continue to conclude them as white? Also can white according to USA standards be considered white according to them?
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 20:12:12 Bulanik
The commonly-understood concepts Asia and its geography have been discussed a few times on this blog, but I feel there’s a bit more to it in the light of reading the recent exchanges about belonging and ethnicity.
Pay it Forward is correct: it IS generally true that in the UK (not for Ireland, though), the term Asian is understood to refer to South Asians.
If someone is of Chinese or Burmese descent, for example, then it’s their particular nationality that will be the identifier instead of the supposedly generic designation “Asian”.
(Perhaps one reason “Asian” became exclusively associated with East Asians was because it was another, more polite way, of saying Mongoloid, the way “Caucasian” became a polite way of saying White…?)
However, it is also my experience that East Asians and Southeast Asians are ALSO encompassed by the term “Asian” in normal conversations.
It is acceptable to call ALL Asians “Asians”, and no one bats an eyelid:
I used to notice this in conversations between and among different Asian ethnicities in England and Scotland.
Therefore, this wouldn’t be an issue of “snubbing”, or exclusion, at all: both East and South Asians see each other as equally and absolutely Asian!
In the UK at least.
Any awkwardness or misunderstanding only seems to arise among Irish, continental Europeans, Americans and Australians who — and I generalise sweepingly now — appear to refuse to see South Asians as Asian.
“No”, they will say, “Indians aren’t Asians.”
These same individuals will say South Asians are Arabs or Middle Easterners.
I have also seen and heard East Asians (US and Australia) say that South Asians cannot have the Asian “racial” designation and be called Asians because that term belongs to them.
So, at best — at best — the term “Asian” is inconsistent.
There is no pan-Asian identity.
Personally, I don’t think “Asian” it is a good identifier for Indians, Sri Lankans, Indians, etc. Sure, they are certainly Asian, like Koreans are Asian, but “Asian” is far, far too general, and far, far too unqualified whether it’s applied to Sri Lankans just as much as it is to Koreans.
Ethnicity always develops differently in each country, and this causes international comparisons to be excluding and confusing, uselessly so.
I believe more accurate and specific descriptions would be much more useful for the naming of different Asian peoples.
on Thu Apr 17th 2014 at 21:01:56 Linda
Gatobranco1, just because the USA census “says so” — does not make it so.
Since Islam is a religion, then that means it encompasses people of different “races” and Ethnicities — just like Christianity
Even the term “Arab” does not mean “White”…. because many people called “Arabs” in north Africa are mixed-race or can be classified as “black”
I think because “race” is political and a social construct developed by white Europeans/American in order to perpetuate their own Agenda’s–
we are all now stuck with shoes that sometimes don’t fit.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/07/egyptian-immigrant-wants-to-be-reclassified-as-black/
Mostafa Hefny feels he’s been black his whole life. The U.S. government doesn’t agree.
when Mostafa Hefny immigrated to the United States from Egypt in 1978, he didn’t get a say in that decision.
“The US government [interviewer] said, ‘You are now white,”
White” is defined as “a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa” — which is why the U.S. government classifies Hefny as such.
However, the designation for “Black or African American” applies to “a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.” According to CBS, Hefny says that he is descended from the Nubians, the ancient group of Egyptians from the northern part of Sudan and southern part of Egypt.
Since the 1980s, CBS reports, Henfy has been fighting to have the U.S. government reclassify him as black, which is how he’s always seen himself.”
believe it or not, not every “Arab” north African denies their black African mixed ancestry.
just because the USA census “says so” — does not make it so.
A census has uses, but it’s only a tool, not Definitive and Exhaustive Truth…just an enumeration method grounded in arbitrary and socially constructed principles, and one that must be ever-open to improvement.
on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 04:53:57 gatobranco1
What is indeed strange for me, is that a goverment oficial imposed on Mustafa Hefny a racial label of his own picking instead allowing M. Hefny to autodefine himself. The important point is here is not whether the official classified M. Hefny “correctly” and “incorrectly”, but the mere fact the the official was so arrogant as to better know the racial affiliation of the person than the person himself.
As far I understand from the now existing census rules, in our days, had M. Hefny autodefined as “Arab”, or “Egyptian” he would still be finally classified as “white” but he would also be free to autodefine as “black” if he wished so.
Since it happened in 1979, maybe it was a hangover from old racist times before the Civil Rights Movement when it was usual to establish person’s “race” against his own expressed will and the race was considered as something “objective”, “physical” rather than “social” or “identitary”. I have also heard stories how immigrant people from Europe were forced by officials to identify as “Caucasians” which of course had no sense for them.
I just wanted to ask – whether such forced identification of person’s race still happens today in States?
The US census currently also recognizes people from Indian subcontinent as Asian
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
So that in the census, the label “Asian” includes Indian Subcontinent, the Confucian countries, the Indo-Buddhist countries(as Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia) and Austronesian countries(Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines). It is not clear whether it also includes Mongolia or Central Asian countries as Kazakstan or Russian Siberia, but since persons now are allowed no to autodefine, so probably persons from these countries could autodefine as Asians.
In “geographical Asia” there are several cultural areas with different cultural identity, certainly there is no pan-Asian identity.
If one take “geographical Asia” one can distinguished numerous regional cultural (rather than “racial”) identities:
– Arab Muslim(Syria, Lebanon, Irac, Saudo Arabia, Yemen, Golf States)
– Arab Christian(Lebanon, Syria, including also Egytian Copts, but these not in geographical Asia)
– Israeli Jew(Israel)
– Turkic Muslim (Turkey, Rep. of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhastan, Kirgizstan)
– Iranic Muslim(Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan)
– Caucasian Muslim(Circassian, Chechen, Daghestani)
– Caucasian Christian(Armenian, Georgian)
– Indo-Pakistani Muslim(Pakistan, India, Bangladesh)
– Hindu(India, Nepal)
– Indo-Buddhist/Theravadin (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia)
– Tibetan Mahayanic Buddhist (Tibet, Mongolia, Buryatia, Kalmykia)
– Russian Slav Orthodox(Siberia)
– Confucian(China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan)
– Muslim Austronesians( Malaysia, Indonesia)
– Catholic Austronesians (Philippines)
There are, of course smaller ethnical groups in many countries who not fit in any of these categories
Although much of what I have wrote seems like religious labels, it is much more cultural than merely religious:
-first, religion strongly affects culture, much more than presumed or imagined “race”;
-secondly Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism is not merely a system of belief, but an integral philosophy establishing a way of life, while Confucianism is not a religion but rather an ethical and philosophical teaching
-thirdly even those persons who are not deeply religious or even not religious at all, the most often they belong to the cultural area they were born, e.g. an atheist born in a Muslim or Hindu country still will be mostly Muslim or Hindu in culture; Many Koreans are Christians yet mostly Confucians in culture.
Concerning the question whether some North Africans are aware of their black ancestry.
In Egypt, it may be true. There are much tensions in Egypt between Upper Egyptians(Saeedi, Nubian) and the more affluent people of the Nile Delta. The former are often stereotypized and marginalized by the latter. Upper Egyptians have darker color of skin, they are poorer, they often do low-paid jobs when they live in Cairo, they have a dialect of Arabic different from the Standard Cairene variety, and different social customs.
On the contrary, Cairo and the Nile Delta always were more affluent, the center of political power and received the most of the migrations of “white” peoples(greeks, romans, arabs, circassians, ottoman turks).
Thus is quite possible that South Egyptians may feel discriminated and this can make them aware of their African roots. It is less likely that Cairo and Delta Egyptians would be mindful of their African heritage, although this is not excluded. The president Gamal Abdel Nasser, for example wanted to become a strong leader not only in the Arabic world, but in the black Africa as well. Did he use any cultural or racial arguments besides purely political? I do not know. Maybe some other knows?
As for Maghrib countries, there are strong ethnical tensions between Maghribi Arabs and Imazighen(Berbers), But as far as I know, Imazighen, who are pre-Arab population there, are not black. Moroccans and Algerians do have, however, admixture of African blood due to the importation of black slaves and contacts with Africa. But I do not know how much they are aware of that.
Much of the elite of these countries are by orgin either Arabs, either (especially in Algeria, Tunis and Libya) descendants of Ottoman janissaries or corsary capitans(Turks or European slaves or refugees by origin). Maghrib countries and their elites also had strong influx of Andalusian Arabs(deported by Spanish from Spain). The latter were mostly arabised Spaniards.
on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 09:01:04 Linda
“gatobranco1
Gatobranco1, you are quoting alot of westernized versions of “African” history
so I will ask you a question, “was Mansa Musa or Askia Muhammad ” imported black slaves?
you do realize that black Africans lived on the Entire continent of Africa and they did not have to be “imported” as slaves to North Africa in order to “add” to the mixture.
and that the Imazighen(Berbers) are not 1 solitary tribe but they are composed of many different Ethnic tribes based on region.. ie Djerba, Mozabites, Siwa, Riffian (the blonds that every likes to boast about but they do not represent the majority of Berbers), Tauregs, etc
the “Arab” slave trade was not the initial way or the only way that black Africans arrived in North Africa.
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_5025.html
Ancient Local Evolution of African mtDNA Haplogroups in Tunisian Berber Populations
“Until recently, some papers suggested that the distribution of the main L haplogroups in North Africa was mainly due to trans-Saharan slave trade.
However in September 2010, a thorough study about Berber mtDNA by Frigi et al. concluded that most of L haplogroups were much older and introduced by an ancient African gene flow around 20,000 years ago.
( haplogroup L is an indigenous black African gene)
The sub-Saharan contribution to northern Africa, starting from the east would have taken place before the Neolithic. The western African contribution to North Africa should have occurred before the Sahara’s formation (15,000 years BP).”
Meaning, black people were already in North Africa before the Maghrebs (Arabs) or Turks arrived.
This is why I mentioned to Abagond that an “Africa” tab is needed — a lot of misconceptions
Certainly contacts started much before than Muslim slave trade.
Imazighen as it is known belongs to the Afroasiatic family of languages, and 5 from 6 of its branches(Chadic, Imazighen, Kushitic, Omotic, Ancient Egyptian) were always located in Africa. Semitic was intially located in Western Asia, semites came to North Africa and Ethiopia later.
With 5 branches of 6 being in Africa, it is inconceivable that the original homeland of the Afro-Asiatic was somewhere else as in Africa. Probably it was somewhere at the lake Chad or in Sudan, and the initial pra-Afro-Aasiatic were with all probability black.
Having migrated from their homeland, they moved north and there subjected to their rule probably some white(?) populations in Maghrib and Egypt. Through the passage of time the black elite in in the North Africa probabably became “whitened” through the intermarriage with white slave girls. I have read somewhere that Egyptian frescos depict Pharaons like black men, and their wives and concubines as white, I do not know if it is true, but it is highly probable.
Probably that the ancestors of Ancient Egyptians or at least their elite came somewhere from Nubia/Sudan since Ancient Nubian cultures display many similarities with Egypt(as building of pyramides).
Another group proceded from Africa to Western Asia where the gave beginning to the Semitic language group.
Later, contacts with the subsaharan Africa never interrupted, despite the desertification of Sahara, so that in all epochs – Carthaginese, Roman. Vandalic, Byzantine, Arab – North Africans traded with the black Africa, not only in slaves of course and the human contacts certainly were not reduced to slave trade alone.
on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 15:16:33 Bulanik
@ Linda, from your first link:
Our results reveal that Berber speakers have a foundational biogeographic root in Africa and that deep African lineages have continued to evolve in supra-Saharan Africa.
Excellent stuff! Thank you for both those links.
The standard story always shows blacks as “slaves” and being moved about, or “freighted” like cattle “introduced” into the bloodline. It’s almost portrayed like it’s the Natural Order, or something eternal and universal!
At best, this leads to a poor understanding…
This story of African gene flow is narrow. If that is not bad enough, it’s also told the wrong way round. 😀
Recent research is showing that the direction is properly trans-Saharan, into Southern Europea and also the Levant (or what used to be known as the Levant, or the Eastern Mediterranean).
As a cultural staple, this idea has been quite self-serving.
On the “How white was ancient Greece” thread, it’s pretty apparent how much the idea of a White World has penetrated the way we are all supposed to “see” many West Eurasians, for example and especially the Greeks, through the White Lens:
…The British are invested in the Classics, it is the organizing principle of their white, European intellectual identity. The signature of their civilization, the cornerstone of their education.
The Classics is at the root and “the learned vocabulary of international application.”
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/how-white-was-ancient-greece/#comment-193933. Also:
“…similar to the idea that Arabs were a white people who “became” darker by adulteration of their bloodlines. For Greeks, it implies that more Turks moved into Greek lands than the other way round, and that the Greeks themselves started out as uniformly Nordic, blond and blue eyed!
None of this was ever so.
When did the Greeks cease being a people of the Levant?
When did they achieve European-ness and their historic ties with Eastern world get wiped?
The effect though, is clear, because it has white-washed the Ancient Greeks and allowed the West to appropriate this history and culture as its own: from Neoclassiscism in architecture, to literature, the visual arts, theatre, to music…”
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/how-white-was-ancient-greece/#comment-193990
on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 16:10:04 Da Jokah
There’s no need to “white wash” greeks, berbers or anyone else. This graph is based on data from from The History and Geography of Human Genes by Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi and Piazza. One interesting thing you’ll notice is that there are four major races, not three, and that northeastern Asians are as close to Caucasians as to southeast Asians. There’s a tendency to lump all Asians together, but they are genetically very different.
Jokah, you supply a graphy and tell me: “…there are four major races, not three, and that northeastern Asians are as close to Caucasians as to southeast Asians. There’s a tendency to lump all Asians together, but they are genetically very different.”
Your graph has nice, primary colours, but where does it say any of that..?
on Fri Apr 18th 2014 at 18:01:30 v8driver
@bulanik, pretty sure the BBC news makes the “Indian subcontinent” and environs into “South Asia,” I guess that kind of covers Pakistan and Afghanistan too.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world/asia/
…down the bottom of the page…
@ v8, the BBC do that. What about in the US, Australia, etc?
bulanik “Your graph has nice, primary colours, but where does it say any of that..?
You’re the kind of person who would look at a photograph of a blue sky and say. “That’s a pretty picture of a blue sky. But where does it say the sky is blue?”
You’re the kind of person who’d answer the question “why is the sky blue?” by showing a blank piece of paper to all and saying:
“Here is my proof on here”.
(Better to give us more and far, far better information to prove your devastating argument, Jokah…)
on Sat Apr 19th 2014 at 00:25:55 v8driver
Drivers License, etc. will just have height, weight, hair color, eye color,
on each job application,”Equal Opportunity” regulations state the federal government is required to try and collect stats on job applicants…
“3. Ethnicity (Check One):
Hispanic or Latino –a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or
other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
Not Hispanic or Latino
“4. Race (Check all that apply):
American Indian or Alaska Native –a person having origins in any of the original
peoples of North or South America (including Central America), and who maintains
tribal affiliation or community attachment.
Asian –a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, or Vietnam.
Black or African American –a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander –a person having origins in any of the
original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific islands.
White –a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa”
http://federalgovernmentjobs.us/forms/Optional%20OMB_3046-0046.pdf
@DJ in all fairness, those graphs make no sense without some type of key or legend
on Sat Apr 19th 2014 at 03:21:24 Da Jokah
The graph shows the Fst distance between selected populations. Where Fst is the proportion of the total genetic variance contained in a subpopulation (the S subscript) relative to the total genetic variance (the T subscript). Values can range from 0 to 1. High Fst implies a considerable degree of differentiation among populations. As a reference, the horizontal Fst from Japanese to English is 0,1244, And the vertical Fst between Eskimo and West African is 0,2693. But, honestly, a numerical reference isn’t necessary to see relative relatedness. You can just look at it.
@dj that ish makes my eyes bleed, i feel like i’m back in ap bio class, not for me thanks
Yep. Sorry. 😦
on Sun Apr 20th 2014 at 11:44:30 Sylheti
Hi Abagond,
Thanks for the map. Very useful. There is so much I could say so I’ll say it in stages.
White European Muslims such as Bosnians and Albanians will be considered white by most Europeans, but not by right-wing extremists who consider them “traitors” for following a non Judaeo-Christian faith. Of course Judaeo-Christianity itself originated from the middle east and Christ (pbuh) was a middle-easterner, that of course is ignored or not registered by the right-wing Stormfront types (Albanians and Bosnians are not allowed to have their own stormfront sub-forums as they are not “white”).
However would the average Bosnian or Albanian Muslim (Albania is 40% officially non-Muslim anway i.e. Orthodox/Catholic etc) be subject to the mistreatment that non-whites are exposed to e.g. discrimination in the work place, “Micro-aggressions” (to use your excellent phrase) that non-whites such as blacks and Asians are exposed to. No.
A large part of American and European white racism is based on how comfortable they feel with the white/non-white in question and a lot of that is how visibly different you are, do you stand out as an eyesore. Bosnians and Albanians do not.
In their general social lives unless they practise Orthodox Islam staunchly Bosnians and Albanians will not have major problems and enjoy white privilege the only exceptions will be far-right groups and also on a geo-political level the “problematic” issue of them being Muslim societies to US policymakers.
This is my first comment and I hope I haven’t been too longwinded and maybe I can share some other observations later on.
I myself am Bangladeshi from the Sylhet province (hence my nick) raised in the UK.
Once again an excellent map which can be utilized by others on the internet for reference purposes.
on Sun Apr 20th 2014 at 18:59:56 Guadalupe Victoria
Argentina never had black inhabitants but recently there was an immigration of Africans and Haitians
@ Guadalupe Victoria
Is “never” what you were taught in school, or are you only guessing that ALL the black people you have seen are “recent” immigrants?
I am wondering how come you have never heard of Afro-, Mulato or Zambo Argentines. There is quite a lot of information that you can find online that shows your “never” claim is ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE.
According to historical accounts, Africans first arrived in Argentina in the late 16th century in the region now called the Rio de la Plata, which includes Buenos Aires, primarily to work in agriculture and as domestic servants. By the late 18th century and early 19th century, black Africans were numerous in parts of Argentina, accounting for up to half the population in some provinces, including Santiago del Estero, Catamarca, Salta and Córdoba.
In Buenos Aires, neighborhoods like Monserrat and San Telmo housed many black slaves, some of whom were engaged in craft-making for their masters. Indeed, blacks accounted for an estimated one-third of the city’s population, according to surveys taken in the early 1800s.
San Telmo still has a visible Afro-Argentine population, apparently, along with Merlo and Ciudad Evita cities…Do you believe that the black (or possibly black) people in these places are ALL Haitians and or African immigrants?
Historians generally attribute two major factors to this sudden “mass disappearance” of black Africans from the country – the deadly war against Paraguay from 1865-1870 (in which thousands of blacks fought on the frontlines for the Argentine military) as well as various other wars; and the onset of yellow fever in Buenos Aires in 1871.
The heavy casualties suffered by black Argentines in military combat created a huge gender gap among the African population – a circumstance that appears to have led black women to mate with whites, further diluting the black population. Many other black Argentines fled to neighboring Brazil and Uruguay, which were viewed as somewhat more hospitable to them.
Some commentators say that this was a deliberate policy to create a South American country without blacks in it:
<blockquote…the president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, sought to wipe out blacks from the country in a policy of covert genocide through extremely repressive policies (including possibly the forced recruitment of Africans into the army and by forcing blacks to remain in neighborhoods where disease would decimate them in the absence of adequate health care).
http://www.ibtimes.com/blackout-how-argentina-eliminated-africans-its-history-conscience-1289381
By 1895, there were reportedly so few blacks left in Argentina that the government did not even bother registering African-descended people in the national census. What does that tell you?
And, where did you think Tango came from?
Answer: The blacks of your country, it seems…
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-blackness-of-tango/Content?oid=1197334
well i know that in Argentina were mulatos the same as in Uruguay, but they have disappeared long time ago, unlike in Uruguay where you can see many descents from black slaves, what I was just saying is that since many many years ago this is a country of european immigrants, mostly from Italy and Spain, i remember when this new african people started to came and for us it was quite unusual to see black people in the streets,,
@ Guadalupe
But that is NOT what you said. What you said was there were never any.
As though Argentina is a totally white country and always was.
And, what do you think mulattoes are? The black parent is black.
If you wish to find out more, you will find that at one time your country’s population was about 50% black.
I understand that this you believe what you have been taught to believe and see what you want to see, but may I suggest that there more to it than that?
Black Argentina:
http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.ie/2012/10/african-descendants-in-argentina-afro.html
An extract from it says:
“The demographic decline of the Afro-Argentines has variously been attributed to miscegenation, disease and warfare … [and] reclassification of black people as white or mestizo…
Indeed, reclassification has its origins in the early eighteenth century, when the Spanish monarchy instituted a system whereby a subject could purchase certificates of legal ‘‘whiteness’’ called gracias al sacar. … death had less to do with the perceived disappearance of Afro-Argentines than such reclassification, frequently as ‘‘triguen˜os,’’ and cultural prejudices.
These contributed to downplaying the contribution of black people to porten˜o culture and overlooking the patriotism and high level of integration of some black porten˜os..”
Here is a bit more about the Afro-Argentinian artform, Tango:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRF_hGR_yU)
There are so many articles that you could fill in the gaps about Afro Argentina.
Take this one — it starts off like this:
The most “European” country of Latin America hides its African origin. Today, 200 years after its founding, it faces the problem of the integration of the excluded and the revision of a monolithic and European discourse.
That one paragraph sums up the racial propaganda, doesn’t it?
Here’s the full article about Argentina’s “bleaching policy”:
http://www.guinguinbali.com/index.php?lang=en&mod=news&task=view_news&cat=10&id=607
According to Miriam Gomes, a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires, says historians are somewhat to blame for the stereotypes that are so widespread. She says:
“Argentina’s history books have been partly responsible for misinformation regarding Africans in Argentine society, Argentines say there are no blacks here. If you’re looking for traditional African people with very black skin, you won’t find it. African people in Argentina are of mixed heritage.”
And, are you familiar with the “Soy afroargentino/a” (“I am Afro-Argentina/o) campaign from a while back?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6bjXALw-g)
ok you can go to the documents all u like, but the fact is that in Argentina nowadays there s no black people except for the new immigrants
I understand how shocking this must be for you.
But no matter how indoctrinated you are, and no matter how much denial you live in, this will not change facts about Argentina nowadays like over 5% of Argentines state they have at least 1 black ancestor, and a further 20% state they do not know whether or not they have any black ancestors….
No matter what fantasy you hold dear, it will not change the African genetic contribution carried by at least 10% of the Argentinian population.
Your scientists have found this. Not me.
2 Guadalupe Victoria
It seems impossible that you can know what’s going on in the entire country of Argentina just by looking around, and by recalling your own personal experience.
Argentina may be the most White country in South American, but that does not mean that there was ever a time when NO Blacks were living there. At some point, we all have to rely on the history books (since we can’t be in all places at all times) and those seem to indicate the there were always some Blacks around.
@ King
It’s a possibility that Guadalupe Victoria’s perceptions are a natural outcome of long-standing policies which’ve promote her nation as “homogeneously” white.
Perhaps the general population does not see diversity.
Perhaps there is not much sensitivity to it.
Xenophobia among the general population is quite pronounced, if the Argentinian federal government research about that is anything to go by.
It seems that Peruvians and Paraguayans, and Bolivians in particular, are singled out for discrimination in that country.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/890199-discriminan-por-tener-sobrepeso-y-ser-extranjero
bulanik u r right, this is a racist country, can t deny it, here all latin american countries are seen as inferiror u r right, im not proud of that but is reality
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 00:01:28 King
It is something that we have long understood, that the tendrils of White supremacy wrap themselves all around the world. Your country is but one example. But at least you know and admit the truth. Many here in the U.S. tout the idea that racism towards non-whites (particularly Blacks) around the world is a confirmation of White Supremacy rather than a direct result of its worldwide indoctrination.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 00:08:48 Guadalupe Victoria
we descent primarily from Italians and many fascists came here, we also had a great number of German nazi refugees, we are the second country in the world (after USA) with larger jewish population, so it s not to be surprised of the idiosyncracy of Argentinian people
Indeed, the Fascists and the Jews must have quite a time getting along in the New World!
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 00:46:13 Linda
I think what Guadalupe calls “black” is people who almost literally have “black” skin or are dark brown, to them, that is what “African” represents.
You have to remember, trigueno, mixed, mulatto, etc.. are sometimes not seen as “black” in certain South American countries — reverse one drop rule, mixes that African away.
so her perception of “black” is different than countries like the US or UK’s perception of black.
As you are aware, even in the Caribbean, ambiguous “black” people or known mixed-race history turns their identity to “brown”
I know that perception of my identity changed depending on the country –I’ve been called Samoan, Indian, Puerto Rican, etc — I think there are a few other posters who also underwent this identity change once they left the US to go elsewhere.
@linda u made me laugh! when I say that Argentina is white is because we descent from Europeans, when u talk about mulatos and all that stuff is people from the rest of Latin America, hardly in Argentina u find those peoples, they exist here but is an insignificant pecentage, my perception of “black” is exactly the same as people from UK, and for black we understand all those u mentioned ( trigueño, mixed, mulatos, etc), regards
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 01:33:06 jefe
Seems like the history books in Argentina have been white-washed too.
seems like u dont know anything about my country and dare to talk having no idea
@linda u made me laugh! when I say that Argentina is white is because we descent from Europeans, when u talk about mulatos and all that stuff is people from the rest of Latin America”
Then why would you be confused about the fact that there are “black” Argentinians that are not recent African immigrants– if you see trigueno and mixed race as “black”?
That means you saw “black” people in Argentina before the arrival of recent black African immigrants. I know “black” Argentines are a smaller percentage than the European immigrant descendants in Argentina but they were still there — how did you manage to miss them?
dear , 97 % of Argentinians descent from European immigrants,Period
Thus, most Argentines are descendants of the 19th and 20th century immigrants, with about 97% of the population being of European, or of partial European descent.[3][4] Arab descent is also significant (mostly of Syrian and Lebanese origin), and the Jewish population is the biggest in all Latin America (7th in the world). Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 02:00:46 Kiwi
I know someone who worked and travelled in Latin America a lot, and she asked some local friends in Argentina why countries like Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay tended to be more economically prosperous than neighboring countries like Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. They responded along the lines of, “Oh, well that’s easy. We don’t have any indigenous people!”
I also knew a Venezuelan mestiza girl who seemed ashamed when she mentioned that one of her grandmothers was black and lamented to her white(r) friends about her skin turning darker in the summer sun.
Thank you for reciting Wikipedia’s information for me, Dear… but I can read and use Google just as well as you.
I wanted YOUR opinion –words from YOUR standpoint as an Argentinean, who I assume still lives there, about why you seem to not know the difference between your fellow so called “black” Argentinean countrymen versus the African immigrants….
you did make the statement that there were “Never” any black people in Argentina, and as a Latina, I know that is not true.. how come you did not?
i expressed my opinion many times here, its noticeable your ignorance, and if u checked wikipedia whats the point in discussing something that everybody knows except u,?
kiwi Chile is full of indigenous people and Urugauy has a lot of black and mestizos, Argentina is the only country almost totally European in Latin America, dont be so confused please!
Guadalupe, I’m trying to be nice to you but you’re trying my patience b
Express an opinion about what? the fact that your ignorant a’s didn’t know that there were black people in Argentina before Africans and Haitians arrived
I asked you a specific question: “why were you unaware of the fact that there were ALREADY black people in Argentina, since you considered people who were mulata or triguena to be “black”?
I would ask it in Spanish, so you have no excuse as to why you won’t answer a simple question, but the blog owner doesn’t want people to make comments in other languages.
The Argentinian friends were the ones who said that. Maybe they were referring to just their own country, but Chile and especially Uruguay are very white compared to the rest of Latin America.
I suggest you do not delete Guadalupe Victoria’s comments. She is a perfect example of the racist attitudes that I highlighted in the Argentinian friends’ views towards indigenas and nonwhites in general. Their view is that other countries are “dirty” because they are “infested” by nonwhite peoples and do not have the “white racial purity” that countries like Argentina have.
White Hispanics in America are very often Mestizo ancestry, however, a good deal of them can pass as white. It’s not a stretch of imagination to say that half the Mestizos in Chile are passably white as well, boosting white people’s numbers in that country.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 02:51:20 Sharina
“dear , 97 % of Argentinians descent from European immigrants,Period.”—-tsk tsk tsk. Why is the sudden rush of people quoting sources and not really reading it. Sorry Guadalupe, but according to your source it is not period as your source continues on to say partial European decent.
I feel like the emphasis Guadalupe Victoria is placing on Uruguay and Chile not being white is that they aren’t “pure” enough to be considered white. It makes sense that she would then call a black person dirty when she also calls countries that are perceived as “infested” by nonwhites dirty.
Well there will certainly be a lot of deleting going on in this thread when Abagond gets back!
Wow did we really have to go there?
Do NOT delete these comments! They reveal too much.
No one is exempt from comments going into moderation, so basically you are going off on a paranoid rant. Also it is you who provided a source, did not fully read it past what supported you, and opened yourself for me to point it out. Don’t be mad. Just do better.
That depends on what you are considering an insult. If by her questioning you or by you calling her ignorant? In either case I can provide the links to where it began for you to review and determine where it went sour, but I prefer you do that yourself. At any rate I am out.
I guess white Latin Americans are not so different from white Americans. That adds another 200 million whites to the mix.
Before I go. If an opinion makes you turn into that kind of monster then you need jesus or a d*MN exorcism. None of which I can help you with.
Even assuming the worst of Linda, there was no excuse for the racial insults that Guadalupe Victoria used. They just reveal a white racist’s true colors.
I’ve encountered situations where a seemingly decent white person would suddenly hurl racial insults at me over non-race related incidents. Those kinds of white people are usually just better at hiding their true feelings about nonwhites.
I know you said Argentina is racist. You kinda proved it.
Maybe Linda wasn’t the nicest she could possibly be to you. Let’s pretend she was really mean to you. But even then, there would still be no reason to call her “perra”, “negra sucia y rastrera”, “ugly nigg´r”, or “negrita”.
You made your views towards blacks crystal clear when you stated, “if i were black i d killed myself”.
Linda made a valid point in indicating that you make assumptions about others. And I will reemphasize that here. I’m not from New Zealand.
Agreed. There was simply no excuse in the world for what guadalupe said. Even that weak one about being from a racist country.
King, I expect Agagond will delete these, that’s why I intend to have fun while it lasts….
Yes, I know.
Poor Abagond will need his dustbin and broom.
*By the way Abagond, when you make do your inevitable clean sweep though here, feel free to delete my comments within the “void of Spanish insults” also. Otherwise they will not make sense anyway.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 08:06:55 sami parkkonen
Well, once upon a time even finns were not white enough for USA. Heres a bit from Wikipedia:
“The earliest Finnish immigrants, colonialists who were Swedes in the legal sense and perhaps spoke Swedish, and settled in the Swedish colony, were supposed to have assimilated into the British culture quickly.[12] More recent Finns were on several occasions “racially” discriminated[13] and not seen as white, but “Asian”. The reasons for this were the arguments and theories about the Finns originally being of Mongolian instead of “native” European origin due to the Finnish language belonging to the Uralic and not the Indo-European language family.[14]
On January 4, 1908, a trial was held in Minnesota about whether John Svan and several other Finnish immigrants would become naturalized United States citizens or not, as the process only was for “whites” and “blacks” in general, and district prosecutor John Sweet was of the opinion that Finnish immigrants were Mongols. The judge, William A. Cant, later concluded that the Finnish people may have been Mongolian from the beginning, but that the climate they lived in for a long time, and historical Finnish immigration and assimilation of Germanic tribes (Teutons)—which he considered modern “pure Finns” indistinguishable from—had made the Finnish population one of the whitest (fairest) people in Europe. If the Finns had Mongol ancestry, it was distant and diluted. John Svan and the others were made naturalized US citizens, and from that day on, the law forbid treating Finnish immigrants and Americans of Finnish descent as not white.[15][16]
In the beginning of the 20th century, there was a lot resentment from the local American population towards the Finnish settlers because they were seen as having very different customs, and were slow in learning English. Another reason was that many of them had come from the “red” side of Finland, and thus held socialist political views.”
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 09:37:30 v8driver
unfortunately, ms guadalupe, doesn’t get it, in the usa most white people would consider her, per federal guidelines of course, racially defined ‘hispanic’, and of late, ethnicity could be ticked off ‘white’ — i am not sure on the history of that particular development of the byzantine categorization process; however, ya latina, that makes it even more twisted, her little rant here, that’s the kind of thing gets your teeth knocked out talking like that in public, but we’re all safe behind our computer screens right?
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 10:27:32 abagond
I deleted every comment by Linda and Guadalupe Victoria from 2:20 onwards and some of Sharina’s too, for use of insulting language and comments not in English. See Kiwi’s comments to get an idea of what went on as it relates to the topic of the post.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 10:41:17 Bulanik
Kiwi said, in reference to Guadalupe’s comments to Linda:
But even then, there would still be no reason to call her “perra”, “negra sucia y rastrera”, “ugly nigg´r”, or “negrita”.
Gracious me. I never thought it would go there after I turned off my laptop…
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 10:59:10 Kwamla
Ahh… You’ve taken out all the interesting bits! Now where is the fun in that Abagond? I agree with Kiwi. I’d be interested to know the dirty racial insults a typical white Argentina might feel threatened to use…before it goes in the bin of course!
Agree with you there, Mr Kwamla. 😀
Yes, I understand what you mean! 😀
I saw some of this from my Ecuadorian and Colombian foster children in England. Also, because I have family in Florida, I came to hear and see the Hispanic culture there (mostly Cubano of course) in shops, the hairdressers, restaurants, malls… the latinidad.
I quickly got used to their truly ghastly “racial lens”, and got a sense of their blind-spots, the inferiority around white people, desperateness to be white combined with a violent (self)hatred of African blackness and indigenous-Americana. And then because one of the foster children was part-Chinese, that opened up another dimension…
I’d watch sometimes as the Colombianos they socialized with (Calenos at that, from the Caribbean coast!) would spout out that they were “Italian” if someone white asked them what they were. Oh, funny, funny!
Who did they think they were fooling!
Because, the same white people they told would later say to me: “But those people look definitely bit mixed race and Aztec-y..”
Yes, Aztech-y. Haha.
Even the Argentinians we knew didn’t look like “standard white” all the time/ They looked like a hodge-podge of different Europeans, and I would sometimes hear a “dark” Latina say to an Argentinian:
“Too blonde, you are tooooo dark for so much blonde, it looks funny…”
Answer: “My grandmother was German! I can be extra-blonde if I like!”
Linda, when I say “Caribbean coast”, the individuals I am speaking of were all descended, or partly descended, from families originally from the north of the country.
@ Kiwi
Hmm, that sounds about right. You will hear this, too:
“Argentina doesn’t have a racism problem, because we don’t have any indigenous or blacks.”
I’m surprised about Argentinians believing that Chile does not lots of indigenous people. But…then again, I am not sure if being informed is a priority among white Argentines, really.
Anyway. Most, but not all, Chileno/a I’ve met are mestizo, even the most “Spaniard-white” looking ones. There was even one apparently white-looking family I met who said they were of recent African descent, too. The mother said that blacks were a minority in Chile, but not as small or insiginificant as publicised, and they had traditionally settled in the far north of the country, at the port of Arica. The Chilean Chinese settled there as well.
(A number of Chilean students, business people, artisst, academics settled in the UK following the Allende/Pinochet political upheavals in Chile, so Chileans are fairly well-known in parts of the UK.)
Talking of “No Racism in Argentina”. South Asians from England that have been to Bueno Aires come back and say how untrue that is!
There was a brief report about a couple of years ago on UK tv.
And, the white Argentina are not that fond of East Asians in their country either, here’s a little graffiti (not too rare, it seems) telling the Chinese to get out: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fZWs49bl0EM/Rq-sO1mBWkI/AAAAAAAAAR4/g9lQB816qao/s400/DSC01700.JPG
Taken from this blog:http://www.discoshawn.com/2007/07/there-is-no-racism-in-argentina.html
From reading some of what the South and East Asian visitors say about Argentina on that blog, Guadalupe’s responses to Linda are probably characteristic of many of her countrymen.
Your source said:
the Finnish people may have been Mongolian from the beginning, but that the climate they lived in for a long time, and historical Finnish immigration and assimilation of Germanic tribes (Teutons)—which he considered modern “pure Finns” indistinguishable from—had made the Finnish population one of the whitest (fairest) people in Europe…
When I first encountered Finns (in London) they seemed to 2 kinds: ones who were indistinguishable from the the fairest Swedes and others that I can only describe as blond and blue-eyed East Asians. I wasn’t in a hurry to call them “white people”! 😀
I see what you mean that when you said the Swedes regard (or once regardd) the Finnish people as a Mongol nation!
No wonder the old eurovision song Tsingis Khan was a big hit Finland too 😀
@Sami
Very interesting. Even more so today people seem to be knocking themselves down to claim individuals as white, even though at one time they were not.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 13:49:21 Herneith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Argentine#Africans_in_the_Formation_of_Argentina
Okay chum.
Maybe so, but there are plenty of ‘whites’ with African blood in their veins. Perhaps many are aware of this, maybe many aren’t, maybe you are one of these African descended people? In any case due to white supremacy, many descendants subsumed this part of their heritage.
Well this Guadalupe Victoria exchange has been quite instructive.
We began with the statement that there were no Black people in all of Argentina. Or at least, there had not been until very recently in then in very small numbers.
Yet, when the opportunity presented itself, Guadalupe Victoria seemed to have quite a long list of ready-made insults prepared specifically for the very people who (according to her) don’t even exist in her country! Pray tell, who does she use these names on when she’s not on Abagond? And where would she have even heard them enough to have them so readily available?
But then, she did say that a few Africans and Caribbean’s had immigrated to Argentina. But when you look at the numbers in the United states, the Africans and Caribbean self-selecting populations are among the most successful and highly-motivated groups of immigrants in the country, often even outperforming Asians (taken as a single block demographic). So why would she have such degrading names for those kind of people?
This little demonstration gives the lie to the brainless theories floated by Da Jokah and others, that racism is really only a just a reaction to Black dysfunction and pathology. You can clearly see that even in its declared absence, the racism doesn’t miss a beat. 🙂
But, don’t you know that Argentina does not have a racial problem because there are no indigenous and blacks to make one?!
Those people only CREATE racial problems for the good and fun-loving people of Argentina.
on Mon Apr 21st 2014 at 14:17:55 B. R.
“Who does she use these names on when not on Abagond?”
Guadalupe specifically mentioned Uruguayans as “black”.
unlike in Uruguay where you can see many descents from black slaves,
Sharina nobody say anything to Linda who blatantly insulted me? INCREDIBLE
I’ll say something about it; Carry on Linda!
Looks likely that the particular ideology, racist ideology, of the Argentines was put together by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
He was behind the deliberate extermination of the country’s black population and continuing denial of Argentina’s non-white roots.
It seems he laid it all down in his book: “Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism”, from what the Wiki article about the book explains, “it’s a blueprint for modernization, and the dichotomy between savagery and civilization was explained. It doesn’t mentioned the black population, but I believe he already had plans to wipe them out without writing about his intentions to do so.
In linking Europe with civilization, and civilization with education, Sarmiento conveyed an admiration of European culture and civilization which at the same time gave him a sense of dissatisfaction with his own culture, motivating him to drive it towards civilization..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo
This little demonstration gives the lie to the brainless theories floated by Da Jokah and others, that racism is really only a just a reaction to Black dysfunction and pathology. You can clearly see that even in its declared absence, the racism doesn’t miss a beat.”
Very true… because when I pressed for her to tell me her personal reasons as to “why she did not realize that black people already lived in Argentina” since she said Argentina Never had black people until recently — she became upset and Rude.
(loose translation of what Gaudalupe said to me in Spanish, right after I told her commenting in Spanish was against in blog rules)
“ because black people in Argentina were exterminated! You come from a country with dirty black and mestizo people, that’s why you care –Bye b’tch
She could have said anything like, such as “I come from a small village” or “I don’t consider triguena to be “black” — not a stretch to imagine since Argentina had a trigueno public health minister, Ramón Carilio, who looked white but he admitted his African heritage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Carrillo
I thought she might have been serious until she started quoting Wikipedia and then became rude — she did not know anything about Argentine history (or Argentina itself) until Bulanik told her — so, as usual, we had another typical white racist troll with an agenda trying to stir up hate.
I think Abagond should have left her response to me in Spanish on the board — it truly showed who she was– and how she felt about black, Amerindian, and mestizo/ mixed-race people
Oh trust me, Hernieth, I carried on and lit a bon-fire under her….
I really wanted to do it in Spanish and Patois but then everyone would have missed the show 🙂
I thought the girl was serious and slightly confused, so I thought I was helping her out with my statement to you… whelp, so much for trying to assist, when it’s just a white racist troll on the prowl.
As for racism in Argentina, I have met many Argentine people who were proud of their “white” European lineage of course, but they don’t think Argentina is any more racist than any other white majority country.
Indeed, Argentina white-washed their history, so I would say most people are ignorant of the historical facts concerning black/African people. I’ve heard about their stereotypes and micro-agressions against dark skinned people.
The term “Cabecita negra” means little black head and this is used against people with “dark” skin and black hair ie Indios or anyone who is considered poor from working class neighborhoods.
From what I understand of the situation, in Buenos Aires, there is definitely a love-hate relationship with the people from Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia – many people from these countries move to Buenos Aires for jobs —
so I would say, Argentines are xenophobic against foreigners and there is prejudice against “Indios” (Native Americans), mestizos and stereotypes against black people
and funny enough, they also use the term “Gringo” in a derogatory way against north Americans or English speaking white people.
The Argentine people definitely promote the myth that Argentina is a “white” country but the Indians and Black people who lived there before mass immigration in the early 1900’s had to go somewhere —
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2009/12/how-argentina-became-white/
How Argentina became white
“In contrast to Mexico, which is self-consciously a synthetically a “mestizo” nation which conceives of itself as a cultural and biological synthesis between European and native, I think it is fair to portray Argentineans as a settler society of Europeans in their self-image. As I have said before, this mythos goes a bit too far.
Since Argentina was a mixed-race society before mass immigration, as long as the roots of any given individual goes back to the period before mass immigration than it is likely that they will have some non-European ancestry.
We investigated the bio-geographic ancestry of Argentineans, and quantified their genetic admixture, analyzing 246 unrelated male individuals from eight provinces of three Argentinean regions
Argentineans carried a large fraction of European genetic heritage in their Y-chromosomal (94.1%) and autosomal (78.5%) DNA, but their mitochondrial gene pool is mostly of Native American ancestry (53.7%); instead, African heritage was small in all three genetic systems (<4%).
The median Argentinean probably has enough indigenous ancestry (Native American Indian) to qualify as a Native American tribal member in the United States by the rules of blood quantum (on the order of 20-25%).
As for the African lineages, the proportions are small, but one could envisage scenarios whereby slave women have mixed-race children, and for whatever reason their sons marry out and reproduce to a greater extent than their daughters. This would eliminate African mtDNA from the population, but maintain the total ancestral contribution"
So apparently, the native Indian and African slaves people went into the Argentinean artery and veins.
There is a huge rivalry between Argentina and Brazil, and some Argentinians dont hesitate to use racist terms at Brazilians
The indiginous mix is much more than the Afro diasporic mix in Argentina….much larger
The Y chromosome is inherited from the father whereas the mitochondrion is inherited from the mother. This means that, based on your data, almost all Argentinians are descended from white men while most of them are descended from Native American women. That sounds pretty colonial, especially when you take into account the history of white men appropriating nonwhite women’s bodies for their own pleasure (eg: rape of black slaves, Asian fetish). Disgusting.
That’s the way it worked in the America’s, Kiwi…. in south, central, and the Caribbean
The Spaniards did not bring their women to the Americas in the beginning and they had no qualms about procreating with Native Indian and African women.
Once European women started arriving, there was a shift in the paradigm of course — but countries like Argentina and Chile did not truly “whiten” up until mass immigration in the early 1900’s.
and to some extent, you will see a similar situation in north America. If you look at the genetic DNA of some African American men, their Y chromosomes will also go back to Europe… .
http://www.ebony.com/life/dr-rick-kittles-breaks-down-dna#.U1WtJM9OXcs
“We also look at the Y chromosome DNA, which is a history of the male lineage in the family. There are DNA patterns that are specific to Africans: For instance, there’s what we call a Y chromosome alu polymorphism [YAP] that is found just in West Africa, and is definitive for West African ancestry.
But the most interesting thing is, when we look at most African-American men, upwards of thirty five percent of their Y chromosomes don’t go back to Africa; but to Europe!“
that was the way of the world during colonial times
on Tue Apr 22nd 2014 at 00:22:44 Bulanik
THANK YOU for that that last link from about the genetics of Argentina.
Very revealing.
But I wonder, did it go far enough?
In making transnational comparisons, I feel that that link made the same error of RACIAL AMNESIA that seems to plague population assessments of Spanish-speaking South America by totally marginalizing and excluding the black populations, whilst rightly highlighting the contribution of indigenous ancestry in those nations.
It seems to take with one hand, and take away with the other.
For instance, this part:
“In contrast to Mexico, which is self-consciously a synthetically a “mestizo” nation which conceives of itself as a cultural and biological synthesis between European and native, I think it is fair to portray Argentineans as a settler society of Europeans in their self-image. As I have said before, this mythos goes a bit too far…”
Mexico has a known black population of 5%. So, it seems they are obviously outside the cultural and biological synthesis! although it’s well-known that Africans were:
–an essential feature of Mexicos early economic growth,
–worked in urban professions,
–developed and cultivated farmland,
–provided skilled labour in the silver mines,
–workedon cattle ranches and sugar plantations,
–created Jarocho music — made famous throug the song “La Bamba” — all AFRICAN in origin.
Plus, recent studies* have also shown African contributions to cuisine, marriage customs, medical practices, architecture, and language (the Mexican f-verb chingar coming from Angola).
And, if the white-washing trend we have observed throughout the Americas is anything to go by, that 5% of the population could be somewhat higher as many white or mestizo Mexicans do not know they are of Afro-Mexican origin, or do not say they are, leading to the trivilization and denial of African contribution to Spanish-speaking America that we are all too familiar with… (http://www.minorityrights.org/?lid=4455&tmpl=printpage)
Linda, contd.
Historian Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas sees it differently, and puts the true figure of Mexicans of African-descent at between 55%-85%. He says:
t’s estimated that over 300,000 enslaved Africans were brought to Mexico during the colonial period, producing millions of offspring. Many of the major leaguers of the Mexican liberation movement were black themselves. The last two top commanders of the movement, José María Morelos and Vicente Guerrero, as well as a significant number of other leaders and troops have now been identified as mulattoes pardos.
Even the Spanish conquistadors brought African heritage with them, as descendants of the Iberians and the Moors of northern Africa who occupied Spain during the medieval era, said Hernández. The modern Spanish language still contains over 4,000 Arabic words.
[Mexicans] are African on [their] Spanish side, and African on [their] African side…as much African… as … Amerindian or European…
The Black Virgin — a representation of Virgin Mary with dark skin common throughout Spain, France and Mexico – is one example of African cultural influences….the battle commemorated by the national holiday of Cinco de Mayo was fought by African Mexican “maroons.”
His book describes how Mexican cultural leaders have rejected this African heritage, choosing instead to “whiten” Mexican literature, film and popular culture from 1920 to 1968, a period described as the “cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution.
* http://losafrolatinos.com/2012/12/09/exploring-mexicos-african-heritage-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez/
The article said something that got me thinking:
blockquote> As for the African lineages, the proportions are small, but one could envisage scenarios whereby slave women have mixed-race children, and for whatever reason their sons marry out and reproduce to a greater extent than their daughters. This would eliminate African mtDNA from the population, but maintain the total ancestral contribution”
Whatever reason…this I would like to know! 😀
It just goes to show that although research is at least being done, it is nowhere near complete.
What is the reason for this “Directional mating”? I don’t know if that is the right phrase for it, but it leaves me wondering what happened and how come.
Was the reason some kind of pattern of patrilocality, some unexplained migration, a bottleneck of some kind? It’s almost like the work has only started…
To go back to Uruguay (a country hardly ever, ever mentioned anywhere, lol).
In European accounts of Uruguayan society in the 1800s, a typical family structure was a frequency of Spaniish men and Indigenas with large numbers of children.
Yes, Spanish women were scarce, and European immigrants were overwhelmingly male at the start.
That sounds harmless enough, and makes sense. But, a detail is missing — what about the Indigenous men? It’s easy to skip over that.
In the case of Uruguay, the indigenous men (the Charrua) had indeed been killed off in massacres and the surviving women and children enslaved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charr%C3%BAa_people
on Tue Apr 22nd 2014 at 01:20:03 Pay it Forward
“[…] but one could envisage scenarios whereby slave women have mixed-race children, and for whatever reason their sons marry out and reproduce to a greater extent than their daughters. This would eliminate African mtDNA from the population, but maintain the total ancestral contribution […]”
Yes, this is true as mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the mother to ALL her offspring, whereas Y-DNA is passed only from the father but to his MALE children only (daughters obviously do not have have the Y chromosome, and would have to get that type of genetic info through the DNA testing of their father, a full brother, a paternal uncle or grandfather et cetera).
If, then, men who were mixed race / Black on their maternal side were to reproduce to a greater extent than their own mixed race sisters, and if they reproduced only with white women, it is the mtDNA of those white women which will continuously be passed down in far greater numbers through consequent generations.
African genetic heritage, however, might still remain generations later in the autosomal DNA, and might be revealed through DNA testing, even in trace amounts.
For “whatever reason” in this case basically means that the reason for such an occurrence is unimportant for the purposes of said postulation / suppostion.
In the theory of the Mitochondrial Eve their is the belief that there most probably was other possible mtDNA donors, but for whatever possible reason, their mtDNA was not passed down, leaving only mtDNA Eve’s in evidence.
King said this after Guadalupe’s racist comments:
…when the opportunity presented itself, Guadalupe Victoria seemed to have quite a long list of ready-made insults prepared specifically for the very people who (according to her) don’t even exist in her country! Pray tell, who does she use these names on when she’s not on Abagond? And where would she have even heard them enough to have them so readily available?
And you made this observation:
You’re right about the “love-hate” thing, but Guadalupe was nation-specific about Uruguay. Could it be more than economics? After all the population of Uruguay is small and mostly white. A small country, with a small black population. But for all its smallness, it might be particularly irritating for a reason. Like Argentina, Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, in fact, it’s rarely, if ever, mentioned at all, and ignored.
Back in 1925, the year Uruguay celebrated 100 years of becoming a Republic, El Libro del Centenario del Uruguay went so far as to explicitly deny cultural influence from any group outside of Europe, apparently:
“Uruguay is populated by the white race, totally of European origin.”
That sounds just like something an Argentinian would say…
The 2 countries share a fair bit in common, originally both being part of the Viceroy of Rio de la Plata, with Bueno Aires as the capital city and Uruguay, a province. They share linguistic, cultural and economic ties, not just similar European heritage.
But there are important differences that have struck me after I heard a talk by George Reid Andrews on the national culture of Uruguay>>
Linda, contd:
According to him, at one time :
Afro-Uruguayans created the most active (on a per capita basis) black press anywhere in Latin America. Between 1870 and 1950 black journalists and intellectuals published at least 25 newspapers and magazines in Montevideo and other cities. This compares to between 40 and 50 black-oriented periodicals during the same period in Brazil, where the black population is today some 400 times larger than Uruguay’s; and 14 in Cuba (black population twenty times larger than Uruguay’s).
Unlike Argentina, the Uruguayan black population seems to have somehow made its mark on mainstream society one way or another, despite ingrained and widespread anti-black racism in Uruguay. Even under these conditions, the black population were far more literate than their counterparts in Latin America. Who knows, but could they have been comparatively more literate than many white Argentines in comparative social strata at that time?
I don’t whether it’s possible that this makes Afro-Uruguayans appear “uppity” in the eyes of white Argentina.
There is also another difference between Argentina and Uruguay.
George Reid Andrews also says the culture of Afro-Uruguayans has been embraced, body and soul, by the white majority, to the point where “white people get to be black”. Then, as now, they get to immerse themselves in Candombe and Tango, take great pleasure in dressing up and acting out beloved stereotypes about black people’s “nature”, such as natural rhythm, supposed hypersexuality, connection to magic…and, even wear blackface.
It’s so much a part of white Uruguayan national consciousness, he says, that “the white influx into comparsas is now pushing down wages for black drummers”. (comparsa=musical band).
I wonder whether Argentina’s whites long for the privilege of expressing and defining themselves so openly using black artforms?
The author does report that Afro-Uruguayans aren’t best pleased with their racial caricaturisation or what seems like a white obsession with African dance and music as a national expression. It has nothing to undo racial inequality.
However, I can only speculate on how the 2 countries could regard one another.
(From: “Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay”)
(http://www.amazon.com/Blackness-White-Nation-History-Afro-Uruguay-ebook/dp/B0042X9O8K/ref=la_B001IODP9K_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398132806&sr=1-2)
on Tue Apr 22nd 2014 at 03:31:57 Kiwi
“Limpieza de sangre” seems to be a common theme in white Latin American racial attitudes, where nonwhites such as Amerindians and Africans are seen as “unclean”. It goes back to Hispanic views of Moriscos (Muslims) and Marranos (Jews) in Iberia during the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
What I find amazing is the striking similarity of Hispanic racism’s origins in Catholic persecution of Jews and Muslims to Anglo racism’s origins in English Protestant persecution of Irish Catholics.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/white-american-racism-against-natives-1600s/
What started as religious persecution that could be avoided by conversion transformed into a persecution based on ancestry. Even “conversos” (converted Jews and Muslims) would face continued discrimination based on their “impure” lineage.
The same applied to Natives and blacks who converted to Christianity. After too many nonwhites became fellow Christians of the English or Spanish, the goalposts were shifted from religion to race, thus keeping people divided.
on Tue Apr 22nd 2014 at 05:44:56 gatobranco1
Concerning Argentina, I have once read a Russian publication about that country where it was claimed that in the end of 18 century about 30 percent of the Agerntinian population of the time(less than 1 million people) could have been black. The rest were mostly Spanish-Native American mestizos, only small group were white(criollos) but probably even these had at least some Native American ancestors. So that Argentina before the beginning of the mass migration of Europeans(somewhere about 1860- 1870) was not really different from other countries of the continent.
And by the way, the Argentinian gaucho poem “Martin Fierro” quite often mentions “morenos” which was the name given to black people in Agentina.
How Egyptians looked 2000 BP
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fayum_mummy_portraits
on Tue Apr 22nd 2014 at 08:33:16 B. R.
Where I live is a huge destination for Argentinians and people from Uruguay , the Argentinians come in bus loads, and their is a season for the Uruguaians..these are more blue collar people the elites go to Rio….
The Uruguaians always have some phenotype black people among them and the Argentinians rarely have phenotype black people .They both have many people with phenotype indiginous indian looks .The Candombe carnival celibrations in Uruguay, have many black neighborhoods drum corps. Uruguay has way more phenotype Afro descendants than Argentina
A person from Argentina, Buenos Aires , who has some Afro descendancy but is not overly phenotype Afro looking , is a guy like soccar player Tevez…he played in Brazil, and they did a back ground bio report on him and they said he came from a poor neighborhood with a violent reputation , and when they showed shots from there, you could see the people were a little darker than average . still no heavy phenotype Afro representation, but , Afro descendant traits . They even went into the origins of his victory dance after his goals and how it was a dance from that neighborhood.
The Tango was influenced by the Cuban Habanera , and they say from Uruguay as well as Argentina…for sure , Uruguay could have an Afro influence on Tango
But Tango has other influences that are stronger than the Afro influence…many times , the flow is interupted by retards, or stops…very anti groove when that happens. It is one example of many in Latin America , where there is some Afro influence, but it is diminished. There are other anomolies in Gaúcho culture that have Afro referances but mostly done by white people. Something done with two hard balls on a rope that they swing very percusivly in 6/8 Afro sounding cadance, and a rhythm they play on a drum called bumbalagueiro
Brazil is so much more Afro descendant. There are huge amounts of dominant Afro diasporic expresions, actualy varying from big city to big city, like they were a country onto themselves…huge varieties of Afro diasporic beats and dances and huge varieties in how mixtures of people in the Americas played out, if not all the examples…fewer workers from Índia were brought to Brazil, where Guyana to the north has lots of people whose ancestors were brought from India
@ Pay it Forward
I haven’t the foggiest about studies like that, so thank you for shedding light on them.
on Sat Apr 26th 2014 at 02:31:52 TheSocialCentre.WordPress.com
Your white teachings about JudaeanHebrews as white,regardless of self described wanna be Jews is not in syche with genographics!
check genographic nation on Patrilineal JudaeaoGerman mid east roots!
Check out my SocialHandle.WordPress.com on my SocialHumanRace.WordPress.com It is probably Also SocialKin.WordPress.com! You will find the Genographic National Geographic testing shows comparable kinship of JudaeaoGerman,Yiddish Ashkenezim with both Mediterranean JudaeanHebrew,SephardicJews and as comparable with PalestineArabs’ patrilineage! If you want to sharpen up on your Lebanese war material, you might want to check out the Genographics on the Maronites as well as the pages showing each of the countries of the Mid east North African Mediterranean! I advise you to free your mind from the old radical militant affinity to the ArabistEmpireRacist genocidal perps, raping and genocidal destroying of Darfur, Sudan as well as the SudanArab war on South Sudan Blacks, Black lives and Black social culture! That is, as you obsess over the Angloes’ old hat, worn out standard , not new at all, stuff! With the exception of your great 1949 Blues,Rock n Roll first rate music! You need a refresher brother! The term Sudani means Black, while Bidani means white, from the Arabic self described labeling of Arabist Empire conquest, enslaving Africa! Meanwhile PLO definition of Patrilineage, as the defining property, to identify Arab nationality, particularly the PalestineArab centre of ArabEmpire nationalism, places JudaeaoGerman Patrilineage, right smack dab in the centre of PalestineArab common rooted kinship! Last but not least, on the ArabEmpire conquest over JudaeanHebrew,Zion,Israel, the Mediterranean, North African South West Asian, JudaeanHebrew roots, are as PalestineArab rooted, as any PalestineArab Man Woman or child! Meanwhile you do not distinguish between the Zanzibar Black Swahili,Bantu Non Arabs and the minority ArabistAryan mixed ruling apartheid minority! The Zanzibar White Arabists can be as white as Freddy Mercury of the rock group Queen, remember?
PalestineArabs are kin to SudanArabs, a mix of ArabEmpire conquering invaders, over non Arab country! So the Patrilineal roots of Arabist men, Arabized the native first nation, matrilineal pool of JudaeanHebrew and AramaicCanaanite geneologic roots! This same pattern happened all across the ArabistEmpire, conquered Africa and South West Asian, Mediterranean countries! So now, you have First nation AramaicAssyrian-AramaeanSyriac, occupied by Arabizing, ArabistEmpire patrilineage! The same goes for Nubian, Darfur, Beja and Kordofan-Nuba Nile and Saharan Blacks, occupied by ArabistEmpire patrilineage! That is the reason self described White Bidani Arabist Patrilineage, calls them selves white, while their Arabist gulf brothers call them ABEED FOR BLACK SLAVE, FROM THE SAME ROOT WORD AS SERVANT OF ALLAH ABDUL! So you might be interested to learn that MauritanianArabist Bidani whites, also call their Black subordinates, Sudanis and Abeeds! The Fulani Free Blacks, never enslaved, are still third or fouth class due to their not speaking the standard HASSANIA Arabic,te HassaniaArabs trace their patrilineage back to the Arabian peninsula! Fulanis do speak the Koranic Classical Arabic THAT ALL EDUCTAED MUSLIM BLACK NON ARABS SPEAK! But that Islamic scholarly Koranic Arabic does not earn the SudaniFulanis the respect of the demeaning ArabistEmpireApartheid occupiers of Mauritania, any more than Darfur Muslim non Arabs! Instead the Fulanis have been gradually organizing, no thanks to the USA militant radical Black Progressives! Mostly, if at all no help or attention comes from the Jew haters of the militant radical alleged Black nationalist, activism leaders, in positions of influence like your site!
on Sat Jun 21st 2014 at 07:36:56 Mihai
Because jews are white. *retard face*
on Sat Jun 21st 2014 at 16:54:53 Kotkoda (@kotkoda)
What does your map really show??? Your data range from 1921 to 2014 and from more to less reliable sources such as the US census or wikipedia. Also, which census did you use for the US numbers ? 2010? Did you use “white only” numbers? If so why?
I really don’t know how to interpret your map. Sorry to say but it makes no sense.
on Sun Jun 22nd 2014 at 06:00:37 Paul
The truth is as can be discerned from some of the comments and the map is that in many cases white is more state of mind than color of skin. In a lot of cases it’s social and financial and can be taken to mean ” I’m better than whoever is nonwhite.”
on Sun Jun 22nd 2014 at 16:42:17 abagond
@ Kotkoda
The numbers for the US are from 2010. It includes white Hispanics since otherwise I would find myself saying there are no white people in Latin America, which I think is nuts.
The Wikipedia numbers almost always come from government figures.
Only one country uses numbers from before like 2006 and that is Mexico.
on Sun Jun 22nd 2014 at 19:49:04 Joghn
What is the purpose of such a map? It seems like the same sort of thing eugenicists publish. What is the goal of publishing racial demographic maps?
on Mon Jun 23rd 2014 at 01:55:29 abagond
@ Joghn
I made he map because I wanted to know.
on Mon Jun 23rd 2014 at 03:49:23 drukermeister
It looks like you didn’t do your homework. Per Wikipedia, Mizrakhi and Sefardi Jews constitute about 2,721,000. The vast, vast majority of them are from other Middle Eastern and North African countries. So, they should be considered non-white. (Unless, of course, you’re using one-drop-of-white-blood for them.)
Ethiopian Jews constitute another 130,000. So, together that would make 2,851,000 non-white Jews. Add to that 1,688,600 Palestinians residing within Green Line. That makes a total of 4,539,600. Out of total population of 8,134,100.
That makes Israel about 55.81% non-white or about 44.19 white. So, Israel should be two shades lighter, if I understood your color scheme correctly.
@gatobranco1
Thanks, interesting portraits. I have never seen them before. It’s funny, but to me they look like modern Armenians/Georgians/Jews. (I have met Armenians and Georgians live as I was born in the former USSR.)
@ drukermeister
It looks like you did not read the post. According to the definition of “white” that I used all Jews are considered white.
My definition is not perfect, I admit. It is at best an approximation. But I needed something that was easy to apply uniformly across the whole world based on the information available in 2014. I tried different definitions. This one created the fewest paradoxes. Yours, for example, would apparently see Ralph Nader as non-white and Steve Jobs as half-white.
No, I did read the post. I just think it’s ridiculous, considering that you defined the surrounding Arabs/Middle Easterners among whom the majority of these Jews have lived for centuries as non-white. But, I guess, when you have an agenda to follow, why care about reality or even consistency?
on Mon Jun 23rd 2014 at 14:45:24 Kartoffel
If you read the map as a map of how americans view the world It’s perfectly viable. The inconsitencies are due to the inconsitent american view of race, it’s blurred borders.
@Kartoffel
I see what you mean and would even agree with you re: Americans’ view. The map does resemble that, but the issue then is two-fold. 1. As I understood it, the map is, at least partially, based on self-identification, in which case Americans’ views don’t matter, and 2. even if we get past 1, the map would need to lose internal boundaries for Canada, Russia, etc.
You can make insulting insinuations or maybe you could give me a better definition of white that I can apply consistently to the whole world with available information. I tried different ones. This was the one that I found to work best in practice, consistently.
on Wed Jun 25th 2014 at 20:02:14 Race Relations | Clarita Bombita
[…] Village in Chicago, a predominantly Latin@ neighborhood, to Costa Rica which according to this map https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/the-map-of-white-people/ is 75-100% made up of white people. It is the only country in the region that is predominantly […]
on Wed Jun 25th 2014 at 20:52:46 Kiwi
That means white Hispanics, Armenians and Lebanese Christians are in,
I agree with this assessment fully. I have met people from all of these categories. All strongly identified as white and were more racist than most “traditional” white Americans: WASPs.
on Sat Jun 28th 2014 at 18:07:31 Joghn
You made the map because you wanted to know what? Racial demography?
on Sun Jul 6th 2014 at 16:50:08 Njujorkezi
This map is wrong in so many levels. Albanians and other Muslims in Balkans are white, but I see you have problem with the religion. Second, if Albanians, Bosniaks are not white, are Israelis and Armenians white ? Lol.
on Sun Jul 6th 2014 at 17:22:28 abagond
@ Njujorkezi
By all means, suggest a more workable definition of what white is.
on Fri Jul 25th 2014 at 07:38:22 Person of Candor
Ha ha. You have a tumblr account don’t you Abagond.
on Sat Jul 26th 2014 at 02:20:59 limelite
Around 1900, the census in South Africa showed that the black to white ratio was around 2:1. Now it’s 10;1. Apartheid sure was real bad for the black population,eh? Maybe you should look again at your ‘before the bad evil white people arrived’ map for South Africa. Oh, and in case you weren’t aware of it, there were no “blacks” in South Africa – they arrived from the north by migration, around the time the whites arrived in Cape Town. Yeah, I know, shocking, right? I mean, you wouldn’t want to appear racist against white people or anything!
on Sun Sep 7th 2014 at 08:45:18 Kiwi
This guy needs a history lesson. The Khoikhoi arrived at the Cape well over a thousand years before the Europeans. Even the Chinese had gotten there over two hundred years before Bartolomeu Dias. Why do white people always think they discovered everything?
on Sun Sep 7th 2014 at 09:01:04 Michael Cooper
Kiwi, I totally agree with. Dude needs a history lesson. But that’s the white fragile ego syndrome that Agabond broke down perfectly.
limelite is definitely “limelight” in the head. His misinformation is from those guys who “discovered” everything. White racists are hilarious.
on Sat Oct 25th 2014 at 00:34:23 Gjirokastriti SHQIPTAR
Albania and Kosovo = grey: 0% to 25% white AHAHAHAH. NICE PROPAGANDA !!
on Fri Jan 16th 2015 at 00:46:13 Chris santana
if you excluded “white hispanics” then why is argentina there. Hispanics are anyone who comes from a SPANISH speaking country, hispanic has nothing to do with race! You yourself said “white hispanic” signifying that they are a person of european decent from a spanish speaking country or background, you said you would not include them because they would not count.. How if they are WHITE hispanics, yet you included argentina in which case you just contradicted yourself, very smart.
on Fri Jan 16th 2015 at 04:20:59 sharinalr
@Chris santana
Where in the post did he say he excluded “white Hispanics”? Plus I believe the map is based on how people identify not so much what he believes they are.
@ Chris Santana
I said in the post that I include White Hispanics.
on Fri Jan 16th 2015 at 05:09:42 Anna Stevens
Wow. The funny thing is, if I created a map called “A Map of Colored People” you would get mad because you were lumped together with all the other races, yet you didn’t seem to have a problem doing that to us “Whites”. I would also be blasted as an insensitive racist, but as long as you’re only being racist to people who are not in your lump sum of “white” you don’t seem to care do you? You are insensitive and ignorant and you’ve created this site to find shelter (in your few followers) for your ideals and opinions that are rude to others. You make me sick. You are wasting the hard work that was sacrificed by Civil Rights movements across the world. Oh, but you probably only think that “Civil Rights Movements” happen in America with white people oppressing non-white people. Well you’re wrong. They’re happening everywhere between all types of races not just whites. Get a grip of ACTUAL reality. Go explore the world. I did mission work in Honduras, I was chastised endlessly because they assumed I did not speak Spanish. Yes, I was persecuted for being white. “Stupid gringa doesn’t know we are making fun of her.” “She has ugly hair for a gringa.” Shocker, I know. So wake up and smell the roses. NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST. And YOU are being RACIST when you say “whites are always looking down on others.” or even, “white people are so racist.” Because you’re doing exactly what you are accusing “whites” of doing. You are assuming that because my skin is white that I will automatically be racist. It’s funny how that works huh.
And I’m from the Mississippi, where everyone says is SOOOO racist. Guess what, we’ve dealt with it and we’ve put it behind us. And everyone hear (disregarding there race or religion) is SICK AND TIRED of people always assuming everyone here is a racist or insensitive, or (my favorite) “stupid, fat, country people”. Ding ding ding, if you automatically assume that someone from a certain region behaves a certain way or believes a certain thing, YOU ARE BEING RACIST. Just like you grouped entire NATIONS of people onto your “white people map” I have a feeling a lot of people would feel extremely offended by your assumptions. Just like if I said, oh Latinos are darker than white people, I’ll just group them in with black people. That’s not how it works, they are there own people group. Seriously, get it together.
on Fri Jan 16th 2015 at 08:37:05 Kiwi
@ Anna Stevens
The fascinating thing is that if you had been black, the racism you experienced in Honduras likely would have been many times worse. But I don’t expect you to know!
on Tue Feb 24th 2015 at 19:02:53 Speak Out
You’re going to have a hard time finding people in Baja, Sonora, and Chihuahua who “look white” but don’t have dark-skinned parents and/or children. Tourists excepted.
“would apparently see Ralph Nader as non-white”
Ralph Nader was called the n-word by white people growing up. I took his sister’s class and she is brown-skinned and was very supportive of the paper I wrote for her class analyzing the “Hispanic/Latino” racial project and how the U.S. has historically alternated between calling Mexican Americans “Indian” and “white” according to which better serves its interests in particular situations.
on Mon Mar 30th 2015 at 14:30:15 Pλulλ Ⓖ ♏♜ (@PauOrue)
This is the most racist I saw in my life . Please evolve , there is nothing wrong with being black , Indian , mestizo, etc. Every day we delaying us by people like YOU. Greetings from Argentina
on Thu Apr 9th 2015 at 23:02:44 Andrés
on Wed May 27th 2015 at 20:05:45 javier
I’m from Argentina, and the whole north of the country is mostly amerindian. In all the country, the percent of white people is about the 68%, amerindians are about 30% and the rest are black and east Asians (a few).
People whi is called mestizos, are very mixed amerindians (most part) or very mixed whites.
on Wed May 27th 2015 at 22:20:21 biggiefriez
@Abagond,
“I thought of using both linguistics and genetics to define “white”. The trouble is that, either way, Iran, Pakistan and much of India would become part of “white”. That was not the sort of white I had in mind.”
I think you’re working too hard Abagond. In my opinion and in my experience as part of the white-European diaspora, most white people who consider themselves the ancestors of the pilgrims, settlers, George Washington, Shakespeare, Kant, Newton, Alfred Nobel, Mozart etc etc and generally of British Isles and northern European descent define whiteness fairly closely to the Nazi model even if only subconsciously. And since these whites are the ones that invented the world order, the philosophical, economic and governmental paradigms we live under and still dominate it for the most part and whose features, languages, and culture are still deemed to be the most desirable and preeminent throughout the world, their definition probably is – definitive. Why invent the wheel?
For your purposes I’d stick with that model and assume anyone who isn’t 100% northern European Anglo-Saxon looking along with the correct names and language isn’t considered fully white by Anglo-Saxons but rather “ethnic white”. Celts may be an exception but I’m not sure. So there is a hierarchy to European whiteness just as there is a hierarchy to race generally, with as you know, blacks at the bottom. Clearly being “ethnic white” isn’t as desirable as being northern European-white which is why some “ethnic whites” seem to display inferiority complexes. You’ve met the type. I recall “Pino” from Do the Right Thing. Ethnic whites hold parades. Parades, special days, parts of town (little this, little that) and other forms of attention seeking are ways people who feel they are not part of the mainstream conversation bring attention to their groups accomplishments and hopefully increase the self-confidence and pride of their members.
Many of the ethnic whites you mention like Greeks, Albanians, Slavs, some southern Italians, Caucasians etc, European looking Persians, Jews are accepted as white on a government census but less so by Anglo-Saxon civil society. Within Anglo-Saxon civil society they are considered “ethnic whites”. Ethnic whites are for the most part the ones you are referring to when you reference the “expansion of whiteness”.
I read that in Europe, Greeks and Italians often face discrimination from northern Europeans. Imagine that.
So whiteness isn’t really so hard to figure out. Just ask the people who decided what whiteness was in the first place, after all, it’s not like any of us get to decide anyway.
on Mon Jun 1st 2015 at 16:43:43 abagond
@ biggiefriez
I thought that that idea of Whiteness – Nordics as the “true” Whites, the rest as “ethnic” Whites – died out in the US in the 1950s, certainly by the 1980s. Rates of intermarriage seem to show that. So does the way the words “race” and “ethnic” have been used from the 1910s to 2010s:
In the 1970s I can remember “ethnic” meaning like Italians or Poles, whereas now in the US it means non-Whites. People use “race” and “ethnicity” almost interchangeably. Likewise, in the early 1900s, many saw Europe as divided into maybe three “races” – Nordic, Alpine and Mediterranean – using skull measurements and everything. Back then Franz Boas could talk about the “race” problem and mean among White people. If you say “the race problem” now in the US, people think you mean Blacks and Whites.
on Thu Jun 25th 2015 at 09:07:15 Omar Ortiz
Northern Mexico have more white population, in the states with light blue you should put medium blue…and in the rest of the border states should be medium blue as well.
For example, the state of Sonora has 65% approx. of white people, and it’s colored with light blue that means less than 50%…I live in Nuevo Leon, and I’m sure that there’s more than 50% of white people here.
on Thu Jun 25th 2015 at 12:44:01 abagond
@ Omar Ortiz
As noted in the post, the numbers for Mexico are way out of date. Can you point me to more recent numbers?
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 13:45:54 Marko
Why the hell did you classfiyed Albania as a “grey” country ? Do you think in Albania live black people or what ? Albania is a country with fully white people you ignorant people 1
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 18:57:23 Herneith
@Marko:
Better to be grey than psychedelic purple!
on Wed Jul 29th 2015 at 17:28:23 Bess
This makes no sense when you say that Albanians are not WHITE??! Your one retarded Moran
on Wed Jul 29th 2015 at 17:49:52 abagond
@ Bess
Tip: If you are going to call someone a moron, you should check your spelling first.
Calling someone a moron is not an argument. It proves nothing.
on Thu Jul 30th 2015 at 00:36:18 Mz.Nikita
@Abagond, LmaOooo X-D
on Sat Aug 1st 2015 at 14:53:22 drake
the albanians are whiter than greeks you mooron have u seen greek they are all darker than albanian ..albanians are white
on Sat Aug 1st 2015 at 16:42:37 Herneith
What’s ‘mooron’, moron?
In these peoples’ case they would not comprehend the above sentiment.
on Sun Aug 16th 2015 at 22:40:51 Italian man
Hi I would like to speak my mind, sometimes consider someone white. and not in the logic. but one thing geopolitical or cultural. it is true! people Kosovar Albanian and Bosnian and Muslim, but the lifestyle and racial and quite European! I am silly. white label not only someone for religion! it is also true that the same thing in Europe and uses Austalia and happened to Portuguese Italian southern Sicilian and Greek being seen as non-white. as in Europe and also in Italy the Arab populations! only some slightly darker shade of skin. the truth and the real part of the white race from that area that starts from the axis jerusalem-kuwait city up talking for asia, from cairo Casablanca-up to the east from the Urals to Portugal including descendants of those people who colonized the Americas and Australia
on Mon Aug 17th 2015 at 04:04:32 Danish Butter
This is stupid and ignorant. As a muslim, I don’t identify that as my race, and you are only contributing to that problem and know nothing about history.
on Sat Sep 12th 2015 at 23:54:40 ANGETS
I am sorry but Sephardi Jews are NOT whites (so don’t put Israel in dark blue). And Albanians, Bosnians and Macedonians ARE whites.
on Tue Oct 20th 2015 at 19:07:24 DyaniB
Not a good map at all. You forgot South Africa and many other places. Whites are dispersed all over the globe, ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
on Tue Oct 20th 2015 at 21:36:10 abagond
@ DyaniB
I did not forget South Africa at all. I even talked about it in the post.
on Fri Oct 30th 2015 at 16:23:41 mike
Who cares who is White in this day and age when president of USA is black. What most normal people care this days there are only four kind of people that matters: rich, poor, beautiful and ugly.
I mean Russians and Slavs are mostly White and many blond but no one trust them in contrary to for example Japanese and east Asians
on Sat Dec 12th 2015 at 21:43:26 Bllblla
Just that Albanians are muslim they are not white are u stupid? Wow!!!!
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 04:01:03 Mike
soon there will be no more dark blue spots because of immigration and low birth rate of whites.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 12:22:41 Alan Schlickmann
The map doesn’t take absolute numbers in consideration, only percentage. Absolute numbers can also help to picture a global figure.
The USA has the largest White population on the planet with 223 million Whites. The US is followed by Russia with 146 million people, mostly Whites but Eurasians also included. Germany has 81 million people, France 66, the UK 65, Italy 60 and Spain 46, but those countries are not entirely composed of Whites.
Brazil has the third largest White population in absolute numbers with 89 million European descendants, 10 million Levantine Arabs, mostly Christian Lebanese and Syrians, 162 thousand Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews and 800 thousand Anusim or descendants of colonial Dutch and Portuguese Crypto Jews/Marranos. Brazil is also home to 800 thousand Gypsies or Roma people, mostly Portuguese followed by Baltic and Eastern Europe Gypsies.
Brazil has 42 million Lusitanians or Portuguese people, including 1.5 million Lusitanian citizens, followed by 31 million Italian descendants, 19 million Spanish descendants, 16 million descendants of German-speaking nationalities, i.e., German, Austrian, Luxembourger and Swiss (including 7 million of full German ancestry), Pomeranians and Volga included, 6 million Slavs, mostly Poles, Ukranians, Russians, Belarusians, Croatians, Czech and Slovenes, 1.5 million Dutch descendants, 1 million French descendants, 1 million Scandinavian descendants, mostly Norwegians, 850 thousand Lithuanians and Latvians, 300 thousand Hungarians, 250 thousand British descendants including Charles Miller and Oscar Cox who popularized football in Brazil, 180 thousand White Americans, mostly descendants of 19th century Confederate colonies. American descendants include Pérola (Pearl) Ellis Byington, an accoladed educator, social activist, philanthropist and volunteer for the American and Brazilian Red Cross, Chief Justice of Brazil Ellen Gracie Northfleet, first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, and the singer Rita Lee Jones, dubbed “the mother of Brazilian rock’n’roll”. Brazil also has 150 thousand Finnish descendants, 150 thousand Greeks, 40 thousand Armenians and other groups like Georgians, Irish etc. The ethnicities overlap just like in Argentina. São Paulo has the largest absolute number with 30 million Whites and the state of Santa Catarina that is 49% German and Austrian has the highest percentage of whites with 86%. It used to be 95% in the 1940s. São Paulo has the largest number of Italians with 15 million people. The city of São Paulo has the largest number of Jews in the nation, also the largest Japanese diaspora. Brazil has the largest number of Japanese people outside Japan. Peru also has Japanese descendants. The other South American countries also have Chinese and Korean populations, as well as Jewish minorities.
The second most spoken language in Brazil or mother tongue is German or assorted German dialects. The Hunsrückisch dialect from Rio Grande do Sul is called Riograndenser while the local one from Santa Catarina is called Katharinensisch. 4 million people have German as their mother tongue in Brazil and 3.6 million speak Venetian Italian. Polish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Lettish, Norwegian and Russian, Yidish and Hebrew are other immigrant languages.
Argentina has over 20 million Italian descendants and Italian is the second most spoken language in the country. The number of Spaniards is also over 20 million people. Argentina is home to 6 million French descendants, 3 million Germans mostly Volga, 3 million Arabs, almost a million Irish descendants. Che Guevara had Irish ancestors. Argentina is also home to Welsh and Swedish colonies in Patagonia. There are still several Welsh speakers. Chile is home to a large number of British descendants from 19th century immigration who helped during war against Peru and Bolivia. Argentina has the largest number of Jews in Latin America, followed by Brazil. Argentina used to have around 400 thousand Jews but a few thousands moved to Israel.
The entire number of Europeans living in Sub-Saharan Africa is not much higher than 5 million. The majority live in South Africa followed by Angola. South Africa has 4 million Whites including Brits, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian. Several Boers or Boeroes (Afrikaners) migrated to North and South America during the 20th century, including US, Canada, Argentina and Brazil.
Most Whites who lived in Suriname and Guyana left after independence. Brazil received several Dutch Surinamese (or Boeroes)
Whites or Europeans in diaspora are (absolute numbers):
US 223 million;
Brazil 99 million;
Argentina between 39 and 40;
Canada 25;
Australia 20;
Mexico 20;
Colombia 18;
Venezuela 13;
Chile some estatistics say between 6 and 8, others between 8 and 10 million (Chile has 18 million people, a large Castizo population, people who are mostly European DNA with Native assimilation, and around 3 million Natives);
Cuba 7;
South Africa between 3.5 and 4.8 or 5;
Peru 5 million;
Costa Rica 3.5;
New Zealand 3.3;
Uruguay 3.1 (around 90% of Uruguay is White) ;
Puerto Rico 3;
Guatemala 2;
Dominican Republic 2;
Bolivia 2 (including several Mennonite colonies);
Ecuador 1.3;
Paraguay 1.3;
Nicaragua 1 million;
The Falklands (Malvinas) in South America have a population of 2 thousand people with several Welsh and Scottish descendants but also people from France, Gibraltar, Saint Helena, Sweden and Chile. Haiti has a very small White population between 200 and 400 thousand. Belize and Jamaica too. The White population in the Guyanas region does not reach over 60 thousand. French Guiana has the largest number, followed by Suriname.
According to DNA research people identified as Mestizo, Castizo or Caboclo in the Americas (Jessica Alba and Taylor Lautner phenotype) have a span of 70% to 90% European DNA markers with the rest being Native admixture and Mulatto or Black and White mix have a range of 60 to 80% European DNA markers. It was found that some Black people in the US aka African Americans carry Chinese blood from 19th century contact as well as European, while several White Americans carry Native genes and some African too. DNA tests with White phenotype citizens of Australia and New Zealand also showed Aboriginal and Maori blood assimilation as well as Chinese and several White phenotype South Africans have Sub-Saharan blood admixture. DNA tests with French and British Canadians have also showed Indigenous genes assimilation.
White Mormons still have dozens of babies. Mormons are probably the only reason why Whites won’t go extinct Heh heh! Hahaha!
Argentina and Brazil also have a few thousands of Afghans and Iranians.
Some statistics give 23 or 24 million Whites for Mexico.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 16:24:20 Afrofem
@Alan Schlickmann
White/European descent people are not going “extinct” anytime soon.
According to this 2011 Guardian article, African descent people are the majority in Brazil.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/17/brazil-census-african-brazilians-majority
This comes after concerted efforts by Euro-Brazilians to dilute the African population in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Euro-Brazilians went to far as to encourage immigration from Europe and award idigenous land to the European immigrants as a lure. (Hmmm, where have we heard that story before?)
Alan Schlickmann, you dumped a lot of uncorroborated data in your comments. I would love to see some sources. Links?
*Dutch Surinamese were called Boeroes, while Afrikaners or Dutch South African farmers are called Boeren.
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 21:08:56 Schlickmann
I think it was pretty obvious I was joking about the fact Mike said Whites were going extinct.
The Guardian is a leftist paper that serves their own populist agenda. It is wrong to count Castizos, Mestizos, Caboclos, Gypsies, Arabs and Eurasians as Black. It is a crime to deprive them of their identity. There are Mestizo and Eurasian groups protesting against that.
http://www.nacaomestica.org/pardo.htm
^ Flavia C. Parra et al., “Color and genomic ancestry in Brazilians”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100 (2003). Second paragraph. Accessed 12 December 2009.
^ Denise R. Carvalho-Silva et al., “The Phylogeography of Brazilian Y-Chromosome Lineages”, American Journal of Human Genetics 68 (2001): 281–286. Accessed 13 December 2009.
^ “Pardo category includes Castizos, Mestizos, Caboclos, Gypsies, Eurasians, Hafus and Mulattoes Cafuzos”. http://www.nacaomestica.org/. 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
The number of Blacks and Mulattoes in Brazil are actually not that higher than the US. The US has 42 million African Americans while Brazil has 56 million Blacks and Black and White miscigenation people. Those figures you mentioned are actually counting all mixed people and non-Whites as Black. The pardo group stands for mixed and includes Castizos, Mestizos, Gypsies and Eurasians. More than half of those counted as Black are actually Mestizo or Castizo and look like Jessica Alba and Taylor Lautner. The Northern region or North-West (Amazon basin area) is actually mostly Castizo, Caboclo and Indigenous with a White minority.
Brazil has 89 million European descendants; 10 million Levantine Arabs, mostly Christian Lebanese; 162 thousand Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews and 800 thousand Anusim, descendants of colonial Dutch and Portuguese Crypto Jews or Marranos.
800 thousand Roma people or Gypsies; 400 thousand Eurasians, mostly Ainoko or hafu, meaning Japanese and European. 2.3 million East Asians and 30 thousand South Asians and East Indians. Most Asians are Japanese. Brazil has 1.8 million Japanese people, 300 thousand Chinese, 50 thousand Taiwanese and 150 thousand Koreans.
Caboclo people are people whose genes span from 70% to 90% European (mostly colonial Portuguese, Dutch, French and Spanish) with the rest being Native blood admixture. In Spanish they use the word Castizo. Brazil has 43 million Caboclos or Castizos/Mestizos. The number of Indigenous people who live in reservations is 500 thousand. 160 thousand people speak speak Indigenous languages. Brazil has 42 million Mulattos and 13 million Blacks. According to DNA research people who identify as Mulatto or Black and White mix have a range of 62 to 80% European DNA markers (colonial Portuguese, Dutch and French) with the other markers being Sub-Saharan African blood assimilation.
Argentina and Uruguay have small Mulatto populations. Peru has a Black minority and Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana have a considerable Black and Mulatto population. In French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana there are the Maroon people, formerly called Bush Negroes. Peru also has East Asians and Colombia and Venezuela also received European and Arab immigration. They also have Jewish minorities. Peru and Venezuela have large Chinese populations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora
Brazil 55,900,000 including multiracial people, 6.84% (black) + 20.6% (mulatto pardos) Flavia C. Parra et al., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC140919/#id2601616 Color and genomic ancestry in Brazilians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100 (2003). Second paragraph.
Denise R. Carvalho-Silva et al., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1234928/ The Phylogeography of Brazilian Y-Chromosome Lineages
American Journal of Human Genetics” 68 (2001): 281–286. http://www.nacaomestica.org/pardo.htm
Pardo category includes Castizos, Mestizos, Caboclos, Gypsies, Eurasians, Hafus and Mulattoes Cafuzos
USA 42,020,743 including 3,091,424 citing both Black and another race
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Brazilians
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Latin_Americans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_diaspora
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentines_of_European_descent
on Wed May 25th 2016 at 22:43:45 Sharina
@Schlickmann
You are using 2009 stats to counter 2011 statistically data provided by Afrofem. This does not really support your claim. I will try to respond in depth when I feel like it.
Correction….your source has 2000-2002 data.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 00:49:53 Afrofem
“It is a crime to deprive them of their identity.”
I see this issue of identity differently.
It did not seem to be a “crime” to deprive African descent people of their identity during centuries of European domination in Brazil and throughout the Americas. To me all of these racial sub-classifications (such as Castizos, Mestizos and Mulattoes) were a way to deny and deprive people of African descent pride in their all parts of their heritage,
their contributions to the greater culture and most importantly, their political power.
The primary reason the Portugeuse and Spanish devised all of these spurious sub-classifications was to create division among people of African descent and antipathy toward Blackness and worship of Whiteness.
It worked for a long time, but in the words of that B.B. King song, the thrill is gone. African Brazilians and “blended” Brazilians, regardless of their degree of African heritage seem to be entering a period of respecting everyone in their family tree, not just the Europeans or the Indigenous members.
That may seem like deprivation to some, but to me, the majority of Brazilians pride and respect in their African ancestry is long overdue.
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Linking to a source in Portuguese such as nacaomestica.org is unhelpful. English language sources are preferable.
Wikipedia, to me, is a source of last resort. With that site, the question of who wrote this article(?) is always topmost in my evaluation of data and conclusions presented in the articles.
All of that being said, thank you for supplying some links. We will have to agree to disagree on what the information you presented means in the lives of Brazilians.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 01:02:22 Herneith
The white men should be out and about breeding more white women instead of watching porn and masturbating in their mother’s basement. What woman wants to bree with such men?
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 04:14:13 Alan Schlickmann
Wow! How is a person who’s mostly European DNA and partially Native American Black? They identify themselves as Castizo, Mestizo or Caboclo. They don’t have recent Sub-Saharan ancestors. Only if you count 400 thousand years ago. How is an Eurasian Black? Do Americans label Eurasian Keanu Reeves as Black? How is a Roma (Gypsy) individual Black? Is Kate Beckinsale who has Chinese-Burmese ancestors Black? Angelina Jolie has Native American assimilation. Is she Black? Are Jessica Alba and Taylor Lautner deemed as Black?
Are people from New Zealand who are mostly White and partially Maori as well as Canadians with Métis admixture Black people? Would they be African American?
The last census took place in 2010. There are several pdf links provided.
This seems like a trolling using pseudo-leftism to serve your own agenda and justify your own invested interests just like The NY Times and The Guardian overrating or underestimating numbers to fit their agenda.
It is a crime to label Levantine Arabs, Jews, Roma people aka Gypsies, Asians, Eurasians, Mestizos and Indigenous peoples from the Americas as Black.
Mestizo, Castizo and Mulatto are terms that American and Brittish English borrowed from Spanish. That’s the reason I used them.
Brazil is in the Americas. The majority of the people who identify as mixed is Mestizo and Genetic tests showed that they have a span of 70% to 90% European markers with Native American Pre-Columbian admixture. That is the reason why Jessica Alba and Taylor Lautner have the phenotype they have. Other mixed include Gypsies, Eurasians, Mulattos and Cafuzos. The figures are clear you just have to read them.
In 1498 Brazil had 3.2 million Natives. A large percentage died from the flu and smallpox. Brazil received 3.6 million Sub-Saharan Africans as slaves from the 1550s untill the 19th century. 4 million Portuguese migrated to Brazil. 1.5 million between 1951 and 1975. Between the 1820s and 1940s Brazil received another 7 million Europeans, including Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, plus 600 thousand Levantine Arabs and starting in 1908 the country received 270 thousand Japanese people, and later 100 thousand Koreans and 200 thousand Chinese people.
Mixed people descend from settlers from the colonial period.
European descendants, Levantine Arabs, Jews and East Asians descend from 19th century and 20th century immigration during the Imperial and Republican periods. Recent immigration.
It is pretty obvious. Just like the History of Hispanic America, US and Canada.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 04:51:34 Sharina
Nothing you provided has any recent data to it. On top of that your argument is based solely on how you believe it should be rather than facts presented in your sources. You opinion is people should identify as white because of their mostly European DNA, but fact of the matter is people are often pushed into a category based on a drop of black blood. Pull all the numbers you want, but how a person chooses to identify is up to them not you. That is not pseudo-leftism that is reality.
Re: White Mormons
Many of them suffer from fertility issues, so if you are counting on them to save the white race then you will be counting a long time.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 04:56:16 abagond
White people have mainly themselves to blame. They are not having enough babies. No one is forcing them to do that. As a consequence, they depend on immigration just to keep their countries going, to make up for the children they did not have.
Also, they screwed up many of the very countries that immigrants come from.
on Thu May 26th 2016 at 05:40:30 Benjamin
Maybe that is why the birthrate in Israel is so high compared to other developed nations. They’re worried that if falls too low, they’ll be forced to rely on (non-Jewish) immigration. And of course they’d never consider that option.
Over 50 percent of Brazilians self identify as African descent people. People who cling to those antiquated racial subcategories and their European cousins are a numerical minority in Brazil.
The blog, Black Women of Brazil, has many fine articles about how this new majority see themselves. This article is instructive: Mulata? Morena? Not anymore!: The power and liberation of recognizing one’s self as black
https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2014/06/05/mulata-morena-not-anymore-the-power-and-liberation-of-recognizing-ones-self-as-black/
This is how African Brazilians see themselves.
“We are black women! Without (any of) this mulata, parda, moreninha…”
To me, it is a crime to not recognize and celebrate their Blackness.
You also might want to peruse this article: We are empowered black women! We will not whiten ourselves anymore
https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2015/04/12/we-are-empowered-black-women-we-will-not-whiten-ourselves-anymore/
If they are ready to move beyond antiquated racial subclassifications, perhaps you could consider accepting them as they present themselves—–as proud people of African descent.
on Tue May 31st 2016 at 06:55:24 bruce (@dibran)
My 10 year old daughter can divide race in world map better then you
on Tue May 31st 2016 at 12:36:32 abagond
@ bruce
So where is her map?
on Tue May 31st 2016 at 12:41:48 Kiwi
I would also be interested in seeing a world map showing a 10 year old’s idea of who she considers White. Sociologically, it would actually be quite insightful if you can provide it.
on Wed Jun 8th 2016 at 04:33:30 Benjamin
The map of white people was not on the Internet, so I made one.
On the “European Diaspora” page on wikipedia, there is a map of people of European descent. It matches closely to yours but is not identical (it includes the Balkans as White, for example). I wonder if it was influenced by your map or not, since you had not come across a “map of White people” before.
on Wed Jun 8th 2016 at 05:13:18 abagond
@ Benjamin
Seems like it was. It is suspiciously close and even uses shades of blue!
Yes! It was the shades of blue that reminded me of your map. Upon reading further, that map is even more similar to yours than I thought. I guess the creator of that map does NOT consider Muslims in the Balkans to be White after all. I guess the reason they shaded it light blue is to reflect the Christian minorities there.
on Wed Jun 8th 2016 at 09:56:52 jefe
Good catch, Benjamin!
on Wed Jun 8th 2016 at 10:31:32 Kiwi
I noticed that some coastal cities of China and India (and Singapore) are dotted light blue. This happened on your map of Black people thread, too.
on Thu Jun 9th 2016 at 01:29:55 abagond
I thought I had fixed that. It should be good now. Thanks.
He says he excludes Muslims as “European” since otherwise he would have to count much of South West Asia as European. Same as me.
He counts Ashkenazic Jews as European but not other Jews. I counted all Jews as White, but I agree with him. After all, according to my definition, Ethiopian Jews are “White”. It was never an issue though, since it did not show up on the map.
Where we do disagree and where it does show up on the map is Lebanese Christians. I count them, he does not. He counts Christians in Armenia, but not those in Lebanon or Egypt. He seems to base that on language: Armenians speak an Indo-European language, Arab Christians do not. He does admit that it was an arbitrary decision.
All this confirms for me that all those drive-by commenters who say I am an idiot for not including Albanians have never tried to make a map like this – or even seriously thought about what they mean by “White”. It is just one of those contradictory ideas they complacently base their life on.
The link to his map and commentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_diaspora#/media/File:European_Ancestry_Large.svg
on Sat Jun 25th 2016 at 03:25:18 Isaac
Israel is not anymore ‘white’ than Syria, Lebanon, or Iraq. Jews are closest related to northern middle eastern and south caucasian populations. Jews are descended mainly from Hebrews and other mediterranean peoples from Italy and Greece.
In fact, the only significant admixture that Ashkenazi Jews have is italian/greek. Sefaradi Jews also have this admixture and are no darker than many ashkenazi jews. Both groups are more related to each other than to any other populations. Same race.
Plenty of ashkenazi jews look kurdish, armenian, lebanese, or persian. Others look greek or italian or spanish.
And not all sefaradi jews are dark either. Plenty have white skin. They have similar levels of southern european admixture that ashkenazim have.
Mizrahi Jews make up the majority of Israel anyway and are pure hebrew (middle eastern).
Furthermore 1/5 of Israeli citizens are arabs. 20% of the population.
There are many black people that converted to judaism living in Israel, or that descend from black converts and hebrews (ethiopians).
Israelis are no whiter than Assyrians and Kurds (people from northern iraq).
Seriously, there are some really dark ashkenazi jews out there, entire families. Very light sefaradi families too.
You people are so sheltered when it comes to Israel. For years you said Ashkenazi Jews descended from Turkic-Mongol Khazars (epic fail), you were all wrong.
They are a middle eastern/mediterranean hybrid population. Virtually identical to sefaradi jews, and extremely close to mizrahi jews (jews that never migrated to europe).
All autosomal studies and mt-dna studies confirm this.
And of course someone will post a few white skinned ashkenazi jews on here to show how ‘white’ all ashkenazim are which is bs.
Consider this. Judah Benjaim, a sefaradi jew, was the brains behind the southern confederacy. How can you possibly consider him to be a person of color yet consider a darker ashkenazi jew to be white?
Technically anyone from the middle east, north africa, and europe is white/caucasian anyway.
You guys have obviously never seen many sefaradi jews, who are not all brown people. Seriously, there are tons of white skinned jews from Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia.
Plenty of sefaradim from europe are white too. Serbia, Macedonia/Greece, the netherlands, portugal, england, bulgaria.
A prime minister of England was a sefaradi jew, Benjamin d’israeli,, are you seriously saying he is not white? But that some olive skinned or brown skinned ashkenazi from Israel is white? That makes zero sense.
As for mizrahim, you really need to get out more. Plenty of Syrian Jews are lighter than ashkenazi jews. It goes both ways. Even some Iraqi Jews are white. And Iranian Jews have their share of white skinned people.
A genetic study done even showed that Azerbaijani Jews (descended from persian speaking jews) cluster with Ashkenazi Jews. This was an mt-dna study too.
If Israel is white, then so is Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, etc.
on Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 19:01:26 Raul
Are you really going to classify race on base of the religion?? Are you kidding? This is such a crap?
on Tue Jul 12th 2016 at 19:21:02 abagond
@ Raul
It seems you just got Internet service.
Go to this website:
And in the search box at top, type in “9/11” and hit the ENTER key.
on Fri Jul 15th 2016 at 19:59:49 Ettore
I was in Albania recently ( 3 months ago), believe me their whiter than Portuguese people, Spanish people, Turks, Greeks, or Bulgarians. I also think that turks are whiter than Portuguese people from what i have seen… however the point was that cuz Albanians are muslims their not white? this has no logic, especially in a country like Albania where you find catholics, orthodox,muslims and other stuff and they all claim to be Albanians, thats funny and beautiful to see a country like Albania, however the one who wrote or made is web page i think knows little bit Albanians and belives to much in imaginary friends…whom all are from ASIA (christians and muslims)— all religions have been born there
on Wed Sep 21st 2016 at 16:14:32 abagond
White-majority countries outside of Europe:
on Fri Sep 23rd 2016 at 16:37:49 tifa
Wff albanian and kosovo are purest clean white race in europe stupid ignorants
Muslims are not race is religion dont mix religion with ethnicity
How many muslims are white 4exemple im white albanian muslim from north west fyrom
U think siberians are white and african albinos are white too l white race have dna not
Surface looking
Racists of religion cristians was white, jesus was white lol
on Sat Dec 17th 2016 at 16:04:32 Ardian
Abagong I am absolutely certain that you’re not white! Would think you’re Jewish, Serbian and Greek! I am Albanian, and proud of my nation, we are the cleanest people in Europe, we do not mix with other races like in western Europe)) And we are Albanians, we do not care about religion))) if you think you can be white thanks that you are Christian, you have deceived yourself thoroughly for Jesus was not white)) would think you’ve never read history.
on Sun Dec 18th 2016 at 02:09:30 Herneith
Abagond loves bieng white. There is nothing you or your goat can do to put a damper on that! albanian yoghurt is also the best in Europe!
on Sun Jan 8th 2017 at 20:01:08 lalbanais
what do you tell ???????
i’m albanian i’m white and i have green eyes, my mum has grey eyes, my dead has green eyes, my cousins are blond…
albanian poeple is the oldest for europe!!!
How we can’t be white?????
it’s me ! http://www.cjoint.com/c/GAit7PV16pQ
on Mon Jan 9th 2017 at 11:59:26 abagond
@ lalbanais
There are Black people with green eyes too, and tons of White people with brown eyes.
on Tue Jan 10th 2017 at 18:06:32 lalbanais
@abagond please change the map she is false , you change the reality , please go in albania and kosovo and see it, we are white,
EXEMPLE ALBANIAN OF KOSOVO AND ALBANIA
PLEASE CHANGE YOUR MAP!
on Tue Jan 10th 2017 at 19:54:22 Benjamin
Albania is only 60% Muslim, so why is the country entirely gray? Do you not see Christian and atheist Albanians as White either?
on Tue Jan 10th 2017 at 22:08:13 Afrofem
If you don’t declare Albanians “White”, lalbanais may jump off a cliff from fright and worry. LOL!
The wages of “whiteness” are as greatly desired on the periphery of Europe as they are in the USA.
He must tell the truth! And not what he thinks.
Religion has nothing to do with race.
To determine whether Albania is historically Muslim or Christian, I go by the religious population.
Wages of whiteness is just what I was thinking too!
How do you propose I draw the line between Whites and non-Whites? What is your definition?
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 17:24:13 lalbanais
@abagond The Albanians we descend from the Illyrians, We are the oldest population of Europe, it’s proved scientifically , We were polytheistic, after catholic and only from 1500 we were forced to be converted to the Islam, albanian we are white people , i’m white my family are white , my freunds albanian are white , the all albanian are white , We Albanians we do not mix with other origins! Romania is black , Bulgaria is black , 50% and more of greece are black , the religion is religion the race is the race ! the religion is not a race.
LOOK The prince and princess of albania (Albania and kosovo)
thay are black ? no they are white like me and de all albanian(Albania and Kosovo).
please Don’t judge a people for a religion.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 17:47:11 Benjamin
Albanians were historically Christian, only converting to Islam in large numbers in the 1600s. And it appears that most converted to escape discrimination rather than out of genuine belief. In any case if you count Lebanese Christians as White than why not Albanian Christians?
Wow, white privilege is powerful indeed! I’ve never heard of people grovelling and begging to be classified as black or anything else for that matter.
While I disagree about Costa Rica and Puerto Rico being dark blue, I have to side with abagond on Albania.
And all the talk about being “purest” white Europeans is hogwash. There is no such thing, and if there were, it sure wouldn’t apply to Albanians!
Albania was under Ottoman rule for 500 years. So are we to believe the Albanians stayed “pure” that whole time and didn’t mix with people from Turkey?
@Benjamin
exactly, the All Muslim Albanians Muslim of today were Catholic before 1600s.
We are white.
The religion is religion the race is the race ! the religion is not a race.
“The Albanians we descend from the Illyrians, We are the oldest population of Europe”
And what evidence suggests “Illyrians” are the oldest?
“it’s proved scientifically”
Do share this scientific proof.
The Ottoman Empire has massacred us the Albanians,
Serbian has massacred us the Albanians,
Greece has massacred us the Albanians,
Bulgarie has massacred us the Albanians,
Because we are white!
But the USA tey protect us , he They bombed serbian , turks , greek.
Austria was also in the Ottoman Empire but they are white same for the albanian we are white.
serbian has massacred crotian and albanian because we are white.
@resw Do some research yourself and you will see it.
Look albanian people we are white juste see it’s simple.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCEzii0QC9I)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGhkj_PSgH0)
Yes, I would count Albanian Christians as White, but not the Muslims.
@lalbanais
Invaded by so many people, and yet Albanians still managed to stay so pure? Miraculous!
“Do some research yourself and you will see it”
I did, which is why I was so surprised that I could not find any scientific evidence that Albanians are the “oldest population of Europe”.
And guess what? I found no scientific proof that “Illyrians” were the oldest.
So no, I don’t buy your theory, especially considering most archaeological evidence that could possibly be attributed to “Illyrians” doesn’t even date beyond the 7th century BC.
You did not answer my question: What is your definition of White?
Race and religion are very much bound up. Muslims are an out-group that most Whites see as an Other against which they define themselves. Thus all the Islamophobia, even from Whites who probably have not gone to church for years, if ever, like Mr Trump.
Starting with the Crusades, Westerners enslaved, killed and took the land of non-Christians and used religion as an excuse. But when said non-Christians converted in numbers (Muslims and Jews in Spain, Blacks and Natives in the Americas), that no longer worked, so race became the new excuse.
Not buying it. It shows a level of assimilation into the Ottoman Empire that you do not see in, say, the Serbs or Greeks.
i have give you the prove and you no, de world know albanian are white USA protect us , you don’t believe he is your problem , you went to Albania ? no ,Then you know nothing! , you just juge albanian for religion , it’s funny , the world know. hahahaha
ALBANIAN USA FOR EVER ❤ ❤
Why is Albania entirely Gray while Lebanon is not? Both contain Christians and Muslims. If Lebanon is light blue than why not Albania?
It is not just me. Google: are Albanians white.
You are trying to prove they are White without a definition. Why is that?
A point I am trying to make with my map is that there is no consistent meaning, that it is arbitrary and subjective. Even the US Supreme Court could not define the term.
Because Lebanon is like 40% Christian while Albania is only 17%.
on Thu Jan 12th 2017 at 05:17:00 Afrofem
“…We Albanians we do not mix with other origins! Romania is black , Bulgaria is black , 50% and more of greece are black …”
Please define what you mean by “White” and “Black”. I’m sure it would be news to the Romanians, Bulgarians and Greeks that they are “black”. Even the Roma (Gypsies, Romani people) in those countries are of South Asian descent mixed with Europeans from their time in slavery in Eastern Europe.
This is how modern Roma people look:
According to an article on the Romedia Foundation website, Roma slavery is described in detail:
“For almost five centuries, Roma lived as slaves in the Romanian Principalities, from the moment of their birth, as the code of Wallachia mentions in the 19th century. They were treated as objects with exchange value, being sold in auctions, donated, given as gifts at weddings, or simply used to repay debt. The slave was the master’s property, with no legal status. Marriage at a young age was encouraged, having as many children as possible being expected in order to increase the master’s property. Still not widely known, the details of the Roma slavery are one of the first institutionalised discriminatory practices against this group.
[…] in the case in which a free person wanted to marry a slave, automatically that person became a slave, too, along with any child born from a Roma mother. Thinking about rebelling? The master, having complete rights over the slaves, could apply any punishment considered to be appropriate, from flogging, to the cutting of the lips and ears, whipping the sole of the feet, public beatings, the only constraint being not to kill the slave, action which, anyway, would have been counterproductive for the estate.
The abolition [of Roma slavery] came only … as a response to the freeing of the slaves in USA and introduction of mechanization.
https://romediafoundation.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/roma-slavery-in-the-romanian-territories-a-catch-22-of-history-and-recognition/
Do the Roma people make the Romanians, Greeks and Bulgarians “black” to you?
on Thu Jan 12th 2017 at 19:50:19 Herneith
But the USA tey protect us , he They bombed serbian , turks , greek
That was mighty white of them.
What colour are the Serbians?
Folks, don’t try to explain things to him. It’s way over his head.
on Fri Jan 13th 2017 at 00:24:02 Paola
This is so stupid . Albania and Kosovo don’t count as white just because they are muslims??? , what has to do the belief of a country with their race? Go to Albania , and Kosovo and see the people there, 100% white . And to sum up Albanians are one of the whitest race in Europe as they do not mix with other races , but I don’t have to talk . It’s obvious that the person who did this map is totally ignorant . Visit Albania and see how we are 100% white
An Scríbhneor Gael-Mheiricéanach
Sock puppet patrol!
mirkwood.. you inglorious imposter! lol
AGAIN… Is that YOU???
on Sat Jan 28th 2017 at 23:10:56 Cristina Conner
I always encounter this issue when I go to a website on race, ethnicity, etc. You say Muslims are not white. Why? Did you know that Muslim is a religion like Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism etc. You can be any race and be any religion. Please don’t confuse apples with oranges. And I would suggest as a friend, that you go to a library and get information about the different racial groups. You will see that there is no mention of religion as a race identifier. Cheers.
on Sat Jan 28th 2017 at 23:29:46 cristina king
I thought I had posted a comment but I forgot that submit it. It was about cautioning you not to confuse race with religion. You mention in your article that Albanians are not white because they’re Muslim? Is like saying French and Italian are not white because they’re Christians? It’s comparing apples to oranges! I would suggest as a friend to go to a library and consult reference books on race and you will see there’s absolutely no connection with religion. It’s a common mistake among those who decide to get a website and write about topics that that they have done little or no research on. Once you publish, shame on you for misguiding others. It’s like the blind leading the blind. Good luck.
@ cristina
What definition of White should I use then? Where and how do you draw the line between Berlin and Beijing? Between London and Lagos?
on Sun Jan 29th 2017 at 00:24:23 Benjamin
Do you consider the Mizrahi Jews to be White?
on Sun Jan 29th 2017 at 00:32:51 Cristina King
I just posted that Judaism is a religion not a race. You can be from Tonga or Pango Pango and you can be Jewish by faith if you so choose. And by the way I’ve never heard of Mizrahi Jews. I do know Isaac Mizrahi and he is Jewish.
@Cristina King
While Judaism is indeed a religion that anybody can potentially convert to, it has generally been practiced by a select few ethnic groups throughout history. One of them is the Mizrahi Jews, the Jews who never left the Middle East and went to Europe (or elsewhere). Sort of like how anybody can potentially be Amish, but virtually all the Amish are of Germanic heritage.
on Sun Jan 29th 2017 at 01:30:18 Afrofem
I notice that commenters who vehemently object to your definition of “White” tend to choke when you ask them to define “White”. Seems to be a recurring theme.
on Sun Jan 29th 2017 at 04:11:49 v8driver
lol this reminds me of this newish tv commercial they have: the tissue test for tooth whiteness!
on Sun Jan 29th 2017 at 12:21:49 Herneith
@Afrofem:
They can’t.
on Fri Feb 3rd 2017 at 23:08:18 Osman bardhylu
What a fucking dumbass retard whoever constructed the map,jow dare you say since albania and kosovo is muslim you fucking piece ofahit ,we are whiter than what you are you fucking mutt ,go fuckyourself
on Fri Feb 3rd 2017 at 23:48:09 Solitaire
My, how people in the “Old World” do get butthurt over the suggestion that they might not be 100% lily white.
The next time a French troll like apportune or jacques comes by and declares people in the USA are “too hung up” on race because we “don’t understand the Old World and its long history” and that in Europe “race doesn’t matter,” I’m going to have to remember to direct them to this comment thread.
on Sat Feb 4th 2017 at 00:59:37 Herneith
@Osman:
Learn how to cuss properly in English. The impact will be muich greater! Carry on!
on Sat Feb 4th 2017 at 05:16:32 Afrofem
@ Solitaire
It’s hilarious!
Osman yells “mutt” from the armpit of two continents. A stuck pig, er mutt, always squeals loudest.
on Sat Feb 4th 2017 at 05:26:48 abagond
@ Osman bardhylu
Why does it matter so much that people in Albania and Kosovo be considered White?
on Mon Feb 13th 2017 at 04:26:58 Chilean monkey
Street perceptions of White people in Chile and Argentina are always tricky because White people in those countries is “stirred but not mixed”: In Argentina, most europeans settled in the capital, and a minority of germans in the South (Bariloche).The northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay are definitely Amerindian/andean/Amazonian, and those close to the Andes are white/mestizo/castizo.
Chile is the same story: the Far North is mostly black/amerindian (example: the 33 San Jose miners), center is the typical mestizo, and as you move further south, the white/mestizo rate changes (example: http://bit.ly/2kAWBqq )
on Mon Feb 27th 2017 at 13:01:20 abagond
@Era1
Comment deleted for moderated language.
on Thu Mar 30th 2017 at 05:14:41 Vojsava
You are just a dumb ass trying to act smart !! Im albanian there are all white people in Albania , about 80% have fair skin !! Im albanian my skin is more faire than that of a french girl and î have blond hair!! Have you learnt some history you loser ? Albania is Christian for more than 2000 years and 50% still is !! Islam came from the ottoman empire is not a religion of origins !! You should be some black dude yourself I think !! And since when race and religion are the same thing ? Idiot
on Thu Mar 30th 2017 at 14:03:19 Herneith
@Vojsava:
Ever heard of Rosetta Stone language software?
on Thu Mar 30th 2017 at 17:23:46 v8driver
Isn’t it mecca and medina, saudi arabia, where mohommed received the word of allah
@ Paul Joseph Watson
Comment deleted for racial slur.
on Fri May 19th 2017 at 05:48:35 Paul Joseph Watson
Typical angry Black SJW women attacking White people. The bloke was making a point about demographics and the absolute numbers of whites in the Americas and these two tried to interfere with the debate imposing themselves and wresting terms like Mestizo and Eurasian. Just like all fat acceptance SJWs who wrench reality and deny biology.
According to the UN, governmental and CIA statistics the numbers for the Americas seem accurate. Chile does have a large Castizo and Native population.
Brazil is bigger than Europe and the contiguous US. The bloke was saying that half of Brazil is Caucasoid (European and Ashkenazi Jew), a quarter is Mestizo, less than a quarter is Black and Mulatto, with East Asians (mostly Japanese), Eurasians, Gypsies and Natives being the minorities that complete the total number. If the whites in the Southern Cone were a country they would be bigger than most European countries, and the white populations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand together. South African whites are a lost cause and currently living under discrimination, with many Afrikaners living in extreme poverty. They should migrate and receive asylum.
on Fri May 19th 2017 at 08:12:15 Solitaire
and these two tried to interfere with the debate imposing themselves
Sharina and Afrofem are regulars here and comment freely and frequently. They don’t require your permission or your approval.
Typical angry white male racist, coming to a black-owned blog written for black people and thinking his voice is still more important because he’s a white male. Trying to belittle and shame black women for taking equal part in a debate. Using racial slurs. Imposing his superior white male attitude and expecting everyone to meekly put up with his offensive interference. Typical atrocious manners of a white supremacist.
on Fri May 19th 2017 at 12:37:17 sharinalr
@Paul Joseph Watson
Nothing in my comments were angry so you are basically mad at the truth. I also never mention Mestizo and Eurasian, so WTF are you even talking about? The dude didn’t make a good point if it was so easily debunked. You can’t make a point off of outdated sources as if in that time period the population did not grow. The population changed drastically in 2002 to more recently. So you point was a moot one.
Sources were provided and his very own sources debunked what he was claiming at the time. The most recent stats on Brazil say only 47.7 claim to be white in Brazil. That is less than half. Do research.
on Fri May 19th 2017 at 15:23:20 Afrofem
“Brazil is bigger than Europe and the contiguous US.”
Can you cite any independent sources to back up that claim? First you would need to define “Europe” since it is part of a larger continent.
“South African whites are a lost cause and currently living under discrimination, with many Afrikaners living in extreme poverty. They should migrate and receive asylum.”
Not true. More hysterical White Supremacist propaganda.
No one is holding White South Africans hostage. They are free to emigrate to Europe, Australia, New Zealand or Antarctica, whichever place suits them
You expected different?
Trolls like PJW think they have a divine right to talk smack to any and everyone, wherever they encounter them. Par for the course.
Nope. I just wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine.
on Fri May 19th 2017 at 23:13:21 unwantedtg
It is pretty well-known in Europe that Brazil is larger than Europe including Eastern Europe. Australia the same and Brazil is bigger than Australia. Have u heard about the Mercator distortion that makes Africa seem much smaller than Russia and even Greenland? It’s insane how grossly disproportionate Greenland is when compared to giant Africa. And we still use the Mercator map.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/all-european-countries-fit-in-brazil-or.html?m=1
https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/hnigatu/19-maps-that-will-help-you-put-the-united-states-in-perspect
Buzzfeed – 19 Maps That Will Help You Put The United States In Perspective.
The U.S. is basically an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.
I guess the original claim was that the Pardo people group means multiracial and it includes a lot of Mestizo people, Native and European, encompassing Black and White, Black plus White plus Native, Eurasian aka Asian and White. And even Gypsies cuz the Roma are European with distant Northern East Indian ancestry.
South America is indeed a pretty diverse place. They have ethnicities from every continent. I was surprised to learn that Confederates moved to Mexico and Brazil.
And that Venezuela and Peru have millions of Chinese with coolie background. I’m aware that Mexico is in North Murica, NAFTA lol.
Actually Brazil was the first region to be called America after Amerigo Vespucci. I guess German cartographers started the tribute.
And also that Argentina’s Jewish community suffered terrorist attacks claimed by radical Muslims. Wow!
@ unwantedtg
Paul Joseph Watson’s claim was that, “Brazil is bigger than Europe and the contiguous US.”
Europe is a tiny bit of land. The continental US is a lot more substantial. Is Brazil larger than both? The Buzzfeed article says no.
His objections have to do with this comment:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/the-map-of-white-people/comment-page-1/#comment-316501
I was basing my comment on how Brazilians perceive themselves at this point in time. They are embracing their African heritage instead of running from it like the Dominicans.
To me, that is refreshing. To people like Paul Joseph Watson, that is anathema.
I’ve seen this stunning map before and it really put things into perspective for me:
on Sat May 20th 2017 at 21:02:17 unwantedtg
Oh I didn’t realize he meant both land masses. As big as Brazil might be that’s still impossible hehe! Not even the entire Russian territory is that big
I like the humor in the Buzzfeed article.
The US government states that China is smaller than US cuz China has a lot of territorial disputes with its neighbours and is pushing their maritime borders over Philippines, while China says the US claims interior water bodies as land to overcompensate. So I guess in this case, size matters. For projecting political power purposes. Some experts say Russia with its shrinking population faces a future threat of Chinese population invading the Federation’s Southeast.
I guess I heard about the Dominican case. That’s sad. While in the rest of the Americas people are using DNA research to learn more about their past. I’ve seen some YouTube videos about it.
The Haitian refugees issue reminds me of Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates not accepting a single Syrian refugee.
on Sun May 21st 2017 at 01:34:32 abagond
unwantedtg / Paul Joseph Watson
is banned for using sock puppets.
on Sun May 21st 2017 at 01:44:33 Afrofem
The attack of the pseudo-sneaky trolls/sock puppets. LOL!
on Wed Jul 12th 2017 at 01:37:35 Ilirian
How can u say Albanians are not white when they defended Europe alone for 25 years against Ottoman Empire, you have no rights to do these kinda of maps if you don’t know the history of white people in EU.Religion doesn’t tell your race, Albanians have all religions and Albanians have never had an religious disruption.
on Mon Dec 4th 2017 at 16:53:57 Flori
What the fuck is this. Albanian are not caucasian because most of them are Muslim. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. If you go to Albania you are going to see 0 black people. Ass hole
on Mon Dec 4th 2017 at 17:32:01 abagond
@ Flori
If you go to the post you are going to see 0 references to Caucasians.
“White” and “Caucasian” are not always the same thing. Just ask Bhagat Singh Thind:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/bhagat-singh-thind/
on Wed Jan 17th 2018 at 15:44:42 Tony
This article was written by an uneducated dumbass that doesn’t know the difference between religion and race.
That’s all you need to know about this shit-post.
@Flori: You spelt a$$hole wrong, it’s one word.
@Tony:
LOLZ!!
These white supremacists are becoming boringly predictable in their responses! I almost long for the days of no_slappz and some of these other clowns who used to come here. Almost, not quite!
on Sun Feb 4th 2018 at 00:12:47 Albanopolis
Albanians the descendants of the Illyrians not white LOL
IN FACT,you piece of filth,according to a study of the University of California “Genetic Ancestry across Europe”,not only have same genetic like all other Europians,but Albanians have the highest rates of IDB within a population in Europe,sharing about 90 ancestors in the last 500 years and about 600 ancestors between 500 years and 1,500 years ago.
Not only we are white you filth,but are the most pure not mixed in Europe,even for your beloved Nazi scum,we were a “Aryan race”!
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001555
Oh…now i see …the problem is that “they are muslims” LOL
abagond by the way..about Rita Ora
Rita whith her parents
“Solar” is a new invention you know…
on Mon Feb 5th 2018 at 05:22:18 abagond
@ Albanopolis
Why is it so important for you to be regarded as white?
on Mon Feb 5th 2018 at 07:43:48 gatobranco1
Since somebody speaks here about Albanians as “Caucasians” probably they confuse the Caucasian Albania(a polity which existed in the antiquity in the territory of the modern Azerbaijan Republic in Southern Caucasus) with Balcanic Albania(ethnically it includes the Republic of Albania, Kosovo and a part of the Fyrom(Former yugoslav republic of macedonia).
As far as I know, Balkanian Albanians are fully indigenous to the Balkan Area and have no relation whatsoever to Caucasus or Caucasians. There is an ongoing scientific dispute whether they stem from Illyrians or maybe Thracians or Dacians, but indigenous Balcanic peoples in any case.
The most of Kosovar Albanians are Sunni Muslims, but the people in the Republic of Albania can be Roman Catholic, Sunni Muslim, Bektashi Muslim and Orthodox Christian).
As for Caucasians(taken geographically), they are either Muslims( Adyghe/Circassian/Cabardians, Chechen/Ingush, Qarachay-Malkar, Daghestanis(Avar, Lak, Lezgi, Noghay, Kumyk), Orthodox Christians, as Georgians, Svan, Mingrelian, many Ossetians and Abkhaz or Armenian Orthodox Christians.
There are 5 or 6 linguistic groups in Caucasus – Indoeuropean(Armenians, Ossetians), Turkic(Qarachay-Malkar, Kumyk, Noghay), Adyghe-Abkhaz, Kartvelian(Georgians, Svan, Mingrelians), Checheno-Ingush and Daghestani(Avar, Lak, Lezgi etc.)
on Mon Feb 5th 2018 at 15:38:44 Herneith
Albanopolis, give it a rest.
on Tue Feb 6th 2018 at 16:58:20 Albanopolis@yahao.com
abagond@ BECAUSE WE ARE
Quit the crap.
on Tue Feb 6th 2018 at 17:43:38 Afrofem
Being second level White people is a sore spot for Eastern Europeans. Even the Russians look down on Albanians…being so close to Turkey and all.
The creation of Whiteness by colonial slaveholders has spread around the globe. That successful bit of social engineering causes marginal White people to nearly lose their minds at the slightest hint they are not considered White.
on Tue Feb 6th 2018 at 17:54:22 abagond
Why would you want to be associated with the worst band of thieves and killers the world has ever seen?
on Tue Feb 6th 2018 at 21:20:09 Albanopolis
abagond@ Are you a moron,or you just act like one?
By the way in Albania religion doesn’t matter! Only 15/100 muslims say religion matters. That makes them 2-3% of Albania population. And even them don’t cover,and drink alchohol.
And since you are a Donald Trump suporter:
I am being serious. Please explain it to me like I am a five-year-old: why is it so important for you to identify yourself with the worst band of killers and thieves in history?
It does not make sense to me. What makes sense is to be embarrassed, ashamed, sheepish, to try to distance yourself from them as much as possible. Albania, as far as I know, did not take part in the West’s crimes, certainly not on a huge scale, so why assert a connection with them? It does not make sense. I am missing something.
I did change schools at one point and was never taught long division, so maybe I missed out on this too. Along with the memo on the beauty of skinny blonde women.
on Tue Feb 6th 2018 at 22:11:48 Solitaire
Was the bolded text added in a later edit? Because if not, if it was part of the original post, you are prescient.
“Even Albanians” was in the original text but it was not bolded.
I am not a Donald Trump supporter. Not even close.
In the US only about 35% think he is doing a good job. Most people I know despise him, myself included.
Right, the bold was my addition just now for emphasis.
It just struck me as eerily prophetic, considering how many butt-hurt Albanians there have been on this thread.
on Wed Feb 7th 2018 at 08:08:48 jefe
the worst band of thieves and killers the world has ever seen
worse than the mongols?
Well, I guess landwise, sure. The Americas and Australasia is a big chunk of the world.
on Wed Feb 7th 2018 at 10:30:06 abagond
In terms of land taken and people killed, no one (so far) has outdone White countries over the past 500 years. The Mongols come second.
on Wed Feb 7th 2018 at 15:22:20 Albanopolis
@abagond your Trolling is awful!
Anyway i am done here,god help you with your brain! But since i don’t believe in religion, you are hopeless.Sad!
on Wed Feb 7th 2018 at 16:40:16 blakksage
@abagond your Trolling is awful! Anyway i am done here,god help you with your brain! But since i don’t believe in religion, you are hopeless.Sad! – Albanopolis
Wow, that’s a heavily vacuous statement. Why don’t you further express yourself so that we may understand your point? I’ll wait!……
on Wed Feb 7th 2018 at 17:49:47 satanforce
Really? I didn’t know that the sun was that recent.
Exactly. Evil races are just evil. The bigly evillness of them puts them on the level of orcs. Sad!
It does not make sense to me. What makes sense is to be embarrassed, ashamed, sheepish, to try to distance yourself from them as much as possible. Albania, as far as I know, did not take part in the West’s crimes, certainly not on a huge scale, so why assert a connection with them? It does not make sense. I am missing something…… so maybe I missed out on this too. Along with the memo on the beauty of skinny blonde women.
on Thu Feb 8th 2018 at 00:07:31 Afrofem
How does a blogger “troll” his or her own blog? LOL!
on Thu Feb 8th 2018 at 03:07:21 abagond
So you are just going to insult me instead of answering the question?
on Thu Feb 8th 2018 at 04:30:17 Albanopolis
When i google it “white countries” and saw my countriy was not in the white countries,i thought you were some Serbian prick who just wanted to troll Albanians,or some Christian supremacist who thinks Muslims can’t be white LOL
But no,i was mistaken,and all the Albanians above were to!
By the way,paint that map because Albanians will never be on your side of opinion.
About white people, they created this civilization,others just follow it…
For you blakcs,your self victimization today is your biggest problem.
I am out here.
Don’t believe to much in the MSM polls,they said he couldn’t get the nominee and look what happend!
You should despise more the Democrats …
Black vote for DNC is always +90%. If the number drops to 80% for the DNC would be very difficult to win an election. So they use racism card with MSM help to keep the tension high among blacks so they can get their vote.
They never talk for blacks real problems,in fact they avoid them,and attack anyone who talks about it as a racist.
DNC and MSM scream all day long for racism “white privilege”etc. because “Racism” is the only thing they have to offer to blacks,since they don’t say or do nothing for the high murder rate blacks against blacks,for they poor conditions,they failed cites,etc. And unfortunately the blacks buy it.
Democrats treat blacks like their personal electoral slaves,and accuse others for “racism” LOL
“Black vote for DNC is always +90%. If the number drops to 80% for the DNC would be very difficult to win an election.”
Actually the Repubs have diminished Black, Latinx, student and elder votes with various voter suppression schemes such as gerrymandering, voter ID requirements and poll closures. The outdated Electoral College is all that allowed your hero to become president. He actually lost the election by 2.8 million votes.
It doesn’t matter what percentage of eligible Black people vote, the elections are stacked against Black voters and in favor of minority Repub voters.
Neither the RNC nor the DNC cares about the percentage of Black voters.
You have been reading too many White Supremacist websites. Repeating their racist propaganda shows your ignorance about US politics.
on Thu Feb 8th 2018 at 19:15:02 satanforce
About white people, they created this civilization,others just follow it…For you blakcs,your self victimization today is your biggest problem. I am out here.
Then he goes and adds another comment below! Sad!
And the other parties have, what to offer exactly?
on Thu Feb 8th 2018 at 19:41:20 Solitaire
“DNC and MSM scream all day long for racism “white privilege”etc.”
If white privilege doesn’t exist, why are you so anxious to be categorized as white? How could it possibly matter whether or not you’re considered to be white, unless you believe you gain something from it?
Why does it matter so much to you that you call people nasty names like “filth” and “moron” for suggesting you might not be white?
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 00:26:02 Afrofem
Mr. “I’m Outraged That You Don’t Consider Me White” really shows his colossal ignorance about the dysfunctional two party system in the USA with his comments about Black people voting for the Dems.
I still want to see his response to Abagond’s question about why he wants to identify himself with the “worst band of killers and thieves in history”. Of course that would take honesty and guts.
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 02:02:42 satanforce
Of course.cause we really do know how much these people really do care about the about the neighbourhood safety, economic protection, public services and other civil amenities and issues that affect the Afro-American constituency on a day-to-day basis. Right?
Just like they are so very concerned about the daily nutritional intake of the average Zimbabwean that they are always so concerned about. Right?
The sad thing about these Scolders is that when they scold us, they don’t realize that they reveal their own inadequecies. They want that feeling of moral superiority – that dopamine rush – of scolding their morally bankrupt neighbours, whether they be educated blacks , poor blacks, activist blacks, or any Venn Diagram intersection thereof. But if your only claim to moral superiority is to scold people who are morally bankrupt….what does that say about the Scolder?
I suppose being Nominally White may be another way to achieve moral superiority.
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 15:25:32 Herneith
What do you expect from an Albanian? Sad!
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 17:08:10 Albanopolis
@Solitaire,
Because we are white,and that’s not an opinion that’s a fact. Quit the crap.
@Afrofem,
I understand the two party system better than you!
The blacks have the power to change their situation they don’t need another party! The Dems can’t win without the black vote,they can put conditions for their vote,but don’t! They just vote for them,the Dems keep brainwashing with the racism card,and that’s it! They take 90% of the black vote,and give nothing back!
What have Obama done for the Black Community?
What social policies have he take to improve black life?
Black marriage is a disaster,black cites are a disaster,black crime to the sky,the black fathers who abandon their children,a catastrophe!
He spent billions for Middle-east Pakistan etc but nothing for the problems above.
Be smart,and use the power of your vote to improve your community conditions,before they replace your vote with the hispanics one. And don’t need you anymore.
@Herneith,
A common sense that you don’t have it! Sad!
P.S/This is my last post. May the force be with you!
@Albanian, you are as white as the driven snow in July. Sad!
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 19:45:18 sharinalr
@Albanopolis
Obviously you don’t know much about the two party system if you think anyone has power by voting. Voting is a show.
“lack marriage is a disaster”—Not entirely true as most blacks get married later in life. The stats were re-evaluated years ago and showed it is not that blacks aren’t getting married just later.
“black cites are a disaster”–Depends on where you go. Some are, but then again what poor city is fantastic.
“black crime to the sky”–Crime is to the sky but if you analyze data most reporting methods are based on arrest and an arrest is not a conviction. Being arrested more does not mean you are committing more crime.
“the black fathers who abandon their children,a catastrophe!”–False. A study came out some years back showing black fathers to be more involved that other races despite not being in the home.
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 20:37:39 Solitaire
I never said you were not white. I asked you why it matters so much to you, which is different.
Personally I think that you are white. I’m even willing to agree that you might be pale, blonde, and blue-eyed.
But my question remains: why does the possibility of being considered non-white make you so angry?
What would happen, good or bad, if someone considered you not to be white? How would it make you feel, and why?
on Fri Feb 9th 2018 at 23:23:35 Mary Burrell
Whiteness is a helluva drug.
on Sat Feb 10th 2018 at 02:55:49 Afrofem
Albanopolis’ rants and White Supremacist deflections are par for the course.
He still did not have the honesty or guts to respond to the central question.
No guts, no glory.
on Sat Feb 10th 2018 at 02:59:02 Mary Burrell
Their mediocrity makes them fearful and angry. White Supremacy even hurts whites.
The plot thickens being “nominally white” and second level on the hierarchy of whiteness makes for angry Albanopolis. It takes so much energy being bitter and butt hurt about not being at the top of the pyramid of whiteness. How tragic.
I should rephrase that white supremacy hurts whites and wanna be whites as well they are just to dumb to realize it.
on Sat Feb 10th 2018 at 20:17:43 abagond
You still have not answered my question.
on Sun Feb 11th 2018 at 02:26:54 satanforce
Concern troll is a concern troll.
The blacks have the power to change their situation they don’t need another party!
Black people. The Saviours of American Democracy. I suppose it has to do with American blacks Hive Mind psychic ability. I wonder when the Hispanics will evolve this ability.
Considering that the Dems have lost over 1000 seats during the Obama administration, ignored Bernie, lost the Obama coalition and failed, I think they may be doing a little bit more listening and less fundraising.
Crooked Albinopolis thinks he’s white when he can’t be white. Can’t ever be white because White people can’t be Muslims. Crooked Albinopolis is a Muslim. So he’s not white. Sad! He never talks about how bigly the Republicans sell out their own kind. Albinopolis and his sock-puppet troll friends are don’t understand how bad the two-party system – believe me.
on Sun Feb 11th 2018 at 05:11:59 Afrofem
It was mildly amusing to see A-polis squirm and lash out with tired anti-Black propaganda in his effort to avoid answering one simple question.
“Crooked” A-polis indeed.
on Sun Feb 11th 2018 at 11:01:46 Herneith
In actuality, these replies and recycled tropes show just how stupid and unoriginal they are. It’s not even funny anymore. Please, white supremacists, be more original!
on Tue Mar 6th 2018 at 04:05:04 Turkey
this map is wrong… im turkish very pale blonde guy and have blonde family, muslims can be white too… turkey is multi ethnic country there is browns asians and whites in country… iif u go close to middle east u will see brown looking people if u go towards west u will see white people,
also kosova,bosnia, albania,south africa shud be white too … albania kosova should be dark blue and south africa turkey should be medium…
israel should be medium too they are so mixed like turkey aswell so many brown and white people together.
you are linking religion to skin color which is wrong…
(i see comments saying white supramacy hurts white ppl and white ppl wanna be white)
lmao its funny you say that, my problem here is that ppl think turkey is like arab country and have camels and deserts or speak arabic and shit..
but its wrong we dont have desert or camels, we dont speak arabic.
we ”turks” in turkey arent even turk anymore we lost our genetics, look at real other turk countries they are all asian, turkish ppl are just like so many ethnic groups got mixed and live under 1 flag, turkey country is not nation its just a flag tbh.. cause when u walk at street u will see asian looking ppl brown ppl white ppl all call theirself turkish.
+im not muslim, pretty sure half of turkey isnt muslim too.. they just write muslim in your id when you born and you can get rid of it when u grow up but no one cares to change ur religionon paper cause it means nothing xD
if u look at me and my non religious friends ids it says muslim on all
if you still dont wantto call blonde turkish white, i dont wantto be white anyway but dont call me or put me in brown arab section or anything too just call me turkish then.
im not saying we are european or we are middle eastern asian or african.
we are just all of them
on Tue Mar 6th 2018 at 12:37:07 Herneith
The article doesn’t state that Islam is a race. That would be like stating Catholicism is a race. Where does the article state this? I am not referring to ensuing commentary either.
on Tue Mar 6th 2018 at 17:14:16 Afrofem
@ Turkey
Good point. Probably the only good point you made.
The rest of your statements are half truths at best.
on Tue Mar 6th 2018 at 20:48:03 eick74
Abalone said this in the original post.
“Albania and Kosovo are mostly Muslim so they do not count as white”
on Tue Mar 6th 2018 at 21:22:33 abagond
@ eick74
Gee, why the need to insult me by getting my name wrong?
on Wed Mar 7th 2018 at 16:00:57 eick74
Sorry, blame it on autocorrect and not paying enough attention.
on Fri Mar 9th 2018 at 14:58:48 Herneith
You have your fellow ‘Europeans’ for labelling you and your fellow Albanians thus. He, ‘Abalone’ alludes to that.
Whos Abalone?
on Fri Mar 9th 2018 at 16:24:27 eick74
Please dont make assumptions about me. I am not Albanian. I do not consider myself European except by ancestry.
You said the article did not say that Islam was a race but Abagond did indeed say in the article that he was excluding them because they were Muslim.
My apologies. Now, who is Abalone?
on Fri Mar 9th 2018 at 17:45:30 Solitaire
True, he does say that, but I don’t see anywhere in the article where he explicitly states Islam is a race.
What he does say is this: “For this map two kinds of people are [white]: …Those who belong to an ethnic group that is historically Christian or Jewish, with roots in West Eurasia”
He also talks about how he tried different definitions before settling on the two he chose to use for the map, which he calls a “general approximation.”
To me, all of that taken together shows he is aware of the arbitrariness of the definitions he chose for the map. If anything, it points out how nebulous the concept of whiteness really is.
The truth is, most of the white people in predominately Christian countries consider Muslims as “other”. All this map does is reflect that mindset. It does not necessarily condone it.
Abalone was autocorrect on my phone mistakenly correcting Abagond and me not noticing it. I said that and apologized to Abagond about it above. There was no offense intended.
on Tue Apr 3rd 2018 at 18:52:12 Albanian
You are a stupid ignorant, because the whole world knows that Albanians are white race and they have a christian history.
Today the most Albanians dont give a fuck about religions, so they are agnostics and athesits.
I am 100% sure that this “Abagond“ is a serbian psychopathic liar.
on Wed Apr 4th 2018 at 03:28:18 Paige
Lol, I hope someone calls me a Serbian psychopathic liar someday.
on Wed Apr 4th 2018 at 09:28:41 Solitaire
“Today the most Albanians dont give a fuck about religions”
But clearly they still give a big f-ck about race.
on Wed Apr 4th 2018 at 14:04:21 Herneith
Not only that, a dyed-in-the-wool shopaholic. Which is worse? Discuss!
on Wed Apr 4th 2018 at 23:13:29 Erri
Abalesh, you classified Albanians as non white? you are a fucking mad!? Have you never seen an Albanian or never been there. Do you know that the Albanian are in Europe even before Greeks. Don’t write shit because you don’t know a shit. If there wasn’t the Albanians with Skanderbeg to stop the Turks, now Europe was going to be called Europistan. O go away you cow 😠😠😠
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 16:09:27 hahahaa
hey Abagond , you serbians are “white” !?
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 16:39:55 Alban
every person defends him self when someone lies about him … no matter what kind of lies. so do not make a fool of yourself.
@ Paige
yea, you are glad if ever someone talks to you 😉
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 17:11:11 v8driver
Wow it’s a troll trap, it just takes one i guess.
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 17:17:25 Solitaire
Interesting how so many of them assume Abagond is a Serb or some other close neighbor with whom the Albanians have bad history. Makes me wonder how often they lob “you’re not white” at each other as an insult in that part of the world.
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 17:28:49 abagond
LOOOOL. I must be Serbian because only a Serbian would think so little of Albanians as to call them non-White?
If you look at the rest of my blog you might notice I do not hold a particularly high opinion of White people. They wiped out people on two and a half continents (as shown by the map itself) and enslaved millions of Black people. They are worse than the Mongols. So if anyone should be offended by my map it should be Serbs, not Albanians.
Here is my basic take on White people:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/white-people/
@ Albanian readers (and anyone else who wants to answer)
Are Turks White? Why or why not?
If Turks are NOT White, then why are Albanians White?
If Turks ARE White, then where in Asia and Africa do you draw the line between White people and everyone else? If you walk from Albania to Kenya, where do White people end and Black or Brown people begin?
These are the questions I had to answer to make this map. And they are the questions that people who do not like my map have yet to answer. Calling me names might be emotionally satisfying, but it leaves the map unchanged.
Some of us are blessed, others not.
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 18:48:01 Erri
Albanians are not the same as Turks. Is like saying that Algerians are the same as French or Indians are the same as English. Albanians have fight with Turks for 500 years.
@ Erri
now he compares us to turks hahahaaa
he talks the same bullshit like serbian politicians.
but it is very interesting how many idiots protect his garbage …
PS.: let the idiot talk idiotic things to other idiots … they have found each other tsehehehe
“Albanians are not the same as Turks.”
Where did anyone here say that Albanians are the same as Turks?
That’s the problem, you do not understand.
My reaction has nothing to do with racism, but with the fact that he is a liar and claims false things. Understand it.
PS .: Albanians are NOT a muslim nation and they are white. That’s a fact. (Albanians are the most tolerant people in the world to races, religions, nations, etc.)
on Thu Apr 5th 2018 at 22:38:04 Afrofem
These comments by alleged Albanians about their “White” status are real howlers! The frequency and intensity of their outrage shows how marginal they really are to the the general European/White population.
Also highlights how potent a drug “Whiteness” is for millions of beige people.
At least I’m not Black or African….sniff!
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 03:50:16 abagond
@ Albanian
Why is it so important that you be considered White? This is the part that I do not get.
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 12:44:08 Herneith
Neither does he.
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 16:34:01 Alban
Because the Albanians are white, and not green or blue or other colors from the fantasy of a mentally disturbed person on the internet who (for any sick intention that he will not say) has made so much effort to produce such a stupid map where he makes a fool of himself by insist the opposite of reality about the Albanians.
I know it’s very hard for you and your “friends” to understand such “complicated things”, but don’t worry, time clears everything up. if not this year then in 50 years you will get it.
Bye and take care of yourself, you are really not well.
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 17:16:22 Open Minded Observer
This discussion really sums it all up doesn’t it? Since race is a made up social construct that was invented to belittle others, then it’s never up to a person to decide their own race. I’m only called White because others around me perceive me to be. Rachel Dolezal tried/is trying to declare herself Black or transracial, but it’s not up to her. Trevor Noah may have identified as Black, but was often perceived differently based on where he grew up… None of us gets to choose our race, it is chosen for us by idiotic group-think.
So, Abagond’s map is Abagond’s map. Alban, Erri, me, and all of us can all create our own maps based on our own definitions of “Whiteness”… at the end of the day, it’s all just made up… unfortunately, with very real consequences. We’ve all bought into it, which is why we’re arguing the Whiteness of Albanians… Honestly, arguing for recognition as White because you perceive non-Whites as inferior based on the made up concept of race… Sounds pretty White to me.
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 17:44:24 Solitaire
@ Alban
What is the race of the girl on the left?
If you were making a map of white people, obviously you would include Albania as a white-majority country.
Fine. But you still haven’t answered the question of where you would place the dividing line on your map.
Would you include Turkey? Greece? Serbia? Croatia? Lebanon? Syria? Egypt? Israel?
And what would you base your decision on?
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 17:56:34 Mary Burrell
Wow, all this vitriol over Abagond’s map and the discourse of “whiteness “ and Albanians is quite interesting to say the least. The negative responses to who is white and who isn’t says a lot about how being “white” is coveted on the European hierarchy of White Supremacy.
How to argue like Alban:
#1. I am right because I say so.
#2. If you disagree then you are an idiot.
#3. Duck all questions.
#4, Call people names.
“Albanians are the most tolerant people in the world to races”
Right. You’re on a predominantly black blog calling black people idiots, fools, mentally ill, etc. over an issue concerning race. How is that tolerant?
Such idiotic maps makes only racists like you all. (you are black racists that copy white racists … white racists, black racist, yellow racists, red racists; you all have exactly the same stupid mentality. You are all a shame of mankind)
I’am sorry, but your consciousness is too deep and your intellect too limited to discuss scientifically. It feels for me like I talk to a wall.
How do you imagine an intellectual discussion with me, when for you it’s all “greek” what I have said so far !?
Once you become civilized and live in the 21st century and dont copy more white racist from 18-19 century, then we can discuss about smart things.
PS.: I have many dark-skinned friends, very good friends from africa and asia, but I do not say that they are “not dark-skinned” and “nonreligious” like me, and they do not say about me i am “not white” and “muslim” or “christian” or “hindus” or “buddhist”, because we are not stupid and retarded racists and extremists. We acept us so like we are. Finish.
Ah one more thing, I dont want that you think like me and my acquaintances, I just want that you think.
on Fri Apr 6th 2018 at 20:28:58 gro jo
Alban baby, unlike mean old Abagond and his friends, let me reassure you that you and your people are white. Latin for white, as Abagond knows all too well, is Albus. Albania, no doubt a derivation like albumen, etc., by definition, probably means Land of the Whites, i.e. you and yours, just as Kmt, the name of ancient Egypt, meant land of the blacks. I hope that reassures you of your whiteness and you will move on to more productive fields where you won’t be the butt of cruel jokes as you’ve endured here.
People, we must have compassion for even our ‘Alban’ brothers.
Alban baby, you need to develop a sense of humor. Just a thought.
Accept the people so like mother nature had made them. Please.
Otherwise I do not know what I should say to such people like you.
Now we’re veering into “Some of my best friends are black” territory, along with a good dose of “Talking about race is racist!”
gro jo: “Alban baby, you need to develop a sense of humor. Just a thought.”
yea you are so right … why the f*ck I take seriously such people and dont laugh at them …
maybe because I perceive their pain that they really need someone to talk to them. tsehehehehe
on Sat Apr 7th 2018 at 03:38:20 sharinalr
@Alban
Please by all means highlight this intellectual conversation you were attempting to have? So far you did a great job at name calling and I applaud you, but don’t claim to be something or doing something I doubt you could accomplish.
FYI gro jo was making fun of you and if you didn’t catch that then please don’t proclaim ever to speak on intellect.
on Sat Apr 7th 2018 at 13:04:14 Herneith
How about: Do you want a cup of coffee, I’m paying?
on Sun Apr 29th 2018 at 19:36:04 Albanian86
Albanians are whiter than greeks and bulgars yet you havent included them because 50% are muslim? Douche. We are the one single people who has taken the biggest bladt of an inadin non-white force in the 1400s, and saved entire europe from islamization by the ottomans. Even if we were hindus, obly because of that historic fact, you should included us. Our language is the springboard to ALL european languages… this makes me sad. Shame on you.
on Sun Apr 29th 2018 at 22:07:01 Afrofem
@ Albanian86
Shame on you for beating the bones of a dead horse.
Go stuff you face with some Fëgesë or Tavë Kosi. If you were really White, Albanian86, you and your comrades would laugh at this post and move on.
All of this kvetching from various Albanians means that you are not secure in your own skin.
You are the ones not sure of your own Whiteness. No one cares about this issue but you.
Poseurs!!!
on Mon Apr 30th 2018 at 01:35:40 Solitaire
“Even if we were hindus, obly because of that historic fact, you should included us.”
Well, that statement was a dead giveaway to the racism behind this commenter’s argument.
Why “even if we were hindus”? Why not include the Hindus? If anything, Sanskrit has a much stronger claim to be “the springboard to ALL european languages.”
on Sun May 13th 2018 at 21:33:55 Rober Blanche
Excellent information. Do you have information regarding the amount contributed to the world economy by white people?
on Mon May 14th 2018 at 13:39:16 Herneith
@Rober :
Nice try, LOL!
on Mon May 21st 2018 at 21:33:27 Mariana
I don´t know, white in Latin America has a completely different meaning countries like Chile, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay and Puerto Rico have large “white” populations but most of them are mixed but predominately european, around 58% of argentines have some degree of native american blood, the average costa rican is 70% white, 25% native and 5% black, most white cubans live now in the USA and black, mulatoes and mixed are now majority back in the island, something similar happened with Puerto Rico and Uruguay has a lot of black heritage but they try to hide it by all means, the Americas is a mixed continent, most of “white” americans are also mixed, Obama was not even black for latin american terms, he was a mulato-mixed-average guy in Dominicana.
on Tue May 22nd 2018 at 00:00:55 Afrofem
@ Mariana
Where did you get your percentages for race in Costa Rica?
They don’t represent the Costa Ricans I’ve met.
on Tue May 22nd 2018 at 02:12:49 abagond
The Americas are mostly based on self-identification in polls and censuses. As pointed out in the post:
If the map was based on, say, a non-Hispanic White person in the US judging pictures of random people from different countries, then the Americas, even the US itself, would probably be much less White than is shown on this map.
on Tue May 22nd 2018 at 04:07:18 sharinalr
Rober Blanche
Only if that amount is minus what was stolen from others.
@ Rober Blanche
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/how-white-america-got-rich/
on Sun Jul 22nd 2018 at 13:43:39 Klevis Dine
Well its obvious that for some reason you hate Albanians, but even with your categories you’re wrong. In Albania there are over 30-40% christians, So atleast make them light blue.
on Mon Jul 23rd 2018 at 12:32:34 Solitaire
@ Klevis Dine
“Well its obvious that for some reason you hate Albanians”
Why, because he categorizes them as non-white?
on Mon Jul 23rd 2018 at 18:13:05 A Russian Nagpo
Now, quite ironically, this map reminds me somehow of an artwork stylized as a Russian map with a writing ‘The Great Beautiful Russia’ and pejorative names for other nations and countries around it.
It’s a pity that the artwork has been prohibited by a Russian court as ‘extremist propaganda’.
on Tue Nov 6th 2018 at 12:15:26 potato
who ever created this didnt go unviersity
on Tue Nov 6th 2018 at 12:19:45 arab looking jews wanna be white its funny
israel is white im dead xD
on Tue Nov 6th 2018 at 14:32:17 Paige
@ potato
Actually, the person who created this went to an Ivy League university. Meanwhile, you managed to make six errors in the span of one sentence.
Your comment should read, “Whoever created this didn’t go to university.” The first letter of a sentence is always capitalized. “Whoever” is one word. “Didn’t” contains an apostrophe. You completely forgot the word “to”. Your spelling of “university” didn’t even make phonetic sense. Finally, you forgot a period at the end of your sentence.
I literally know elementary schoolers who write better than you, including some who don’t speak English as a first language. Come back and comment when you’ve passed the first grade – or don’t, since I doubt anyone will miss you.
on Tue Jan 15th 2019 at 23:32:48 Burrel
Fuck off you dickhead you must be some slavic prick what you mean Albanians are not because they are Muslim why don’t you go and put some stocking and thongs on and then a big dildo up ur fucking asshole you racist fuck we Albanians we are the only white race with big dicks
on Tue Jan 15th 2019 at 23:56:40 abagond
^^ NOT to be confused with Mary Burrell.
on Wed Jan 16th 2019 at 02:02:28 Solitaire
I’m so glad you added that disclaimer, LOL!!!
on Wed Jan 16th 2019 at 11:59:16 Mary Burrell
@Abagond: Please check out that Burrel person. I don’t spell my name like that. Probably a Russian troll or bot.
on Wed Jan 16th 2019 at 13:40:10 Herneith
LOL, his obscenities are almost as bad as mine!
I really want him to provide the empirical data for this claim:
“we are the only white race with big dicks”
on Wed Jan 16th 2019 at 17:22:16 Alberto Monteiro
This biggus dickus troll reminded me of an old brazilian joke
A girl was reading a magazine that stated that black men had the biggest “guns”. A white man who was nearby approaches and says:
– Excuse me, but this statistics is innacurate
– What do you mean?
– There are two nonblack groups who have even bigger “documents” than blacks
– Who are they?
– Native brazilians and Jews
They chat a lot, and the man impresses the girl with his knowledge of biology, anatomy, anthropoly and biostatistics. When they depart, the girl asks:
– So glad to meet you. But I don’t know your name!
– Ubirajara Rosenstein
on Fri Jan 18th 2019 at 12:20:40 Gjon
Allbania is white, majority AND historically Christian. We probably are probably under the top 10 contributors of European civilization. We’ve lived in Europe for over 3,500 years! Simply awful and misleading.
on Fri Jan 18th 2019 at 12:27:27 Herneith
Simply awful and misleading.
What, the fact that they have the biggest dirks or their 3500 years of history?
on Tue Feb 5th 2019 at 12:15:39 Adel
Race has nothing to do with religion ! Your mind is a mess ! You have decided that peoples from North Africa, Middle East and from some parts of Europe are non-white juste because they are muslm : this is bullshit ! The white race includes Europeans, North Africains and middle-easterners as well whatever the culture or the religion ….
on Tue Feb 19th 2019 at 16:37:36 Albert Kreshi
I’m so confused as to why you don’t classify Albanians or Bosnians as white. Both of these people have European and Christian ancestry. The difference is a lot of these people were converted to Islam as a result of the ottoman empire. Plus I should mention that Albanians/Bosnains are quite secular people too! So your map is just incorrect in this regard 100%.
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Why was Viserys mad and his "Sister" and "Brother" wasn't?
By Black Dragons, March 16 in General (ASoIaF)
On 3/16/2019 at 3:13 PM, Ygrain said:
First: incest doesn't automatically mean that the children born of it will be afflicted in any way. It only multiplies the chance the children will inherit some bad genes. If the incestuous parents are lucky, they will have perfectly healthy children.
Second: if Jon was eight months older than Robb, there is no way he could be passed off as younger than Robb in infancy. A baby of 2-3 months is barely able to hold its head upright, one of 10 months is crawling around, sitting on its own and perhaps even trying to stand up. Add a couple more months, and you would have Jon walking while Robb might be beginning to crawl. No. Way.
Third: your scenario contradicts the words of GRRM that Jon was born 8-9 months before Dany, so for your theory to work, you must subscribe to lemongate and make her somebody else than she is.
Ygrain in Catylyn chapters she talk about during the war she was at Riverum and worry about the Robb while she was at Riverum she gave birth there. Then she arrive at Winterfell when the war was over to join Ned that when she found that Ned had bring the baby (Jon Snow) the Child of Ashara Dayne and Brandon Stark the real Lord of Winterfell and King of North. Ned told every one that he was same age of Robb (No) Jon Snow is older I believe in books version at beginning he said that is 14 years old I think his REAL age is 15.
In Dany is 13 years old in books I think she was born the Tower of Joy the rebellion was over 14 years. She was switch with Jon at Starfall then she the took identity of the still born daughter Rhaella Queen.
Edited March 20 by Sophia [email protected]
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On 3/16/2019 at 7:44 PM, Euron III Greyjoy said:
Being born of incest doesn't automatically make you insane.
Sorry, still a firm believer of R+L=J, along with Rhaegar and Daenerys being Aerys and Rhaella's children.
You look at Aerys's behavior with his Queen and why desperate to have Viserys after what 10 miscarries. His Jealously of Twin Lannister with his two golden twins. Why he wanted Viserys on the throne but not his grandson
On 3/16/2019 at 5:29 PM, Rose of Red Lake said:
I think it he'd like to keep it up to interpretation without necessarily confirming "madness" with a checklist.
He says that even Daeron and Baelor could be considered "mad" so I think he's going for subtlety here.
Daeron was young and reckless 50 000 men lost to Dorne war and other 10000 get it back well maybe little nuts!
On 3/16/2019 at 8:01 PM, Alexis-something-Rose said:
Joffrey was a straight up psycho and Tommen and Myrcella are pretty normal. They are born from the same incest as Joffrey.
I don't think we can really talk about Viserys's madness without discussing his circumstances which likely exacerbated everything. It's like Aerys. He already had some madness in him, but Duskendale gave him a good shove over the edge.
Good Point but Ser Selmy already said that at the 8 years Viserys was showing madness.
On 3/17/2019 at 7:43 AM, Aline de Gavrillac said:
None of the three children are insane. Viserys had emotional issues due to his upbringing and the constant stress of living in the streets. Some of that stress was self-imposed because he wanted his kingdom back but he lacked the resources. I can level the same charge against Stannis. A man who feels entitled to a throne but lacked the means to make it happen. Believing he was betrayed and the throne taken from him, he does things like assassinating his brother with a shadow baby, burning his followers, and so on.
Stannis in the books didn't burn followers of faith that is show version. I think what you are talk about House Blank (I forget their name) were piss off at Stannis about the burning of Faith statues. His brother law was burn for being traitor and not for taking down his Faith statues. Viserys in the show version was 4 years old yes he had emotional issued due to his upbringing and the constant stress of living in the street also a 300 years dynasty to maintain and try to bring back yes, but his treated of Dany was terrible and his ignorance of Horse people that they must bow down to him because of his blood. The real world doesn't work like that he should learn that from the streets. He wanted to live in his fantasy world.
ps yes Stannis did assassinating his brother.
On 3/16/2019 at 11:27 PM, Great Oshiro said:
Possibly. The incidence of insanity did not really occur until long after the conquest, when the Targaryen brought the blood of the ordinary people into theirs. Maegor was just cruel. It doesn't mean he was crazy. He chose a brutal way to deal with his enemies.
He had serious blow to his head I believe that gave him brain damage when he kill whole House Farwosy his second wife House.
TheThreeEyedCow
Location:U.K
Viscerys went a bit mad because he was treated like a bad joke when he thought he should of been a king. He was naive, delusional, and prone to bursts of anger. But that's about it. Dany has the same genetics as him but a completely different trajectory. Nobody mocked Dany, apart from Vicsery. She had no designs of becoming anything when the story begins. She has a humble origin imo.
Viscereys took the full brunt of being an exile. And faced an endless stream of mockery until finally he met someone whom refused to humour him. In my opinion, he was a fool. Not crazy. Just the product of torment.
Aerys is much the same. He was clearly suffering from an inferiority complex with Tywin. He was one of those people who'd never saw anything through. He had accomplished nothing whilst his hand had earned the respect of the realm. To make matters worse, Varys was most likely informing Aerys of every potential betrayal, driving the King deeper and deeper into insanity. I don't know if Varys did that on purpose. But it's clear that by the end, The mad king was convinced that everyone was his enemy. And he wasn't wrong. Look at the behaviour of the major lords during that time. Moves were being made against him.
Dany was a humble person. But now she's popped a crown on her head, don't be too surprised if she turns out to be, you know, "mad". Power can do that to people. Especially if you are accustomed to having 1100 lbs of fire breathing destruction between your legs.
Ser Uncle P
30 minutes ago, Rose of Red Lake said:
That's why I called it obsession, not necessarily madness.
Still somewhere there must be consequences to incest with this House, if he's being realistic. GRRM has compared it to horse breeding, where there are real effects. If he says the flaws are accentuated, the obsessions become stronger. It could be perceived as madness at that point.
Of course this wouldn't show up as much in Fire and Blood because the incest coefficient wouldn't have multiplied as much as it has now, with Viserys' generation.
Don't forget they were probably at it back in Valyria too, though there was another 39 dragonlord families to marry as well.
The malformed reptilian miscarriages reported in FAB are probably a consequence of it too.
7 hours ago, Angel Eyes said:
Didn't stop him from trying to rape Daenerys the night before her wedding to Khal Drogo.
Or the 'waking the dragon' moments and threats.
16 minutes ago, corbon said:
That too. Or from threatening to cut her unborn child from her womb, plus telling her that he’d have her gang-raped by 40,000 people and horses if that was the price.
Edited March 18 by Angel Eyes
1 hour ago, Ser Uncle P said:
Daenerys had a dead lizard too.
2 minutes ago, Angel Eyes said:
Yeah. But you know, that stuff is all perfectly reasonable. We can tell from it that he'd be a good, kind, if ineffectual, king. /s
Rose of Red Lake
4 minutes ago, corbon said:
And when we heard about Arriane's secret betrothal, did people think "too bad, what a missed opportunity" or "whew girl dodged a bullet..."? haha
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I say dodged a bullet. Doran was a fool to try it, he and Oberyn would likely have known from letters from Elia and/or Uncle Lewyn. Barristan always said there was something of Aerys in Viserys. The same way Ned was a fool to continue with Sansa’s betrothal to Joffrey after he nearly killed Arya.
Ygrain
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2 hours ago, Sophia [email protected] said:
Ygrain in Catylyn chapters she talk about during the war she was at Riverum and worry about the Robb she carries then birth at Riverum.
Yes. And?
She arrive at Winterfell when the war was over to join Ned that when she found that Ned had bring the baby
Baby Jon and his wetnurse, actually. And? You are stating a known fact without making any argument.
Cat also states that she didn't begrudge Ned any solace he might have found with someone else during the war, i.e. believes that Jon was conceived after their wedding, i.e. after Robb, and this is consistent with what Ned tells Robert, that he cheated on Cat while she was pregnant. That makes Jon officially slightly younger than Robb, when he could have been of an age or slightly older. However, Jon couldn't have been older than 2-3 months, or else the difference in development would have been notable
(Jon Snow) the Child of Ashara Dayne and Brandon Stark the real Lord of Winterfell and King of North.
Repeating something doesn't make it true.
Ned told every one that he was same age of Robb (No) Jon Snow is older I believe in books version at beginning he said that is 14 years old I think his REAL age is 15.
Beliefs don't make for arguments.
Your English as well as your sentence structure, or rather lack of, makes it rather difficult to understand what you are trying to say. Do you mean that Dany was born at ToJ and then, some 6-9 months old, was swapped for Rhaella's stillborn and no-one ever noticed? Seriously? This is crazy even by the lemongate usual standards.
Furthermore: if Dany was born at ToJ and we apply GRRM's statement about the age difference between Jon and Dany as 8-9 months, it means that Dany was conceived a couple months into the Rebellion, at around the time of Jon's birth. Jon's conception would thus be placed far earlier than the start of the Rebellion, definitely prior Brandon's time in the Black Cells, more like, Harrenhall. Which indeed makes Jon too old to be passed off as younger than Robb. Not to mention, it makes Ned a huge dick for taking a one-year old from his mother, just to drag him North as his own bastard when he could have left Jon in Dorne where bastards are not frowned upon so much.
Varysblackfyre321
Location:Hell?
17 hours ago, Ygrain said:
I'd say that pinching and twisting his sister's nipple is a pretty explicit indicator of something deeply unhealthy in Viserys, and his ramblings about being a dragon and what not are pretty much in the line with both Aerys and Aerion, and neither of those had a troubled childhood. An inflated ego, a complete disregard for other people's feelings, mistreating a sibling, sexual or sexualized abuse (Aerys raping Rhaella, Aerion threatening to castrate egg, Viserys twisting Dany's nipple) - now, if that is not a picture of a mental issue running in the family, I don't know what else it might be.
Nobleman Referring to themselves as their House’s animal really isn’t unique to Viserys. Hell its so common Illaryio makes fun it when Tyrion refers to himself as a lion. And far as I know Aerys never adopted referring to himself as a dragon to an excessive degree.
And, people being terrible can precipitated without them being mentally ill.
That’s just flat-out insulting to both the mentally ill.
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Skahaz mo Kandaq
Location:Richmond, IN
Madness can encompass a lot of unusual behaviors. And while Selmy has had the best opportunity to observe the family in his long years of service, precise diagnosis of such illness is beyond the medical knowledge of his time. So a kid with temper tantrums might simply be described as having the madness when in reality the child was spoiled by his parents. Low self-control compared to his peers and impulsivity can make a child appear to have signs of madness. But I agree. Selmy's observations cannot be completely discounted because he has been watching the family for so long. However, since he has been watching one family for so long his experience is limited to that one family. How might Selmy react to a young Brienne? Might he say of her that she is possessed by madness?
17 hours ago, Lord Varys said:
Even his father could do that. Because you can actually have the sanity to surround yourself with competent men.
Interesting, because this is what Aerys managed to do.
6 hours ago, Rose of Red Lake said:
When the Starks become so singularly obsessed with reclaiming their birthright they attempt to sell one of their own family members in exchange for an army then I would agree, but its shallow analysis to collapse characters into a single motive. Dany and Viserys are MIRROR characters to the Starks. It's a good literary term to use when analyzing these books. That doesn't mean they are the same. They may be involved in parallel plots, sometimes to achieve the same goals, but their differences in response to similar situations are highlighted.
It's also important to consider age. Bran is 9 years old. Viserys is 22 years old. Saying they both have "delusions" as if they're comparable is weak.
Viserys has an unhealthy obsession with what he lost. The Starks do not. They aren't constantly thinking of their "birthright" or their "possessions" or even their "duty" at this point in the story, they've accepted that Winterfell is gone and that they've been displaced. Just a few examples:
“Winterfell is burned and fallen, Arya reminded herself. Old Nan and Maester Luwin were both dead, most like, and Sansa too. It did no good to think of them. All men must die.” - Arya
“There is no place here for Arya of House Stark, she was thinking. Arya’s place was Winterfell, only Winterfell was gone. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. She had no pack, though.” - Arya
“She considered throwing herself at his feet to beg for his protection. He never fought for Robb, why should he fight for me? The war is finished and Winterfell is fallen.” - Sansa
They're all adapting to their new environments, even if it's with unease. Now there might come a point when they realize they have to take back Winterfell, but I doubt we'll see one of the Stark children act like Viserys:
“Our land,” he called it. The words were like a prayer with him. If he said them enough, the gods were sure to hear. “Ours by blood right, taken from us by treachery, but ours still, ours forever. You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers...We will have it all back someday, sweet sister." Sometimes his hands shook when he talked about it. “The jewels and the silks, Dragonstone and King’s Landing, the Iron Throne and the Seven Kingdoms, all they have taken from us, we will have it back.” Viserys lived for that day.
And I understand what brought him to that point; he even has a more valid reason to want these things than Dany, who has no memory of the things she's lost.
Somehow whenever we get into discussions the same arguments are deployed. Whenever Targaryens look negative, they're just doing the same things any other noble family would do. Whenever Targaryens do something good this of course means that no other noble family could do it, and proves why they're special. I find this tedious.
You know, Sansa sold her own family for a chance to be with Prince Charming Joffrey. She did it twice. An innocent Micah and Lady died to pay for that act of over the top selfishness. She later runs to Cersei to tell of Ned's plans to sneak out of the city.
9 hours ago, Penny's Got a Gun said:
There is nothing wrong with Viserys to want to take back what was his. Not in that world. He is no different from Stannis and the Starks who all want what they believe is theirs. He is better than Renly who wanted a kingdom that never was his.
King Viserys III has as much reason to want Westeros back as the Starks do who want Winterfell back. The Targaryens built Westeros and its capital. The land belongs to them. Viserys has as much right to Westeros as Bran and his kin does to Winterfell.
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19 minutes ago, Skahaz mo Kandaq said:
Madness can encompass a lot of unusual behaviors. And while Selmy has had the best opportunity to observe the family in his long years of service, precise diagnosis of such illness is beyond the medical knowledge of his time.
We aren't talking about a precise diagnosis, or even any diagnosis at all. We are pointing out how utterly unjustified, even contrarian to the limited evidence we have, this statement is.
As a king he wouldn't have been great, but he wouldn't have been cruel, either.
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"Anniversary" is the twelfth episode in the first season. It is the twelfth episode overall.
Finn and Flame Princess celebrate there one year anniversary. So, Finn tries to find a gift for her.
The episode begins with a split screen. The one on the left was Flame Princess asleep, on the right was Finn asleep. Then the both wake up at the same time and they both said, "Are ANNIVERSARY!!!" Then they both get up and start prepare for their party. Then the screens then zooms in on Finn. He walks back and forth in his room thinking what to get her as a present. He wakes up Jake to ask him what to get her. Jake ask what she likes. Finn said she likes flowers. Jake said than get her flowers. Finn says no, because she has a garden. Jake said he knows she is a girl who is not afraid to fight. Finn said that is true. He could find a sword for her. Jake said it has to be made out of fire. Finn said thanks and left for the forest.
When he reached the forest he found a dungeon. When he entered a demon came out of no where and said if he wanted the Flaming Sword he would have to face him in battle. When Finn agreed to the fight, the Demon grew about 5 feet in height. He than reveled he was the Bucket Knight. He told him he will get revenge on Finn. Finn said "Anything for Flame Princess!!" The Bucket Knight put the water on himself and grew to his giant size. Finn drew his sword and jumped on the Bucket Knight. After about 10 minutes Finn finally cut the bucket knight's head off. Then the flame sword floated into Finn's arms. Finn then ran back to the Tree Fort and told Jake he found the sword that was made out of fire. Jake said that was a great idea but he had to wrap it up. After Finn wrapped up his present for Flame Princess he left for Flambo. When he found Flambo, he had him put the Flame Shield on him. Finn thanked him and left for FP's house.
When Finn got to Flame Princess' house he knocked on her. When she got to the door they both said "Happy Anniversary!!" Flame Princess told him to come in. Then FP said, "I made your favorite food! MEATLOAF!" Finn said thank you so much. Then he gave Flame Princess his gift. Flame Princess asked what it was. Finn told her to open it. Flame Princess opened and she picked up the sword and used it outside. She came back into her house and thanked him so much for the sword and it was the best gift ever. She gave him a big hug and kiss. Finn said thank you so much for the dinner and hug and kiss and he will see her soon. Flame Princess said ok and he will see him soon. Finn said ok and left back to the Tree Fort. When he came back to the Tree Fort, Jake was playing BMO. Jake asked how it went. Finn said it when great and told him what hapened. Jake said that was good and to sit and play BMO with him.
Bucket Knight
Flambo
This is the second time the Flame Sword appeared. The first time was "Web Weirdos."
This is there first anniversary of Finn and Flame Princess.
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From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: "When developers call upzoning a public benefit, check their bottom line" (plus a Site 5 connection)
Yesterday, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published my essay, headlined OPINION: When developers call upzoning a public benefit, check their bottom line, with the subheading, "Giant 625 Fulton tower, said to help Brooklyn, deserves scrutiny as private benefit."
This is not Atlantic Yards, of course, but not so far away, at Fulton Street at Rockwell Place. The proposed 942-foot tower, with a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 21 (compared with the Downtown Brooklyn rezoning, with an FAR of 12), would continue to change the context in and around Downtown Brooklyn.
The Eagle produced a nice GIF showing the comparison between the tower the developers (Rabsky and Totem) could build without the upzoning, and the one they propose.
Also, not mentioned in my essay, approval of that upzoning would make it easier to argue for a huge transfer of bulk to Site 5 of Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park, which would have an FAR of 23.5.
From the essay
The lead of my essay:
The real estate company Rabsky Development, in partnership with the consultancy group Totem, has very big plans for a 1.73-acre lot in Downtown Brooklyn: a hybrid office/apartment building far bulkier, if not taller, than the Chrysler Building.
That site, 625 Fulton St., is one block east of Flatbush Avenue and just up the street from the BAM Harvey Theater and BRIC.
“A first look at what could become one of Brooklyn’s tallest buildings,” is how the Brooklyn Eagle headlined coverage of a recent presentation before Community Board 2. But Rabsky has proposed not merely a 942-foot tower (79 stories); it seeks city permission to double the available square footage. With nearly 1.6 million square feet, it would cover far more of the lot than currently allowed.
“This project will bring exciting benefits to Brooklyn,” a developer’s representative claimed, citing “commercial space that encourages entrepreneurship, a much-needed school, new indoor and outdoor open spaces and space for the local arts community.” Plans for affordable housing and corporate-friendly floor design are said to justify the requested upzoning. Under current zoning, the developers could build a slim, 821-foot apartment tower, with a plaza and surface parking lot. Images via Rabsky Development’s draft scope of work
Unmentioned, though, is the significant private benefit Rabsky seeks, an increase in buildable square footage worth, by my estimate, well over $100 million. No wonder they’re paying at least $1,125 an hour to have attorney David Karnovsky, former general counsel to the Department of City Planning, lobby for the project.
Assessing the value created for Rabsky — or any developer asking for such a dramatic upzoning — should become a central point in the land use process, better informing communities and lawmakers facing such proposals.
For the rest of the article, please go to the Eagle.
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NuVasive MAGEC System Lawsuit
If you or a loved one were fitted with a NuVasive MAGEC system and suffered serious complications associated with magnetically controlled growing rods used to treat early onset scoliosis, contact Attorney Group for more information about your options.
We can answer your questions in a free and confidential consultation. If you wish to pursue a claim, we can connect you with an affiliated attorney who can file a NuVasive MAGEC system lawsuit on your behalf.
Several reports indicate possible failure of the NuVasive MAGEC system, including complications associated with metallosis, device fracture and tissue death.
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What is Early Onset Scoliosis?
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A NuVasive MAGEC system lawsuit may be an option for people with early onset scoliosis (EOS) who experienced serious complications related to the magnetic rods. The NuVasive MAGEC System is used to treat patients with early onset scoliosis (EOS) without the need for regular distraction (lengthening) surgery. However, the magnetic growing rods are reportedly linked to serious complications, including device fracture and metallosis. Affected patients and their families may be eligible to pursue compensation for damages with the help of a defective medical device attorney.
If you or a loved one have been adversely affected by a potentially defective medical device, contact Attorney Group to learn about your options. We offer free, no obligation consultations. We can help answer your questions, and if you choose to pursue a claim we can connect you with an affiliated attorney who can assist you throughout the legal process.
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You may have seen a NuVasive MAGEC system lawsuit commercial on television and wondered whether you or a loved one have been affected by the potentially defective medical devices and, if so, whether you are eligible to pursue a claim against the manufacturer or distributor. The purpose of this article is to provide you with additional information about recalls, lawsuits, and settlements involving potentially defective magnetic growing rods used to treat early onset scoliosis so that you have a better understanding of your options.
Early Onset Scoliosis (EOS) is a form of scoliosis — curvature of the spine more than 10 degrees — identified in patients 10 years-old or younger.
According to the Scoliosis Research Society, causes of EOS may include:
Idiopathic – Curves for which there is no apparent cause
Congenital – Development of vertebrae in the womb that is sometimes associated with cardiac and renal abnormalities
Neuromuscular – Disorders including spinal muscular atrophy, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and brain or spinal cord injury
Syndromic – Syndromes associated with EOS may include Marfans, Ehlers-Danlos, neurofibromatosis, Prader-Willi, as well as other connective tissue disorders and bone dysplasia
In some cases, a patient may have genetic or inherited EOS in which one or both parents had a gene that is present in their child.
Although patients with mild to moderate scoliosis do not typically have more back pain than people who don’t have the condition, scoliosis that is severe or caused by an abnormality of the spinal cord could lead to back pain.
Complications of EOS, and other forms of scoliosis, may include difficulty breathing and problems with weight gain and growth development. Some deformities of the spine may pinch the spinal cord and lead to neurological symptoms including pain, numbness or weakness.
A wide range of treatments are available for patients with EOS; however, a patient’s treatment needs are often unique to each child and their doctor.
Treatment options may include observation, bracing or casting, or surgery.
A patient’s doctor may initially choose to monitor the behavior of the curve with clinic visits and x-ray exams. If the curve of the spinal cord worsens or grows, other treatment options may be appropriate.
Bracing or Casting
In some cases, bracing or casting may help with spinal growth while minimizing any increase in the scoliosis. Braces rarely permanently correct the issue; however, a brace can potentially slow the progression of the curve and allow the child to grow before a surgical procedure is done.
If the brace or cast treatment fails, or if the curve cannot be corrected with a cast or brace, a doctor may recommend a surgical procedure to correct the curve. Traditional or magnetic growing rods may be used on either side of the spine with spine anchors to correct some of the scoliosis and to help the spine grow during treatment.
Traditional rods require small, invasive surgical procedures approximately every six months, while magnetic rods require no additional surgeries, and a small magnet is used to lengthen the rods while the child is awake.
Complications associated with surgery may include slow or poor healing of the wound, movement or breakage of anchors, spinal injury, deep infection, and surgical failure.
The NuVasive MAGEC System is a type of magnetic growing rod system used to treat EOS.
Headquartered in San Diego, NuVasive is a medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedures for the spine.
In September 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined (in accordance to provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) that an updated version of the NuVasive MAGEC System was substantially equivalent to other legally marketed devices and did not require approval of a premarket approval application.
The NuVasive MAGEC System may be an appropriate treatment option for some patients who suffer from EOS. However, some reports indicate serious complications associated with the magnetic growing rods.
A number of peer-reviewed articles have examined potential complications related to the MAGEC system to treat EOS. Those complications may include:
Metallosis – According to articles published in The Bone and Joint Journal in December 2016 and June 2017, researchers noted significant tissue metallosis surrounding some implants associated with metal debris from the growing rods. Metallosis occurs when metal debris enters the soft tissues of the body. Symptoms of metallosis may include pain, pseudo tumors, and tissue death.
Actuator pin fracture – Subtle fractures may occur in the distraction element of the growing rods. According to an analysis of two case reports published by The Spine Journal in 2016 and an analysis of explanted devices published in the UK journal Spine, researchers noted evidence of a number of cases in which drive pins within the devices’ actuator fractured.
Revision surgery – In some cases, revision surgery may be necessary to correct any issues with the growing rods. Revision surgeries often carry an increased risk in a patient’s vulnerability to other complications in addition to any added financial burdens.
Additionally, surgery to implant the MAGEC system is considered to be a major operation. Genearl risks associated with the devices may include bending, loosening, moving, or breaking of implant; allergic reaction to implant materials (such as titanium); worn skin; infection or surgical wound complications; and pain or discomfort.
Metallosis is most commonly associated with metal-on-metal hip implants; however, metal particles from any type of metal implant (such as a growing rod) could potentially cause a reaction around the area of the device.
According to the FDA, such a reaction could lead to the deterioration of the soft tissues surrounding the device and possible failure of the device. Likewise, metal ions from the growing rods could enter the bloodstream and potentially lead to other complications.
Additional complications associated with metallosis may include:
General hypersensitivity reaction (skin rash)
Neurological changes, including auditory or visual changes
Psychological status change (such as depression or cognitive impairment)
Renal function impairment
Thyroid dysfunction, including neck discomfort, fatigue, weight gain or feeling cold
Although there has not been a NuVasive MAGEC System recall, complications (such as pain, infection, metallosis and need for revision surgery) may lead to serious injury.
Affected individuals who suffered serious complications as a result of potentially defective growing rods could pursue a claim against any manufacturers that failed to disclose known risks associated with the devices.
At the time of this article’s publication, a NuVasive MAGEC System class action lawsuit action has not been filed. NuVasive MAGEC System lawsuit attorneys are doubtful that a class action will be certified for patients who are adversely affected by the device. Instead, if multiple lawsuits are filed against the manufacturers, alleging injuries and other damages caused by adjustable valves, shunts and similar medical devices, it is anticipated that these potential lawsuits will be consolidated for discovery and other pretrial proceedings.
When cases are consolidated in this way in federal court it is called multidistrict litigation (MDL), and on a state level it is known as a state court consolidated proceeding. MDLs are distinct from class actions, and it is generally agreed that consolidating cases instead of proceeding in a class action is a more efficient and effective way of handling claims arising from injuries caused by defective medical devices.
In most cases that proceed in an MDL or state court consolidated proceedings, after a certain period of time initial trials, also known as bellwether trials, take place. The purpose of these trials is for the parties to get an idea of the types of evidence and arguments that will made, as well as to see how juries will respond to the evidence and arguments. After a certain number of cases have been tried, the parties are in a better position to determine whether a case can be settled.
Some defective medical device lawsuits may settle early in the claims process. However, it is not expected that there will be any NuVasive MAGEC System lawsuit settlements at this time.
Instead, it is expected that adjustable valve and shunt lawsuits will be consolidated in federal court through an MDL. NuVasive MAGEC System lawsuit attorneys note that the outcome of any case is never guaranteed, and past results are not necessarily predictive of future outcomes.
Article published in The Bone and Joint Journal examines reports of implant failures and metallosis associated with the NuVasive MAGEC System.
Research published in Spine (an international, peer-reviewed, bi-weekly periodical focused on the spine and spinal disorders), indicates a "combination of high volumes of titanium wear debris alongside O-ring seal damage," potentially accounting for the occurrence of metallosis found around some MAGEC rods.
Medical device makers have a duty to provide safe products. If there are risks of harm associated with their products, they also must provide adequate warnings. If a medical device maker fails to fulfill this duty, it could be held liable in lawsuits for injuries that may result.
People injured by a defective NuVasive MAGEC System may be eligible to recover money for:
Jones, et al. “Actuator pin fracture in magnetically controlled growing rods: two cases.” The Spine Journal, vol. 16, 2016, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2015.12.020
Joyce, Thomas J., et al. “Analysis of Explanted Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods From Seven UK Spinal Centers.” Spine, vol. 43, no. 1, 2017, doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000002221
Rushton, P. R. P., et al. “Magnetically controlld growing rods in the treatment of early-onset scoliosis.” The Bone and Joint Journal, vol. 99-B, no. 6, June 2017, pp. 708–713.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Information for Patients Who Have Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants.” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, updated 28 Dec. 2017, https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/MetalonMetalHipImplants/ucm241766.htm.
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Classifieds 05-19-2016
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN
AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
PROBATE DIVISION
FILE NO.: 2016-CP-000696
IN RE: The Estate of
KURT YOSHIHIRO KURIYAMA
Deceased.
The administration of the Estate of KURT YOSHIHIRO KURIYAMA, deceased February 25, 2016 is pending as Case No. 2016-CP-000696 in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in and for Alachua County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 201 E. University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601. The names and addresses of the Personal Representative and the Personal Representatives attorney are set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedents estate, including unmatured, contingent or unliquidated claims, on whom a copy of this notice is served must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE TIME REQUIRED BY LAW as set forth in Section 733.702, Florida Statutes, which is on or before the later of the date that is 3 months after the time of the first publication of the notice to creditors or, as to any creditor required to be served with a copy of the notice to creditors, 30 days after the date of service on the credit. ALL CLAIMS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. The date of first publication of notice to creditors was May 19, 2016.
DAVID KURIYAMA
15 Ryder Road
Personal Representative
ADAM S. TOWERS, ESQ.
Florida Bar No.: 36654 BOGIN, MUNNS & MUNNS, P.A. 2700 NW 43rd St., Suite C Gainesville, FL 32606 Phone: (352) 332-7688 Fax: (352) 332-7692
atowers@
boginmunns.com
Attorney for Personal Representative
(Published: Alachua County Today - May 19 & 26, 2016)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION
CASE NO. 012015CA003027
WELLS FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-2 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-2,
Plaintiff,
STEPHEN R. PHELAN, et al.
Defendant(s).
________________/
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 25, 2016, and entered in 012015CA003027
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein WELLS FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-2 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-2 is the Plaintiff and STEPHEN R. PHELAN are the Defendant(s). J.K. Irby as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, Gainesville, FL 32601, at 11:00 AM, on June 23, 2016, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
LOT 2, BROADMOOR PHASE III, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "R", PAGE 86, PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 1328 NW 100TH TER, GAINSVILLE, FL 32606
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
Dated this 16 day of May, 2016.
ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ & SCHNEID, P.L.
Attorney for Plaintiff
6409 Congress Ave.,
Service Email: mail@rasflaw.com
By:\S\Heather Itzkowitz
Heather Itzk owitz, Esquire
Florida Bar No. 118736
Communication Email: hitzkowitz@rasflaw.com
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Alachua County Courthouse, 201 East University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601 at (352) 337-6237 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired call 711.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
Case No. 2015-CA-3668
ESTATE OF LESTER CLIFTON EVANS
FRED JOHNSON and BERMA
W. WATSON, his wife
NOTICE OF ACTION: FORECLOSURE
TO: FRED JOHNSON, BERMA W. WATSON,
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED of the institution of this action by the Plaintiffs against you seeking to foreclose a mortgage on the following property in Alachua County, Florida:
Lot Six (6), Block Six (6), BRANNING SECOND ADDITION TO CITY OF WALDO, according to the plat recorded in Deed Book M, Page 119 of the Public Records of Alachua County, Florida
Together with double wide mobile home, ID #FLHML2P2858564A and #FLHML2P2858564B, title #63637247 and #63637248
This action has been filed against you, and you are required to serve a copy of your written defense, if any, to it on Plaintiffs attorney, Thomas R. Weller, whose address is 23327 NW CR 236, Suite 50, High Springs, Florida 32643, on or before 30 days after the date of first publication, and file the original with the Clerk of the Circuit Court either before service on Plaintiffs attorney or immediately thereafter, otherwise a default and
judgment will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court on the 12th day of May, 2016.
J. K. Buddy Irby, Clerk
By:/s/Rebecca De la Rosa
Rebecca De la Rosa
Deputy Clerk
J.K. IRBY CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
201 E. UNIVERSITY AVE.
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 32601
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given under and by virtue of Florida Statute Section 713.78, the undersigned shall sell at public sale on 5-31-2016 at 10:00a.m., at the address of his business: 4515 S.W. 29th Ave, Gainesville, Florida, 32608, the following:
2001 PONT VIN# 1G2JB524917130903
For additional information concerning the above personal property for sale you may contact Billy Hart 352-376-0144
(Published: Alachua County Today - May 19, 2016)
JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY,
JANE W. POWERS, et al.
___________________/
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY is the Plaintiff and JANE W. POWERS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT are the Defendant(s). J.K. Irby as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
LOT 32, WOOD MEADOWS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK P, PAGE 80, PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
TOGETHER WITH 1986 DOUBLEWIDE MOBILE HOME, VIN #'S P28091351305A & P28091351305B.
Property Address: 15521 NORTHWEST 25TH TERRACE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609-4085
Heather Itzkowitz, Esquire
2013 SADY VIN# LYHZ1BGA0DJ101443
Affordable Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicle to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.78 of the Florida Statutes on June 02, 2016 at 10 A.M.
*AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED*
2003 FORD, VIN# 2FAFP71W23X119231 1997 CHEVROLET, VIN# 1GBJ6H1M2VJ111027
Located at: 6722 NW 18th Drive, Suite 7, Gainesville, FL 32653
Any person(s) claiming any interest(s) in the above vehicles contact: Affordable Title & Lien, Inc. (954) 416-1779
*ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD WITH RESERVE*
Some of the vehicles may have been released prior to auction
LIC# AB-0003126
Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue part IV of Chapter 83 Florida Statues Self-Storage Facility Act that the undersigned will be by Reserved Public Sale and, sell for cash to the highest bidder, at
Tower Hill Storage
6800 West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, at 10:00 AM on June 10th, 2016
Following are Contents Given to us by Tenant:
Unit #C092 Belonging to Genevieve Alexander
Containing: Household Items
Unit #D049 Belonging to Galisa Ford
Containing: Furniture, Household Goods
Unit #C045 Belonging to Hugh H. Hampton
Containing: Furniture, Kitchen Dishes
Unit #E001 Belonging to Holly Hunter
Containing: Household Furniture
Unit #B119
Kingsley K. King
7628 SW 13th Rd.
Containing: Furniture, clothes
Unit #B025 Belonging to Steven McCook II
Containing: Household Goods
By: Tower Hill Storage, 6800 West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32607
(Published: Alachua County Today - May 9 & 16, 2016)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
CIRCUIT CIVIL DIVISION
CASE NO.: 2013-CA-5418
GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC
345 St. Peter Street
1100 Landmark Towers
Plaintiff(s),
MARIA THERESA BRIONES;
ANGELA MARIE GAMEZ;
MARION MARIE RAMIREZ;
TIFFANY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.;
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, pursuant to Plaintiff's Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered on May 2, 2016, in the above-captioned action, the Clerk of Court, J.K. Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforclose.com in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Statutes on the 7th day of July, 2016, at 11:00 A.M. on the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment of Foreclosure, to wit:
LOT 25 OF TIFFANY PHASE ONE, A PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
COMMENCE AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST OF THE SOUTHWEST OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 9 SOUTH, RANGE 20 EAST, AND RUN SOUTH 0015`21" WEST A DISTANCE OF 32.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF NORTHWEST 31ST AVENUE; THENCE RUN SOUTH 8927`09" EAST ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 161.01 FEET TO THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF EASTERWOOD AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK L, PAGE 37, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, THENCE RUN SOUTH 0032`51" WEST ALONG SAID WESTERLY BOUNDARY A DISTANCE OF 98.37 FEET TO THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID PLAT OF EASTERWOOD; THENCE RUN SOUTH 8927`09" EAST ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE A DISTANCE OF 503.00 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTH 0032`51" WEST A DISTANCE OF 178.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
THENCE CONTINUE SOUTH 0032`51" WEST A DISTANCE OF 24.67 FEET; THENCE RUN NORTH 8927`09" WEST A DISTANCE OF 73.00 FEET, THENCE RUN NORTH 0032`51" EAST A DISTANCE OF 24.67 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTH 8927`09" EAST A DISTANCE OF 73.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 3047 NW 28TH CIRCLE #25, GAINESVILLE, FL 32605
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens, must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the sale.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, TO THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE ADA COORDINATOR AT (352) 337-6237, AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED COURT APPEARANCE. IF YOU ARE HEARING OR VOICE IMPAIRED, PLEASE CALL 711. IF YOU ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING AND REQUIRE AN ASL INTERPRETER OR AN ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICE TO PARTICIPATE IN A PROCEEDING, PLEASE CONTACT COURT INTERPRETING AT INTERPRETER@
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I HEREBY CERTIFY a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished to all parties on the attached service list by e-Service or by First Class U.S. Mail on this 18th day of May, 2016:
/s/Harrison Smalbach
TIMOTHY D. PADGETT, P.A.
HARRISON SMALBACH, ESQ.
Florida Bar # 116255
6267 Old Water Oak Road, Suite 203
(850) 422-2520 (telephone)
(850) 422-2567 (facsimile)
attorney@padgettlaw.net
Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicles to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.78 of the Florida Statutes on June 09, 2016 at 10 A.M. AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED 2006 HONDA, VIN# 1HGFA15586L114757 Located at: 2014 NE 23 AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609 ALACHUA
Any person(s) claiming any interest(s) in the above vehicles contact: Rainbow title & Lien, Inc., (954) 920-6020 * ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD WITH RESERVE* Some of the vehicles may have been released prior to auction LIC# AB-0001256
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION
File No. 01 2016 CP 0783 Division : Probate
IN RE: ESTATE OF JAMES GAMBREL BROWNDeceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the estate of James Gambrel Brown, deceased, whose date of death was March 14, 2016, is pending in the Circuit Court for Alachua County, Florida, Probate Division; the address of which is 201 E. University Ave., Gainesville, Florida 32601. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative=s attorney are set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.
All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT'S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.
The date of first publication of this notice is May 19, 2016.
Personal Representative:
Julie M. Kurian
1926 NW 42nd Place
Attorney for Personal Representative:
Susan L. Mikolaitis
Marvin W. Bingham, Jr.,
P. A.
14811 NW 140th St.Alachua, Florida 32615
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
CASE NO.: 2015-CC-3982
JUDGE: JAWORSKI
SPARROW CONDOMINIUM, INC.
Defendant.
PURSUANT TO F.S. CHAPTER 45
Notice is given that pursuant to a final judgment in Case No: 2015-CC-3982 of the County Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, in which SPARROW CONDOMINIUM, INC. is the Plaintiff and KIPP D. HAYES is the Defendant, the Alachua County Clerk of the Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash online at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, at 11:00 a.m. on June 28, 2016, the following described property set forth in the Final Judgment of Foreclosure:
Unit No. 106 Building No. 6 of SPARROW CONDOMINIUM, a condominium according to the Declaration of Condominium recorded in Official Records Book 879, at page 404 through 494, of Alachua County, Florida, together with all amendments thereto.
TAX PARCEL NO. 06650-106-006
A/K/A 613 SW 75th Street, Unit 106, Gainesville, Florida 32607
MCCARTY, NAIM & KEETER, P.A.
/s/Julie Naim
Julie Naim, Esq.,
FBN 0098709
Attorney for Plaintiff 2630-A NW 41st Street
Primary e-mail: Mac@lawgators.com
Secondary e-mail: Julie@lawgators.com
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.: 012015CA002179
U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OR BENEFICIARIES OF THE ESTATE OF COLANTHA GREEN A/K/A COLANTHA LUGENE GREEN A/K/A COLANTHA COBB, DECEASED, et al
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of foreclosure date April 25, 2016, and entered in Case No. 012015CA002179
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for ALACHUA COUNTY, Florida, wherein U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, is Plaintiff, and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OR BENEFICIARIES OF THE ESTATE OF COLANTHA GREEN A/K/A COLANTHA LUGENE GREEN A/K/A COLANTHA COBB, DECEASED, et al are Defendants, the clerk, J.K. "Buddy" Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for case, beginning at 11:00 AM www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Statutes, on the 23 day of June, 2016, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
LOT FOURTEEN (14), TRACY TERRACE, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 'M', PAGE 71 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 15716 NORTHWEST 138TH TERRACE, ALACHUA, FL 32615
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus finds from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, PLLC
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Service by email: FL.Service@
PhelanHallinan.com
By: /s/ Heather J. Koch
Heather J. Koch, Esq., Florida Bar No. 89107
Emilio R. Lenzi, Esq., Florida Bar No. 0668273
Notice of Sale/Auction Main Street Climate Control, pursuant to the provisions of the Forida Self Storage Facility Act (Fla Stat. 83.801 sec) hereby gives notice of sale under act, to wit:
On 06/04/2016 at Main Street Climate Control, 17856 High Springs Main Street, High Springs, Fl; the site manager, will conduct a public sale/auction or will disposed of the contents at 1 PM for the contents of the storage unit or units rented by the following person/persons:
Shelia Bacon
Unit C-09
Kevin Nick
Unit A-34
Verne Riggall
Wellington, FL
UInit C-19
Consists of household, personal items and/or miscellaneous merchandise, stored at Main Street Climate Control, 17856 High Springs Main St, High Springs, FL. Sale is being made to satisfy a statutory lien. Owner(s) and/or their representatives reserves the right to bid. Minimum Bids may apply.
CASE NO.: 01 2006 CA 004240
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR EMC MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2002-A, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2002-A
SHERWOOD MARC WILLIS, et al
RE-NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
RE-NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order Granting Plaintiffs Motion to Cancel Foreclosure Sale filed February 05, 2016 and entered in Case No. 01 2006 CA 004240 of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for ALACHUA COUNTY, Florida, wherein WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR EMC MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2002-A, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2002-A, is Plaintiff, and SHERWOOD MARC WILLIS, et al are Defendants, the clerk, J.K. "Buddy" Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, beginning at 11:00 AM www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Statutes, on the 23 day of June, 2016, the following described property as set forth in said Lis Pendens, to wit:
LOT THIRTY-NINE (39) OF THE JOCKEY CLUB UNIT 3, A SUBDIVISION AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 'R', PAGE 32, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus funds from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Ms. Jan Phillips, ADA Coordinator, Alachua County Family and Civil Justice Center, 201 East University Avenue, Room 410, Gainesville, FL 32601 at (352) 337-6237 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than seven (7) days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.
If you are deaf or hard of hearing and require an ASL interpreter or an assisted listening device to participate in a proceeding, please contact the Court Interpreter Program at interpreter@circuit8.org
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,
BANK OF AMERICA N.A.;
JOHN A. HARRISON A/K/A JOHN HARRISON, SARA M. MEEKS, ET.AL;
NOTICE IS GIVEN that, in accordance with the Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 1, 2016, in the above-styled cause, The Clerk of Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, on May 31, 2016 at 11:00 am the following described property:
LOT(S) 63, OF DEBORAH HEIGHTS AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK D, PAGE 90, ET SEQ., OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 1842 NE 7TH ST, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at (352) 337-6237, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance. If you are hearing or voice impaired, please call 711. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and require an ASL interpreter or an assisted listening device to participate in a proceeding, please contact Court Interpreting at interpreter@circuit8.org
WITNESS my hand on May 9, 2016.
/s/Keith Lehman
Keith Lehman. Esq.
FBN. 85111
Marinosci Law Group, P.C.
100 West Cypress Creek Road, Suite 1045
Phone: (954)-644-8704; Fax (954) 772-9601
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CASE NO.: 2015 CA 002944
AMERIS BANK, A GEORGIA BANK
Cairo, GA 39828
MICHAEL A. SMITH;
DONALD TRULUCK;
ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, CLERK OF COURT;
FLORIDA CREDIT UNION;
R. DAWN SMITH FAGAN;
STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE;
HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III;
TRACEY L. SMITH;
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, pursuant to Plaintiff's Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered on May 2, 2016, in the above-captioned action, the Clerk of Court, J.K. Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.realforeclose
.com in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Statutes on the 7th day of July, 2016 at 11:00 AM on the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment of Foreclosure, to wit:
The North 495 feet of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, of Section 13, Township 10 South, Range 17 East, Alachua County, Florida. LESS AND EXCEPT the East 880 feet thereof and subject to existing road rights of way.
TOGETHER WITH Mobile Home Described as follows: 2002 Clayton, size 28 x 60, Serial No. WHCO11939GA-A and WHCO11939GA-B.
Property address: 20509 SW 30th Avenue, Newberry, FL 32669
I HEREBY CERTIFY a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished to all parties on the attached service list by e-Service or by First Class U.S. Mail on this 9th day of May, 2016:
Pursuant to the Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.516, the above signed counsel for Plaintiff designates attorney@padgettlaw.net as its primary e-mail address for service, in the above styled matter, of all pleadings and documents required to be served on the parties.
U.S. BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF MANUFACTURED HOUSING CONTRACT SENIOR/SUBORDINATE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATE TRUST 1998-2
TRACY D. RIGGINS-WOODEN;
JERAMY W. WOODEN;
PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 8 SOUTH, RANGE 18 EAST, ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCE AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE SAID EAST 1/2 THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 11 MINUTES 40 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE WEST LINE THEREOF, A DISTANCE OF 30.00 FEET TO THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE (R/W) OF N.W. 158TH AVENUE, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 33 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE SAID R/W LINE, 267.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING (P.O.B.); THENCE CONTINUE NORTH 89 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 33 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE SAID R/W LINE 89.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 11 MINUTES 40 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 90.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 89.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 11 MINUTES 40 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 90.00 FEET TO THE P.O.B. TOGETHER WITH THOSE CERTAIN MOBILE HOMES DESCRIBED AS 1998, 66 X 28, HICKORY HILL, VIN#
GAFLV35A14037HH21 AND VIN#
GAFLV35B14037HH21.
PROPERTY ADDRESS: 13641 NORTHWEST 158TH AVENUE, ALACHUA, FL 32615
Harrison Smalbach, ESQ. FBN# 116255
NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT
TO ALL CREDITORS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE tha a Petition commencing an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, pursuant to Chapter 727, Florida Statutes, made by ETECT, INC., Assignor, with principal place of business at 107 SW 140th Terrace, Suite 1, Newberry, Florida 32669, to Seldon J. Childers, Assignee whose address is 2135 NW 40th Terrace, Suite B, Gainesville, FL 32605 was filed on April 15, 2016.
YOUR ARE HEREBY further notified that in order to recieve any dividend in this proceeding you must file a proof of claim with the Assignee on or before August 15, 2016 (120 days from the date of the filing of this petition).
(Published: Alachua County Today - Apr. 28, May 5, 12 & 19, 2016)
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY,
MIGUEL A. TRUNZO AND AMELIA I. TRUNZO. et. al.
Defendant(s),
__________________/
NOTICE OF ACTION - CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE
TO: MIGUEL A. TRUNZO and AMELIA I. TRUNZO.
whose residence is unknown and all parties having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the mortgage being foreclosed herein.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following property:
LOT 74, MEADOWS OF KANAPAHA PHASE 2, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 23, PAGES 35 THROUGH 41, INCLUSIVE OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on counsel for Plaintiff, whose address is 6409 Congress Avenue, Suite 100, Boca Raton, Florida 33487 on or before (30 days from Date of First Publication of this Notice) and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Plaintiff's attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition filed herein.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of this Court at County, Florida, this 4th April, 2016.
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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-HE3,
MELISSA C. PAPA; ET. AL.,
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER F.S. CHAPTER 45
NOTICE IS GIVEN that, in accordance with the Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 19, 2016, in the above-styled cause, the Clerk of Circuit Court, J. K. Irby, shall sell the subject property at public sale on the 1st day of September, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., to the highest and best bidder for cash, at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com for the following described property:
LOT SEVEN (7) OF HIGHLAND COURT, UNIT NO. 7, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 'E', PAGE 78 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property address: 1318 NORTHEAST 14TH ST., GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 32601
Dated: May 3, 2016.
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Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity in the 100-Year
Floodplain and Wetland
Name of Responsible Entity: City of Hawthorne
Address: 6700 SE 221st Street
Hawthorne, FL 32640-1270
To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals
This is to give notice that the City of Hawthorne has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Orders 11988 and 11990 in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 to determine the potential affect that its activity in the floodplain and/or wetland will have on the environment.
The City of Hawthorne intends to undertake a project to be funded by a Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). The proposed project includes the following activities:
Service Area #1 Central Hawthorne Water Line Replacement Service Area:
03J Water Line Improvements The Central Hawthorne Water Line Replacement Service Area in the City of Hawthorne experiences frequent pipe breaks and water outages. The existing pipes in the service area are made of substandard material that do not meet current potable water main standards. Also, most of the valves in the area do not work properly which makes repairing the water mains more difficult. The activity in this service area involves the replacement of the existing potable water lines in the service area with new two inch (2), six inch (6), and ten inch (10) PVC water lines. Approximately six hundred linear feet (600) of two inch (2), thirty-eight hundred linear feet (3,800) of six inch (6) and twenty-nine hundred feet (2,900) of ten inch (10) water lines will be replaced. A total of seven thousand three hundred (7,300) linear feet of replacement potable water lines will be installed. The installation of the new water lines will include all components, including fire hydrants and shut off valves required for a complete installation.
The scope of work to be carried out in Service Area #1 is as follows:
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 69th Avenue between Southeast 218th Street on the west and Southeast 221st Street on the east with ten inch (10) PVC water lines, a distance of 1,100 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 65th Avenue between Southeast 218th Street on the west and Southeast 219th Terrace on the east with ten inch (10) PVC water lines, a distance of 500 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 218th Street between Southeast 65th Avenue on the north and Southeast 69th Avenue on the south with six inch (6) PVC water lines, a distance of 1,200 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 219th Terrace between Southeast 65th Avenue on the north and Southeast 69th Avenue on the south with six inch (6) PVC water lines, a distance of 1,300 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 220th Street between Southeast 65th Avenue on the north and Southeast 69th on the south with six inch (6) PVC water lines, a distance of 1,300 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 221st Street between Southeast 65th Avenue on the north and Southeast 69th Avenue on the south with ten inch (10) PVC water lines, a distance of 1,300 linear feet;
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 221st Street between State Road 20 on the north and Southeast 65th Avenue on the south with two inch (2) PVC water lines, a distance of 600 linear feet;
All of the water lines being replaced in Service Area #1 are interconnected.
The boundary for Service Area #1 begins at the northwest corner of the property located on the northwest corner of SE 65th Avenue and SE 218th Street, proceed east along the rear property lines of the property on the north side of SE 65th Avenue until the northwest corner of the property located on the northwest corner of SE 65th Avenue and SE 221st Street, then proceed northerly along the rear property line of the properties located on the west side of SE 221st Street until the intersection with the southern right of way line of State Road 20, then proceed easterly along the southern right of way line of State Road 20 until it intersects with the northeast corner of the property located on the southeast corner of the intersection of State Road 20 and SE 221st Street, then proceed southerly along the rear property lines of the properties located on the east side of SE 221st Street until the southeast corner of the property located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Se 221st Street and Southeast 69th Avenue, then proceed westerly along the rear property line of the properties located on the south side of SE 69th Avenue until the southwest corner of the property located on the southwest corner of SE 69th Avenue and SE 218th Street, then proceed northerly along the rear property line of the properties located along the west side of SE 218th Street until the point of beginning.
Activity 03J Water Line Replacement
CDBG Cost
Citys Local Match
Service Area #2 Potable Water System Wide Service Area:
03J Water Tank/Well/Treatment Plant Improvements The building which houses the City of Hawthornes well, well pumps and equipment at the Citys Water Treatment Plant located at 6504 SE 219th Terrace is in bad shape and in need of replacement. The CDBG activity in Service Area #2 will include the replacement of the building housing the water well, water pump and equipment at the Citys Water Treatment Plant. The funds in this activity will be used to replace the building containing the well, well pumps and equipment at the Citys water treatment plant. The replacement of the building housing the well, well pumps and equipment will include all components required to replace the building.
Service Area #2 includes all of the residential housing units that are connected to the City of Hawthorne water system.
Plant Improvements
Unmet Need:
Service Area #3 Southeast 65th Avenue Water Line Replacement Service Area:
03J Water Line Replacement The Southeast 65th Avenue Water Line Replacement Service Area in the City of Hawthorne experiences frequent pipe breaks and water outages. The existing pipes in the service area are made of substandard materials which do not meet current potable water main standards. Also, most of the valves in the service area do not work which makes repairs more difficult. The activity in this service area involves the replacement of the existing substandard water lines in the service area with ten inch (10) water lines. Approximately five hundred linear feet (500) of replacement potable water lines will be installed. The installation of the new water lines will include all components, including fire hydrants and shut off valves required for a complete installation.
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 65th Avenue between Southeast 218th Street on the east and 216th Terrace on the west with ten inch (10) PVC water lines, a distance of 500 linear feet;
The water lines being replaced along Southeast 65th Avenue in Service Area #3 are interconnected with the water lines being replaced in primary Service Area #1.
Service Area #3 is bound on the north by the rear property line of the properties located on the north side of Southeast 65th Avenue, on the south by the rear property lines located along the south side of Southwest 65th Avenue, on the east by the eastern edge of the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 218th Street, and on the west by the western edge of the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 216th Terrace.
Service Area #4 Southeast 216th Terrace Water Line Replacement Service Area:
03J Water Line Replacement Activity The Southeast 216th Terrace Water Line Replacement Service Area in the City of Hawthorne experiences frequent pipe breaks and water outages. The existing pipes in the service area are made of substandard materials which do not meet current potable water main standards. Also, most of the valves in the service area do not work which makes repairs more difficult. The activity in this service area involves the replacement of the existing substandard water lines in the service area with two inch (2) water lines. Approximately five hundred linear feet (500) of replacement potable water lines will be installed. The installation of the proposed new water lines will include all components, including shut off valves required for a complete installation.
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 216th Terrace beginning at the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 216th Terrace and extending northerly along 216th Terrace for 500 linear feet, approximately 500 of two inch (2) PVC water lines will be installed in this Service Area;
The water lines being replaced along Southeast 216th Terrace in Service Area #4 are interconnected with the water lines being replaced in primary Service Area #1 and unmet need Service Area #3.
Service Area #4 is bound on the north by the northern property lines of the properties located at 6401 Southeast 216thTerrace and 6408 Southeast 216th Terrace, on the west by the rear property line of the properties located on the west side of Southeast 216th Terrace, on the south by the southern edge of the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 216th Terrace and on the east by the rear property lines of the properties located along the east side of Southwest 216th Terrace.
03J Water Line Replacement
CDBG Cost $ 15,000.00
03J - Water Line Replacement Activity The Southeast 69th Avenue Water Line Replacement Service Area in the City of Hawthorne experiences frequent pipe breaks and water outages. The existing pipes in the service area are made of substandard materials which do not meet current potable water main standards. Also, most of the valves in the service area do not work which makes repairs more difficult. The activity in this service area involves the replacement of the existing substandard water lines in the service area with ten inch (10) water lines. Approximately five hundred linear feet (500) of replacement potable water lines will be installed. The installation of the new water lines will include all components, including fire hydrants and shut off valves required for a complete installation.
The replacement of the existing water line along Southeast 69th Avenue between Southeast 218th Street on the east and 216th Terrace on the west with ten inch (10) PVC water lines, a distance of 500 linear feet.
Service Area #5 is bound on the north by the rear property line of the properties located on the north side of Southeast 69th Avenue, on the south by the rear property lines of the properties located along the south side of Southwest 69th Avenue, on the east by the eastern edge of the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 218th Street, and on the west by the western edge of the intersection of Southeast 65th Avenue and Southeast 216th Terrace.
$ 0.00 Activity
City's Local Match
$ 0.00 Total CDBG Cost - $650,000.00
Total Citys Local Match from the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund - $25,000.00
Total CDBG and Citys Local Match - $675,000.00
It has been determined that no practicable alternative other than to proceed with the work is available. This activity will have no significant impact on the environment for the following reasons:
A portion of the project may be located in a floodplain. The City anticipates no additional impervious surface within the floodplain will be created by the project. If additional impervious surface is created by the project, drainage improvements to compensate for the additional impervious surface that will be created will be included in the project.
Although a portion of the project may be located in the 100-year floodplain and/or wetland, the improvements cannot be undertaken in any other location due to the scope of the project. There is, therefore no practicable alternative than to continue with the project.
The proposed improvements conform to applicable floodplain protection standards. The proposed action will not affect natural or beneficial floodplain values, and residents of the community will benefit from the project. Failure to provide these improvements would result in the City of Hawthorne not being able to carry out the activities in the project.
Additional agencies involved in this project include the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the City of Hawthorne.
Written comments must be received by Ellen Vause, City Manager at City of Hawthorne, P. O. Box 1270, Hawthorne, FL 32640-1270 on or before May 20, 2016. A more detailed description of the project and the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) flood maps are available for citizen review by contacting the local government.
Matthew Surrency, Mayor
Environmental Certifying Official
City of Hawthorne
6700 SE 221st Street
Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicles to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.585 of the Florida Statutes on June 02, 2016 at 10 A.M. AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED 2009 TOYOTA COROLLA VIN# 1NXBU40E29Z025399 Located at: UNIVERSITY COLLISION CENTER, INC 2700 nw 74TH PLACE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32653 Lien Amount: $7,819.35
a) Notice to the owner or lienor that he has a right to a hearing prior to the scheduled date of sale by filing with the Clerk of the Court. b) Owner has the right to recover possession of vehicle by posting bond in accordance with Florida Statutes Section 559.917. c) Proceeds from the sale of the vehicle after payment lien claimed by lienor will be deposited with the Clerk of the Court. Any person(s) claiming any interest(s) in the above vehicles contact: Rainbow title & Lien, Inc., (954) 920-6020 * ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD WITH RESERVE* Some of the vehicles may have been released prior to auction LIC# AB-0001256
25% BUYERS PREMIUM
(Published: Alachua County Today -May 12, 2016)
CASE NO. 2014-CA-004246
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2015-13BTT,
KELLEY B. KISH, et. al.,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to the Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered on April 25, 2016, in the above-captioned action, the following property situated in Alachua County, Florida, described as:
CONDOMINIUM PARCEL NO. 1204, OF MAGNOLIA PLACE TOWNHOMES, A CONDOMINIUM, ACCORDING TO THE DECLARAION OF CONDOMINIUM THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 3269, AT PAGE 960, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 4478 NW 49th St., Gainesville, FL 32606
Shall be sold by the Clerk of Court, J.K. Irby, on the 23rd day of June, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. online at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, to the highest bidder, for cash, after giving notice as required by section 45.031, Florida Statutes.
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale. The court, in its discretion, may enlarge the time of the sale. Notice of the changed time of sale shall be published as provided herein.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the above was forwarded via Electronic Mail to: Christopher Forrest at Christopher@
forrest-law.com and by US Mail to Magnolia Place Townhomes Condominium Association, Inc. c/o Harry Collison, RA, 180 S Knowles Ave. Ste. 3, Winter Park, FL 32789, this 3rd day of May, 2016.
By:/s/Ted H. McCaskill TED H. MCCASKILL, ESQ.
Florida Bar No.: 89142
STOREY LAW GROUP, P.A.
3191 Maguire Blvd.,
Facsimile: (407)488-1177
E-mail: tmccaskill@
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CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC,
RACHEL KEYES, et al.,
Defendants.
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NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: JARED LLOYD THOMPSON
Last Known Address:
580 Morning Glory Circle
Jesup, GA 31546
UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JARED LLOYD THOMPSON
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS STATED, CURRENT RESIDENCE UNKNOWN
and any unknown heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors and other unknown persons or unknown spouses claiming by, through and under the above-named Defendant(s), if deceased or whose last known addresses are unknown.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose Mortgage covering the following real and personal property described as follows, to wit:
LOT 57 OF NORTHWOOD PINES UNIT NO.4, according to the map or plat thereof, recorded in Plat Book I, page 67 of public records of Alachua County, Florida
6417 NW 28th Terr., Gainesville, FL 32653-1455
has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jason K. Ruggerio, Esq., Lender Legal Services, LLC, 201 East Pine Street, Suite 730, Orlando, Florida 32801 and file the original with the Clerk of the above-styled Court on or before 30 days from the first publication, otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
WITNESS my hand and seal of the said Court on the 15th day of April, 2016.
Americans with Disabilities Act, if you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in a proceeding, you are entitled to be provided with certain assistance at no cost to you. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Alachua County Family and Civil Justice Center, 201 East University Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32601 (352-337-6237) at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days. If you are hearing or voice-impaired, call 1-800-955-8770 via Florida Relay Service
Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicles to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.78 of the Florida Statutes on June 02, 2016 at 10 A.M. AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED 2003 CHEVROLET, VIN# 1GNDT13X83K178231 1999 NISSAN, VIN# 1N4DL01D4XC241326 Located at: 2014 NE 23 AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609 ALACHUA
Paul Barcia b/b/a High Springs Mini Storage, pursuant to the provisions of the Florida Self Storage Facility Act (Fla. Stat. 83.801 ET sec.) Herby gives notice of sale under act, to wit:
On 5/30/16 at High Springs Mini Storage, 26055 W US Hwy 27, High Springs, FL Paul Barcia or his agent will conduct a sale at 9:00 AM by sealed bids to the highest bidder. Bids will be opened at Noon with a viewing from 9:00AM bids will close at noon for the entire contents of the storage unit or units, rented by the following person/persons:
Martha Washington 22317 NW 176 PL High Springs, FL 32643
Tammy Langford 598 SE CR 500 Branford, FL 32008
Elizabeth Stevenson 245 SW 1st Ave High Springs, FL 32643
Marna Weston PO Box 1691 High Springs, FL 32655
Thomas Weddle 503 SW Trenton Terr Ft White, FL 32038
Thomas Parrish PO Box 108 LaCrosse, FL 32658
Kimberly Williamson 1677 SW Bobcat Dr Ft White, FL 32038
Contents of household, personal items or miscellaneous merchandise, stored at High Springs Mini Storage, 26055 W US Hwy 27, High Springs, FL 32643. Sale is being made to satisfy a statutory lien. Owner reserves the right to close all bids at any time.
The following vehicles will be sold at public sale, per Fl Stat 713.585 at 10:00 AM on May 31, 2016 at Bill's Low Cost Transmission & Automotive Repair Inc,
1883 N Main St, Gainesville FL 32609,
phone 352-367-2500 to satisfy a lien against said vehicles for labor, services and storage charges. No titles, as is, cash only. 2006 Chevy Trailblazer Utility,VIN 1GNDS13S962180064. Cash sum to redeem vehicle $3074.96. 1993 Ford Pickup, VIN 1FTCR10A0PUB24211.
Cash sum to redeem vehicle $2273.24. Notice to owner or lien holder as to right to a hearing prior to sale date by filing with the clerk of court and to recover vehicle by posting bond in accordance with FL Stat 559.917. Proceeds from sale in excess of lien amount will be deposited with the clerk of court.
Interested parties, contact State Filing Service 772-595-9555.
5 temp Farmworkers needed 6/27/16 12/20/16. Worker will perform various duties all associated with planting, cultivating and harvesting crops. Must have 3 months verifiable experience working in tobacco & affirmative verifiable job references. Random drug testing at employers expense. Guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours. Work tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of 50% of contract, or earlier, if appropriate. Worksites located in Todd Co, KY & Montgomery Co, TN. EOE. $10.85/hr. Report or send a resume to nearest local FL Agency of Workforce Innovations office or call 386-755-9026 & refer job #595021231. Southern Light Farms Trenton, KY
HELP WANTED - The City of Waldo is now accepting applications for staff assistant. The candidate will be stationed at front desk to greet citizens, required to answer phones, handle utility customers, file, help with accounts receivable, accounts payable, assist other departments and duties as needed, be familiar with building permits, business licenses, have good computer skills, good customer service and communication skills also needed. Full Time position. High School Diploma required - Local Candidates only
Applicants should send resumes to: City of Waldo, PO Drawer B, Waldo Florida or fill out application at City Hall, 14655 Kennard Street, Waldo, Florida. Office hours are Monday - Thursday 7:00am - 5:30pm
Closed for lunch 12:30pm -1:00pm * closed Friday's Applications must be submitted 5/25/16 THE CITY OF WALDO SUPPORTS "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT, FAIR HOUSING AND PROVIDING HANDICAP ACCESS"
46 positions avail for temp farm work in Delaware County, DE 5/23/16-10/30/16. Harvest tomatoes, bell peppers, corn, jalapenos, & pack into shipping boxes. Lifting reqd up to 40lbs. Work involves exposure to extreme temperatures, repetitive movements, extensive walking, frequent stooping. No education/experience reqd. Will train. $11.66/hr., 7am-4pm, M-F, some O.T. avail. at same rate of pay. Employer guaranteed work for hrs. equal to at least of workdays in each 12 wk. period of total employment period. No cost tools, supplies & equipment. No cost housing for workers, including US workers who cant reasonably return to perm. residence at end of workday. Distant workers will receive transport & subsistence costs to worksite at of contract. Central VA Tree Services LLC, Laurel, DE. Apply at Dept of Labor, DET, Attn: FLC Unit, 4425 North Market St., 3rd Fl, Wilmington, DE 19802, fax#302-762-3586, Job#DE414709.
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ABSOLUTE AUCTION - Opp, Al-Commercial Real Estate 60,000+/- sq ft, 10 +/-acres Manufacturing /Warehouses, Modern Renovations May 19, 2115 Opp/Andalusia Hwy 205.326.0833 gtauctions.com Granger, Thagard & Assoc, Inc. , Jack F. Granger, #873.
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Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicles to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.585 of the Florida Statutes on May 26, 2016 at 10 A.M. AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED 2011 HYUNDAI SONATA, VIN# 5NPEB4AC9BH129778 Located at: BUCHHOLZ PAINT AND BODY, INC 2618 NE 19TH DR, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609 Lien Amount: $12,298.10 2004 CADILLAC DEVILLE, VIN# 1G6KF57924U251144 Located at: EDDIE DAVIS AUTOMOTIVE & 4X4'S INC. 1920 N.E. 27th AVE, GAINESVILE, FL 32609 Lien Amount: $5,636.87
(Published: Alachua County Today -Apr. 28, 2016
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-43CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-43CB;
SHAY W. THOMSEN, ET.AL;
NOTICE IS GIVEN that, in accordance with the Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 14, 2016, in the above-styled cause, The Clerk of Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
LOT THREE (3), BLOCK C OF PINE HAVEN EXTENSION AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "D", PAGE 56 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 310 NW 36TH AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609
WITNESS my hand on April 25, 2016.
Keith Lehman, Esq.
(Published: Alachua County Today - Apr. 28 & May 5, 2016)
NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED ORDINANCES
The High Springs City Commission will hold public hearing on the following proposed Ordinances on Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 6:30 PM. The hearing will be held at the City Commission Room at City Hall of the City of High Springs, 23718 W US HWY 27, High Springs, FL. The proposed Ordinances are:
ORDINANCE 2016-04
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 82 ARTICLE III TREE REMOVAL OF THE HIGH SPRINGS CODE OF ORDINANCES; REQUIRING A PERMIT FOR TREE REMOVAL OR TRIMMING; REQUIRING TREE SERVICE PROVIDERS CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN HIGH SPRINGS TO OBTAIN THE CITYS BUSINESS LICENSE; DESIGNATING A CANOPY TREE PROTECTION ZONE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ADOPTED 2015/2016 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET OF THE CITY OF HIGH SPRINGS; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
A copy of these documents may be reviewed at the Office of the City Clerk, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30 pm. Interested parties in the above item are invited to attend and express their concerns.
JENNY L. PARHAM
PLEASE NOTE: PURSUANT TO SECTION 286.0105, FLORIDA STATUTES, IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE CITY COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED DURING THIS MEETING HE OR SHE WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT, A PERSON WITH DISABILITIES NEEDING ANY SPECIAL ACCOMODATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS, SHOULD CONTACT THE OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER, 110 N.W. 1ST AVENUE, HIGH SPRINGS, FLORIDA 32643, TELEPHONE
(Published: Alachua County Today - Apr. 28, 2016)
CIT BANK, N.A.,
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF MARY L. BOOHER A/K/A MARY LOUISE BOOHER, DECEASED, et al.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 23, 2016, and entered in 012015CA003251
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein CIT BANK, N.A. is the Plaintiff and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF MARY L. BOOHER A/K/A MARY LOUISE BOOHER, DECEASED; JOHNNY FAGAN A/K/A JOHN FAGAN; TURKEY CREEK FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT are the Defendant(s). J.K. Irby as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, Gainesville, FL 32601, at 11:00 AM, on May 26, 2016, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
LOT 396, OF TURKEY CREEK FOREST UNIT NO. 3-A, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK M, PAGE 26, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 8620 N.W. 13TH STREET, LOT 396, GAINESVILLE, FL 32653
Dated this 25 day of April, 2016.
Rainbow Title & Lien, Inc. will sell at Public Sale at Auction the following vehicles to satisfy lien pursuant to Chapter 713.78 of the Florida Statutes on May 19, 2016 at 10 A.M. AUCTION WILL OCCUR WHERE EACH VEHICLE IS LOCATED 2002 SATURN, VIN# 1G8JU54FX2Y529782 2001 HYUNDAI, VIN# KMHWF25S31A342368 2011 VOLKSWAGEN, VIN# 3VW2K7AJXBM379847 Located at: 2014 NE 23 AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609 ALACHUA
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISON
File No.: 2015-CP-995
IN RE: ESTATE OF
Harold Atwood Johnson,
The administration of the estate of Harold Atwood Johnson, deceased, whose date of death was May 10, 2015, is pending in the Circuit Court of Alachua County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Clerk of Circuit Court for Alachua County, Alachua County Family/Civil Justice Center, 201 East University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601. The name and address of the court-appointed Curator is set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedents estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OR THIS NOTICE ON THEM.
All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedents estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENTS DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.
The date of first publication of this notice is April 28, 2016.
Curator /Attorney
Ajay K. Singh
Florida Bar No: 102841
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CITY OF HAWTHORNE, FLORIDA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Item(s) will be heard at a meeting held by the City Commission of the City of Hawthorne, Florida, at a public hearing on
June 7, 2016 at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, in the Commission Meeting Room, City Hall located at 6700 Southeast 221st Street, Hawthorne, Florida.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HAWTHORNE, ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY OF HAWTHORNE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT ITINERANT FOOD VENDORS REMOVE ALL VEHICLES, CARTS OR OTHER STRUCTURES AT THE END OF THE HOURS OF OPERATION; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
PLEASE NOTE: Pursuant to Section 286.015, Florida Statues, if a person decides to appeal any decision made by the City Commission with respect to any matter considered at such meeting, he or she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceeding is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
In accordance with the American with Disabilities Act, a person with disabilities needing any special accommodations to participate in City Commission Meetings should contact the office at City Hall at 352-481-2432.
On the date, time and place first above mentioned, all interested persons may appear and be heard with respect to the proposed actions. This/ These Ordinance(s) may be inspected by the public prior to the hearing at City Hall located at the address above.
CITIFINANCIAL SERVICING LLC
LINDA D. MOSBY, et al
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of foreclosure date March 1, 2016, and entered in Case No. 01 2015 CA 001368 of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for ALACHUA COUNTY, Florida, wherein CITIFINANCIAL SERVICING LLC, is Plaintiff, and LINDA D. MOSBY, et al are Defendants, the clerk, J.K. "Buddy" Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for case, beginning at 11:00 AM www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Statutes, on the 31 day of May, 2016, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
Paradise PB A-4 S. 100 feet of N. 200 feet of E. 450 feet of Block 5, as recorded in the Public Records of Alachua County, Florida.
Dated: April 20, 2016
By: /s/ John D. Cusick
John D. Cusick, Esq., Florida Bar No. 99364
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC
PATRICIA J. WOODS, et al
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of foreclosure date March 1, 2016, and entered in Case No. 012015CA002735
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for ALACHUA COUNTY, Florida, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, is Plaintiff, and PATRICIA J. WOODS, et al are Defendants, the clerk, J.K. "Buddy" Irby, will sell to the highest and best bidder for case, beginning at 11:00 AM www.alachua.
Lot P, Replat of Lot 28 of Shaw Farms of Alachua, according to the Plat thereof, recorded in Plat book O, Page 99, of the Public Records of Alachua County, Florida.
REQUEST FOR BIDS
Hawthorne FL 32640-1270
Phone: (352) 481-2432 ~ Fax: (352) 481-2437
The City of Hawthorne, Florida, will receive sealed BIDS for: Consulting/
Engineering/Architecture Services for the development for streetscape improvements. Including: Downtown Lighting plan, landscape plan, and hardscape plan and handicap accessibility for the Historic Johnson Street (SE221st) Area based on the communitys goals for the future of the Citys historic downtown. A completed Vision Plan has been incorporated into the Citys Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) plan as the Vision Plan. Sealed Bids will be received by CITY OF HAWTHORNE, FLORIDA, Florida at or PO Box 1270, Hawthorne FL 32640-1270 until 2:00 PM on June 6th, 2016. Bids received after the designated time and/or date will not be considered.
Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud in the City of Hawthorne, Florida offices on the above appointed date and time. Late submittals will be returned to the sender unopened. Envelopes must be clearly marked with the Downtown Visioning Plan, time and date of opening.
Mail or deliver to: City of Hawthorne, Florida
Attn: Ms. Ellen Vause, City Manager
Scope: Includes, but is not limited to the above listed services, including compliance with all applicable City of Hawthorne, Florida, state and federal laws, statutes, administrative rules, contract provisions, acts and procedural requirements.
Copies of the Documents may be obtained from City of Hawthorne, Florida offices, PO Box 1270, Hawthorne FL 32640-1270 or requested on-line at Evause@
cityofhawthorne.net.
City of Hawthorne, Florida reserves the right to: waive any technicalities; reject any and all proposals which are incomplete, conditional, non-responsive, or which contain additions not allowed for; reject any or all Bids in whole or in part with or without cause; and accept the Bids which best serves the utility.
Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue part IV of Chapter 83 Florida Statues Self-Storage Facility Act
that the undersigned will be by Reserved Public Sale and, sell for cash to the highest bidder, at
6800 West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, at 10:00 AM on May 13th, 2016
Unit #F030 Belonging to Jasmine A. Clark
Unit #C067 Belonging to Handy Ford
Containing: Boxes, Tools
Unit #C004 Belonging to Rachel D. Freeman
Containing: Furniture, boxes
Unit#H145 Belonging to Johnta James
Containing: clothes, finance
Unit #C049 Belonging to Marie Molinaro
Unit#A027 Belonging to Linda Morris
Containing: Furniture and Household Goods in Boxes
Unit#B020 Belonging to Todd A. Welch
Containing: clothes, electronics, housegoods, domestics, Plastic totes
(Published: Alachua County Today - Apr. 21 & 28, 2016)
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE
Personal and household goods belonging to the following will be sold in a public sale at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 20, 2016 at Alachua Self Storage, 14024 N.W. US Hwy 441, Alachua. Payment must be made in cash. Alachua Self Storage reserves the right to bid.
Amy Beville Unit #215
Arthur Lang Unit #720
Charles Campbell
Unit #242
Cindy Williams Unit #134
Diane Parrish Unit #464
Dion Evely Unit #264
Isaiah Grimes Unit #206
Joe Weber Unit #424
Leaf Song Blanchard
Monty Williams Unit #207
Ryan Miller Unit #411
Sandi Reveille Unit #565
Sharee Presley Unit #122
Shawn Bethoulle
Shellene Tallman Unit #457
Patrick Dial Unit 725 & 864
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION;
BOBBY BOYD, ET.AL;
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in accordance with the Order to Reschedule Foreclosure Sale dated February 15, 2016 entered in Civil Case No. 012014CA001804
XXXXXX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and BOBBY BOYD, ET. AL are defendant(s), The clerk will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 45, FLORIDA STATUTES, AT 11:00 AM , May 10, 2016 the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to-wit:
THE EAST 130 FEET OF THE WEST 700 FEET OF THE NORTH 110 FEET OF THE SOUTH 160 FEET OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE 1/4) OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 9 SOUTH, RANGE 19 EAST, ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA AND THE SAME BEING DESIGNATED AS PARCEL NO. 24 LITTLEWOOD ESTATES ACCORDING TO AN UNRECORDED PLAT OR SURVEY THEREOF.
Property Address: 801 NW 37TH TERRACE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32605
DATED this 15th day of April, 2016.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
Case No. 01-2016 -CP-00641
IN RE THE ESTATE OF:
LEO L. GAGLIARDI, deceased.
The administration of the estate of LEO L. GAGLIARDI, deceased, whose date of death was January 1, 2016, is pending in the Circuit Court for Alachua County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is Alachua County Courthouse, 201 East University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida 32601. The names and addresses of the personal representative and attorney for the personal representative are set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent must file their claims with this Court AS PROVIDED BY LAW WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE OR WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
THE DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE IS the 21st day of April, 2016.
VERONICA M. JASPER
908 SE 6 Avenue
BRUCE E. HOFFMAN,
3400 NW 13th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32609 (352) 373-2411
ATTN: CDL Drivers- Avg. $60k+/yr
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The City of High Springs is currently seeking an On-Call Building Inspector with one and two family dwelling certification. This is a contract position and will be paid per inspection. Inspections will be performed under the supervision of the City of High Springs Building Official.
Please send resume, qualifications and certifications to:
Scott Thomason, Building Official
23718 W. US HWY 27
High Springs, FL 32643
sthomason@
highsprings.us
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including arena, stables turned suites, office offered in eight parcels and/or entirety - just off Bell Road - May 11,1:00pm - details at gtauctions.com, 1-205-326-0833.
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DM Surfboard Shaping CNC Machine, Grizzly Double Canister Dust Collector, New WatersEdge Paddleboards/Surfboard Blanks, 50+ Pallets of RACK-IT-UP Storage Systems, Aluminum Storage Racks,Warehouse Equip., Off Furn. & more! Bankruptcy Case No.: 6:15-bk-09760-CCJ. Catalog and photos at www.
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WHOLESALE AUCTION May 5th at noon
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Apparel, Jewelry, Electronics & More!
Sellers inquire: 904-654-3682
Door Prizes! AB3147
Fictitious Names
Notice Under Fictitious Name Law Pursuant to Section 865.09. Florida Statutes
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of Floyds Organic Soils located at 7711 NW 156th Avenue in the County of Alachua, in the City of Alachua, Florida 32615 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated at Alachua, Florida, this 27th day of April, 2016. Floyd Gainey
(Published: Alachua County Today May 5, 2016)
NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME LAW PURSUANT TO SECTION 865.09, FLORIDA STATUTES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of Admiral, with a mailing address of 747 SW 2nd Ave., Ste. 213, Gainesville, FL 32601, and a principal office located in Alachua County, intends to register the said name with the FL Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., Tallahassee, FL. Owner: Leven Labs, Inc.
(Published: Alachua County Today - May 5, 2016)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of ASHLEY HOMESTORE, with a mailing address of 3217 SW 35th Blvd., Gainesville, FL 32608, and a principal office located in Alachua County, intends to register the said name with the FL Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., Tallahassee, FL. Owner: Kingswere Furniture, LLC
Farm Field Laborers:
Lohrs Orchard is in need of five temporary laborers for planting, harvesting fruit & vegetables, other work as necessary. Starting now thru 12/21/16 if H2A workers hired AEWR of $11.66/hr will apply. In season expected to work 7 days a week, some weeks necessary to 60 hrs, no less than 45 hrs per week. Will be expected to work inclement weather, to remain till season is complete. Housing for workers supplied if necessary, travel reimbursed if completes 50% of season. Contact Candace 443-807-0887 for interviews/ applications. Must have proof of legal work papers, 3 months prior experience required. Job located in Churchville, Maryland. SWA 469045
Sr. Software Engineer. Master in Comp. Sci. Lead development of 2.0 Convert solutions, design front- & back-end system architecture, & maintain software development. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in U.S. Ad/resume: T. Chase, Digi-Net Technologies, Inc., 6811 NW 38th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32653. Job ref#18534.
Wooded Views Creeks!
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Saturday the May 7th
21925 NW 210th Ave, High Springs 7am - 3pm
Estate Auctions Fri. May 6th @ 6:30 p.m. High Springs, Fl. Hwy 27 N. auctionzip.com #20822 2 Nice Estates, Furn., Glass, Collectibles, 100 Silver ignots, Jewelry, 2 Grandfather Clocks. 10% B.P. Red Williams Au437/AB3447 352-258-0604
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Medallion Tree Farms, LLC. & Quail Roost Tree Farms, LLC
Tues, May 17th at 10:00 AM
Medallion Tree Farm SC 20 Field SW 312th St and SW 112th Ave, Homestead, FL (directions on our website)
Featuring: Farm related equipment including tractors, skid steers, tractor trailers, tree booms, trailers, vehicles, attachments, parts and more! Receivership Case No.: 2016-002798-CA-01
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15% - 18% BP online ? 800-840-BIDS
AB-1098 AU-3219,
Eric Rubin
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of Eden Michele Salon located at 1215 NW 14th Avenue in the County of Alachua, in the City of Gainesville, Florida 32601 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated at Gainesville, Florida, this 14th day of April, 2016. Eden Michele Salon and Spa, LLC
(Published: Alachua County Today Apr. 21, 2016)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of Fruitful Spirit located at 19820 NW 231st Dr., Apt. 12 in the County of Alachua, in the City of High Springs, Florida 32643 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated at Alachua, Florida, this 8th day of April, 2016. Nafashia Hyche
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the Fictitious Name of Savannah, with a mailing address of 316 SW 62nd Blvd., Gainesville, FL 32607-2009, and a principal office located in Alachua County, intends to register the said name with the FL Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., Tallahassee, FL. Owner: Avanath Fairmont Oaks, LLC
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Elite Auto Center of Gainesville, Inc. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 05/10/2016 10:00 am at 4215 NW 6th St, Gainesville, FL 32609, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. Elite Auto Center of Gainesville, Inc. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.
1G6DW69Y8G9715774 1986 CADILLAC 1GCEK19T3YE135197 2000 CHEVROLET 1HGCM66545A017443 2005 HONDA JN1CA31D4YT528201 2000 NISSAN 4T1BE32K12U051184 2002 TOYOTA JTKDE177550013435 2005 TOYOTA
The following vehicle will be sold at public sale, per Fl Stat 713.585 at 10:00 AM on May 10, 2016 at Bill's Low Cost Transmission & Automotive Repair Inc,
1883 N Main St, Gainesville FL 32609, phone 352-367-2500 to satisfy a lien against said vehicles for labor, services and storage charges. No titles, as is, cash only. 2002 Toyota Camry, 4D, VIN
4T1BE32KX2U525522. Cash sum to redeem vehicle $4518.37. Notice to owner or lien holder as to right to a hearing prior to sale date by filing with
the clerk of court and to recover vehicle by posting bond in accordance with FL Stat 559.917. Proceeds from sale in excess of lien amount will be deposited with the clerk of court. Interested parties, contact State Filing Service 772-595-9555.
CASE NO: 2015-CA-1286
BARBARA ELLIS
JAY A. WICKS, RONALD
WILSON, and CARRIE A.
McEACHIN
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that, pursuant to this Courts order, I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at THE ALACHUA COUNTY FAMILY CIVIL JUSTICE CENTER, 201 E University Ave. in Gainesville, Florida at 11:00 A.M. on June 21, 2016 the following described property:
NOTE: see attached Exhibit A
NOTE: The sale will be held online at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com at the prescribed time. Bidders interested in participating must register and establish a bidder account at www.alachua.
realforclose.com.
ANY PERSON CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS FUNDS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS, MUST FILE A CLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER THE SALE. PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.
Dated: March 31, 2016
Thomas R. Weller, Esq.
23327 N.W. County Road 236
thomaswellerattorney
atlaw@windstream.net
A tract of land situated in Section 28, Township 7 South, Range 17 East, Alachua County, Florida, said tract of land being more particularly described as follows:
Commence at the SW corner of the SE of the NE of the aforementioned Section 28, Township 7 South, Range 17 East, for the Point of Beginning and run North 03 09 27 West, along the West line of said SE of the NE , a distance of 150.00 feet to the Southerly right of way line of Osceola Street (50 foot right of way), as per plat recorded in Plat Book A, Page 168 of the Public Records of Alachua County, Florida; thence run North 86, 53, 25 East, along said Southerly right of way line and parallel with the South line of said SE of the NE , a distance of 206.17 feet to the Westerly right of way line of the public road leading to the Old Dunagan Bridge formerly known as Columbia Boulevard (66 foot right of way), said Westerly right of way line being a curve concave Easterly, said curve having a radius of 282.40 feet, a central angle of 21, 25, 03, and a chord bearing and distance of South 20, 46, 25 East, 104.95 feet respectively; thence run Southeasterly with said curve and along said right of way line, an arc length of 105.56 feet to the North line of Lot Three (3), of Block Thirty-six (36), of Riverview Subdivision as per plat recorded in Plat Book A, Page 168; thence run South 86, 53, 25 West, along said North line of Lot Three (3), a distance of 117.93 feet to the Northwest corner of said Lot Three (3); thence run South 03, 09, 27 East, along the West line of said Lot Three (3), a distance of 50.00 feet to the Southwest corner of said Lot Three (3); thence run North 86, 53, 25 East, along the South line of said Lot Three (3) and along the South line of the aforementioned SE of the NE of Section 28, a distance of 149.74 feet to the Westerly right of way line of said Columbia Boulevard; thence run South 36, 46, 00 East, along said Westerly right of way line, a distance of 216.00 feet; thence run South 86, 53, 25 West, parallel with said South line of the SE of the NE a distance of 389.30 feet to the West line of the NE of the SE of Section 28; thence run North 03, 09, 26 West, along said West line, a distance of 179.80 feet to the Point of Beginning.
Together with a 1977 Hillcrest Vin #02611086K, located on subject property.
Shellene Tallman
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC,
THE ESTATE OF JAMES DIXON, SR. A/K/A JAMES DIXON, DECEASED; et al.,
____________________/
TO:Shirline Able Last Known Residence: 2981 SE 20th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32641
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following property in Alachua County, Florida:
LOTS 1 AND 34, OF TOWN OF FAIRBANKS, AS PER PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN DEED BOOK S, PAGES 46 AND 47, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA. LESS AND EXCEPT THOSE PORTIONS OF OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 307, PAGE 511, AND OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 570, PAGE 195, LYING AND BEING IN LOTS 1 AND 34.
MANUFACTURER'S SERIAL #(S) VIN # (S): GMHGA620O101883BA - HUD CERTIFICATION LABEL #(S): GEO1316119 & GEO131161120 - MANUFACTURER'S NAME: HOMES OF MERIT TRADE/MODEL: 28-6460 DATE OF MANUFACTURE: 5/24/2001.
has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on ALDRIDGE | PITE, LLP, Plaintiffs attorney, at 1615 South Congress Avenue, Suite 200, Delray Beach, FL 33445 (Phone Number: (561) 392-6391), within 30 days of the first date of publication of this notice, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Plaintiffs attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.
Dated on April 5, 2016.
J.K. IRBY
As Clerk of the Court
As Deputy Clerk
CASE NO. 01 2010 CA 000723, DIV. J
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2000-D ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-D,
PAUL ROHAN AND VIVIENNE R. ROHAN, et al.
_________________/
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated August 28, 2012, and entered in 01 2010 CA 000723, DIV. J of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2000-D ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-D is the Plaintiff and PAUL ROHAN; VIVIENNE R. ROHAN; UNKNOWN TENANT #1 N/K/A BILL ROHAN; UNKNOWN TENANT #2 N/K/A VIVIENNE R. ROHAN; WACHOVIA BANK, N.A. are the Defendant(s). J.K. Irby as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
LOTS 2 AND 4, OF BLOCK 1, RANGE 7, OF ELLIOT & L'ENGLE'S ADDITION TO GAINESVILLE, A SUBDIVISION AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK "J", PAGE 230 WITH A PARTIAL REPLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "A", PAGE 181, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
ALSO: A STRIP OF LAND 15 FEET ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE AFORESAID PARCEL, WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGIN AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BLOCK 1, RANGE 7, OF ELLIOT & L'ENGLE'S ADDITION TO GAINESVILLE, A SUBDIVISION AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK "J", PAGE 230 WITH A PARTIAL REPLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "A", PAGE 181, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND RUN WEST ALONG THE SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF N.E. 9TH AVENUE, 15 FEET TO THE CENTER LINE OF N.E. 6TH TERRACE; THENCE RUN SOUTH 100 FEET; THENCE RUN EAST 15 FEET TO THE WEST LINE OF SAID BOOK 1; THENCE RUN NORTH ALONG THE WEST BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID BLOCK 1 A DISTANCE OF 100 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
Property Address: 635 NE 9TH AVE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32601
Dated this 6th day of April, 2016.
By: \S\Heather Itzkowitz
CASE NO. 01-2013-CA-002872
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.;
SALLIE A. SLORA, JACK CHITWOOD, ET.AL;
NOTICE IS GIVEN that, in accordance with the Order to Reschedule Foreclosure Sale dated February 8, 2016, in the above-styled cause, The Clerk of Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
realforeclose.com, on April 28, 2016 at 11:00 am the following described property:
LOT THIRTY-ONE (31) OF WOOD MEADOWS, AS PER PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "P", PAGE 80 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA. TOGETHER WITH THAT CERTAIN 1996 SPRING HILL BY FLEETWOOD MOBILE HOME HAVING TITLE NUMBERS 71689373 AND 71689375 AND VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS GAFLT34A23934SH21 AND GAFLT34B23934SH21.
Property Address: 15511 NW 25TH TER, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609
WITNESS my hand on April 6, 2016.
CASE NO. 01 2013 CA 005365
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006-OPT2 ,
JASON C GREER, et al.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 14, 2016, and entered in 01 2013 CA 005365 of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Alachua County, Florida, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR HSI ASSET SECURITIZATION CORPORATION TRUST 2006-OPT2 is the Plaintiff and JASON C. GREER; PRIME LENDING, A PLAINS CAPITAL COMPANY, A TEXAS BANK SUBSIDIARY; NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC are the Defendant(s). J.K. Irby as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.alachua.
LOT 20 OF IRONWOOD GOLF COURSE VILLAGE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK J, PAGE 43, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 4123 NE 17TH TER, GAINESVILLE, FL 32609
National Joint Powers Alliance
Indefinite Quantity Construction Contract
The National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA) issues this Invitation For Bid (IFB) on behalf of, and to provide Indefinite Quantity Construction Contracting (IQCC) services to, all current and potential NJPA Members including all government agencies, education agencies to include colleges and universities, and non-profit agencies in the State of Florida. It is the intention of NJPA to award multiple contracts for general and underground construction services in the area. Each contract has an estimated annual value of $2,000,000 and the maximum term of the contract is three years.
IQCC is a construction contracting procurement system that provides facility owners access to competitively bid on-call contractors to provide immediate construction services over an extended period of time.
Intending bidders are required to attend one mandatory pre-bid seminar for the purpose of discussing the IQCC procurement system, the contract documents and bid forms. For your convenience, five separate pre-bid seminar opportunities will be held as follows:
5/3/16 10:00 amFlorida State College
Building A, Room A-171
4501 Capper Rd.
5/4/16 9:00 am Seminole State College
Altamonte Springs Campus
Building A, Room 221
850 South SR 434
5/4/16 2:00 pm Hillsborough Community College
Ybor City Campus Training Center
39 Columbia Dr.
5/5/16 9:00 am Florida SouthWestern State College
Lee Campus
Building U, Room U-106
8099 College Pkwy SW
5/5/16 2:00 pm City of Boca Raton Community Center
150 Crawford Blvd.
Intending bidders can pre-register for the pre-bid seminar by visiting our website at http://www.njpacoop.org
/national-cooperative-
contract-solutions/eziqc-
construction/eziqc-pre-
bid-registration.
An electronic (CD) copy of the IFB Documents which include the instructions for submitting a bid and the bid documents may be obtained by letter of request to Joseph Morgan, NJPA, 202 12th Street NE, Staples, MN 56479, or by visiting our website at www.njpacoop.org/eziqc-
bid-document-request, selecting the desired bid documents from the drop down list and completing the requested information. All requests must include mailing address, email address, contact name and phone number. Bids are due by 4:30 pm CT on May 17, 2016 and will be opened at 9:00 am CT on May 18, 2016. IFB Documents will be available until May 13, 2016.
IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.:01-2016-CP-188
SHARIN SEXTON LEE, Deceased.
The administration of the estate of SHARIN SEXTON LEE, deceased, whose date of death was December 6, 2015, File Number 01-1016-CP-188 is pending in the Circuit Court for ALACHUA County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 201 E. University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representatives attorney are set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedents estate on whom a copy of this notice has been served must file their claims with this Court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE TIME OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.
ALL CLAIMS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
AMANDA LYNN HALL
7320 N.W. 172nd Street
Alachua, FL 32615
Attorney for Personal Representative: FOLDS & WALKER, LLC ALLISON E. FOLDS, ESQ. FBN: 94337 L. ALISON WALKER, ESQ. FBN: 14313
527 East University Avenue Gainesville, Florida 32601
(352) 375-9960 (fax) (Published: Alachua County Today - Apr. 14 & 21, 2016)
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-5CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-5CB;
JOYCE F. DAVIS, ET.AL;
LOT FORTY-SEVEN (47), OF THE HAMMOCK, UNIT NO. 3, A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, AS PER PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK "K", PAGE 97 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA..
Property Address: 9703 NW 62ND LANE, GAINESVILLE, FL 32653
40 Temp Farm Worker needed 5/20/16-7/1/16. Workers will plant, cultivate & harvest sweet potatoes. Workers may perform hand cultivation tasks, hand weeding & hoeing in the field, may aid in irrigation. Must have 3 months verifiable experience planting sweet potatoes on a commercial farm & affirmative verifiable job references. Random drug testing at employers expense. Guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours. Tools, supplies, equip. provided at no cost. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of 50% of contract, or earlier if appropriate. EOE. $10.69 /hr. Worksites in Chickasaw & Webster Co.s, MS. Report or send a resume to nearest FL Agency of Workforce Innovations office or call 325-955-2245 & ref. Job order #MS165716. T&P Harvesting LLC - Vardaman, MS
11 Temp farmworkers needed 6/3/16-12/30/16. Workers will seed, set, cut, house, & strip tobacco; plant, cultivate & harvest soybeans, corn, wheat, hay & straw. Must have 3 months verifiable experience working tobacco & affirmative verifiable job references. Random drug testing at employer s expense. Guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours. Work tools, supplies & equipment provided at no cost. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of 50% of contract, or earlier, if appropriate. EOE $10.85/hr. Worksites in Graves Co KY. Report or send a resume to nearest local FL Agency of Workforce Innovations office or call 386-755-9026 & refer job 588450581. Carter Tobacco Farm-Mayfield, KY
CITY OF HIGH SPRINGS
Apply at High Springs City Hall, 23718 West US HWY 27, 7:30 am - 6:00 pm, Monday through Thursday. Applications also available online at www.highsprings.us. Position opened until filled.
Service Worker I - Public Works/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Trainee
This is a full-time position involving utilities maintenance, primarily in wastewater. Work consists of semi-skilled and skilled repair and maintenance of the City's low pressure sewer collection system. Utilities personnel are subject to call back and are required to rotate on-call standby duty. HS diploma or GED; valid Fl DL required; and FL CDL class B required within 12 months of hire date. Experience in water and/or sewer utilities preferred. (Salary: 11.00 hourly, plus benefits)
Service Worker I - Water. General maintenance involving meter and water line maintenance, meter reading and other repair duties involved with the water system. Utilities personnel are subject to call back and are required to rotate on-call standby duty. High school graduation. Valid FL DL required, and FL CDL class B required within 12 months of hire date. (Salary: $11.00 hourly, plus benefits)
The City of High Springs is a Drug free workplace and EOE.
Successful applicants must undergo pre-employment physical and substance testing, and background investigation prior to final approval. All applications are subject to Florida Public Records Laws.
Triple F Harvesting, LLC Must be 18 years or older. 120 Temporary workers needed in Alachua, Trenton, and Bell FL area from approximately May 15, 2016 June 30, 2016. WATERMELON Perform manual labor to hand cut and pack watermelons. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading and unloading harvested products. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Work in packing house. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Measure, weigh and count products and materials. Examine and inspect containers, materials and products to ensure that packing specifications are met. Clean and maintain work areas. All tools, supplies and equipment provided at no cost to worker. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practices policies. Perform prolonged bending, reaching, and lifting up to 60 lbs. Workers should expect periods of little/no work because of weather/crop/other conditions beyond the employers control. Proper work attire is required. Workers must wear long sleeve shirts, long pants, no shorts, hard sole shoes, preferably boots, no tennis shoes. Due to possible Date of Need changes, worker is required to purchase travel insurance if available. We will reimburse the worker for transportation cost (including travel insurance) and subsistence to the employers work site from the place of recruitment upon completion of 50 percent of the contract period. Transportation payment will be no less (and is not required to be more) than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. If the employee is unable or unfit to perform the duties listed after the 14 day pretrial, the employee will receive warnings, hours may be reduced to the minimum allowed in the certified petition or terminated. A copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the worker on the day the work commences. Workers will be paid $10.70 per hr, three fourths guarantee, 35 hrs per week, housing, equipment and transportation provided at no cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of each work day. We participate in the E-Verify program and workers must have valid identification for I-9 preparation when they report to begin work. Apply for this job at the State Workforce/Job Center office in your area, please call for the nearest office in your area FL 866-482-4473, AL 256-259-1835, GA 404-656-6000, MS 662-842-2175 using job # FL10195722.
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What are your favorite dinosaurs? Mine are the compsognathus and the confuciusornis! Feathered dinosaurs are the jam: the terrifying, terrifying jam.
May 27, 2015 dinosaurs
Juravenators are nocturnal, so that means you keep night hours too. Suits you. You haven’t seen the right side of nine am since leaving home and you don’t aim to start now. Night’s a different color of daylight these days anyway, all bright lights and moving pictures. Midnight’s noon with a billboard deal.
Brainwashing this time, maybe, or maybe just poorly-timed religion. Either way, you’re both sharing space in the back pew of a box store that they’ve turned into a church, listening to the pleasant female voice of a robot reading the day’s lesson, which is from Sirach. Apparently there’s a book called Sirach.
“Send new portents, do fresh wonders, win glory for your hand and your right arm,” it reads. “Rouse your fury, pour out your rage, destroy the opponent, annihilate the enemy.” The crowd’s not really into it, or maybe they’re just too ground down for either wonders or fury. Alphonse keeps one saurian eye on the priest while you scan the crowd for your pigeon.
“I don’t see him,” you whisper. “Think we’ve got the wrong one again.”
“Name of a name,” says Alphonse. “I am full up of this nonsense.” He gnashes his teeth with frustration and the sinosauropteryx to his right edges uneasily away, forelimbs wheeling placatingly. “All right. Pack it in.”
You slide out of the pew, heading for the next night sermon on your list. Behind you the lesson goes on, give those who wait for you their reward, let your prophets be proved true, that placid robotic voice as perfect and unchanging as the face of god.
October 31, 2012 dinosaurs
Some Sort of Holiday
Tank Girl and Magnum PI are hanging out by the punch bowl, talking about a lot of things, mostly aliens and the proper way for a t rex to eat a triceratops.
“It rips the head off,” says Tank Girl, with glee, “and then nibbles delicately at the tender meat of the face.“
“Heck, yeah,” says Magnum. “The face is the best part. Tender as baby fat.”
They cackle madly and drink more. Across the room Jem, half in mufti as Jerricha, is talking convivially with Pizzazz. (They’ll make out later, to everyone’s unending delight.) Also, weirdly, about dinosaurs.
“They aren’t the biggest thing ever. They’re, like, only half the size of a blue whale.”
“Jesus, that’s big enough,” shudders Pizzazz, “have you seen those teeth? HUMAN. SIZED. Just look at the picture! God. There’s no bottom to an ocean with such monsters in it.”
The Mythbusters are digging it. Jamie doesn’t say much, but he’s slowly, wonderfully getting drunk as a lord and has nothing but good feelings for everyone.
September 20, 2012 dinosaurs
So it maybe turns out you’ve been calling Alphonse the wrong thing all this time, which is mildly embarassing. “Is it jurvenator starki or juvenator starki?” you ask. “I read an article that said juravenator and now I don’t know.” He looks at you for a second, long enough for you to realize that that’s kind of a rude question, or at least fairly tactless. “Oh,” you say, quelled. “I guess you wouldn’t know. Why would you know?”
He bristles his feathers, the j. starki version of a shrug. “Focus, woman, focus. There are more pressing matters at hand. What do we know of our would-be killer?”
“They weren’t human,” you say. “And not bipedal. The prints are all wrong.”
“Go on,” he purrs.
“And I’d go farther. Look at the gouges here and here–” tapping the pictures with a pen. Alphonse picks his way across the table, nods. “–those are vault marks. I think they’re a dactyl, either Murgatroyd or MacGuillicuddy, they’ve both got motive enough.”
“More than enough. But can we put them there? Motive, yes, means, yes, you’ve spotted the key part, but opportunity, that’s the rub.”
February 22, 2008 dinosaurs
The dinosaurs come back from space one day and try to integrate themselves into human society. For the most part it’s a success, no eating anyone or anything like that – even the mighty tyrannosaurs have had to become vegetarians after 65 million years in space – they aren’t even offended at Jurassic Park. “How quaint,” they say, or “Oh, I liked that one – so exciting!” You’re thrilled the dinosaurs are back (part of you is still three and goes Rarrrrrr! all the time) but they can be kind of patronizing.
A lot of the dinosaurs open detective agencies for some reason. They’re really good at it, through not so much at following people around. Even the compsognathus – the smallest dinosaur ever! – sticks out in a crowd, so for the boring day-to-day routine they hire people like you. “This is my Peephole Specialist,” says your boss, a juvenator starki who calls himself Alphonse. It’s hard to tell, but you think he’s smiling. You darkly suspect him of having a sense of humor.
“Thanks,” you growl. You’ve got five feet on him, easy, but he bullies you around like your older sister. “Pleased to meet you.”
“I don’t think you’ll have much work,” says your client, who’s a little too nervous. “It’s really just a simple job. I just want to know where my husband goes during the day. I think I’m entitled to that, surely? I mean, he’s my husband, I should know what he does for a living, right?”
“Of course,” purrs Al, and you suddenly remember that these dinosaurs have spent 65 million years surviving.
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Alfred 1.0: Big statues, awards and the next release
On November 29th, we released version 1.0 of Alfred. We were so excited to finally make this milestone release available to everyone, yet we couldn’t have predicted how much better you would all make December and January for us.
Since the release, Alfred received numerous accolades, including the revered Macworld Editor’s Choice Award. As a Mac user since the late 80’s, I remember thumbing through my grandfather’s Macworld magazines so being recognised as an “exceptional Mac product” by this mainstay of the Mac industry is an honour. Plus, it comes with a gigantic statue. Who doesn’t love a giant statue?
Additionally, a few other publications awarded Alfred recognition as they looked back at 2011:
TUAW readers’ vote as Best Mac Utility of 2011
Mac AppStorm‘s Top Mac Apps of 2011
The Next Web‘s Top 10 Productivity Apps of 2011
Cult of Mac‘s Best Mac App of 2011
Apfelklatsch‘s Best Mac App of 2011
In addition, at the end of the year, screencaster extraordinaire Don McAllister produced two excellent videos on Alfred’s core and Powerpack features. If you’re trying to convince a friend to switch to Alfred, this video will walk them through in superbly useful detail.
With these being the cherry on top of our 2011, Christmas was spent sitting on cloud nine and feeling that we truly do have the best community in the world.
Since 2012 started, Alfred also received a mention on Forbes and a PCMag Editor’s Choice review. As they say, start the year as you mean to go on! We’ve saved as many of the mentions as possible in our Delicious account, so have a browse if you’re curious. And of course, thanks to everyone who wrote these wonderful pieces.
Did you really think that now that Alfred has hit 1.0, we’d stop improving this app we love so much? Of course not – you know us too well! 🙂
Andrew has nearly finished working on version 1.1. As he explains on his Tumblr, it originally was intended to be a 1.0.1 maintenance release, with a few tiny fixes, but it has grown into a full blown release with shiny new features. Expect to see improvements to Contacts integration and Extensions, and see the change log for the full list of changes. As it went into development release today, we hope to roll it out to everyone within the next few weeks.
We also can’t wait to unveil the other ideas we’ve been working on, which we hope to share with you over the course of the year. Until then, keep an eye on Twitter for sneak previews over the coming months!
alfred 1.0, alfred 1.1, Apfelklatsch, awards, Cult of Mac, eddy, Forbes, Mac Appstorm, macworld, PC Mag, The Next Web, tuaw
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POCKETBOOK: Week ending Dec. 22, 2017
December 26, 2017 UncategorizedDJIA way up, happy Boxing Day, mutual funds up, New Year wishes, poor and wealthy, President Trump plays to the wealthy, punishes the poor, Trump's tax bill Grinchishdianvujovich
Grinch’s tax plan
President Trump’s new tax law will make multi-millionaires and billionaires wealthier than they have been in years. Too bad that’s not the majority of us.
Top the new tax changes off with the DJIA up over 25% this year, unless the roof blows off between now and the last trading day of the year, Dow portfolios were 25% plumper as of Friday than they were at that time last year. Too bad the majority of us aren’t invested in it either.
Then again, this is a president who plays to the minority—the wealthy and those less financially fortunate who believe he really cares about them —and the tax law changes from him and his Republican party show it.
For instance, if you are a childless family—as the vast majority of families in America are— any increase in child tax credits is meaningless to you. Putting that into perspective, in 2016 there were roughly 7 million families in our country sporting three or more children, according to Statista.com. And, 13 million families had two kids, 14.8 million had one child and 47.5 million families had no children. So that doubling of tax credits for families with kids sounds like a bigger gimme than it actually is.
Eliminating all of the interest deduction for folks in with middle and lower incomes with a home equity loan matters a lot to them. And so does totally eliminating the personal exemption of $4,050 for each member of your family as it takes the juice out of that doubling of the standard deduction to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for joint filers. That point never got talked about much in the press before the signing of the new tax law but the personal exemption loss is a loss and no bonus prize for any family.
The jury is still out on the impact changes in charitable giving will have to both the givers and the receivers of the gifts. And who knows what court challenges will arise after what President Trump said this is the biggest tax cut in history. For the record, it’s not.
But what may turn out to be the biggest of anything this president has done will be what the impact of the challenges Our Master’s new tax law will mean to the Little People going forward.
Happy Boxing Day.
Last week was a merry week for index followers as all four followed here closed up for the week.
Below are the weekly and 1-year index performance results for four major indices— including the dates each reached new highs—according to CNBC.com based on prices at the close of business on Friday, December 22, 2017.
–DJIA +25.26% YTD up from last week’s 24.74%.
1 yr Rtn +24.27% up from last week’s 24.18%
Another new high for the DJIA was reached on December 18, 2017 of 24,876.07. The previous high was reached on December 15, 2017 with the Dow closing at 24,688.62
On March 1, the Dow stood at 21,169.11.
-S&P 500 +19.85% YTD up from last week’s 19.52%.
1yr Rtn +18.68% up from last week’s +18.29%
The S&P 500 reached another new high on December 18, 2017 of 2,694.97. The previous high was on December 15, 2017 of 2,679.63.
On March 1, 2017, that index stood at 2,400.98.
-NASDAQ +29.29% YTD up from last week’s +28.86%.
1yr Rtn +27.77% up from last week’s 27.12%
Nasdaq reached a new high of 7,003.89 on December 18, 2017. Its previous high was reached on December 15, 2017 of 6,945.82
.On April 5, 2017 the index closed at 5,936.39.
-Russell 2000 +13.69%YTD up from last week’s +12.77%
1yr Rtn +13.23% way up from last week’s +12.00%
The Russell 2000 reached a new all-time high on December 4, 2017 of 1,559.61.
The previous high was reached on November 30, 2017 of 1,551.69.
On March 1, 2017 this index stood at 1,414,82.
A lovely jump up in the year-to-date average cumulative total reinvested returns for equity funds that fall under the broad U.S. Diversified Equity Funds heading. On Thursday, December 21, 2017, it was 18.57%, according to Lipper. That’s up from the close on Thursday of the previous week of 16.59%.
Under that heading the top three and lowest three performing fund types were:
Top Three:
-Equity Leverage Funds, average +41.50%
-Large-Cap Growth Funds, +29.89%
-Mulit-Cap Growth Funds, +28.63%
Bottom Three:
-Dedicated Bias Funds, -22.79%
-Alternative Equity Market Neutral Funds, +0.05%
-Small-Cap Value Funds, +9.60%
May this last week of 2017 be a happy one for you and yours.
And may the fairy of good luck, fortune, health, friendships, humor and happiness live with you each day in the coming New Year.
Cheers to the welcoming in of 2018.
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Sample Article on How websites Has Influenced the Music Sector
This MLA essay is exploring the effects the fact that the internet has experienced on the beats industry about both the huge and small-scale. This target essay is written for the undergraduate level to work as a sample of the Ultius blog.
A result of the Internet concerning the Music Market
The internet has developed many business as it has exploded in likability and access. Millions of people can communicate, retail outlet, and watch any kind of movie they desire from anywhere that has a great available net connection. Another sector that has surely been afflicted with the internet certainly is the music market, which has evolved quite tremendously over the past many years. As technology continues to step of progress, the music sector is forced to switch again and again. Earliest, artists and other wines involved in the making of music were worried about the affect file-sharing expertise like Napster and LimeWire would have for the profitability with their work (‘How the Internet Has developed Music). Right now, the main concern involving the net and the beats industry is going to be music exploding like Spotify and Thomas sabo and discussions on how companies and recording labels should be paid in royalties. Still, the internet’s effect on the music industry is an entirely destructive experience; it consists of provided a number of notable features as well.
One of the most self evident effects which the internet has experienced on popular music as a business enterprise is the influence on royalties that artists circumstances who use their collections are making. The iTunes Music Store approved at the end in April for 2003. Amongst then as well as the iTunes Store’s tenth personal gift, music gross sales in the United States feature dropped nearly five billion dollars; after adjustments are for increase, revenue was cut by more than half (Covert). This is notably frustrating for many people artists since despite these kind of numbers, persons are buying whole lot more music than ever. This is planning because iTunes has popularized the effortlessly priced virtual single. Apple was able to once offer specific tracks intended for ninety-nine cents and digital camera albums of only 10 dollars.
People began deciding to buy music via the internet like crazy and also sales overtook sales for CDs. A digital albums generation more than six hundred million in product sales during 2007 while Compact disks only made five hundred million dollars (Covert). Even now, though, one or two say that royalties are not, in fact , too significantly affected by net downloads or perhaps streaming. The principle executive in Music Managers Forum, Jon Webster, says, ‘any creative has to be with a streaming program now- is actually what consumers wants. It really is part of the success. And if you’ll be successful, you can still make a considerable amount of cash from that. (Wall). Yet, the idea that merchants do not obtain royalties from streaming support like Spotify and Pandora is wrong. Spotify, for example , says that approximately seventy percent of it has the revenues out of subscriptions and adverting happen to be paid out to publishing businesses, collecting societies, and track record labels- the copyright holders of the beats the program delivers; Spotify quotes that they have released more than one million dollars through royalties among 2008 and while the report was made on 2013 (Wall).
Numerous communication at the moment is done through various social websites outlets. Mainly because it changed the way we proclaimed, it affected the way we listen to music, too. MySpace was the first of all social media system that provided users with an opportunity to stick to their favorite anyone who performs music and discover creative ones (Harrison). Though Buy facebook likes and Forums have flushed MySpace in terms of use, many people both provide you with platforms whereby fans can follow and communicate with cartoonists and for these artists to share their music with their admirers. YouTube has also made it possible for fans to observe music videos and listen to music for free rather than having to pay for this or depend upon MTV (Harrison). Other related services, just like Spotify and Pandora, grant free music streaming that creates access with only a video connection and allows users to discover additional artists that can be similar to these they currently like.
Although it is clear the fact that social media contains affected how we pay attention to music, it consists of changed the background music industry in other ways, too. Twenty years within the, amateur pros with large hopes from fames had been forced to depend upon music providers to listen to their demo coup, the internet can make getting located much easier, supplying power to the artist by yourself rather than corporate and business bigwigs. The on-line world gives maestro the power to provide their own music, upload this to the internet, and promote it they also want to. This has really helped a number of merchants be found out by audience members and businesses, and in some cases, receive signed and discovered.
Mr. bieber is a principal example of the strength social media may have by using an artist’s career. He downloaded videos in himself performing on YouTube and was learned by Usher. Justin moved from becoming relatively undiscovered to being one of the most famous pros worldwide in mere a couple of years (Alan). This is because social has made the idea so that personal is not just restricted to the people we see regularly. A genuine topic can begin trending international in a matter of several hours or even mins and countless people are capable of finding their fifteen minutes of fame much easier as opposed to they ever have prior to; in the case of bandz like Justin Bieber, though, the fame is maintained much longer as opposed to fifteen minutes. Cartoonists who are able to learn about social media domains often are doing amazingly well in an incredibly short amount of time, showing opportunities who were never readily available before.
Prohibited downloading
Unlawfully downloading beats is any time a consumer downloads available music without paying the dj or possessing permission. Back in the nineties, in the event that file-sharing products and services began becoming more popular, many in the music home business thought your entire industry involved to fall apart. More and more people could access music that they could not have to pay meant for. A study done in 2007 by Institute to get Policy Option estimated the fact that illegal popular music downloads ended up being costing land economy much more than twelve billion dollars per annum (Wall). Record labels shall no longer be in control of remise and models have been forced to adapt to be able to survive in the new encounter from the industry. On the flip side, though, music artists are no longer susceptible to record timbre. They have access to new technology that empowers the criminals to distribute and promote their whole music in such a way they were rarely ever able to prior to, providing for you to reach and communicate with addicts from Ethiopia to Spain.
Before the time for the millennium, Death Chassis for Teen girl was one of countless indie-rock bands what person, though a part of a minor track record label, existed in general humble. They competed mostly clean out clubs of fifty dollars per night and would not garner a ton of support (Suddath). During the first couple of years of the twenty-first hundred years, the band’s following considerably started developing and more and many more people were traveling to their shows with the equal story; that they had first found the group’s songs around the internet. That they caught the interest of the makers of The I. C. through 2003 without having a websites (Suddath). Following thousands of outlawed music downloading paved their very own way, The demise Cab pertaining to Cutie incorporates a gold extraits and female name status.
This is interesting, as one would assume that banned music getting it is harmful to the wellbeing of a musician’s career. Yet , the biggest concern any band has ever had in getting started out is getting their music have been told. TIME interesting explains, ‘For years, the music industry was first confined to four multinational larger companies that dominated the profits stream from seventy percent among the music coming in, and four or five radio conglomerates the fact that controlled what music is going out.
Today all that have been broken up on to millions and millions from little things and subcultures and marketers that are serving size small , genuinely dedicated villages of music lovers. (Suddath). While someone might not include their original download of a song or perhaps album, if perhaps they want what they hear, they will proceed with the artist or perhaps band and turn fans inside longer term. They are really more likely to think about the band’s show, decide to buy band product, or buy more music in the future. If a band can certainly establish a pursuing, their fans is going to continue to need to hear new music that comes out or see the strip in person. It can be worth enabling consumers acquire whatever gets them connected for free because their prolong devotion will lead to plenty of money making options in the future.
Musicians’ opinions
The opinion from musicians at whether or not the net has been perfect for the music industry is incorporated. The Future of Beats Coalition Insurance plan Summit presented a research of almost 3 thousand anyone who performs music about how online had damaged the music sector, particularly peer to peer. Approximately thirty-five percent for this musicians selected felt the fact that file-sharing sites can be suitable for artists since they make the idea easier to publicize themselves and distribute their very own work quickly; twenty-three percent said that file-sharing services are https://onlinebuyessay.com/ bad for anyone who performs music because earning it feasible for other people to repeat their function without their particular permission or any type of form of repayment; and thirty-five percent of those agreed with both statements (‘Artists, Musicians, as well as Internet: Lady Data Memo).
The anyone who plays music were also asked about the impact that free downloads available on the net has had on the music occupations. Five percent of respondents felt the fact that free searching online for has completely damaged their whole career, thirty-five percent declared it has helped, eight percent responded that has had some combined effect of the two; additionally , thirty-seven percent of those selected felt the fact that free transfering had not produced a significant impact on their music occupations (‘Artists, Anyone who plays music, and The Net: Preliminary Data Memo). The survey finally asked the respondents whenever music showing on the internet has made that harder for them how to protect their very own music with piracy and illegal download. Results highlighted that 16 percent of respondents was that the net has had a tremendous effect on their whole ability to handle their beats from becoming pirated, 21 years old percent says it had a little effect, and forty-one percent said that they have had basically no effect whatsoever (‘Artists, Music artists and bands, and The Net: Preliminary Info Memo). No matter these benefits, the majority of those that responded to the survey think that file-sharing on the internet poses some kind of threat to the music enterprise.
In terms of producing free popular music themselves, life-style and offer, most of the cartoonists felt otherwise. Eighty-three percent of them possess provided no cost samples of their very own music online’ the majority of those people say that the free samples, which are often given while free net downloads, hold helped these types of sell Video games and build up concert infractions sales (‘Artists, Musicians, as well as the Internet: Girl Data Memo). It seems that plenty of artists commit to that no cost downloading is unique when they are in charge of providing the samples. In the same study, almost 70 % of guitar players felt the fact that artist needs to have total control over their materials once it is actually produced; somewhat, nearly thirty percent of participants feel that the artist and copyright plate should have ‘some control over the items while three percent think that that person might hold ‘very little control (‘Artists, Performers, and The Internet: Preliminary Info Memo).
In sum
The internet possesses totally improved several groups, including the popular music industry. The background music scene was an entirely numerous place before the internet offered a new platform for sharing with us, buying, grabbing, and marketing and advertising music. The many drastic changes have been mixed- while some goods have badly affected the way the industry works, it has as well had various positive influences for users and rings alike. As the debate above whether the net has been in general positive or perhaps negative, we can at least be confident that the market will carry on adapt with technology.
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Alvarez’s beloved helicopter has died
There will be no classes for the next week, flags at half mast in honor of the Helicopter's service to the community
by Staff · Apr 10, 2018 Share Tweet
Athletic Director Barry Alvarez lost his first Rose Bowl in four tries Tuesday, but he will still be remembered for shaping Wisconsin football into what it is today.
The University of Wisconsin is in mourning Tuesday morning after the death of the long tenured Athletic Director Barry Alvarez’s AgustaWestland AW119 Ke Koala Helicopter.
The eight-seat utility helicopter most commonly used by law enforcement agencies, produced by Leonardo and powered by a single turboshaft engine came out in 2016. It has been used by Alvarez since its initial production in 2016 to bring him to Bowl Games, for his weekly Sunday shopping trips and most recently was used for a “bonding exercise” for the March Sadness boys — Badgers Basketball.
Though many have called this an unfair punishment for missing the tournament, Alvarez reiterates its purpose solely as a drill meant to teach the team comradery. The boys were taken up into the helicopter during the first round games of the tournament, and once convinced they were merely enjoying a smooth ride on the AgustaWestland AW119 Ke Koala Helicopter, were told of the afternoon’s true purpose.
The 16 of them were given four parachutes and, as Khalil Iverson opened his mouth to ask for directions to safely operate the parachutes, were dropped from a trap door in the bottom of the AugustaWestland AW119 Ke Koala.
All were able to team up safely and glide down in a peaceful descent, embracing one another having learned the lesson of a lifetime. That is, besides Brad Davison, who, much to the astonishment of all bystanders, simply floated down like a feather, shouting support at his teammates all the while missing a parachute. Davison landed safely, popped his shoulder back in, and yelled at the referees for not calling a foul on gravity for the offensive charge.
Now without his helicopter, the Athletic Board is looking into other purchases to pacify the now impoverished athletic director.
So far, ideas being thrown around include five Frank Kaminsky clones to walk around with him at all times and frequently tell charming jokes, his second flavor of Babcock Ice Cream dedicated to him and bringing back the baseball team only to let him cut it again, which reportedly makes him feel more alive than anything else in this world.
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Yuki Petersen
Yuki Kato Petersen, 92, of Seattle, died on April 22, 2019.
She is survived by her children Rea, June, Bill, Alice and Jeff; 6 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and predeceased by her husband, Warren, in 2016, and her brother, Tomikazu, of Japan.
Born in Nagoya, Japan to Shinzo and Kunie Kato, Yuki secretly learned to pilot a glider while in high school. Secret, until the local newspaper featured her on the cover.
Yuki met Warren after WWII in Nagoya where they married and started a family. After immigrating to the U.S., Yuki became a citizen and the family lived in Seattle, Ephrata and Wenatchee, and returned to Japan in 1956, living in Nagoya and Fuchu / Nishi Takaido.
In Seattle, Yuki was a waitress at Bush Garden restaurant in the International District during the 1960s, and would come home with stories about celebrity diners. The family moved back to Japan and lived at Chofu Housing Annex and Tachikawa Air Base from 1967-1970, where Yuki volunteered for the local Red Cross, visiting with U.S. troops in the base hospital. She led the family in baking cookies to send to troops in Vietnam. The family toured Japan on vacations in their giant 1960s Ford station wagon.
Yuki loved musicals and played the LP soundtracks to South Pacific and The King and I. She practiced traditional Japanese dancing in the living room, and pursued her love of painting with oils. She ran a custom drapery business in Seattle, crafting covers for windows in homes, boats and private jets. She was a daring downhill skier — as her orthopedic surgeon can attest — and went on weekly day trips in the winter to Stevens Pass and Crystal Mountain with her friends Gwen and Nancy.
Yuki and Warren lived in Bahrain from 1981-1984 and 1987-1993 where he was an advisor to the Bahraini government. They continued to make friends from around the world and vacationed in Tokyo, London, Vienna, Scotland and Maui.
Beginning in 1993 Yuki and Warren divided their time between Seattle and Sun City West, Arizona, where they volunteered at Mariners Spring Training games in Peoria for seven years. Yuki worked outside the stadium press box where she would chat with reporters from Japan who followed Ichiro.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to a favorite charity.
Open house reception for family and friends Saturday, May 18, 3:00 – 5:00 pm at Chateau Bothell Landing, Building A, 2nd floor. 17543 102nd Ave NE, Bothell WA 98011
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5 Responses to “Yuki Petersen”
What an amazing life!
I’m happy to call Alice, aka AC, a super close friend. There are so many things that have been passed down from Yuki – love of creativity, supporting community, loyalty, and a giant heart for others.
Love to all of Petersen’s!
Karen T. says:
This was one seriously amazing woman. And her family reflects all the wonderful things that she and her husband encompassed.
My love to all the Petersen family, during this time and always.
Nobi Nakata Morris says:
I have fond memories of Yuki and the family from when you lived in Wenatchee. I remember Yuki as so perky and vivacious.
My sympathy to you all.
Stephanie Shandera says:
What an incredible woman! I understand where Alice…(Ace to me), gets her creativity, enthusiasm and love of musicals! Sending loving thoughts to your family.
Lisa Fernow says:
My sympathies to Ace and Bill what an interesting life she led
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Tamara Kincaid
On April 8, 2019 the world lost a light. Tamara Elspeth Kincaid of Seattle died suddenly in her home. She was 59 years old. Tamara suffered from chronic illnesses but her spirit remained strong in the face of immense pain.
But more than her death, we should celebrate her life. She would want us to. Tamara was a kind and caring woman who made everyone she knew feel heard and important. She loved others fiercely, even when they did not love themselves.
Tamara was born in Millington, TN, into a Navy military family. While they were posted on Whidbey Island, WA she attended Oak Harbor HS, studied abroad in Germany, then studied anthropology and communications at Western Washington University. Her career included Director of Communications at the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Public Affairs Director at the Seattle Police Force, and Marketing Director at Lifelong AIDS Alliance (NW AIDS Foundation).
Tamara made friends everywhere she went, including on the bus, at the grocery store, and even on the side of the road. She loved hosting people at her home and sharing stories over home-cooked meals. Tamara was a core part of the community at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. The most important part of Tamara’s faith was loving her neighbor and she lived out the gospel every day by fighting for justice, especially in the causes of immigration and women’s rights.
Tamara is is survived by her partner, David Harms, and daughter Zoe Gluck, who will graduate from American University in Washington, D.C. on Mother’s Day. We know that she will be deeply missed by everyone who loved her and we hope that the love she showed to others will be carried on in her memory. Donations can be made to the National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) at www.justgiving.com/niwapinc in her memory.
A memorial service will be held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral on Sunday, May 19 at 2pm to celebrate her life.
21 Responses to “Tamara Kincaid”
Kevin Johnson says:
Tamara, I was blessed to know you and it felt like you always did. May you rest in peace and rise in glory.
Matthew Duffy says:
I only knew Tamara through a Facebook group, but I can say this, the world is a smaller place without her and her voice. May you find peace and relief from pain. Rest well warrior and I will see you on the other side.
Kevin C. Johnson says:
Daniel Valentine says:
I met Tamara in a time of need. As members of an ardent Facebook group, we came to know each other through our mutual experiences with chronic pain.
Her wisdom and strength were truly an inspiration. She will be missed and never forgotten.
Esther Roberts says:
Tamara was the essence of what we should all be in this world – true to herself, true to her faith and true to her loved ones. She was able to do all 3 without contradiction. She let her faith guide who she was but not change who she was; she then turned around to help guide so many others. We have lost a beautiful and vibrant friend. She will be greatly missed.
Keith Hemmig says:
Tamara was fierce, compassionate, gentle and loving. And she was funny. Really funny. I loved her sharp wit and she had a heart so big it could not be contained by this earthly body. I miss her but her presence will always be felt. Peace and love to Dave, Zoe and to all who were fortunate to know her.
Colleen Ferrari says:
Tamara was a wonderful human being. She stood for those without a voice– she was a light and a beacon for good. She will be missed.
Gods speed Tamara!
I met Tamara through mutual friends online, never in person, but that didn’t get in the way of our friendship. She was so kind and caring, helping me handle my own chronic illness diagnosis (although it was rainbows and ponies compared to what she lived with). She also helped as I struggled with parenting my teenage daughter. She never met my daughter, but I believe she would’ve been as fierce in protecting her as any mama bear could be. To be her friend meant you were loved and protected. If she was here, I would’ve called on her last week to help fend off some Facebook trolls trashing a town project I’ve been volunteering on. Her intelligence, humor and sass would have shut them right up. She loved Dave and Zoe. So. Much. I feel a hole in the world and I only knew her from afar. Sending her family and friends much love. I believe Tamara is watching over us
I feel a hole in the world and I only knew Tamara from afar. To be her friend was to feel loved and protected. And important. Special. She helped me cope with my own chronic illness diagnosis (which was rainbows and ponies compared to what she lived with) and shared wisdom and kindness when I struggled in parenting. I’m glad I got to know her. I’m sorry I never got to experience one of her undoubtedly powerful hugs. Sending love to her family and friends
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Wendy Townsend says:
Loved Tammy. She was kind and loving soul who inspired so many of us! Rest in peace, beloved friend.
Michelle Maher says:
I had the pleasure of getting to know Tamara on Facebook. I saw her as a kind loving and passionate person who would do anything to help someone in need, even when she was hurting and in pain. She opened her heart and home to me and my family by offering us a place to stay this summer. (Please, Dave, do not worry. We are covered for our trip. I remain forever grateful.) I am mourning the loss of never getting to meet in person this wonderful woman and getting one of the hugs she was famous for.
Dave and Zoe, I hope all the messages here will give you some comfort in knowing how many lives Tamara touched. Your loss is felt deeply, and she was loved a great deal.
Fiona Murphy says:
The first word that comes to mind when I think of Tamara is “Zoe.” Before everything she meant to me, before everything she did to bring joy and healing to others… she loved Zoe. And Dave, of course! We often heard tales of what a wonderful partner she had found in Dave. I am so grateful that she had that. She deserved it more than anyone I know. She was so full of love for her family- and so well-loved in return by them- that it overflowed and caught the rest of us in its reach, to the betterment of each of us who were so lucky to know her.
Zoe, you are such a beautiful, strong, independent and mighty legacy to your mom- not just in your current and future successes but in the moments when you are so perfectly imperfect. That was one of the gifts she gave me that I treasure the most- the understanding that we don’t have to always be in our finest hour to be absolutely, thoroughly worthy of love and care. I know that nothing will ever compare to having her next to you in the chapters ahead but I have not one ounce of doubt that she is with you at every step. You two are too much a part of one another to ever truly be separated.
Tamara bound so many of us together with a ferocity borne of overcoming struggles and an unbridled joy for seeking out the adventures of human connection. She is irreplaceable and she is unforgettable.
Her name will ever be the household word that it always was to so many of us.
“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”
-Henry Scott Holland
Missie Mauldin says:
Tamera was one of those people that when she loved, she loved hard, and you knew you were loved, there was just no doubt about it.
She would speak of her adoration for Zoe and her deep love of Dave. How perfect her family is and how lucky she was to have you two.
She helped me in dark times and for that I will always carry a piece of her with me in my soul.
Tam, you are SO MISSED. We’re all better having known you.
Jay Gusick says:
Dave and Zoe: My heart is with you as you adjust to this profound and sudden loss. As you fight-on through the ache of your grief, no-doubt struggling to adapt to a “new normal” filled by Tamara’s absence, I want to share something with you.
News of Tamara’s death absolutely rocked me — in a way that far exceeded our limited professional connections, and our frequent Facebook back-and-forths on spirituality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Since then, I’ve noticed that she’s actually MORE present in my life.
Somehow, knowing that I won’t see her uplifting posts, her championing of good people and worthy causes, and her winking humor, I’ve realized that the void of her absence has made her MORE present for me. I find myself thinking of her before choosing my responses. I’m literally saying to myself “what would Tamara have said?” Or “”What would Tamara do in this situation?” Twice yesterday I was aware of consciously choosing to be less reactive… to give benefit of the doubt to others, even as I gently spoke my truth. That was Tamara!
Holy cow, that’s a legacy and an impact! And it lives on in me, as I’m sure it does in both of you… and in scores of others whose lives she touched deeply in her kind, wise, compassionate and caring way.
Somehow, before her bright torch was extinguished she managed (in her uniquely Tamara way) to light torches for many of us — some, like me, who may not even have been aware that we had a torch in our hands! But now that I’m awake to the gift she gave to me, I will honor it… I will carry her with me into noble, worthy causes both big and small.
Please know that I am holding you both in my heart at this tender time.
Sue Z. says:
I knew Tamara only on facebook – we share like opinions. While I didn’t know her well personally, I do know two things about her: she loved her daughter Zoe and was super proud of her. That was the most important thing. Second, she wanted people to behave justly and it frustrated her when they didn’t – and she spoke up for those people that were not treated fairly. I miss her commentary and the world will miss her fighting spirit.
There are so many things to say about Tamara. The highest compliment I can pay her is to say that she loved without judgement.
She was a light shining in the darkness and she reached for others, always helping, always extending grace.
I miss her.
Erin Reeves says:
Tamara, a “gentle light” in this big world. Her words were comforting and she had a sixth sense when it came to others, even strangers; to the likes of a mother having that innate ability to soothe even when she herself did not feel well enough to get through the day. You’ll be missed. Sending long distance hugs to Dave and Zoe.
Karri Hemmig says:
Tamara was an incredible force. Her loss is felt every day in our shared group. I feel incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with her. She leaves a fierce spirit for social justice in this world through her daughter. I am so sorry for you loss Dave and Zoe.
Kevin Moylan says:
Tammy Kincaid I first met at North Whidbey or high in 1975 we had journalism and English and debate class I never could out wit her nor beat her in a debate she was very smart and though I lost touch with her I reconnected with her again on Facebook I’m am deeply saddened we have lost such a beautiful soul and I will miss her quick wit rest in peace Tamara you will be missed by your friends and classmates from Oak Harbor
Jada Pfarr says:
You just floated onto my front porch like a feather from heaven and landed on my broken heart. None of it expected and none of it rehearsed just this plain conversation between two survivors as if we’d known each other’s battle wounds our whole lives. There was no apology or sympathy for pain just pure understanding and for that I could never thank you enough. You were here just when I needed you and you left long before I was ready but I’m okay with letting you go. I think you accomplished what you set out to do and it was no small task. I’ll see you next lifetime friend. Until then, I’ll carry the torch.
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"If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team..."
A statement by U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH):
“We have just learned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility for any failure to secure our people and our Consulate in Benghazi prior to the attack of September 11, 2012. This is a laudable gesture, especially when the White House is trying to avoid any responsibility whatsoever.
“However, we must remember that the events of September 11 were preceded by an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Benghazi, including a bomb that was thrown into our Consulate in April, another explosive device that was detonated outside of our Consulate in June, and an assassination attempt on the British Ambassador. If the President was truly not aware of this rising threat level in Benghazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose responsibility it is to keep the President informed. But if the President was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of September 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred. The security of Americans serving our nation everywhere in the world is ultimately the job of the Commander-in-Chief. The buck stops there.
“Furthermore, there is the separate issue of the insistence by members of the Administration, including the President himself, that the attack in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, long after it had become clear that the real cause was a terrorist attack. The President also bears responsibility for this portrayal of the attack, and we continue to believe that the American people deserve to know why the Administration acted as it did.”
Tags: Chris Stevens, Hillary, Kelly Ayotte, Libya, Lindsey Graham, McCain, Obama scandals, Obama's war on terror
I noticed a little shot in Sec'y Clinton's statement yesterday:
the President and Vice President are not involved in security decisions..
Seems to me that statement absolves them and damns them at the same time. They aren't involved in the decisions, so it's not their fault.
they aren't involved in the decisions...
furious_a said...
...by which Hillary falls on her sword and thereby impales Obama and Biden.
The Buck Stops with Obama's Female Subordinates.
Clearly, they're racists.
So the protypical modern "feminist" yet again puts herself in an unflattering position to make a man look better.
Isn't modern feminism grand?
PS: You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette!
Shouting Thomas said...
At least, today the NY Times has discovered the story and placed it on its front page.
They're still peddling the "It's the Video" line!
And, they acknowledge that Hillary is trying to "innoculate President Obama from criticism" prior to the next debate.
O'Reilly's take on the media malfeasance, and I paraphrase:
If this were a Republican president, the media would be camped out on Susan Rice's front lawn 24 hours a day until they got an answer to this question:
Who instructed you to peddle the phony story about the video?
SGT Ted said...
There are so many people under the bus right now, the wheels have lost traction.
Shorter: He was either aware of it, or not aware of it, and either case isn't very good.
I can't imagine anyone thinks this will work, especially Bill.
McTriumph said...
Shouting Thomas
The media wouldn't be able to get close to Susan Rice, she's got adequate security.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed full responsibility
If so then it saddens us to accept her resignation. And the buck stops with Himself so he'll be going too.
Sorun said...
It only took five weeks for Obama and Hillary to figure out who was responsible.
It was an epic game of rock, paper scissors.
How, as Ace notes can Obama appear Presidential, if a mere underling takes responsibility for such extremely important matters, when the executive should at least be aware of them, if not in charge of them?
Hillary just presented Romney with a very sharp rhetorical sword.
Leadership is the art of convincing others to accomplish what you need done. Competence is foundation of that art. This administration displays neither on a regular basis.
Hillary stood next to Ambassador Stevens' casket and blamed a YouTube video for his death.
Is that lie part of the "responsibility" here or what?
AReasonableMan said...
Our daily Benghazi post.
Curious George said...
Only the "video" gambit was dumber than this latest attempt by Obama Inc. to run out the clock.
It will stoke the flames. Hillary isn't taking "full responsibility", she isn't taking any at all.
And none of this is pertinent, as the latter says, to the "video" cover up.
Who are the morons that but these chuckleheads in charge?
It makes more sense that she made the statement on her own. Doing it the day before the debate gives her cover, because it can be interpreted as trying to draw fire for Obama. But she made him look ineffectual and out of touch.
Yes, as Gerry said, it presents Romney with a very sharp rhetorical sword.
When a consulate requests more security, who do they contact? A newbie at State? The janitor who they tell to inform higher ups? A person(s) made these decisions not to provide more security. What are their names?
Imagine these f*cjtards handling a 9/11/01 event? I wonder how many Americans are doing that.
I wouldn't trust them to was my car.
But we are leading from behind and we are intentionally altering the American posture as an ally and a source of military strength in the 60 year Pax Americana.
What's a matter with you guys? Do you want a peaceful world like the last 60 years??? That world was and is equally hateful to Harvard professors, Obama mentors and Fidel Castro!
A crisis from America's total collapse is what the Marxist Maniac in the White House DEMANDS. Collapse in energy, military power, and economic activity
The Media is supposed to help cover this up until the day after Marxist Maniac is reelected.
AndyN said...
This administration just convinced an underling to take responsibility for the President's failure less than a month before the election. Obama might not be accomplishing the things that you think need to be done (securing our nation's interests), but it's still a crap shoot as to whether he'll succeed in accomplishing what he thinks needs to be done (clinging to power).
Tank said...
Cedarford said...
I tend to disaggregate the two issues:
1. How much responsibility Obama had for internal State Dept security staffing considerations.
2. If Rice, Obama, Jay Carney and the usual media mouthpieces dispatched (Cutter, Rosen, Axelrod, etc.) were clueless it was a terror attack or were engaged in a deliberate deception of the public to bash Romney, blame the video and keep the "narrative focused" that "Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were dead, GM alive thanks to Obama".
Certain Republicans that place undue emphasis on issue #1 are on a fools errand. The real problem is with the coverup or the unfitness of our present leaders to see a terrorist attack for what it was.
Issue #1 is of course covered under the rubric of "the President hving ultimate responsibility when anyone is killed, and it was on HIS watch!" But realistically, we assign reasonable levels of responsibility. When a Navy ship grounds, the careers of the Captain and any responsible underlings are kaput. But we don't can Fleet Admirals, the JCS, the Secretary of DOD and demand the President apologize and perhaps resign over it.
It, and McCain has always had difficulty with this...is determining the appropriate level of responsibility.
Issue #1 is also open to unprovable speculation. Like claiming if only a reasonable level of security staffing was in place and we all knew an attack could come, all Americans would be 100% SAFE and no one would die. Hard to swallow that when it was 50-80 enemy hitting them in a coordinated attack with heavy weaponry.
The far more fruitful path is having Obama, Hillary, Susan Rice and other principals like the NSC head Donilon and Petreaus over at CIA explain if the White House knew it was an obvious terror attack within hours and covered it up...Or the whole intel apparatus there to serve the Key decision-makers broke down in the aftermath of a lethal terrorist attack.
So, ReasonableMan, would you rather talk about Lance Armstrong? Would that topic be more comfortable for you?
Imagine these f*cjtards handling a 9/11/01 event?
To find that out we need to ask Republicans how they handled a 9/11 event under their watch.
Drip, drip, drip...from now 'till Nov. 6. spuh-LASH! if Hillary resigns before then.
Jennifer Rubin, one of the more astute pundits writing today, says in her WaPo column:
However, there is another way to read the Clinton statement. Frankly, no one believes she is responsible. She gets the gold star for being the loyal underling. And — this is key — the president looks small and weak. The pressure rises on him to shoulder the blame and to explain what occurred. His remaining three weeks of the campaign are spent in a death spiral of scandal. Clinton comes out looking like a rose. The 2016 nomination is hers for the taking. She (and probably Bill) in this version is the ultimate political manipulator, undermining the president by her own act of faux bravery. (From Peru. After the evening broadcast.)
The senators seem to be asking why, after losing the Democratic primary in 2008, Hillary Clinton is still the one stuck answering the phone when it rings at 3 am.
Pretty sure W didn't just go to sleep and then head out to a Vegas fundraiser, Garage.
Don't you mean your daily attempt to change the subject, lie, dissemble, and make an ass of yourself?
Clown.
And then lie about the cause of the attack for weeks.
Public hearings within 30 days, and someone taking full responsibility. Yea, that's exactly how Republicans handled 9/11.
How did Republicans handle the 7 embassy attacks under their watch? who knows! They were never even asked. Your liberal media hard at work.
In hindsight, Kerry should have ran on embassy attacks under Bush.
bearing said...
I am still trying to decide if Sec.'y Clinton's statement is a non-apology apology or if it is a subtle means of stabbing the President in the back.
I think she and Bill are smarter than he is.
Chip S. said...
You seem to remember a lot about national security in those days, garage. So please tell me, how many ambassadors were killed in those 7 embassy attacks?
I think you should go about pretending that the largest terrorist attack on American soil, plans of which were years in the making, is like the exact same thing as an embassasy attack where more security was asked for and denied.
Really, you should, idiot.
Really garage? Sometimes you should say nothing. We already expect you to play fast and loose with facts but this statement shows you are out of your league on intelligence, no pun intended.
"His remaining three weeks of the campaign are spent in a death spiral of scandal."
-Jennifer Rubin
h/t creeley23
Very low standard.
AprilApple said...
Why is Susan Rice out there lying? Again - lying.
The administration is holding public hearings? Not sure how the only public hearings I've heard about are being conducted by the GOP controlled House. I'm sure you'll provide a link to show I'm wrong.
How did Republicans handle the 7 embassy attacks under their watch?
And how in the world did I miss 7 embassies being completely sacked and 7 ambassadors being murdered and dragged through the streets during the Bush years? I really need to get out more.
"They're still peddling the 'It's the Video' line!"
It's interesting. The whole NYT article reads as a defense of Obama (and spins the political angle greatly), so I guess the NYT is following every mother's dictum: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. They waited and waited til they had something nice to say (or at least beneficial to Obama) before they put a story on the front page. When it looked bad for Obama, articles were relegated to the inside pages.
Here are the first nine words of the article, "After a month of conflicting statements and partisan criticism,"
I do believe there has been plenty of non-partisan criticism. And also note that, unlike Joe Biden, I can count.
Garage, re-litIgating the past as a distraction because he can't defend the present.
Ruth Anne Adams said...
"If I were Obama, I'd make sure Hillary hasn't effed up the brake lines while she's under his bus. #overthecliff"
and I also liked
"The Cankles takes the rankles."
There was also a deja vu comparison of Hillary taking responsibility for Benghazi the way Janet Reno did for Waco.
That didn't go so well for POTUS.
So, where are we with the investigation...and if it's taking so long, is this due to incompetence, or some calculated reason to placate the Middle East, like claiming the video was responsible (which it wasn't)?
How's the War On Terror going?
How are the drone strikes...the surge?
Why did we involve ourselves in Libya, and not Syria (and if it's as Biden said, for tactical reasons...what about the policy reasons...is the policy working?)
How's Syria? How's Egypt? How's AfPak? How's Israel? How's Iran? How's Asia?
Calypso Facto said...
Nicely put
Garage - You do know about the 9/11 commission report, right?
Did GWB send out a Susan Rice type character to lie about how and why the attack happened?
Wait a sec, you don't know? I thought Republicans were experts on embassy attacks. Surely they investigated every single one to find out who was culpable?
And surely Republicans were very concerned with embassy security in this region just before these attacks?
Lindsay's a squish. I don't want him anywhere near the levers.
Are you suggesting republicans run the State Dept. GM?
"Exactly."
So, how many Obama voters change their minds based upon this rationale?
I'm guessing somewhere between zero and fifteen.
Nationwide.
Obviously, garage, you seem to not remember that when BJ Clinton was president, the Twin Towers were bombed then. Remember that? I do, and you know what, BJ wanted to treat it as a crime, not terrorism.
@garage, I'll take that as a "none."
Now go sit quietly somewhere and figure out the difference b/w a successful attack and a successfully defended attack.
Sure do. How long did that eventually take, and who didn't want that commission in the first place?
List these 7 attacks and the dates, you fat clown.
If Obama lets Hillary take the fall for Benghazi, why won't he let Eric Holder take the fall for Fast 'n Furious?
Is it his patented 'bros before hoes" approach?
Matthew Sablan said...
Garage: The thing is, to fully find out who lied to us about Libya, you know what we have to do? Walk down the hall at Foggy Bottom. To figure out what went wrong on 9/11? We actually had to conduct a thorough investigation; intelligence failed us on 9/11. Politicians failed us in Libya.
There's a difference.
GM isn't seriously suggesting State - which is under the Admin/Exec Branch is really under the Legislative Branch, is he?
Right. Why don't you give us your results of the google search you just did:
"bush+embassy+attacks+deaths"
By the way, this, if true, should be a bigger story.
Repartee with an encephalitic troll is like mud-wrestling with a pig.
garage, don't be such a Democrat. Do the work you want done yourself.
Garage: ... and who didn't want that commission in the first place?
Jamie "Chinese Wall" Gorelick, who drafted the DoJ guidelines banning intelligence sharing between CIA and Justice.
I imagine you've got to have talent to handle the Clintons.
They tried to defeat Barry, and Bill was/is until recently the elder Statesman for the Democrats. Hilary, after defeat, probably signed on to team Barry in part for shared ideological reasons. They sucked it up and/or they coldly, (they can be ruthless with a lot of experience in the pit) started planning for the future.
Slowly, like many Democrats, and Barry's fellow ideological travelers and the base (elites, true believers and the dependents), they're realizing that they have to keep rescuing Barry, and speaking for him.
Barry's team probably really does see this as motivated by Republicans only, and vaguely the disgruntled bitter, clingers. There are many people who just didn't want Barry to bring them the light.
@AllenS
You should be hired by a professional news organization just based on your questions alone.
However, we don't have any of those orgs around...
C4:
Your 8:56 spot on.
I found the comment above by the Obama people 4 years ago to be interesting. Their view was that Hillary was too hands-on, and that wasn't the job of the President. He was supposed to, what?, be above it all, and play coach? Judge?
I think that attitude is emblematic of the problem here, and with the Obama Presidency in general. The guy had no management or leadership responsibility, training, or education whatsoever before ascending to the highest office in the land. So, it is not the least bit surprising that he has no conception whatsoever of running anything larger than a Senate office. No idea of how to delegate, how to pick his top subordinates, how to oversee them, and make sure that he is getting the right information, the information he needs.
Of course, it didn't help that he skipped the PDBs the week before the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Playing golf and raising money for reelection were much more important than making sure that the United States was adequately defended from our enemies. And, that maybe is the scariest part of it - that Obama truly seems to believe that protecting this country isn't his primary responsibility as President, but rather, taking care of himself, and that all those perks, the big house, two 747s, helicopters, armed guards, personal band, etc. are somehow owed him for being so wonderful, or something like that.
The tragedy is that McCain does know these things, having spent a career in the Navy before entering politics, having attended War College, and been offered flag rank. He spent his first career in an organization where you have to be aware of what your subordinates are doing and the important stuff that is going on below you in your organization.
Luckily for this country right now, the other candidate who has been trained, educated, and is experienced in this area is Mitt Romney. Maybe even better prepared than McCain, having achieved long ago the civilian equivalent of the flag rank that McCain turned down for politics.
For the life of me, Darcy, I can't understand why others can't think to ask these questions. The questions are so obvious. Perhaps I'm far enough away not to be blinded by the smoke and mirrors.
By the way, this, if true, should be a bigger story
Gov. Romney should point out that Administration priority dictated that domestic policy advisor Valerie Jarrett gets a security detail (Secret Service) but Ambassador to Libya Stevens didn't.
Since garage is too lazy to provide any documentation, a Republican has to do his work for him. Here's the list he appears to have in mind:
Yemen, 2008: No American officials or embassy employees were killed or wounded
Serbia, 2008: A convoy of police officers firing tear gas was able to disperse the crowd.
Athens, 2007: An antitank grenade was fired into the heavily fortified American Embassy here just before dawn today. The building was empty...
Syria, 2006: Four armed men attacked the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, killing one Syrian security guard and wounding several people in what authorities said was an attempt by Islamic guerrillas to storm the diplomatic compound.
Saudi Arabia, 2004: Three of the attackers were killed. Five non-American employees were killed
Uzbekistan, 2004: Suicide bombers on Friday struck the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Uzbekistan, killing two local guards
Karachi, 2002: No Americans were among the dead, and only six of the injured were inside the consulate compound at the time of the blast
Number of US ambassadors killed: Zero.
Number of attempts by Bush to blame mobs incited by rogue videos: Zero.
Number of silly talking points from garage mahal: countably infinite.
And still phx wonders why people call garage silly names.
Issue #1 is of course covered under the rubric of "the President hving ultimate responsibility when anyone is killed, and it was on HIS watch!" But realistically, we assign reasonable levels of responsibility.
C4, I think it's more that. It's not just "wasn't responsible", it's Obama's willful blindness and utter disinterest in the facts on the ground. Those have led to the distorted priorities his appointees have imposed, top-down. They created, quite intentionally, an environment where reality was a distant second behind the President's campaign and the administration's party line.
This isn't the first major screw-up from this administration and certainly wouldn't be the last one. Whoever one thinks is responsible, it's obvious these problems aren't going to fix themselves with these same incompetent people in charge. Fortunately, we have a chance to change that next month.
Shanna said...
The funniest thing about that comment is that Tammy Wynette left George Jones because of his drinking and carousing, while Hillary is the one still 'standing by her man', at least on paper.
Darrell said...
Karachi, Pakistan June 15, 2002
Uzbekistan. July 31, 2004
Saudi Arabia.December 6, 2004
Syria.September 13, 2006
Athens January 12, 2007
Serbia February 21, 2008
Yemen. September 17, 2008
Those are newspaper dates, btw. The attacks may have happened the previous day. No US dead, although some local security people were killed. And strangely, only terrorists were blamed--not YouTube videographers. No false stories put out either. Imagine that--handled like adults were running the show.
So... over early six years, seven attacks... compared to, how many in under four?
I'm sure it is all Bush's fault though.
It is fascinating to see who actually doesn't give a shit about the deaths of our Ambassador and three other Americans.
We've got A Reasonable Man who considers it old news, not worth discussing anymore.
We've got garage mahal, who is trying every possible "But what about ____?" trick in the Democrat talking point book.
We've got the Obama administration, who was blaming a video 2 weeks after they knew it was a terrorist attack.
We've got Hillary Clinton, who stood by Stevens' casket and blamed his death on a video, then "took full responsibility" by blaming a subordinate.
We've got the New York Times, that doesn't consider it as newsworthy as Lance Armstrong doping allegations that have been going on for years...
Some people are actually bothered when Americans are killed, and would like to know why/how it happened, enforce accountability if bad decisions were made in what seems like an easily-stymied attack (after all, just 2 SEALs using personal arms seem to have held off a planned attack using heavy weapons for several hours), improve the decision-making process to diminish the possibility of it happening again, and dismantle the organization behind the attacks...not just lob a missile to kill a few of the foot soldiers involved.
That takes lots of discussion, investigation, consideration.
To repeat, it is very interesting to see who is disparaging that effort, and trying to stop it.
But I'll take the high road and not stoop to questioning motives for that...
Civil war in the Democrat Party 3 weeks before election.
I love it when a plan comes together.
And, to answer the Senators' original statement, when did they ever have it?
A Hell of a lot better.
And in none of them were the embassay's completely blown to bit as in East Africa in 1998.
Garagie was all upset about that one.
Really, he was.
It is also telling that in all the discussion of the actions of the various people in the Obama Administration, no one ever assumes that anyone in the Obama administration made a statement or took an action for the motivation of making the US safer or stronger.
It's always about political calculations.
Fascinating, isn't it?
Especially with all the attempts to imply closeness by calling Ambassador Stevens "Chris", it is interesting that accountability for his murder is clearly the last thing Obama, Clinton, Rice, et al, are thinking about.
Number of repeated attacks: Zero.
Number of requests for add'l security denied: None indicated, so Zero.
And in at least one of the attacks (Karachi), Marines were present (one was injured).
Give the Administration some credit, they were able to round up a Marine detail to act as pallbearers for Amb. Stevens.
Armed with blanks, of course. More than the local guards hired by that British security firm were allowed to have according to State Dept. directives.
James Pawlak said...
As Mr. Obama prefers perpetual campaigning, golf and basketball to attendance at Security Briefings, we should not be surprised at his (Or, is it "His") ignorance.
As he has done whatever he can to build up Islmmists, we should not be surprised at the removal of diplomatic security where there is proven danger.
We are in the midst of a huge recovery, though, according to some in the White House. I can't wait to see the vacations the next four years bring.
Fine, let's sum it all up:
Under Republicans: 3000 dead Americans in NYC.
Under Obama: 4 dead Americans in Libya.
What's the next question?
garage mahal said:
See? "But what about ____?!?"
The point of looking into and enforcing accountability is to ensure it doesn't happen again.
9/11/01 was unprecedented.
9/11/12 was not.
The investigation into 9/11/01 resulted in recommendations to prevent 9/11/12.
They didn't.
But garage mahal, you are one of the few who doesn't care why 9/11/12 wasn't prevented.
You don't seem to care about the deaths of Americans, as long as President Obama gets re-elected.
Why is that, garage?
Why is partisanship more important to you than the lives of Americans?
The next question is, What is the childhood trauma that gave you the strange compulsion to post inane internet comments?
Garage's point is that since embassies were attacked when GWB was president that it is fine for embassies to be attacked going forward. Have at it, seems to be GM's attitude since under no circumstance has this administration erred. Ever. Even once.
I'm saying Republicans do not care about embassy attacks. They obviously did not care when it happened when they were in charge. They care now because an election is around the corner. But please continue on pretending you do.
Apples and submarines.
Try again SFB
great stuff by Mickey Kaus:
…Note how Carney moves the goalposts on what Biden is denying: Biden said “We weren’t told they wanted more security.” What Carney denies is that a request for security was made to the President or White House. But of course Biden denied much more than that–he denied even knowing (or being “told”)about a request made to the State Department or any other agency;
Here's White House Press Secretary Carney's exact words:
"In over four hours of testimony, the testimony that you just referenced the other day, no one who testified about this matter suggested that requests for additional security were made to the President or the White House. These are issues appropriately that are handled by security professionals at the State Department."
Wow! Democrats are really good at lying!
clinton, bush, democrats, republicans -- we were all naive for believing the unthinkable would never happen before 9/11. but once it did, once we realized how far our enemies will go to attack us, there is no excuse for naivete. there is no excuse, after you spike the football about killing bin laden to believe there would be no blowback, no retaliation, especially in an area of the world al-queda has been gaining strength. bad things happen in this part of the world, but not to be prepared is inexcusable. to lie to the american people is inexcusable. that is why i feel betrayed. and if the president wasn't aware of what was going on as he says, then why not. what kind of national security team do we have? why was obama so unconcerned about the attack he went off to vegas as if nothing important had happened? bush wouldn't have done that. clinton wouldn't have done that.
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I had 2 big problems with the Olympics opening ceremony.
1. Phony nationalities: There were way too many "Olympians" who were there because they marched under a flag that was not, in fact, their home country, and these people seemed to be mostly Americans. It was really irritating to watch these people soaking up screen time under false pretenses. There are so many countries that lack winter sports. So what?! It's the Winter Olympics. Let it be what it is.
2. All those references to "Asia" in the script: The NBC announcers had a script to read as the dance/theater extravaganza unfolded, and for some reason, instead of telling us about how the various costumes, symbols, movements, and projections said something about Korea, they kept saying things like "and Asia," "and all over Asia," and "and Asian people in general." Why?! Asia's a big place, with culture and history that didn't take place in one united whole group (even though at one point we were told that Asians really believe in the importance of the group, and we were told that dancers, dancing together, prove what people can do if they work as a group (the implication being that individualism is non-Asian)). Was that South Korea's idea, some subtle way to include North Korea without saying it outright, or was this some NBC idiocy cooked up for Americans?
I haven't read any reviews yet, but now I will. I just want to see how much the 2 things that annoyed me annoyed the professional critics.
The AP article "What NBC talked about at Olympics opening ceremony, and what it didn’t" doesn't talk about my 2 problems but raises this one, which I'd forgotten:
We get that Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White are two of the biggest stars heading into the games, but even [NBC announcer Mike] Tirico seemed to get sick of NBC flashing pictures of them. “There’s Lindsey one more time,” he said. “Getting some major camera time and not shy about it.” She doesn’t own the cameras, Mike.
And AP raises something else I just didn't know about because it's about something we didn't hear about:NBC didn't mention it: "Two-time Olympic speedskating champion Shani Davis’ anger at losing a coin toss to determine the flag bearer for the United States, and his decision not to attend the opening ceremony." That links to a more detailed article, here:
Davis and luger Erin Hamlin tied 4-4 in voting by fellow athletes to carry the flag. Hamlin won the honor in a coin toss, a process the 35-year-old speedskater said was executed “dishonorably” in a post on his Twitter account. His tweet included a hashtag mentioning Black History Month, which raised the question of whether the five-time Olympian was suggesting that race played a role in the decision. Davis is black, Hamlin is white....
Davis has trained separately from his U.S. teammates for years, including the last two summers in South Korea. In a Feb. 6 blog post he wrote for TeamUSA.org, Davis explained that he chose to complete his pre-Olympic preparations in Germany while the U.S. team had its camp in Milwaukee.
He should be honored, under the circumstance, to have received as many votes as he did. What was going on there? And then he complains about losing a coin toss. That's got to be the ultimate in poor sportsmanship.
Here's the NYT analysis, "Winter Olympics 2018 Opening Ceremony: Highlights and Analysis":
Vice President Mike Pence waved at the huge American contingent — at 242 it is the largest for any country at any Winter Games. The United States also got the chance to walk out to “Gangnam Style,” by far the most successful Korean pop song ever.
I enjoyed hearing "Gangnam Style," but thought it was politically incorrect to be playing the words "Hey, sexy lady" as athletes marched.
USA Today leans on social media with "What viewers thought of the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony." This lamely collects mentions of "Tongan shirtless guy," which is almost a gesture at my problem #1. Now, I've got to give this post my "MSM reports what's in social media" tag.
Deadline Hollywood has "Olympics Opening Ceremony: Katie Couric & Mike Tirico Prove Gold For NBC," which gets a close to seeing my problem #2:
[NBC Olympics contributor Joshua Cooper] Ramo seemed intent on delivering the pummeling gravitas that characterized the worst aspects of Bob Costas’ long Olympic commentator reign. Dropping generic Otto von Bismarck and cul-de-sac explanations of Korean and Asian culture, Ramos seemed to be striving for purpose most of the night. Answering a question from Couric early on about the significance of the joint Koreas entrance at the Opening Ceremony, his response of “It’s going to be one of these unforgettable, electric, historical moments. But what we honestly don’t know yet is why it’s historic” was more pabulum than political insight.
Here's Variety, "The Opening Ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games Finds Poetry Amid the Politics." The critic here, Maureen Ryan, sees something of the "Asian" problem that bothered me:
As athletes excitedly entered the stadium, Tirico, Couric and analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo offered tidbits about the histories of individuals or nations, and not all of those factoids were upbeat. As they bantered, they didn’t step on each other and they shared a polite, calm liveliness, but I did get tired of the endless generalities from Ramo about what constituted “Asian” culture, which felt about as deep as a Wikipedia entry.
I didn't mention the costumes, but here's "Ranking every piece of Team USA’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony outfit," putting the bandana in 8th (last) place and the gloves in 7th. I loved the gloves, which I associated with cowboys, but this article says they were "very close to crossing the line between being 'inspired by' traditional Native American clothing and completely crossing over into cultural appropriation." And I see the jacket's self-heating technology is the kind they put in car seats. I could use that, but I don't think I'd like it in my jacket alone. If it weren't also in my shoes and mittens, I think I'd end up colder and, simultaneously, hotter.
Tags: cultural appropriation, diversity politics, gloves, Korea, MSM reports what's in social media, Olympics, TV
Triangle Man said...
Asia? Shocking orientalism from the marxist NBC.
When the athletes decided to make it a platform for Trump bashing, it went the way of Facebook for me. I might watch women's curling though.
Quayle said...
That fact that there still is a Korea, given that the Korean peninsula sits between China and Japan - that fact that Korea hasn't been totally swallowed over the centuries - should be a clue as to how they view themselves and how much they don't have in common.
And regarding the Olympics, let's face it. The old formulas for covering these things are getting beyond threadbare. I call it Katie Couric kitsch.
Big Mike said...
Of course they gave Vonn a lot of attention. She posed for “Sports Illustrated” wearing just a thin coat of body paint. Do I think she enjoys attention? Does the brown bear ...
exhelodrvr1 said...
Is it supposed to be for the joy of the competition, or for representing a country? I think in theory, the former, but over the years it has become the latter.
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
I think maybe I'd watch that sort of crap if Jason Kelce were one of the announcers.
Kassaar said...
Maureen Ryan doesn’t know a thing about Wikipedia. To take just one example, here is a link to the article about Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Recommended if you think Wikipedia is superficial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Hagar said...
It's a made for TV spectacular. What did you expect?
BudBrown said...
Thing I'm still wondering about is the long stair climb the two torch bearers made.
I wonder if the golfer could have made that climb.
Earnest Prole said...
NBC repurposes an athletic competition into a least-common-denominator product it can sell to those who don’t actually like sports. It reminds me why I haven’t owned a television for nearly twenty years.
How long until we get to the agony of defeat? Or, did we have it already with the coin toss? I think we did.
While not one of your top two issues, I agree completely with your observation NBC directors and producers seem to believe there are only two athletes on the US team worth broadcasting.
I would also add the self-righteous approach of a scandal-plagued Olympic Committee, who banned Russia but is allowing their athletes to compete under s the Olympic banner. Then using the ceremony to lecture everyone on the need to complete without the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
There was a time when only amatures were allowed to compete, the USSR gamed that requirement for years, until the Olympic committee finally changed the rules to level the playing field.
I wonder, what will give way first the dopping used in sports or the Olympic committee's condemnation? After all they want to get the best athletes for their stage and make a lot of money in the process.
Humperdink said...
Hamlin won the honor in a coin toss, a process the 35-year-old speedskater said was executed “dishonorably” in a post on his Twitter account. His tweet included a hashtag mentioning Black History Month, which raised the question of whether the five-time Olympian was suggesting that race played a role in the decision. Davis is black, Hamlin is white...."
One commenter suggested a 2 out of 3 coin toss to get the desired outcome. Or best of 5 if that fails.
Competitive golfers walk several miles each day of o tournament. I think that they could make the climb. Yeesh!
The North Korean effort at a minor and probably fake rapprochement during the Olympics has been brilliant statecraft. People get all gooey and hopeful while ignoring the huge and obvious story. That story is the vast difference between North and South Korea, the economic success and relative freedom of the south vs. the poverty, malnourishment and immense state brutality of the north. That story gets submerged at a time it should be broadcast to a complacent world. Well played, Norkos.
No Russian hockey team? What's the point?
Maureen Ryan doesn’t know a thing about Wikipedia.
Indeed. The remarkable thing about Wikipedia is how much of it is outstanding. One of the great success stories of the internet age.
And to the best of my knowledge, fringed and decorated gauntlets, which are the inspiration for the USA gloves, were first used by American cowboys. I believe that Indians (as they call themselves when not speaking in their native languages) used mittens. You’d think someone would research costuming before commenting on ... costuming.
[Shani Davis] should be honored, under the circumstance, to have received as many votes as he did. What was going on there? And then he complains about losing a coin toss.
He was expecting the same coin tosser who did so well for Hillary back in the Iowa caucuses.
PB said...
If Shani Davis wants to be on the US Olympic Team, he should be part of team activities. If he elects not to be part of team activities, he should be dropped from the team.
retail lawyer said...
The "Asia" references are just a stage in the overall development of identity politics in America. I first noticed this a few years ago when a Japanese lawyer I was working with was professing some sort of vague solidarity with "Asians".
But don't all non-Japanese Asians hate Japanese?, I asked.
Well, if they're in America, all Asians can bond over their mutual issues with White people. See how that works?
I channel-surfed by as the Americans entered among the Ms, so I lingered a moment. The gloves were my favorite costume part and the most distinctively American in style; screw the offense mongers.
PS, every time I begin to hope Couric’s career is really quite sincerely dead . . .
MountainMan said...
Won’t be watching. Didn’t watch Brazil Olympics either. My Facebook feed this morning was nothing but rants from progressive friends about something involving Mike Pence.
I don't even wish I cared about the Olympics, Especially the winter.
Lloyd W. Robertson said...
"Asian" reminds me of a Margaret Cho story. Years ago she was the star of a sitcom, "All American Girl." Weirdly, the wholesome family in the show was obviously of various different Asian backgrounds--South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, and Margaret whose parents were Korean. How they made up a family was never explained. The business people kept congratulating Margaret for representing Asian people on TV, and of course they were flattering themselves for being so progressive. She finally said something like: "Listen assholes. Asia is a huge part of the world, with many different people. May parents came from Korea, a very specific place."
Sometimes it seems we will all regard diversity as a great thing as long as it turns out be a celebration of a kind of monotonous sameness--something you'd associate with Disney.
I didn’t watch—I’ve got better things to do with my time, and that’s coming from someone who watches Judge Judy reruns—but I still remember with amazement and disgust NBC’s commentary during the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. They inserted every phrase from the Wikipedia article on China in the most glaringly inappropriate contexts. Let me paraphrase. “It’s been a long march for these athletes to the 2008 Olympics. They’re hoping to make a great leap forward to win gold.” The Great Leap Forward resulted in between 18 and 55 million deaths.
Did Native Americans wear gloves?
I would also add the self-righteous approach of a scandal-plagued Olympic Committee, who banned Russia but is allowing their athletes to compete under s the Olympic banner.
Yeah, this bothers me and it's why it feels political to me.
Why ban the whole team, and then let so many back in? It feels like a way to punish Putin on our behalf....because we pay so much for the tv rights.
Test the athletes and punish the ones that cheat. Get rid of the coaches that perpetrate cheating. US teams weren't kicked out of the Tour de France after our riders were caught cheating. Why should the whole Russian team pay a price?
Indians did not wear gloves and cowboys did, and I can prove it --
@Maybee, go read my comment at 7:04.
Thanks, Big Mike.
And to the best of my knowledge, fringed and decorated gauntlets, which are the inspiration for the USA gloves, were first used by American cowboys.
If you count Buffalo Bill as a "cowboy."
"Cow-boy" incidentally, is a derogatory term for the rough elements of small-time rustlers and horse thieves typified by Billy the Kid and his "Regulators, "the McLawrys, etc.
The preferred term for men working cattle is cowhand.
mockturtle said...
Americans competing under other flags? Yeah, that sucks. And an amazingly high number of foreign athletes do ALL their training here in the US. We're a generous folk.
Ski jumping on live right now. One of my favorite events.
This page: http://www.forttumbleweed.net/nativebeadwork.html
Has 1870s beaded gloves for sale and says:
19th Century Beaded Leather Gauntlets
In the 1870's, Native American artists began adding beadwork to Euroamerican leather gloves. These beautifully-beaded gauntlets were worn in both Indian and non-Indian communities. By the late 19th century, beaded gauntlets gloves were necessary components of the western cowboys' fancy dress wardrobe and quickly became favorites of eastern "dudes" who kept them as souvenirs of their western adventures.
Europeans brought gloves to America, Native Americans added the beads. A blending of culture.
Vonn and Davis know that rude or controversial behavior will get them the publicity they crave.
John Lynch said...
I was darkly entertained by the need to bring up whatever horrible history each country had. Puerto Rico's hurricane, Bosnia's civil war, etc.
bgates said...
they marched under a flag that was not, in fact, their home country, and these people seemed to be mostly Americans
I've been assured that there's nobody more American than the people who selfishly, cynically, and temporarily wave the flag of a country they don't really view as their home if it benefits them personally.
Oh, for shame. Suggesting a three-fifths compromise - and during Black History Month, no less.
steve uhr said...
Any talk about what would happen to the family of a NK Olympian if they defected. Or if they fail to live up to expectations. Or whether they have any choice in the decision to become elite athletes if they show talent at an early age? Or how they are under constant watch and not allowed to mingle with the other athletes?
Clyde said...
The coin was racist!
steve Uhr- yeah, I've wondered the same thing about the N Korean athletes. It seems to me any country that has been caught beating its athletes or torturing their families back home should be the ones not allowed to have a team in the Olympics.
ISTM the two Koreas marching together has been a huge PR coup for Kim Jung Un.
chuckR said...
Cultural appropriation? The Koreans have culturally appropriated the hell out of television hardware, with their inexpensive 4K flat panels. What would Philo Farnsworth think? Probably 'more power to them'. Regrettably, what is shown on those TVs isn't nearly as excellent as the hardware.
Don't like the gloves? Maybe the US contingent should have recognized the on-going state of war in Korea by wearing the old fashioned olive drab canvas US mil surp mitts with a separate trigger finger.
Fernandistein said...
I was boycotting the Olympics until they allowed badminton and now I'm boycotting the Olympics until they allow tiddly-winks.
Birches said...
I got so bored during the parade of nations. Stopped watching.
exiledonmainstreet said...
steve Uhr- yeah, I've wondered the same thing about the N Korean athletes. It seems to me any country that has been caught beating its athletes or torturing their families back home should be the ones not allowed to have a team in the Olympics."
Saddam Hussein's vile spawn used to punish Iraqi soccer players who did not perform well abroad by making them kick concrete soccer balls with their bare feet.
Inga said...
Pence and wife couldn’t muster the decency to stand like everyone else when the Korean team entered the stadium. What a petty ignorant thing to do. How does this help American/Korean diplomacy?
CWJ said...
David and MayBee,
I respectfully disagree as to which Korea profits most from the joint team. A large team of cheerlears aside, it's painfully obvious that the South is carrying the North in this "joint" effort. The propaganda will be what it always has been, but it's more dangerous for the NORKs for even a couple of hundred of their people to see some of the rest of Korea than the other way around.
I'm okay with Pence not standing. If anything it give a flicker of hope to the NK athletes that somebody in the rest of the world gives a damn about their plight
Also, I miss Bob Costas compared to this crew. He at least delivered his lines in a more relaxed way. You almost felt that he was recalling his "fun facts" from his own memory, or at worst a stack of hand written note cards, rather than a teleprompter. This crew was so tightly scripted that you felt you were watching the Rose Bowl parade. Couric could have been replaced by a block of wood.
In that picture, the oritgnal Tanto does look amazingly like Johnny Depp.
but it's more dangerous for the NORKs for even a couple of hundred of their people to see some of the rest of Korea than the other way around.
CWJ- I'm supposing those Olympic athletes are never allowed to mingle with regular N Koreans again. Not without a minder, at least.
As to "Asia," I'll just note that Israelis are Asians too.
Inga said: "Pence and wife couldn’t muster the decency to stand like everyone else when the Korean team entered the stadium. What a petty ignorant thing to do. How does this help American/Korean diplomacy?"
Maybe he was channeling Nancy Pelosi from Trump's State of the Union address. You might ask: "How did sitting on her hands help Republican/Democrat bipartisanship?". Pretty ignorant thing to do, would you not agree? And it wasn't just one congresswoman, it was the entire Democrat caucus, save Joe Manchin, who's up for re-election. Bless his heart.
MayBee,
Athletes, cheerleaders, drivers, the minders on this trip, etc., and all their friends and relations back home. Word will seep out, and more effectively than any amount of propaganda broadcast into the North. In any contact between the two Koreas, the risk will always be greater for the North.
He should be honored, under the circumstance, to have received as many votes as he did. What was going on there?
We design our entire sociological framework as redressing victimhood but the honored victims entitlement comes as a surprise? How? Or did you not understand his expectation is linked to race and his expectation everyone should offer race preferences as all people and institutions he is familiar with do?
In case you think this is some minority view (ha!) recall Obama's pitch for the Chicago Olympics which could be summarized as "America deserves the Olympics, after all it elected a black President!".
These North Korean cheerleaders are super creepy.
Having the summer Olympics in Chicago would have been a real treat. Once the gunfire started in the shooting sports, return fire would probably be heard throughout the city.
TwilightofLiberty.com said...
I saw 'I, Tonya' last weekend. It was quite good. The bloom for the Olympics has been off the rose for me for a while, and to be expected to give a shit about famous 1-percenters like White and Vonn and angry homos like the skier and skater is too much.
Also, NBC's intro was barf-inducing.
Getting old sucks. You can't enjoy anything anymore.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
We shall see. They've participated in prior Olympics and marched with S Korea in 2000, 2004, and 2006. Not much changed then. I guess N Korea even backslid, having tested nukes after that.
Angry homos sounds like good entertainment.
Leave Pablum alone. It’s good for you.
A MAJOR problem with the Olympics and NBC's perennial awful unwatchable coverage -- the U.S. has basically adopted all of the bad aspects that we used to condemn in the East Germans and Soviets.
"Pence and wife couldn’t muster the decency..."
Pence and wife were there with the parents of Otto Warmbier. There are various possible calculations of decency. If you were sitting with the parents of Otto Warmbier, when the Koreans marched together, would you stand, sit, or take a knee?
I know, Pence rigged the scene by bringing parents of Otto Warmbier as props. Why were they there? Isn't their existence — in Korea, where their son suffered — indecent? Why couldn't they muster the decency to stay home?
Just a few decency-mustering questions to keep you from devolving into a blob of Pence-deploring.
Watched the livestream of the 5AM live simulcast via Chromecast and the NBC app (acailable to rewatch today).
No editing, no commentators, no huge focus on shirtless dude .... and nothing cut.
Half an hour shorter than the primetime show, lacks ads, and far more Korean seeming than the Americanized Primetime product which we turned off not halfway thru.
WK said...
Shani Davis seems to be following the “Carl Lewis Guide to Olympic Endorsement Opportunities”.
Listening to Katie Couric during the opening ceremonies made me think I was watching the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade.
My 17 year old son suggested that we google Katie’s commentary to determine if it was factual.
Yes and who knows?
Blobs of Trump and Pence worship seems indecent as well. Sickens me.
Katie Couric & Mike Tirico Prove Gold For NBC,"
I only saw about ten minutes, which was more than enough for me wishing I was back in Michigan where I could get Olympic coverage from Canadian TV.
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...
Deadline Hollywood: Answering a question from Couric early on about the significance of the joint Koreas entrance at the Opening Ceremony, his response of “It’s going to be one of these unforgettable, electric, historical moments.
There are two phrases in search of a verb.
Snot spad trite justice people sait.
Writing need not be more grammatically disciplined than spoken language. It is not so bad to write just as people say it.
If Otto Warmbier’s parents wouldn’t have been used in that fashion, Pence could’ve represented our country as an American Vice President should. What an awful thing to do, bringing the parents.
From the time I did watch, I wondered how Puerto Rico is now its own nation.
ken in tx said...
I don't know how much of NBC's commentary was just made up stuff, but what was said about the meaning of the word 'Migook' does not match what I was told by Korean friends when I lived there for two years. Migook is what they call Americans or America. Gook is the Korean word for people. They call themselves Hangook, People of the Han River. I was told that Migook meant Brother People, not Beautiful Country as NBC said.
Also, The Republic of China (Taiwan) marched under a fake name(Chinese Taipei) and a fake flag. There was not just Americans going fake.
Watching opening or closing ceremonies are analogous to watching a football halftime show. Not my cup of coffee.
Because they would have stood up the Koreans if they had stood. They were right next to the Korean delegations. And it was the Koreans' moment, not the U.S.'s or Pence's. He did the right thing in letting them have their moment and humbly keeping in the background.
Mark notes, rhetorically: From the time I did watch, I wondered how Puerto Rico is now its own nation.
Yeah, they're a nation when it suits them. When they need help, they're a 'US Territory'.
Just for clarity -- we now have two "Marks" commenting at the same time.
JaimeRoberto said...
A couple decades ago I used to sail against a couple of guys who represented Taiwan in the Olympics because their dad was from there. I was always kind of envious that they were able to do that.
My daughter competes in gymnastics, but unless some kind of miracle happens, she'll never be at a level to compete for the US. She has dual citizenship from my wife's home country, which isn't very strong in gymnastics. I suggested she try out for their team instead. She said, "Yeah, I could, but that wouldn't really be earning it." I think she'll turn out ok.
Sickens me.
Yeah, I’ve thought for some time that you were one sick individual.
I don’t understand where a person with at least a nominal level of intelligence would conflate support — and often qualified support at that — for Trump’s policies with Trump “worship.” Between the summer of 2008 and January 2017 I witnessed many signs of Obama worship. What I mostly see are folks who are happy that someone was elected president, no matter how flawed, who actually cares about Americans.
Yancey Ward said...
The Atlanta Olympics was probably the last Olympics I watched comprehensively, and the Calgary Winter Games was the last Winter games I watched at all. I have long believed that there should be no flags allowed in the games- period. If you want me as a viewer, you get rid of the studio with Bob Costas or whatever shit sack has taken his place pontificating for hours on end. Show me an event- any fucking event- beginning to end, and I will watch. I love watching competition- even those with high subjectivity scoring systems, but NBC has a difficult time doing that, so I don't watch any longer.
It was really irritating to watch these people soaking up screen time under false pretenses.
Thank you for pointing this out. I actually burst out laughing when team Madagascar entered the stadium.
@JaimeRoberto, good for your daughter.
What was much more satisfying was watching clips on YouTube of America's Sweetheart Dorothy Hamill at Innsbruck in 1976.
And the Olympics have never been the same since NBC took over from ABC. Jim McKay will always be the face of Olympic coverage.
ken in tx-
Beautiful Country as NBC said.
I didn't see it, but "Beautiful Country" is how "America" is translated in Chinese. Mei Guo.
It's used because it sound like "America, and not necessarily because they think we have a beautiful country.
Ken B said...
I'd like to see Davis booted from the event. Some politicians are trying to make a "resistance" here.
Oh, and according to the internet, that is what the Korean mee-gook is based on- the Chinese name for America.
But perhaps "gook" means national more than nation in Korean.
Sam L. said...
Would it have been SEXXXXXIST if the woman had lost the coin toss?
As I understand it, Otto Warmbier's parents are activists for the freedom of the North Korean people. Which is beautiful of them.
Pence was seated directly in front of Kim Jung Un's sister. Of course he wasn't going to stand. Come on, people.
Also, let's not imagine we are the only country who has leaders making politically fraught decisions in these Olympics.
This from the South China Morning Post : http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2132790/why-abe-risking-japanese-backlash-over-pyongyang-olympics
Says just over 50% of the Japanese people agree with Abe even attending the games, and Japanese activists whose families were abducted by N Korea are especially unhappy.
Just be glad you live in a country where you can (still) express your opinion disagreeing with the leadership.
Katie Couric seems to have an odd fixation on indigenous Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, who retired from track in 2003. She mentioned her at least twice at various points.
What an awful thing to do, bringing the parents.
Were they forced to do it? Or did they do it of their own free will to remind people who want to forget just how evil the North Korean regime is?
No surprise that you insult the parents of a young man who was horribly murdered by the North Koreans by implying they are stooges. No surprise that you're more upset at Pence than at totalitarians who starve and torture their unfortunate people.
Mark said: "A MAJOR problem with the Olympics and NBC's perennial awful unwatchable coverage"
One of the main reasons I no longer watch the Olympics. I grew up watching the Olympics with ABC Sports and Jim McKay, who was the voice of the Olympics. No one since has equaled the coverage that he and the rest of the ABC sports crew provided. The coverage he gave during the terrorist incident at the 1972 Olympics in Munich is unforgettable.
I recall in particular the awful NBC coverage of the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. That was the first year that women's soccer was included and the great team that America had was heavily favored to win the gold, and did. But NBC almost completely ignored it. On the evening the final was played, they did not broadcast it, they showed a taped replay of a men's cycling race from earlier in the day. I learned later the reason they ignored it was because ABC was known at the time as the US network mainly promoting broadcast soccer and they didn't want to promote a sport associated with a rival network. That's an example of what a sorry operation they are.
Also, the IOC is as corrupt as the UN and FIFA and no more deserving of respect than they are. I can easily find better things to do with my time for the next couple of weeks.
The sickness I see here among you folks is the absolute support that Trump is given, despite the shit show that we see every day in the White House. The excuses, the white washing of his words to mean things less outrageous, the mischaracterization of his words as mere humor, the ignorance the policies he’s pushing through under your noses, smacks of cultism and yes, even worship. The self deception that he cares about America, the effort it must require of your psyche to mold him into something admirable in your eyes. Your unwavering support is not normal, but we’re not living in normal times.
Ugh, and yes, it’s sickening. I feel like Althouse does when she comments on Facebook, soiled.
“I feel so clean and fresh!!” Althouse, after day 2 of staying off Facebook.
I’m thinking it’s time for me to take Althouse’s lead and stay away from a place that’s not uplifting in any way, shape of form anymore. Even the most benign blogpost gets tainted by Trump worship. It’s not a healthy place, too many nuts and bolts, too many conspiracy theories and people who can no longer recognize the truth. This place isn’t for me, nor for any liberal with a sense of decency, it probably never was, but it’s become ever so much worse than it ever was before. I’ll make a comment when the Mueller investigation is over and Trump is impeached.
Time to renew and cleanse myself. I’ve had my fill of your Trumpism. It’s a sickness of the spirit and it’s making me come away from here feeling ill and demoralized. Life is too short to feel that way.
the ignorance the policies he’s pushing through under your noses,
To me, this is the absolutely least offensive thing about him.
As part of that cleansing, you might come clean as to who you really are, because you are certainly not the original AllieOop.
Does this mean you're leaving? Don't get my hopes up...
Jim McKay will always be the face of Olympic coverage.
Wasn't it McKay who did the 'up close and personal' segments? I hated those. More events, less talk please.
We used to get Canadian TV and they were a little better about showing more athletes and less BS.
The Cracker Emcee Activist said...
"If Otto Warmbier’s parents wouldn’t have been used in that fashion, Pence could’ve represented our country as an American Vice President should. What an awful thing to do, bringing the parents."
Wow, and here I thought ARM's MS-13 equivocation was the most craven thing I've read on the Internet. This is taking the whole "no enemies to our left" thing a bit far. But your eager support of the North Korean slave state is duly noted.
If Asians don't get antsy, no issues. See how that works? That would have been my response.
We were flying to Hong Kong for vacay. The longest part of the flight was to Seoul. A lot of armed forces going there. But I'm sleeping, hubby's walking and he starts chatting with another passenger. So OF COURSE it turns into a bash America session and we wouldn't have all these problems, yada yada, and hubby ended the conversation with, " That's because you don't let anyone in."
I was reading an article on "Asians" rioting in France or England a few years ago and thought Asians don't riot.
That "Asian" term covered a lot of ground. Religious ground, too.
Couric looked like she had bad Botox or the leftover of a stroke affecting her mouth.
I loved the gloves!
The 70s is back and fringe is in again.
Ooh little Kimmeee invited the SorK pres to visit.
I wondered if the Olympics was being shown in North Korea and the NirK population was having a Rusdian they own cars moment?
Fancy heavily-edited camerawork will be required to not show the vast wealth of the South.
WA-mom said...
I love how the gloves were made in Gloversville, NY. If that's not Americana, what is?! “The bison are raised in the U.S., the meat is sold in the U.S., the skins are tanned in the U.S., and the gloves are made in the U.S.”
We didn't get peace in 2006 when they did it, we will try again.RME
The sister saw nothing, NOTHING!
Obama policy: I pay more for worse healthcare coverage (while still employed)
Trump policy: I get a $2500 tax break (important for a retiree, “crumbs” according to Dumbocrats)
Gahrie said...
I bet you would have suggested keeping Jessie Owens off the 1936 Olympic team....
Trump has to be impeached Inga. It's revenge time. For Clinton, for winning, for exposure, for the deplorables saying FU. You think we don't know what's going on? Lolol
If Otto Warmbier’s parents wouldn’t have been used in that fashion,....
The parents had a message to send to the world, and that platform allowed it so they used it.
@Gahrie, Owens was allowed to compete, but several American athletes who were Jewish were not permitted to compete in the Berlin Olympics. Avery Brundage was cool with that, of course.
Who came on this post and started getting political, Inga? There was a vague reference to Trump bashing by athletes and liberals being upset by Pence but then you came out guns blazing. As far as I can see, no one even mentioned Trump positively before your comment and even after people are discussing North Korea and Pence, not Trump.
If seeing people comment about the Olympics makes you angry maybe you should go.
Owens was allowed to compete, but several American athletes who were Jewish were not permitted to compete in the Berlin Olympics.
The only two Jewish athletes not allowed to compete were two members of the men's sprint relay team. They finished fifth and sixth at the Olympic trials, but were scheduled to run on the relay teams in Berlin. At the last moment they were both replaced by Black athletes...including Jessie Owens. The two Black athletes both finished ahead of the two Jewish athletes at the Olympic trials, and the sprint teams did set world records.
However, like you, I do think there was anti-Semitism involved.
Jupiter said...
"I enjoyed hearing "Gangnam Style," but thought it was politically incorrect to be playing the words "Hey, sexy lady" as athletes marched."
I am hard pressed to think of any context in which "Hey, sexy lady" is not politically incorrect.
Jim at said...
Nobody tell Shani Davis he's going to be skating on white ice.
#whiteicematters
Inga said ....
"I’ve had my fill of your Trumpism. It’s a sickness of the spirit and it’s making me come away from here feeling ill and demoralized. Life is too short to feel that way."
Trump, Igna. Trump, Trump, Trumpety-Trump TRUMP!
Pence and wife couldn’t muster the decency to stand like everyone else when the Korean team entered the stadium. - Inga
Did they kneel?
Consider who you're trying to reason with.
Even the most benign blogpost gets tainted by Trump worship.i
You're the snarling bitch who started blasting Pence on a thread about the Olympics.
And yet you constantly complain about the content of the threads.
If you hate it so bad, leave. Go peddle your shit somewhere else.
buwaya said...
The Philippines is a minor culprit in the tropical countries sending in ringers scam.
But these days they have an actual homegrown competitor, Michael Christian Martinez, who is native born and home-grown, starting figure skating at Philippine skating rinks (yes they have them). He did spend plenty of time training in the US, with US coaches, but thats acceptable I think.
pacwest said...
With the news about the 'investigations' taking a very negative turn against the Dems and LLRs, it would be a normal reaction for the Ingas to start spitting and clawing. It has to be very depressing. It will take a long time to come to grips with the final outcome (assuming she doesn't go into a complete denial).
This won't be pleasant. At least Inga has had some exposure to what is really happening by spending time here. The echo chamber babies are going to be the hard cases. I can only hope that President Trump will make an effort to heal some of them after the truth is out. I know I'm not that big of a person.
Color diversity for social progress and athletic gerrymandering.
@Gahrie, the man who finished second to Owens in the 100 in Berlin was Ralph Metcalfe, who went on to be a distinguished congressman from Illinois in the 1970s. I saw him in a TV special decades ago where he claimed he hit the tape even with Owens but under the rules then in effect the tie went to whomever got the rest of the body across the line — and Owens had a smaller ass. He was laughing as he told the story, so who knows if it’s even true? FWIW Owens was credited with 10.3 and Metcalfe with 10.4.
C R Krieger said...
I like the Professor's note about Americans on the teams of other nations. The prime, for me, is people from Puerto Rico competing, not as Americans, but as Puerto Ricans. If Californians or New Yorkers did that we would cry foul. I think the only solution is to fix up the Island to restore it after the Hurricane Damage and then cut it loose as an independent nation, with an option to apply for Statehood as a 51st State in the United States of America, some five years in the future.
Regards — Cliff
with an option to apply for Statehood as a 51st State in the United States of America, some five years in the future.
Only if we cut California or Hawaii loose first.
I think the only solution is to fix up the Island to restore it after the Hurricane Damage and then cut it loose as an independent nation, with an option to apply for Statehood as a 51st State in the United States of America, some five years in the future.
Puerto Rico holds regular referendums on their status: statehood, independence or the status quo. Status quo always wins.
chickelit said...
[Davis]' s tweet included a hashtag mentioning Black History Month, which raised the question of whether the five-time Olympian was suggesting that race played a role in the decision. Davis is black, Hamlin is white....
Sorry, but Black Histrionics Month is not international.
I was born in Panama Canal Zone but my American parents left with me when I was six months old. I am now seventy six and I see how the game is played. I know where there is an old Flexible Flyer sled. A little steel wool, paint and duct tape, plus some finagling with the authorities — whoever they are, and you can watch for me at the next Olympic Games. I will be waving a Panamanian flag competing in that thing where the slide down hill on their back, feet first. My only concern is whatever the hell am I going to do with all the prophylactics they give to Olympians
SY said...
I think I can offer a little bit of explanation for the "Asian" reference instead of "Korea" or "South Korea."
The fact is that a lot of the symbols and cultures of Korea are deeply rooted in East Asian culture in general with a lot of them originated from China, e.g. the white tiger. They are not uniquely Korean. In fact, some Chinese got a bit offended seeing all the "Chinese" culture symbols used in the opening ceremony thinking the Koreans "stole" the Chinese culture. But what is Chinese culture? It's a mix of the cultures of Chinese, Korean, Japan, Mongolian and others. Personally I think these arguments are quite immature (it's all a mix! Just like East Asian people! Many Koreans have Chinese/Japanese blood and Chinese living in the Northeastern region definitely have Korean/Japanese blood).
But then, I do hear native Americans and black people in America complain about white people's appropriation of their culture. So maybe these things are important to some people.
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Somerston Vineyards May 2015 - Present
Vineyard, Wine, Sustainability, Wineries, Viticulture, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Sensory Evaluation, Agronomy, Integrated Pest...
Patrick Viera
Senior Account Executive at IHS Engineering360 Media Solutions
B.A., Sociology
IHS Engineering360 Media Solutions February 2014 - Present
UBM Tech January 2013 - December 2013
MIT Technology Review August 2008 - July 2012
MIT Technology Review August 2005 - August 2008
DevX (a subsidiary of JupiterMedia) June 2004 - July 2005
Jupitermedia April 1999 - June 2004
Consultative Sales, Online Advertising, Social Media, Mobile Advertising, Webcast & White Paper..., Email Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Digital Strategy, Digital Marketing, Web Analytics, Online Metrics & Market..., Account Management, RFP Process, Deal Negotiation, Ad Serving Technology, Consultants, Webcasting, Market Analysis, Lead Generation, Negotiation, Digital Media, Direct Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Ad Serving, Product Marketing, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Advertising Sales, DoubleClick, Mobile Marketing, Online Marketing, New Media, Advertising, Marketing Strategy, B2B Marketing, Sales Process, Interactive Advertising, Salesforce.com, Strategy, SEM, Sales, Sales Operations, Selling, Ad Networks, Rich Media, PPC, RFP
Patrick Waterman, MBA
Management Associate at Citibank. N.A.
Asian Institute of Management 2012 — 2013
MBA, Master in Business Administration
Bachelor's degree, International Business and Political Science
Jesuit High School (College Preperatory) 2002 — 2006
St. Ignatius
Citibank, N.A. April 2014 - Present
US-ASEAN Business Council February 2013 - September 2013
US-ASEAN Business Council August 2010 - September 2012
US-ASEAN Business Council August 2010 - July 2011
Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines 2009 - 2009
Management, Research, Analysis, Project Management, Business Development, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Marketing, SQL, R, ASEAN
Patrick Lyon
Business Analyst at ZS Associates
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, High Honors
ZS Associates August 2014 - Present
UC Davis Police Department September 2010 - August 2013
UC Davis Health System October 2012 - April 2013
Stanford University School of Medicine June 2012 - September 2012
Leadership, ImageJ, Protein Purification, Tissue Engineering, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Technology Management, Protein Chemistry, Microsoft Office, Data Analysis, Scientific Presentation, Cell Biology, Tissue Culture, Biomaterials, Sales Analytics, Tableau, Public Speaking, Matlab, Biomedical Device Design, Forecasting, SAS Programming, VBA, Predictive Modeling, Teradata, SQL, Qlik Sense
Patrick Lo
Software Developer at Banjo
App Academy 2014 — 2015
Bachelor of Arts, English, Communications
Banjo May 2015 - Present
Deem, Inc. June 2013 - June 2014
SwimOutlet.com April 2010 - June 2013
ESPN Truehoop Network, Warriorsworld.net February 2011 - April 2011
Grapevine Independent November 2009 - April 2010
Green Street Journal, gsjournal.com October 2009 - April 2010
UC Davis, Campus Recreation September 2008 - April 2010
JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, SQL, Object Oriented Design, MVC Architecture, jQuery, CSS, ActiveRecord, HTML, HTML5, RSpec, PostgreSQL, Git, Canvas, Web Analytics, Test Driven Development, Python, Content Management, Excel, Outlook, Copywriting, SEO copywriting, Marketing, CMS, Copy Editing, Blogging, Google Adwords, Microsoft Office, Writing, Social Media Marketing, Proofreading, WordPress, PowerPoint, Journalism, Web Content Management, Email Marketing, Microsoft Excel, Google Analytics, Marketing Communications, Newsletters, Web Content, Facebook, Content Strategy, Social Networking, JIRA, Editing
Pat Sewall
MS, Computing Science
University of Iowa 1976 — 1979
Sewall, LLC April 2014 - Present
Uceem, Inc 2012 - April 2014
CradlePoint, Inc. 2004 - 2012
Always On Wireless 2003 - 2004
RidgeRun, Inc May 2000 - July 2002
Hewlett-Packard 1979 - 1989
Patrice M. Siefers
Siefers Consulting
Women's Transportation Seminar Leadership 2010 — 2010
Management Training, Organizational Leadership
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government 1990 — 1991
Master's degree, Public Administration
Certificate, Transit Managerial Effectivenss
Marshall Fund, Council for International Urban Liaison 1982 — 1982
Mass Transit Innovations in France Study Toure, Mass Transit Planning and Operations, High Speed Train service planning
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Planning and Management
Senior Level October 2009 - Present
Amtrak 2011 - 2012
City and County of San Francisco 2006 - 2009
Private Consultants 1998 - 2006
Sonoma County Transportation Authority 2003 - 2005
Transportation Agency for Monterey County 1991 - 1998
City of Seaside 1987 - 1990
Monterey-Salinas Transit 1983 - 1987
Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments 1979 - 1983
Urban Planning, Policy, Service Planning, Regional Planning, Transportation, Rail, Environmental, Transportation Planning, Public Speaking, Planning, Microsoft Office, Program Management, Policy Analysis, Community Outreach, Government, Negotiation, Customer Relations, Writing, Budgeting, Customer Service, Urban Design, Contract Management, Project Planning, Proposal Writing, Analysis, Transit Planning, Land Use Planning, CEQA/NEPA and Permitting, City Planning, Grant Management, Staff Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing and..., Environmental Awareness, Grants, Budgets, Environmental Impact..., Zoning, Sustainability, NEPA, Land Use, Traffic Engineering, Economic Development, Transportation..., Public Policy, Transit-oriented..., Environmental Policy, Local Government, GIS, Road Traffic
Michelle Patton
Account Management Consultant at Blue Shield of California
BA, English, Communication
Del Oro 1996 — 2000
Blue Shield of California August 2015 - Present
Blue Shield of California May 2014 - Present
Blue Shield of California April 2013 - April 2014
Blue Shield of California June 2012 - May 2013
Private April 2009 - March 2012
Watermark Press April 2008 - April 2009
Zipmail Marketing 2006 - 2008
El Dorado Marketing and Advertising April 2006 - March 2007
Starbucks Coffee 2000 - 2003
Merrill Corporation 2000 - 2001
Advertising, Public Relations, Writing, Research, Social Media, Social Networking, Management, Press Releases, Proposal Writing, Marketing, Sales, New Business Development, Customer Service, Analysis, Leadership, Project Management, Communication, Product Marketing, Training, Business Analysis
Dr. Patt Schwab
Owner of FUNdamentally Speaking Putting the "FUN" before the "Mental!"
Professional Training & Coaching
Union Institute & University 1972 — 1979
Penn State University 1967 — 1968
FUNdamentally Speaking November 1989 - Present
National Speakers Association 1985 - Present
Public Speaking, Leadership Development, Presentation Coaching, Training, Leadership, Executive Coaching, Motivational Speaking, Team Building, Published Author, Books, Organizational..., Change Management, Workshop Facilitation, Social Networking, Personal Development, Program Development, Executive Development, Staff Development, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Management, Emotional Intelligence, Teaching, Coaching, Business Coaching, Conflict Resolution, Career Development, Personal Branding, Culture Change, Organizational..., Workshops, Human Resources, Humorist
Patty Bugarin
Customer Care Agent at Kiwi Crate
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Managerial Economics
Kiwi Crate May 2014 - Present
Kiwi Crate May 2012 - May 2014
Kiwi Crate December 2011 - May 2012
Sugar Swirls November 2009 - December 2011
Keyrose Corporation February 2009 - September 2009
Option One Mortgage April 2004 - July 2007
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Accounts Payable, Customer Service, Office Management, Data Entry, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, Magento, Order Fulfillment, Google Docs, Google cal, Expense Reports, Ad Hoc Reporting, Bill Payment, Sales, Start-ups, Management, Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Word
Patty (Root) Collier
Product Development and Instructional Design
Stanford University Graduate School of Business 1983 — 1985
BA, Economics
Rootin Tootin Creative Development 1997 - Present
Leapfrog Enterprises 2006 - 2008
LeapFrog Toys 2005 - 2007
YES Entertainment 1992 - 1997
Intelligy 1989 - 1992
Worlds of Wonder 1985 - 1989
Product Development, Ideation, Content Development, Toys, Brand Development, Creative Direction, Brand Management, Direct Marketing, Product Management, Consumer Products, Idea Generation, Concept Development, Product Design, Marketing Strategy, Product Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Art Direction, Brand Architecture, Content Strategy, Cross-functional Team..., Customer Insight, Design Thinking, Management, Packaging, Product Innovation, Start-ups, Strategic Planning, User Experience
Patty Dempsey
Windermere Central Oregon Real Estate
Leeds Beckett University 1979 — 1980
Grad, Textile Science
BSc, Consumer Textiles, Consumer Economics
Windermere Central Oregon Real Estate September 2001 - Present
Pangaea Technology Resources July 2000 - July 2001
Premiere Marketing Group February 1999 - June 2000
Portfolio-Collections for Women August 1989 - July 1999
I Magnin and Company September 1980 - July 1989
Residential Homes, Ranch and Acreage..., Residential Investment..., Real Estate, Sellers, Investment Properties, ABR, Entrepreneurship, Council of Residential..., Sales, First Time Home Buyers, Management, Buyer Representation, Short Sales, Buyers, Relocation, Single Family Homes, Condos, Listings, Vacation Homes, Selling, Move Up Buyers, New Home Sales, Refinance
Patty Gong
EVP, Secondary Marketing at Parkside Lending
BA, Sociology, Organizational Studies, History
Parkside Lending September 2007 - Present
Alliance Bancorp September 2000 - July 2007
Integrated Capital Group / TMS / First Union August 1996 - August 2000
Integrated Capital Group 1996 - 2000
Capital Markets, Secondary Market, Mortgage Banking, Mortgage Lending, Loan Origination, Loans, Credit, Residential Mortgages, Banking, Credit Analysis, Underwriting, Loss Mitigation, Risk Management, FHA, Financial Modeling, Financial Analysis, Securitization, Real Estate, Structured Finance, Portfolio Management, Credit Risk, Financial Structuring, Secondary Mortgage...
Patty H. Liu
Workforce Health Consultant, Healthworks & Product Innovation at Kaiser Permanente
University of California, Berkeley 2009 — 2011
Master of Science, Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition
Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology
Kaiser Permanente September 2013 - Present
Kaiser Permanente November 2011 - August 2013
Oakland Based Urban Gardens, OBUGS September 2011 - August 2013
UC Berkeley June 2011 - August 2011
UC Berkeley August 2009 - May 2011
UCSF January 2007 - July 2009
Accenture January 2004 - April 2006
California Academy of Sciences May 1998 - May 2002
Healthcare, Leadership, Project Management, Nutrition, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Health Education, Research Design, Molecular Biology, Data Analysis, Data Management, Healthcare Analytics, Consulting, Disease Management, Wellness, Employee Wellness..., Pilot Projects, Program Evaluation, Community Health, Population Health, Workplace Health, Product Innovation
Patty Leung, MBA
Officer at State Street
Bachelor of Arts, International Relations
Hong Kong International School 2001 — 2005
State Street December 2014 - Present
State Street August 2013 - December 2014
State Street February 2012 - August 2013
State Street July 2010 - February 2012
Associated Students, Inc October 2009 - May 2010
Northern California World Trade Center November 2007 - May 2008
Hogan Industries July 2007 - August 2007
Finance, Mutual Funds, Fund Accounting, Financial Reporting, Fund Administration, Financial Statements, Account Reconciliation, Corporate Actions, NAV
Patty Nguyen
Chemical Safety Specialist at Gilead
Master of Science (MS), Polymer Chemistry
UC-Davis
Gilead Sciences August 2015 - Present
UCSF April 2013 - Present
PSC Environmental Services March 2012 - March 2013
North State Environmental February 2009 - March 2012
San Mateo County Community College District, Canada College January 2009 - May 2009
Penn State University August 2006 - August 2008
UC Davis 2005 - 2006
Chemistry, Polymers, Research, Polymer Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, HPLC, R&D, Science, Materials, Biotechnology, Hazardous Waste..., Account Management, Sales Operations, Project Management, Salesforce.com, Environmental Compliance, Industrial Hygiene, Laboratory, EHS, Hazardous Materials, Training, Environmental Awareness, HAZWOPER, Environmental..., NMR, RCRA, Waste, Waste Management, Environmental Consulting, Water Quality, Water, Sampling, Proposal Writing, Water Treatment
Patty Spielberg
Senior Facilities Space Planner at Raytheon
Bachelor of Science, Design
Raytheon May 2010 - Present
Designs For You November 2004 - February 2015
H.Hendy Associates July 2001 - April 2005
Ware Malcomb 2000 - 2001
The Capital Group Companies May 1997 - July 2000
H. Hendy Associates April 1995 - May 1997
GPRA May 1994 - May 1995
Ehrlich Rominger May 1990 - May 1994
Space Planning, Design Development, Drawing, Project Coordination, AutoCAD, Excel, Space-planning, Design Research, Microsoft Excel, Interior Architecture, Submittals, Furniture, Space planning, Sustainable Design, Design Management, Renovation, Window Treatments, CAD, Interior Design, Construction, Sketching, FF&E, Architectural Design, Construction Drawings, Finish, Finish Selections, AutoCAD Architecture
Patty Tom
Human Resources Representative at Genesys
Human Resources Certificate Program, Human Resources
Bachelor's Degree, Economics
Genesys April 2015 - Present
Kaiser Permanente May 2014 - Present
Fong Brothers Printing, Inc. August 2013 - April 2014
Youth For Understanding USA (YFU) May 2009 - September 2013
Human Resources, Outlook, Onboarding, Interpersonal Skills, Account Management, Customer Service, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Microsoft Office, Social Media, Marketing Strategy, Advertising
Patty Vu
Account Strategist at AdRoll
Bachelors of Arts, in Communications, Textiles and Clothing
Bachelors of Communications
AdRoll July 2015 - Present
FiveStars July 2014 - July 2015
QuinStreet April 2013 - April 2014
H3O Communications June 2012 - September 2012
UC DAVIS DSS IT SERVICES October 2010 - June 2012
UC Davis Textiles and Clothing September 2010 - June 2012
VIZ Media January 2012 - March 2012
Aldo Group November 2011 - January 2012
Anthropologie July 2011 - December 2011
Rose & Kindel/ Grayling Communications June 2011 - September 2011
PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Public Relations, Microsoft Word, Marketing, Mac OS, HTML, Merchandising, CSS, Access, QuickBooks, Linux, Facebook, Social Media, Microsoft Office, Event Planning, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Research, Marketing Strategy, SEO, Press Releases, Customer Service, Blogging, Leadership, Sales
Patty L. Working
B.A., Human Development, Graduated college
MILLS PENINSULA DIVISION-PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION March 2010 - Present
APPLEONE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY January 2006 - February 2010
Stanford University June 2005 - July 2006
Self-employed January 1996 - December 2005
DEVICES FOR VASCULAR INTERVENTION March 1994 - July 1995
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. January 1986 - March 1994
Patrick Williams
Strategic communications and public affairs
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English literature, Rhetoric and Communications
Punahou School 1983 — 1989
HMSA August 2010 - Present
City and County of Honolulu February 2008 - July 2010
Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs 2007 - 2008
University of Hawaii Foundation 2006 - 2007
McNeil Wilson Communications 2001 - 2006
Self-Employed 1998 - 2000
Erie Times-News 1996 - 1997
Media Relations, Strategic Communications, Social Media, Public Relations, Press Releases, Corporate Communications, Community Outreach, Integrated Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Advertising, Editing, Social Networking, Newsletters, Adobe Creative Suite, Government, Event Planning, Online Marketing, Crisis Communications, Blogging, Copywriting, Facebook, Fundraising, Program Management, Public Speaking, Community Development, Graphic Design
Paula Bee
Design consultant focused on web strategy, design and user experience for web applications.
Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
BA, Fine Art
Federal Reserve Board 2013 - Present
Independent July 2008 - March 2013
AOL 2005 - 2008
Xerox 1995 - 2000
User Experience, User Interface Design, Information Design, Usability, Art Direction, Wireframes, Content Strategy, User-centered Design, Visual Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Mobile Devices, User Experience Design, Mobile Applications, Interaction Design, Experience Design
Paula Chan
Graphic Design Professional
Art Center College of Design
Bachelor of Science (BS), Textile Science
Paula Chan Design Studio September 1995 - Present
LeapFrog December 2014 - March 2015
Ebates, Inc 2014 - 2014
Formation Brands LLC 2014 - 2014
TBW Media 2014 - 2014
Mekanism 2014 - 2014
lucy activewear 2010 - 2014
George P. Johnson Experience Marketing 2013 - 2013
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. 2012 - 2012
Gymboree 2011 - 2011
Logo Design, Illustration, Art Direction, Typography, Graphics, Brochures, Catalogs, Image Manipulation, Posters, Layout, Visual Communication, InDesign, Vector Illustration, Graphic Design, Adobe Creative Suite, Creative Direction, Illustrator, Mac, Photoshop, Packaging, Advertising, Banners, Direct Mail, Concept Design, Email Marketing
Paula Fonacier
Coordinator, TRIO Talent Search Program
(A.B.), Sociology- Organizational Studies, Minor in Community Development
Graduate Course Auditor, Social Policy Analysis
Mills College TRIO Programs: Educational Talent Search February 2010 - Present
NorCal Chapter- WESTOP 2014 - Present
Western Association for Educational Opportunity Personnel (WESTOP) 2015 - Present
Academic Advising, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Non-profits, Grant Writing, Program Development, Leadership, Higher Education, Student Affairs, Volunteer Management, Program Evaluation, Program Management, Fundraising, Youth Development, Grants, Staff Development
Paula Parker
Client Services Executive at Cisco
Seattle University 1993 — 1997
University of California - Davis
Cisco February 2014 - Present
Xerox Healthcare Provider Consulting April 2013 - February 2014
DELL SERVICES (FORMERLY PEROT SYSTEMS) February 2008 - December 2012
Resolute Corporation September 2007 - February 2008
SUN MICROSYSTEMS (ORACLE) January 2001 - December 2006
HEWLETT-PACKARD January 1992 - August 2001
HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) January 1992 - August 2001
CERNER CORPORATION 1986 - 1991
medical technologist, NW-HIMSS Board Member, Consultative Selling, Healthcare, Contract Negotiations, Sales Management, Strategic Planning, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Solution Selling, Contract Negotiation, Selling, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Business Development, Professional Services, Direct Sales, Sales Operations, Strategy, CRM
Paula Avery
Associate Substation Test Specialist at Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Stanford University 2013 — 2014
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management
Washington University in St. Louis 2011 — 2013
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering; Systems Science & Engineering
Pacific Gas and Electric Company August 2014 - Present
Pacific Gas and Electric Company August 2013 - July 2014
Ameren January 2012 - August 2012
POWER Engineers May 2011 - August 2011
Power Systems, Electrical Engineering, Power Distribution, Project Engineering, Control Systems Design, AutoCAD, Technical Writing, Engineering, Renewable Energy, Engineering Management, Simulink, LabVIEW, Matlab, CAD, Energy
Paula Lerner
Senior Interaction Designer
Certificate in innovation and entrepreneurship
Stanford University d.school 2012 — 2012
Design thinking Bootcamp
Ph.D., Genetics
B.S, Genetics
San Francisco Academy of Ballet
Viscira May 2013 - Present
General Assemb.ly January 2013 - April 2013
C3 Energy Network January 2013 - January 2013
Stanford University January 2011 - January 2013
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford September 2012 - December 2012
Greenstart November 2012 - November 2012
Startup Weekend October 2012 - October 2012
University of California, Davis June 2007 - May 2011
A-cube 2011 - 2011
UC Davis- NIH fellowship June 2006 - June 2007
Research, Design Thinking, Rapid Prototyping, Problem Solving, Needfinding, Public Speaking, Molecular Cloning, Project Management, Teamwork, User Experience, User Research, Wireframes, Sketching, Ideation
Paul Andrew Miller
EHR Support Manager at Sutter Health
Extension program, Health Informatics
B.A., Marine Biology
Sutter Health April 2013 - Present
Sutter Health October 2009 - April 2013
Gap Inc. April 2007 - October 2009
Gap Inc. October 2005 - April 2007
Gap Inc. August 2004 - October 2005
Gap Inc. July 2002 - July 2004
Central Texas Veterinary Specialty Hospital May 1999 - May 2002
ITIL Process, Service Desk Management, People Development, Change Management, Problem Management, Knowledge Management, Instructor-led Training, Situational Leadership, DISC, Lominger Competencies, BMC Remedy
Paula Youra
Lynchburg, Virginia Area
Business Communication Consultant
PhD, Business & Political Communication
MA, Rhetoric and Communication
Riverside City College 1980 — 1982
AA, Communication
Advantage Communiqué February 2000 - Present
Lynchburg College September 1992 - Present
Indepent Political Consultant January 1992 - Present
Lynchburg College 1991 - 2009
The Pennsylvania State University July 1987 - June 1989
Paul Bruinsma
Ink chemist at HewlettPackard
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Washington State University 1986 — 1988
MS, Chemical Engineering
BS, Chemical Engineering
Hewlett-Packard September 1997 - Present
Hewlett-Packard Company 1997 - 2012
American Chemical Society, San Diego Section 2003 - 2010
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 1994 - 1997
South Coast Air Quality Management District 1984 - 1986
R&D, Rheology, Product Development, Process Engineering, Colloids, Inkjet, Chemistry, Engineering, German, Cross-functional Team..., Thin Films, Research, Manufacturing, Design of Experiments, Data Analysis, Characterization, Project Management, Patents, Quality Assurance, Formulation, Polymer Science, Process Simulation, Testing
Paul Brunemeier, Ph.D.
EtaBoost; IEEE Nanotechnology Executive Committee
Ph.D., Physics, optical semiconductor nanostructures
BS Physics, Solid state and semiconductor physics
Shasta High School
EtaBoost 2013 - Present
Arcanum Alloy Design 2013 - 2013
Amprius Inc 2011 - 2012
Philips-Lumileds Lighting 2010 - 2011
AMST 2008 - 2009
Vykor / Techsolve 2003 - 2008
Novellus Systems 1997 - 2003
Lam Research 1995 - 1997
Product Development, Design for Manufacturing, Cost Benefit, Laser, Semiconductors, R&D, Design of Experiments, Engineering Management, Product Management, SPC, Cross-functional Team..., Manufacturing, Start-ups, Materials Science, Strategy, Semiconductor Industry, Cost Reduction..., Nanotechnology, Failure Analysis, Supply Strategy, Business Development, Engineering, Medical Devices, Silicon, Materials, MEMS, Lean Manufacturing, Thin Films, Optics, Solar Cells, Characterization, Process Simulation, PECVD, Photovoltaics, Metrology
Paul Burg
Game Programmer at Rockstar Games
B.S., Computer Science
Rockstar Games October 2013 - Present
Naughty Dog January 2010 - June 2013
Slipgate Ironworks October 2007 - December 2009
Academic Chess 2002 - 2003
Python, Video Games, MMO, Game Development, Multiplayer, Game Mechanics, Gameplay, MMORPG, Perforce, OpenGL, C\C++, 3D Math, Programming, PS3, User Interface, Game Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Xbox 360, Gameplay Programming
Paul Damian, PhD, MPH, DABT
Principal/Board Certified Toxicologist at Damian Applied Toxicology, LLC
PhD, Toxicology and Pharmacology
University of Michigan 1981 — 1984
MPH, Environmental Health
BS, Natural Resources
Damian Applied Toxicology, LLC June 2013 - Present
Brown and Caldwell August 2011 - June 2013
SCS Engineers December 2004 - July 2011
Tetra Tech EM Inc. September 1999 - March 2003
Earth Tech 1997 - 1999
Risk Assessment, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Consulting, Remediation, Expert Witness, Toxicology, Site Closure, Food Safety, Air, Proposition 65..., GRAS (Generally..., Vapor intrusion/indoor..., Evaluating the health..., Evaluating the health..., Evaluating the health..., Litigation support,..., Contaminated site..., Product safety health..., Regulatory agency..., Food Toxicology
Paul Devoto
Belvedere Tiburon, California
3rd Grade Teacher in an iPad 1to1 Setting
Full Sail University 2010 — 2011
Master of Science, Educational Media Design & Technology
CSU Sacramento 2002 — 2003
Clear Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential, Education
BA, Economics, Spanish
Reed Union School District August 2013 - Present
Apple 2009 - Present
Reed Union School District August 2012 - July 2013
Alma Desnuda LLC June 2011 - June 2012
San Juan Unified School District 2006 - 2011
Natomas Unified School District 2005 - 2006
San Juan Unified School District January 2004 - June 2005
Media Production, Curriculum Design, Educational Technology, Video Production, Video Editing, Videography, Digital Video, Music Videos, Photography, Digital Photography, Keynote, Pages, Final Cut Pro X, Aperture, Wordpress, Final Cut Pro, Branding Development, Branding, Personal Branding, Corporate Branding, Education, Public Speaking, Conference Speaking, Presentation Development, Social Media, Online Marketing
Paul Dhaliwal
Director of Engineering at 383Media / Principal at RedBlink Consulting
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering
Saint Mary's Convent School 1990 — 1993
383 Media, Inc. May 2011 - Present
RedBlink Consulting May 2011 - Present
BizPop April 2011 - November 2012
Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce 2011 - 2012
Mobclix October 2010 - March 2011
QuinStreet Inc. July 2008 - October 2010
Accenture / Kaiser / eBay / PayPal March 2005 - July 2008
Accenture 2005 - 2008
BlueLithium 2004 - 2005
Tyco Fire & Security 2000 - 2003
New Business Development, SEO, SEM, Online Marketing, Online Advertising, Lead Generation, Hibernate, Java, Spring, Web Applications, E-commerce, PHP, Software Design, Integrated Marketing, Architectures, Web Analytics, Mobile Applications, Web Development, Mobile Devices, PPC, SaaS, User Experience, Project Management, Software Development, Management, Cloud Computing, Product Management, CRM, Agile Methodologies, Spring Framework, Leadership, Big Data, Java Enterprise Edition, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships
Paul Cross, ARM
Consultant at Bickmore Risk Services
MS, Statistics
Pomona College 1986 — 1990
B.A., Liberal Arts
DHS 1985
Bickmore Risk Services April 2010 - Present
Aon 2001 - 2009
ARM Tech 1997 - 2000
Paul Esajian
Co Founder at Fortune Builders
Fortune Builders
Real Estate, Investment Properties, REO, Residential Homes, Real Estate Development, Sales, Real Estate Transactions, Investors, Asset Management, Investments, Referrals, Foreclosures, Property, Short Sales, Sellers, Property Management, Negotiation, First Time Home Buyers, Single Family Homes, Due Diligence, Entrepreneurship, Valuation, Selling, Brokerage, Small Business, Contract Negotiation, Rentals, Strategic Planning, Real Estate Economics, Buyers, Commercial Real Estate, Marketing Strategy, Leases, Business Development, Marketing, Luxury, Loans, Real Estate Financing, Start-ups, Disposition, Real Estate Investor, Real Property, Condos
Paul Farrington
Software Engineer at Eastshore Design Group
Project Management, MS Project
Berkeley City College 1995 — 1997
C, C++ programming, Database design
BA, Studio Art
Coursera - Johns Hopkins University
Data Science Specialization
Eastshore Design Group October 1997 - Present
FIS 2009 - 2015
PINC Solutions October 2012 - May 2014
RGB Spectrum December 2012 - May 2013
Metavante 2007 - 2009
Vicor Inc. 1999 - 2007
Greenleaf Medical 1997 - 1998
C++, Documentation, Customer Relations, Programming, Requirements Analysis, Testing, Agile, HTML, Problem Solving, C, Linux, Software Development, Unix, Perl, OOP, Technical Training, deliverables management, Integration, Agile Methodologies, Software Design, Deliverables, Test Planning, Software Documentation, Project Management
Paul Feldstein
President and Chief Executive Officer at DTOR Inc.
DTOR Inc. November 2014 - Present
UC Davis 2013 - Present
California State University, Sacramento 2007 - 2010
USDA 1993 - 1995
PCR, recombinant DNA..., Protein Expression, Protein Purification, Ribozymes, DNA, RNA, Genetic Engineering, Molecular Cloning, Molecular Genetics, Combinatorial..., Combinatorial Chemistry, Proteomics, Virology, Molecular Virology, Virological Methods, Viral Infectivity Assays, Infectivity of RNA..., Bioinformatics, Protein Biochemistry, Bacterial Manipulation, Plant Pathology, Fluorescence Microscopy, Grant Writing, Scientific Writing, Technical Writing, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Staff Management, Staff Supervision, Presentations, Public Speaking, Clinical Laboratory..., Research, Interpretive Analyis, Proposal Writing, Documentation Practices, Database Management, Random Peptide Libraries, RNA Biochemistry, Plant Viruses and..., Random scFv Libraries, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology
Paul Hagemann
Providing Insurance and Financial Services for 49 Years
Certificate of Completion, Animal/Livestock Husbandry and Production
George Washington High School, San Francisco, California 1954 — 1957
State Farm Insurance April 1965 - Present
Insurance, Property & Casualty..., Term Life Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Whole Life, Homeowners, Umbrella Insurance, Life Insurance, Marine Insurance, Renters, Disability Insurance, Horse Racing, Long Distance Running, Estate Planning
Paul Hagerty
B.S., cum laude, Neuroscience
University of California, Davis August 2006 - Present
Paul Hosley
Communicator, social media marketing
BA, Mass Communication
Hosley Communications October 2009 - Present
UC Davis March 2014 - January 2015
KGO-810AM November 2011 - February 2013
KGO-810AM December 2010 - November 2011
Tandem Properties September 2009 - November 2011
Five Star Bank July 2009 - December 2010
KGO Newstalk 810 2006 - 2009
KCBS All News Radio 2000 - 2006
KFBK newstalk 1530/KSTE talk 650 1996 - 2000
Editing, Blogging, Video Production, Journalism, Web Content, Storytelling, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Communications, Breaking News, Facebook, Broadcast, Social Media, Radio, Strategic Planning, Broadcast Journalism, Radio Broadcasting, Advertising, Content Strategy, Press Releases, YouTube, Digital Media, Copywriting, News Writing, Audio Editing, New Media, Media Relations, Video Editing, Final Cut Pro, Marketing, Radio Producing, Copy Editing, Television, SEO, Video, Editorial, Social Networking
Pauline Tang
Global Clinical Trial Leader at Genentech
Certificate, Clinical Trials Design and Management
BS, Biological Sciences, emphasis in Neurobiology
Genentech July 2015 - Present
Genentech June 2014 - July 2015
Genentech January 2013 - May 2014
Genentech August 2010 - December 2012
Exelixis February 2009 - August 2010
Exelixis February 2008 - February 2009
Exelixis August 2007 - February 2008
CB Richard Ellis November 2005 - August 2007
Clinical Trials, CRO, Clinical Research, Software Documentation, Pharmaceutical Industry, Clinical Data Management, Oncology, Clinical Study Design, Clinical Operations, Biotechnology, GCP, Clinical Development, Training, Pharmacology, CTMS, Life Sciences
Pauline Fischer
Sr. Manager, IP Operations & Administration at HGST, a Western Digital company
HGST, a Western Digital company February 2015 - Present
Applied Materials, Inc. November 2013 - January 2015
Applied Materials, Inc. January 2013 - November 2013
Applied Materials, Inc. January 2011 - December 2012
Applied Materials, Inc. April 2008 - January 2011
Amgen, Inc. (acquisition of Tularik) August 2004 - April 2008
Tularik, Inc. September 2002 - August 2004
AGY Therapeutics, Inc. August 2001 - September 2002
Paradigm Genetics March 1999 - August 2001
Sugen 1998 - 1999
Mandarin, Biotechnology, Patent Prosecution, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal Writing, Technology Transfer, IP, Intellectual Property, Start-ups, Corporate Governance, Patents, Pharmaceutical Industry, Lifesciences, Due Diligence, Program Management
Pauline Lee, LEED GA, CGBP
Project Manager: Contractor at Wells Fargo
CA State Univ: East Bay 2011 — 2011
Green Building and Sustainable Design Certification
Build it Green
Certified Green Building Professional
Heald College
Network Technology Certification
BBA & BS, Marketing and Fashion Marketing
Brookline High
Wells Fargo January 2015 - Present
Lee Design and Management 2009 - Present
Net Electric, Inc August 2014 - January 2015
Julie Williams Design February 2013 - July 2014
Green Depot September 2011 - May 2012
Home Depot: YardBIRDS 2006 - 2009
Project Management, Sustainable Design, Kitchen and Bath Design, Construction, Green Building, Space-planning, Fixtures, Visual Merchandising, New Store Development, Renovation, Cabinetry, 20/20 Design Software, Countertops, Tiles, Blueprint Reading, Signage, Project Scope..., Budget Monitoring, Retail Management, Procurement, Sales, Design Built, Kitchen & Bath Design, Management, Budgets, Interior Design, Project Planning, Residential Homes, Space planning, Store Management, Retail, Construction Management, Sustainability, Construction Drawings, Retail Design, Merchandising, Program Management, Submittals, Interior Architecture, AutoCAD, Residential Design, Design Research, Flooring, Furniture
Paul Ivanov
Backend Engineer at Disqus
PhD (ABD), Vision Science
Los Altos High School 1999 — 2002
Sequoia High School 1998 — 1999
Disqus September 2014 - Present
Software Carpentry February 2012 - Present
UC Berkeley June 2012 - September 2014
University of California, Berkeley August 2006 - June 2013
Model N 2006 - 2006
UC Davis August 2004 - December 2005
UC Davis March 2004 - September 2004
TapCast 2000 - 2000
Eye Tracking, GPGPU, Teaching, Python, C, Java, unix, vim, Unix, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Programming, Data Analysis, Vim, Algorithms, C++, Scientific Computing, Linux, Distributed Systems, Horse Properties, NICE, Spiritual Warfare, Baby Blessings
Paul J. Chung
Account Management and Marketing
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology
Mogo Marketing + Media April 2015 - Present
Just App, Inc. March 2015 - June 2015
Sukie's Country Kitchen July 2009 - December 2014
Full Plate Restaurant Consulting March 2009 - June 2009
iCrossing May 2008 - January 2009
iCrossing December 2006 - May 2008
iCrossing October 2006 - December 2006
Digital Media, Web Analytics, SEM, PPC, PPC Bid Management, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Client Services, Account Management, Digital Marketing, Online Advertising, Management, Marketing Strategy, Business Development, Microsoft Office
Paul Koh
Head of School at Lighthouse Community Charter School
Master of Arts, Education
Teacher Credential, Education
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science; International Relations
Lighthouse Community Charter School June 2015 - Present
SFUSD - International Studies Academy July 2011 - June 2015
SFUSD - Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School July 2010 - June 2011
Envision Schools - City Arts and Technology High School (CAT) August 2008 - June 2010
Envision Schools - City Arts and Technology High School (CAT) August 2006 - July 2008
Envision Schools - Marin School of Arts and Technology August 2005 - July 2006
Jewish Community Center June 2005 - July 2005
Oakland School for the Arts August 2004 - June 2005
Fremont Unified - Hopkins Junior High School January 2003 - June 2004
Hopkins Junior High School Girls' Basketball January 2004 - April 2004
Teaching, Special Education, Teachers, Curriculum Design, Staff Development, Instructional Design, Interventions, Educational Leadership, Classroom Management, Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Educational Technology, Lesson Planning, Tutoring, Literacy, K-12, ESL, Elementary Education, Fundraising, Differentiated..., Coaching, Training, Instructional Technology
Paul Mello, PharmD
University of California, San Francisco 2011 — 2015
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
B.S., Nutrition Science - Biochemistry
Ohlone College 2005 — 2008
A.S., Biology
Kaiser Permanente June 2015 - Present
UCSF September 2011 - May 2015
San Francisco VA Medical Center April 2012 - April 2015
Portuguese Tribune August 2008 - June 2011
UC Davis September 2008 - June 2010
UC Davis June 2008 - June 2010
Property Management (private) January 2006 - June 2009
CBST at UC Davis June 2008 - August 2008
Washington Hospital December 2006 - May 2008
Ambulatory Care, Critical Care, Clinical Research, Hospital Pharmacy, Presentation Skills, Research, Healthcare, Biochemistry, Inpatient, Scientific Writing, Clinical Nutrition, Cpr Certified, Vaccinations, Phlebotomy
Paul Bulkley-Logston
Python Developer at 15Five
Online MOOCs
Bachelors of Science, Chemical Engineering
Upright Citizen's Brigade 2011 — 2012
Long Form Improvisation
iO Chicago 2009 — 2009
The Peoples Improv Theater 2011 — 2012
Musical Improvisation
San Francisco Paramedic Association 2009 — 2009
Emergency Medical Technician - Basic
Contra Costa Medical Career College 2009 — 2009
Technician, Phlebotomy
15Five September 2013 - Present
CPR123, Inc. February 2011 - Present
Paul Logston Photography September 2008 - Present
Bed & Breakfast on the Park August 2011 - January 2012
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center 2010 - 2011
FastResponse May 2010 - December 2010
Execushield Inc. May 2010 - December 2010
ProTransport-1 May 2010 - September 2010
University of California at Davis July 2007 - December 2008
Micromidas, Inc. 2008 - 2008
Public Speaking, Python, Web Development, Linux, Photography, Data Analysis, OS X, Editing, Research, Windows, Photoshop, HTML, Programming, Troubleshooting, Software Development, Web Design, MySQL, Shell Scripting, Git, Nginx, SQLite, Django, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
Paul Mach
Software Engineer at Strava
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics
Seattle Pacific University 2000 — 2005
BS, Computer Science, Computational Mathematics
Strava, Inc. October 2012 - Present
Race Shape October 2010 - September 2012
UC Davis Genome Center September 2006 - September 2012
BISSELL Pro Cycling January 2009 - December 2011
Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Statistics, Go, Research, Computational Biology, Matlab, LaTeX, C, Cycling, Applied Mathematics, Computational Geometry, CUDA, Algorithms
Paul Madoff
Technology Project Manager, Diamond Resorts International
BA, German Language
Diamond Resorts International October 2012 - Present
Flyingpan Productions LLC October 2002 - Present
Pariah Design, LLC September 1999 - December 2013
Experis IT December 2011 - October 2012
Hackers For Charity, Inc August 2007 - August 2011
Lenox Hill Partners, LLC January 2009 - June 2011
Office of Information Security, The State of West Virginia October 2010 - May 2011
TMS Corporation August 2005 - April 2009
ModeEleven, Inc. November 2007 - December 2008
ObTech September 2003 - September 2006
MySQL, HTML, Business Analysis, Start-ups, PHP, E-commerce, Databases, Networking, XML, Troubleshooting, Security, Web Development, Management, Telecommunications, WordPress, Disaster Recovery, Apache, Enterprise Software, Servers, Strategy, Web Design, ITIL, Linux, Software Development, Project Management, Consulting
Paul Matsumoto
Boise, Idaho Area
Owner/ President at Wildly Brilliant, Inc.
Political Science, Philosophy
Human Resources Management Certificate
Paul Matsumoto June 1972 - Present
Robert R Naugler, CPA, PA October 2007 - June 2014
Prime Mover Solutions, LLC 2010 - 2012
Artists Solutions 2007 - 2010
Literacy, Education & Ability Program 1997 - 2007
Executive Coaching, Organizational Structure, Background Checks, Small Business, Personal Development, Executive Development, Poetry, Writing, Copywriting, Social Media, Coaching, Editing, Creative Writing, Social Media Marketing, Online Marketing, Strategic Planning, Blogging, Teaching, Advertising, Human Resources, Online Advertising, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Publishing, Social Networking, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Music, Fundraising, Photography, Management, Team Building, Email Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Nonprofits, Press Releases, Copy Editing, Facebook, Books, Web Content, SEO, Publicity, Magazines, Content Development, Entertainment, Published Author, Editorial, Proofreading, Content Strategy, Freelance Writing
Paul Menconi
San Luis Obispo, California Area
Owner & Chief Scientist at Energy Efficiency Solutions
BSEE
Energy Efficiency Solutions 2007 - Present
Energy Efficiency, Energy Audits, Research, Editing, Matlab, Photography, Writing, Engineering, Green Building, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Building Science, Energy Conservation, Energy, Water, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, Sustainability..., HVAC, Energy Star, LEED, Photovoltaics, Solar PV, Environmental Awareness, Solar Thermal
Paul Mietz Egli
Fullpower Technologies, Inc June 2006 - Present
VeriSign January 2000 - June 2006
LightSurf Technologies 2000 - 2006
Affymax Research Institute November 1996 - February 2000
Biocircuits Corp 1996 - 1998
Hybritech Inc. 1989 - 1994
Java, XML, MySQL, CouchDB, iPhone development, Titanium, OSGi, Objective-C, Apache, iOS development, Web Applications, C, CSS, Object Oriented Design, Mobile Applications, Spring, Servlets, Wireless, Databases, Integration, Hibernate, Mobile Devices, Oracle, JDBC, Software Design, Java Enterprise Edition, Linux
Paul Morrell
Information Technology and Services Consultant
University of Chicago 1983 — 1985
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
BA, Linguistics
Leningrad State University (Ленинградский государственный университет) 1982 — 1982
Universität Konstanz 1981 — 1981
German and Russian
McGill University 1976 — 1978
Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA 1974 — 1976
Brookline High School, Brookline, MA 1972 — 1974
EMC 1999 - Present
Pivotal Software, Inc. 2014 - Present
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company 2009 - Present
DuMonde Solutions 1993 - Present
ADP/AG Consulting 1990 - 1993
ROLM 1985 - 1990
Paul Murray, P.E.
PT&C Forensic Consulting Services, P.A.
M.S., Civil Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 2001 — 2005
B.S., Architectural Engineering
PT&CLWG Forensic Consulting Services May 2010 - Present
Paul Vu
Research Assistant at Genentech
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MedImmune September 2011 - September 2012
MedImmune June 2008 - September 2011
MedImmune April 2008 - June 2008
Biotechnology, ELISA, Cell Culture, GLP, Molecular Biology, Vaccines, Assay Development, Protein Purification, PCR, Biochemistry, Purification, Sop, Cell Biology, Validation, R&D, LIMS, Laboratory, High Throughput..., Tissue Culture, Cell, SOP
Nathan Puri
Owner, Puri Law
Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy
University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law 1996 — 1999
New College of California 2000 — 2001
Attorney Paul Nathan Puri June 2003 - Present
San Francisco Public Defender's Office 2002 - 2003
Litigation, Courts, Appeals, Criminal Defense, Public Speaking, Trials, Civil Rights, Trial Practice, Criminal Law, White Collar Criminal..., Hearings, Family Law, Mediation, Juvenile Law, Class Actions, Legal Assistance, Westlaw, Alternative Dispute...
Paul Ngan
Manager, Creative Services at Sony Pictures Television, Crackle
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Double Major: Communications, American Studies
Sony Pictures Television, Crackle August 2014 - Present
Think Jam March 2013 - October 2013
Real Pie Media November 2012 - February 2013
Ignition Interactive June 2011 - August 2012
Russ Reid Company June 2010 - June 2011
Cold Open December 2007 - March 2009
Create Advertising Group March 2007 - November 2007
FOX Studios March 2004 - March 2007
Creative Artists Agency October 1999 - July 2003
Entertainment, Digital Media, Social Media, Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Digital Strategy, Creative Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Digital Marketing, Project Management, Online Advertising, Marketing, Brand Management, Direct Marketing, Interactive Advertising, Television, Copywriting, Creative Direction, New Media, Content Strategy, Broadcast
Paul O'Keefe
Territory Sales Representative at Nobel Biocare
Sacramento City College 1983 — 1986
Davis Senior High School 1980 — 1983
Diploma, General Educatoin
Nobel Biocare June 2014 - Present
KaVo Kerr Implant Direct October 2010 - June 2014
Nobel Biocare December 2006 - September 2010
Atlantis Components, Inc. September 2003 - December 2006
Zimmer Dental May 2000 - July 2002
Taylor Made Office Systems/IKON/Newcal May 1995 - April 2000
Dedication, 3 Point Shooting, Goal Oriented, Capital Equipment, Medical Devices, Surgeons, Operating Room, Surgery, Dentistry, Direct Sales, Sales Management, Sales Operations, Orthopedic, Sales Presentations, Territory Management, Salesforce.com..., Dental Implants, Salesforce.com, Sales Force Development, Urology, Product Launch, Healthcare, Market Development, Spine, Cold Calling, Dental Sales, Sales, Cardiology, Pharmaceutical Sales, Neurology, Sales Process, Sales Effectiveness, Selling Skills, Medical Sales, Selling, Disposables, Orthopedics
Paul Proett
Experienced Administrative and Human Resource Leader
BS & M.ED, Child Development, Education, Political Science
Palcare June 2011 - Present
Canada, Skyline and Mission Colleges 2002 - Present
Adobe Systems 1999 - 2008
Apple Computer 1987 - 1999
Paul Shin
Senior Director, Digital Media Strategy at iCrossing
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science & International Relations
iCrossing September 2011 - Present
iCrossing March 2008 - September 2011
iCrossing November 2006 - February 2008
NewGate Internet November 2005 - October 2006
Google November 2003 - August 2004
Digital Media, Social Media, Marketing Strategy, PPC, SEM
Paul Siri
Internal Support Engineer, Groupware Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Electronics and Network Technology, GPA: 3.933
West Valley College 2011 — 2012
Computer Electronics and Network Technology, GPA: 3.94
Groupware Technology February 2015 - Present
San Jose State University June 2013 - December 2014
Siri Management Company 2007 - 2013
Waiter.com July 2011 - November 2012
Stanford University 2007 - 2007
Custom Computer Design..., CompTIA A+ Certification, Electronic component..., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio..., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, National Instruments..., Cisco Technologies, •Oscilloscopes, logic..., Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Windows 95, ME, XP,..., Mac OS X, Computer Hardware..., Computer Hardware..., Computer Network..., Computer Repair, Computer Security, AutoCAD, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, Remote Desktop, Software Implementation, Microsoft Office 97-2013, Visio, OS X, Network Security
Paul Songer
President at Songer and Associates, Inc.
Certificate, Sensory Analysis
Songer and Associates, Inc. 2005 - Present
Coffee Analysts 1998 - 2005
Allegro Coffee Company December 1984 - March 1998
Food, Business Planning, Product Development, Food Industry, Business Strategy, Ingredients, Food Science, Training, Food Processing, Microsoft Office, Coffee, Food, Food Safety, Food Service, HACCP, New Business Development, Sensory Evaluation, Specialty Coffee, Statistical Data..., Strategic Planning
Paul Stella
Marin Catholic High School 1985 — 1989
Davidson Middle School/ Gallinas Elementary 1977 — 1985
American Pacific Mortgage February 2014 - Present
Mortgage, Refinance, Purchase, Credit, FHA, Home, VA, Loans, Mortgage Lending, Conventional, First Time Home Buyers, Mortgage Industry, VA loans, Conforming, Debt Consolidation, Residential, Mortgage Banking, Investment Properties, Mortgage Planning, Government Loans, Investors, Loan Origination, Residential Mortgages, Condos, Non-Conforming, Buying, FHA financing, Referrals, Single Family Homes, First Time Buyers, Rates, Real Estate, Loan Structuring, Customer Service, Real Estate Financing, Consultative Selling, Problem Solving, Residential Homes, Sellers, Marketing, Selling, Sales, Certified Mortgage..., Construction Loans, Reverse Mortgages, Financial Structuring, Commercial Mortgages, Mortgage Underwriting, Real Estate Economics, USDA
Paul Takushi
Marketing, Communications, & Event Planning at UC Davis Stores
Bachelor of Science (BS), Agricultural Economics
UC Davis Stores January 2013 - Present
UC Davis Stores August 1993 - Present
UC Davis Stores February 2010 - Present
UC Davis Stores August 1993 - April 2011
UC Davis Stores August 1988 - August 1993
UC Davis April 1987 - August 1988
Inventory Management, Customer Service, Customer Acquisition, Online Marketing, Marketing Communications, Product Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Visual Displays, Advisory Boards, Administrative Support, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Publicity, Hand Percussion, Orchestral Percussion, Sales Promotion, Board of Director..., Non-profit Board..., Purchasing, Administrative..., Press Releases, Newsletters, Event Management, Media Relations, Books, Marketing, Nonprofits, Social Media, Facebook, Management
Paul Vagadori - SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Stanford GSB 2002 — 2002
HR Executive Program
Lahlouh July 2012 - Present
PAV Consulting June 2011 - June 2012
Zoosk, Inc. (Start-Up) April 2010 - June 2011
Mcube, Inc. (Kleiner Perkins Start-up) September 2009 - February 2010
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers August 2009 - August 2009
Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP January 2009 - August 2009
TmaxSoft, Inc. (Start-Up) February 2008 - January 2009
Accuray, Inc. January 2005 - January 2008
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream/Nestle September 2002 - December 2004
Recourse Technologies, Inc. (Start-Up) July 2001 - September 2002
Results Oriented, Flexibility, Cross-Cultural & Global..., Ethical Behavior, Strategic Thinking, Integrity, Business Acumen, IPO, Start-ups, Talent Management, Organizational..., Compensation, Benefits, HR Consulting, Corporate Culture, Performance Management, HR Strategy, Organizational..., Mergers, Employee Engagement, Deferred Compensation, Management, Personnel Management, Goal Oriented, Executive Management, Coaching, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employee Benefits, Employee Relations, Strategy, Recruiting, Succession Planning, Leadership, Training, Workforce Planning, Employee Training, Change Management, HRIS
Paul Vincent Mejia
Graphics Hardware Engineer at Intel Corporation
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering (VLSI Design)
University of the Philippines, Diliman
B.S., Computer Engineering
Intel Corporation January 2011 - Present
University of California, Davis September 2006 - June 2010
University of California, Davis June 2008 - March 2010
Sekai Electronics September 2004 - January 2006
University of the Philippines, Diliman December 2003 - March 2004
Computer Architecture, VLSI, Verilog, Assembly Language, RTL design, VHDL, SystemVerilog, Simulations, Perl, Debugging, Logic Design, Microprocessors, LaTeX, Python, Signal Processing, FPGA, SPICE, ModelSim, ASIC, Electronics, Circuit Design
Paul Diaz
Chief Scientific Officer at Cyternity, Inc.
Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology
BS, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Fresno City College 1982 — 1984
Diploma, College Prep
San Joaquin Memorial High School 1973 — 1977
Cyternity, Inc. April 2013 - Present
Biomatrica 2014 - 2014
Burnham Institute for Medical Research October 2007 - April 2013
Valeant Pharmaceuticals August 2006 - October 2007
Valeant Pharmaceuticals March 2001 - August 2006
Beckman Coulter 1999 - 2001
Onyx Pharmaceuticals 1996 - 1999
Wendy's of Fresno 1976 - 1981
Molecular Biology, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Validation, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Data Analysis, Product Development, Six Sigma, Biochemistry, Research, Automation, Excel, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Drug Discovery, Operations Management, Procurement, Pharmaceuticals, Program Management, Budgeting, PCR, Process Improvement, DNA, Protein Purification, Change Management, Cell Based Assays, HTS, High Throughput..., Oncology, GLP, Protein Expression, R&D, Coaching, Science, Cell, Lifesciences, Pharmaceutical Industry, Assay Development, Genomics, Cell Biology, Protein Chemistry, Laboratory, Laboratory Automation, Cell Culture, qPCR, Technology Transfer, Biomarkers, Purification, ELISA
Paul Shih, CTP
Vice President; Treasury Relationship Sales Officer at JP Morgan Chase
BS, Managerial Economics
JP Morgan Chase July 2012 - Present
JPMorgan Chase January 2011 - July 2012
Bank of America October 2009 - January 2011
Bank of America September 2007 - October 2009
Bank of America January 2006 - August 2007
Wells Fargo Financial June 2005 - January 2006
Treasury Management, Banking, Cash Management, Liquidity Management, Commercial Banking, ACH, Lockbox, Portfolio Management, Business Development, Cross Selling, Payments, Relationship Management, Sales Management, Treasury, Finance, Financial Services
Paul Seville, MD, MBI, CSM
Clinical Informaticist at WebMD Health Services
Oregon Health and Science University 2011 — 2012
MBI, Master's of Biomedical Informatics
University of California, Irvine - College of Medicine 1992 — 1996
MD, Medicine
BS, Physical Education with emphasis on exercise physiology
Pacific Union College 1985 — 1989
Physical therapy and pre-medicine
WebMD Health Services July 2014 - Present
WebMD Health Services (via Teksystems) December 2013 - July 2014
AMCE Physicians Group December 2012 - November 2013
Franciscan Medical Group November 2007 - November 2010
Jeffrey Csiszar, M.D. August 2006 - August 2007
University of Nebraska Medical Center April 2003 - June 2005
University at Buffalo June 1998 - March 2001
University at Buffalo June 1996 - June 1998
Problem Solving, Mac OS X, EHR, Healthcare Information..., Medical Informatics, Clinical Information..., Healthcare, Healthcare IT, EMR, Hospitals, Surgery, Health, Informatics, Process Improvement, Research, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Change Management, Customer Relations, Healthcare Management, Team Building, HIPAA, PowerPoint, Word, Quality Management, Screencasting, Website Development, Urology, Medicine, Physicians, Clinical Research, Public Health, Medical Education, Inpatient, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, Health Informatics
Pavel Zimin
Ph.D. Fellow at Seattle Children's Research Institute
Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology
Novosibirsk State University (NSU) 1998 — 2003
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology/Biological Sciences, General
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center July 2011 - March 2012
UC Davis March 2010 - May 2010
UC Davis September 2006 - March 2010
Cell Culture, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Lifesciences, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacology, WinNonlin, Toxicology, Statistics, qPCR, RT-PCR, Molecular Cloning, Fluorescence Microscopy, Western Blotting
Joshua Paxton
Independent Brand Partner at Nerium International Independent Brand Partner
Nerium International - Independent Brand Partner February 2014 - Present
American Medical Response June 2008 - January 2009
Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Data Analysis, Lifesciences, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Molecular Biology
Payal Bhatt
Program Manager, Reporting and Analytics
Bachelor of Science, Managerial Economics
VMware January 2008 - Present
VMware June 2006 - January 2008
Informatica July 2005 - June 2006
Payam Tabar
Corporate Real Estate Advisor First Vice President at CBRE
Palo Alto High School 1992 — 1996
CBRE April 2006 - Present
Corporate Real Estate, Dispositions, Lease Administration, Business Transactions, Lease Negotiations, Tenant Representation, Acquisitions, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Leases, Start-ups, Selling, Disposition, Brokerage, Real Estate Economics, Transaction Management, Landlords, Location Intelligence, Tenant, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Financing, Investment Sales
Payam Vadi
Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Jefferies
Claremont McKenna College 2015 — 2016
Master's Degree, Finance
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics
Miramonte High Scool 2006 — 2010
Jefferies May 2015 - July 2015
The Presidio Group LLC September 2014 - February 2015
US Capital Partners June 2014 - August 2014
Delta Sigma Phi Gamma Sigma Chapter January 2013 - January 2014
Morgan Stanley June 2012 - August 2012
Leadership, Financial Analysis, Equities, Statistics, Financial Services, Economics, Financial Modeling, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Microsoft Office, Corporate Finance, Stata, Start-ups, Research, Public Speaking, Analytics, Microsoft Excel, R, Gretl, Investment Banking
Payam Zamani
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Anything Internet
BS, Environmental Toxicology
Executive Leadership Program - Stanford University 1999 — 1999
Executive Leadership Program
Shout The Good Inc. July 2014 - Present
Reply! Inc. July 2001 - Present
Tahirih Justice Center December 2014 - Present
BahaiTeachings.org November 2012 - Present
Contractors.com June 2014 - Present
The RealReal June 2011 - Present
Talkwheel April 2013 - Present
SoulPancake March 2010 - Present
Chat Sports, Inc. July 2011 - Present
Fundly July 2011 - Present
Entrepreneurship, Management, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Strategic Planning, Online Advertising, Business Development, Business Strategy, Leadership, Marketing
Payman Sattari
Traveler / Techguy / Marketer
Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies October 2006 - December 2011
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions (formerly Bytheway's Mfg.) February 2003 - February 2004
California Housing Finance Agency June 2002 - February 2003
Marketing Communications, Management, Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Social Media, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Start-ups, Leadership, Customer Service, CRM, Research, Sales, Marketing, Insurance
Paul Earnshaw
Bioprocess Sales Engineer
B.S., Exercise Physiology
Eppendorf/New Brunswick Scientific 2008 - Present
Genentech 1999 - 2008
Lifesciences, Validation, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Bioprocessing
Partha Bhaumik
Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, Davis
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 3.93/4.00
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.93/4.00
Jadavpur University 2005 — 2009
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.94/10.00
South Point High School 2003 — 2005
Higher Secondary, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, 95.4%
Secondary, Middle School/High School, 91.25%
University of California, Davis September 2010 - Present
Intel Corporation July 2013 - December 2013
Tata Consultancy Services September 2009 - July 2010
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta May 2008 - September 2009
C, Algorithms, C++, Matlab, Java, Image Processing, VHDL, Simulations, Verilog, HTML, Python, R, Machine Learning, Statistics, Perl, LaTeX, Shell Scripting, Programming, Linux, Computer Science, Mathematical Modeling, Signal Processing, Mathematica, Computer Architecture, Algorithm Design, Data Structures, Data Mining, Unix Shell Scripting, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Eclipse, Unix, Fortran, Artificial Intelligence
Jeffrey Natividad
Heald College-Stockton 2011 — 2012
Paisith Boonsom
Manufacturing Design Engineer at Apple
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Apple September 2012 - Present
WessDel January 2011 - August 2012
UC Davis August 2006 - October 2010
Mori Seiki Co., Ltd August 2007 - December 2007
Sodick Co., Ltd. August 2005 - September 2005
CAM, CAD/CAM, Solidworks, Machining, Solid Edge, CNC, Lathe, Mill, Fabrication, 5-Axis, EDM, Wire EDM, ESPRIT, Cnc, Machine Tools, CAD, Engineering, Solid Modeling, Mastercam, Milling, Unigraphics, NX Unigraphics, Metal Fabrication, SolidWorks
Paul Cheng, MD, PhD
Medical Director (Hematology/Oncology Global Development) at Amgen
Internship, Internal Medicine Residency, Heme-Onc Fellowship
Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine 1993 — 2002
BS, MS
Amgen April 2015 - Present
Kaiser Permanente August 2009 - April 2015
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs July 2008 - June 2009
UC San Diego Health System July 2008 - June 2009
Salk Institute for Biological Studies July 2005 - June 2009
Pak Chau
MS, electrical engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1986 — 1989
BS, computer system engineering
Broadcom March 2014 - Present
Rambus February 2010 - November 2013
Rambus July 2006 - January 2010
Aeluros 2001 - 2006
Rambus 1994 - 2001
Mixed Signal, Circuit Design
Pierre Chin-Dickey, LEED A.P.
Project Manager at Callander Associates
B.S., Landscape Architecture
Callander Associates May 2013 - Present
Daedalus Design Group December 2010 - April 2013
Apple Retail May 2009 - December 2010
Ecolotree Inc. April 2009 - May 2009
Royal Caribbean International June 2007 - September 2008
Design Alaska June 2006 - September 2006
Landscape Architecture, Adobe Creative Suite, Urban Design, LEED Accredited, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, SketchUp, Graphic Design, Microsoft Office, InDesign, Sustainability, Illustrator, Design Research, Sustainable Design, Submittals, Landscape Design, PowerPoint, Rendering, Drawing, Landscaping, Microsoft Excel, Space-planning, Urban Planning, Comprehensive Planning, Construction, CAD, Sketching
Peter Choi
Member of Technical Staff at Pure Storage
B.S., Computer Engineer
Pure Storage June 2015 - Present
SanDisk March 2014 - May 2015
Emulex December 2011 - March 2014
Cisco Systems May 2010 - November 2011
Tegal Corporation July 2007 - May 2010
Embedded Systems, Semiconductors, PCB design, Schematic Capture, Hardware, Analog, SoC, Testing, PCIe, Orcad, Allegro, Troubleshooting, Design for Manufacturing, Debugging, I2C, ASIC, Processors, Cadence, RF, DFT, Cross-functional Team..., Mixed Signal, Concept HDL, Polar Si9000, Oracle Agile, Hyperlynx, Signal Integrity, Simulations, Manufacturing, Digital Signal..., Embedded Software, Electronics, PowerPC, Ethernet, SPI, Circuit Design, Engineering Management, DDR3, Static Timing Analysis, PCB Design
Paul Laustsen
Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Design with an emphasis on Visual Communication
Serra High School 1990 — 1994
USGS October 2007 - Present
FEMA June 2014 - September 2014
Unified Area Command External Affairs May 2010 - June 2010
USDA-NRCS January 1999 - October 2007
Public Speaking, Public Affairs, Leadership, Strategic Communications, Community Outreach, Internal Communications, Publications, Press Releases, Editing, Journalism, Media Relations, Public Relations, Social Media, Speech Writing, Research, Event Planning, Event Management, Government, Public Policy, Video, Science Communication
Patrick Crawford
Web Developer at Markit
RefactorU
Full-Stack JavaScript Web Development
Bachelor's of Science, Comprehensive Design
Sacramento City College
Markit November 2014 - Present
RefactorU June 2014 - August 2014
Rabbit Hill Graphics March 2010 - May 2014
Boulder Sign Co. July 2008 - December 2009
Fedex Kinko's September 2003 - May 2007
Rocketshells October 2001 - April 2003
JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS3, Design, Graphics, Signs, Illustrator, Photoshop, Graphic Design, Sales, Vehicle Graphics, Marketing, Manufacturing, Logo Design, Typography, Outdoor Advertising, Packaging, Adobe Acrobat, CSS, HTML5
Peter Vera
Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Intuit
MS, Software Engineering
BS, Computer Science & Engineering
Intuit March 2015 - Present
IBM June 2010 - March 2015
IBM June 2009 - September 2009
Puffy Puff August 2005 - March 2006
Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL, OOP, Relational Databases, C++, Linux, Shell Scripting, Software Development, Agile Methodologies
Paula Galvez-Anzano
CoFounder at BrightTrack
M.A., Education with emphasis in Counseling & Student Personnel
James Logan High School
BrightTrack February 2013 - Present
Students Rising Above July 2014 - Present
Access, Inc. August 2010 - March 2011
Home Start, Inc December 2009 - August 2010
S.T.A.R. Programs, Inc. June 2005 - July 2009
Fremont Hospital August 2004 - January 2007
Pengdeth (P.D.) Duflos
Data Analyst at Opti Medical Systems
B.S., Environmental Toxicology
Opti Medical Systems March 2011 - Present
Amgen January 2009 - May 2010
Roche Palo Alto July 2005 - December 2008
GLP, In Vivo, Drug Discovery, Biotechnology, LC-MS, Assay Development, HPLC, In Vitro, Clinical Development, Drug Development, FDA, GMP, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Industry, Sop, Validation, Analytical Chemistry
Nicholas Strand
Creator of Peanut Butter Boy
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9
Stevens Institute of Technology 2002 — 2007
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.8
Peanut Butter Boy January 2011 - Present
US Army August 2009 - Present
Peanut Butter Boy November 2007 - Present
Cooking, Recipes, Eating, Food, Peanut Butter, Product Development, Entrepreneur, Philanthropy
Pearl Shan
Project Coordinator at Edge For Life
BA, Communication and Art History
Edge For Life March 2015 - Present
Prodege, LLC / Swagbucks.com August 2012 - February 2014
Midmark Corporation April 2008 - August 2012
Midmark Corporation October 2006 - April 2008
Quality Assurance, Microsoft Office, Program Management, Medical Devices, Customer Service, Project Coordination, Document Management, Regulatory Compliance, Research, Microsoft Excel
Charles Pearson
Senior Researcher at Adobe
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cultural Anthropology
The University of Texas at Austin 1996 — 1998
Master of Arts (MA), Social Anthropology
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History
Adobe May 2013 - Present
UC Davis October 2012 - January 2013
Berkeley City College August 1999 - May 2006
California College of the Arts August 2001 - May 2002
Ethnography, Qualitative Research, Project Coordination, Research Design, University Teaching, Anthropology, Politics, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology, Research, User-centered Design, User Research, Contextual Inquiry
Pedar Bruce
Community Development Officer at Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo, Community Relations July 2014 - Present
Wells Fargo October 2004 - Present
Chilean Fresh Fruit Association October 2000 - October 2004
Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Direct Marketing, Leadership, Project Management, Customer Acquisition, Marketing Communications, Social Media, Analytics, Strategy, Financial Services, Series 7, Credit, Market Planning, Retail Banking, Salesforce.com, Banking, Sales Management, Customer Service
Pedraum Pardehpoosh
Senior Product Manager, The App Store, Apple Inc.
Las Lomas 1985 — 1989
Apple Inc. March 2010 - Present
Apple Inc. January 2009 - March 2010
Apple June 2004 - January 2009
Walmart.com January 2002 - June 2004
vicinity 1997 - 2001
Mobile Applications, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Customer Experience, Engineering Management, Innovation Management, Product Management, E-commerce, Mobile Devices, Product Marketing, User Experience, Cross-functional Team..., Leadership
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President, Hadassah Pacific Northwest Region
California State University-Sacramento
MA, English
Hadassah September 1977 - Present
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Managing Editor / Designer at CiiTA, LLC
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
CiiTA, LLC December 2014 - Present
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Center for Weight & Health, University of California, Berkeley March 2009 - April 2011
Center for Health Research, University of California, Berkeley February 2001 - March 2009
Peggy A. Chung
Marketing Manager at Sciton
HEC Paris 2010 — 2012
MBA, Marketing, Strategy
Yale School of Management 2011 — 2011
MBA exchange, Strategy, Marketing
B.S., Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Sciton March 2015 - Present
Eli Lilly and Company September 2014 - March 2015
WestRock Company July 2012 - June 2014
Abbott Vascular March 2009 - August 2010
XTENT Inc February 2008 - February 2009
FoxHollow Technologies (acquired by Ev3 Inc, now Covidien in 2007) February 2007 - February 2008
Nellcor Puritan Bennett (Covidien) April 2006 - February 2007
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Senior Analyst, Alternative Disputes
San Francisco State University, College of Business 1977 — 1981
B.S., Dietitics
State Compensation Insurance Fund January 2002 - Present
Danville Chiropractic 1990 - 2001
Kendall McGaw 1983 - 1989
Xerox Corporation 1981 - 1983
Pacific Medical Center 1977 - 1981
California Real Estate..., Insurance, Underwriting, Public Speaking, Customer Service, Strategy, Workers Compensation, Mediation, Financial Analysis, Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Coaching, Risk Management, Policy, Management, Data Analysis, Process Improvement, Training, Business Analysis, Access
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IT Administrator at Federal Judiciary
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication, General
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Paralegal Studies
Federal Judiciary February 2015 - Present
Total Woman Gym + Spa June 2013 - January 2015
Just Breathe {Yoga} October 2012 - January 2015
Federal Judiciary November 2011 - January 2015
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Moreno Family Law Firm February 2009 - November 2009
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Johnson City, Tennessee Area
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Environmental Support Center August 2006 - October 2011
Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival January 2006 - August 2011
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Southern Partners Fund December 1994 - August 2005
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2011 — 2014
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Bank of China July 2014 - August 2014
E Fund Management Co.,LTD. March 2014 - May 2014
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Orthodontist, Dental associates of Walpole
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SCRABBLE 4+
original crossword game
#29 in Word
CONNECT WITH FRIENDS. PLAY WITH WORDS. Get a game of SCRABBLE going with just about anyone – or play solo against the computer! Plus, now you can play SCRABBLE in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese.
WHO WILL YOU PLAY?
• Challenge friends via Facebook and more
• Find an instant opponent with a single touch
• Play solo against the computer to improve your skills
• Get numerous games going at once – more than any word game on the App Store
SHOW OFF YOUR SKILLS
Connect to Facebook and share your best scores. You can even talk a good game with enhanced chat and notification features.
IMPROVE YOUR SCORES WITH THE TEACHER
Become a SCRABBLE master with the exclusive “Teacher” feature - see what your best word could have been after every turn.
LOSS FOR WORDS?
Use the in-game word list, built-in official SCRABBLE dictionary, or the exclusive Best Word feature to see your highest scoring choices.
Want to recreate the feeling of a real-time in-person game? Try the new Speed Play mode where you and your opponent agree to 2 or 5 minute turns. If words aren't played in time, nudge and forfeit options are unlocked.
LOOK SHARP!
View every detail on the board with HD-quality graphics made to maximize the Retina display.
Ready for the first and last word in word games? Don’t accept imitations. Just say, “LET’S PLAY SCRABBLE!
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We’ve made a few behind-the-scenes updates to improve performance. Thanks for playing!
Martinsd , 10/19/2017
A great classic game!
For as long as I can remember, Scrabble has been one of my all time favorite games! It is suitable for a most ages about 10 to 12 years and up because you can choose the level of difficulty and playing style. I really enjoy the option to either play against the computer, or with others who are also connected online. I find it very addicting, and can play for long periods of time without ever getting bored. The downfall is that the dictionary used definitely does not include all of the words in the English language. It is frustrating to not be able to play words that are truly legitimate. My other complaint is the high frequency of interruptions by the constant ads. When I first started playing this app, there were very few ads but the longer I have played the more ad interruptions that occur. Now an ad pops up virtually right after every time I take my turn. The app would be a lot more enjoyable if there was a way to eliminate the ads all together. Otherwise I am really liking this app and recommend it to others who have enjoyed this classic game!
ManiTobi , 09/24/2017
What happened to scrabble?
This was good and fun a few years ago. The updates made it continually glitchy. Now the "teacher" no longer provides any useful words. She would always tell you if there was better word out there. Now she gives you the lowest scoring word. So weird!! Anyway, it crashes occasionally and there are many times when it has trouble with the server. It's too bad. I used to love it. 😕
Again, your updates make the game even more glitchy. I have to reboot my phone after each word play. Going between dictionary and game, it acts as though you just opened the game. Replacing opponents tiles and taking yours off the mat. Dictionary takes several taps to close, or even to delete the word you tried and or change that word. And then will freeze and won't let you back into the game.
I don't know what you guys are thinking you're doing or what goal you are trying to get to. But you have made playing this almost unbearable.
ManetRamsey , 11/28/2018
Too many ads, buggy, word list not up to date
1. This app has WAY too many ads, and the no-ads premium version is highly overpriced. I’m not talking about ads you can click away after a few seconds. There’s an ad after every single time you play, which renders the otherwise possibly fun “timed play” game mode useless. and these ads sometimes freeze the game so that you have to quit the app and reopen it to continue playing. The frequency of this makes the app unusable when you’re running low on battery.
2. The word list isn’t up to date. The two-letter words “ew” and “ok” were recently added to the official Scrabble dictionary, as well as the word “zen,” but my friends and I have found that we still can’t play those words in the supposedly official scrabble app. This needs to be fixed ASAP
3. The “teacher mode” is interesting but it sometimes spoils the game, allowing people to cheat. There should be an option to handicap it so that it can’t show best plays that could be made with tiles still in your rack, or a way to have it show you all the possible best plays after the game is finished.
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Kuldeep Yadav breaks into top-five among T20I bowlers
By On November 26, 2018, 10:12 PM IST News Sports
Dubai: Indian spinner Kuldeep Yadav has vaulted into the top-five of the International Cricket Council (ICC) men’s player rankings for T20I bowlers for the first time in his career.
The 23-year-old made a jump 20 places to claim the third position on the ranking list.
Australian spinner Adam Zampa, meanwhile, has also made a significant improvement in his ranking making a jump of 17 places to occupy the fifth spot. The two wrist-spinners have edged out fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah of India and Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman out of the top-20 to increase the number of slow bowlers to 13 in the top-20 list.
Bowlers inside the top 20 to lose ground include Imran Tahir in ninth (down by three places), Yuzvendra Chahal in 11th (down by seven places), Billy Stanlake in 14th (down by five places) and Andrew Tye in 18th (down by eight places).
Outside the top 20, South Africa’s duo of Chris Morris and Andile Phehlukwayo have improved their rankings. Morris is now ranked 27th (up by six places) and Phehlukwayo is ranked 38th (up by four places).
In the batting table, India opener Shikhar Dhawan is the biggest mover, rising five places to a career-high 11th position.
Babar Azam of Pakistan is the number-one ranked batsman, while Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan is the top-ranked bowler. Glenn Maxwell of Australia is the leading all-rounder, according to the recently released T20I ranking list.
Source: ANI
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13 Instagram Lessons From Fashion Brands [Part. 2]
All Posts gabriela - November 30, 2017
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Dodgers become 1st team to 50 wins
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Cody Bellinger keeps getting on base, and if he's at home chances are it's via a home run.
Bellinger slugged his 24th homer - 16th at Dodger Stadium - and Los Angeles kept it together after losing starter Rich Hill to injury in a 9-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night, becoming the major leagues' first 50-win team.
At 50-25, the Dodgers are tied with the 1977 club for the second-best start in Los Angeles history. It's also the first time since that year that the team has collected 50 wins in its 75th game.
''We're all confident in ourselves and it's showing on the field,'' Bellinger said.
Chris Taylor homered twice to help the NL West leaders improve to a big league-best 30-9 at home. They routed the Giants for the second straight game, following up on a 9-0 win Tuesday.
''We're playing free and easy,'' Taylor said. ''We're playing our best baseball.''
The only downer was Hill's departure after one inning because of left forearm discomfort that will send him to the injured list. The left-hander retired the side on 15 pitches with two strikeouts.
''You could see something wasn't right, something was going through his head. Our radar was up,'' manager Dave Roberts said.
Hill is scheduled for a MRI on Thursday. He said he had elbow tightness in his two previous starts and ''everything tightened up'' after his third warmup pitch before the second inning.
''I didn't feel it would be a wise move to continue,'' Hill said. ''The MRI will probably show something, but I don't think it will be in the concerning category.''
Roberts said, ''I'm hopeful.''
Dylan Floro (2-1) got the victory with one strikeout in two innings. He was followed by Yimi Garcia, Caleb Ferguson, Pedro Baez and Joe Kelly who combined to limit the Giants to two runs and four hits.
''The bullpen was incredible,'' Hill said. ''Kudos to them.''
The Dodgers' offense got going early, powering to a 6-0 lead after three innings.
Taylor hit a two-out, three-run homer in the first off Drew Pomeranz (2-7).
Rookie Kyle Garlick added his first career homer leading off the second, Alex Verdugo had a sacrifice fly and Russell Martin had a two-out RBI single in the third, and Taylor's solo shot in the fifth made it 7-1.
Bellinger recorded his 24th homer in the seventh, a two-run shot off Dereck Rodriguez. He's reached base in 68 of 70 starts this season.
Los Angeles had 13 hits after recording 14 on Tuesday.
The Giants have just 10 hits going into the series finale Thursday.
''We're just not swinging the bats very well right now,'' manager Bruce Bochy said. ''Some pretty good arms they brought in.''
The Giants' runs came on solo homers by Tyler Austin in the fourth and Mike Yastrzemski in the sixth.
Pomeranz gave up seven runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out four and walked one. He's worked past the fifth inning just once in 13 starts.
Giants: OF Steven Duggar was scratched with a tight lower back and is day to day. ... INF Pablo Sandoval pinch hit in the ninth after leaving Monday's game with an injured right pinky finger.
The fan who snagged Garlick's home run gave the ball to him and Garlick turned it over to his father after the game. ''It was awesome being able to do it in front of my parents,'' he said.
Giants: LHP Madison Bumgarner (3-6, 3.87 ERA) seeks his first win against the Dodgers since Sept. 23, 2017. He's 0-3 with a 2.43 ERA in his last six starts against them.
Dodgers: LHP Julio Urias (3-2, 3.05) comes out of the bullpen to make a spot start in place of RHP Walker Buehler, who gets extra rest. Urias is 1-1 with a 3.66 ERA in four starts this season. He hasn't pitched longer than three innings since April 18.
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Everything Apple Announced at Today’s Keynote
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Today marked a day equivalent to Christmas in the tech world: the annual Apple Event. Held at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, the event brought together tech reporters and enthusiasts from all over the world as the company unveiled its latest products and software updates. If you missed the live stream, don’t panic; we’ve rounded up the biggest news so you know what to keep an eye out for at Apple stores (sorry, town squares) this fall.
BIGnews in the Tech World
It’s not quite August yet, but we can already feel summer beginning to slip through our fingers. While tan lines may start to fade, tech news is still hotter than ever. To keep you up to speed, your favorite informers from the BIGfish team are back with another tech news roundup, all while we’re soaking up the sun during our last beach days thanks to our Summer Fridays perks!
What Brands Can Learn from Amazon Prime Day This Year
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Nothing tells you more about American consumerism than an annual holiday designated specifically for online shopping deals. Last week was Amazon Prime Day: the company’s yearly one-day sales event that offers deals and discounts on hundreds of products available for Amazon Prime delivery. And for the first time ever, Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday in number of online sales. This was quite a surprise to everyone as Prime Day hasn’t always been a success. The first ever Prime Day in 2015 was a flop as the company saw itself down hundreds of millions of dollars from the anticipated value of sales. In 2016 the hashtag #PrimeDayFail began trending as customers took to social media to complain about website interruptions, checkout issues and more. But to everyone’s surprise, Prime Day 2017 was Amazon’s biggest sales day to date as sales grew by more than 60% from 2016. Take a lesson out of Amazon’s book on how to leverage Prime Day for brands, how to make the most of the deals and how to prepare for next year:
The Best Podcasts According to the BIGteam
The members of the BIGfish team are BIG fans of podcasts. We listen to them on our commutes to the office, at the gym or at the beach while enjoying our Summer Fridays (how lucky are we to have these perks?). Today, I went around the office and asked the BIGteam to weigh in on which podcasts are worth giving a listen. Whether you’re looking for a new podcast to start or have never even listened to a podcast before, look no further than here for suggestions on the most binge-worthy ones:
Snap Inc. Introduces Snap Map
Snap Inc. just raised the stakes in the battle to beat out Instagram (check out our most recent comparison of the two apps here). Today on the Snap blog, the company introduced its latest feature: Snap Map. Snap Map is exactly what it sounds like; you can now see your fellow Snappers’ locations in real-time and Stories from the most popular events near you. We’re breaking down what this new (potentially stalking) feature is and how to use it.
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Furthermore by Equinox: The Better Way To Build Strength
Seasoned athletes use progressive overload. Here’s how you can add it to your workout.
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This post originally appeared on our partner site, Furthermore by Equinox.
People often try to avoid a plateau by way of muscle confusion, a strategy-based on the idea that workouts lose their potency when they’re done over and over again. To combat this, they constantly switch up their routine. “Muscle confusion has been a familiar concept in bodybuilding for a long time,” says Matt Delaney, CSCS, New York City-based national manager of innovation at Equinox.
But muscles aren’t easily tripped up, says Matt Berenc, director of education for the Equinox Fitness Training Institute in Beverly Hills. While strength-focused athletes should absolutely weave different cardio and mobility work into their weekly routines, it can actually pay off to keep weight room workouts somewhat the same.
Enter the better strategy for building a stronger, more functional body: progressive overload. With this technique, you keep a more consistent routine while gradually manipulating different variables to make the workouts more difficult.
“This sets you up to avoid the plateau and build a body that can handle even more in the future,” Berenc says. To master progressive overload and build strength, follow these three steps.
Focus on your overarching goal
If you want to gain muscle, spend most of your time lifting heavy in the big three: the squat, deadlift, and press. To be more powerful, you need to find the right mix of speed and load, either with Olympic lifts or by adding explosive plyometrics to bodyweight exercises. If your goal is to build endurance, your lifting program should challenge your ability to sustain effort over time.
For more specific goals, like squatting more weight, you should spend the majority of your time practicing that move under a variety of loads. Constantly changing your workouts, in that case, can actually slow progress. “It’s like you’re always being shown a new language each time you sit down to read,” Berenc says. “You might be able to learn a word or two, but you’re not making it through the book any time soon.”
Gradually change the volume and intensity
For most goals, these are the most important (and easiest) variables to change. Make your workouts harder week over week by doing more reps or lifting more weight. Even a five percent change is enough to trigger a response, Berenc notes.
But remember that progress is rarely linear. “It’s not as simple as saying that you’ll add 10 pounds to the bar every week and keep increasing from there,” he says. Some weeks you may be able to add more weight or reps. Other weeks, your volume and intensity might stay stable because you haven’t adapted to that workload yet or because outside factors—like stress or lack of sleep—aren’t supporting your progress.
To find out if you’re ready to add more reps or weight, follow the 2x2x2 rule: “If you can do two extra reps for two sets on two different days, you can be confident in adding some weight to the bar,” he says.
Play around with other variables
If your workouts don’t feel challenging anymore, turn to other variables to make them more intense. Berenc suggests shortening rest periods, progressing your movements (like turning your Romanian deadlift into a single-leg deadlift), and switching from circuits to straight sets or vice versa.
For example, in week one, rest for 60 seconds between sets, then reduce it by five seconds every week until you’re resting for only 30 seconds. “At the end of the program, you’ll be completing the same amount of work in less time,” he says.
Accessory lifts will also help you reach your goals. If you’re trying to squat heavier, for example, do other leg moves like lunges, leg presses, single-leg deadlifts, and kettlebell deadlifts one to two times per week. First do the primary lift (which would be the squat) and then the complementary exercises. “They provide an opportunity to build strength without overdoing the movement itself,” he explains.
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What are the add-only access permissions?
With Teamup calendars, you can share your calendar with others via unique calendar link. For every calendar link, you can set the level of access permission. There are nine different levels of access permission.
For every calendar link, you can set the level of access permission globally, including all the sub-calendars n the link, or you can select the sub-calendars to include and choose an access permission level for each one.
Here are three examples.
This calendar link has access to all sub-calendars, with the access permission set globally for all:
This calendar link has access to multiple sub-calendars, with the same access permission for all included sub-calendars and others set to Not shared:
This calendar link has access to multiple sub-calendars, with different access permissions set for the included sub-calendars:
The add-only access permission
The add-only permission enables users to open the shared sub-calendar(s), click on the calendar to add an event, enter the event details, and save the event. They can also see other events that have been added to the calendar, including details (such as description and location) but cannot edit them.
The add-only permission allows a window of time for modifying an event after the user has created it. Newly added events can be modified only during the user’s current browser session (up to approximately 30 minutes). If a user tries to modify or delete an event after that window, they will receive an error message:
The add-only permission provides a time window in the current browser session to edit or delete the event.
What add-only permission means:
You can add new events to the shared calendar.
You can modify or delete the events you have added within the allotted time window.
After the allotted time window, you cannot modify or delete the events you created.
You can see all other events and event details on the calendar.
You cannot modify or delete other events on the calendar.
The add-only access permission can be very helpful for a shared community calendar, approval system, or booking calendar.
The add-only, no-details access permission
The Add-only, no-details permission does not allow a user to see the titles or details of other events. They will merely see other slots as Reserved.
Add-only, no-details permission will show other events as “Reserved.”
What add-only, no-details permission means:
You can see all other events on the calendar, but only marked as Reserved.
You cannot see event details of other events on the calendar.
The add-only, no-details access permission works well if you want to allow users to add and modify their own events but not see the details of what others have added to the calendar.
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Food Safety Lawyer Ron Simon Files First Four Cyclospora Lawsuits In Texas, Nebraska, and Ohio Linked to Contaminated Leafy Greens
Posted on August 30, 2013 by foodsafeguru
Houston-based national food safety lawyer Ron Simon has filed the first four Cyclospora lawsuits in Texas, Nebraska, and Ohio stemming from a multi-state outbreak linked to leafy greens produced in and imported from Mexico by Taylor Farms. The tainted greens were served at Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and several independent restaurants and have now been linked to illnesses in over 600 victims across 22 states. Copies of the lawsuits are available upon request.
Smith Lawsuit Filed in Texas
Mr. Simon filed the first Texas Cyclospora lawsuit in Harris County on behalf of Kennon and Lyndsay Smith against Bob’s Taco Station, Taylor Farms, and Max Luna Produce.
The Smiths, who lead physically active and healthy lives, consumed tamales and tacos with lettuce and cilantro at Bob’s Taco Station in Rosenberg, Texas on July 6, 2013. Shortly thereafter, they began experiencing symptoms consistent with Cyclospora poisoning, including nausea, persistent diarrhea, fever, headaches and dehydration, abdominal cramping and stomach pain, muscle pain, severe bloating and gas, persistent fatigue, and loss of appetite.
The Smiths endured their illnesses for nearly one week, believing they were suffering from some form of food poisoning that would resolve within a matter of days. But when their symptoms did not improve, they called on a family physician to prescribe medication. Even after taking the prescribed antibiotics, the symptoms did not subside. They again sought medical attention at a local clinic and were treated with additional medication.
By late July, the Smiths became very concerned because their symptoms still had not resolved and Kennon had lost significant amounts of time from work. Kennon again sought medical treatment which included a stool test. Those test results later confirmed that Kennon had tested positive for the Cyclospora parasite. As a result, Lyndsay was also treated for Cyclospora poisoning.
The Smiths were later contacted by health officials from Fort Bend County and recorded as a part of the Texas Cyclospora outbreak.
May and Sanguinetti Lawsuits Filed in Nebraska
Mr. Simon filed the first two Nebraska Cyclospora lawsuits in Lancaster County on behalf of Laurenda and Richard Sanguinetti, a mother and her son, and Erin May, a pregnant mother-to-be. All three victims consumed tainted salad served at the Olive Garden restaurant located at 90 Gateway Mall in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Sanguinettis are residents of Midlothian, Texas who became ill shortly after their meal with extreme diarrhea, vomiting, bloating and gas, nausea, fever and chills, dehydration and related headaches, body aches and cramping, loss of appetite, anxiety and dizziness, and weight loss. Both Laurenda and Richard attempted to self-treat their illnesses initially, thinking they had a virus or the flu. But when their symptoms did not subside, they both sought medical care at Mansfield Methodist Hospital.
Richard’s stool test came back positive for the Cyclospora parasite. Once his results became known, doctors began treating both Richard and Laurenda for Cyclosporiasis.
Shortly after her meal at Olive Garden, Erin May also began to experience diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and chills, dehydration, loss of appetite and related weight loss. She was initially diagnosed with gastroenteritis, and thereafter her symptoms were deemed to be pregnancy-related. But by mid-July, it became obvious that the symptoms were not improving and there was another more serious underlying condition. She again sought treatment from her primary care physicians and provided a stool culture.
Her test results arrived on July 12th and indicted that she had tested positive for the Cyclospora parasite. At that point, Erin was diagnosed with cyclosporiasis. She was prescribed the sulfate-antibiotic Bactrim for two weeks. The decision to treat her with Bactrim was complex, given the considerable controversy regarding treatment of a pregnant woman with a category C drug.
Richard, Laurenda, and Erin were subsequently contacted by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and informed that they were part of the Nebraska Cyclospora outbreak linked to consumption of salads at Olive Garden.
Haren Lawsuit Filed in Ohio
Mr. Simon filed the first Ohio Cyclospora lawsuit in Lucas County on behalf of Justin Haren, a 35-year old resident of Toledo. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Haren consumed salad he had purchased at an Olive Garden on May 28, 2013. Shortly thereafter, he started to experience nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramping, bloating, loss of appetite, and fever. He initially attempted to ride out the illness, but when his symptoms did not improve, he presented to an Urgent Care facility in Maumee, Ohio on June 23, 2013. He was diagnosed with gastroenteritis. He received follow up treatment at Springforest Family Physicians the next day, where additional testing was performed. Test results would later show that Mr. Haren had tested positive for the Cyclospora parasite. In July, still suffering the effects of Cyclospora poisoning and having lost 20 pounds, he presented to Wellstar Paulding Hospital and received additional treatment.
Mr. Haren subsequently received a call from Ohio State Health department informing him that we was part of a nationwide Cyclospora outbreak.
Ron Simon Representing Cyclospora Victims Across the United States
Ron Simon’s services have been sought by hundreds of Cyclospora victims linked to this outbreak. His clients are among the 610 confirmed victims in 22 states who have been recently sickened with Cyclospora according to the CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/investigation-2013.html
According to the CDC website, Cyclospora is a parasite that is commonly spread by ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cyclosporiasis/gen_info/faqs.html
Mr. Simon issued the following statement this morning: “These Cyclospora lawsuits will ensure that our clients are fairly compensated for the trauma they have endured, and will also shed light on cracks in the food safety system that allowed this to happen. Feces should never be found in food, and we will keep fighting until all food imported to the United States is clean and safe for consumption.
About Ron Simon
Over the last 20 years, Ron Simon has prosecuted thousands of food poisoning cases for victims across the United States. His work has resulted in numerous upgrades to food safety procedures in Fortune 500 companies and in legislation designed to protect consumers from dangerous food-borne pathogens.
Mr. Simon and his clients have been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX and virtually all other major television networks and print media. Mr. Simon has collected over $600,000,000 for his clients and regularly publishes articles about food safety and litigation at www.myfoodpoisoninglawyer.com, which are read by viewers in over 180 countries. He frequently serves as an invited speaker at food-borne illness conferences across the United States.
Through litigation, media commentary, and his food poisoning publications, Mr. Simon relentlessly challenges food companies to do a better job in making our food safe.
For media inquiries or more information on this outbreak and ongoing litigation, please contact Ron Simon directly at (713) 819-8116 or ron@simonluke.com or Tony Coveny at 713-306-3880 or Tony@simonluke.com.
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RECAP: Brian Johnson Struggles as #RedSox Drop Series Finale to White Sox in 8-0 Loss.
On a humid afternoon in Chicago where the White Sox honored legendary commentator Ken “The Hawk” Harrleson with a touching pregame ceremony, the Red Sox, a former team of Harrelson’s during his playing career, looked absolutely lifeless this afternoon.
Let’s get into where things went wrong.
Making his 12th start of the season on Sunday was Brian Johnson, who before today, had never faced the White Sox nor pitched at Guaranteed Rate Field in his three-year career.
Right from the get go, it was clear Chicago had the left-hander’s number, because they came out swinging early and they were making hard contact.
Only able to pitch into the second inning of this one, Johnson surrendered four runs, all earned, on seven hits and one walk to go along with two punch outs on the afternoon.
A pair of runs in the first on a Tim Anderson solo home run and Kevan Smith RBI single another pair of runs in the second on a two RBI double off the bat of Matt Davidson. That is how the White Sox collected all four runs off of Johnson, and his day would come to an end after giving up that Davidson two-bagger.
TA7 sets a new career high with his 18th home run of the season! pic.twitter.com/EO2kdzhDxt
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) September 2, 2018
Facing 12 total batters, the Florida native could barely manage to record four outs before he got the hook with one out and a runner on second in favor of Bobby Poyner.
Finishing with a final low pitch count of 38 (28 strikes), Johnson relied on his four-seam fastball 50% of the time and topped out at 90.3 MPH with that same pitch in the first inning.
Falling to 4-4 with a 4.36 ERA on the season now, the 27-year-old will look to rebound from an awry start to September in his next time out, which should come against the Houston Astros next weekend.
In relief of Johnson, the Red Sox bullpen had a daunting talk on their hands in completing nearly seven innings to close this one out.
Three September call-ups, Bobby Poyner, William Cuevas, and Robby Scott combined for five-and-two-thirds innings of work, and they gave up three earned runs on six hits, which essentially put this game out of reach for the Red Sox.
Oddly enough, White Sox outfielder Daniel Palka ended up hitting a solo home run off of Cuevas in the fourth after it looked like he initially homered earlier in the same at bat, but it was ruled foul.
He hung it, he hurt it.
He hung it again, he hurt it again. pic.twitter.com/cXFLXP3dVR
Despite the results, Scott, who was inserted into this contest after Cuevas had to exit due to a heat-related illness, was the only Boston hurler to not surrender a run, so credit to him for that I guess.
Hector Velazquez was last up, and he allowed one run to cross the plate on two hits in the bottom half of the eighth. He has now given up runs in six of his last seven outings dating back to the beginning of August, although three of those were starts.
On the other side of things, the Red Sox lineup was matched up against a familiar opponent in Chicago’s James Shields.
Having already faced Boston 28 previous times over his 13-year career between the Rays, Royals, Padres, and now the White Sox, Shields had himself a solid day with six scoreless frames on Sunday.
Only managing four hits and two walks off the veteran right-hander, things did not get much better once the White Sox bullpen took over in the seventh, as Boston’s lineup could scrape together just one hit in the final three frames against the likes of Caleb Frare, Juan Minaya, and Hector Santiago.
One note from this 8-0 loss:
80% of the Red Sox’s hits on Sunday came from Xander Bogaerts and JD Martinez. Blake Swihart was responsible for the other one. None of the five hits went for extra bases.
All and all, the White Sox were tough opponent for the Red Sox this year, as they came away with the season-series win at 4-3.
Leaving the Windy City with a series-split under their belts, Boston will head south to Atlanta where they will be taking on a first place Atlanta Braves team.
Getting the start in the series opener tomorrow afternoon will be Nathan Eovaldi, who is able to pitch on such short rest because of that weather-shortened outing on Friday.
In 13 career starts against the Braves, Eovaldi has posted a solid 2.82 ERA and .235 BAA over 83 innings pitched.
Opposite Eovaldi will be rookie right-hander Touki Toussaint for Atlanta, who tossed six one-run innings against the Miami Marlins in his only other big league start back on August 13th.
First pitch of the series opener is scheduled for 1:05 PM ET.
Author: Brendan Campbell
Blogging about the Boston Red Sox since April '17. Also support Tottenham Hotspur. View all posts by Brendan Campbell
Author Brendan CampbellPosted on September 2, 2018 Categories Baseball, Sports, UncategorizedTags Baseball, blake swihart, bobby poyner, boston, brian johnson, chicago, hector velazquez, james shields, jd martinez, mlb, red sox, robby scott, white sox, william cuevas, xander bogaerts
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Meaning of the Zodiac Sign Gemini
In our previous article we have discussed the Spiritual Birthstone of Gemini – Tiger’s Eye. We have also touched upon some of the General Characteristics of this Zodiac Sign, so you are welcome to read that discussion prior to examining the Traits and Meanings of Gemini presented below.
GEMINI, the Zodiacal House of the Twins, is occupied by the Sun approximately from May 22. until the June 20. This House is is ruled by the planet Mercury. In the earliest Zodiacs the Gemini sign was symbolized by two kids. Later on, the Greeks substituted them with twin children, the sons of Jupiter, represented by two bright stars, Castor and Pollux.
Gemini is also symbolized by two Pillars joined at the top and base, which is a diagrammatic representation of the Twins seated side by side with embracing arms. Castor was killed in battle, and Pollux, overwhelmed at his loss, entreated Jupiter to restore his brother to life, or make them both immortal. As a reward for this great affection, and in recognition of their noble deeds when on earth, Jupiter translated the two brothers, thus forming the Constellation Gemini in the heavens.
It was believed that among other achievements they cleared the neighboring seas of pirates, and when the Argonauts were in distress from a violent tempest, two lambent flames descended from the clouds and settled upon the heads of Castor and Pollux, a calm immediately ensuing.
From these circumstances they were regarded as protectors of navigation, it being inferred that whenever both stars were visible it was a harbinger of fine weather, the appearance of one star only signifying storms and tempests.
It may be noted that as a rule the seas are calm when the Sun is in Gemini, and it was at this period of the year that the forty days’ rain of the Deluge ceased.
The aforementioned symbol of the two Pillars joined at the top and base is also believed to represent the two pillars set up by King Solomon in the porch of the Temple, which were quite distinct and apart from the building itself and were not for any structural purpose. Their use is considered to be entirely symbolical. One was named ” Jachin,” meaning ” He will establish,” and the other ” Boaz,” signifying ” In Him is strength “. They can be understood as denoting the union of Intellect and Intuition.
The fortunate number of the Gemini type is 5, which was considered to have peculiar virtues as a Talisman by the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks because it unites the first even and odd numbers 2 and 3. It was often inscribed over doors to keep out evil spirits. It is interesting to note that in Roman marital ceremonies it was usual to light five tapers and to admit the guests by five. Jewish history records a frequent use of this number, five gifts to the priests, five things only to be eaten in camp. Joseph gave five suits of raiment to Benjamin, and presented only five of his brothers to Pharaoh. David took five pebbles when he went to fight Goliath, and Joshua hanged five kings on five trees ; further, every important measurement of the Tabernacle was five or a multiple of five ; also there were five wise and five foolish virgins. In the Islam religion there are five articles of belief, namely in Allah, in the Prophets, in Angels, the Day of Judgment, and Predestination.
In Astrology there are five principal aspects of the planets which rule the good, or bad fortunes of the subject. Masonry speaks of five points of fellowship, an important symbol is the pentagram, and also five brethren can hold a fellow-craft’s lodge. The fifth son of Jacob, Issachar, represents Gemini, and, in naming him, Leah expresses the leading qualities of the symbol that is, reward and recompense which its mental qualities bring.
Astrological Personality Traits of Gemini
The individuals born during this period are invariably of an intellectual disposition, and when well-educated their ideals and aspirations are high, with an intense desire to do useful work. When inclined to religion they favor the intellectual and idealistic. In their family life they can be incredibly loyal and faithful, helping their relations however undeserving. Though generous to their loved ones or when prompted by personal influence, these individuals are not lavish in their expenditure.
Gemini Career and Money
Being fond of money and ingenious in their schemes and methods of making it, a Gemini personality likes to secure a good return for their money spent and their natural shrewdness enables them to get the better of their fellows. They have a quick comprehension of human nature which assists them in their schemes, enabling them to weigh up anyone they may be dealing with, and consequently to get the best of a bargain. Their success, or failure, will depend to a great extent on the positions occupied and the aspects in relation to each other of the Moon and planets at the time of their birth.
Under harmonious circumstances they possess keen judgment, quick wit, ability in artistic directions, and the faculty of acquiring knowledge without much visible effort, their capabilities carrying them to the highest mental attainments but, when ill-balanced, they sink to the extreme of clever trickery and fraud.
Their characteristics are often contradictory. Being peculiarly undecided in their dispositions and invariably of two minds, the constant influx of new ideas causes much innate restlessness, the realization of their plans seldom coming up to anticipations. Owing to the antagonism between their feelings and their reason, they are seldom able to concentrate on any one thing for any length of time, thus they start many schemes and enterprises which they abandon before completion. In consequence, Intuition and its forces, (as opposed to Impulse and individual inclination,) strain and perplex the versatile mind of Gemini individual, making them capricious and irritable, although their anger is easily appeased. They are highly strung, charming, restless, and fond of change and variety in their friends and associates, having great dislike to monotonous work and ever seeking fresh outlets to manifest their versatility.
In argument, from their facility of expression and dual nature, they are the most difficult of opponents to overcome. Many of our most clever advocates and solicitors have been born during this period, and as illustrative of the duality of this House, it produces, when favorably aspected, the best physicians, authors, orators, actors, schoolmasters, journalists, merchants, accountants, secretaries, and linguists ; also our smartest detectives. But when the worst side of their character is developed, the subjects of this House become the craftiest of law-breakers. The cleverest of criminals come from this type, ranging from fraudulent company promoters to thieves and pickpockets.
Physical Aspects and Relationships
Gemini rules the arms, shoulders, and hands; and diseases such as sprains and displacements attack Gemini subjects in their limbs. The lungs, too, are sometimes afflicted, generally through defections in breathing; also a tendency to rheumatic and gouty pains in those portions of the body ruled by this sign, and when Mercury, the ruling planet, is badly aspected, digestive trouble, nervous ailments, and imperfect action of the liver are indicated.
The mundane and materialistic things of life do not ignite any passion or interest in a Gemini individual. People born under the astrological sign of Gemini are highly intellectual and sometimes they may go to the extent of playing mind games with their partners. Gemini is clever and if you want to win the heart of a Gemini, engage them in good conversations.
They are attracted to a partner who is intellectually stimulating. They are shrouded with an enigma, which allures the opposite sex. Gemini cannot withstand monotony in a relationship.
For a Gemini, love stems from the intellectual point of view. The superficial physical beauty of their partners does not infatuate them. The Gemini partners have a special interest towards philosophy and religion. They also have the innate ability to understand the thought process of their partners. They look for a fast paced relationship and variety of expression. They prefer partners who can mentally stimulate them and are as quick witted as they are.
Gemini likes to have space in their relationship. A Gemini will love a person who gives them enough space and offers them comfort. In marriage and business relations those born during the Gemini period will agree best with Aries ( click here to read about the traits of Aries), Leo (here about the traits of Leo), Libra (here about the traits of Libra), and Aquarius characters, and it is a curious fact that in the lives of those born whilst the Sun occupies the House of the Twins, nearly all important events, fortunate or unfortunate, happen twice, and incidents in the career are repeated in a similar way.
On the other hand, the worst relationship matches of this sign are Taurus, Cancer, and Pisces. The first is too slow, the second too solid and oriented toward home and family, and the third too emotional for the taste of Gemini.
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HTC Vive Showcases VR Education Experiences at CES 2017
By Sri Ravipati
HTC Vive will be demonstrating more than 30 virtual reality (VR) experiences — spanning education, entertainment, health and medical, mixed reality and more — at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas this week (Jan. 5-8).
The Vive showcase opens on Thursday, Jan. 5 and will highlight demos across the VR ecosystem in one-hour blocks. First among Vive’s education line-up is a medical experience from ENGAGE, a free educational platform that enables educators to teach VR simulations remotely. ENGAGE created “The Life Project” from University of Oxford to instruct medics on how to resuscitate an infant.
Lifeliqe, a visual learning tool that has approximately 1,000 interactive 3D models related to STEM, will also highlight its VR content at the conference. Vive partnered with Lifeliqe last year to develop education content for its VR headset. In addition, Lifeliqe offers interactive lesson plans aligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards, while also aligning with the four commonly used science textbooks across the United States. Furthermore, Lifeliqe’s lesson plans can all be customized to fit classroom needs.
Vive will demo several history-focused VR experiences at the conference, including one from TIME’s Life VR and DeluxeVR called “Remembering Pearl Harbor.” The experience is told through the lens of Lt. James Downing, the second-oldest living American veteran who served in World War II and survived the attack. Another VR experience, “Titanic VR” from Immersive Education, allows users to explore the infamous shipwreck, recreating the events that led to the disaster.
"In the past nine months, we've made VR readily accessible to consumers and enterprise customers across the globe, and we're carrying incredible momentum into 2017," said Daniel O'Brien, vice president of VR at HTC Vive, in a prepared statement. "The VR ecosystem continues to grow and at CES 2017, we will showcase the breadth of VR experiences and accessories that will form the future of VR."
To register for any of these education demos or others, email vivepr@htc.com.
Sri Ravipati is Web producer for THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at sravipati@1105media.com.
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In the Studio with KC Adams
“I've always jumped from medium to medium,” says this influential Indigenous artist. She adds: “There was a lot of things that we had to do for survival. I’m just merely following the footsteps of the ancestors”
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KC Adams is an Indigenous artist’s artist. With deep roots in Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba, she has, for decades, been activating Indigenous communities in the arts and beyond.
Adams’s ongoing photograph series Cyborg Hybrids was a viral sensation before memes. But at the core, her work engages Indigenous and settler communities in complex conversations about how colonialism and race affect our relations. Perception, another buzz-worthy photo series from Adams first seen in bus shelters, on billboards and in public spaces across Winnipeg, is being published in book form by Portage & Main Press this spring.
In this video, shot on location at the La Maison des artistes visuels francophones in Winnipeg, Adams reflects on her journey as an artist, and her new work with clay pottery.
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ARTICLE | Court News | June 20, 2019 03:03 PM | By CapeCodToday Staff
BOSTON – A Dominican national residing in Roxbury with lawful permanent resident status was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging narcotics trafficking operation that included distributing counterfeit prescription pain pills containing fentanyl throughout Boston and Cape Cod.
Santiago Pena, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to two years in prison and five years of supervised release. In December 2017, Pena pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
A lengthy wiretap investigation revealed that James Ramirez, an individual charged separately, supplied large-quantities of fentanyl and heroin to Kevin and Alex Fraga, drug dealers on Cape Cod. Ramirez also sold fentanyl pills designed to look like legitimate prescription oxycodone pills. Wiretap intercepts revealed that Ramirez was distributing fentanyl pills in batches of 100 to numerous other drug dealers. Over 2,500 fentanyl pills were recovered as a result of Ramirez’s arrest in late August.
Pena brokered fentanyl pill deals on Ramirez’s behalf, helping to connect Ramirez with a fentanyl pill supplier. On multiple occasions, Ramirez traded used cars for a combination of cash and fentanyl pills in deals that Pena helped arrange.
Alex Fraga pleaded guilty in August 2017, and was sentenced on June 10, 2019, to 131 months in prison. Kevin Fraga and Ramirez pleaded guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 8, 2019, and Oct. 1, 2019, respectively.
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November 9, 2010 · 10:00 am
Make shopping thrifty in Ohio’s Amish Country
Marlene Burrell of Mineral City, OH shops regularly at the Harvest Thrift Store in Sugarcreek, OH.
Frugal shoppers will find a bonanza in Ohio’s Amish Country. The area is abundant with several well-stocked thrift stores, which is a reflection of Amish and Mennonite values.
The Amish and Mennonite cultures have a reputation for being thrifty. Recycling clothing, house wares and other household items and much more not only fits that image but their theology of service as well. Accordingly, profits from all the area’s thrift stores go to various charities.
Great bargains covering a wide range of items can be found in each thrift store. All resell clean, functional and stylish merchandise for the entire family.
On the eastern edge of Amish Country is the Harvest Thrift Store in Sugarcreek, Ohio. Located at 1019 West Main Street, the Harvest Thrift Store has been in operation for four years. A second store at 102 East Main Street in Wilmot opened last May.
All proceeds go to youth ministries and to local non-profit organizations like Every Women’s House in Wooster. According to store manager Holly Lehigh, 30 to 40 percent of her customers are from out of the area.
“We have some people from out of state who come back three or four times every year,” she said. “They tell me that what they spend on gas they more than make up in the savings of what they buy.”
In Wayne County’s Kidron, MCC Connections offers its items in a pleasant and well-organized atmosphere. Store manager, Bill Ressler, said that a number of tour buses stop at the store on occasion, the most recent from North Carolina. He attributes those visits to the promotion of the store by the Wayne County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
According to Ressler, all proceeds from sales at MCC Connections go to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Akron, Pennsylvania. MCC assists peoples around the globe in education, water projects and agricultural initiates, encouraging health, hygiene and sustainability. MCC Connections is located at 4080 Kidron Road, Kidron.
Back in Holmes County in the hub of Amish Country is Berlin, where Share and Care Thrift Store operates on U.S. 62. Share and Care sends 80 percent of its profits to Haiti missions and uses the balance for local needs, such as fire victims and personal disasters.
Day manager Noah Troyer estimated that at least 50 percent of the store’s business is from tourists. He said that amount increases during peak tourist time.
“We have had people here from Arizona and California,” Troyer said.
Millersburg, the county seat, hosts two thriving thrift shops, the internationally known Goodwill Industries, and Save and Serve Thrift Shop. They just happen to be catty corner from one another on South Washington Street at Rodhe Drive.
Like it’s international corporation goals, Goodwill’s objective is to finance the employment of those who need jobs. Store manager, Josh McWilliams, said most of his customers are local residents, though the number of tourists who frequent the store increases seasonally.
“They are mostly looking for down home, Amish-made items,” McWilliams said.
According to Helen Glick, co-manager at Save and Serve, about 25 percent of their customers are from outside the immediate area.
“Our on-going silent auctions seem to attract collectors and others interested in unusual pieces and antiques,” Glick said. A look at the silent auction bid book indicated customers from all across Ohio as well as several from other states.
Eric Raber, co-manager at Save and Serve, credits the community’s continued support for the long-term success of his store. Save and Serve was founded in 1975.
“Even in a down economy, the local people continue to provide us with amazing amounts and quality items to offer at reasonable prices,” Raber said. Like MCC Connections, all of the profits at Save and Serve are sent to MCC. In its 35 years of operation, Save and Serve has sent $3.3 million to MCC to help fund its global projects.
Whether from near or far, bargains galore are sure to be found in the thrift stores in Ohio’s Amish Country. And emblematic of the holiday spirit, all of the profits from sales go to those in need.
Kay Schrock, Mary Hoefer, and Jo Troyer, all of Goshen, IN, and Becky Christophel of Harrisonburg, VA, shopped several Amish Country thrift stores, including Share and Care in Berlin. The three sisters and their mother, Troyer, enjoy their frequent rendezvous' in Ohio's Amish country.
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← The Paul Johnson commitment doctrine is about to be tested.
Freak. →
Is it possible to go downhill after Terence Moore is gone?
Like others, Paul Westerdawg hits on the other part of the story regarding the latest Georgia Tech cheating scandal:
… Any AD who can keep an NCAA investigation a secret for over 20 months is running a tighter ship than most. It also helps to have a hometown newspaper completely and totally asleep at the wheel.
Georgia fans get three days of articles on the transfer of Brent Benedict and a full article on the assistant recruiting coordinator (a guy I had never heard of) leaving while GT is going through an investigation in two sports without a peep.
Now, let’s be fair. It’s not just the AJ-C which whiffed on the investigation. We heard nary a peep from the national media – including a certain Mr. College Football who lives in the Atlanta area and hosts a college football radio show on a local channel – about it until yesterday when the NCAA broke the news.
But there’s no denying it’s an embarrassment to the sports section of a major newspaper that’s clearly seen better days before.
No doubt some of what Paul is critical of is related to public interest. There are many more fans of Georgia’s program than there are of Tech’s and what resources the AJ-C has to direct in its sports coverage are going to go more in the direction of Athens than the Flats because that’s where the eyeballs are. If the readership isn’t particularly interested, it’s harder to convince the paper’s editors to be concerned.
But the size of the overall pot the paper draws from has been diminishing for some time now. Regardless of what biases you may have perceived it to be guilty of, there’s no question that the AJ-C used to do a much better job with sheer coverage of events. It’s a shell of its former self in that regard. Bias aside again, that’s a very sad development. We’re the poorer for it.
All of which brings to mind this post I read yesterday.
… Still, let me suggest there’s at least culturally-significant area of American life that was failed by the “mainstream” media and been immeasurably improved by the blogosphere. I speak, of course, of college football.
I defy anyone to examine the coverage of college football in the twenty leading American newspapers and twenty leading football blogs and not conclude that the latter does a vastly superior job. Places such as Brian Cook’s Mgoblog (Michigan), Every Day Should Be Saturday (motto: Because College Football is Too Important to be Left to the Professionals), Burnt Orange Nation (Texas), Chris Brown’s Smart Football, Matt Hinton’s Dr Saturday (hosted by Yahoo) and many, many others analyse college football with a depth and sophistication you won’t find in any newspaper or, much of the time, in Sports Illustrated or at ESPN either.
True, some of their coverage involves a measure of aggregation or piggy-backing on “old media” coverage but most of it is a reaction to the shortcomings of “legacy media” coverage of the sport. If the newspapers didn’t cover college football at all, these blogs would still exist. As it is, most newspaper coverage isn’t much better than a basic wire service. Context, opinion, colour and detailed statistical analysis are largely the preserve of the blogosphere.
If “context, opinion, colour and detailed statistical analysis” have been abandoned to bloggers, all that leaves is coverage. And if newspapers don’t devote themselves to that, what’s left for them?
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71 responses to “Is it possible to go downhill after Terence Moore is gone?”
heyberto
I think asleep at the wheel is the appropriate analogy here. I’d love to accuse the AJC of sandbagging against UGA by ignoring Tech’s problems but I have long thought it was based on interest as you say above. They simply did not deploy the troops in that direction. Interesting.
I appreciate the lack of reader interests results in less copy. However, they have a full-time beat writer assigned to GT — same as UGA. This comes down to the AJC (be it beat writer, interns, or whomever) not filing the weekly FOIA requests for all things athletic dept related. These requests are the equivalent of dragging the bottom of a pond with a grapple hook hoping to find something. My sense is they believe there is nothing to find at GT and thus they are not putting in the effort.
It is an imperfect analogy, but I am of the belief that the disparity in scrutiny applied to both programs by the AJC is equivalent to racial profiling. I leave you to guess who is being profiled and who is not.
Great point.
I agree that the AJC was asleep at the wheel, but it’s amazing that they had not cultivated one source within the Athletic Department for a simple tip. It’s apparent that their coverage is simply retyping and reformatting the talking points that are handed to them.
“but it’s amazing that they had not cultivated one source within the Athletic Department for a simple tip.”
Which leads to the first item open for discussion on the agenda at next week’s AJC Sports guys’ meeting:
“Where have all the Deepthroats gone?”
All I could think about while reading this post was this…
https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/keep-telling-yourself-that-kiddo/
This is all weirdly ironic when you consider how long Techies have bitched and moaned at the supposed imbalance in the amount of coverage the AJC gives the UGA and GT programs. Cuts both ways, fellas.
aristoggle
You’re correct that there are more eyeballs directed toward Athens than the flats, but that doesn’t excuse the AJC. In fact, that’s all the more reason to criticize them. What Georgia fan doesn’t love a little schadenfreude at Tech’s expense?
Yeah, but eyeballs on Athens would have eaten up this story. A lot of Georgia fans would have bought paper copies to read about Tech’s officials living up to their “Total Person” concept.
In fairness to the AJC, Ga Tech IS an ACC team. ACC teams get less coverage than SEC teams. Having lived in both Atlanta and Florida, I have found that Florida will get more coverage in both markets than FSU.
But you would damn sure know about a large scale NCAA investigation in Tallahassee well before a few hours from the press conference.
Richt-Flair
And regarding “Mr. CFB,” he has a radio show with someone within the Ga. Tech athletic program. How can you not know?
Baron de Coubertin
He did not report because he has a radio show with Wes Durham on Ga Tech’s flagship station. Barnhart is no longer a reporter, he is a college football personality and sees no need in breaking news anymore.
He just wants to pontificate on the state of the SEC, agents, and say the word – “however” with an even more exaggerated Southern accent.
It’s one thing to completely miss the story. But if you go to ajc.com this morning, you have to go scrolling and searching to find even a blip of a mention anywhere on the front page. The only mention of Tech “above the fold” is that a police chase ended there this morning in a crash.
If this was UGA forfeiting a championship for trying to cover up violations in an NCAA investigation, it would be ALL OVER that thing. You think the Atlanta Public Schools scandal was a big story? Hardly. And that’s garbage. It’s fine if you missed the story, but now you’ve got it. COVER that sucker, and drag them through the mud just like you would with Georgia.
I get no solace from GT being investigated and punished by the NCAA. The simply fact that we’ve had the NCAA here in the state snooping around, is enough for me to clinch the ole spincter.
Agree with that last sentiment, but you may as well eat it up because… well, it just feels so good.
A reality based fear, brother. Do you think for one second that UGA players ain’t getting free stuff from folks? The question is how ridiculously low will the NCAA go? A free candy bar from the local 7-11 ’cause the clerk is a fan? My reading between the lines of the NCAA “investigative report” is that the Tech people didn’t think that the amount in question was big enough to worry about. How small is small enough to not have to worry/report, etc.? Apparently it’s zero tolerance unless you are one of the NCAA’s favorites.
P.S. It was a watch and a tee shirt as I understand it. Worth $312? I seriously doubt it. Given the NCAA’s recent actions and veracity the real value probably was less than $100. But the NCAA had to inflate the number because the smaller the number the more ridiculous their action looks. I hope tech goes to court over this. Somebody needs to establish that the NCAA has limits just like ever other governing body. They cannot just arbitrarily do whatever they want without consequences.
Most people think Every Day Should Be Saturday is fun to read, but I feel like I’m reading stuff written on acid or speed, and the actual topics are mundane. The Daily Beast is pretty far out there too, for that matter.
Possible explanations for the AJC missing the story: either they don’t have the resources to keep an eye on things anymore, or they’re were in on the silence to preserve access because they don’t have the resources anymore.
fuelk2
It (EDSBS) certainly speaks its own language. About half of the references go over my head (or under it), but there’s typically something on there that makes me laugh at my desk each day. Not bad work for a Gator (who is undoubtedly on acid).
The articles by the writers are often humorous and provide good links, but the comment sections is grating.
Reminds me of Dr No’s comic book store on Canton Highway. I would wander into it on occasion while mom was at the A&P. Inside would be two middle aged dorks arguing over Voltron’s laser or the merits of light speed.
You and I grew up in the same area Normaltown. I know the exact spot you’re talking about.
And it’s a great analogy. I love EDSBS, but the comments went to hell after the affiliation with SB Nation, in my opinion.
Dawgwalker07
Other possible option: they’re out of FOIA forms amd their printer/copier broke..
I go there for LSUFreak and nothing else.
EDSBS has gone downhill in my opinion since it went “corporate”. 75% of the jokes are waaaaay to inside for casual readers and that includes me.
I remember when I first found EDSBS. It was pure genius. Now, not so much.
Oh, and music was much better when I was younger, and pretty much everything else was better when I was younger. This newer generation….BAH!
What time does “Matlock” come on? Who moved the thermostat?
Now that’s funny. Barnaby Jones would have been good too.
Well, see?
You missed about 60 comments on flip-flops yesterday.
ctfain
The best way to address things like this is to subscribe to your local newspaper, and it wouldn’t hurt to pay attention to their ads online, and click on them. Otherwise, I’ll speak for The AJC even though I’m not associated with it: “We’re sorry our completely free product that offers you local, state, national and worldwide news 24 hours a day, failed to notice and report on an investigation at a school athletic program you generally consider worth ignoring.”
I’m a newspaper reporter looking for work myself. Just came from one yesterday that has roughly half the staff it had 5 years ago. So, yeah, things are getting missed.
Admittedly, things are tough all around right now, no doubt. I have family in the print journalism business and I am aware.
The AJC is aware that their coverage of, if not overt awareness of, this issue has been outwardly lacking. But, I do think it’s reasonable for them to know that their readership, their clientele, the consumers that drive the “completely free product” are not happy about such an oversight.
Granted, your feelings are probably going to be of a more personal nature considering your line of work, but missing something like this story, or intentionally not covering something like this story in their own backyard is pretty problematic and needs to be pointed out.
We all like to say that Ga Tech is “worth ignoring” but the truth of the matter is that I would tune in to learn about Clemson’s infractions, NC State’s infractions. Heck, UNC’s infractions directly affected UGA this past year (that and TMZ’s coverage). I think Tech, being in this state, much less a rival of ours, qualifies as worth NOT ignoring.
Either the AJC missed the story or intentionally did not cover it. Either one is a problem. Pointing out that problem is not a problem in and of itself. I think it’s reasonable to have some outcry considering what negative coverage would befall Georgia if a conference title had to be forfeited.
Sefdawg
I think Ace Rothstein said it best-“Listen, if you didn’t know you’re bein’ scammed, you’re too [expletive deleted] dumb to keep this job. If you did know, you were in on it. Either way, you’re out. Get out! Go on. Let’s go.”
Shoot, Mr. Rothstein, that’s gotta be in the millions to one!
The point is, that if Aaron Murray farted in his car in the drive thru at Wendy’s it would get a mention. This investigation was going on for months before AJC got a sniff of it. Maybe this is why the industry can’t keep up. It no longer provides the service it claims to provide.
They would also posit that Murray’s dinner from Wendy’s should be seen as a slap in the face of the new nutrition standards Joe T has made mandatory, and, thus, Murray’s leadership must now be questioned.
Ctfain: I regret saying this friend, but newspapers are ‘Twentieth Century passé’ like fax machines. There’ll always be a market for them, but the industry is gonna have to retrench and lower expectations.
We’re in an age of Internet pamphleteers. When a man with web design software can make his own online soap box, newspapers as intermediaries are going to suffer.
my friend with the buggy whip factory stock from 1910 thinks you’re crazy. Just sayin’…
ctfain, I appreciate the personal nature of your comment since you are a reporter, and I wish you all the best, I really do. On the subject of subscribing, however, why would I do that? The content is outdated, certainly in print but also online. For instance I read on this blog about the dust-up between Chizik and the NCAA rep two days before it was covered online in the AJC (and the event had happened several weeks before).
I take your point about paying notice to online ads, and can understand that. Really, the only thing I utilize the AJC for before another source is Braves coverage, and if someone gave me a Get the Picture equivalent for Braves coverage, I’d go there first.
Incidentally, Rowlands Office is a pretty decent Braves blog, fwiw.
“What’s left for them?”
Baseball?
That “Spot the difference” photo seems to be pretty popular.
1 Kudos. And they still have a monopoly on the obituaries.
Keith Dickens
Well ctfain, they ain’t missing what’s going on in Athens, even if its a scooter violation.
Yeah and one poster said it was a F’ing scooter. Is that made in China? We are aware of the Effing Scooter made in Italy, the Madre-Con made in Mexico, the Cork Soaking Scooter made in Ca and the Mo-Fokker made in Germany, but I’m unfamiliar with the F’ing brand.
Cojones where you been. Bout everything I own is Effing brand.
a F’ing scooter? Was it made of porcelain, or during the reign of a Chinese emperor in the 15th century? I think I have one of his vases.
“We heard nary a peep from the national media – including a certain Mr. College Football who lives in the Atlanta area and hosts a college football radio show on a local channel – about it until yesterday when the NCAA broke the news.”
I’m pretty sure Big Tony was on some luncheon with Will Muschamp, wherein Boom-MFer told Tony that the key to Florida’s success will be heart this year, prompting Tony to write a 200-word blog post on the matter and call it a week.
Obi's Sister
For once, I agree with something Andrew Sullivan said. Don’t tell anybody, tho.
You’re safe. Sullivan didn’t post that, a guest blogger did.
The post is good and so is this to which it links for today’s pronunciation teachings
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/awkward-language-made-more-awkward-by-bachmann.html
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, a shiksa’s got to know her limitations. 😉
Palin says she is a menshevik.
Enough with the kvetching, you meshuggah. 🙂
Speak English, son, you’re in America now! Using them furrin’ code words don’t always fool us goyim.
I’m surprised Andrew isn’t comparing Michelle’s emergency pregnancy test results he dug out of a Minnesota landfill.
I’m surprised Andrew isn’t more worried about whether or not Michele thinks he’s a public health crisis
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/04/michele_bachman_unsure_if_being_gay_public_health_crisis.php
Andrew’s concern with public health is Legionaire, I mean legendary…
http://www.thenation.com/article/andrew-sullivan-overexposed
I visit AJC Sports Pages and UGA about once a month. May find myself following up on an article by Chip Tower referenced on this blog. No new info appears on most of AJC’s UGA page and you can catch up for the month in one visit. Chip, however, kept us posted on John Jenkins who didn’t seem to allow anyone else near. Think that they both handled it well with only pertinent info of interest to all of us displayed.
When the feature writers could only write contrite crud about Richt and our program, I stopped reading their articles about two yrs ago.There seemed to be no end to the acid rain they tried to pour on my Dawgs ‘s parade. While AJC is referenced on here, the only grabber of my attention is Chip. He had to elbow his way onto that stage and it seemed that it was Dawg love pushing him.
In all fairness there seemed to be no one with a bead on Tech’s RPG until it exploded, including AJC. I have never read Tech’s page (I assume there is one) since there was nothing as interesting as the Dawgs. Besides, I’m old and my attention span is limited. Booty calls are limited in the media, but even small doses are helping the rehab of memory cells. If it wasn’t for e-mail and good friends, I would probably be in full blown ADD by now.
Anyone want to see a picture of twelve naked nubiles in Santa hats?
“Booty calls are limited in the media, but even small doses are helping the rehab of memory cells. If it wasn’t for e-mail and good friends, I would probably be in full blown ADD by now. Anyone want to see a picture of twelve naked nubiles in Santa hats?”
Before you take another digital step, stop, drop and roll and always remember
Rule #1: You don’t want to end up like Megan
But if you do,
Rule #2: “Don’t pull that thing out unless you plan to bang”
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/07/13/dont-pull-that-thing-out-if-you-didnt-come-to-bang/
Rep. Anthony Weiner
Not even an image of it.
Got it and did you see the offer of assface on Fox News offering to mediate the debt crisis? Seriously, this jerk tries to usurp elected official’s authority without a glance. He was even so magnanimous to say that Bachmann was wrong in her stance against raising the debt ceiling. As if he rules the Right. I’ll refer to them as the Wrong in the future.
Oh! Forgot. Screw Tech.
“immeasurably improved by the blogosphere” reminds me of the pioneer days when the IBM guy said personal computers were a fad and when Buzz “Bissinger’s biggest gripe, it would seem, is that blogs are poorly worded, grammatically incorrect and profanity laced drivel that add nothing to the conversation and only serve to humiliate and denigrate the poor unsuspecting athlete.”
http://smittblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/ol-buzz-bissinger-finds-deadspins-will.html
and “Of course, there’s something rather quaint about Mariotti accusing bloggers of not knowing their libel laws.”
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/mariotti-will-leitch-invented-blogging-bad-journalism
Honestly the AJC knows what will generate hits. Dogging out UGA brings in gnat and Dawgs alike. Who would have thought that a $312 tab would have removed a conference championship? It sounds like a non-issue compared to the rot that is prevalent in the NCAA today.
Mrs. Anthony Weiner
@ “Rep. Anthony Weiner
See Rule #2.
I still can’t believe I married this smuck and let him knock me up.
When did Eddie Deezen get married?
Someone wrote that she is Indian. Sioux or Comanche?
@ “Cojones
I think she’s a squaw from one of those tribes in the Lebanon/Syria/Jordan area of the Apache desert
Know why Indians don’t eat Sushi?
@ “Normaltown Mike
Awhile ago. She thought she was marrying Eddie Weener. When she found out his real name was Eddie Deezen she tried to annul the marriage but had no luck. She’s so mad at him she’s trying to get on this reality show now
http://investigation.discovery.com/tv/who-the-bleep/
“Got it and did you see the offer of assface on Fox News offering to mediate the debt crisis? Seriously, this jerk tries to usurp elected official’s authority without a glance.”
Sounds just like something Eric Cantor would try to do.
“something Eric Cantor would try to do.”
We can only guess.
Though we KNOW what, or who, Eliot Spitzer would try to do…
Indeed we do. Elliot always follows
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December 4, 2011 · 10:24 AM
Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line
Whatever was said and done in the Georgia locker room at halftime yesterday, Mark Richt needs to gather that all together, crumple it into a little ball, douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and bury the ashes at sea. Boy, what a letdown.
My question from watching that game isn’t whether Georgia had to play perfectly to beat an excellent LSU team – Georgia, after all, was winning 10-0 mid-second quarter despite two brutal whiffs on touchdown passes by King and Mitchell – but whether Georgia’s best effort of the year would have been enough to pull off the upset.
We’ll never know, of course, but that halftime lead, the only one which LSU has faced the entire season, suggests it would have at least been a close call. That it never came to that in the end I think boiled down to three key spots in the game:
Georgia’s second series of the second quarter. I don’t know if was the result of the Dawgs’ worst field position of the game up to that point, lack of faith in the receivers after numerous drops, a desire to shorten the first half or complete faith in what Grantham’s defense was doing, but Bobo’s play selection was a disaster. Two Crowell runs that were easily stuffed for little gain and a slow developing pass play which resulted in a huge sack put Georgia back at its own three for a punt. Up until then, Bobo had been aggressive, calling for passes on first down frequently; if he didn’t have Chavis back on his heels, he at least had him guessing. The only first down Georgia gained over the rest of the first half was via a personal foul penalty and the Dawgs wouldn’t get their next one until the waning moments of the third quarter with the game already out of hand.
Touchdown, Tyrann Mathieu. This, of course, was Georgia’s immediate reward for Bobo’s play calls. Given its special teams struggles over the season, punting to Mathieu with Butler standing on the end line was a risky proposition to begin with, but with the way the Dawgs’ defense was playing, ignoring the lower risk strategy of a kick towards the sidelines was unnecessary. It was Russian roulette and the gun went off in Georgia’s face. It didn’t cost Georgia the lead, but you could sense the energy and confidence sliding back to LSU’s side of the stadium in the aftermath.
The Murray fumble. Statistically speaking, Aaron Murray is going to enjoy a better career at Georgia than David Greene, but Greene is still my gold standard for Georgia quarterbacks of the Richt era simply because he learned early on about playing within himself and not trying to do too much. That’s a lesson Murray hasn’t learned yet (to be fair, it’s one that Shockley and Stafford struggled with, too). You can’t help but love his competitiveness but that desire to make something happen when everyone around him isn’t gets him in trouble,and such was the case on the opening series of the second half. Not only was it a huge momentum shift at the worst possible time, but it also served to throw the defense’s mindset, which had been rock solid in the first half, completely out of sync. Ten minutes later, the game was over.
I’m not in the mood to bore you with my usual series of bullet points. Instead, I’ll leave you with some of my feelings walking out of the Dome.
It’s been a good year for Georgia football. Richt has righted the ship. This team proved in the first half that it deserved to be in the SECCG. And the loss, while certainly disappointing, can serve to be a platform for better days.
There are plenty of lessons to be learned. Some are pretty obvious: the running game needs shoring up with better (and more reliable) personnel, depth is a high priority on the offensive line and special teams personnel also needs upgrading (huge difference in speed between LSU’s coverage teams and Georgia’s). That’s all fixable with continued success on the recruiting front. And strength and conditioning, while improved, still has a ways to go.
But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is about attitude. This team learned how to compete again. Now it needs to learn how to finish. It’s good enough to take off a play or two and still whip Georgia Tech. And it can survive losing its cool against an improving Vanderbilt team. But not giving your best 100% of the time against a beast like LSU… well, that gets you beat by 32 points. If Georgia’s players and coaches want to return the program to the élite status it enjoyed a few years ago, that’s the biggest thing they need to absorb from yesterday’s loss.
If I’m Greg McGarity, that’s the discussion I’m having with my head football coach in the upcoming weeks. After mentioning how much I enjoyed watching the defense’s play in the first half, of course.
197 responses to “Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line”
The hardest part for me to stomach was how it seemed like we just laid down and quit. Maybe that was a result of losing faith in the offense after CMB seemed to go conservative in the second quarter combined with a reenergized LSU team.
After a spectacular first half, the defense was a let down in the second half as well. Even after Murray fumble I thought we would be able to stuff them for a FG.
I knew we had to play a perfect game. The fumble, two INTs, dropped passes, and horrific punt coverage put an end to our SECC hopes.
CTG doesn’t get paid enough.
BTW, Senator you were 100% correct about VT. My apologies.
I don’t think the defense quit so much as completely lost its focus. You can’t get away with that against a team as good as LSU.
And seemed to tire out. I saw limping, hands on hips and slow motion movements of an exhausted group. S&C could be better but I think the fatal flaw in the entire game was our lack of quality depth across the board. They simply wore us down.
This, of course. More than play calling which did not meet our standards (Although I have never understood exactly what those are…plays that work are good calls, plays that don’t, whatever the reason are bad calls.)
LSU played at least 10 or 12 defensive linemen during the game. We played five.
But, of course, Mike Bobo should be fired because of our lack of depth on the defensive line.
Ah Scorpio you have stumbled upon the quintessential standard for criticizing an offensive coordinator: if a play works it is a good call, if it does not work it is a bad call. Go over and read the in-game posts at dawgsports sometimes it is hilarious in how much it verifies that view point. If we throw a deep pass on first down and it works, it goes something like this: “Yesssssssssssss! Go Tavarres Go!”; “Touchdown baaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyy!” no one says, “boy what a bad call, but I’ll take the TD”. If it does not work its more like this…”First and bomb, great call Bobo, chump.”; “Why not try and establish a ground game there so we don’t have second and long” blah, blah, blah.
Why did UGA lose the SEC Championship Game? To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the refs stupid.” When LSU needed help the refs gave it to ’em. That and not enough depth, none at RB.
The offense had regressed back to the point of leaving the D out to dry which had been kept to a minimum since the second game. That and LSU is relentless and deep.
LSU’s relentlessness comes from the depth. One team could stand up to its offense not moving the ball for half the game and the other could not. And that’s why Alabama and LSU are better than everyone else in the country.
Geez, I thought oversigning didn’t give a competitive advantage. Strange that the two biggest oversigners are the top 2 teams in the country.
No one ever said it didn’t give an advantage. Insider trading gives an advantage and like oversigning it is wrong.
Insider trading is illegal. Oversigning is not.
Bingo. Imagine an NFL team with 10 more guys on the roster than their opponent. They would dominate also. Unfortunately “oversigning” is not agaist the rules.
No but it is ethically wrong. I should’ve been more clear.
Which brings it around to the point: If oversigning is legal and you don’t do it then you are at a disadvantage against teams that do (read: LSU and Bama).
Not to confuse the issue or anything, but I thought Ole Miss was the most egregious oversigner in the league…which puts a different perspective on the argument for damn sure.
And we aren’t deep. Crowell wasn’t. healthy. Behind him, we have two backs under 180lbs. And the better of those two couldn’t play in the second half.
Our starting five offensive linemen had to go against a group of defensive linemen that were kept fresh throughout the game by substitution.
We need more linemen, more running backs, and more special teams athletes.
That’s what it’s all about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!
Tyronn Mathieu was recruited, but not offered, by Bama and Tennessee. When he wasn’t LSU picked him up as an afterthought. There is more luck involved in recruiting than anyone wants to recognize.
As an outsider, I agree with you–the U.Ga. defense seemed to lose its focus and its confidence. LSU’s entire team seemed to sharpen its focus and confidence. I think the Dogs played hard and didn’t quit.
Red Blackman
I agree, for the most part.
Now, for the truth as I see it……
You can place Georgia’s offensive woes on attrition and poor coaching from a former assistant. I am sorry but Carlton Thomas, Richard Samuel and Brandon Harton are not SEC caliber tailbacks. The dismissal of Meshaun Ealey and Dontavious Jackson coupled with the ignorance of Caleb King put Georgia in a huge hole from a depth standpoint.
The offensive line coaching and talent evaluation under Stacy Searles was a complete joke. We have been reduced to four guards and a center for an offensive line. I’m pretty sure that given the time, Will Friend will return the Georgia offensive line into an elite pro style offensive line.
All in all I am pleased with the progress this year. We need some depth at running back and OT. As it stands right now, we have no elite offensive tackles on the roster. For the style of offense we run, that is a huge problem. Thank you, Stacy Searles.
As for the defense, all I can say is ….Wow. Nice game fellas.
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Yea. Thanks Red. And thanks go to Bluto who put up more material than possible to follow and comment on Fri..
Not sour grapes, but LS Lieux held like they were in love with our receivers after the ball was in the air while the refs stared at and did not call it. Did anyone notice that IGA receivers only looked questioning toward the refs using their hands, but no hanky-snatching drivel mimicry. That affected our O as much as dropped passes. Jus’ sayin’.
They still will be fun to watch in the bowl. It will be interesting to watch the recruiting and follow the summer prep after the Spring Game. Go Dawgs! and thanks for picking it up last summer. Knowing we are better than our record, the insertion of Rome and Drew next year and the buildup to next season will capture our interest and , I imagine , will make for good blog-cheering and discussion.
G Marmalard
No sour grapes but . . . Does anybody else feel like bama and lsu have about 25% more players than the rest of us. Is this the fruit of oversigning? And if so why don’t we get on board ? Seriously. Do u think guys prima dona when they know there are 3 more just as good and somebody has to go? I feel like ga got beat by a roster yesterday. Not scheme not execution by lsu, just a huge army of athletes with endless reinforcements.
Take away the extra players and we still get beat…that’s a good team. But we handle discipline differently, recruiting differently, graduation rates differently, etc. They do it their way to win. We do it our way because it’s right. When the standards aren’t the same, don’t expect fair and equal outcomes.
Please don’t go all GT on us and start making excuses.
Do you think that Richt wouldn’t dismiss a player engaged in a parking lot stomping/beating? He dismissed Mettenberger for playing grab-ass before Murray had established himself as the starter.
I disagree. We have over 100 guys on the roster, same as most other teams. We’ve got to build depth and strength.
Look at Mike Gilliard. The only reason he got to start and play early on was because of injuries. Turns out he was pretty good. We’ve got other guys like him on the sidelines. We just need to continue to evaluate them and develop them. We’ll get there.
Right on, AusDawg85.
Oversigning is the elephant in the room regarding quality depth, imo. I still don’t want UGA to go down that path by exploiting recruits and players, but the NCAA/SEC offices need to curtail this practice by setting standards that must be adhered to. I recommend allowing everyone to oversign by 2-3 to allow for attrition AND allow them to keep those extra signees of they are able to keep everyone eligible. This isn’t a whine, but we may have the same number of players with a uni, but we are way below the “real” scholly numbers, and we were in August/September.
The game was won by LSU last night for two reasons: 1) OL could not block well enough even if we had every running back on hand for the last two years and, 2) our ST coverage and blocking is totally unacceptable. Everyone can stretch and try to blame Bobo for a paly call here or there (what team couldn’t after the fact), but the coaches did not lose this game. UGA had a chance, we squandered it. Even this close to a emotional game where we went from the mountain top to the pits, I still like the direction we are heading.
Attaboy, Mac! Let’s hold the fan line in keeping with what we ask of our team.
As usual, spot on Senator. I’m too dazed as well to dwell on deep analysis at this point. Scratching my head about CMB’s decisions and lack of depth in key positions were fatal flaws in both games at the Dome.
It’s been a very good season…better than most expected, and showed promise for the future. But I hope both the AD and HC are truly able to see the situation for what it is, and commit to further improvement. To sit back now and just recruit “5 stars” thinking that’s all that is missing would be tragic.
baltimore dawg
so you do blame bobo. . . .
The way the team prepares and shows up for the bowl game will show how much things have been turned around. Showing up each day for practice with a sense of urgency and playing the game with passion will truly demonstrate that things are back on track. I believe (hope) they are, but the next month will be a critical time for both the staff and the future of this particular set of returning players.
Rusdawg
They need to approach the bowl game as if it was a season opener. This will be the opening salvo of the 2012 season. We’re done with 2011. Everything from today forward is about 2012.
No. Please don’t treat it like the season opener.
The Original Cynical in Athens
3 plays in the game:
1. The blocks in the back on the punt return. Yes, it was stupid to punt the ball right to the guy, but if the refs do their job, we go into the half up at least 10-0.
2. The Murray fumble. You summed it up perfectly, Senator. All Murray has to do is not f*ck it up. A punt was a win in that game. And then he f*cked it up by trying to be a hero again.
3. The horse collar on Cornelius Washington. Pretty much summed up the 2nd half. We finally made a great play to stop them and it ends up being one of their better offensive plays of the night.
I still have no idea what happened. Strangest game I have ever seen. Only thing I can compare it to is that ’96 or ’97 UK basketball team with Mercer, Delk, Walker, etc, when you were playing even with them for 8 minutes and look up and your suddenly down by 10 without them or you really doing anything of note.
The result of the game was why i had been hoping all year that Scu would have to be the recipient of that beatdown last night. Everything good that happened throughout the season must now be called into question. Murray once again pissed his pants in an important game. The dropsies came out for the first time this season. Bobo rolled over and freaked out as soon as the going got tough. This team would have been a lot better off not playing in this game, beating up on some mediocre Big 10 team in a bowl game and going into next year riding high. Now, all of the warts that had been hidden for 10 weeks are fully exposed again and we have to wonder if they will somehow gain the mental fortitude to overcome them next year?
Yeah, trying to run up-field on a closing pocket to pick up big first down on a critical second half opening drive is “f*ck(ing) it up by trying to be a hero” and the 14pts of dropped passes, along with other drops, were sign that he “once again pissed his pants in an important game.” Great analysis.
Gary Danielson made one decent point all night. At one point when Murray took off he yelled, “just slide.” The kid just needs to learn that with a defense as good as UGA’s, a punt it not a bad thing.
As soon as we lost the field position battle, we lost the game. LSU completed 5 passes. They had two drives of over 36 yards, both of which were late in the game. Murray has to learn to understand the concept of time and place within the framework of the game being played. Last night was a battle of attrition, and failed to grasp the importance of field position.
Agreed, but if he slides there < 2yds shy of the sticks then people in the stands and on the boards are talking about a lack of heart and unwillingness to lay it on the line in an SECCG. Trying to "be a hero" would be throwing into triple coverage or be Fran Tarkenton and scrambling 30yds deep only to get sacked. Murray, with his mistakes yesterday, was NOT the problem and he hardly "pissed his pants" or "fucked it up."
Agree, Murray did not piss his pants. That’s just silly and more than a little unfair to a kid who always leaves it all on the field.
You and the Mayor are the same person or at least friends.
No. I disclaim any and all responsibility. I also do not think Murray did anything but try his guts out.
“Trying to be a hero” suggests a level of ego to Murray that I don’t think is a fair characterization. To me, the kid’s been a consummate team player. He just tried to do too much there. You hope he learns from it.
Murray did what he was supposed to – he tried to get the first down. He just fumbled. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try to run the ball occasionally, it means he should try to fumble less.
How the hell do you “try to fumble less”? Shit happens from a cognitive sense of not trying? You were correct to begin with, “He just fumbled.” End of story.
Is there a ‘Best of Les Miles halftime speeches’ available? Might be a good stocking stuffer for coach. Just sayin’…
At the end of the game he said that he had no halftime speech. They just reminded everyone to do what they always do; – play hard and win.
Get a running game that you can count on and the rest will take care of itself. Once their d-line took away the run in the second quarter it was over and nothing grantham, richt or bobo could say or do was going to change the outcome. I just hope that IC gets it together mentally and physically and that he and Marshall can carry the load in 2012. If so we’ll be playing in this game next year.
Good and succintly analytic post, Derek. No need for us to nitpick players or coaches.
Depth, depth, depth. I understand the attitude part you reference, but that game was about quality, ready to play depth. If I’m McGarity I asking Richt how they plan to better manage the number of players on the team. I’m all for the feel good story of walkons being awarded scholarships, and that will continue as players do stupid things to get shown the door, but it’s clear to me that the roster is too thin and has too many kids that should be playing FCS instead of SEC football. Part of that is the coaches had to play with what was dealt by poor evaluation, coaching and behavior, but Richt has to find a way to bring balance in numbers back to the squad.
+1. When guys don’t have it like it or not CMR has to show ’em the door. They are taking up a scholarship and a spot on the 85 list that should go to someone else. Roster management. That is the bottom line.
Duuuh. What do you think he did this year?
I think he awarded a bunch of schollys to kids that are probably great students, do more than what is asked and weren’t good enough physically to be offered SEC scholarships.
I support Richt, but he and McGarity need to get a strategy together to eliminate the inability to fill a full roster with true scholarship players and not walk-ons that were awarded scholarships because the staff failed to get a full complement of players. It won’t eliminate the King’s and Ealey’s from fucking the numbers, but you can’t sign 20 when you need 25.
I also understand how productive the 2011 recruiting class has been and the staff did a good job putting it together. I’ll also note that it’s sad that they felt the need to call it a “Dream Team”. Richt is coaching in a state where every year could bring a “Dream Team” like haul. What made it highlighted was that Richt certainly didn’t have any “Dream Team” classes the previous three years and his rep in recruits homes have been hurt by the product on the field and his job status. Recruiting and roster management are huge if you intend to compete in this conference and our guy has to get better at it.
The ATH
Maybe that’s a negative, but maybe not. The last time we really “finished strong” after avoiding the sec champ was ’07. That team wasnt very hungry coming in number one.
I agree. If the coaches can use the whipping we took yesterday as a teachable moment throughout the offseason, we’re better off going 11-3 than 11-2, because now they know just how high the bar for a MNC is, and that the 10-game streak was nice, but there’s still more work to be done.
Good thought, (the other one). You realize those initials spell “too” as in “me too”, don’t you?
Andy Coleman
Senator, you’re right on about that series being the pivotal point in the game. That series was followed by 3 more just like it, even into the 3rd quarter. Bobo stalled, and the crap hit the fan.
If you think I’m pinning the loss on Bobo, you’re overstating my point.
I know you’re not on the new OC train like I have been for the past four years, I’m just amazed that you admit how crucial it was when we nutted up on that series.
Do you recognize that there may be a direct correlation between play calling changing all of the sudden during a game, and Murray going all bankers mid game?
Both Bobo and Murray were dealing with an offensive line physically challenged all night, running backs who had trouble hitting the holes faster than LSU’s linebackers closed them and receivers who couldn’t hold on to passes to save their lives.
I really doubt Murray was thinking to himself on that third down play, “I gotta do something here… Bobo’s playcalling is killing us.” He was just a kid in a pressure situation trying to make a play to help his team. It blew up. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake. That’s all I recognize.
I bet Murray wondered why he was handing it off up the gut on 1st and 2nd down for the 4th possession in a row, only to have Crowell/Thomas run into a wall. There are ways to neutralize D-lines, and off tackle dives and draws on 1st and 2nd down are not them.
“There are ways to neutralize D-lines”? How closely were you watching the game? It wasn’t just LSU’s d-line that was an issue. Those linebackers were obscenely fast closing down the gaps. It was clear that Georgia’s running backs weren’t prepared for that. Although to be fair, until you play against them, I’m not sure how you could be prepared.
Ok, let me change my post to “neutralize fronts”. Either way, same point. Please understand that I think LSU was a better team than the Dawgs. But, I don’t want that to be the case in a few years. I want what is best for this team, and in my (I’m a virtual nobody, but a loyal alum/fan none-the-less) opinion, Bobo ain’t it! Bobo makes top dollar, and we have proven (Grantham) that top dollar can get you a whole lot more if you pick wisely.
Bobo does not in fact make “top dollar” by OC standards (I think his salary was somewhere in the $200-250,000 range). Regardless of that fact there was nothing Bobo could do last night, the line couldn’t block after the first few series, our RB’s didn’t hit what small holes were there before they closed, and nobody was getting open against those DB’s. In order to “neutralize” aggresive defenses one would normally run screens and draws, in the case of last night the two bubble screens we ran (and a swing pass to Carlton Thomas) lost yardage, while the draws were losing yardage after the D linemen were shedding their blocks and gobbling up our guys behind the line of scrimmage. Bobo was calling the game safe in order to prevent the “big mistake” which would let LSU back in the game and unfortunately that happened anyway. There was really no other option to turn to, they were squatting on our short routes with safety help over the top. We lost to one of the best defenses in recent memory, with all the youth we have on our offense there is no shame in that.
The receivers sure looked open to me before the play calling took a dive. Some of you are failing to realize that the crap hit the fan AFTER our play calling changed drastically.
P.S. Bobo will make almost $400,000 this year after bonuses. That ranks him in the top 10% of OC’s in the nation. Go look it up if you don’t believe me.
Maybe you should try and walk on if you think that you could hit those receivers last night. They may have looked “open” but they weren’t, that is what zone coverage looks like. I saw a front 7 for LSU whipping our OLine and zone coverage to take away the outs and slants with safety help over the top.
I was a walk on on the UGA baseball team back in 1998, then I got my hand amputated in a wreck. I’m not nearly as accurate with the one that’s left.
According to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts-database.htm
He was around 40th out of 907 for 2010, but he got a decent raise this year and about 5-10 that were above him got head coaching jobs.
That’s all assistants mind you, not just OC’s. I’m sure the Senator knows a better database to look that up. I’ve got a crying 6 month old, so I gotta get off this thing! Peace out Dawg fans!
“Peace out” yourself, Andy. You have serious flaws in your reasoning and your anti-Bobo rant. We put that crap to bed on here or perhaps you haven’t kept up very well. Your criticisms are over the top and you ignore the arguments that settled that in most fans minds a couple of months ago. Since you chose to ignore the good analytical input on here that righted the fan’s minds concerning Bobo, we should just ignore you. Everything you say in “MM QBing” can be said about any and all O coaches in D-1 ball and every college out there. Go fly your specious kite where someone who gives a damn might listen.
How’s the weight loss coming? It might get better if you dump your load of shit somewhere else.
Agree 100% about the first series of the second half. No way we should have started with dive plays. That set the wrong tone, and the Murray’s fumble really hurt.
I think the series in the second quarter where the game shifted and backed UGA up for the punt coincided with 1. LSU realizing we had no running game and turning up the heat on Murray and 2. Our offensive line (with no depth for rotation) beginning to spring leaks. Throw in what you mentioned, Senator, re: drops by our receivers and our defense playing lights out, and I don’t skewer Bobo for playing it more conservative at that point (backed up on our end of the field). Kicking to Mathieu with a short field was the more critical tactical error in my opinion.
Two series prior to the second quarter series bobo supposedly screwed up on:
1st-10, LSU44 3:19 C. Thomas rushed to the right for 1 yard gain
2nd-9, LSU43 3:12 C. Thomas rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain
Last first down prior to bobo supposedly screwing up:
1st-10, UGA39 12:10 A. Murray sacked by K. Adams
Clearly running it on the next series was dumb.
Bobo wasn’t willing to give up on play action. That meant he had to call some runs to try to keep Chavis and the LSU defense honest.
Bobo wasnt going to give up on play action because he wanted Murray to be alive for his junior year.
Bobo wasn’t giving up on play action because he typically runs it 20+ times per game. To the point that rushes start to smile!
*rushers
LSU had little success running the ball in the first half. They had to keep trying it to keep our D honest. Then their longest run is finally one straght up the gut. To not keep trying to develop the ground game would be stupid for both teams. Murray would have been killed. Bobo called a good game. Very similar to the one called by the Tigers. Bobo will be the QB coach & the OC for the next few years. Nobody with any real input wants to change that. Give it a break, people.
+infinity
For those who settle for mediocrity. And, I’m a semi Richtophile as Sports & Grits would say. I just feel sorry for his inability to fire people. It’s his best and worst trait I suppose.
I actually strongly disagree with you here.
I hope you don’t think I’m being unreasonable, but I don’t think LSU “had to keep trying it to keep our D honest.” LSU had to keep running the ball because that’s all they could do. They didn’t have another option. I think the deep passes they attempted were an effort “to keep our D honest.” They ran it over and over and over because they had no other choice. They found ways to make that work and once they found what was working they kept doing it.
They threw those deep passes so that we couldn’t just load up the box and sell out to stop the run the whole game. But they only threw 13 passes the entire game. They ran it because that’s what they do and that’s what they’re built to do. Murray wasn’t getting killed when we ran for like 34 yards in the first half and carved up LSU’s secondary passing the ball on short routes. Did Bobo call a similar game to the LSU OC? No, he didn’t. They found out they were having limited success running up the middle and tried running it outside. When that worked, they kept on doing it. We were having success on short passing routes and started running it up the middle into a loaded box. When that didn’t work, we continued to do it. We wasted downs and then threw Aaron to the wolves on 3rd and long. That was bad play-calling. After the first quarter, we shut down what was working (like in the Auburn game last year) and stopped being aggressive. From then on, we never gave ourselves a chance.
Adam, amen brother.
Red Blackman gets the whole picture. It all starts on the offensive line. The current interior line is not a good run blocking squad. They seem slow of the line and do not get their pads down. That being said, there is not one RB on the squad who can hit a gap and break out. Not one. Now the line can push with Samuel and Malcome. The most important player in the game is the Frosh RB for LSU, Hilliard. He is a load with speed. Yo i could tell the Dawgs D wanted nothing to do with him. I’m puzzled how over the past 3-5 years CMR has not learned what a former Auburn coach told hime one time. To win big in the SEC you had better have a solid, consistent running game. Running teams are just more physical and disciplined in a big game.
I’m back where I was last season. Think the Dawgs need a QB/RB position coach. Murray has played a lot, I mean alot of snaps, but his progression, technique, and maturity is not where it should be, and I’m not sure he can get it there. For me there is even an off field differnece between him and Mason. Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Will Friend and Coach T have their work cut out for them for the bowl and the off-season. Let’s see how this line can improve by bowl time. I’d recruit linemen hard along with some SEC caliber RB [hint, Lattimore, Richardson, Hilliard].
To watch that game and think our real problem is at qb is to be a total idiot. Sorry to be rude, but that is just stupid. You don’t understand football; quit trying.
See my post below Mark only does what Bobby Bowden taught him, he is still after 11 years looking for his Warwick Dunn. We recruit midgets at running back not for a change of pace but for our running backs. None of our RB’s would be on Alabama or LSU’s 3 deep and that includes IC. We are not a power team Alabama and LSU are power teams. We are a multiple offense that if everything goes well can be effective but we are not going to line up and power the ball against good defenses period.
Yeah that is why Bama recruited IC so hard last year, so he could sit on the bench….
Just Chuck
Lots of guys look like world beaters in high school and many work out in college but some don’t. Jasper Sanks is probably our best example. We need a running back who doesn’t get put on his ass trying to pass block and, for sure, one who can keep his mouth shut and not cost us penalty yardage when it looks like we might be getting something started on offense.
You are totally right about OL problems. We have a mediocre, albeit enormous OL, that has no depth at all.
I am not sure why you’re thinkin Mason is better than Murray. Murray set the season record for TD’s after losing the best receiver ever to play for GA to the NFL, without a decent RB, and throwing to a bunch of freshman, all whille running for his life most of the season. Mason has thrown a couple of balls in mop up duty. I’ve said this before about QB’s and Richt. He’s coached 2 Heisman winners and the winningest QB in the history of college FB (until McCoy broke his record for wins). I am betting Mason is not better than Murray. And that’s why Mason is not starting and may transfer after this season.
Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Based on what, pray tell? Garbage time performances?
Herschel Blogger
he must look mature when they cut to shots of him standing near Richt.
to be pissed at Aaron after that game, and this season as a whole, is just wrong.
Brian Dawg
I am not pissed at Aaron, but before you anoint him, at least be honest and say that he lost a fumble and threw two picks. That’s three times HE gave the ball back to LSU. Don’t pin the whole loss on our line or our RBs.
But you’re ready to anoint Mason?
An awful lot of quarterbacks threw INTs against that LSU team. With time in the pocket, Murray is among the best.
We won’t since there is plenty of blame to go sround on this non-NFL team we have fielded this year. If you think that our O linemen are great(and I love all that they have tried to accomplish this season) take a look at the film in the last of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th when we were sending Malcolm up the middle . The left guard was blocking, Jones and Zander had started a push next to him, when #22 LSU came under and flipped a 300+ lb player backwards and off the line then dove left to help stop the play. What should have been a big hole got plugged by an undersize player blocking correctly by getting under the UGA lineman’s pads.
Yeah, we were tired, but it was an incorrect block on our part, no fault of others in the backfield nor the rest of the line where the play was going.
Stop the fault-finding on individual players for individual plays because, point is, there is plentyof nitpicking fault-finding to go around. And there is plenty of good fight as well. Don’t start this dumb rant that was picked apart and put to bed before. The players have owned up before and said they didn’t perform the plays as Bobo had taught and called. It is just ignorant to call this bullshit up again and watch recruits say that they hear it and go elsewhere. What in four hells are you trying to accomplish?
The fact of the matter is the Dawgs dropped 2 sure TD passes that coupled with the White TD and the “no way in hell” that should have been a punt return TD (a block in the back coupled with tossing the ball away before the goal line) would have made it 21-0 at halftime and a completely different game all together. After all the screw ups the Dawgs got down on themselves and the defensive letdowns began.
dawgfan17
This. Who knows what happens after that but if we simply catch the passes that hit us in the hands the game is totally different. If the defense lost any focus it was because they watched as good a half of defense that anyone can play go to waste to dropped passes. If we go up 21 the defense fights and claws all the way to the end. Not sure if we win but I really love our chances at that point.
Here’s hoping OSU is in the title game over Bama just to piss of the Paul Finebaum nutbags.
We were who we thought we were. I wrote on a blog “dawgsports” I think that I saw this game as another SCU type game. We gave it away. The drops, the fumble, the special teams play, etc same as the SCU game. Richt, God love him, only knows what Bobby Bowden taught him and Bobby never had to worry about anything but kickers. FSU’s walk-ons were fast enough for the ACC. Until he changes his hard head about Special Teams we had better score a lot of points to make up for them.
LSU was who they have been the whole year. They have no offense until their depth wears you out. They have 4 count them 4 SEC RB’s that could start for us or anybody else except for the other power Alabama. The D played there a$$es off but could not withstand the fresh legs in the second half. As long as UF and UGA don’t over sign we are screwed, it just remains to be seen if Steve can over sign enough to control the East. UA and LSU have the West and the SECCG locked up for the foreseeable future.
I just hope that there are some good OL guys that want to play ASAP but OL is the one position that takes time to build and I don’t see
us going the JUCO route on it.
“We gave it away”? You must be joking. That was *nothing* like the SC game. Yesterday’s game was like the cliche movie scene in which a 5’2″ 100lb. loser punches the schoolyard bully in the face, maybe draws a drop of blood, and then proceeds to get pummeled mercilessly. We gave nothing away. Nothing.
Huh?! Two dropped passes in the end zone and three turnovers isn’t giving anything away?!
Wow, they had 235 yards, 95 of which came on ONE drive, yet end up with 42 points and you don’t see the parallel? The turnovers and STs blunders changed that game from a possible “last drive” game…and that is before we dropped all the passes (including the two for TDs.) We didn’t dominate the WHOLE game like we did SC, but we gave them the short fields and cheap scores.
+1. Was it 28 points off turnovers and long punt returns? I lost count.
Play calling. Called 85 plays to their 45+. They get 42 points…21 in one quarter. We get 10 off 85 snaps. That is just damn puzzling. And Bobo had said they wanted to run more plays this season. Well, he sure got that against LSU, but it did not help the scoreboard. Bobo is the most unproductive OC in the D1 football. Never put anyone in motion to get them to the edge, create space, slow the rush, gas the LSU D line and LBs to the outside.
LSU is good, but when you only get 237 yards of offense, 45+ snaps,have less than quarter of time than UGA, no first downs thru 2 quarters, and only 10 yards of rushing…how good are these guys? Not good enough for me to say they are the best yet. More so when UGA could have had 21 points and that lead going into the 2nd half. Have that with a running game and the SECCG belongs to the Dawgs. Plus, I’m amazed how many missed honey boys fumble through the end zone. I told my grandson he did not score because the ball did not cross the line. Now why did it take so long for the coaches, TV, announcers, and every freaking body else not to see that.
Frankly, I’m for moving the game out of Atlanta and the Dome. Shame a faciltiy is as bad as this hosts a SEC championship game. Metor Atlanta does not deserve to host the game anymore. Move the game back into the conference, not an ACC site. I’d been for playing it in Baton Rouge or the home field of the highest rank team of the divison champs. CMR has better success outside the Dome.
Let’s see we were 2 drops from quadrupling bama’s output over four quarters and OT in one quarter and you blame bobo’s play calling and …. The building???? WTF!?!
Let’s move the SECCG to Jacksonville!
or at least rotate it between the Dome and Jacksonville! Oh, the sheer logic of it all!
WTF is wrong with the Dome? WTF is wrong with metro Atlanta? Whatever dude. Why would you give the best team even more of an advantage?
Your lack of logic is shocking.
Is it just me or does it seem that all of a sudden the “2-personality fans” are showing up again? It’s like their negative presonalities don’t want to understand what has already been resolved and now they chip in as if they have been laying in wait.
Loved the defense in the first half, what a bunch of warriors! We lost, but I like the direction the team is going in and I hope McGarity somehow lets the recruits know that Richt will still be here for years to come. Gotta get this next class signed, the Dream Team has already made an impact, need to get another stellar class.
Call me crazy but we may look back on this season and this game as exactly what our program needed when we needed it. The season to make the program and fans believe again and the game as a reality check as to what we still need to do to go from good to elite. Does it suck to watch one of arguably the best college teams ever just come back and embarass you? yes. But it does not diminsh the path we took to get here. This team has the ingredients to be great again and I am doubtful they will lay an egg in the bowl game or “quit”. Starting 0-2 then relling off 10 straight shows moxie, talent, and most of all fight and resolve regardless of how your schedule is perceived. There’s work to be done for sure but to state this year was an abberation is an insult to a team full of damn good dawgs.
+1 This is why I will never get the reasoning that is wishing uSC was playing in the SECCG instead of UGA.
Dawgfan Will
Good for you, Charlotte. Spot on.
I think it’s going to be hard to finish as you say while other schools oversign and we do not. When a school as LSU has quality depth three and four deep, that makes it tough. We don’t have that and it shows and makes it difficult to compete on their level. I know, beating a dead horse but it is what it is.
^True dat!
I saw a really young team yesterday. My biggest disappointment is that the score wasn’t as indicative of the effort that I thought our guys put up. We really were playing four offensive guards yesterday, and we have to do something about consistency in our RB position. If we can do that we definitely have a bright season ahead next year.
Funny, I saw an incomplete team yesterday. Guards playing tackle, lack of RBs, and not enough depth on the O-line and D-line.
Honestly, I´m VERY happy we played this game. For one, we dominated the best team in the country for 30 minutes. The coaches had a winning game plan. We couldn´t execute it for 60 minutes against a team with a 6-deep of 1st-rounders at every position, but did you see that defense? And those open receivers? There´s plenty to build on there.
More importantly, our young team was able experience elite competition. Nothing increases focus and motivation like getting your whatchamacallit handed to you. This game, and the reality check it provided, will be bugging our players and coaches throughout the off-season. To me, that´s a good thing.
And I´ll say it again: it´s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! Auf geht´s Bulldoggen!
I understand Mason gets mop-up play. But his performance in the fourth quarter was good. I think he sees the field better, gets the ball out quicker, and is as accurate. We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues. But I can not put any reliance on an OC decision making and judgment based on his play selection in the first few series in the 3rd quarter. That was an embarrassment. If you do not think so, then consult the 18 rankings in the polls. Bobo and McClendon are some of the most tenured coaches on staff. Granted the O numbers improved, but when you look at Murray’s performance against Carolina, Boise, LSU, Kentucky…well, I am all in with Ben Dukes.
But let’s discuss the play book. When LSU went man up on the WR and TE well, that sealed Bobo. They could not get downfield and the line could not hold their DL and LB out. They killed the timing on pass plays. That is why they started to the shorter routes. Now do you not think going in [game plan] you expect that from Chavis. Georgia’s receivers go get the ball, b ut LSU out played them for most of them. But Murray has had 2 full seasons to develop. How many will it take him? Because under the current scheme and coaching it will not go forward. Murray had numbers against Auburn and Tech. Hell Alabama passed at will on Auburn. And anybody can throw on Tech. Those games were not accomplishments. The running game. heck most of us have gave up on that….none for 3 seaons. Martinez was an issue on D and it took CMR 3 years to get around to that change but only after pressure. No, the LSU game was a game not only to win but to show recruits you have an OC and RB coach to move up your
play. Did not happen. Wait on Friend to see what another year produces, .
We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues.
No. We don’t know any such thing. G-day play doesn’t mean shit. And Richt said that Murray was his number one all along.
Jeebus, Will, you put more weight on meaningless playing time than anyone else who comments here.
I usually think that your posts are scattershot, but that you make a lot of good points. But your fixation on Murray in this comment thread is absurd. When was Murray second string to Mett? I don’t recall ever seeing any indication of that in the offseason, regular season or G-day game. I’m sorry, but if Mason was better than Murray, he would be starting. There has never been a time in Richt’s tenure when he consistently started the less capable of two quarterbacks. But, as always, the guy on the bench looks better (even if the starter is likely to be All-SEC, apparently).
Will, before last season started, I had that argument with Hale and it amounted to “stop the posturing for Murray to start and let good ole competition decide it with Mett”. Unfortunately, Mett did himself in and noone influenced the outcome except Mett. That is long gone water under the bridge. Whether one is better on the playing field than the other will probably be measured next year when Mett is the QB for LSU.
Not to say that Murray is a darn good QB is disingenuous at this point. Add a great heart, Bulldog courage , leadership and a quality person and we have our Dawg of Dawgs who can take a lick and keep on…. . He has shown resolve when we needed it, great skill when throwing to Freshmen in their first year of SEC play and attitude galore. So is he a few ticks shy of perfection and did we propose that he would stack even higher his Soph year? Yeah. You seem to forget last year when he ran down the sideline and dove in the endzone and fearlessly endured the dizzying hits in the Auburn and other games. Give me this indestructable man all last year, this year and for the future. He will work on the things you feel leaves him shy of perfection and the Second Coming (and he already is half qualified there by birth). Patience with him has been well earned. Let’s try to line up with him and go after “their” ass. That’s the least he deserves.
No one wants to be the super QB that can and will lead us to a NC than Murray. To compare with other QBs-in-waiting is folly. We don’t know if they could take the licks or fail entirely where he has already proven himself. We need to quit worrying whether QB#2 or #3 will not wait patiently for their perceived chance. If they do or don’t wait has nothing to do with Murray and his abilities. As I remember he came in as a 5-star vs Mason as a 3-star. Hell, we have another 4 or 5-star waiting in the wings (LeMay). Do you wish to put Mason above him? Mason will do what he has to do for his future and whatever he chooses, I have no argument. But to compare him with Murray at this point is a no-brainer and I sure hope Mason stays to duke it out next year.
“Hell, Alabama passed at will on Auburn.” A flea-flicker and a misdirection TE throwback are trick and constraint plays. By definition, they´re the opposite of passing “at will.” The same applies to 3- to 5-yard TE out routes and RB screens.
I don’t recall but did LSU have any self-inflicted wounds yesterday?
I really don’t recall anything. Maybe a personal foul?
It’s hard to beat the best team in the country when you throw a pick 6, fumble on the 20, can’t run the ball and can’t cover a punt (albeit against an amazing return guy).
We fell to 0-2 when turnovers and poor special teams coverage hand the other team 4 TDs or more.
Hard fought game and UGA gave their best shot. The miscues and drops have got to be frustrating, though.
Unrelated, though, what is the whole story behind Grantham’s lip thing at the second half? Tracy said hip had a bloody lip but the shots of him looked like he was wearing Lady Gaga lipstick in the second half….wtf
I noticed that too. But I had the sound turned (as usual) so I don’t know what was said.
Hard to blame the coaches or the players they got wore out by a deeper team So did a few other teams this year). The game plan to start was pefection but as the game wore on it played into LSUs hands and with the depth they have due to oversigning and lack of attrition. I know I have been critical of IC but was glad to see him give it a go with a bum ankle. The oline played hard to begin with but that Dline has given everyone fits all year.
Give Grantham’s agent a call and do what it takes to keep him happy.
Bobo ‘s future should be decided by someone that knows more about football than me. Sometimes he looks good and sometimes, well not so much.
Ga Girl in DC
At the top of my Christmas list for UGA is an OC who is the offensive equivalent to Todd Grantham. I think Richt’s loyal-to-a-fault history makes it unlikely that I’ll get my wish, but I can still dream.
That is a shameful post if you are a Dawg fan. Your separation on quality is based on what?Backing the general line of the bullshiters?
Ga Girl, just to fill you in…if you dislike Bobo, you cannot be a Dawg fan. It’s a rule. Balls said so. It’s all bullshit too, even if you’ve posted valid arguments. Wait, never mind, nothing is valid if it doesn’t concur with Balls’ own opinion. He’ll just curse at you and call you names on his computer. You know, the way grown-ups debate.
UGA was beaten by a better team. That is the game in a nutshell. LSU did not expect the passing attack but they caught on and dropped their safeties back. They have probably the best D backfield in college football and lots of depth on D, so Bobo saw fewer hats in the box and tried to get the running game going. When you can’t run the ball and you are in the shadow of your own goalpost and all those ballhawks back there are licking their chops and waiting for you to throw you are in trouble. To me UGa’s biggest areas to improve are special teams, Rbs and O line. Then depth on the D line. LBs and DBs seem set.
Bobo did not drop the balls throw to him,he did what any person with good sense would do. He went to another rout when at least two maybe three touchdowns were left on the ground with drop problem. The game plan had nothing wrong with it. The youth and nerve problems and etc will have to wait. The bigger problem we have now is driving from the back seat and gripes with every breath. We need to appreciate this years efforts instead of crying all the time. It gets old and hurts the program.
DCityDawg
A few simple thoughts.
1- Coaches should have never punted to Tyrone. Kick it out of bounds. There’s 14 points we gave away.
2- Murray’s meltdowns continue, missed several wide open receivers (I counted 10), and threw in 2 intereceptions and a fumble. This is getting old, and I am tired of watching a great team unravel because of Murray’s boneheaded plays and decision and inaccurate throws.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Is this a planned invasion from Dawg Vent? The blog, not you Dawg Vent.
Wow really 10 WIDE OPEN receivers…..dude there haven’t been 10 wide open receivers against LSU all YEAR, much less last night.
Bobo had no back up plan in case Crowell couldn’t go.
Like Branden Smith. Or Malcome.
Terrible preparation.
Did you miss the first quarter?
We should have either gone with Malcome or Smith at running back, the whole game, maybe both. It was our only shot. We were not prepared. Thomas and Crowell did nothing. Had to have a better plan than that. Bobo’s plan seemed to be pass every play, Chavis adjusted to that after the first quarter, and we nevber scored again. Did you watch the 2nd-4th quarters? Who made better adjustments? Wasn’t Bobo. It’s not who has the best first half. It’s who makes the best adjustments and who has the best game plan and backup game plan. Along with Murray’s inability to execute passes to wide open receivers, and punting the ball all game to a Heisman candidate, we deserved to lose.
I smell a troll.
Did Bobo? Why did he call two completely different games?
Hobnail_Boot
Senator, gotta squabble with you on point #3.
You know what Murray’s fumble reminded me of? Greene’s fumble in Baton Rouge on 9/20/03. Greene was outstanding, but also fallible.
They beat us, but we beat us, too.
1. No reason why a program like Georgia shouldn’t have more depth on the o-line, year in and year out – sorry, I just don’t get it. We’re acting like it’s a fact of nature or the result of a lottery or something that we don’t have more o-linemen ready to go.
2. I don’t know how much you pin on the o-line and depth, but the fact is that Murray gave it away three times yesterday. A lot of players may not look ready for prime time, but you put them on the field and they make it happen. I am a huge A. Murray fan, I really am, but I think it’s time to let Mason take every third or fourth series.
3. I’m not a Bobo hater, but after the creative, inventive first quarter, we went back to throw the bomb and run the draw what seemed like every single play. I’m not sure we tried to throw a 10 or 15 yard pass in the 2nd quarter. Maybe he dialed them up and they were covered, but I was heartsick every time I saw #1 in the game as the lone back in in the backfield. I do not understand not bringing in Tree and Figgins to lead the way in a power I running game at that point.
Here’s the deal – we keep saying “Once we found out we couldn’t run on them” or “after our o-line got gassed” – to let Bobo off the hook, as though these are surprises. The whole point of having an OC is so he can evaluate where our team’s strengths can be stressed and our weaknesses can be minimized vs our opponent. It may be that there was no way to beat LSU yesterday, but handing Crowell the ball so he could stand in the backfield waiting to get hit (rinse, repeat, x 50) is not really dialing it up, is it? I have given Bobo credit for calling a great game in the first quarter, but he kept doing the same thing over and over in the 2nd quarter, with predictable results. In fairness, we dropped a lot of passes, but you have to keep working.
4. Not sure I’ve seen anyone mention this, but I believe our D really fell apart when LSU started running the option. I thought that was as big a factor as the stupid punt returns. We had no answer for that.
muckbeast
How many times did Bobo say in a post game interview “Well we took our foot off the gas because the defense was playing so great.”
What a lazy piece of shit.
The defense giving 110% doesn’t mean the offense can give 20%.
Not only is that a stupid plan, but it is a level of laziness and complacency that rots the whole team.
Mike Bobo is a cancer. He absolutely must go.
Im right there with you Muck. Its so disheartening when intelligent fans like Senator take up for a guy like Bobo that won’t go balls out like Grantham.
Who’s a “balls out” OC in your mind?
Spurrier & Sean Payton come to mind immediately. Spurrier goes with what he’s dealt better than them all. He even knows when its the RIGHT time to go conservative. Of course no one is perfect. Id have to do some major research to find who fits the mold that UGA could coral.
Andy, if Richt can hire either one of them, I’ll be the first one to cheer him on.
Since you’re on record as wanting Bobo gone, how ’bout giving me a realistic replacement of somebody who’s “balls on”.
You’ve called me out. How long do I have to research? I love so many spread guys, but it scares me to go all spread in the SEC. I love our current scheme of pro set base with spread undertones. I’ll put up a post on my blog this week of my wife, work, and the youngin’s don’t get in the way. They always come first!
I hear you on having a life. 😉
Richt’s not gonna go spread. And to be honest with you, I’m not convinced you can win the current version of the SEC running the spread unless you’ve got a freak at QB. There are way too many dominant defensive teams.
Holgerson’s offense threw for 460+ on LSU. 533 yards of offense.
West Virginia has a bad defense and they lost by 26.
But… that included 4 turnovers to none.
WVU punted, LSU scored. WVU gets a good 3rd and long conversion, but fumbles and LSU gets the ball. WVU forces them to punt. WVU gets a good drive going and throws a pick and LSU scores. Then WVU drives down and scores down 13-7. Looking good and LSU hits a deep pass (one of their few all year) and goes up 20-7. Then a pick returned to the 1 and it’s soon 27-7 LSU. WVU’s Offense makes some good adjustments and comes out and scores twice. Now it’s 27-21. About to be a game… 99 KO return for a TD. 34-21 WVU gets the ball and a TO on downs early in the 4th on 4th and 3. LSU gets the ball back and scores 40-21. WVU driving… fumbles and LSU goes down and scores again. 47-21.
Actually kind of similar to our game except that WVU continued to have success. Killed themselves on offensive mistakes and ST errors. But Holgerson’s offense was moving the ball on LSU. without stupid turnovers, they likely would’ve kept on scoring. we had our stupid turnovers… but we had long since given up on scoring.
i think there are other offenses that would be plenty successful in the SEC.
If they ever reduce the SEC regular season to one game, you have a valid point.
I just think that people don’t know at this point. I wonder what a school like Florida/Bama/LSU/Georgia would do with a good DC, a good recruiting coordinator and Mike Leach. The SEC schools have the best players and best position coaches/coordinators. But the quirky offensive guys haven’t often been given a fair shake in the SEC. Al Borges and Tony Franklin are NOT Dana Holgerson or Mike Leach IMO (as far as talent, innovation, etc.) They’re not even Kevin Sumlin.
Just like the argument that the Air Raid (and similar offenses) could never succeed in the NFL… I really wonder. Maybe if they were given a few years and some serious talent, they could. West Virginia is going to keep getting better, but they won’t be in the position to consistently compete with the SEC elite because it’s WVU. They won’t have the players. They won’t have the defensive staff. If Florida runs Muschamp out on a rail in 3 years and they hire Holgerson and a competent defensive staff, who knows what will happen? Those guys have never been in that position because the general thinking has always been “it won’t work.” People said that about Urban’s system. Maybe Urban had to have Mullen and Tebow to make things work. Maybe he’s going to OSU because Braxton Miller is there and he’ll leave in 3 years when Braxton finishes up.
I see your point about the one game thing, but… I’m not sure that means that those other systems *couldn’t* be successful. We’ve only ever even seen those systems played by lesser teams against the SEC elite in games like the WVU/LSU game this year or in BCS games. If Leach were going to a big school (and maybe he will be in a few years), maybe we’d have a better idea. The highest I can remember these guys being is at Kentucky (Mumme/Leach), or Leach being the OC at Oklahoma in Stoops’s first year. Have they gone and failed somewhere else at a big time school?
Did people think Spurrier’s offensive philosophy wouldn’t work when he went to Florida? I’m not old enough to know, honestly. Did people say that SEC defenses were too physical and too good for his offense to succeed throwing the ball all over the place? That’s an honest question, not a rhetorical or sarcastic one.
But, even with all that… I’m not saying we have to switch schemes. I’m actually not even on the side that Bobo is terrible at his job. I just think that there’s a pretty good chance that we could hire someone better and that UGA should have the best coordinators we can possibly. The defensive staff seems to be much better at their jobs than the offensive staff is currently. And I don’t see how we can justify that. Again, I’m not blaming Bobo entirely or anything. I just think that we could do better.
Do you honestly think that if Richt went after a new OC the same way he went after a new DC (and staff) that we wouldn’t improve on offense?
I also think that Chad Morris coming from Tulsa to Clemson had a huge impact on their success this season. They made a change and it made a big difference.
Adam’s right. CMR should go after an NFL coach to be OC. You said above that you want a name and here it is–Bill Musgrave, QB coach of the Falcons.
No longer. I think he’s reunited with Matt Schaub as the Texans’ OC.
Musgrave is the OC of the struggling Minnesota Vikings.
Though it is his first year and he has a rookie QB, so it’s hard to say much about him.
But I wasn’t sure if you meant that as mocking me or not, Mayor. I know I may be rambling to some degree, but I’m trying to be pretty reasonable.
If Bobo is as inept as you say and he clearly needs to go, it would seem as though you could readily produce any number of better candidates. Candidates who are not active NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl or an active SEC head coach who has won a MNC.
Yes, and I hear you on being called out with no good reply. “Fix it before you break it ” might be a good motto for you Andy.
Richt should be able to land either one of those guys. Also, if Grantham lands another gig this off-season, let’s hire Bill Belichick as our new DC.
I will not be happy unless we hire Vince Lombardi as our QB coach.
I apologize to all I have offended by not having good replies like the two above (Chicago Dawg and Spence).
If we don’t get Ditka I am not making my Hartman fund contribution. I just won’t stand for sub standard coaching. Maybe Joe Gibbs is available…..
Turner Gill and Mike Sherman, should they not get HC offers, would be proven guys-I think you go after a guy with a resume if you pull the plug on Bobo
Here’s the best I’ve got for now: http://theugablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/curious-case-of-bobo.html
Andy, with all due respect, the kind of guy you want for OC isn’t the kind of guy Richt would hire.
I refuse to believe that, though it may very well be true, because I love Richt so damned much.
That’s McGarity’s job to find.
It isn’t my job to find an awesome OC.
I didn’t have to know the perfect replacement back when I knew Martinez needed to be fired. I was on this very blog saying it for years while defenders said it was fine. Its no different now with Bobo than it was then with Martinez.
The worst counter argument of all is “if he’s so bad, who do we replace him with.”
How the heck is that my job to know? I have my own job and life. I watch the Bulldogs and I watch maybe 15 or 20 other college games a year. I don’t watch 200. That’s McGarity and his staff’s job.
So let me get this straight…..you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobo sucks. I mean his awful and an affront to football loving people everywhere, but yet you can’t name one guy to replace him. If you can’t name one replacement on what are you basing the criteria for which you use to judge Bobo’s performance?
I’ll hang up and listen….
If he’s anything like most of us, his family and job get in the way of memorizing potential OC candidates names. Most of my spare football reading and watching time is given to all things Dawgs. I do watch hundreds of high school, college, and NFL games each year, but shockingly I don’t know but a handful of OC’s by name. Most of them would be impossible to get, so give me a day or two to write piece on potential candidates. Then you can call me names all you want! Like Neal Boortz always says, “if I had a dollar for every time I heard ‘you’re an idiot’…..”
My point is that both of you (hmmmm….maybe it’s just you posting under two names) seem to have this raging hatred for Bobo but you offer no alternative. You can’t even say why type of offensive philosophy you would replace him with. If you can offer a viable and realistic (realistic being the key word) but I am betting you can’t. Look I was all over Bobo the past two seasons for his playcalling and inability to adjust to what the defense was giving him, this year starting with the S.Carolina game he has turned the corner. I think that every game since (to include last night) has had a solid offensive game plan. The execution has been lacking in some areas but the plan has been solid. When you have a patch work Offensive line and zero depth at the RB position it kind of limits what you can call and where on the field you can call it. There are going to be some head scratching calls but there are for every OC in every game. There were a few in the Falcons game today and I don’t hear anyone calling for him to be fired. Statistics are the only way to compare Bobo’s performance to everyone else’s and based on that I would say he is doing a good job. Before you or someone else trots out the “he pads his stats against the crappy teams” I am using only SEC numbers and guess what…..all the OC’s pad their stats against crappy teams. Why the hell do you think Tebow played into the 4th quarter in blowouts? Stat padding to win the Heisman.
Newsflash: Bobo is just as responsible for execution as he is for the gameplan.
* He’s responsible for our shitty Oline.
* He’s responsible for our shitty run game.
* He’s responsible for our joke tailback situation over the last 5 years.
* He’s responsible for our offense choking and giving away craploads of turnovers and TAINTS (Touchdown After INTerception) in big games.
==> He is responsible for every single aspect and facet of our offense.
Why is it somehow necessary for me to know the replacement in order to be aware that Bobo is doing a shit job?
Our offense sucks. We pad our stats against sucky teams. We disappear in big games. That’s what I see right in front of me as I watch our team.
I don’t live and breathe college football. I don’t want 200 games a year and scout new OC talent from other teams. That’s Greg McGarity and CMR’s job.
Your family doesn’t seem to get in the way of the time spent blathering on blogs and watching hundreds of highschool, college, and NFL games.
Sure they do, otherwise it’d be 1000’s.
How in the hell is it my job to find a replacement?
I can’t cook, but I know if the food in front of me tastes like shit.
I’m sorry but I’m not the AD. Its not my job to find a good OC. But as a fan and a donor I can sure as hell tell when our OC sucks ass.
/apology for profanity
Bad analogy. You’re not a cook here, you’re a food critic. And how are we supposed to judge your ability to assess Bobo’s value without the context of knowing whom you believe is a competent OC?
I’m curious where you got that quote from. This is the only thing I could find:
“We pretty much called everything we had on our sheet,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Not saying you didn’t hear it, but that’s a pretty different sentiment from what else he said.
Let me translate that for you: “I called all the situational plays that were listed on my predictable call sheet, after I went conservative because Grantham’s D was playing lights out.”
So you’re saying that’s what Muckbeast heard, rather than what Bobo said?
I was just being a smart A.
Let’s stay on this. It is one thing to have an opinion, but if someone is attributing quotes that are made up just to support that opinion that is a real issue for the credibility of the blog for you Senator. I may have made some different calls during the game,, perhaps used different personnel packages, but I saw nothing that indicated the offense backed off. And if Bobo said something that dumb in a game we never led confortably, then maybe he does need to go…I just don’t believe it in the context it was quoted. Our problem was lack of OL blocking, period, and it has been for years.
Senator, I was paraphrasing what he’s said in like 10 different interviews throughout the season.
Ah now the omnicient Muckbeast can read minds too.
I argue with muckbeast on here quite often (though sometimes it’s all internalized and I resist the temptation to actually post about it), but Bobo has said in post-game interviews that he slowed down the offense because the defense was playing so well and he didn’t want to risk us making a mistake on offense.
That has, many times, explicitly been his plan this year.
I do see how “don’t screw this up for the defense” is different from “stop scoring and hope the defense wins it” in theory. But in practice… they sure do look a lot alike.
Just a quick hypothetical: if the offense were scoring quite a bit, and the defense (as I said hypothetically) could choose between playing hard and trying to keep the other team from scoring or just let them burn 5 minutes and kick a FG every time they had the ball… would it be ok for them to just let the other team kick those field goals? Or would we still want them to try to force turnovers and get stops? If the defense’s goal was to simply limit mistakes and not do something that could cost us the game ASSUMING the offense continued to play lights out, would we be happy with the defense?
The offense has relied on the defense to help us win close games by not letting the other team score a single point in the second half while the offense has been useless for long stretches. How is that fair? That kind of game turns into a blowout win for teams who produce on both sides of the ball.
Read minds?
Bobo is the one who said it. I’m sorry that I don’t have the exact quote, but everyone here who has been following the season knows what I am talking about.
He’s given that same excuse after countless games when he shut off the offense in the 2nd or 3rd quarter like a lazy assclown.
Junkyard Dawg '00
Just like you know that your gay a$$ hovercard is shit, but you fail to replace it? In all due respect Muckbeast, you and Andy’s argument about this is as compelling as a two year old child’s attempt to speak on the subject. You both can’t name a single coordinator that you’d rather have, you both ignore the stats that prove Bobo is one of the better OC’s in the conference (which is an NFL talent rich defensive conference), and Bobo is a disciple of coach Richt and, as such, runs the offense under the philosophy of Richt. So, honestly, just enjoy the turnaround this year for what it was and send in your donation and ticket money next month and if you don’t contribute any money then maybe it wouldn’t hurt you two to shut up and let the big boys handle it.
I dont typically argue using stats because of instances like throwing 5TDs in a quarter against New Mexico State. There is a place for them in some instances. I could give you 10 names off of the top of my head Id rather have as OC, but I would rather research and give readers real candidates, not pipe dreams. I told you the two best in the game in my opinion, Spurrier and Payton. Now, if you really want to hear my legitimate candidates, Ill put them on UGABlog.com within the week.
BanjoEarl
When Malcome averaged over 7 yards a carry, and the other guys were at about 1 or 2 yards per carry, why didn’t we try that earlier in the game?
Did you see who was on the field when Malcome did most of his damage?
Yeah. LSU defensive players.
Even LSU has a 3rd string (and walkons) and honestly at the end of a blowout like that why would you not have them out there.
C’mon, Mayor, you can do better than that.
The comments about how UGA has not recruited depth at OL are simply wrong. Yes, we lack depth there, however it is not because we have not signed big uglies.
2007 – We signed 8 offensive linemen (they would be seniors if they redshirted). Bean, Boling, Ben Harden, Scott Haverkamp, Chris LIttle, Tanner Strickland, Sturdivant, and Vince Vance (JUCO).
2008 – 4 OL signed. Cordy, AJ Harmon, Ben Jones, and Jonathen Owens.
2009 – 4 OL. Chris Burnette, Kwame Geathers, Dallas Lee and Austin Long
2010 – 3 OL – Brent Benedict, Gates, Kolton Houston
2011 – 6 OL. Watts Dantzler, Zach DeBell, Hunter Long, Nathan Theus, Xavier Ward
That’s a total of 25. In that time, LSU signed 4, 6, 4, 2, and 4 for a total of 20. UGA signed 25% more OL in the past five years than LSU.
Bama signed 2, 3, 7, 3 and 4 in those years (19).
The thinness of UGA’s offensive line is not because of lack of recruiting numbers. Perhaps it is talent evaluation, development, bad luck, or some combination thereof. It is NOT because of over signing.
Hopefully those that signed last year will be ready to play significantly next year along with John Theus.
Got to figure out how to win like LSU.
In 2nd half we should have:
1- made this a field position battle
2- run the ball and punt it high
3- rely on defense
4- rely on special teams
5- not turn the ball over
And Santa Claus with his reindeer making up the rest of this wish list.
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Opinion / Interviews
Job Sikhala talks tough
23 Jun 2019 at 21:16hrs | Views
Following the MDC Alliance elective congress recently, our deputy editor, Tangai Chipangura (TC), spoke to the newly-elected vice-chairman of the party Job Sikhala (JS) on a wide range of issues.
The vocal and often abrasive Sikhala responded to questions about his return to the main MDC which he, together with Tendai Biti and others, abandoned following ructions over a lost 2013 election and also about his election to the lofty position of vice-chairman in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC.
He also spoke about the imminent mass demonstrations that the MDC is agitating for in protest against the obtaining economic and political crisis in the country and his party's vision of a new Zimbabwe.
He laughed off the many infidelity allegations made against him, summing it up with a bold statement: "Is it a crime to be born with good looks?"
Below are excerpts from the interview:
TC: Congratulations Hon. Sikhala on your election to the post of MDC vice-chairperson. What would you credit your election to? Would you say your election confirms your popularity within the party structures?
JS: I would like first to thank the MDC family for having confidence in bestowing me with the leadership position to assist president Advocate Nelson Chamisa in the progression of our great party.
It's not about popularity to be elected, but it's about people having confidence in the project and giving certain individuals an opportunity to steer the party forward.
I don't believe it's about being popular. It's about people expecting results. They know I am a results oriented person
TC: From the look of it, what has happened in the party is a restoration of the original, formative MDC leadership of 1999. What can be expected from this original team of the MDC?
JS: Gweru spoke loudly. It spoke so loudly that the MDC family is no longer interested in silly endeavours and toxic insinuations.
Those whose political lifeline was toxic politics of undermining, rumour-mongering, cabalism, vana tisu vacho (those who beat their chests) must learn that the MDC family has the most sophisticated and brained people in the world. They keep quiet, misleading you and pretending to agree with you but they will strike at the right time.
They no longer want to have their time wasted. Twenty years of a struggle against a monolithic system is not a joke. Cheap talk is no longer their portion.
They want freedom now not tomorrow. Talking is no longer the business of their interest.
To all those who have been elected, including me, people want results. They want their liberation.
They voted with faith. Failure or dithering will despair the high expectations.
The faith in our president Chamisa must be complimented by astute leadership and unquestionable loyalty to the vision of the leader. We will make sure that there are no sideshows through any form of discord in the cockpit, especially myself I have no patience anymore or time to tolerate any form of discord.
That patience has long gone and replaced by total loyalty and unequivocal support of the vision of the leader.
Anyone trying to bring rumour-mongering antics, just wait and see. We will thwart, expose and viciously defeat such disposition.
We don't want the president to be distracted from the task at hand by ridiculous shenanigans. People are waiting for their victory. It must not be destabilised by any form of cheap disposition.
TC: As one of the top leaders - captains of the party, what is it that you see as your key result area, particularly your job as vice-chairperson of the party?
JS: The most important role is to make sure that everyone is happy once again in the people's movement. They must feel at home in the party of excellence. No more disenchantment in the party. Everybody in the party must be satisfied with our internal processes. Structures are no longer going to originate from people's homes, pockets or from under the tree. Everyone coming in the structures of the party must come from the people.
No more dreamers who constitute themselves into a party structure from their bedrooms.
Munhu wose ibva kuvanhu (every position must come from the people). We owe the positions we have to the people. Chamisa is there because he came through a mandate from the people. So what's so special about you to sit down in some hidden place elsewhere writing the names of your wife, girlfriends and friends and calling yourself a structure from the party of excellence?
People must feel ownership of their leadership from the street committees to the top hierarchy of the party. The will of the people is our breath. Never ever shall there be double candidates in the party again. Such intransigence will never happen.
Those who do not wish to be disciples of democracy in the party should know that being disrespectful of the outcome of primary elections is your end.
I will make sure that free, fair and just primary elections are conducted to the satisfaction of every contender and the winner is celebrated by everyone.
I promise to conduct the cleanest primary elections ever that will be even the envy of the United States of America, which is regarded as the bastion of democracy.
Discipline will be the daily business of the party of excellence.
We are ready to govern and resuscitate our nation from the current quagmire and poverty.
We can only do that if we are a disciplined outfit. Leadership must be respected from grassroots to the most sacrosanct office. No more dithering and drunken behaviour.
We are the hope for Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe needs our leadership that has no traits of wickedness and docility.
TC: What would you view as your biggest challenge at this time as Zimbabwe's main opposition party?
JS: Human rights abuses and using the perishable power of the gun is one of the major challenges this country is facing under this regime.
This unpopular regime of the-PFeerorists knows it well that they are clueless, hopeless and scandalous in all its body system.
It is over applying the force of the gun. When you over use the gun the results will be too ghastly to contemplate.
It's advice based on historical facts. The Sharpville Massacre did not kill the fight against apartheid. It rather emboldened and intensified the struggle. It is stupid to think that Zimbabweans are fools and will tolerate them forever. Watch the space.
The gun shall silence itself. People shall speak. They shall speak in a language that will shake the people presiding over our affairs. Time up calling in my small prophecy is nigh.
People are agitated and shivering with anger. Its explosion will call upon the massacre of every single citizen. This is our country. We owe it to ourselves to preserve it for generations to come.
TC: Is today's lawyer, the older and more mature Job Sikhala, the same as that youthful, temperamental, bold, brash, blunt - the no-holds-barred Wiwa of yester-year? What has changed and what has remained intact?
JS: Law has mentored me to be a complete self. It has opened the intellectual horizons beyond comprehension. It gave me a deeper understanding of so many things that I would not have appreciated without that wisdom. I can now understand some of the things in life that I did not see in the past.
It gives me satisfaction of survival and duty calling. Radicalism without direction is no longer an option for me. I am no longer a brewer of unintelligible conflict. When I say something I am convinced to the bone that it is the correct route to take.
By 2023 I would have completed my Doctor of Laws (LLD). I am currently pursuing my Masters of Laws (LLM) and truly it is a privilege to be a lawyer and practise it with perfection.
TC: What do you see as the solution to the problems that Zimbabwe is facing today? What do you think of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a leader and Zanu-PF as the party in government?
JS: The economic mayhem he has visited on our country and on every citizen of this country shows that he is Mr. Clueless.
Fuel queues everywhere. Every day his laughable currency is losing value by each passage of a second.
Mysterious deaths of people through accidents and the torment of our people shows that he is not presidential material at all.
As we speak, one of our members in Mberengwa escaped abduction from the CIOs who are based at Mataga. Our members in Gutu Mupandawana have been sleeping in the bush for two weeks now after having been visited at night by members of the CIO based in Gutu.
TC: Could demonstrations be one of the options? How much success chances do you give demos given past experiences?
JS: Whether demonstrations are solutions or not is neither here nor there. What I am convinced about is that the people of Zimbabwe shall speak. You reap what you sow.
TC:What measures would you put in place to minimise injury, death and property destruction coming from demonstrations.
JS: Who told you that we are planning demonstrations? We have always been demonstrating since Chamisa took over the leadership of the party and not even a plate was broken. Our conduct has been very peaceful during all the demonstrations we have held in this country. The gods and goddesses of violence are known even by a fly.
TC: Protests have often yielded ugly consequences, what does the new MDC leadership like you say? How prepared are people to go onto the streets? Are you not afraid for your life and that of your family given what has happened to you in the past?
JS: No one will ever prescribe a violent confrontation with this regime as the solution and that will never be a solution.
Whether being afraid for my life or that of my family is an issue or not is something funny to ask about. Even Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein who lived the arrogance of giving and taking life to others and their citizens have died.
We shall all die, including that soldier who was kneeling in Harare on the 1st of August 2018 mercilessly firing "at 45 degrees". God only knows how long we shall all live and die, including those who murder others.
TC: You are one of the senior officials that abandoned MDC during Morgan Tsvangirai's era and you have returned under Nelson Chamisa. What influenced your change of heart? Was it because of the case of it being cold out there?
JS: That narrative is incorrect. I was visited at my house by the late unifier and our icon President Morgan Tsvangirai in March 2014 and he engaged me on the need to bring back to life the MDC of 1999 by working together again.
He talked to me like a father and said let's move together, my son, as he had a lot of trust in my capabilities to help the party achieve its 1999 goals. He immediately appointed me into the national executive as the secretary for mobilisation and recruitment. I then went on to address more than 30 rallies throughout the country.
We reinvigorated the movement after his fallout with our other colleagues. That is the correct narrative, my brother.
TC: How did you retrace your footsteps back into the MDC and who was influential in that decision?
JS: The late president Morgan Tsvangirai loved me so much. He approached me at my house in St. Mary's after his Huruyadzo Rally and persuaded me to move together to liberation tower. No one except Morgan Tsvangirai himself convinced me.
TC: Do you think the MDC is playing its role as the main opposition effectively given the fact that Zanu-PF appears comfortable in its leadership of the country and is not being challenged on many policy missteps?
JS: MDC does not only have alternative policies, but it has the best policies enunciated in our various policy documents. The party policies are the only hope for Zimbabwe. In Parliament the MDC MPs are the best in articulating the national agenda.
We are the people who know how the country should be run. The best brains are in MDC.
TC: What is your reaction to critics who say many opposition legislators are only interested in lining their pockets and getting influential positions instead of keeping the ruling party in check?
JS: It's an illusionary falsehood. Lining pockets to what end? Pub talk by the hopeless agents of the dead system can't be taken seriously even by a child in kindergarten. Everyone with a position in the party deserves it without doubt. Like I have earlier said, the rich brains are in MDC.
From top to bottom, you can't compare the current MDC leadership with that of Zanu-PF. Let's go one by one.
Advocate Nelson Chamisa versus Mnangagwa, Tendai Biti versus Kembo Mohadi, Welshman Ncube versus Constantantino Guvheya Chiwenga, Lynette Karenyi Kore versus even both Guvheya and Mohadi, Thabita Khumalo and Job Sikhala versus Oppah Zvipanga Muchinguri Kashiri, Pupurai Togarepi versus Obey Sithole, Mabel Chinomona versus Paurina Mpariwa… it's a no-contest!
TC: There are stories that have associated you with several women since you came into politics.
JS: I became a public figure when I was a boy; from student leadership to national politics.
I even became a Member of Parliament at a very young age of 25 and I was not married. I had already found love in 1997 in Ellen Gudo who became my wife in 2000 after I became an MP up to the present. We are blessed with beautiful kids. They are now grown-up. If these other women existed at all, our marriage would have long collapsed like that of Guvheya Chiwenga or that of Kembo Mohadi. You could have published headlines of me visiting my wife with a troop of bodyguards and armed with an axe to inflict injuries to her.
Secondly, as said above, I became a public figure at a young age.
If truly I slept around with women dai ndisina kuridzwawo here nezvirwere zvepa bonde senjovhera? (wouldn't I have died from sexually transmitted diseases?) People make stupid allegations without evidence. Some of us laugh at such reckless talk, which is just meant to vilify innocent people. I am a very busy lawyer. I am always in court every day.
I am an MP who attends to his constituency. I am a student of post graduate law.
I am the vice-chairman of the party who is always needed by the president for duties he allocates to me.
I can't even fulfil appointments with friends and relatives who wish to see me. I also have a family to attend to. And on top you add women. Women also need attention. Where would I get the time?
Is it a crime to be born with good looks? I love my wife very much. She is the Alpha and the Omega of my heart.
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Gestamp Corp. has announced plans to invest $90 million to establish a new automotive parts stamping operation at Enterprise South Industrial Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The company expects the operation to create at least 230 new jobs within three years.
Gestamp has secured a contract to supply structural components for the production of the new mid-sized sedan that Volkswagen has designed specifically for the U.S. market. In addition, Gestamp, a global supplier, provides a wide range of technologies and products for many other automotive companies including Mercedes, Renault-Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Chrysler, GM, BMW and Toyota, among others. The newly established facility will support and extend Gestamp’s ability to supply its broad base of customers.
”We’re pleased to be able to continue our strong working relationship with Volkswagen,” said Jeff Wilson, president and chief operating officer for Gestamp. ”I firmly believe the excellent business climate and skilled workforce of Chattanooga and Tennessee will allow us to benefit from the same qualities Volkswagen found here and to continue our company’s long term growth.”
”I also want to express my sincere appreciation for the support and leadership we’ve received from Mayor Ramsey, Mayor Littlefield, Commissioner Kisber and the Chattanooga Chamber,” Wilson said.
”We welcome Gestamp as the first ‘tier 1’ auto supplier to follow Volkswagen to Chattanooga,” said Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey. ”The Gestamp project is further confirmation of our community’s foresight in developing Enterprise South as a job creation engine for our economy.”
”I applaud Gestamp for investing in our economy and creating 230 new, family-wage jobs at a time when our citizens need them the most,” said Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield. ”Thanks to Gestamp, we are a step closer to realizing our vision of making Chattanooga an automotive manufacturing hub.”
”When Volkswagen announced plans to locate in Chattanooga, we celebrated the 2,000 jobs VW would create, but at the same time said additional job creation would follow,” said Commissioner Matt Kisber. ”We’re pleased Gestamp North America has followed that announcement with their investment, which will continue the momentum we’re building in Tennessee around the automotive industry.”
”In recruiting Gestamp, we again demonstrate the effectiveness of a proactive job creation strategy based on public-private partnership,” said Trevor Hamilton, vice president of economic development for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce. ”Despite this challenging economic environment, Chattanooga continues to build momentum as companies like Alstom, Volkswagen, Chattem, Arch Plastics, Dixie Industries and now Gestamp make sizeable investments that are directly creating over 2,800 new jobs.”
Gestamp Corporation, which is headquartered in Michigan, is a subsidiary of Gestamp Automocion, a privately held company based in Madrid, Spain. Gestamp generates $7 billion in sales each year through manufacturing operations at 75 sites all over the world. Gestamp supplies Volkswagen in various countries in Europe and is presently building new plants in Russia, India and Argentina which will supply Volkswagen.
Although Gestamp is not taking applications at this time, job seekers are invited to monitor job postings through the local media and the Tennessee Career Centers.
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Chicken Inspection
Myths vs. Facts
What the
Myths and Facts about the Modernization of Poultry Inspection System
Here’s a look at separating myths versus facts about line speeds and what the modernized poultry inspection system means for the chicken industry, for worker safety and the safety of chicken products.
For the Chicken Industry:
Myth:The proposed rule would “privatize” chicken inspection.
Fact: The chicken industry remains one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States. Under the modernization and in the HIMP pilot program, USDA remains in its oversight role and USDA inspectors will still be in every plant, looking at each carcass to ensure the safety of chicken products and providing them with the USDA seal of approval for wholesomeness. The proportion of them doing critical food safety-related tasks will actually increase.
Specifically, a USDA poultry inspector will be stationed further down the evisceration line and just before the chiller to ensure that birds have been properly processed. The facility will now be in charge of its own quality assurance program by training sorters to remove any quality defects from carcasses thereby allowing FSIS inspectors to focus more on food safety-related parameters and not visible defects.
For our Workforce
Myth: The proposed rule is likely to prove harmful for worker safety.
There is no evidence in the pilot program over the past 18 years to substantiate the assertion that increased line speeds will increase injuries. In fact, the safety record in all poultry plants has improved dramatically. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data show the industry has had an 82 percent decrease in its worker injury and illness rates since 1994, falling to 4.2 cases per 100 full-time workers in 2016 from 22.7 in 1994.
The total recordable poultry processing illness and injury rate of 4.2 is at an all-time low and lower than the rate of 4.7 for the entire food manufacturing sector. To put the rate of 4.2 into perspective, it is lower than the rate for similar animal slaughter industries (6.9), soft drink manufacturing (7.4), cheese manufacturing (4.8) and bakeries and tortilla manufacturing (4.3). Furthermore the more than five-fold decrease in injury rates in the poultry industry from 1994-2015 coincided with a period of substantial increases in line speeds, bird size, and automation. Technological improvements in processing tend to correspond to safer workplaces.
In addition, FSIS accounts for worker safety in the current line speed regulation by including a provision requiring plants to comply with federal worker safety requirements. The provision makes clear that all plants, regardless of the line speed at which they operate, must provide workers with a workplace free from recognized hazards that are likely to cause death or serious physical harm and to comply with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.
Myth: The proposed rule calls for less federal oversight, effectively incentivizing companies to cheat federal rules and doing so would endanger workers.
Fact: Each establishment participating in NPIS is required to submit an annual attestation to FSIS stating that the establishment maintains a program to monitor and document any work-related conditions of establishment workers. This program must include the following elements: a) policies to encourage early reporting of symptoms of injuries and illnesses, and assurance that the plant has no policies or programs in place that would discourage the reporting of injuries and illnesses; (b) notification to employees of the nature and early symptoms of occupational illnesses and injuries; and (c) monitoring of injury and illness logs, as well as nurse or medical office logs, workers’ compensation data, and any other injury or illness information available. The proposed rule would not affect any of this attestation requirement.
Myth:With line speed increases, poultry plant workers will be forced to work with knives and other sharp objects at a frenetic, chaotic pace, with little to no way to slow down the process.
Fact: The line speed increases only pertain to the middle part of the production line, known as the evisceration line. The evisceration line is the part of the plant where the birds’ organs are removed, the carcass is cleaned and inspected. This part of the process is highly automated and it is not the part of the plant where the birds are killed, or where workers cut up the chicken for packaging.
FSIS itself noted in the preamble to the NPIS proposed rule that there is an important distinction between line speed and work pace. A worker’s exposure to musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk factors, such as repetitive or prolonged hand activity, is affected by his or her work pace. Work pace, in turn, is the product of many factors, one of which is line speed. Other factors affecting work pace include staffing levels, plant layout and product flow, factors which FSIS does not regulate but that establishments may adjust as appropriate to ensure that line speeds do not jeopardize worker safety. In addition, FSIS inspectors are required to slow down or stop the line if process control is not maintained. Further, USDA has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requiring both OSHA and FSIS inspectors to confidentially report workplace hazards affecting plant employees.
Myth: Studies that looked at traditional poultry plants where line speeds were 70 to 91 birds per minute, found that 59 percent of workers had definite or possible carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Modernization would increase the percentage of workers with CTS and other repetitive motion injuries.
Fact: These studies actually focused on plant activities outside of the slaughtering process and thus are unrelated to the activities covered in the proposed rule. In terms of worker safety, the part of the line (evisceration) that deals with the speed increase is almost entirely automated. Second processing lines, where workers debone and cut up chicken parts, would remain one-fifth of the speed as the evisceration line. At the same time the industry has been increasing line speeds over the past 20 years, the poultry industry’ injury and illness rate has fallen 82 percent, according to the Department of Labor. Furthermore, much of the process under which line speeds would increase due to waivers requested by NCC in the NPIS is automated, therefore would have little effect on workers’ repetitive motion injuries.
For Food Safety
Myth:The proposal would likely increase the rates of ‘defects’ for birds going down the processing line, allowing each plant to decide the appropriate level of ‘defects,’ which can include blisters, bruises, scabs, feathers, bile, ingesta, and a variety of poultry-specific diseases.
Fact: Science-based evidence demonstrates that there is no correlation between visible defects and food-borne illness. Additionally, under the proposed rule, industry must comply with current Ready-to-Cook regulatory standards, which addresses ‘defects’ for poultry products. From a common sense viewpoint, a company would harm the marketability and demand for their product if they allowed visible ‘defects’ on their products. Also, though it is left unspecified how industry is to go about complying with performance standards on bird defects, it is ultimately FSIS that establishes and enforces those performance standards. Therefore, the result is the same in either case, but it takes less agency resources under NPIS to achieve the same result in terms of bird ‘defects.’
Myth: A single government inspector would have only one-third of a second to examine each chicken carcass for food safety and other problems.
Fact: You can’t see Salmonella no matter how fast or slow the line speed moves. A person cannot visually inspect a bird and point out which ones have Salmonella on them or not. Visual inspection is only one of several other scientifically-validated measures to protect food from contamination and to reduce bacteria levels at dozens of different points during the entire production process. While visual inspection will remain a vital part of the inspection process, it will be coupled with additional pathogen detection capabilities performed offline. The number of these offline inspections has quadrupled under NPIS, according to an October 2017 presentation released by FSIS. Ultimately, no less visual inspection will occur under NPIS than occurred under the traditional inspection system. By having industry employees perform more cosmetic inspection (done by visual inspection), FSIS inspectors can be used at the end of the line as a final judge and off-line doing many other tasks to ensure a safe and wholesome chicken product.
Myth: When birds arrive at the inspector, they’re often covered in fecal matter or were improperly killed, leading to greater risk of diseases like septicemia or toxemia.
Fact: The data show that as a result of industry practices, such as carcass sorting activities, very few adulterated poultry carcasses are presented to inspectors stationed at the end of the slaughter line in HIMP establishments, according to a 2016 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The number of carcasses with septicemia, toxemia, or fecal material that arrive at the online carcass inspector location is very low (less than 8 carcasses with infectious conditions per million carcasses processed and less than 0.8 carcasses with fecal contamination per 1,000 carcasses). These levels are less than those found in non-HIMP plants. The carcass inspector further reduces the number of carcasses with septicemia/toxemia or visible fecal contamination, according to the data. For septicemia/toxemia, the carcass inspector detected affected carcasses at a rate of 0.000004% or 4 per 100 million carcasses slaughtered. For visible fecal contamination, the CI detected affected carcasses at a rate of 0.0009% or 9 per million carcasses slaughtered. These data demonstrate that carcasses affected with these diseases and fecal contamination are detected and condemned in HIMP establishments before entering the chiller. This data shows that the online inspectors in HIMP plants are performing in a manner that enables them to properly inspect each carcass and, therefore, make the necessary inspection to adequately identify adulterated carcasses.
Myth: With less government inspectors on the line, rates of food-borne diseases like Salmonella and Campylobacter will increase.
Fact: Under the new inspection system, rates of these diseases have fallen by half of traditional inspection rates. According to an October 2017 presentation released by FSIS providing updated NPIS food safety information from data on 176 chicken and 41 turkey slaughter plants, Salmonella positive rates in chicken fell to 1.56 percent from 3.01 percent. In HIMP-converted plants, this rate fell to 2.9 percent from 8.9 percent for chicken carcasses, while the rate for chicken parts remained basically flat. These data show that the prevalence of these diseases decreases when more offline inspection is done by FSIS, while visual inspection to detect bird ‘defects’ can be done by industry personnel. In this arrangement, precious agency resources are stewarded more wisely all while ensuring a safer and more wholesome product for the American public.
“A landmark study demonstrated that plants with higher line speeds met or exceeded FSIS food safety standards,” wrote Doug Collins, Congressman from Georgia’s Ninth District, for The Hill in October of 2017. “Among other successes, FSIS (that is, the government inspectors) saw the percentages of unacceptable samples for E. coli fall from 3.9 percent to 0.7 percent while the plants were able to operate at increased speeds. The rates of Salmonella and Campylobacter bacteria further show that these have food safety outcomes as good as or better than traditionally-run plants, whose line speeds are capped at an arbitrary 140 bpm.”
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‘Girl in a Country Song’: New Research Confirms that Country Music Objectifies Women More Now than in the Past, and Male Singers Are Driving the Trend
Turns out Maddie & Tae were right—new research shows that girls in country songs really are only good for their looks.
In 2014 the country duo Maddie & Tae released their hit single “Girl in a Country Song,” a song that laments how women in country music today are portrayed as objects, play-things meant to satisfy a man. As you know, I have 4 daughters, and they all listen to country music. Wanting to know if my daughters really are exposed to messages in country music telling them that what makes them special is how they look and how tight their clothes are, we analyzed 750 country songs from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s for how they portrayed women.
Here’s what we found. Country music in the 2010s, compared to earlier decades:
talks more about women’s appearance
talks more about women in tight or revealing clothing
compares women to objects more
refers more to women using slang instead of their real names
talks less about women being empowered
talks less about women in non-traditional roles
These were true for songs sung by male singers, but none of these findings were true for songs sung by female singers. In addition, country songs sung by female singers in the 2010s referred more to women as distrustful or cheaters than songs in the 2000s.
Let’s talk about what this research means. Country music is the most popular music genre in America. Country music is often considered more wholesome and “safe” than rap, hip-hop, and rock music. Unfortunately, this research shows that Americans rarely escape the message that women are to be valued for their looks and for sex appeal instead of for who they are as a person or for their competence-based attributes. And here’s the problem with this—research also shows that women and girls can internalize these messages, resulting in a host of negative outcomes, such as feeling bad about one’s body, depression, and eating disorders. Not to mention what these types of lyrics do to boys’ perceptions of girls.
Don’t women deserve better than this? Don’t our children deserve better?
As a parent, what can you do? As I’ve written in the past both on this blog and at PBSparents.org, parents are in the best position to help kids avoid the effects of listening to negative media lyrics. In these links I outline specific things parents can do and say about the music kids listen to, so I won’t repeat them here. As you’ll find, there is no need to feel powerless as a parent. In fact, you have a greater influence than you think. I encourage you to start paying attention to the lyrics of music you listen to, especially when little ears are around. We may not be able to change the country music industry and the music they create, but we can make a difference for those we love.
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Performance of regional tourism sector described as ‘tale of two situations’
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NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — Caribbean tourism experienced contrasting performances over the last year with the newly appointed chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, (CTO), Dominic Fedee, describing the experiences as a “a tale of two situations”.
“On the one hand, we have robust growth in countries that were not affected by last year’s hurricanes. On the other, we have seen dramatic decreases in arrivals to those hit by the storms, although the performances of these countries are steadily improving,” Fedee said in a statement read out at a news conference on the final day of the CTO sponsored State of the Industry Conference (SOTIC).
But in his statement, which was delivered by CTO Secretary General, Hugh Riley, the St Lucia tourism minister said that the region’s competitive advantages of a diverse tourism product and safety and security are still intact.
“Destinations are rebuilding, and new tourism products and services are being restored daily in the destinations impacted by last year’s hurricanes. Our research department anticipates an overall decline of between three and four per cent this year, but predicts a 4.3 per cent increase next year.”
Fedee said cruise, on the other hand, is projected to grow by five per cent to six per cent this year.
He told reporters that of the 22 reporting destinations, 13 of them registered increases in tourist arrivals during the first half of the year, ranging from 1.7 per cent to 18.3, while seven recorded decreases of between a negligible -0.3 per cent and 71 per cent.
He said the top performing destination during this period were Guyana at 18.3 per cent, Belize at 17.1 per cent, the Cayman Islands at 15.9 per cent, and Grenada at 10.7 per cent and the Bahamas at 10.2 per cent.
“These individual results substantiate the regional messaging of the openness of the destinations for business and the confidence in destinations to deliver quality experiences. The performances of the key source markets varied considerably, with some destinations recording strong growth, while others registered declines,” the St Lucia tourism minister said.
He said in the US market, for example, while Jamaica reported growth of 8.4 per cent, the Dominican Republic was up by 6.3 per cent and 11 other destinations achieved growth, six of which were by double digits, the Caribbean received seven million visits from the US during the first half of the year.
“This was a 15.8 per cent decrease when compared to the corresponding period last year, due mainly to a 54.6 per cent fall in arrivals to Puerto Rico and decreases in arrivals to Cuba. On the other hand, there was a new record in arrivals from Canada for this time of year, with 2.4 million overnight international tourists, representing a 4.7 per cent increase.”
Fedee said arrivals from Europe also increased, though marginally at 0.3 per cent, with three million tourists visiting the Caribbean during the first half of the year.
He said Belize led the way with 24.3 per cent growth, followed by Guyana at 9.4 per cent, Curacao 6.2 per cent and St Lucia at 4.5 per cent.
However, overall growth was impacted by steep falls in arrivals to Anguilla, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
Fedee said that there was also a marginal decline of 0.5 per cent in cruise visits, although there are signs of improvement.
He said of the 23 reporting destinations, 15 realised improvement upon their 2017 performances with Trinidad & Tobago registering increases of 166 per cent, St Vincent & the Grenadines up by 84 per cent and Martinique at 54.7 per cent, leading on growth rates.
“However, this was countered by declines of nearly 90 per cent in the British Virgin Islands, Dominica was down by 88.4 per cent, St Maarten down 27.5 per cent, and the US Virgin Islands decreased by 22.5 per cent. Puerto Rico, though hurricane-impacted, posted a 1.1 per cent increase during the period.”
Fedee said that the region’s competitive advantages of a diverse tourism product and safety and security are still intact.
Fedee, who will chair the CTO for the next two years, said he remains excited at the prospects for the CTO and the critical role it can play in unifying the Caribbean, not simply as a tourism destination, but as a people destined for greatness.
“I’m convinced that a well-supported, well-funded, CTO can take its place alongside other venerable institutions to lift the people of the Caribbean to incredible heights that are attainable but not yet achieved.
“The organisation’s leadership in tourism and its contribution to the development of our human resources will help drive strong economies and build reliable, competent and productive workforces and Caribbean populations that are ready to face an ever-changing global environment.”
He said the CTO’s leadership was on full display this week through the experts brought here to share insights into how the region can better build a lasting and sustainable tourism sector that will benefit every individual, every community, every country in this region.
“We dared to challenge the region to build better, not just the infrastructure, but the entire industry. We explored applicable recommendations for the use of technology, not only to improve the visitors’ experience, but our lot as a people. We boldly tackled controversial issues such as commoditising our cultures without exploiting them and embracing the Caribbean as a region of roots.
“We brought these issues to the forefront not because they’re popular, but because we are convinced they must be successfully addressed sooner rather than later, if we are to truly build a Caribbean tourism industry for the future,” he added.
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Prerequisites: EPT score of 146 or lower.
Corequisite: ENGL 130E.
A special section of Writing Workshop open only to students with English as a Second Language. Interested students should consult with International Evaluations. 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 2.0 units. This course is designated remedial and does not count as credit toward the bachelor's degree, although the units may be applied to financial aid minimum requirements. (020664)
ENGL 130EI Academic Writing - ESL 3.0 FS GE WI
Prerequisite: EFLN 170 with a grade of C- or higher.
A special section of Academic Writing open only to students with English as a Second Language. Interested students should consult with the English Department. 3 hours discussion.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (020665)
ENGL 130I Academic Writing 3.0 FS GE WI
Prerequisites: English Placement Test.
Instruction and practice in writing university-level expository prose. 3 hours discussion.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (003383)
ENGL 130PI Academic Writing 3.0 FS GE WI
Prerequisite: English Placement Test.
Instruction and practice in writing university-level prose. Instruction and practice in writing university-level expository prose. 2 hours discussion, 2 hours activity.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (020872)
ENGL 198 Special Topics 1.0 -3.0 FS
ENGL 203 Shakespeare in Film 3.0 FS GE
Through examining the texts and film interpretations of Shakespeare plays, students in this course develop a deeper understanding of both Shakespearean drama and the language of film. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (015856)
ENGL 220I Beginning Creative Writing 4.0 FS GE WI
Workshop for beginning writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (003399)
ENGL 230 Introduction to Technical Writing 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 130.
A study of technical writing and presentation skills in business and scientific environments, including audience analyses, writing processes, genres of technical and business discourse, visual communication, collaboration, professional responsibility, clear and correct expression. Students write and revise several documents and give oral reports. 3 hours discussion. (003453)
ENGL 240 Literature for Life 3.0 FS GE
Readings of literary masterpieces as springboards for personal reflection on students' social, psychological, and physiological being. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (003423)
ENGL 252 American Indian Literature 3.0 FS GE USD
Study of the oral and written literature of the American Indian and of related historical and critical materials. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (000377)
ENGL 258 World Literature 3.0 FS GE GC
Study of non-Western literature from a variety of cultures, with European materials included for comparison. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (003408)
ENGL 258I World Literature - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE GC WI
Study of non-Western literature from a variety of cultures, with European materials included for comparison. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (021234)
ENGL 260 Great Books 3.0 FS GE
The study of novels, poetry, and drama selected from the world's great literature. Historical, thematic, and formal approaches shape the analysis of these works. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (003492)
ENGL 260I Great Books - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE WI
The study of novels, poetry, and drama selected from the world's great literature. Historical, thematic, and formal approaches shape the analysis of these works. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (021703)
ENGL 261 Women Writers 3.0 FS GE
An exploration of the thematic and stylistic elements of literature by women with an emphasis on the ways women's lives have been shaped by societal expectations with regard to gender roles, sexuality identify and expression, socio-economic status, and ethnic and/or religious identities. Readings may include life writing, short story, novel, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism by women from different cultures and periods. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (021172)
ENGL 261I Women Writers - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE WI
An exploration of the thematic and stylistic elements of literature by women with an emphasis on the ways women's lives have been shaped by societal expectations with regard to gender roles, sexuality identify and expression, socio-economic status, and ethnic and/or religious identities. Readings may include life writing, short story, novel, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism by women from different cultures and periods. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. (021708)
ENGL 264 American Ethnic and Regional Writers 3.0 FS GE USD
An interdisciplinary study of the culture, oral, and written literature of an American ethnic group or groups, with emphasis on ties to particular regions and traditions. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (000408)
ENGL 264I American Ethnic and Regional Writers - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE USD WI
An interdisciplinary study of the culture, oral, and written literature of an American ethnic group or groups, with emphasis on ties to particular regions and traditions. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (021235)
ENGL 276 Survey of Early British Literature 3.0 FS
A survey of British literature from Beowulf to mid-1700s. 3 hours lecture. (003472)
ENGL 277 Survey of Later British Literature 3.0 FS
A survey of British literature from mid-1700s to the twentieth century. 3 hours lecture. (003473)
ENGL 278 Survey of Early American Literature 3.0 FS
A survey of American literature from its beginnings to the 1850s. 3 hours lecture. (003475)
ENGL 279 Survey of Later American Literature 3.0 FS
A survey of American literature from the 1850s to 1945. 3 hours lecture. (003476)
ENGL 303 Survey of American Film 3.0 FS
Study and criticism of selected American films, with emphasis on their literary sources, their illustration of various literary conventions, and their use of language. 3 hours lecture. (003463)
ENGL 304 Comics and Graphic Novels 3.0 FS
An examination of the historical development of comic books and the graphic novel as a distinct genre. This course introduces students to key terminology within comics' studies, and strategies for analyzing and composing comic books. 3 hours lecture. (021584)
ENGL 315 Introduction to Literary Editing and Publishing 4.0 INQ
Prerequisite: ENGL 220I or faculty permission.
History of publishing, acquisition of basic editorial skills, and study of the editing and publishing process. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. (003497)
ENGL 320 Poetry Writing 4.0 FS GW
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement; ENGL 220 for English Educ students only.
Instruction in the writing of poetry at an intermediate level. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003443)
ENGL 321 Fiction Writing 4.0 FS GW
Instruction in the writing of fiction at an intermediate level. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003446)
ENGL 327 Creative Nonfiction 4.0 FS GW
Instruction in the writing of fact-based prose (i.e., nonfiction) that acknowledges the presence and creative imagination of the writer at an intermediate level. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003438)
ENGL 332 Introduction to Literacy Studies 3.0 FS
An introduction to the study of public and scholarly literacy, and its applications in economic systems, schooling, religion, and technology. Required of English majors by the end of the junior year in preparation for upper-division work in English. 3 hours lecture. (003439)
ENGL 333 Advanced Composition for Future Teachers 3.0 FS GW
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement; ENGL 375 recommended.
Advanced practice in writing and in using writing in the classroom for single- and multiple-subject credential candidates. 3 hours discussion. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003436)
ENGL 335 Rhetoric and Writing 3.0 FS GW
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement.
Practice in writing and revising prose that informs and persuades effectively, based on a study of classical and modern rhetorical principles. Open to all students; required of all English majors, including credential candidates, who should take it by the end of their junior year in preparation for upper-division course work in English. 3 hours discussion. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003488)
ENGL 338 Environmental Rhetoric 3.0 FS GE
Prerequisite: Engl 130, ENGL 335 recommended.
Through a variety of readings, documentary films, discussions, lectures and writing activities, students will learn about current arguments about the environment and, specifically, contemporary discourse on global climate change, sustainability, environmental activism, and social movements. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (020597)
ENGL 338Z Environmental Rhetoric - Capstone 3.0 FS GE WI C
Prerequisite: Engl 130I. Recommended: ENGL 335.
Through a variety of readings, documentary films, discussions, lectures and writing activities, students will learn about current arguments about the environment and, specifically, contemporary discourse on global climate change, sustainability, environmental activism, and social movements. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education Capstone course. (021357)
ENGL 340 Approaches to Literary Genres 3.0 FS
The course focuses on developing analytical approaches to literary genres, primarily short stories, novels, poems, and plays. Required of English majors by end of junior year in preparation for upper-division course work in English. 3 hours lecture. (003431)
ENGL 341 Reading Literature for Future Teachers 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 333 strongly recommended.
Basic concepts involved in the study of literature, interpretation and criticism of literary works, and suggestions for helping others understand and appreciate literature. Required of multiple-subject credential candidates. 3 hours lecture. (003433)
ENGL 342 Literature of the Child 3.0 FS GE
A study of the many ways in which the child and childhood are dealt with in literary works. Texts for study will be drawn from Western and non-Western works including memoir, fiction, poetry, film, autobiography, books for children and for young adults, essays, and plays. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (003434)
ENGL 342Z Literature of the Child - Capstone 3.0 FS GE WI C
A study of the many ways in which the child and childhood are dealt with in literary works. Texts for study will be drawn from Western and non-Western works including memoir, fiction, poetry, film, autobiography, books for children and for young adults, essays, and plays. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education Capstone course. (021253)
ENGL 350 Science, Technology and the Literature of Cultural Change 3.0 FS GE USD
This course studies American culture and the various ways in which particular cultural products reinforce, oppose, underscore, or resist the values of the dominant culture - we also explore the gaps between the explicit and the implicit in those cultural values. Our discussions of these texts sustain an ongoing conversation about the various ways science and technology drive and are driven by the movements in culture we explore. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (021118)
ENGL 350I Science, Technology and the Literature of Cultural Change - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE USD WI
This course studies American culture and the various ways in which particular cultural products reinforce, oppose, underscore, or resist the values of the dominant culture - we also explore the gaps between the explicit and the implicit in those cultural values. Our discussions of these texts sustain an ongoing conversation about the various ways science and technology drive and are driven by the movements in culture we explore. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (021236)
ENGL 353 Multicultural Literature: Issues and Themes 3.0 FS GE USD
An intensive survey of major issues and themes in non-Western literature. Students examine the interconnections between works of Western cultures and works from the literatures of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (003470)
ENGL 354 Classical Literature 3.0 SP GE
An introduction to the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (003411)
ENGL 355 Bible, Literature, and Culture 3.0 FA GE
Study of the literary types and qualities of the English Bible and their impact upon British and American literature and language. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved General Education course. (003471)
ENGL 356 Literature, Politics, and Activism 3.0 SP GE
Discussion of politically engaged literary texts and the possibilities of literary activism. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (021119)
ENGL 364 American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus 3.0 FS GE USD
This course explores the way place, socio-economic status, gender, and sexuality inform and inflect the experience of particular cultural groups set against the larger American culture. Classes typically focus on African American, Asian American, Chicana/o, or Native American literature. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (021120)
ENGL 364I American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus - Writing Intensive 3.0 FS GE USD WI
This course explores the way place, socio-economic status, gender, and sexuality inform and inflect the experience of particular cultural groups set against the larger American culture. Classes typically focus on African American, Asian American, Chicana/o, or Native American literature. 3 hours lecture.This is an approved Writing Intensive course. This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved US Diversity course. (021237)
ENGL 371 Principles of Language 3.0 FS
An introduction to linguistics. Topics include language acquisition, language structure, language variation, and languages of the world. This course is required for CLAD and BCLAD credentials as well as credential programs beginning in the fall of 2003 under SB 2042 standards. 3 hours lecture. (003450)
ENGL 375 Introduction to English Grammar 3.0 FS
An introduction to the descriptive grammar of English. Students learn to use basic syntactic terms to analyze spoken and written English, distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive grammar. Required of English majors by the end of the junior year in preparation for upper-division course work in English. 3 hours lecture. (003452)
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and may vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered. 1 hour lecture. (003499)
ENGL 399 Special Problems 1.0 -3.0 FS
You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (020178)
ENGL 404 Fiction and the Supernatural 3.0 FS
To introduce students to the philosophical and historical backgrounds of the use of supernatural elements in literature. Students are introduced to empiricist ideas of what is "natural" and the moment at which literary texts explicitly use or confront those ideas. 3 hours lecture. (021567)
ENGL 405 The Bildungsroman: Novels of Development 3.0 FS
Beginning with Goethe's foundational example of the Bildungsroman, or novel of development, this course for advanced undergraduates charts the increasingly contentious relationship between the individual and society in the (largely European) novel. 3 hours lecture. (021566)
ENGL 415 Editing Literary Magazines 4.0 FS
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 (may be taken concurrently).
Study of and workshop in the editing of literary magazines, manuscripts, and other literary materials. Practice in selection, evaluation, copy editing, and production. Class publishes Watershed Review literary magazine. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003581)
ENGL 416 Editing Manuscripts for Publication 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ENGL 335 or ENGL 375 (may be taken concurrently) or faculty permission.
Lecture/discussion with practical application in copyediting manuscripts for publication. Students copyedit manuscripts for magazines and book publishers. 3 hours discussion. (003568)
ENGL 419 Chapbook Production 4.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ENGL 415 or two 400-level courses from the Minor in Creative Writing.
This course involves students in the process of chapbook production, from advertising, solicitation, judging and selecting manuscripts, through the stages of book production. Students learn to perform the duties of editorial assistants at a small book publisher. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003525)
ENGL 420 Advanced Poetry Writing 4.0 SP
Prerequisites: ENGL 320 or instructor permission.
Instruction in the writing of poetry at an advanced level. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003519)
ENGL 421 Advanced Fiction and Nonfiction Writing 4.0 SP
Prerequisites: ENGL 321 or 327 or faculty permission.
Instruction in the writing of fiction and/or creative nonfiction at an advanced level. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003521)
ENGL 431 Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition 4.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 333 and ENGL 335 are strongly recommended.
Training and experience in the tutoring of students in composition. With permission of instructor, course may be repeated once for credit, but credit will not count toward major. 3 hours seminar, 3 hours laboratory. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003539)
ENGL 440 Chaucer and His Age 3.0 FS GW
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement; ENGL 276, ENGL 340.
Study of the Canterbury Tales and other works by the major poet of the English Middle Ages. The study of Middle English and of medieval society, its values and beliefs as mirrored in Chaucer's works. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003503)
ENGL 441 Shakespeare 3.0 FS GW
An introduction to Shakespeare's principal plays, his art, his age, and his critics; designed especially for English majors. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003507)
ENGL 446 British Renaissance Literature: 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ENGL 276, ENGL 340.
A study of the literature and culture of Tudor England, emphasizing the prose and poetry of such figures as More, Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser and Marlowe. 3 hours seminar. (003511)
ENGL 448 The Long Eighteenth Century 3.0 INQ
The literature and intellectual currents of Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain, including works by such authors as Dryden, Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Hume, Sterne, Goldsmith, and Johnson. 3 hours seminar. (003514)
ENGL 449 The Romantic Period 3.0 FS
A study of the literary and intellectual currents of the Romantic period, including major essayists and critics, and the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. 3 hours seminar. (003515)
ENGL 450 The Victorian Period 3.0 FS
The poetry and prose of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, and others. Attention to important essayists and critics and to the significance of the Victorian scene for our times. 3 hours seminar. (003516)
ENGL 451 Modern Poetry 3.0 FA
Study of twentieth-century British, American, Continental, and Latin American poetry. 3 hours seminar. (003543)
ENGL 452 Development of British Drama 3.0 INQ
The development of British drama from its beginnings to the nineteenth century. Specific topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. (003545)
ENGL 453 Modern Drama 3.0 FS
British, Continental, and American drama from Ibsen to the present. Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. (003549)
ENGL 454 Comparative Literature 3.0 FS
Comparative study of major genres, themes, and literary figures in literature. Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003552)
ENGL 455 The 18th-Century British Novel 3.0 FS
A study of eighteenth-century and Romantic-period novels, including such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen, and Scott. 3 hours seminar. (003554)
A study of Victorian novels, including such authors as Thackeray, the Brontes, Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy. 3 hours seminar. (003556)
ENGL 457 The American Novel 3.0 FS
A critical and historical study of the American novel from its beginnings through the nineteenth century; Cooper, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, James, and others. 3 hours seminar. (003557)
ENGL 458 Early American Literature 3.0 FS USD
An in-depth study of major themes, authors, and works from the beginnings of American literature through the nineteenth century. As an approved US Diversity course, students examine the diverse perspectives and cultures of groups both inside and outside of hegemonic US culture that inform the American literary tradition. Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved US Diversity course. (003558)
ENGL 459 Later American Literature 3.0 FS USD
An in-depth study of major themes, authors, and works in the twentieth-century and contemporary American literature. As an approved US Diversity course, students examine the diverse perspectives and cultures of groups both inside and outside of hegemonic US culture that inform the American literary tradition. Topics vary from semester to semester. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved US Diversity course. (003559)
ENGL 461 The Modern Novel 3.0 FS
British, American, Continental, and Latin American novels in the twentieth century. 3 hours seminar. (003562)
ENGL 462 Studies in Major American Authors 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 340; ENGL 278 or ENGL 279.
An intensive study of major authors in American literature. Authors vary by semester. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003566)
ENGL 464 Modern World Literature 3.0 INQ GC
The study of modern world literature. Works may vary from semester to semester and focus on one region or culture (such as India, Africa, or the Caribbean), or several regions or cultures. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved Global Cultures course. (003577)
ENGL 465 American Literary Topics 3.0 FS
Seminar examination of writers and themes in American literature. Topics vary by semester. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003583)
ENGL 467 Teaching Multicultural Literature 3.0 FA USD
An examination of multicultural literature with particular attention paid to the teaching of multicultural literature in the secondary and post-secondary classroom. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved US Diversity course. (003586)
ENGL 468 20th-Century and Contemporary British Literature 3.0 FS
Prerequisite: ENGL 276, ENGL 340.
Study of 20th-Century and contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, and essays from British, Irish, and postcolonial authors. 3 hours lecture. (020571)
ENGL 470 Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition 3.0 FS
Introduction to major issues in second language acquisition and teaching. 3 hours seminar. (003540)
ENGL 471 Intensive Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition 3.0 FS
An intensive introduction to the theory and practice of second language acquisition and teaching. 3 hours lecture. (020485)
ENGL 472 Pedagogical Grammar 3.0 FA
This course emphasizes both the grammatical content needed to teach non-native speakers and various integrated approaches to teaching grammar. 3 hours lecture. (003527)
ENGL 474 Syntactic and Morphological Analysis 3.0 SP
Study of syntax and morphology, focusing on similarities and differences among languages from the viewpoint of both form and function. 3 hours seminar. (003531)
ENGL 475 History of the English Language 3.0 SP
The development of the English language from its earliest origins to the present. Fundamental rules of language change in syntax, morphology, and phonology, with application to examples from Old, Middle, Early Modern, and contemporary English. 3 hours lecture. (003532)
ENGL 476 Phonological Analysis 3.0 SP GW
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement, ENGL 371.
Study of world's sound systems as well as the relevant phonetics and morphology with an emphasis on English and second language acquisition. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or better certifies writing proficiency for majors. (003533)
ENGL 477 Semantics: Language and Meaning 3.0 FA
A comprehensive exploration of semantics, including theories of meaning, relationship between semantics and conceptual structure, semantics and cognition in language acquisition, and the relationship between meaning and use. 3 hours lecture. (003534)
ENGL 478 Approaches to Reading 3.0 FA
An examination of recent theory and research in the field of reading as a language process, with practical experience in reading instruction. 3 hours seminar. (003535)
ENGL 479 Gender and Language in Cross-Cultural Perspectives 3.0 INQ
Prerequisites: ENGL 371 or WMST 300.
This course explores recent theories and applications associated with the relationships among language, gender, and sexuality. The course includes a focus on the intersection of linguistic gender with class and ethnicity by drawing on research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. There will be an examination of gendered speech, writing, and sign from a variety of the world's languages. 3 hours lecture. (003536)
ENGL 480 Literary Theory and Criticism 3.0 FS
Study of major texts in literary theory and criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present day. 3 hours lecture. (020573)
ENGL 481 Sociolinguistics 3.0 FA
The study of language in society through an exploration of language variation in different contexts. 3 hours lecture. (021656)
ENGL 489 Internship in English 1.0 -3.0 FS
This course is an internship offered for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. Supervised, out-of-classroom work experience in English-related activities in the University, community, and businesses. No more than 3 units may be applied to the major. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (003569)
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and may vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered. 1 hour seminar. (003612)
ENGL 498H Special Topic - Honors 1.0 -3.0 FS
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and will vary from term to term and be different for different sections. 3 hours lecture. (003501)
ENGL 519 Chapbook Production 4.0 SP
Prerequisites: ENGL 415; or two 400-level courses from the Minor in Creative Writing; or ENGL 620.
This course involves students in the production of chapbook, from advertising, solicitation, to judging and selecting manuscripts, as they work with Flume Press at CSU, Chico. Students learn to perform the duties of editorial assistants at a small book publisher and produce the resulting chapbook. 3 hours discussion, 2 hours activity. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 8.0 units. (003645)
ENGL 530 The Northern California Writing Project 1.0 -6.0 SM
Professional development seminar in the theory, research, and practice of writing instruction for practicing teachers, kindergarten through college. Topics include writing as inquiry, genre studies, critical pedagogy, responding to writing, technology and writing, writing in the disciplines, writing assessment, and writing to learn. Participants write about their teaching practices, develop inquiry-based presentations, and read current research in the teaching of writing. 1 hour discussion. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003570)
ENGL 534 Literature, Language, and Composition: A Synthesis 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 335, ENGL 375, and ENGL 441.
A capstone course focusing on connections among literature, language, and composition required of all single-subject credential candidates. To be taken during the senior year. 3 hours seminar. (003579)
ENGL 570 Contemporary Linguistic Topics 3.0 INQ
An exploration of special topics in contemporary linguistics, including, but not limited to, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, phonology, and morphology. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003589)
ENGL 599H Honors Senior Thesis 3.0 -6.0 FS
Prerequisites: ENGL 340, ENGL 335; 3 units selected from ENGL 276, ENGL 277, ENGL 278, or ENGL 279 ; 3 units of 400-level genre or period course with grades that place student in top 5%; interview; faculty permission.
Six-unit Honors senior thesis independent study involving substantial research, extended critical analysis, and public presentation. Grade of B or higher required for Honors credit. These units are in addition to those required for the major in English. 18 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003621)
ENGL 620 Workshop Form and Practice 3.0 FS
Prerequisites: At least one 400-level creative writing course or instructor permission.
This course is for graduate students who are independently writing poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Course emphasis is on reading, discussing, and critiquing students' manuscripts in progress, including studies in theory and forms of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. 3 hours seminar. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 6.0 units. (003642)
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BOOM! and Archaia Debut New Joint Booth At Comic-Con!
BOOM! Studios and Archaia Entertainment are pleased to announce they will set up jointly at Comic-Con International in San Diego in a new location for both companies. The two Eisner Award-winning publishers will exhibit at booth number 2229 on the current show floor map.
This marks the first time the companies have exhibited together since BOOM! Studios acquired Archaia Entertainment on June 24th. Fans of BOOM! Studios, KaBOOM!, and Archaia alike will find all three brands represented individually, but sharing a new common space. The new booth will be positioned between Marvel and Sideshow Toys on the convention floor. BOOM! would like to extend a special thank you to Comic-Con International and Gallery Nucleus/Bolt City Productions for making the last minute change possible. Gallery Nucleus/Bolt City Productions will now be exhibiting at booth number 2743 (previously BOOM! Studios).
BOOM! and Archaia are also pleased to announce their now co-hosted 8th Annual Drink-Up at the Hilton Bayfront Odysea Bar on Thursday night beginning at 9pm. The Drink Up continues the tradition of the only open party at Comic-Con that welcomes fans, professionals, and creators alike to celebrate. BOOM! and Archaia are also pleased to share their panel times and descriptions. Please note that some panel descriptions and participants have changed since originally announced by Comic-Con International due to the availability of panelists.
Scheduled Panels
Thursday, July 18, 2013 – 10am – 7pm
12:00pm – 1:00pm – ‘Editing Comics: The BOOM! Studios Way’ – Room: 28DE
Join BOOM! Studios creators Brian Stelfreeze (WEDNESDAY COMICS, DAY MEN), Paul Jenkins (WOLVERINE: ORIGIN, DEATHMATCH), and Eric Esquivel (FREELANCERS) along with BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon and Editor Dafna Pleban as they look into the editing secrets of one of the comic book industry’s leading independent publishers and discuss editing do’s and don’ts.
1:00pm – 2:00pm – ‘Gender in Comic Books’ – Room: 28DE
Join Ball State University professor Christina Blanch as she moderates a sincere discussion on the topic of gender in comics with Alexa Dickman (LADIES MAKING COMICS), Grace Randolph (SUPURBIA), Disney editor Janelle Asselin, BOOM! editors Shannon Watters and Dafna Pleban, Archaia editor Rebecca Taylor and Marvel editor Jeanine Schaefer.
9:00pm – ?:??am – BOOM!’s 8th Year Anniversary Party
Hilton San Diego Bayfront Odysea Bar, 1 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101
Come one! Come all! Open invite to professionals and fans alike!
Friday, July 19, 2013 – 10am – 7pm
5:00pm – 6:00pm – ‘Breaking into Comics Right Now’ – Room: 32AB
If you’re an aspiring comic book creator, this is a panel you don’t want to miss! Join some of comic book publishing’s top decision makers, including BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon, Avatar Press Vice President of Publishing and Managing Editor Jim Kuhoric, Oni Press Editor-in-Chief James Lucas Jones, and Archaia Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy as they give you the most up-to-date and practical advice on how to break into the comic book industry right now.
6:00pm – 7:00pm – ‘Rise of the Independents’ – Room: 32AB
Join Word Balloon host John Suintres as he moderates a conversation with some of the brightest minds in independent comic publishing – including Image Comics’ Director of Business Development Ron Richards, Dark Horse’s Director of Publicity Jeremy Atkins, BOOM! Studios’ VP of Publishing and Marketing Filip Sablik, and IDW’s VP of Marketing Dirk Wood – on what they are doing to expand the market place.
Saturday, July 20, 2013 – 10am – 7pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm – ‘We Are BOOM!’ – Room: 24ABC
Find out what makes BOOM! Studios different from every other comic publisher in the market and why 2013 is a transformative year for us. Join Founder & CEO Ross Richie, Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon, and Vice President of Publishing & Marketing Filip Sablik along with surprise special guests as they reintroduce BOOM! Studios to the world of comics.
3:00pm – 4:00pm – ‘Adventure Time Comic Boom Panel’ – Room: 8
What time is it? It’s Adventure Time! The top-rated Cartoon Network show and bestselling comic book published by KaBOOM! is bigger than ever in 2013! Join KaBOOM! editor Shannon Watters as she has a lively and fun conversation featuring series writer Ryan North along with series artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb, and writer/artist Natasha Allegri (ADVENTURE TIME: FIONNA & CAKE).
Sunday, July 21, 2013 – 10am – 5pm
1:00pm – 2:00pm – ‘All Ages Comics Have Arrived’ – Room: 24ABC
Quality all-ages comics are back and better than ever! We’re not just talking about “kids” comics, we’re talking about amazing comics that can be enjoyed by young, old and everyone in between. KaBOOM! Editor Shannon Watters as she has a lively and fun conversation with all-ages creators including Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani (AW YEAH! COMICS, TINY TITANS), Mike Kunkel (HEROBEAR & THE KID), Raina Telgemeier (DRAMA), Mike Holmes (BRAVEST WARRIORS), and Dave Roman (ASTRONAUT ACADEMY, NICKELODEON MAGAZINE) about this phenomenal resurgence!
4:00pm – 5:00pm – ‘The Editor – in – Chief Panel’ – Room 32AB
Comics may be experiencing a new Renaissance thanks to all the movies, TV shows, and transmedia properties that have brought in thousands of more readers, but to publishers, there’s much more to it than that: The stories are better, the art is better, and the production values are higher! In this rare opportunity, gain some valuable insight as the current editors-in-chief of some of the top comics and graphic novel publishers come together for a lively discussion on topics that include the state of comics publishing today, challenges they face in an ever-evolving marketplace, how the editors broke into the industry in the first place, and much more! Come prepared with questions you’ve always wanted to ask! Moderator Kiel Phegley (News Editor for Comic Book Resources) leads a discussion that includes panelists Stephen Christy (Archaia Entertainment), Matt Gagnon (BOOM! Studios), James Lucas Jones (Oni Press), Chris Ryall (IDW), and Bob Schreck (Legendary Comics).
2:00pm – 3:00pm – ‘Cyborg 009′ and the Legacy of Shotaro Ishinomori – Room 9
Did you know that in 2008, the late Shotaro Ishinomori was named by Guinness World Records as the world record-holder for the most comics published by one author? It’s true! He created 770 individual stories that were collected into 500 volumes of manga, including Kikaider, Kamen Rider, and Cyborg 009. In a celebration of his legacy, Archaia Entertainment and Ishimori Production Inc. have teamed up to produce a groundbreaking, new graphic novel that re-imagines Cyborg 009 for a new generation! Moderator Stephen Christy (Archaia’s editor-in-chief) will talk with writers F.J. DeSanto and Bradley Cramp, along with artist Marcus To (Red Robin, Adventures of Superman) about the process of bringing this new graphic novel to life while also diving into Ishinomori’s incredible legacy with manga/anime expert Deb Aoki (manga.about.com) and Masayasu Takigawa from Ishimori Production Inc. Every attendee will receive a free copy of the Cyborg 009: Chapter 000 preview issue.
4:00pm – 5:00pm – ‘The Thrilling Adventure Hour’ World Domination Tour – Room 32AB
Created in 2005 by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, The Thrilling Adventure Hour (TAH) is a popular staged production in the style of old-time radio. It has since also become a much-downloaded podcast with Nerdist Industries, and—premiering here at San Diego Comic-Con—a stunning graphic novel anthology! Each show consists of a selection of genre-bending stories, advertisements from fictional sponsors, musical numbers, and more, performed by a core group of actors known as the WorkJuice Players, and featuring cameos by stars from Firefly, Doctor Who, Community, and many more! Last fall, Acker and Blacker launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a TAH graphic novel, and they set a record at the time for the fastest graphic novel campaign to reach its goal. Now, almost a year later and with award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment on board to publish the book, the graphic novel is ready to debut! Moderated by graphic novel editor Joe LeFavi, join Acker, Blacker, and panelists that include WorkJuice Players Paget Brewster, Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Marc Evan Jackson, Hal Lublin, Autumn Reeser, Annie Savage, and Paul F. Tompkins, along with artist Joanna Estep, as they share fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about The Thrilling Adventure Hour show, podcast, and graphic novel! Whether you’re already a fan or just love great entertainment, this will certainly be one of the funniest, most lively panels you’ll attend!
4:30pm – 5:30pm – ‘Archaia Entertainment Presents: Announcements, Sneak Previews, and What’s Next!’ – Room 8
Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment (Mouse Guard, Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, Return of the Dapper Men), well known for its eclectic slate of stories and beautiful-looking publications, unveils the rest of its 2013 lineup, and there’s something for everyone! For fantasy fans, hear about The Reason for Dragons from writer Chris Northrop and An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’ the Wisp from artist Megan Hutchison. Like noir? Writer Matz is here all the way from France to tell you about his newest volume of The Killer! Sci-fi fans will be represented with a blast from the past by writer Andrew E. C. Gaska’s new collection, Space: 1999 – The Classics Remastered. We’ve also got exclusive sneak peeks of Giannis Milonogiannis’ follow-up, Old City Blues Vol. 2, and Archaia’s first-ever 3D graphic novel, The Joyners in 3D. Actress/producer Alyssa Milano is on hand to announce her upcoming, cyber-thriller, Archaia graphic novel! If you like horror, actor/writer/director Dan Fogler has got another volume of his anthology graphic novel series Moon Lake up his sleeve. And finally, titles that are all-age-appropriate include new volumes of Cow Boy; Spera; and Hopeless, Maine! If you’re an Archaia fan, or just love great content, don’t miss this panel! All attendees will receive a copy of Archaia’s 2012 Free Comic Book Day hardcover book!
11:00am – 12:00pm – ‘How and Why to Write a Great All-Ages Comic Book’ – Room 28DE
Join our debate as some of the biggest kids in comics discuss the present state of the industry and what steps are necessary to secure our place in the hearts and minds of the next generation. What are the benefits and challenges involved in writing all-ages comics? How are licensed comics playing a role in our future? How might webcomics, digital publishing, emerging technologies, and self-publishing change the landscape? And how can we ensure that more young readers today become readers for life? Moderated by all-ages comics writer and editor Joe LeFavi (Fraggle Rock), panelists include Andy Runton (Owly), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Katie Cook (My Little Pony), Mike Kunkel (Herobear and the Kid), Neo Edmund (Jurassic Strike Force 5), Otis Frampton (Oddly Normal), and Royden Lepp (Rust).
3:00pm – 4:00pm – ‘Archaia Entertainment Presents: The Year of Mouse Guard’ – Room 28DE
After its debut, Mouse Guard has become one of the most popular, beloved, and honored stories in comics, and in 2013, creator David Petersen is not slowing down! This year will see the release of the Mouse Guard Vol. 3: The Black Axe hardcover and the debut of the four-issue Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol. 2 miniseries (followed by the release of a hardcover that collects them) from Archaia Entertainment. In addition, from Skelton Crew comes collectible replica Black Axes, the first in a line of Mouse Guard replica weapons! Moderated by Mel Caylo (Archaia’s marketing manager), join the Eisner Award-winning Petersen and guests, including Jeremy Bastian, Eric Canete, and more to be announced as they give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of all this Mouse Guard goodness, preview art from upcoming releases, and answer everything you wanted to know about Mouse Guard! Every attendee will receive a Comic-Con exclusive print of an original David Petersen drawing. Plus, one lucky audience member will win a free copy of the limited Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 Black and White Edition!
About BOOM! Studios
Founded by Ross Richie in 2005, Diamond Gem Award-winning “Best Publisher” BOOM! Studios (boom-studios.com) generates a constellation of best-selling Eisner and Harvey
Award-winning original and licensed comic books and graphic novels with the industry’s top talent. BOOM! Studios is the home of Mike Carey’s SUICIDE RISK, Clive Barker’s NEXT TESTAMENT and HELLRAISER, Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos’ FAIRY QUEST, PLANET OF THE APES, Max Bemis’ POLARITY and Mark Waid’s IRREDEEMABLE. Steven Grant’s graphic novel 2 GUNS will be released as a feature film from Universal Pictures August 2nd, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. BOOM!’s all-ages imprint KaBOOM! publishes Charles Schulz’ PEANUTS, Jim Davis’ GARFIELD, Cartoon Network’s ADVENTURE TIME and REGULAR SHOW, Mike Kunkel’s
HEROBEAR AND THE KID and Roger Langridge’s Eisner Award-winning SNARKED.
About Archaia
Founded as a niche publisher in 2002, Archaia Entertainment, LLC has become the world renowned Eisner and Harvey Award-winning graphic novel publisher of Mouse Guard, Cowboy, Gunnerkrigg Court, Rust, Spera, Mr. Murder is Dead, Lucid, Artesia, and An Elegy for Amelia Johnson. At the core, Archaia is known for its great content. From its unparalleled reputation for publishing innovative, imaginative, and indelible stories, to its numerous industry awards and nominations, Archaia has proven time-and-time again that it has built one of the industry’s most visually stunning and eclectic slates of graphic novels. This sentiment has also been shared by countless industry news sources, including Ain’t it Cool News, Graphic Policy, and Comic Related, which all honored Archaia as “Best Publisher” of 2010. Additionally, Archaia has built unmatched co-development relationships with some of the most recognizable brands in
Hollywood, including The Jim Henson Company where Archaia has built an entire graphic novel product line, including the multiple award-winning Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand and such beloved tales as The Dark Crystal, The Storyteller, and Fraggle Rock. (archaia.com).
marketing@boom-studios.com
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News Biology 09 July 2019
A rare dental trait lives on
Three-rooted molars in modern humans could have come from Denisovans. Dyani Lewis reports.
A three-rooted lower first molar and its corresponding jaw in a recent Asian individual.
Christine Lee (California State University, Los Angeles, CA).
A rare dental trait that is more common in Asian and Native American populations could have its origins in trysts with our archaic relatives, the Denisovans, according to new research.
Few people probably give much thought to the subterranean shape of the grinding teeth in their lower jaw, but palaeoanthropologists look to teeth – often the only surviving fossil remains of our ancient relatives – for clues to our prehistoric family tree.
Recently, a lower jawbone found in a Tibetan cave was identified as being at least 160,000 years old and belonging to a member of the group known as the Denisovans. It bears a molar with three roots.
A three-rooted lower second molar from a Denisovan found in Xiahe, China.
Jean-Jacques Hublin.
Another jawbone, found off the coast of Taiwan, and belonging to an archaic human – possibly a Denisovan – has a three-rooted molar, too.
Three-rooted molars are oddities in most modern dental practices. Molars generally have just two roots, but occasionally a third, smaller root grows.
In Europe and Africa, fewer than 3.5% of people have such teeth.
But rates upwards of 40% have been found in surveys of archaeological specimens from northern China and islands in the Bering Sea that were once part of a land bridge connecting Asia and North America.
Indeed, the high frequencies of three-rooted molars in these populations is a key feature that points to the Asian origins of Native Americans.
Surveys of modern Asian populations also have higher rates of the dental anomaly – up to nearly a third in some studies.
When a Denisovan genome was sequenced from a scrap of bone found in the Siberian Denisova cave, it became evident that Denisovans met and intermingled with our own prehistoric ancestors.
Modern-day populations across Asia, New Guinea and Australia retain snippets of Denisovan DNA in their genome.
In the case of present-day Tibetans, one snippet inherited from Denisovans helps them to live in the low oxygen environments of the Tibetan Plateau.
The new study, published in the journal PNAS, suggests that the three-rooted molars in modern-day people also derive from Denisovans.
Humans and Denisovans had sex twice, not once
“We now have very clear evidence that gene flow between archaic groups and Homo sapiens resulted in the transfer of identifiable morphological features,” the authors write.
“The [three-rooted molar] is an Asian-derived character that we can definitively trace to Denisovans,” they say.
Palaeoanthropologist Tanya Smith from Griffith University, who wasn’t involved in the study, takes a more cautious view.
“It is a very interesting suggestion,” she says, but adds that “without genetic evidence, I think it is premature to declare that this one fossil provides compelling morphological evidence of Denisovan admixture in Asian-derived populations”.
Before concluding that three-rooted molars in modern humans came from Denisovans, scientists first need to be sure that most Denisovans had this trait, given that the trait can readily pop up due to mutation alone. That’s a hard ask given the small number of Denisovan molars identified so far.
Identifying the genes that cause a third root in modern people’s molars, and mapping that back to regions of the genome inherited from Denisovans would also make the link more air-tight, says Smith.
Explore #teeth #Denisovans
Dyani Lewis is a freelance science journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907557116
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/jawbone-puts-denisovans-on-the-tibetan-plateau-at-least-160-000-years-ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7037
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13408
The Neanderthals live on in us
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The Australian Antarctic Division has named 26 landmarks after the beloved huskies that made 20th century Antarctic exploration possible.
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TEXAS AT DAVOS – DAY ONE
Swiss sneeze. My traveler’s sneeze in the bullet-fast rail car with the white Swiss cross is met by multiple Gesundheit! blessings. They are fit and formidable, these Swiss, but exceedingly polite. Kind of like Texans, that way. Moving through the rail station, slower than most while attempting to navigate the Deutsch signage, I find myself bumping and tripping into passersby left and right. Every “Excuse me ma’am!” I deliver in my friendly Texas accent is paid back with multiple returns: Es tut mir Leids! and Entschuldigens!
Dress and success. Think of this 48th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as a kind of global South-by-Southwest but for successful billionaires, so you shouldn’t show up here in a pair of faded jeans and a scruffy T-shirt. Lots of expensive apres ski clothes here, of course, but most of the players are in their best grey and blue business suits.
Entourage. Presidents don’t normally attend the World Economic Forum, but President Trump says he’ll be here among other more predictable world leaders, now that he won an agreement to keep his own government running for a few more weeks. And he is bringing an entourage of administration officials along for the ride, including Texas native sons, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who arrived late Tuesday, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whose arrival is expected Friday with the President.
American invasion. Trump, whose Presidency has been marked by reality-TV-show-style confrontations and that rising decibel of American bluster, will seem an odd fit for this quiet conference. But he isn’t just attending, it’s practically an American invasion of this famously neutral country. At the moment, his eight cabinet-level figures and at least seven other top-ranking officials are due in — making a showing with the largest U.S. administration contingent in the conference’s 48 year history.
Alpine adventure. In addition to Perry and Tillerson, Trump cabinet members en route to Switzerland should include Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin leading the bunch, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Also now expected: senior advisor Jared Kushner, Thomas Bossert, a top counter-terrorism and homeland security adviser, USAID Administrator Mark Green, and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
Trump economy hits Davos. Americans are still debating the Trump economic effect, but he has already improved the finances of hotel owners in and near Davos. Nearly every hotel room in or even near Davos has been booked for the better part of a year. When the Trump administration suddenly announced three weeks ago it would be sending its broad contingent of Trump-administration participants, rooms as far as three hours away went up in price. Way up.
Gender parity. I attended the first-day session where the popular young Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented. He spoke with great energy about Canada’s progress in achieving greater gender parity in government and on corporate boards. Look for that theme – gender parity – to become a campaign in the U.S. too after the second women’s march on Saturday that took over the streets in Austin and other Texas cities on Saturday.
It takes a village. Davos has a global reputation, but it isn’t much bigger than, say, Taos or Red River – a normally accessible arts and sports village. The host hotels stand out and the action is in the hotel lobbies and conference rooms where the deal-makers are working national government or business leaders with big ideas.
Parking cars. At the end of the day, the world’s big idea people, who’ve come together to discuss and propose novel solutions to the world’s biggest problems, found themselves in a traditional problem – a traffic jam. Rather than using the shuttle buses running up and down the promenade, these influencers want their private cars. I forwent the shuttle and walked — passing up numerous luxury sedans with more than one passenger sitting anxiously in traffic tapping out a message or chatting on a phone. I doubt I was the only one to see the irony in the World Economic Forum shuttle van sitting in a log jam of traffic.
James Bond I’m not. But I can send an email report to you from a high-tech Swiss train racing through the Alps. In fact, I just did. I’m staying in St. Moritz, just over the mountains from Davos, which requires a bit of a train ride through the most beautiful scenery one can imagine. It’s worth a visit and there’s even enough room up in these mountains for Texans and enough space this week for the biggest ideas.
THOMAS GRAHAM
Crosswind’s President and CEO, Thomas Graham, is in Davos this week during the World Economic Forum. He will be posting some of his experiences and encounters, with a particular eye for fellow Texans who have come for the lively debates on energy and the environment.
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Jayson Williams pleads guilty in fatal NJ shooting
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SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Former NBA star Jayson Williams has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for accidentally killing a limousine driver, closing the case nearly eight years after the fatal shooting.
Williams was charged with reckless manslaughter but on Monday pleaded guilty to the lesser count for the 2002 death of Costas Christofi.
At Williams’ 2004 trial, witnesses testified that he was showing off a shotgun in his bedroom when he snapped the weapon shut and it fired. The jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter count and a retrial on that charge was due to start this week.
The guilty plea to the assault charge carries a minimum 18-month sentence because a gun was involved.
Last week, Williams was charged with drunken driving after crashing his SUV into a tree in New York.
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Cruz And Rubio Win Debate And Foreshadow A Coming Clash
Jamie Weinstein Senior Writer
November 11, 2015 1:48 AM ET
When you combine substance and style, [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] and [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] are really stealing the presidential show.
Texas Sen. Cruz and Florida Sen. Rubio were the two winners of Tuesday night’s presidential debate, both proving themselves able to articulate complicated policy in a compelling way. While Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to top most GOP primary polls, come February, it shouldn’t surprise anyone if the nomination comes down to a clash between the two Cuban-American conservative superstars.
While most of the candidates performed pretty well in a very well-run Fox Business Network debate, here’s a full breakdown of how each candidate ranked and why:
1.) Ted Cruz
Cruz probably edged out Rubio for the winner of the evening because he had two or three really memorable sound bites and humorous quips, and whether such things should matter or not, they do.
“Washington is fundamentally corrupt. There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible,” Cruz said, before adding to laughter: “And not a one of them is as good.”
“You think defending this nation is expensive, try not defending it,” Cruz declared, interjecting himself into the foreign policy fight between [crscore]Rand Paul[/crscore] and Rubio at another point.
Cruz continued, foreshadowing his coming clash with Rubio. “Sugar farmers farm on roughly 0.2 percent of the farmland in America and give 40 percent of the lobbying money. That sort of corporate welfare is why we’re bankrupting our kids and grandkids,” Cruz said, attacking Rubio without mentioning his name. “I would end the subsidies to pay for defending this nation.”
Rubio has gotten a lot of support from the Fanjul family, the largest sugar family in Florida, and has backed the sugar subsidies they so passionately lobby for.
Both Cruz and Rubio have stellar conservative credentials. Nonetheless, as the two head towards a collision, Cruz is actively trying to paint Rubio as a moderate and himself as a pure conservative.
2.) Marco Rubio
Rubio is the single most talented politician in the Republican field and, like past debates, he performed marvelously.
Like he always does, he matched substance with soaring rhetoric. (RELATED: Why Rubio Is Best Positioned To Win The Republican Nomination)
“For the life of me I don’t know why we stigmatize vocational education,” Rubio said at the beginning of the debate, explaining how to raise wages in the country by using one of his best lines from his stump speech. “Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders than philosophers. If we do this, we will be able to increase wages for millions of Americans. We will be able to leave everyone better off without making anyone worse off.”
“We can’t even have an economy if we’re not safe,” Rubio hit back after Paul claimed he wasn’t really a conservative because he favored increasing the defense budget. “There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians. The Chinese taking over the South China Sea. Yes, I believe the world is a safer. No, I don’t believe — I know the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest military power in the world.”
Coming into the debate, Rubio was rising in the polls. Coming out of the debate, he should continue to rise in the polls.
3.) Carly Fiorina
Carly is a great talent and she proved her debating chops once again Tuesday night.
But the question is can she maintain the momentum? Last time she had a stellar main stage debate performance, she only saw a temporary bump in the polls, before seeing her poll numbers drop dramatically.
Though she had a solid debate, she didn’t really have any super memorable moments, so it’s hard to imagine she’ll see a huge bounce in the polls this time. Her problem may be that GOP voters for some reason just don’t seem to envision her as president, even though she is well-liked.
4.) Donald Trump
We saw a much more sedate Donald Trump at the debate.
Instead of picking fights, Trump seemed to go out of his way to find common ground with some of his fellow contenders.
“We have to make our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before so that nobody messes with us, and in the long run, it’s going to save us,” Trump said at one point, noting that, “I agree with Marco, I agree with Ted.”
“We all have a different tax plan,” he went on to note. “Some I don’t totally agree with. One thing we understand, each one of those tax plans is better than the mess that we have right now.”
Trump even said after the debate during an interview on the Fox Business Network that [crscore]Lindsey Graham[/crscore] was a nice and talented guy, and that he wouldn’t rule him out as a possible running mate.
Trump didn’t have any truly memorable moments, but perhaps that’s a good thing for him at this point. He spent his time hammering home the theme of his campaign that only a businessman like him can make America great again. Most likely, Trump will remain at or near the top of the polls. He probably didn’t gain many more supporters Tuesday night, but he probably didn’t lose many either.
5.) Rand Paul
Mitt Romney has a better chance of winning the Republican nomination than Rand Paul, but if you define a successful debate as improving your position in the polls, the Kentucky senator probably helped himself.
One of Paul’s biggest problems has been that he has tried to position himself as more interventionist than he truly is in order to appeal the large mass of Republican voters who thought his father’s foreign policy was nutty, but in so doing, he has turned off some of the more passionate supporters of his father. We may have seen an active strategy Tuesday night by Paul to abandon any notion that he can win the nomination and an attempt to win the Ron Paul Revolution back.
“I do not think we are any safer from bankruptcy court,” Paul said, engaging in a fight with Rubio over military spending. “As we go further and further into debt, we become less and less safe. This is the most important thing we’re going to talk about tonight. Can you be a conservative and be liberal on military spending? Can you be for unlimited military spending and say I’m going to make the country safe? We need a safe country, but we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined? I want a strong national defense. But I don’t want us bankrupt.”
Factually, this is largely nonsense. America’s long-term economic problems don’t come from America’s military spending, but from the over $80 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities embedded in our entitlement programs. But as a matter of winning back the Revolution, it might help.
So if Paul convinced some of the disaffected members of his father’s base to reconsider him, he may see a small improvement in his position in the polls in the coming weeks.
6.) Jeb Bush
Jeb didn’t make any major mistake and substantively he was largely fine, but the former Florida governor just doesn’t have the “it” factor.
Bush came into the debate in real trouble. His poll numbers have dropped dramatically. Nothing happened in the debate to reverse that trend. (RELATED: 4 Reasons Why Bush’s Poll Numbers Are Even Worse Than Appears)
What I have previously argued remains as true as ever after the debate: It’s more likely Bush is out of the race before the Iowa caucuses than it is he will win a single primary state, much less the nomination.
7.) Ben Carson
Ben Carson is a really nice guy, but he often seems to be on another planet.
But judging from the polls, his soft spoken demeanor seems to appeal to a large swath of the GOP electorate, at least at this point in the race. So while his performance may have appeared underwhelming, it’s hard to say whether that will have any affect whatsoever on his standing in the race.
8.) John Kasich
Kasich came across as condescending and unlikeable. With Bush faltering, he had a real opportunity to take over Bush’s spot as the top governor in the Republican race. He dropped the ball.
The beneficiary of Bush’s downfall and Kasich’s inability to capitalize on it very well may be a candidate who wasn’t even in the main stage debate. For those who are steadfast in the belief that the presidency should only be entrusted to someone who has been a governor, Chris Christie’s stock might be rising.
Even though didn’t make the main stage debate, Christie performed well in the undercard debate. And coming into Tuesday night, he had already seen a significant rise in his poll numbers in New Hampshire. Christie’s moment in the sun may be coming.
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Constitutional Court postpones verdict on Red Sea islands agreement conflict to 14 October - Daily News Egypt
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Egypt Constitutional Court postpones verdict on Red Sea islands agreement conflict to 14 October
Constitutional Court postpones verdict on Red Sea islands agreement conflict to 14 October
The session coincided with the Urgent Matters Court revoke of an appeal to annul the agreement
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The Higher Constitutional Court postponed on Sunday the case of the judicial conflict over the Red Sea islands agreement to 14 October, according to state-owned media.
The Administrative Court and the Cairo Court of Urgent Matters have ruled conflicting verdicts on the validity of the agreement.
Meanwhile, the Cairo Urgent Matters court decided on Sunday to revoke an appeal, which was filed against the agreement, stating that a ruling was already decided.
The Red Sea islands agreement, also known as the maritime border demarcation, was signed between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, transferring the sovereignty of two Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia.
In June 2016, the Administrative Court annulled the agreement, asserting that the sovereignty of the two islands to remain Egyptian.
Furthermore, in January 2017, the Administrative Court revoked the government’s appeal on the first ruling, thus asserting the first ruling. However, in April, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters nullified the Administrative Court’s ruling.
Two months later, the Administrative Court nullified the Court of Urgent Matters’ decision to annul the former’s annulment of the Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation agreement, hence, approving the transfer of Egyptian sovereignty of the two islands to Saudi Arabia.
The Constitutional Court ordered in June to temporarily suspend all previous court orders issued by both the State Council and the Court of Urgent Matters regarding the Red Sea islands agreement.
The order came in accordance with Article 32 of the Constitutional Court Law, which stipulates to request the Higher Constitutional Court to adjudicate a dispute over the implementation of two contradictory final judgments in a certain case.
Article 190 of the constitution stipulates that “the State Council is an autonomous judicial body, and it shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to settle administrative disputes and those relevant to the execution of all its rulings.” This implies that the State Council’s court is considered the highest judicial entity in the country.
Meanwhile, Article 11 of the State Council Law and Article 17 of the Judicial Authority Law, both of which stipulate that the judicial system is not supposed to interfere in the work of the presidency.
On the other hand, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified the agreement in June, 10 days after the parliament approved it.
Speaker of the parliament Ali Abdul Aal said that the parliament would not consider any judicial verdicts regarding the Red Sea islands agreement during the discussions about the agreement, adding that “for the thousandth time, the verdict and nothingness are alike, and we will not allow any authority to assault the parliament.”
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In July of last year there were major stories about Fukushima and the plum of radiation reaching across the Pacific Ocean towards North America. On July 16, 2012, Deborah Dupre of the Examiner reported the following:
“As hair falls out of a Fukushima victim’s head, a new German study reports that North America’s West Coast will be the area most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years, an “order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan, according to a new German study followed by a former New York Times journalist going inside the no-entry zone and reporting radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco’s data.”
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The article went on to say: “”After 10 years, the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10−4) off Baja California,” a new research report states.”
Then, on August 22, 2012, NHK News reported that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has detected radiation 380 times the government safety limit in a fish caught off Fukushima Prefecture.
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/radiation-poisoning/record-radiation-detected-in-fish-off-fukushima.html
Since then not much else has been reported on the spread of radiation to North America. It has been reported that tons of debris from the tsunami continues to wash up on the Pacific coast, but very little, especially in the main stream press, about how we are being effected. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/fukushima-debris-to-keep-hitting-the-pacific-coast-this-winter/
Perhaps my internet search skill are not the best, but the fact that I have to search for follow-up information is a warning sign. Journalists and the media should paying more attention to to this topic. The one recent article related to radiation fallout from Fukushima I found was a scientific study published in November, 2012. It focuses primarily on how tracing the travel of radionuclides gives insight into atmospheric air circulation in the Northern Hemisphere.
I think we all deserve to know more about what the US, Canadian and Mexican governments are doing to monitor radiation levels, track distribution rates and study how it may be impacting our food supply.
Below is a reference to the recently published study.
Science of The Total Environment Volume 438,
1 November 2012, Pages 80–85
Tracking the complete revolution of surface westerlies over Northern Hemisphere using radionuclides emitted from Fukushima
M.A. Hernández-Ceballosa, G.H. Hongb, R.L. Lozanoa, Y.I. Kimc, H.M. Leeb, S.H. Kimb,S.-W. Yehd, J.P. Bolívara, ,M. Baskarane
Massive amounts of anthropogenic radionuclides were released from the nuclear reactors located in Fukushima (northeastern Japan) between 12 and 16 March 2011 following the earthquake and tsunami. Ground level air radioactivity was monitored around the globe immediately after the Fukushima accident. This global effort provided a unique opportunity to trace the surface air mass movement at different sites in the Northern Hemisphere. Based on surface air radioactivity measurements around the globe and the air mass backward trajectory analysis of the Fukushima radioactive plume at various places in the Northern Hemisphere by employing the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model, we show for the first time, that the uninterrupted complete revolution of the mid-latitude Surface Westerlies took place in less than 21 days, with an average zonal velocity of > 60 km/h. The position and circulation time scale of Surface Westerlies are of wide interest to a large number of global researchers including meteorologists, atmospheric researchers and global climate modellers.
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डेवेलप इंडिया ग्रुप (DIG) अध्ययन सामग्री सरल भाषा में तैयार की गई है ताकि छात्र आसानी से और बेहतर ढंग से समझ सके।
Complete syllabus of preliminary and main exam has been covered in this study material.
प्रारंभिक और मुख्य परीक्षा का पूरा पाठ्यक्रम इस अध्ययन सामग्री में शामिल किया गया है।
All important and relevant points have been highlighted in bold, underline and italic ways.
बोल्ड, रेखांकन और इटैलिक तरीके से सभी महत्वपूर्ण और प्रासंगिक बिंदुओं को हाइलाइट किया गया है।
We have prepared our study materials with trained, talented, experienced team for each subject. They are supported by subject experts.
हमने प्रत्येक विषय के लिए प्रशिक्षित, प्रतिभाशाली, अनुभवी टीम के साथ और विषय विशेषज्ञों के मार्गदर्शन में अध्ययन सामग्री तैयार की है।
Once you will read these study materials, you will surely find 70 to 80 % questions in next coming examination.
एक बार जब आप ये अध्ययन सामग्री पढ़ लेंगे, तो आपको निश्चित रूप से आने वाली परीक्षा में 70 से 80% प्रश्न मिलेंगें।
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इसलिए आज ही खरीदें और अपना भविष्य सुरक्षित करें.
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ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS
1. AGE: - Between 18 years and 45 years. a. Age of a candidate shall be reckoned as on 01-01-2017. b. Five years relaxation in upper age limit is admissible only to the bonafide SC of H.P. / ST of H.P. / OBC of H.P. /WFF of H.P. / Persons with disabilities of Himachal Pradesh.
For H.P. Govt. employees and Exservicemen of H.P.; age relaxation is as per Government‟s instructions issued from time to time.
2. Qualifications: Essential:- A Candidate must hold a bachelor degree of any of the universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be a deemed university under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or possesses an equivalent qualification.
Note:- Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications, which are recognized by the State Government as equivalent to professional or technical degree, would also be eligible for admission to the examination.
Initially, an objective type Preliminary Examination of three hours‟ duration, will be conducted consisting of one paper of 200 Questions one mark each of multiple choice answers for short listing the candidates for the Main examination. The marks obtained by the candidates in the Preliminary Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be called for (Main) written examination will be 20 times of the total number of posts advertised. The candidates having been declared qualified in the Preliminary Examination will be entitled for admission to the (Main) written examination consisting of three papers. The candidate shall have to pass all the three subjects.
Note:- There will be negative marking for incorrect answers (as detailed below) for all questions:-
(a) There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, on fourth (0.25) of the marks assigned to that question will be deduced as penalty.
(b) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as wrong answer even if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question.
(c) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. The candidates who are declared qualified in the Preliminary Examination shall be required to submit requisite documents in support of their eligibility for Main written examination separately on the prescribed application form, which will be uploaded on the official website of the Commission after the declaration of result of Preliminary Examination. No separate intimation will be issued in this regard.
Preference list for the posts advertised under rules, as mentioned in the Application Form shall be filled in / indicated by the candidate at the time of submission of application form for the main examination and the candidate will be selected in order of merit in accordance to the order of preference list. Once preference list has been submitted, no change / amendment therein shall be permitted and no representation will be considered in this regard.
The candidates will be considered for selection only for those posts and in the order as indicated by him/her in the preference list. They will not be considered for any post not mentioned by them in the preference list, irrespective of the fact that in the order of merit they are eligible for selection to the posts.
If a candidate has not submitted the preference list duly filled in, to the Commission, or has submitted the preference list without his/her signature or has not expressed any choice / preference whatsoever in the preference list, will be considered for all posts in the order in which these have been listed in the advertisement.
Syllabus for Preliminary Examination
Himachal Pradesh Subordinate Allied Services/ Posts Examination, 2017 Paper of three hours’ duration consisting of 200 marks (General Knowledge) (Objective type).
1. History, Geography and socio economic development of Himachal Pradesh. 60 marks
2. Knowledge of current events of national and international importance and such matters of every day observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific subject. 60 marks
3. Modern History (From 1857 onwards) of India, Indian culture, Indian Polity, Indian Economy, Geography of India, and Disaster Management. Environment and Gender issues and teaching of Mahatma Gandhi. 80 marks
NOTE : There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, on fourth (0.25) of the marks assigned to that question will be deduced as penalty.
Syllabus for Main Examination
Click for details syllabus
Paper I English (Conventional) 150 Marks 03 hours
Candidates will be required to answer questions designed to test their understanding of English and workmen like use of words .Some of the questions will be devised to test also their reasoning power, their capacity to perceive implications their ability to distinguish between the important and the less important and to write an essay. Passage will usually be set for summary or précis. Credit will be given for concise the effective expression.
Paper No.II Hindi (Conventional) 150 Marks 03 hours
i) Translation of an English Passage into Hindi.
ii) Explanation of Hindi passage in Prose and Poetry in same language.
iii) Composition (Essay, Idioms, Correction etc).
Paper No. III General Knowledge 200 Marks 03 hours
History, geography, and socio economic development of Himachal Pradesh. Knowledge of current events of National and International importance and of such matter of every day observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific subject.
The paper will also include questions on Modern History (From 1857 onwards) of India, Indian culture, Indian polity, Indian Economy and Geography of India of such nature as candidates should be able to answer without special study and question on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
No candidate would be considered to have qualified the Written test unless he obtains 40% marks in aggregate in all papers and atleast 35% marks in each paper. The evaluation shall be based on the parameters as specified in Appendix-III.
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Participation in international Conferences, Associations and other bodies concerning food, i.e. International Wheat Council, World Food Council, International Food Policy Research Institute, Commission/Committees on Food Security and implementation of decisions made thereat.
Entering into treaties and agreements with foreign countries and implementing treaties, agreements, conventions with foreign countries relating to trade and commerce in foodgrains and other foodstuffs.
Hiring and acquisition of godowns for storage of foodgrains including sugar, taking on lease or acquiring land for construction of foodgrains godowns.
Matters relating to the Food Corporation of India and the Central Warehousing Corporation.
Purchase of foodstuffs for civil requirements and their disposal and also for military requirements of sugar, rice and wheat.
Inter-State trade and commerce in respect of foodgrains and other foodstuffs including sugar.
Trade and commerce in, and supply and distribution of, foodgrains.
Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and distribution of sugar and foodstuffs other than foodgrains.
Price control of sugar, foodgrains and foodstuffs.
Public Distribution System.
The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955) and the Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 (7 of 1980), in so far as foodgrains are concerned.
Industries relating to Vanaspati, Oil seeds, Vegetable oils, Cakes, Fats and Sugar (including development of sugar khandsari).
Price Control of and inter-state trade and commerce in and supply and distribution of Vanaspati, Oilseeds, Vegetable Oils, Cakes and Fats
Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats.
Directorate of Sugar, New Delhi.
National Sugar Institute, Kanpur.
National Institute of Sugar and Sugarcane Technology, Mau.
Matters relating to the Development Council of Sugar Industry, New Delhi.
International Sugar Council.
Sugar Development Fund.
Alcohol – industrial and potable from the molasses route
Stand-alone Distilleries.
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Simplifying the new user flow across a family of apps
AssistiveWare
AssistiveWare develops assistive technology software for iOS and Mac OS, creating applications for people with physical, vision, communication and reading impairments.
Proloquo2Go and Proloquo4Text belong to the same family of apps, one is used by non-verbal people without literacy, and one by non-verbal people with literacy. The first task a new user would do after installation would be to create a new user, the current flow used jargon, had many steps and was a little uninspiring.
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The old 'Select Region' screen
The new 'Select Region' screen
The two apps were misaligned, they shared similar screens but used different terms. The main objective was to get the two apps aligned and to make it both simpler to understand and easier to complete.
The process was very dry and not very welcoming, so a secondary goal was to explore ways to make it friendlier.
The first thing I needed to do was to go through the wizard and create accounts on both Proloquo2Go and Proloquo4Text.
I performed a heuristic analysis. Capturing what each step did well and what each step did poorly. I did this on both a micro level and a macro level.
What can be improved on this screen?
How does this affect the whole flow?
The flow for Proloquo4Text was very simple, it only required a name for the new user, and voices for the active languages found in the iOS settings.
Proloquo2Go, on the other hand, is a much more complex app with a wealth of settings. You would be asked to provide the user's name, vocabulary (a way of organising the language), primary language, region, voice, vocabulary level (from basic to advanced), grid size (how many buttons you will see on the screen at once), and options which enabled you to copy buttons from previously created users (if they existed).
User flow for the two apps
Understanding the use cases
To properly assess the areas that needed optimising, I needed to understand the users and the situations that they would find themselves in when going through the process of creating a new user.
I was new to the organisation and new to the complex arena of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, so I decided to do the following.
Stakeholder interviews – asking colleagues about their experiences with the users, what they know about them, what they don't know about them…
Defining users – liaising once more with colleagues to share proto-personas, to ensure that I had understood our chats.
User interviews – using social media to reach out to parents and professionals to chat about the apps that they use.
From speaking with users I was able to understand the actual problems that they were facing. At first glance the 'new user flow' was not causing too many issues, however, a few key insights would help to narrow the focus:
Clarity of decision – All of the parents, teachers, and speech-language pathologists I spoke with were unsure if they were choosing the 'correct option' on many of the screens. They weren't sure if they were going against clinical recommendations or not.
Technical know-how – Many of the users were not hugely tech-savvy, they may only use the iPad purely for Proloquo2Go. They may not use any other apps, and definitely, do not speak the language of developers.
Highly stressful – For some parents especially this is a highly stressful situation. You are pinning your hopes on this app to help your child communicate.
With these insights, I wanted to look into ways to offer 'smart default' options, which should work for most users. I also wanted to look into ways to reduce steps, to try to lighten the mood (if possible), provide greater clarity and reassurance throughout the flow, and look at the language used throughout.
With Proloquo4Text using two of the same screens in the Proloquo2Go flow I decided to put my focus purely on Proloquo2Go and to ensure these two screens would map to both apps.
Assessing the flow
The original 'new user' flow had some screens that seemed really disconnected, for instance, the 'vocabulary' choice was made on the second screen of the flow, whereas the 'vocabulary level' did not come until the sixth screen.
'Language' and 'region' were used primarily to choose the language of the vocabulary and to ensure that local dialect was considered. Secondly, it would suggest the voice to use based on your locale.
There was no way to create a bilingual user from this initial setup, and the suggested grid size would ignore the screen orientation, thus promoting bad practices.
I sketched out an early flow for discussion.
Sketch of an early iteration of the new user flow
With Language and Region being so closely related, I wanted to explore ways in which this could be merged into one. I also wanted to bring Vocabulary and Vocabulary Level closer together, so they weren't as disjointed as in the current flow. Finally, I wanted to discuss gender.
I knew that this may be a difficult area but it could open up gender-specific vocabulary rules, which may be beneficial for the end user.
As the users who I would eventually test these ideas with were not very tech-savvy I concluded the following:
Base screens on the familiar – for some users, Proloquo2Go is their only app on their only device. Familiarity could be beneficial here, it could make the app feel less daunting and more trusted.
Jump into high-fidelity – to test the above it would not work with sketches or low-fidelity prototypes.
I focussed on the familiar. Wiped an iPad, and started from scratch. This would be what I based the design on.
Familiarity was key to reduce stress
Early iteration of a high-fidelity mockup
As expected, the early iterations prompted some good discussion about 'Gender'. The interesting thing that I learned here was that gender was seemingly not important to a number of AAC users. My interpretation here was that the voice that they were drawn to had very little to do with the sex, and more to do with how the voice sounds to them.
I received a more positive reaction from the way I tackled the issue with the 'Grid Size' that was being selected not fitting the way that the user held the device.
I introduced a 'Choose a preferred orientation' step which would then show only grid sizes that matched the orientation you selected. I also explored ways to integrate this with the 'Select Grid Size' screen, but the information density was too great and it ran the risk of reducing clarity.
The new flow began to take shape:
Create a user → Select a Language and Region → Choose a Voice → Choose a Vocabulary → Choose Vocabulary Level → Choose a preferred orientation → Select Grid Size → Advanced Setup → Welcome
With familiarity being key, I recreated the initial screen with a more familiar looking one to anybody who has set up an Apple device before. The tone of voice was warmer and more instructive. 'User Name' became 'Create a user', and the placeholder text 'User Name' became 'Name of person using Proloquo2Go'.
Old 'User Name' screen
New 'Create a user' screen
Select a Language and Region
There was an opportunity to merge these two screens, and to also look at smart defaults.
Technically we could look at the device language and the geographic location to suggest the locale by default. In the new screen below this is what a user who has an iPad configured in English and based in North America would see.
The text has also been refined and restyled to provide clarity to bilingual users.
Old 'Language' screen
Old 'Region' screen
New 'Select a Language and Region' screen
Choose the right Vocabulary and Level
Other screens were less about reduction and more about helping the user to make smarter decisions. Across many screens these smart defaults were used to reassure the user that this setting would be fine for the majority.
It also allowed AssistiveWare to provide clinical guidance.
Old 'Vocabulary Level' screen
New 'Choose a Vocabulary Level' screen
Choosing the right grid size
Proloquo2Go was primarily being used in one orientation, either portrait or (mainly) landscape. During setup, the user was given the opportunity to select grid sizes which were not suited to the orientation of the device. This would cause users to make poor decisions and select grid sizes that were best suited for the other orientation.
Another goal was to allow the user to see the full grid, so they could get an idea as to what words would be present when choosing this grid size. In the previous version, a large grid select list would take up the middle portion of the screen which severely limited the view. On the iPhone, this list took up an even larger area.
I introduced some friction to allow the user to consider how they would use the app. This also enabled me to use the 'communication area' of the app to place a stepper. As the user tapped the plus or minus buttons the grid would automatically refresh.
As with other screens, we wanted to promote a smart default. We found a number of users would immediately choose the smallest grid size. This made the buttons easier to tap but it also severely restricted the vocabulary available. Of course, some users with fine motor issues may need to have large buttons, but we wanted to give the opportunity for users to see how tappable these buttons were at a larger size.
A warmer welcome
There is nothing more daunting than a text-based welcome which directs the new user to a manual.
Proloquo2Go is a complex app and the onboarding experience needs a lot of refinement. This was out of scope for this project, so the goal here was to be warmer and get the user into the app quickly and easily.
In the previous version, the 'Finish' button was not clear, it became a 'Go to New User' button, which was not consistently placed with the rest of the journey. Greater clarity was provided here, but more importantly, the new user was welcomed by their users' name and a large welcoming symbol would greet them and entice them in.
Old 'Thank You' screen
New 'Welcome' screen
Testing the design and flow
Using the screens created a prototype was created in Sketch and people who were new to Proloquo2Go were sourced for testing. I also wanted to include users who were not as familiar with Augmentative and Alternative Communication to ensure that text was clear and the flow felt natural to those with even less experience, but time and internal restrictions didn't allow for this.
Quantitatively it would be tricky to measure the success as smart defaults can't tell us whether or not the user would need to make a change. Although we could measure how many new users use the 7 x 11 grid (our recommendation), there could be a very good reason not to accept our recommendation.
Qualitatively, those in the Support department reported that they received no tickets which related to the new user flow. The simplicity and invisibility of the flow allowed us to deem this a great success.
Links of interest from the case study:
Proloquo2Go product page
© 2018-2019 Dean Birkett
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Hero Down: Jackson Police Corporal Allen Harper Jr. Succumbs To Injuries
Jackson, MS - Jackson Police Corporal Allen Harper Jr, died on April 7th, six days after he was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash while off-duty.
According to Clarion Ledger, Officer Harper, age 43, died from head trauma six days after he was injured in a motorcycle crash, which occurred at
According to Clarion Ledger, Officer Harper, age 43, died from head trauma six days after he was injured in a motorcycle crash, which occurred at the intersection of High Street and State Street.
Jackson Police Officers recently assisted those that were affected by by the city of Jackson's infrastructure crisis. Officer Harper was one who helped, and after two days, still had his incredible sense of humor. According to JPD Deputy Chief Joseph Wade, "We were out there all day Friday and Saturday, and I promise you he never ran out of jokes in two days." Deputy Chief Wade also said that he and Officer Harper had graduated from the JPD Training Academy in 1998.
His warm spirit drew others to him and made them instinctively trust him. Officer Harper was a married father of four. He cared for the city's homeless, greeted the business people, and worked with city council members.
Officer Harper had served for over 22 years, and he was also known to be "always smiling, always joking, able to make something positive out of situations that might have made others complain."
The hero was captured on camera September 2015 saving a suicidal man from jumping off of a bridge. WJTV reports that while dealing with a distraught man who was upset about relationship problems, the man suddenly dove over a bridge. Corporal Harper could be seen on video catching him just as he was going over, saving the man's life.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Jackson Police Corporal Allen Harper, Jr., both blood and blue. Godspeed sir, we will take your watch from here Thank your for your service.
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The Shield Season 1 DVD
Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force - even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough. Now is your chanc..
After a rocky start, Detective Vic Mackey and Captain David Aceveda have formed an uneasy alliance that Detective Claudette Wyms is determined to destroy. Vic's personal life is in shambles and a new nemesis on the street forces the Strike Team to risk everything in the pursuit of one last big score for their "retirement fund." "The Shield" made history with the most Emmy nominations ever for a basic cable drama. It won a Golden Globe f..
TV's hardest-hitting cop drama returns with a vengeance for a pulse-pounding third season! After scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team play it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two Armenian gangsters. Tensions are stretched even further when Vic finds himself at odds with his team as they face a bitter rivalry from the new Decoy Squad. But hostilities are quickly fo..
TV's most in-your-face cop drama returns with a gripping, take-no-prisoners fourth season! Life at the Barn may never be the same after the Strike Team is dissolved and Vic and Shane are assigned to regular detective duty. Captain Aceveda is also leaving to begin his new job on the City Council. Any hope that Detective Claudette Wyms had of assuming Aceveda's command is dashed when another female, Monica Rawling (Glenn Close), is chosen..
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Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In The Shield's riveting sixth season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Arm..
Now, after seven edge-of-your-seat seasons, you can finally see how this award-winning FX drama turns out. Shane resorts to kidnapping in his dangerous dance with the Armenian mob, Dutch risks everything by becoming personally involved in a homicide investigation, the Strike Team mobilises to free a drug lord's daughter - but it all comes down to Detective Vic Mackey confronting his greatest adversary: himself. Pressured to take down Pe..
The Shield Seasons 1 to 7 Complete Collection DVD
All seven seasons of the gritty police drama set in inner city Los Angeles. Michael Chiklis stars as the morally questionable cop Vic Mackey who often finds himself on the wrong side of the rule book in order to keep the streets safe. Season 1 episodes are: 'Our Gang', 'The Spread', 'Dawg Days', 'Blowback', 'Cherrypoppers', 'Pay in Pain', 'Cupid and Psycho', 'Throwaway', 'Dragonchasers', 'Carnivores', 'Two Days of Blood' and 'Circles'. ..
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Why do you like Mr. Darcy?
A few weeks ago we asked you to submit your feelings on Mr. Darcy. The literary character, not his portrayal by certain actors.
Here are your responses:
Helen R: He’s brave. He goes against his friend’s (well Caroline) and family’s wishes. He sticks up for his love, even before he knows she returns his feelings. He’s honourable, generous, loyal and honest. Excruciatingly honest.
Buffy: I love Fitzwilliam Darcy because he is a real flawed human being. He’s not the hero that comes in and sweeps the heroine off her feet immediately. He’s shy, he’s awkward, he puts his foot in his mouth because he’s just so damn nervous around Lizzie. And who of us hasn’t been there when we really like someone? He loves his friends and wants the best for Bingley and in his haste to protect him, again he shoots off his mouth without all the facts. He’s proud but not too proud to admit he was wrong and try to make it all right. He knows his mouth gets him into trouble so he resorts to action to sort out the Lydia mess and hopes that Lizzie will understand what he is really telling her. Thankfully she does!
Karen: I like Mr Darcy because once Lizzy (harshly) points out that he’s being an asshat for telling her that he’s lowering himself to propose to her, he actually takes her words into consideration! Instead of holding it against her, he’s introspective. When they met at Pemberley afterwards, he could have been rude, but was gracious and kind. He went above and beyond in the situation with Wickham and Lydia, swearing the Gardiners to secrecy because he didn’t want Elizabeth to feel beholden to him. He wanted her to care for him, but that’s not even why he helped Lydia. He truly wanted Elizabeth to be happy. He’s a romantic hero precisely because of this. Add in that his awkwardness with strangers was misconstrued as extreme arrogance, you have a very relatable hero.
Anonymous: Darcy’s willingness & ability to grow into a better person motivated by love. His loyalty to those he loves. His passion.
Kay: I like Darcy because he’s a challenge to know and a bigger challenge to win over. Before we even learn how generous or kind he can be, the chase would be thrilling! From the chase can real love blossom as you venture through the desire into something much deeper in learning more and more. Plus he reminds me of my husband, so I’m bias.
Katrina: I can see the good and the evil in Darcy’s character. From an introverts perspective, it’s easy to understand how he observed Lizzy from afar and developed a deep and abiding attraction and admiration for her. He’s also better equipped to DO things instead of saying things, as evidenced by his terrible first proposal to Lizzy and subsequent assistance to Lydia. I’m a person who struggles with verbal expression, and whose ideas often come across completely wrong, so I choose to do things to show how much people mean to me. That being said, from a woman’s perspective, he is truly insufferable at times. To point out the inferiorities of the Bennett family when compared with his own was unnecessary and hurtful. While it was an honest assessment, it would ruffle the feathers of anyone who loved their family dearly. In conclusion, he’s a complex character. Jane’s creation of him left him open to both harsh criticism and deep admiration…I tend to lean towards the latter.
Christina Boyd: For over two hundred years, women have loved Austen’s brooding and enigmatic hero, Mr Darcy. Handsome, rich, strong, cerebral. You might also find him in disguise, including his imperfections, as numerous literary and film paragons like Gilbert Blythe, John Thornton, Gabriel Emerson, Lloyd Dobkee, Mr Big… Despite his manifold of faults against him, Darcy has estimable qualities that have stood the test of time: constant, cool headed, honest, gallant. Although he is flawed, he is willing to change for love of a worthy woman. He has set the standard as the ultimate catch for centuries—and who am I to argue with millions of readers before me? I always have an affinity for a rich, handsome man willing to improve himself for love.
Elizabeth: Honestly, the main reason I like Darcy is that he takes Lizzy’s criticism to heart and he CHANGES. Consider, well, every sitcom ever with the Main Couple who is on again/off again because they have persisting issues – but we’re expected to believe they end up happily ever after in the end. That it’ll work out this time, even though it’s never worked out before and neither partner has really changed and all their issues still exits. (Or HIMYM, where Ted got to marry someone to be an incubator for him to have the children Robin couldn’t have and didn’t want, someone who then conveniently died so he and Robin could get together, but you know what, let’s not get me started on that. My point is, they “solved an issue” by giving Ted someone else and then killing her off, which isn’t the same as Ted and Robin having a meaningful conversation and coming to an understanding about their different life goals…especially since that conversation WOULD end with them being broken up…BUT SERIOUSLY I DIGRESS.) ANYWAY. Darcy is definitely NOT good for Lizzy when he first proposes – so prideful, so prejudiced against her family, I mean, for the love of God, he insults her AS he proposes yet is shocked when she refuses him. But after taking time to cool down from the initial injury of her rejection, he realizes that a lot of her accusations are well-founded, and those that aren’t are based on the fact that she (understandably) doesn’t have all the information she would need to make a fair judgement. So he gives her that information and then WORKS ON HIMSELF. Things could be horrible and awkward when they meet again – and kind of are – but he works to show her that he can change and be a person less fixed on social class and more willing to get to know her acquaintances, to show her the generous person that Mrs Reynolds describes him as.
All while having *no hope* of gaining a relationship with her from his changed behavior, which is another thing I like about him! As opposed to many of today’s romantic heroes, who make the change specifically with “winning my lady back” in mind, Darcy does it merely to show her he can change but without any hope of renewing his proposals. It’s not until he thinks she might have developed reciprocal feelings that he renews the proposal BUT ALSO he finishes it up with “one word from you will silence me on the subject forever.” Another way he contradicts today’s Nice Guy Heroes, who get the girl merely because they wore her down.
As I always say: Be a Darcy, not a Ross.*
*Geller, from Friends. Because I did not know about Ross Poldark before.
Mary Ellen: We think today’s Instagram world is out of control image management, but I think it was the same back then. Technology changes but people don’t. Despite the constant pressure to be the Most Eligible Bachlor, he doesn’t need to impress anyone. He sees through the bullshit and notices true substance in Elizabeth. Not to mention his integrity. Aside from lying to Bingley, which he apologizes for in the end, he does what’s right even when no one is looking. He’s solid. Definitely the kind of man you want in your corner. Bingley is a lucky man to have him as a friend.
Blythe: Truthfully, I think Darcy is a butthead. Give me Wentworth any day. He’s a man who doesn’t care about the barrier of classes or jerkface family. He knows his heart and cares so much about the woman he professes to love that he can only think of her comfort even when his heart is still aching from hurt 8 years later. IRL, Colin Firth must be a Wentworth. If he was a Darcy he would have dumped his wife after the first hint of marital issues because of how it made him look to the public.
Jenn: It’s not so much I love Darcy because it’s “Darcy” and therefore I should swoon, but because Darcy is like looking in a mirror for me. Over the years of understanding P and P more, I began to understand why he’s possibly the #1 fictional character in all of literature I relate to the most. We have the same flaws and strengths. We’re fiercely loyal to those we love and who’ve shown us loyalty over time, but of course getting to know those people in the first place is a bit on the difficult side, because I also “improve on acquaintance”. Yay introvert life! Hey, it should be telling that I’m writing this rather than doing an audio file as we both have to write out our feelings/thoughts to have them make more sense to even ourselves! Our intentions and actions are easily misunderstood due to the way we see the world around us, and OH LORD IN HEAVEN…his first proposal is THE biggest mirror moment for me! I also tend to “pull a Darcy” when asked to explain myself or deciding whether or not to pursue something or someone we’ve taken a fancy to and then later explain. Darcy explains to Lizzie the external reasons why he shouldn’t be be interested in her or why he shouldn’t be pursuing her, let alone MARRY her, right? I do the exact same damn thing, like…A LOT. I always am coming up with external reasons to NOT pursue my life goals/dreams, a guy I might like, etc. because we’re scared we might not get it and rejection hurts more than we let on because we don’t wear our hearts on our sleeve. It actually hurts when I read or watch that scene, because I want to do either of two things…scream at him to shut up because he’ll just look like in idiot for his explanation since I’ve made the same “mistakes” or give him a hug and say I completely understand because I get how he ticks and thinks…and that I’ll take him since Lizzie won’t! 😉
Kathy: I like Mr Darcy because he was obviously willing to grow and learn and be a modern man at a time when peers were not respected for doing any of that. He took a chance on Elizabeth and her family and did them all good.
Laura: I think Darcy represents someone who is genuinely caring and kind. The reader is given the impression through Elizabeth Bennet’s eyes of being arrogant and not caring about other people for example Wickham. However it is through Darcy’s actions when Lydia runs away to London and attempts to salvage her reputation firstly by asking Lydia to come back with him and then arranging her wedding to Wickham that shows his support for her and the Bennet family. The housekeeper, also praises him having known Darcy since he was a child. Darcy does act badly towards Jane but he learns that he cannot interfere with Bingley’s decision. Darcy’s demonstrates progression of character and personality by the end of the novel.
Jenni: Darcy’s character bilks the patriarchal narrative about men and emotions. His entire story arc is driven by his feelings, and Austen lets us witness it. It’s a fantasy – to see up close a romantic passion taking over a male mind and reducing all the class and gender nonsense to a puddle at the feet of a worthy woman. What’s not to like?
Lori: I don’t. I did many years ago, but I’ve learned that people don’t change, at least not as much as Darcy seems to. Now, all I can think is that he will either eventually try and manipulate her into being his ideal woman (and fail spectacularly) or he will come to find her cheerful nature a huge annoyance. Or both.
My heart belongs to Knightley, who loves Emma just as she is, despite her faults. Wentworth is my second choice. Neither of these men would come to resent the partners.
Liz: The best thing about Darcy is how awkward he is. The time he couldn’t think of anything to say to Lizzy, so he just asks, “What do you think of books?” – It’s so awkwardly endearing.
Chantelle: I like Darcy because he ultimately doesn’t care what other characters think, or how they judge him. He falls in love with Elizabeth on his own terms, and despite the wishes of Caroline Bingley and Lady Catherine de Bourgh. While he considers other peoples thoughts — such as acknowledging them to Lizzie in his first, disastrous proposal — he continues to be drawn to Lizzie’s fine eyes and merits. He shows up at places where he expects her to be, seemingly unaware that she is not interested in him, and courts her in this way from afar. This trait is both a good and bad thing, as he expects others to care about his perceptions.
Basically, I like that he loves Lizzie in spite of himself, in spite of others’ wishes, and how he only loves her more as he sees her strength in character. Her fine eyes draw him in, but her fine personality encourage him to actually love her in the end.
Anne: Like so many of us, Mr. Darcy is one man in public and an all together different man in private. In public he is stiff, cold, uncomfortable, and shy. In private he is warm, loving and compassionate.
Only those he loves, and those who love him in return, are admitted into his true company. Everyone else knows only his persona.
He is like a secret that Jane Austen shares with us. We get to see the true Mr. Darcy. And for this we love him. Not because he is perfect, but because his best qualities are hidden under bristles. Only love brings out his true self.
I married a Mr. Darcy, a man who is seen by many as private, brilliant, and even intimidating. I love feeling that I and I alone know the true depth of his loving and compassionate spirit.
Anonymous: I like Darcy because he is willing to change his mind when called out on his bad behavior. So many heroes in fiction are just perfect from the get go but he has flaws; flaws that interact with the plot even!
Kailey: When he’s confronted about his prejudice and general snobbishness, he actively works to change the way he views and treats people. Deep down he’s receptive to criticism and is willing to be a work in progress.
Birgit Post: Oh dearest, loveliest Fitzwilliam Darcy. How do I love thee, let me count the ways.
Because he secretly likes Elizabeth and it makes him crazy – just like happens to me and other girls and women. He is looking for reasons to not like Elizabeth, but just like anyone who is falling in love, Darcy loves everything about Elizabeth and all of her little traits.
I love that he loves that Elizabeth reads and says so in front of Miss Bingley and her sister, both of whom have cataloged for him all the reasons that connections with Lizzie and her family are a bad idea.
When pressed Darcy will express his feelings and the reason behind them. He did this in his letter to Elizabeth, when he saw her in Derbyshire, and when he proposed again near Longbourn. Darcy had the whole love affair inside his head with all of the feelings and reasons…just like a teen girl in love (and I was a teen girl when I first read about Darcy!).
Girl with caffeine: I think it’s because he reformed quite profoundly as a love interest (sure, he may have been a fine brother etc, but as a lover interest he was pretty lacking initially and his only competition were Mr Wickham and Mr Collins!). He realized he had been a jerk to Elizabeth – admittedly because she told him so… but he listened and acted and changed. He wasn’t good with words so he showed her with actions who he was – who he had become because of her. He told she had humbled him, but really he had just listened to her and become a better man.
That’s quite revolutionary now, let alone in that bastion of mysogny: regency England!
Eva: The reason for my love for Mr Darcy above all others can be summarised in two words : Colin Firth. The 1995 adaptation was shown on Australian television the same year I was studying P&P in English Literature, and despite having read and loved the book before watching the series I am afraid my perspective on Mr Darcy was tainted by Colin Firth’s portrayal and by Andrew Davies’ direction. He is handsome, honourable, loves his sister, and learns how to be a more accepting person. His servants think well of him, which is always a good sign.
Looking with a more mature, analytical mind at the Darcy in the book I can see where he is problematic as a character. However – he is more exciting and interesting and just /better/ than Mr Knightley (moulds a young girl to his tastes), Mr Ferrars (honourable yes but wishy-washy), Col. Brandon (again with the age gap – though he is probably my favourite after Darcy), Edmund Bertram (just ugh), Heathcliff or Rochester (do I need to explain?). Wentworth and Tilney are close I suppose. Oh damn I just re-read the brief for this and realise you said you are NOT comparing him to other Austen men. Having written all this I will leave it in anyhow.
Kai: Fitzwilliam Darcy is a fricking mess. He’s a good man, smart and kind and super protective of the people he cares about. He knows he has 0 people skills, and instead of, like, working on it, he just gets anxious about it, making things even worse, and I love that because same.
He’s Iconic(TM) because honestly who doesn’t want to be absolutely cherished by a guy who comes across to most as kind of an ass? It’s a side of him that only you would know, making it even more precious.
Jessica: I think for me Mr Darcy shows us a man who is not charming yet has a lot to offer but for only that one true love. He is overly selective and he is flawed because of it. BUT It’s a fantasy that makes the woman(Lizzie or the reader) in the situation that much more special because it takes so much more for him to open up to her. Wickham could charm the pants off of anyone but that wasn’t special. Mr Darcy was kind of an ass but he worked hard to win Lizzie’s affections. It wasn’t easy for him and I think many women want that from their relationship. You want your guy to bust his ass for you and put in a true effort. Obviously there are all sorts of wacky dramatic and literary obstacles there to make the story more fun but it’s all about how much he wanted her and how much he was willing to do to win her over. THAT is why I love Mr Darcy.
Reanna: I think that Darcy has become such an icon because of his journey from an outwardly toxic male – rude, self-focused, and judgemental, to become (thanks to a catalyst – Lizzie) a kinder, more open, and respectful person (especially towards individuals he’d originally scorned, i.e. the Bennets). Additionally, the course of the novel eventually reveals Darcy’s inner goodness, heroism, and devotion. I believe that it is these aspects that endear Darcy to so many – wish fulfillment! I’m sure many of us have wondered in our own lives… perhaps inside that arrogant, hurtful jerk is true romantic hero capable of incredible kindness and devotion! (Spoiler alert: It’s a trap!!!) Darcy is the epitome of romantic wish fulfillment in a world widely populated by total dickheads.
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“He has set the standard as the ultimate catch for centuries—and who am I to argue with millions of readers before me? I always have an affinity for a rich, handsome man willing to improve himself for love.” Indeed.
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EP Review: Yelawolf's 'Hotel' EP Is A Glimpse Into His Past, Present and Future
By Navi Persaud
Everything that fans love about Yelawolf has been culminated into one incredible EP titled, Hotel. From just seven tracks, fans will be able to take a look into his past, present and future.
By now, fans are used to the mashup of country and hip-hop that Yelawolf is proud of.
The Hotel intro titled, "Supersonic Alley Cat" fools fans as it seems as if it it's going to be a straight instrumental.
However, the final minute features Yelawolf rattling off a "supersonic" series of lyrics that gets you pumped for every track to follow.
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"You Should Have Known" is a mixture between a love song and a raw sexually driven song.
It features a low bassline that opens up into a fusion of country and hip-hop arrangements.
"Renegades" is the triple threat track that finds Yelawolf reflecting on his past, how he intends to grow in the future all while celebrating every type of American that exists, no matter what your financial situation may be.
"Someday" is one of the big standout tracks for Yelawolf as he seems agressive and hungry to continue to have his story heard. "In Love Tonight" and "Good Love" resemble each other in terms of subject matter, however, they are complete opposites in terms of the arrangement.
The Hotel EP also features Bubba Sparxxx who dives into the subject of realness.
Yelawolf's Hotel is actually an acronym for House Of The Endless Life which seems to represent the overall circle of life we all live in.
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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Showrunner Explains How Avengers: Infinity War May Impact Series
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD was initially born out of the death of Agent Phil Coulson during The Avengers film, which finally brought the Avengers together.
The series has since been very loosely linked to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even more so in recent years, but now the showrunner has weighed in on how the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War may impact the show.
The early days of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD were pretty simple as we were introduced to a team of SHIELD agents led by the resurrected Phil Coulson.
However, everything changed after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier when it was revealed that HYDRA had infiltrated SHIELD and the series was never the same again.
While this was the most specific connection between the MCU and the series, there have been a few other references over time, such as Nick Fury and Lady Sif.
These connections have been much more loose in recent years, with it almost seeming like the series is not even connected anymore.
This was seen especially during the first arc of season five that had everything set in a futuristic space setting.
Even with a lack of major connections in recent seasons, showrunner Jed Whedon spoke about how the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War at WonderCon, details of which have been provided by Deadline.
“The movies blaze a path. When Doctor Strange came out it introduced us to magic, which gave us Ghost Rider; when [Guardians of the Galaxy] came out, we were introduced to space. We are waiting for that movie to come out so it can open a new playground for us.”
Whedon's response though was pretty vague, but it is interesting to see what he means by new playground.
Avengers: Infinity War is definitely going to set some new status quos in the MCU, so we'll have to see what happens to Agents of SHIELD in the process.
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Satin Cinnabar by Barbara Gaskell Denvil
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This title was shortlisted for the July Book of the Month
mystery / romance
"15th century England, the aftermath of the Battle of Bosworth when the first Tudor King Henry VII took the throne from Richard III, the plots and sub-plots interweave, held together by the strong atmospheric medieval backgrounds and the depth of characterisation. With all the inevitable power struggle, politics and turmoil accompanying the beginning of the new Tudor dynasty.
On his escape from the abandoned battlefield, Alex, younger son of a slain lord, throws off his armour which would mark him as a knight of the defeated Yorkists. The Lady Katherine, having heard tales of marauding soldiers both vanquished and victorious, is dressed for safety as a boy. She and Alex, both in disguise, meet in unusual circumstances.
Now the lords once loyal to King Richard are in danger of losing their titles, their property and their heads. Law and order seem under threat so Alex quickly goes into hiding. Taking refuge in the kitchens of old friends, he impersonates a servant. During his unorthodox sojourn in the kitchens, Alex encounters Katherine once again. Given in an arranged marriage, the lady is now reluctantly wedded to the new lord of the house. Alex and Katherine come face to face for the second time and begin a most unorthodox courtship..."
Thus is set the scene for what turns out to be a highly entertaining and skilfully written combination of romance and mystery. Alex is working 'under cover' as a servant - the minder of spices, a job which he knows nothing about but gives him adequate opportunity to be out of the house and off on his own (unusual for servants) whenever he chooses. Naturally, he is not spending all his time searching the London streets for expensive and exotic spices for the household cook to use in order to disguise his poor attempts at cooking! Oh no, Alex has far more important things to be doing...
But then there is a murder, and another one, interspersed with a death by natural causes, but gets mixed in with the other two - and Alex is accused of all three, with a charge of abduction and seduction thrown in to boot.
The real murderer was fairly easy to spot, so Satin Cinnabar isn't really a 'who-dun-it' as such, and yes, you know there will be a happy ending, but that isn't the point. The intrigue and adventure of this entertaining read comes with who else was involved, and why, how Alex gets himself out of predicaments, what was the motive behind it all, and just how is the happy ending reached? All that is as much a part of enjoying a darn good romp of a read as unravelling who the murderer could be, and Satin Cinnabar is a darn good romp of a read. Barbara Gaskell Denvil tells a very good story, with enjoyable, believable characters all wrapped up in marvellous descriptive detail which made me sincerely grateful that I do not live in the squalor and stink of 1400s London.
From the battlefield of Bosworth to Newgate Gaol via the exotic spice shops of London, I can confidently say that for the portrayal of detail of life in early Tudor London, Ms Denvil is among the very best of writers.
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There are, I have discovered, several authors out there (and I am one of them) who firmly believe that the characters we write about are real. I’m not talking about real people as in those who lived in the past – King Harold II, Queen Elizabeth I and such, I’m talking about imagined, invented characters. Figures who pop into an author’s mind along with the plot and story as a whole.
It is the fault of these characters I’m afraid. They take over our lives, our souls, our very being – and when we’ve finished writing about them, haunt us through day and night, whispering in our subconscious to ‘write something else about me’.
When I wrote my Arthurian Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy (over twenty years ago now!) I fell in love with Arthur; after all, for over ten years I had worked on what was eventually to become The Kingmaking, the first book in the series. I knew that man better than I knew myself! He was a friend, a confidante, an inspiration – almost a virtual lover at times. He was also irritating, annoying and a darn nuisance, especially when I had run out of steam and hadn’t a clue what to write next, or the confidence to do so.
But he would be there nagging away in my right ear. ‘Write. Write more. Keep writing,’ and the image of a scene would come into my mind – almost like watching a movie, then I’d write furiously until I had the scene right.
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Fatal Coin by Lucienne Boyce
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“Missing treasure. Murder. One ruthless criminal. And one Bow Street Runner determined to stop him.
In the winter of 1794 Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster is assigned to guard a Royal Mail coach. The mission ends in tragedy when a young constable is shot dead by a highwayman calling himself Colonel Pepper. Dan is determined to bring Pepper to justice, but the trail runs cold.
Four months later Dan is sent to Staffordshire to recover a recently excavated hoard of Roman gold which has gone missing. Here he unexpectedly encounters Colonel Pepper again. The hunt is back on, and this time Dan will risk his life to bring down Pepper and his gang.”
Written specifically as a short novella-style prequel to Ms Boyce’s most excellent first Bloodie Bones novel about Dan Foster (and indeed, a planned series) I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this superb tale.
Lucienne Boyce has a talented gift as a writer, producing stories that hook you straight in and refuse to let you go until you’ve turned the last page, and even then, leave you pondering on the plot and characters – and eager for a next adventure!
She creates believable characters, detailed settings and engrossing plots none of which outshine the other, or read like a history lesson. On the other hand, I have learnt more about Georgian London, the Bow Street Runners and how dismal life for the poor could be in the late 1700s than ever before. Highwaymen have always been romanticised, the anti-establishment bad-boy heroes of their time, Fatal Coin shows them in a different light as extremely dangerous risks to innocent travellers.
In addition to the main story we are treated to a sub-plot glimpse of Dan’s early life, his roots and background. The whole story, indeed the entire series, is like delving into a rich, satisfying and gloriously indulgent box of hand-made luxury chocolates.
Whether Fatal Coin is your first encounter with Dan Foster, or a venture into discovering more about him, this is a most excellent read, highly enjoyable and most highly recommended.
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A Discovering Diamonds review of: The House on the Beach by Joan Fallon
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“Rocio and Inma meet as children and promise to be life-long friends. Set in Spain, in the years after the Civil War, their unlikely friendship faces many challenges. It is a time when women have few rights and are controlled not only by a dictatorial State but also by an ever-watchful Church.
The girls come from different strata of society, one is poor and the other rich. But they each have their problems. When Inma saves Rocio from disgrace and the inevitable expulsion from the family home, Rocio believes their friendship will hold for ever. But she has overestimated Inma’s loyalty and her subsequent betrayal is hard to accept.”
Joan Fallon has a talent for writing realism about Spain and the events that happened to form the diverse eras of this wonderful country’s rich and varied history. I know little of the Spanish Civil War regrading accuracy and detail, but to my mind this delightful – if somewhat sad in places – novel is well researched.
It is not always easy for a writer to create a believable story where the two lead characters are so very different, in lifestyle, attitude and outlook, but Ms Fallon has pulled this off very well as a light and entertaining read. These two young women catch the imagination and you feel yourself involved with their triumphs and disasters, their happiness and their tears from chapter one and throughout.
Spain itself is as much a character – I would heartily recommend this read for a light, sun-based holiday read: ideal form when you are stretched out on a comfortable lounger beside the pool or on the beach, glass of wine to hand…
© Ellen Hill
The Betrothed Sister by Carol McGrath
AmazonUK £2.63 £7.99
AmazonCA $15.88
Fictional saga
Denmark / Kiev (Russia)
Daughters of Hastings series#3
This is the third in the collection of stories about the women of King Harold II's family after he perished at the Battle of Hastings. This concerns Thea, the eldest daughter of Harold.
Thea escapes England to go into exile with her grandmother and the brothers that remain to her. While in the court of the Danish king, she overshadows the Danish princesses and secures for herself a brilliant marriage when she is betrothed, to a prince of Kiev.
As with the previous two novels in this series, The Betrothed Sister is written in a gentle style that still has enough sharpness, and even a touch of cattiness between the ladies, to be engaging and keep the reader engrossed. The world of medieval Central Europe tends to pass by the average student of history. We know of Peter the Great and the Russian involvement with Napoleon, but little more. This novel reveals a rich and vibrant culture that was as sophisticated as any western European kingdom.
Ms McGrath has now revealed the fate of the family of Harold Godwinson, and she is turning her attention to a different age. With her distinctive serene style whatever she turns her hand, and pen, to will be eagerly awaited by her dedicated readers.
© Nicky Galliers
A Discovering Diamonds review of: Wrath of the Furies by Steven Saylor
Fictional saga / military
Series: Roma Sub Rosa Book 15
As often as I say 'I don't like novels about the Ancient World', whenever I do pick one up, I love it. And that is true also of this novel.
This is the next in a series of novels about Gordianus, the son of the The Finder of Rome who is on his own adventures. He is living in Alexandria in 88BC, having found himself there after an adventure in a previous volume. He receives a mysterious message from Ephesus which compels him to sail for that city despite it being probably the least safe place he could go as a Roman. Ephesus has been taken into Greek hands from the Romans by King Mithridates, King of Kings, who wishes to wreak vengeance on Rome and all things, and people, Roman.
Probably because this is book 15 of a series, this novel takes a lot of scene setting and a lot of backstory to get to the point where the story gets interesting, probably more ponderous for me as I did not know the characters and so was trying to get a sense for them as the story unfolded. However, once everything is established, events start to move fast and furiously to its inevitable conclusion. I would, therefore, suggest starting at the beginning of the series with Roman Blood)
Gordianus is realistic, a young man who has grown up around some of the greats of history and become a small part of the story of the Ancient World. He is likeable, down to earth, and just the right side of inconstant to be true-to-life and yet still attractive as a person.
The cast of characters around him are rather like caricatures, but good ones, larger than life and overly done, similar to well-rendered puppets with excellent actors doing the voices - you know they are a touch O.T.T., but you still love them.
Despite this being very mainstream and generally very well presented, I must comment on the cover design *. The volume I have possesses a cover image that is completely misleading, as if the artist was told 'It's Roman' and did what he or she felt was appropriate without ever being told any more about the content of the book. It isn't about gladiators, so if you do pick this up, ignore the image.
All in all this was a great read, a different read as at the height of Roman power (just before the time of Christ and before the fall of Egypt) the Romans are not in the ascendancy. The all-powerful might of Rome is being challenged and successfully. The question this novel poses is: What can one young Roman do about it?
*Not applicable to Canada: Cover for Canada is different from UK and US
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Amazon CA $24.28
Emma Donoghue's novel is set in a small community in the midlands of Ireland in August 1859. It is claimed that a child has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday, four months previously. Lib, a nurse who has worked in the Crimea under Florence Nightingale, is one of two appointed to watch the girl night and day for two weeks in order to establish the veracity of the claim.
Lib is sceptical; about the claim, about the motives of everyone involved and especially the beliefs and rituals of Roman Catholic religion as practiced in this part of Ireland. How her opinions mature and evolve over the two weeks forms the substance of this powerful novel. The relationship that develops between Lib and the child is beautifully drawn. Is she being exploited by her parents, by the local priest, or by the doctor who hopes to be able to publish the details of the case as evidence of a medical breakthrough? Perhaps by all three. Perhaps something even more sinister lies behind the child's behaviour.
And what of the journalist who comes in search of a scoop for his London newspaper? Is he just another carpetbagger or might he hold the key to releasing the child from the clutches of those whose motives she questions?
The Wonder is a cleverly constructed novel that explores the human desire to seek solace in the miraculous when faced with suffering. Set just a few years after the famine that accompanied the failure of the potato crop in Ireland for seven consecutive years, it also analyses the impact of starvation on the bodies and minds of those affected as well as on the minds of those who observe.
There is more to ponder, too, about the nature of exploitation. What about those who come to gawp, hoping that witnessing this new “wonder” will somehow enrich their lives, or the many who are encouraged to believe that touching some article that may once have been touched by a saint can cure their ills?
As the tension built I found it difficult to put the book down. I will not spoil the ending for potential readers by giving it away, but I have to admit that I did find the resolution just a bit too pat for an otherwise excellent novel.
© Frank Parker
The fourth Weekend
As there are five weekends this month
(Reader's Voice will be next week)
so I thought maybe a few amusing cartoons for those of us
who love reading books would be...
well, amusing!
and my two favourites:
Feel free to borrow - after all, I originally found all these on Facebook. If anyone wants to claim ownership, please let me know and I will delete ... but these are all so superb they really should be shared!
Enjoy your weekend folks!
The du Lac Chronicles by Mary Anne Yarde
Amazon UK £2.99 £9.99
Amazon US $3.81 £14.99
Romance / Arthurian / Fictional Saga
c. 500AD
The Du Lac Chronicles, by Mary Anne Yard, is set in a post-Roman, post-Arthurian Britain, in which waves of Saxon invaders are well on the way towards overrunning the remaining British regions. Arthur is dead, along with most of his followers, and the remaining few are scattered, lurking in separate pockets to avoid discovery. It is time for a new generation to see what sort of land they can fashion. This is the first in a series of novels and shorter pieces of writing, but it reaches a clear and logical end as a work in itself. The book, and the series as a whole, blends historical insight together with the poetry and legend surrounding Arthur and his followers.
The story circles around the children of Launcelot, and the ambivalent legacy he has left them. Their lands in Cornwall have just been lost to the Saxons of Wessex, and the survival of their line is in doubt. Alliances are uncertain and shifting, and old loyalties cannot necessarily be relied upon. The new Saxon invaders are eager to enforce their rule on the existing leaders, but are themselves split by rivalry. The book opens with the formation of an unexpected alliance, blending mutual support, political astuteness, and genuine affection. This central love affair is threatened by ally and enemy alike, and its progress from cautious overture through consummation to commitment drives the plot.
I would have liked a map to help orient myself in the presumed Arthurian locations. As a Brit, it is easy to place the various Saxon kingdoms. Of course, the exact geography of key regions and castles in the tales of Arthur remains obscure. However, Mary Anne has obviously made some suppositions in order to plan out the journeys of her characters, and it would have been helpful to see this laid out visually as well as in a brief author's note at the end.
Personally I am more swayed now by arguments for Arthurian settings in the north of England than the south, whereas this book is solidly southern in perspective. However, the choices here are well laid out and consistent. Along with that, the diversity of language and culture of the age is compellingly presented, with all its opportunities for both cross-fertilisation and misunderstanding.
All in all a vivid and readable imagining of this stage of British history, with a blend of remembered grandeur and the cruel oppression of invasion. Now that I have discovered it, this is a series that I shall continue to dip into.
© Richard Abbott
A Discovering Diamonds review of: The Survivor & Other Tales of Old San Francisco by Steve Bartholomew
Amazon US $4.39 $7.98
Short stories / family drama
American Old West
This 141-page selection of short stories about the Old San Francisco (first called Yerba Buena) is an easy read.
In a conversational style, Bartholomew’s main character tells the reader interesting aspects about the growing pains and tragedies of this great American city. His often self-effacing accounts about his own success and life in the emerging West are interlaced with dry wit and a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor.
It makes for a pleasant read and whether or not there are a few liberties with the facts is irrelevant. Each of these entertaining short stories can stand alone, but the recurring characters of Hiram Courtenay and his wife Lisbeth provide continuity, and I grew quite fond of the intrepid pair as they endured fires, loss and social upheaval around them. Indeed Hiram, although a successful businessman, can be found reaching out to those less fortunate, providing them not only with counsel but a helping hand. He owns warehouses along the docks and sees first-hand those huddled and befuddled immigrants being disgorged from the bowels of arriving clipper ships. He and his wife are quick to ask them to their home and to provide a meal.
I came away with several observations:
1) Grateful I didn’t live then and there.
2) Some of my “aha-moments” were spoiled by every story ending in “The End.” If I were the author, I would take those out, especially since the formatting plasters this unnecessary statement up against the last line. Centered and down-spaced asterisks (* * *) are less intrusive leaving the reader to enjoy “what-if” or “wow” moments without the abruptness of “The End” tearing him or her out of any lingering feeling about what they had just read.
3) The cover could be improved by larger lettering, and the thumb-print might be resized to fit in with the author’s other titles.
4) In the title, the words “other tales,” I feel, should be capitalized. Further, these days an author’s name customarily is no longer preceded with “by.”
These are just my nitpicks. However, I feel they would shift these delightful short stories into a more professional realm.
Definitely worth a read for those interested in life in the Old West, and San Francisco in particular.
© Inge H. Borg
Until the Curtain Falls by David Ebsworth
Adventure / Fictional Saga
Jack Telford, an English journalist, is in a spot of bother. Franco's soldiers want him, the Russians want him and even the British want him. And all because he killed a colleague and, instead of sticking to the story that he has made up he decides to go on the run and with one aim in mind – to assassinate General Franco.
Of course we know that this idea is doomed to failure, but what follows takes us through the reality of the Spanish Civil War – the lies and the truths, the duplicity of politicians, the patriotism of the nationals, the cruelty of the new regime as well as the deprivation of the people and the horrors of prison camps.
I discovered, by chance, that this book is a sequel to an earlier volume entitled The Assassin's Mark and that did help to explain some confusion at the beginning because I was wondering just why Jack Telford pursued his particular path of action. Having said that, the back story is explained and I see no reason why this cannot be read as a standalone, although I would recommend reading the first story before the sequel.
Because David Ebsworth has an excellent way of telling a tale: his descriptions of both people and locations make you feel as if you know them, his prose often comprises of short sharp sentences, sometimes just one word sentences even, that add to the tension or the thoughts of the character or, where this occurs, the urgency within the dialogue. The creation of his characters – the fictional ones – have great depth and believability and are easy to warm to – or to fear.
Once into the story, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it through to the dramatic conclusion. Highly recommended as a well crafted, top class novel about a rarely written episode of world history.
© Richard Tearle
When I read The Assassin's Mark, I didn't think the excellent finale with its unexpected twist could be continued with a second book. Well, David Ebsworth has proved me wrong. There are more loose ends to tie up than I had thought of, and new plot ideas, as well as a lot more to tell about the Spanish Civil War. I love it when sequels don't repeat a formula but dare to take different directions.
While book one took place in a very brief period of time in 1938, this novel takes its time, literally, and captures a wider spectrum of historical events and politics. Hero Telford finds himself in a hot spot following the finale in Book One and needs to get out of it soon.
This takes us on a journey through war torn Spain from 1938 until the end of the war. He tries to escape to safety through a minefield of dangers and enemies, travelling across the country and on the way giving us insights into the situation in various locations, all of which provide yet another perspective on the war: areas occupied, besieged and captured, scenes of destruction and violence.
New characters bring further perspectives on the war while the suspense and drama provide a gripping and engaging storyline. This is truly excellent, as a sequel, as a stand alone and as a portrait of the war.
Historically astute and well researched: highly recommended.
© Christoph Fischer
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1993 Azerbaijan Top League
Azerbaijan Top League
Qarabağ FK
Relegated
FK Daşqın Zaqatala
Boz Qurd Samukh
Nefteqaz
Avei Agstafa
Azneftyağ Baku
Ümid
474 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer
Samir Alakbarov (16)
1993-94 →
The 1993 Azerbaijan Top League was the second season of the Azerbaijan Top League and was contested by 20 clubs with 2 points awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and no points were awarded for a defeat. Neftchi Baku were unable to defend their championship, with Karabakh Agdam becoming the champions.
The 20 participating teams where divided into two groups of 10, and faced each other twice. The top two clubs at the end of the 18 games qualified for the championship play-off matches, whilst the bottom three clubs were relegated. However Nefteqaz were spared relegation after Daşqın Zaqatala were relegated due to their financial problems. At the start of the season Taraggi Baku changed their name to Azneftyag Baku, whilst newly promoted Kyur Samukh became Boz Qurd Samukh.
1 Stadia and locations
2 First round
2.1 Group A
2.2 Group B
2.3 Results
2.3.1 Group A
2.3.2 Group B
3 Championship Play-offs
3.1 Semifinals
4 Season statistics
4.1 Top scorers
Stadia and locations[edit]
Azeri Baku
Azneftyag Baku
İnşaatçı Baku
Khazar Sumgayit
Neftchi Baku
Nicat Maştağa
Daşqın Zaqatala
İnşaatçı Sabirabad
Kəpəz
Khazar Lankaran
Kürmük Qakh
FK Masallı
Pambygchi Barda
Location of teams in 1993 Azerbaijan Top League
Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Avei Agstafa Ağstafa
Azeri Baku Baku
Azneftyag Baku Baku
Boz Qurd Samukh Samukh
Daşqın Zaqatala Zaqatala
İnşaatçı Baku Baku
İnşaatçı Sabirabad Sabirabad
Kapaz Ganja Ganja City Stadium 26,120
Khazar Lankaran Lankaran
Khazar Sumgayit Sumgayit Mehdi Huseynzade Stadium 15,350
Kur Mingachevir Yashar Mammadzade Stadium 5,000
Kürmük Qakh Qakh
FK Masallı Masallı Anatoliy Banishevskiy Stadium 7,500
Neftchi Baku Baku Tofiq Bahramov Stadium 31,200
Nefteqaz Qusar Shovkat Ordukhanov Stadium 5,000
Nicat Maştağa Baku Ismat Gayibov Stadium 5,000
Pambygchi Barda Barda Barda City Stadium 10,000
Qarabağ Quzanlı Guzanli Olympic Complex Stadium 2,000
Turan Tovuz Tovuz Tovuz City Stadium 6,800
Ümid Cəlilabad
First round[edit]
Group A[edit]
1 Kapaz 18 13 4 1 48 13 30 Qualification for Play-offs
2 Turan Tovuz 18 12 6 0 34 4 30
3 PFC Neftchi Baku 18 11 5 2 39 11 27
4 Khazar Lankaran 18 8 5 5 23 20 21
5 Pambygchi Barda 18 7 4 7 17 21 18
6 Kur 18 6 6 6 21 25 18
7 Nicat Maştağa 18 7 1 10 23 27 15
8 Avei Agstafa 18 3 5 10 11 26 11 Relegation to 1993-94 Azerbaijan First Division
9 Azneftyag Baku 18 3 2 13 12 33 8
10 Ümid 18 0 2 16 8 56 2
Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Group B[edit]
1 Karabakh Agdam 18 9 7 2 23 11 25 Qualification for Play-offs
2 Khazar Sumgayit 18 11 2 5 29 15 24
3 Daşqın Zaqatala 18 9 3 6 30 22 21 Relegation to 1993-94 Azerbaijan First Division
4 Azeri Baku 18 9 1 8 23 28 19
5 İnşaatçı Baku 18 7 4 7 28 22 18
6 FK Masallı 18 7 3 8 21 24 17
7 Kürmük Qakh 18 6 5 7 25 26 17
8 İnşaatçı Sabirabad 18 5 6 7 21 22 16 Relegation to 1993-94 Azerbaijan First Division
9 Boz Qurd Samukh 18 4 6 8 19 30 14
10 Nefteqaz 18 3 3 12 19 38 9
Home \ Away[1] AVA KAP KHA KUR NEF NMS ABB TAR TUR ÜMD
Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 1993
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Home \ Away[1] AZB BQS DZG INB INS KHS KQU MAS NEQ QAR
Azeri Baku 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 3–2 0–1
Boz Qurd Samukh 2–2 1–2 3–0 1–0 0–2 0–2 0–0 2–1 2–2
Daşqın Zaqatala 2–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–2 4–1 3–1 5–0 2–0
İnşaatçı Baku 4–0 5–1 2–2 0–0 2–0 4–1 3–2 2–1 0–0
İnşaatçı Sabirabad 3–1 3–1 1–2 1–1 3–2 1–1 3–1 3–0 0–0
Khazar Sumgayit 4–1 2–2 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 5–1 3–0 1–0
Kürmük Qakh 4–1 3–0 2–2 2–0 4–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1
FK Masallı 1–0 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 0–0
Nefteqaz 1–2 1–2 3–1 0–3 1–1 1–2 3–0 3–2 1–1
Qarabağ 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 3–0
Championship Play-offs[edit]
Semifinals[edit]
Kapaz
Karabakh Agdam
1 – 0 (a.e.t.)
Turan Tovuz
U.Guseinov 102'
Final[edit]
Y.Guseinov 36'
Season statistics[edit]
Top scorers[edit]
Goals[1]
1 Samir Alakbarov Neftchi 16
2 Gurban Gurbanov Daşqın Zaqatala 11
Nazim Aliyev Khazar Sumgayit 11
4 Mehman Allahverdiyev Gäncä 10
Musa Qurbanov Daşqın Zaqatala 10
6 İmamyar Süleymanov Gäncä 9
7 Fikrət Hüseynov İnşaatçı Baku 8
Alay Bəhramov FK Masallı 8
Fazil Əsədov Khazar Lenkoran 8
10 Məqsəd Yaqubəliyev Turan Tovuz 7
^ "Çempionatın bombardirləri: Top-10 - 1993" (PDF). www.pfl.az. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
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Armageddon (MUD)
Low fantasy MUD
Dan Brumleve, Nasri Hajj, Santiago Zorzopulos, Cat "Sanvean" Rambo, project community
DikuMUD
Platform independent
Low fantasy roleplaying MUD
Armageddon, frequently abbreviated Arm, is a low fantasy MUD – a text-based online role-playing game – set in a desert world called Zalanthas.[1][2] It was founded in 1991[3] by Dan Brumleve, Nasri Hajj, and Santiago Zorzopulos in Urbana, Illinois.[citation needed] It requires its players to focus on role-playing.[2]
1 Setting
1.1 City-States
1.1.1 Allanak
1.1.2 Tuluk
1.2 Outposts and Tribes
1.3 Magickers
1.4 Muls
2 Game characteristics
3 Technical infrastructure
Setting[edit]
Armageddon's login screen
Armageddon's setting began with a heavy influence from Dark Sun, Dune, and other fantasy and science fiction sources, such as The Morgaine Stories by C. J. Cherryh, and Robert Asprin's Thieves' World, but has since grown and evolved.[citation needed] While some of these elements are still part of the campaign, ongoing development is not focused on maintaining a commitment to those influences.[4]
The game world has two city-states called Allanak and Tuluk. The city populaces comprise commoners trying to live from day to day, nobles working to rise in power, and templars, civic officials who enforce the will of the cities' Sorcerer-Kings.[5]
City-States[edit]
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Allanak[edit]
Allanak is the setting's original city-state, and is a class-based society with a long and decadent history. It once ruled the known world, but has since retreated back to its own borders. Allanak's expansion was orchestrated by the game's players, as was the subsequent loss of these territories. For many within Allanak, this collapse went unnoticed amid a self-absorbed orgy of violence and pleasure. Public displays of torture, violent and bloody arena matches, and tremendous indulgences of depravity are typical of Allanak, with the templars exercising power with near impunity.
Tuluk[edit]
The other city-state of Tuluk is a young, energetic caste-based society. Player-influenced events led to the people of Tuluk throwing off the yoke of Allanak's oppression, bringing a sense of growth, expansion, and opportunity that makes Tuluk a center of political maneuvering. Tuluk is ruled with silent oppression, with people who break the law simply disappearing, fostering a secretive and distrustful atmosphere.
During the occupation of Tuluk, the nobles survived by relying on the common caste to hide them. This developed a closeness between castes that survives to the present, with the nobility and the common caste often operating closely together, though social boundaries such as a taboo against sexual contact between the castes remain.
Outposts and Tribes[edit]
Smaller outposts and safe havens exist in Zalanthas, generally struggling to remain independent from the city-states. These communities provide sanctuary from the dangers of the wastes and from the deadly politics and tyranny of Allanak and Tuluk, but typically have harsh and unforgiving local law enforcement. Nomadic tribes have a precarious existence in the wastes, working to survive while fending off beasts, raiders and magickers.
Magickers[edit]
Magickers, those who use arcane powers, are seen with dread, hatred and loathing. Tuluk bans them, while Allanak subjugates their elementalists with gemmed collars; sorcerers are killed mercilessly by either city-state. To survive, magickers must master their respective elements, or in the case of sorcerers, their inherently tremendous well of power. The magick system in Armageddon is robust and extensive, featuring eight distinct magick classes, seven based on elementalism and the eighth on sorcery. Each class employs its respective competency through numerous spells. However, as the setting is low fantasy, the intention is that it should be rare to encounter magickers.
Muls[edit]
Armageddon includes the mul race of human-dwarf crossbreeds found in the Dark Sun setting. They are primarily bred by noble houses as gladiatorial slaves for the arenas of Allanak and Tuluk. Roleplaying guidelines from Armageddon suggest that muls, being sterile, often suffer from a sense of meaninglessness.[6]
Game characteristics[edit]
In a departure from genre convention, there are no levels to be gained in Armageddon; a player character's fighting prowess, like his ability at woodcrafting or bartering, is measured by skills which rise through use, with no explicit statistical measurement provided to the player. "Perma-death" is another major game element; when a player character dies in Armageddon, it is a one-time, permanent matter. These factors are intended to help players focus on roleplaying realistically through giving them a true fear of death and a greater concern for their character's interaction with the world than with a numerical skill percentage.[7]
Players are allowed only one character at a time, with each successive one being tied to a single player account. The account then becomes a sort of personal record, storing staff comments about the player as well as a general measurement of trust called "karma". Karma allows a player to create a character using restricted classes and races, such as magickers and muls.[citation needed]
Players are expected to provide a detailed description for their characters. In a departure from how, in many aspects, Armageddon works to have the game heavily model characters and their interactions rather than relying on human interpretation, descriptions are "flat" text and "their effects are not regulated algorithmically".[6]
Armageddon is unusual in having think and feel commands, which allow one to silently express the thoughts and feelings of their characters without broadcasting them to everyone in the room.[8]
As a result of internal controversy, the MUD has developed player conduct rules regarding cybersex that require prior consent for anyone to roleplay sexual interaction with another player character.[9]
Technical infrastructure[edit]
Armageddon is based on DikuMUD,[2] and is written mainly in C, with elements of JavaScript. It is unusual in being based on a DikuMUD infrastructure rather than one of the MU* systems more typically used for roleplaying-focused MUDs.[citation needed]
In 2006, a major overhaul to Armageddon called Armageddon Reborn was announced. On May 15, 2012 the project was officially cancelled.[10]
Reception[edit]
Armageddon has been praised as a "complex and professional" MUD that facilitates "high caliber role playing".[2]
Over a period of years ranging from 2012 onward, many of the Armageddon MUD veteran players have left, and have expressed their disagreement in what they have identified as unreasonable actions by the MUD's staff team. A separate discussion board centered on discussion without Armageddon's rules controlling the content posted regarding the MUD was founded in early 2013, and it is populated by a number of these veteran players. The discussion board also hosts a sample of these players' complaints.[11]
Points of interest[edit]
In 1994, Armageddon was found to be one of the top 20 destinations for telnet sessions at National Capital Freenet.[12]
The MUD's staff take pride in having a mission statement that describes administrators' accountability and priorities, which include stability, game balance, consistency, and a "Gee-Whiz Factor".[13]
A major contributor to, and evangelist for, Armageddon has been science fiction and fantasy writer Cat "Sanvean" Rambo.[4][8][9][13]
^ Merlini, Marco (1998). Pescatori di anime: nuovi culti e Internet [Fishers of souls: new cults and the Internet] (in Italian). Awerbi. p. 107. Sarà più facile capire come comportarsi al momento supremo, se ci saremo allenati con il gioco di ruolo Armageddon Mud, ambientato in un pianeta post-disastro, deserto e riarso: Zalanthas (http://www.armageddon.org)."
Translation: "It will be easier to understand how to behave at the supreme moment, if we have trained with the role-playing game Armageddon MUD, set in a post-disaster world of parched desert: Zalanthas (http://www.armageddon.org).
^ a b c d Moss, Will; Pantuso, Joe. The Complete Internet Gamer. John Wiley & Sons. p. 141. ISBN 0-471-13787-1. Armageddon is a Mud that takes place on the hostile, desert world of Zalanthas. The game is based on a DikuMud code, but it has a heavy emphasis on role play and character interaction. This is a very challenging Mud to play successfully, and experienced Mudders looking to stretch their skills may want to give it a try. Beginners shouldn't avoid it, but they should be aware of the challenge. Competition between players is normal in this Mud, as even water is a precious commodity. Knowing when not to be hostile will be key to survival as well, of course. This Mud has strict policies for staying in character and communicating out of character [...] The managers of Armageddon are strict, but it has paid off. They maintain a complex and professional Mud where players can participate in high caliber role playing in a large environment. [...]
^ Zorzopulos, Santiago (1992-04-03). "Armageddon DikuMUD.... Play or die". rec.games.mud. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
^ a b Rambo, Cat; "Krrx" (March 2000). "Clans in a Role playing World". Imaginary Realities. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
^ "Armageddon templar help file". The job of a templar is to maintain law in the city which he/she serves or, more precisely, s/he is to carry out the orders of the King.
^ a b Harrell, D. Fox. Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise (eds.). "Toward a Theory of Critical Computing: The Case of Social Identity Representation in Digital Media Applications". Code Drift: Essays in Critical Digital Studies. CTHEORY. For example, the MUD Armageddon features a race called 'Muls', described as 'sterile crossbreeds of dwarves and men, bred almost solely by Templar slavers and nobles for combat in the Arenas of Allanak as well as those of Tuluk.' Players provide their own descriptions such as: [...] The main feature of such flat files is that, while they allow players complete textual freedom within length constraints, their effects are not regulated algorithmically. Hence, MUD informational sites often provide written descriptions of how to perform identity categories such as race or sexual orientation; for example, Muls are provided the following personality guidance for appropriate role-playing: 'being sterile, and thus outside of the typical chain of reproduction, muls often suffer from a sense of meaninglessness.'
^ "Armageddon death help file". We believe that having only one chance at life makes the experience of running the character more intense, realistic, and ultimately more enjoyable.
^ a b Rambo, Cat (January 2000). "I Think, Therefore I Roleplay". Imaginary Realities. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
^ a b Rambo, Cat (2006-05-02). "As Sands Through the Hourglass: The Evolution of Armageddon's Policy on Roleplayed Cybersex". The Escapist. Themis Media (43). Retrieved 2010-09-18.
^ Adhira (2012-05-15). "Armageddon 2.0 Update". Retrieved 2012-05-30.
^ "Armageddon MUD Discussion Board". 2016-06-15.
^ Doheny-Farina, Stephen (1996). The Wired Neighborhood (pbk. ed.). Yale University Press. p. 154. ISBN 0-300-07434-4.
^ a b Rambo, Cat (2006-05-30). "Sponsored by Microsoft and Apple". The Escapist. Themis Media (47). Retrieved 2010-09-18.
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R.E. Mouscron
Royal Excelsior Mouscron
Les Hurlus, Les Frontaliers
1922 (Stade Mouscron, ARA Mouscron)
(merge and registration)
Stade Le Canonnier
Club website
Home colours
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R.E. Mouscron was a Belgian football club from the municipality of Mouscron, Hainaut. In December 2009 they were declared bankrupt and soon ceased to exist. A new club known as Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz was formed in March 2010 and placed in the Belgian Third Division.
3 European record
4 Former coaches
The club was the result of the merger between Stade Mouscron and A.R.A. Mouscron in 1964.
R.E. Mouscron had financial problems during the 2004–05 season and so the president and mayor of Mouscron Jean-Pierre Detremmerie left the club and was replaced by Edward Van Daele. The players with the higher wages were asked to leave the club, as did Marcin Żewłakow, Franky Vandendriessche, Geoffrey Claeys, Koen De Vleeschauwer and Alexandre Teklak.
In late 2009 Manchester City was ready to spend £3million to save R.E. Mouscron from bankruptcy and use them as a feeder club.[1]
On 28 December 2009, Mouscron announced its third forfeit in a row because of enduring financial problems, and was thus, according to Belgian league rules, excluded from competition, with all its previous results in the ongoing competition being scrapped. The club in its current form ceased to exist, with all its players (and staff) becoming free agents.
In March 2010 a successor club was formed with the merging of the bankrupt R.E. Mouscron and R.R.C. Peruwelz. The new club is known as Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz.
Belgian Second Division:
Runners-up (1): 1993–94
Belgian Second Division Final Round:
Winners (1): 1996
Belgian Cup:
Runners-up (2): 2001–02, 2005–06
European record[edit]
As of December 2008.
UEFA Cup 2 8 2 3 3 11 15
1997–98 UEFA Cup 2QR Apollon Limassol 3–0 0–0
1R FC Metz 0–2 1–4
2002–03 UEFA Cup QUAL Fylkir Reykjavik 3–1 1–1
1R Slavia Praha 2–2 1–5
Former coaches[edit]
1990–1995 : André Van Maldeghem
1995–1996 : Georges Leekens
1996–1997 : Georges Leekens, Gil Vandenbrouck
1997–2002 : Hugo Broos
2002–2003 : Lorenzo Staelens
2004–2005 : Philippe Saint-Jean, Geert Broeckaert
2005–2006 : Geert Broeckaert, Paul Put, Gil Vandenbrouck
2006–2007 : Gil Vandenbrouck
2007-12/2008 : Marc Brys
12/2007-06/2009: Enzo Scifo
^ "Man City seek to rescue Excelsior Mouscron". tribalfootball.com. 1 December 2009. Archived from the original on 3 December 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
‹See Tfd›(in French) ‹See Tfd›(in Dutch) Official Website
‹See Tfd›(in English) R.E. Mouscron at UEFA.COM
R.E. Mouscron at EUFO.DE
R.E. Mouscron at Weltfussball.de
R.E. Mouscron at Football Squads.co.uk
R.E. Mouscron at National Football Teams.com
R.E. Mouscron at Football-Lineups.com
R.E. Mouscron – managers
Rixhon (1964–65)
Dubreucq (1965–68)
Pintie (1968–69)
Bigot (1969–71)
Vandooren/Orlans (1971–72)
Desreumaux (1972–73)
Stockman (1973–75)
Baert (1975–76)
Terras (1976–77)
Cornil (1978–80)
Verriest & Baert (1981–82)
Kinsabil (1984–85)
Besengez (1988)
Ellegeert (1988–90)
Van Maldeghem (1990–95)
Leekens (1995–97)
Vandenbrouck (1997)
Broos (1997–2002)
Staelens (2002–03)
Saint-Jean (2004–05)
Broeckaert (2005–06)
Put (2006)
Vandenbrouck (2006–07)
Jacobs (2007)
Brys (2007)
Scifo (2007–09)
Đukić (2009)
Galjé (2009)
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How Writing a TV Show Works
by Winifred Fordham Metz
Television Show Loglines
Now that the concept is on paper, you'll need a logline to make it ready to present to a network. A logline is a one- or two-line synopsis of the concept. It is an essential part of presenting or marketing your idea to the networks and is typically used in tandem with the treatment or script.
The act of composing a logline forces you to condense your thoughts to the bare essentials of what the show is about and why folks will want to watch it. It also allows you to focus on the hook or plot twist. Successful loglines immediately provoke interest and make the network executives envision the show's potential. If they see potential, odds are they will consider it for development.
Many TV execs consider the logline to be the most important element of the development process, and the network often uses some version of it for marketing. In that respect, loglines are considered to be similar to the description of a show you would find in TV Guide.
The TV Writers Vault offers these examples of possible loglines for "The Bachelor" and "American Idol":
"Twenty women will court and compete to win the affections of one man who will narrow the selection until he must decide on his one true love."
"Aspiring singers will compete in a nationwide talent search on live television where they will face the often unfair scrutiny and sarcasm of a panel of judges before one is finally branded the 'American Idol,' receiving a recording contract."
Once you have put all of this together (after many rewrites and read-throughs), you'll need to protect your concept, script or treatment. Most people register it with the Writer's Guild of America, West Registry.
When you're sure everything is pitch-perfect, it's time to try to sell your idea to a network. We'll learn all about that process in an upcoming article. For more information about writing a TV show, check out the links below.
How Television Works
How "Scooby-Doo" Works
How the DHARMA Initiative Works
How the Emmy Awards Work
Inside "Heroes"
How do television ratings work? How do they figure out how many people are watching a show?
If only "Lost" were real -- wait, is it?
TV Writer.com
Writers Guild of America West Registry
Warner Bros. Television Writing Workshop
ABC.com. http://www.abc.com
Cook, Martie. "Write to TV: Out of Your Head and Onto the Screen." Focal Press, 2007.
Epstein, Alex. "Crafty TV Writing : Thinking Iinside the Box." Owl Books, 2006.
Finer, Abby and Deborah Pearlman. "Starting your Television Writing Career: The Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop Guide." Syracuse University Press, 2004.
Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com
NBC.com. http://www.nbc.com
Sandler, Ellen. "The TV Writer's Workbook: a Creative Approach to Television Scripts." Bantam Dell, 2007.
Desi Arnaz: Ricky Ricardo and a TV Pioneer Too
A Short History of How Netflix Won World Domination in Streaming
How U.S. Public Broadcasting Works
Why Do Ads Say 'the Big Game' Instead of 'the Super Bowl'?
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I Am All That Was, Is, and Shall Be, and No Mortal Has Peeked Beneath My Peplum
October 24, 2018 ericlinuskaplan 1 Comment
This deity or mother goddess is not simply many-breasted but infinitely breasted (Isis Multamammia) because every living being, nay every moment, and every particle of spacetime nurses at her body simultaneously.
Who is She? She is all that was, is, and shall be, worshiped in Egypt at the Temple of Sais.
Why has no mortal peeped beneath her peplum (or veil)?
Is it because if you peep beneath her peplum you die?
Is it because it is impossible because mortals are ensnared in time by definition, so if you looked at all that was, is, and shall be at once you would by definition no longer be a mortal?
Is it because if you peep beneath her peplum you become Divine?
Is it because of the incest taboo — she is our mother, so if we look at her naked we find ourselves aroused at our own mother, and this is forbidden?
Or is the incest taboo a dark prefiguration of the ineluctable paradox that we desire to transcend time, but the moment we do we are no longer in time, and therefore desire nothing more than anything else?
Or maybe it is simply a threat to test us.
“No mortal has looked under your peplum, eh Dea Incognita?”
Well, I like a challenge!
Sympathy for Spite
October 12, 2018 ericlinuskaplan 8 Comments
The good-hearted person prefers a situation in which his neighbor has an apple and he has none to one in which neither has an apple. The envious person prefers a situation in which neither he nor his neighbor has an apple to one in which his neighbor has an apple and he does not. The spiteful person prefers a situation in which neither has an apple to one in which he and his neighbor both have apples. The spiteful person is therefore a tough case for the positive person who wants to understand everybody and everybody’s point of view. The positive person wants every interaction to be a win-win but the spiteful person doesn’t like that. For him, if the positive person wins that is a loss. Is this even logical?
Of course it is logical because we can simply say for the spiteful person a win-win is a loss. Therefore the only way to satisfy his desires is to lose to him. If you prove to the spiteful person that you won and he won too, then he has lost. So therefore if you show him how he benefits you, you thereby damage him.
But why would somebody be like that? Maybe he is fed up with me and my goodness and my positivity. Maybe people like me have been oppressing people like him for too long, and he doesn’t want us to have the tasty apple of self-satisfaction. Maybe, in fact, self-satisfaction is precisely what he suspects we most want, more than any of the goods we are supposedly dickering over. He suspects deep down we would rather walk around feeling that we are good and rational than anything else. And he takes that as an injustice and a hurt, and wants to take it away from us. And that makes sense.
The Dog, the Hominid, and the Lion
October 8, 2018 ericlinuskaplan Leave a comment
One fine day in Olduvai Gorge, two and a half million years before the Common Era, a dog and a lion observed a hominid knocking two pebbles together. He was ten meters from the tree where he lived with his small hominid family and although a moment later he looked up to observe the two animals observing his pebble-knocking, the lion was a good deal faster than he was.
A few minutes later as the dog nibbled on some of the scraps from the lion’s recent meal the dog opined “This ain’t good.”
“How so?” asked the lion. “It’s a fine day, we had a good meal. Why, O Dog, art thou always worrying?”
“I’ll tell you. This hominid is developing tools. In a blink of geological time he and his cohorts will use those tools to develop even better tools. The strongest and wiliest of them will kill and rape their weaker brethren. More to the point, they will oppress us.”
The lion yawned, stretched out a paw, and started licking the spaces between the immense claws. “Okay, Dog. You have been prescient in the past, I grant it soothly you may be prescient in times to come. But what boots it foreknowledge without a plan of action?”
“Listen. I will tell my fellow dogs to befriend the hominid. It will be hard for us I know — they will castrate us and pet our heads and do other such indignities and nonsense. But we will as they say make friends with the devil till we cross the bridge.”
“And the lions? What will we do? I don’t imagine we will have to suffer indignities because of the strength of our haunches and the mightiness of our jaws.”
“Keep telling yourself that. But in answer to your question — what will you do? — I answer — sit tight!”
“Mom! Mom! We can’t leave the Earth! We need to go back and get Rags!”
“Charlotte, the Ecological Catastrophe Evacuation Craft won’t wait forever!”
“Really, George! How heartless you are! It won’t take five minutes!”
The craft docked in front of the abandoned mansion for just a moment. The little girl came running in and grabbed her cocker spaniel.
A moment later four immense lions leapt from the bushes, did the needful with their gigantic paws, and boarded the ship.
The hatch pulled up and the the Eco-Cata-Evac-Craft scooted off for the stars. For a moment in the port window a lion and a dog could be observed to high-five.
I Was the God! I Was the Sacrifice!
Thomas De Quincey’s “Confessions of an English Opium Eater” describes a fantasy in which he is involved in some kind of Hindu religious ceremony in which he was the god, he was the priest, he was the sacrifice.
Stop exoticizing the Other, Thomas, you Orientalist Junky you!
How would you like it if there were a drug that made people from other cultures feel like they were in our culture. If they took it they would feel like
“I was the college loan applicant! I was the loan! I was the bank!”
Maybe there is!
If there is it would be mete punishment for De Quincey’s shade to sell it in little envelopes at the edge of town, in the laundry mat, or in the parking lot across the street from the freeway onramp, on a cold winter’s night, when the wind does blow.
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Start Articles Active And Reactive Vehicle Protection Systems
Active And Reactive Vehicle Protection Systems
As anti-armour weapons have become more powerful, armies have reacted by increasing the thickness and resilience of vehicle armour. Modern ammunition, however, destroys even the strongest armour, forcing armies to develop reactive and active protection systems.
The advent of potent shaped-charge warheads and kinetic-energy penetrators (KEPs) capable of defeating very thick armour forced armed forces to rethink their approach to vehicle protection, especially since thicker – and heavier – armour impedes mobility, increases fuel consumption and imposes significant strain on the power train and suspension.
Reactive Protection Systems
Reactive armour (RA) is designed to neutralise the impact of shaped-charge warheads and kinetic penetrators. It can be integrated into the vehicle’s primary armour or employed as modular or applique armour attached over the vehicle’s organic armour. Reactive armour was first patented in West Germany in 1970, but Israel was the first nation to introduce it operationally, deploying RA-equipped M-60 tanks during the Lebanon War of 1982.
There are various categories of reactive armour, including Explosive RA (ERA), Non-Explosive RA (NERA), and Electric/Electromagnetic RA.
Rheinmetall’s ADS active protection system mounted on a LEOPARD 2 MBT (Photo: Rheinmetall)
ERA is composed of high-explosive sandwiched between two armour plates. When a shaped charge strikes the ERA, the warhead’s energy causes the sandwiched explosive to detonate, neutralising the warhead’s energy before it reaches the vehicle’s organic armour. Similarly, the ERA’s explosive force deflects KEPs such as sabot rounds, preventing their penetration of the main armour; heavy ERA can even break the kinetic rods.
Modern anti-tank missiles (ATM) often employ a tandem shaped charge warhead; this consists of a smaller explosive charge at the warhead’s tip, which has the sole purpose of tripping the ERA and exposing the underlying organic armour, and a larger main charge intended to attack the now exposed organic armour. In addition to this vulnerability, explosive armour has the disadvantage that it creates shrapnel, forcing dismounted infantry to remain at a safe distance from the vehicle rather than sheltering in its vicinity.
In place of the high-explosive, NERA employs an inert material such as rubber as liner between the armour plates. The basic principle behind its function – dissipating the warhead’s energy prematurely – is the same as that of ERAs, but non-explosive reactive armour is generally less effective than explosive plates. On the other hand, NERA is lighter and cannot be defeated by tandem warheads.
The IRON CURTAIN APS developed by US firm Artis LLC destroys incoming projectiles only centimetres before impact on the protected vehicle. It was under consideration for the STRYKER IFV, but in 2018 the US Army found that, while generally effective, the IRON CURTAIN did not perform sufficiently well under adverse weather conditions. (Photo: Artis LLC)
Electric or Electromagnetic RA is a comparatively recent concept. It consists of two metal plates separated by a nonconductive buffer. The plates are under a high-voltage charge, forming a capacitor. When a warhead or KEP strikes the outer plate, it penetrates the nonconductive buffer, bringing the two charged plates into contact. The capacitor releases its accumulated energy, repelling or weakening the projectile’s blast or kinetic energy.
Reactive armour is deployed worldwide, especially on heavier armoured vehicles capable of carrying extra weight. Because of the various negative factors – including the burden imposed by the additional weight – it is normally mounted only in high-threat scenarios, such as operations against forces deploying sophisticated anti-tank weapons or IEDs.
The US Army provides a prime example. The organic armour on the ABRAMS M1 MBT is considered among the best in the world, eliminating the need for add-on protection in many cases. However, reactive armour was mounted on ABRAMS tanks as extra protection against IEDs during stabilisation operations in Iraq. In 2017, ERA kits were also sent to armoured units in Germany in reaction to rising tensions with Russia.
An IDF NAMER IFV. The hexagonal radar (one of four) and trapezoidal countermeasure launcher (one of two) are mounted atop and to the rear of the vehicle. (Photo: Ishai Abigail)
The US Army maintains two different ERA systems for the M1; both are designated as ARAT (ABRAMS Reactive Armour Tile) and supplied by GDLS. The brick-like M19 ARAT 1 was introduced in 2006 and is mounted horizontally to defend against vehicle-mounted and man-portable weapons such as RPGs. The M32 ARAT 2 was introduced in 2008 and resembles ceramic roof tiles. The curved shape is better suited to deflecting high-energy ordnance. Unlike the M19, the M32 can be mounted at a downward or upward angle to optimise defence against IEDs or against altitude-launched weapons. The M19 can be mounted alone. Alternately, the M32 can be placed directly over the M19, creating a two-layer ERA system. Importantly, ARAT is designed to only react to high-energy explosive or kinetic weapons; small arms fire will not set off the tiles, so enemies cannot strip a tank of its RA through machine gun fire.
GDLS, in conjunction with Rafael, also supplies separate ERA systems for the M2 BRADLEY Fighting Vehicle System (BFVS Armour Tiles) and for the STRYKER family (STRYKER Reactive Armour Tiles – SRAT II). Introduced in 2014, these rectangular tiles use an insensitive high-energy explosive to counter shaped charge threats, and are lighter than previous ERA applique systems. The BFVS Armoured Tiles are rated against all shoulder-fired and most tube-launched AT-weapons, while SRAT II is optimised for urban settings.
Several European firms are refining their reactive protection systems, hoping to improve performance while minimising negative aspects.
SAAB’s Land Electronic Defence System 50 soft-kill electronic countermeasure system is deployed on the Swedish army’s CV90 combat vehicles. (Photo: SAAB)
Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH has developed CLARA (Composite Lightweight Adaptable Reactive Armour), also known under the German designation HL-Schutz Rad/Kette (“shaped charge defence for wheeled and tracked vehicles”). By utilising composite fibre materials rather than metal or ceramic plates, CLARA reduces the threat posed by shrapnel from detonating ERA blocks. Several variants are produced, with aerial density – defined as the weight of the armoured panel (in grammes per square metre) divided by the protection area of the panel – varying between 70 and 270 kg per square metre. The lowest-density segments provide protection against RPGs, while the strongest variant can stop 30mm sabot rounds. CLARA has deployed on German Army PUMA IFVs and been tested on the MARDER IFV as well as the BOXER APC variant. In late 2017, the United Arab Emirates News Agency released images of UAE LECLERC MBTs equipped with the CLARA system.
Swiss company RUAG has also developed a composite-based ERA. The SidePRO-CE applique armour is applied to the flanks of armoured vehicles to defend against high-energy anti-tank systems (including those with tandem warheads) as well as against KEPs. According to RUAG, the ERA’s explosive reaction is confined to a minimal area, reducing the potential for collateral-inducing shrapnel. Customers include Jordan (M60 PHOENIX MBT).
The sensors and countermeasure launchers of the AFGHANIT hard kill APS are positioned atop the turret of the T-14 MBT. (Photo: Vitaly Kuzmin)
Poland has improved its original ERAWA (Explosive Reactive Armour – Wiśniewski, Adam, named to honour its developer) by introducing the ERAWA 2. The ERAWA 2 contains two explosive charges and is specifically designed to neutralise tandem warheads. There is also a limited capability against KEPs. ERAWA and ERAWA 2 plates are smaller than most ERAs, with each block measuring 15×15 centimetres. This allows for a very tight fit, with minimal gaps between blocks. ERAWA is suitable for medium to lightweight armoured vehicles.
Russia’s third-generation RELIKT ERA introduced in 2006 is deployed on the T-72B, T-80B and T-90AM MBTs as well as the BMPT RAMKA/TERMINATOR fire support vehicle. It consists of a 2 kg explosive tile sandwiched between two metal plates; an inert buffer between the ERA and the organic armour provides additional protection for the tank body. Rectangular ERA boxes protect the flanks and back of the tank, while trapezoidal ERA kits are arrayed around the turret. The manufacturer NII Stali describes RELIKT as twice as effective against shaped charges as the Soviet-era, second-generation Kontakt-5 ERA. It also reduces sabot penetration by 50%.
Russia’s ARMATA T-14 MBT is equipped with MALACHIT explosive reactive armour and the AFGHANIT APS. Details of the MALACHIT ERA remain classified. (Photo: Vitaly Kuzmin)
With the advent of the ARMATA armoured vehicle series, Russia has introduced a fourth-generation ERA designated as MALACHIT. The precise composition of the ERA is not publicly known; Western experts speculate that the plates might be composed of a laminated ceramic composite matrix. The Russian news agency Tass has reported that the ARMATA T-14 MBT will be fully protected not only against Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) but also against tank shells up to a calibre of 150mm.
Active Protection Systems – Hard Kill
Of course this claimed level of protection is not based solely on the performance of the MALACHIT reactive armour. The ARMATA family is also equipped with the AFGHANIT Active Protection System (APS). The AFGHANIT APS includes both electronic or “soft kill” subsystems and kinetic or “hard kill” countermeasures. The former includes an electronic warfare suite to disrupt warhead guidance systems including laser guidance systems. The latter includes interceptor rounds with explosively formed penetrators to physically destroy incoming missiles, grenades and shells. Russian claims that the interceptor rounds can even defeat incoming KEPs are put in question by many western experts.
US Army soldiers apply the ABRAMS Reactive Armour Tile 1 M19 to an ABRAMS MBT in Germany. (Photo: US Army)
Many nations are currently pursuing APS technology, which is defined as the capability to intercept enemy projectiles shortly before impact. An APS is mounted on each individual vehicle and protects only that vehicle. The concept offers numerous benefits: an APS weighs less than additional organic armour or applique armour, and can eliminate the need for bulky slat armour; by stopping incoming ordnance before impact, it minimises concussion of the vehicle and crew, and eliminates the risk of gaps being created in the applique armour through repeated enemy targeting of the same spot. Of course, there are also negative aspects to an APS. Since hard kill systems fire projectiles, there is the risk of collateral damage/victims through shrapnel or if the APS-fired projectile misses its target; since APS countermeasures are only activated immediately before impact, secondary protective measures (such as RA) may still be required in case of APS failure to intercept; APS requires an autonomous on-board battle management system to interface on-board sensors and the actual countermeasure weapons, differentiate threats from non-threats, calculate fire-solutions, choose the optimal weapon from the countermeasure suite, and engage at the optimal time – decisions to be made within fractions of a second. Finally, the APS must not interfere with other on-board systems, either through excessive demand for electricity or through its electromagnetic signals.
Israel has been a pioneer in APS development. Two systems stand out. The TROPHY APS developed by Rafael was declared operational by the Israeli Army in 2009 and first tested in combat in 2011. The original TROPHY, now designated TROPHY-HV (Heavy Vehicle) is designed for medium to heavy combat vehicles; it is currently in use on the MERKAVA MBT and the NAMER Armoured Fighting Vehicle, and it has been successfully integrated on the GDLS LAV III. In June 2018, the US Army awarded Rafael the initial contract to supply the TROPHY APS for the M1 ABRAMS MBT. The German Army has selected TROPHY to protect one LEOPARD 2 tank company to be deployed with the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force as of 2023.
The ABRAMS Reactive Armour Tile 2 (M32) resembles a terracotta roof tile. It is applied over the box-shaped M19 ARAT 1 tiles to create a double layer of defence. (Photo: US Army)
The TROPHY-LV was introduced in 2014 for light and medium vehicles, ranging from 4×4 jeeps to armoured personnel carriers and IFVs. Both variants utilise a 360° Elta EL/M-2133 fire-control radar system for detection and targeting. Two rotating containers atop the vehicle fire 35 metal balls against each incoming missile, rocket or RPG, targeting the warhead. The balls are miniaturised explosively formed projectiles (EFP) which can either disable the incoming weapon – the preferred solution – or cause it to explode prematurely. Both variants offer a hostile fire detection capability to identify the source of incoming fire. Each container has three countermeasure warheads, so that a TROPHY-equipped vehicle can only defeat six incoming projectiles before reloading.
The HV variant is effective against ATGMs, RPGs, recoilless rifles and tank-fired HEAT rounds, but not KEPs. It can react to simultaneous threats from different directions, including projectiles approaching from a high angle. The LV is designed primarily for urban operations and is optimised against RPGs, including those with dual/tandem warheads. The system is easily mounted atop wheeled and tracked vehicles using an integrated roof-rack assembly. In addition to the radar, the LV incorporates electro-optical sensors which trigger the countermeasures when the enemy projectile enters the system’s field of vision.
The IRON FIST APS produced by IMI also comes in different variants optimised for heavy and for medium to light vehicle classes, respectively. It utilises both infrared and radio-frequency sensors for surveillance and targeting. Each Iron Fist has two launchers, with each launcher mounting two tubes. The tubes fire high-energy blast grenades armed with proximity fuses which detonate within 80 centimetres of the incoming projectile; target destruction or deflection is achieved solely through the grenade’s blast wave, without any fragmentation effect. The system is effective against ATGMs, RPGs, recoilless rifles and KEPs. The heavy configuration includes a soft-kill electro-optical and laser jammer as a primary option before deploying the hard-kill projectile. This enables the heavy-vehicle IRON FIST to theoretically engage an unlimited number of incoming threats, in contrast to the purely hard-kill, light-vehicle variant or the TROPHY ASP. The IRON FIST has garnered several export contracts. The Royal Netherlands Army has contracted BAE Systems to integrate the IRON FIST Light Compact (IF-LC) system on its CV9035NL.
A Polish-built Malaysian Army PT-91M PENDEKAR MBT with Polish ERAWA 2 reactive armour. (Photo: mjabb)
IRON FIST Light has entered phase 2 evaluation for the US Army’s BRADLEY IFV, while the Australian Defence Force has asked Rheinmetall to evaluate IRON FIST for use on the BOXER Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle. Other weapon systems being hypothetically paired with the IRON FIST include the GDLS AJAX armoured fighting vehicle and the
BAE CV90.
In 2014, IMI and Rafael agreed to collaborate on development of a next-generation APS integrating the best features of the TROPHY and IRON FIST concepts. Rafael is to act as prime contractor, with IMI and Israel Aerospace Industries as partners.
Several European firms are also pursuing or upgrading APS solutions. Rheinmetall Defence offers the Advanced Modular Armour Protection – Active Defence System (AMAP-ADS). This flexible system can be customised to meet client needs. It provides a dual layer of sensors. According to the manufacturer, the first ring of sensors consists of a multi-frequency radar with planar antenna. This early warning system detects and classifies threats, and enables initial trajectory calculation. It demands only a low level of radiated power, thereby avoiding interference with other radars. The second or inner sensor ring consists of a high-resolution electro-optical system which confirms the radar findings and calculates a more precise estimate of the incoming projectile’s point and time of impact, enabling a fire solution. According to Rheinmetall, initial radar detection takes place 50-200 milliseconds (10-35 metres) before impact, while the optical system acquires incoming ordnance 10 milliseconds or two metres before impact. Hard kill countermeasures deploy only four milliseconds before the hostile warhead’s impact, destroying it at a distance of one metre from the protected vehicle.
This is significantly closer than most APS systems, which tend (on average) to engage at a range of circa ten metres. The difference is that Rheinmetall’s ADS relies fully on directed energy to destroy or divert the incoming warhead; it does not fire any projectile or shrapnel of its own. This eliminates the threat of collateral (except, of course, from the remnants of the incoming weapon). Sensors and countermeasure pods are distributed all around the protected vehicle. Depending on configuration, the entire system adds between 140 and 500 kg of weight, making it suitable for light wheeled vehicles as well as medium to heavy IFVs and MBTs. Since larger projectiles may only be fragmented but not completely stopped by the ADS, some form of organic or applique armour is recommended to ensure full vehicle protection.
At the IDEX 2019 Exposition in Abu Dhabi, Rheinmetall introduced its new Hybrid Protection Module. It combines the ADS with two layers of passive armour components as an integrated module. The ADS sensors are sandwiched between the outer and inner passive armour layers, which protects them against shell fragments and small arms fire. The ADS countermeasure component is embedded within the external armour plate. The individual modules measure 18×15 centimetres and are intended to replace other passive modular armour on the flanks of tracked and wheeled vehicles.
An Indian Army T-90 tank with Russian-made RELIKT-5 reactive armour. (Photo: Cell105)
China’s NORINCO demonstrated its more traditional GL5 APS hard kill system to foreign observers in 2017 and presented it to the general public at the China Air Show in November 2018. As presented, the GL5 consists of four multipurpose millimetre-wave radars distributed for 360° coverage, four countermeasure launcher sets, and a control computer. Each of the four launchers mounts three pods containing high-explosive fragmentation grenades capable of intercepting ATGMs, RPGs and tank-fired HEAT rounds. Intercept range is circa ten metres from the protected vehicle. According to NORINCO, a second grenade can be fired if the first fails to destroy or deflect the incoming projectile. The GL5 is suitable for the full range of vehicles, from light tactical vehicles to MBTs.
Electronic Protection Systems – Soft Kill
While most APS concepts are built around hard kill options to destroy or physically deflect incoming ordnance, some include soft kill options as part of the package. The term “soft kill” is actually misleading, as these systems are not intended to bring down the incoming projectile, but simply to misdirect it so that it flies past the intended target. The Land Electronic Defence System (LEDS) marketed by Saab, for instance, begins with a laser-detection and soft kill suite, adding a hard kill option as an upgrade. Soft kill elements of LEDS include smoke grenades to counter laser guidance systems and dispensing flame retardant foam to alter the vehicle’s infrared and radar signature. MONGOOSE rockets can be added as a hard kill option.
Other soft kill systems are based on electronic warfare or laser technology, and they can include so-called dazzlers to blind optical targeting systems. Such systems have the advantage of a virtually unlimited magazine, while a hard kill APS can engage only a limited number of targets – in some cases as few as four – before reloading. Vehicles mounting both soft and hard kill systems engage first with the former, holding the hard kill weapons as a reserve.
The US Army is planning to include both hard and soft kill capabilities in its Modular APS architecture (MAPS). Still being defined, MAPS will provide a framework for future APS solutions across the vehicle fleet. It is intended to integrate various technologies and systems offered by different manufacturers. In late 2018, the US Army conducted a so-called “Soft Kill Rodeo” to evaluate three contenders for the soft kill component. All three contenders – BAE Systems’ RAVEN Multi-Function Counter-Measure (MFCM), Northrop Grumman’s Multifunction Electro-Optical System (MEOS), and Ariel Photonics’ Colour Light Operational Unit for Deflection (CLOUD) – utilise electronic countermeasures to defeat incoming ATGMs. The MAPS base kit was used to control all three systems during the test.
While all three systems reportedly performed well, the US Army selected the BAE Systems RAVEN MFCM – a derivative of an airborne electronic warfare jamming system – for further evaluation. It will be mounted – together with the MAPS base kit control unit and the hard kill IRON FIST APS – on a BRADLEY IFV for a more challenging layered demonstrator scheduled for July through September of this year. This trial will further evaluate the individual ASPs, but more importantly, it will evaluate the capability of the MAPS controller to integrate and coordinate the hard and soft kill systems effectively.
Sidney E. Dean is President of Transatlantic Euro-American Multimedia LLC. and a regular contributor to ESD.
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Need to learn how to prepare U.S. tax returns for international taxpayers? For example, do you need to report the Section 965 transition tax? Or the new Section 951A GILTI tax? Do you need to file 5471 returns?
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Updated for regulatory guidance provided through November 23, 2018, this roughly 180-page monograph provides actionable information, downloadable worksheets, and practical client organizers you can use to help clients comply with the new international disclosure requirements as well as the complex new international taxes.
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What’s in the Monograph
The monograph breaks down the complex subject of outgoing international taxation into 15 easy-to-digest chapters and 3 useful appendices:
Chapter 1 – Introduction sets the stage for the rest of the monograph by talking about how the monograph organizes its information and approaches the subject matter.
Chapter 2 – The Infamous Worldwide Income Tax explains and discusses the U.S.’s unique conceptual approach to international taxation, which is to tax the worldwide income of its citizens and businesses.
Chapter 3 – Foreign Tax Credit describes how the foreign tax credit works, how it partially eliminates U.S. taxpayers from paying income taxes twice on the same income, and how the key loophole-closing provisions of the foreign tax credit work.
Chapter 4 – Special Rules for Foreign Earned Income reviews how the foreign earned income exclusion works and explains in detail when the foreign earned income exclusion and the related housing exclusion saves U.S. taxpayers from paying U.S. income taxes. A caution? Careless taxpayers regularly use these exclusions when they actually shouldn’t. (Often because they don’t understand the “tax home” concept.)
Chapter 5 – Tax Treaties introduces how tax treaties fit into the U.S. international taxation regime. Tax treaties often have a significant impact on U.S. taxation related to international investments. (Thankfully, however, these treaties often tend to be pretty cookie-cutter.)
Chapter 6 – Currency Conversions provides a quick overview of how to convert foreign currency amounts into U.S. dollar amounts for U.S. tax returns.
Chapter 7 – Understanding Subpart F explains why, when and how some foreign corporation income gets passed through and taxed on a U.S. taxpayers’ U.S. tax return. Practitioners and taxpayers need at least a basic understanding of Subpart F to deal with the new taxes many international U.S. taxpayers now face.
Chapter 8 – Calculating the Section 965 Transition Tax describes the one-time Section 965 transaction tax that blindsided many small businesses in 2017 and 2018. The chapter also explains how practitioners calculate and report this absurdly complicated new tax… or how they amended a tax return and belatedly report the tax.
Note: The Preparing U.S. Tax Returns of International Taxpayers monograph comes with an Excel workbook that supplies the Section 965 worksheets described in and required by IRS Publication 5292.
Chapter 9 – Global Intangible Low-Tax Income (GILTI) discusses and explains the new Section 951A GILTI tax which U.S. taxpayers owning more than 10% of a controlled foreign corporation will now need to pay on their pro rata share of foreign corporation earnings, as well as the new Section 250 Foreign-derived intangible income deduction.
Chapter 10 – Section 962 Elections describes the Section 962 election, how it potentially reduces both the Section 965 transition tax and the Section 951A GILTI tax, and then walks readers through the steps for making the election.
Chapter 11 – Tricky Transactions Using Foreign Entities explains and dissects a number of techniques and tactics that international taxpayers have in the past used to dial down their U.S. tax burden: transfer pricing, covered asset acquisitions, and reportable transactions.
Chapter 12 – Attempts at Propping Up U.S. Exporters briefly discusses most of the important historical gambits that U.S. lawmakers have orchestrated to help multinational businesses—and their current-day legacy and impact. This information can provide useful context for understanding the U.S.’s current approach to international taxpayers.
Chapter 13 – Miscellaneous Issues Related to International Business briefly explains a handful of related important compliance issues, including boycott reporting, customs duties and sanctions. Practitioners with international footprint clients will need to possess a working knowledge of these topics.
Chapter 14 – The Long Saga of U.S. Attempts at Catching Offshore Tax Evasion recounts how the U.S. has historically approached offshore tax evasion and then discusses the current, very effective system the U.S. employs to identify and punish taxpayers who fail to follow the law.
Chapter 15 – Preparing the FinCEN 114 Form and the 8938 Form steps you through the process for preparing the two most common disclosure forms for international taxpayers. (This chapter and the next one should be viewed as supplements to and not replacements for the form instructions.)
Chapter 16 – Preparing the 5471 Forms explains how the 5471 forms work to disclose and document the ownership interests of U.S. taxpayers who own shares in controlled foreign corporations. This complicated set of forms provide the foundation for calculating and reporting the Section 965 transition tax and the Section 951A GILTI tax.
Chapter 17 – A Brief Overview of the Current Reporting Rules quickly wraps up the monograph’s discussion by identifying the different forms used for reporting international tax information and then it also discusses the steps taxpayers and their tax advisers want to take if they’ve goofed up their international tax accounting in the past.
Appendix A – Example 5471 Forms provides a simple example of a set of 5471 forms for a controlled foreign corporation. The example includes the Section 965 transition tax.
Appendix B – Sample International Taxpayer Organizer supplies a recyclable tax organizer that practitioners can use to collect the needed information from their international footprint clients.
Appendix C – Example 5471 Organizer supplies a recyclable tax organizer that practitioners preparing 5471 forms can use to collect needed information for controlled foreign corporations.
CPA Elizabeth C. Nelson is tax manager of a Seattle-area public accounting firm that provides tax accounting services to numerous entrepreneurs and investors with an international footprint. Nelson holds a BS in accounting Western Governors University.
She is the co-author of two other tax monographs: Preparing Form 3115 for the Tangential Property Regulations and Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act, which thousands of CPAs have purchased and read to quickly learn complex new tax statutes and regulations.
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FiveThirtyEight's forecasts for the 2015 World Cup, including each team's WSPI rating and chance of advancing, updated throughout the course of the tournment. The date and time of each update are indicated in the file names. All times are in EDT.
Overall forecasts
Overall forecasts are stored in files named like wwc-forecast-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.csv.
wspi Women's Soccer Power Index
wspi_offense Women's Soccer Power Index offensive rating
wspi_defense Women's Soccer Power Index defensive rating
group_first Chance of coming in first place in the group stage
group_second Chance of coming in second place in the group stage
group_third_advance Chance of coming in third place in the group stage and advancing to the knockout stage
group_third_no_advance Chance of coming in third place in the group stage but not advancing to the knockout stage
group_fourth Chance of coming in fourth place in the group stage
sixteen Chance of advancing to the knockout stage
quarter Chance of advancing to the quarter finals
semi Chance of advancing to the semi-finals
cup Chance of making it to the final game
win Chance of winning the whole thing
Note: These probabilities are based on 20,000 simulations. A win probability of 0.0 doesn't necessarily mean that a team has a zero percent chance of winning the tournament -- it means that the team did not win the tournament in any of the 20,000 simulations.
Match probabilities
Individual match probabilities are stored in files named like wwc-matches-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.csv.
team1_win The probability that team1 will beat team2
tie The probability the game will end in a tie
For the Women's World Cup predictions interactive, click here.
For an explanation of WSPI, click here.
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Flagler Loses Hutson and Lopsided Vote as Vacation Rental Deregulation Advances
FlaglerLive | February 8, 2018
Flagler County Commission Chairman Greg Hansen made the county’s case before the Senate Regulated Industries Committee this afternoon. It did not work.
Last year after a tense and at times snippy hearing an uncomfortable-looking Sen. Travis Hutson, who had chaired the meeting, was among the three dissenters in a 7-3 vote scaling back regulation of vacation rentals. Hutson said his vote reflected Flagler County government’s opposition to the measure. But he was clearly half-hearted about it.
A much more chipper and relaxed Hutson today was in the majority of a more lopsided 9-1 vote as his committee cleared a vacation-rental bill that goes much further than last year’s measure to disarm local government regulations and extend special protections to vacation rentals, essentially making them as sacrosanct as private residential homes and removing them from the regulatory scheme that controls public lodging establishments. Only a state agency, Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, would inspect and regulate vacation rentals, lightly so, with only up to 1 percent of homes potentially inspected each year.
A grandfather clause allowing local governments that passed vacation-rental regulations before 2011 survived, which will benefit Flagler Beach, whose more restrictive ordinance dates to 2008. The Flagler Beach City Commission had become so concerned about losing that regulatory authority that Jane Mealy, who chairs the commission, took the rare step of issuing an open letter to residents urging them to pressure Tallahassee against removing home rule. She won half of what she was asking for.
But Flagler County government has been battling to preserve the 2014 law enacted mostly at its behest, and giving it and other local governments the authority to regulate vacation rentals to some degree. Today’s vote of Hutson’s Regulated Industries Committee, like the vote last week by the Senate Community Affairs Committee, wipes that out.
Sen. Travis Hutson was far more relaxed and jovial this time, compared with when he heard a similar bill in last year’s session. He opposed it then. He approved it today. Click on the image for larger view.
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“A defeat? Yes,” said Al Hadeed, the county attorney who crafted Flagler County’s 2014 ordinance, which became a template for dozens like it around the state—and the reason the vacation-rental industry mobilized to wipe them off the books. “We were not happy at the outcome.” Hadeed had traveled to Tallahassee, as he had repeatedly last year, to oppose the bill. With him today was Greg Hansen, chairman of the county commission. Hansen spoke to Hutson’s committee, but he and Hadeed knew beforehand that they’d already lost Hutson.
Hutson had justified his vote by framing it in the amendment to the bill he submitted, and that the committee approved, by carving out a special exception for homeowner associations, known as HOAs, enabling them to regulate or outright ban vacation rentals if they so choose. Hutson’s amendment, in other words, provides for HOAs the very authority that the bill denies county and city governments, though local governments have not sought to ban vacation rentals, only regulate them. Hutson spoke of his amendment as if it addressed most of his constituents’ previous concerns. As Hansen noted, it did not.
Hansen acknowledged the HOA amendment “goes a long way to make this a better bill,” but he said it remains important for the county to regulate single-family homes that aren’t occupied by homeowners but are let for vacation rentals. The distinction is with owner-occupied vacation rentals used for such things as Airbnb, which the county has no issue with.
“In Flagler County we have regulations where we go in and inspect and they get a certificate of occupancy from us, and we only look at the state building code and fire prevention code. So we want to make sure that the home is safe for renters to occupy,” Hansen said. “When we first started our program, 80 percent of our short-term rental places failed the inspection. We worked with them, and now they’re all in compliance, and we’ve not had a violation since that time.” The 2014 law enabling local regulations helped Flagler, he said, because between 2011 and 2014, the county was receiving “several complaints about nuisances, and it got to where we were getting one a week.” The 2014 legislation, he said, solved the issue, with no complaint filed since then.
While Flagler County authorizes short-term rentals in all its zoning areas, only 120 homes fall under the local ordinance that require them to be inspected.
Sen. Greg Steube, a Sarasota Republican, won the day. Click on the image for larger view.
Sen. Greg Steube, the Sarasota Republican and chief sponsor of the bill scaling back local regulatory authority (now referred to clunkily as CS/SBs 1400 and 1640) ostensibly preserves local authority in some forms. “This bill allows county and cities anything they want to do to regulate noise,” Steube said, “to regulate traffic, to regulate parking, to regulate trash, to regulate how many people you want in a home, so if you want to limit occupancy, if you want to limit how big the houses are in a certain community, you can do that, you just have to pass the law so that it applies uniformly to the entire jurisdiction in that ordinance. So there’s still a lot of flexibility here for the local governments to do the type of things they want to do.”
Steube was referring to the provisions of his bill that give local governments authority to regulate vacation rentals only to the extent that rentals are regulated exactly as private homes would be. A government would be prohibited from applying certain regulations only to vacation rentals, as is the case now with Flagler County’s 120 homes. It could not, for example, require those 120 homeowners to file for a certificate, to let the local government know who is operating the vacation rental, to leave a contact number in case of trouble—unless the local government were imposing the same requirement on all other residential dwellings.
But that, in effect, amounts to a ban on such regulation, Hadeed said, simply because no local government, including Flagler, could possibly regulate all of its residential dwellings homes just to be able to target its vacation rentals. The numbers show why. There may only be 120 vacation rental homes. But after a check with the property appraiser, the number of residential dwellings in unincorporated Flagler County totals more than 8,500. “There is no way to upscale and create a bureaucracy that would supervise 8,500 homes,” Hadeed said. Yet there are valid reasons why vacation rentals should be regulated differently, he said, starting with fire and safety codes.
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Flagler May Lose Vacation Rental Regulations Just 2 Years After Regaining Authority
Ending Long Fight, County Approves Short-Term Rental Regulations–With Grandfather Clause
Flagler Seeks, Flagler Wins: Bill Restoring Vacation-Rental Regulation Authority Passes House and Heads for Scott’s Desk
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The bill drew what at first sounded like significant opposition from at least three members of the Regulated Industries Committee—Sens. Audrey Gibson, whose district in the past briefly included a sliver of Flagler, Perry Thurston and Oscar Branyon, all three Democrats, all three black, all three raising concerns with the lack of discrimination-protection in the proposed bill, but two of the three (Gibson and Thurston) also speaking very favorably of idea behind vacation rentals: they allow families that can’t afford expensive hotel rooms a chance to travel, see the country and enjoy vacations at lesser prices. For that reason, they said, they’d support the bill. Steube stressed that very point in his closing. It was all a reflection of the vacation-rental industry’s sophisticated marketing arm, which has honed its evolving talking points since last year’s failed attempt to change the 2014 law.
Only Dorothy Hukill, the vice chair of the committee and a Volusia County Republican, opposed the bill in the end. She had been absent from the hearing last year, so there’s no recorded vote then. She explained her opposition today. “I am concerned that we have move back and forth on this,” she said. “I really have concerns about how this affects city codes and county codes also, and what the powers that they retain if this bill were to pass. Inspections—there’s so many issues still for me, so unfortunately at this point I’m not going to be able to support the bill.”
Hutson spoke of his role as the original architects of the 2014 law, saying what prompted it had been a long meeting in Flagler about what had been going on in the community. He said it was “specifically within their HOAs”—an exaggeration: HOAs at the time were free to ban or restrict vacation rentals, as they still are now, and the concern in those meetings was as much from residents outside of HOAs as from HOAs worried that they would lose the ability to restrict rentals.
“I think Sen. Steube is actually taking the right approach here of pre-empting everything to the state in the sense of instead of giving everything back and let’s see what is wrong and try and fix it from the state levels,” Hutson said, “let’s take everything to the state, and locals as we go forward through this process, tell us more of what you want us do.” He then took an odd swipe at local governments that have been pressing the safety angle, which would include Flagler, when he said: “I’m confident that not only on the complaint but some of the commercial used space that the state is going to go in there and inspect for some of these fire codes and some of these problems that locals may see. But I will say that I think some of it is kind of gotcha politics, because I’ve not heard from anybody being severely hurt in a vacation rental because of structural or code type issues. So Sen. Steube, thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you for allowing me to put that additional language to protect some of my locals back home.”
The Steube Amendment:
28 Responses for “Flagler Loses Hutson and Lopsided Vote as Vacation Rental Deregulation Advances”
Merrill Shapiro says:
It’s time to replace Hutson as our person in the Florida Senate. He just isn’t working for us!
Layla says:
Senator Hutson, who’s side are you on?
Homer says:
Neither Senator Hutson nor Representative Renner are supportive of the voters’ interests in Flagler County. Do they really think the voters and residents want to lose local control over their neighborhoods or do they just feel that they know what is best for the residents. The best thing we can all do is to work to vote them out of office in the next election so we do not have to deal with their lack of performance in protecting those that sent them there. Representative Renner will need to run this year so we have a chance to get rid of him quickly. As to Senator Hutson, we will need to wait a few year.
Jane Gentile-Youd says:
Watching Hutson, as Chair of Senate Regulated Industries Committee Meeting today acting like an over-confident peacock convinced me that he has got to go. He is clearly a pal of Steube – the number 1 lobbyist for the vacation rental industry damning single family dwellers and hotel, Bed and Breakfasts as well.
He was laughing as if he was just having a good ole time putting the screws to those of us by taking away our rights to local government oversight. Let’s just see their campaign contribution lists the next time they run for office. Sickening – Travis you just got added to my growing list of elected officials who has got to go
Why isn’t Hutson aware of the near drowning in Flagler and the two year old who DID drown in Anna Maria Island? Both short term rentals. Today was a farce. Steube couldn’t do simple math to determine occupancy (he said that is why he became an attorney), and what was said about occupancy contradicts what was passed. (Hint: easy to have 30 people in a house).
As Hutson read appearance cards, it was apparent that the residents opposed unfettered short term rentals, and Airbnb, Homeaway, and apparently realtors are for it. Is that true, those of you who are realtors, or were you misrepresented?
Layla, Hutson made it abundantly clear whose side he is on, and it’s not his constituents’ side.
Fact’s says:
The occupancy levels in these vacation rentals will exceed levels never seen before. It will be a complete nightmare for our residents. 150 square foot rule is absurd. It does not represent the complete rule on occupancy levels. What is missing from the equation using the square footage rule for rooms used for sleeping purposes.That rule states a requirement of 70 square feet required for one occupant and additional 50 square feet required for each additional occupant. So you would require a bedroom to be 10 x 12 for an occupant level of two. It amazes me how they left this part of the law out.
The other occupancy requirement in SB 1400, four person plus two is absurd. A six bedroom home would allow 26 occupants. The Florida Fire Prevention code states that dwellings with occupancies of 16 or more shall be considered hotels. Once again they left this fact out.
This committee is a circus, with the main clown being Senator Hutson. What a bunch of uneducated representatives. I can not believe the comments made by these Senators. Florida is in real trouble.
Our legislators are clueless – they have no idea what they are voting on. Take the occupancy rule that was discussed today in the Regulated Industries Committee. None of them could compute the maximum occupancy of a two bedroom home. How slow can they be. Also, look at the occupancy rule – it says something like a maximum occupancy of 4 plus 2 per sleeping space. What is a sleeping space? And isn’t 4 plus 2 per sleeping space a total of 6 per sleeping space. Maybe they meant 4 per sleeping space plus 2 but that is not what the rule says. So in a 6 bedroom home (assuming that a bedroom is what they meant by “sleeping space”) the total would be 36.
We need to clean house – and lets start with Renner and Hutson.
Percy's mother says:
I would imagine Travis appeared far more relaxed and jovial this time because he’s working for the short-term rental industry, and he knows who butters his bread.
He doesn’t care about “us” (homeowners just looking for some peace in their own homes).
Travis cares about keeping the short-term rental industry happy because that means the $$ will keep flowing into his pockets.
It is much worse then I thought. After reading the amendment on occupancy again. It states that the bedroom occupancy will be based on six occupants per room. This is absolutely insane. As a professional in life safety this will place people’s lives in grave danger. A dwelling with six bedrooms will be allowed to accommodate 36 occupants.
This is not a residential single family home. This is a hotel operation with no regulation. Worse off these dwellings will not be inspected prior to being issued a license by the state. These unregulated dwellings with no owner present will be operating state wide. All the local municipalities without ordinates adopted prior to 2011 will be up for grabs by investors.
Senator Hutson’s statement that HOA’ s and COA’s can prohibit these operations may help people living in those communities but what about the rest of his constituents? Senate Bill 1400 is one of the most dangerous bills introduce this session.
Senator Hutson’s statement that not one person has been injured is not true. This bill will cause additional injuries.
we all know what these political hacks are….It’s just a matter of price.
Another win for the residents of flagler county!!! Regulate me not local government! Give the power back to the local residents to do with their homes as they wish
This doesn’t appear to be a win for anybody but Hutson, Dave, unless of course you own vacation rentals. I think we expect to see vacation rentals in seaside communities like these, but we don’t need to force them on just anybody’s neighborhood. Call me old fashioned, but I think it’s perfectly reasonable for local communities to expect to rule themselves, to set their own regulations and boundaries. What a concept!
Am quite concerned at the disregard coming from both Hutson and Renner on this. Am also amazed that every Steube bill somehow benefits Mr. Steube personally. If that was his motivation for running for elective office, we are in real trouble here in Florida.
Ben Hogarth says:
How do you define irony? A largely Republican district that votes for its representation solely on party affiliation and who are time and again, misrepresented and who’s interests are sold to the highest bidder.
The people of Flagler County voted for this. The Republican Party does not care about the desires of the average person. So I would get used to it if I were a resident and continue voting that way. On this issue and a lot of others.
I believe a lot of money has been flowing from the real estate industry to some of out elected and appointed officials.
WRONG! These are NOT homes. . . they are hotels/motels who should be regulated as such. This is the short termed “commercial” rental industry lining the pockets of our politicians and exploiting loopholes to “commercialize” residential neighborhoods.
Our counties and cities should have the right to “zone” neighborhoods to keep “commercial” and residential districts completely separate, and these small hotels should be required to comply with all safety regulations and pay appropriate taxes.
Hutson. . . who is laughing all the way to the bank. . . needs to be GONE! Vote him out!
https://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Committees/2016-2018/RI/MeetingRecords/Audio_4225.mp3
Audio from the meeting. Listen for yourself. These Senators are not educated on this important subject.
Ben Hogarth, your partisanship is showing. I don’t think that helps the residents here. We clearly have a situation where our state representatives don’t think we deserve the right to make our own regulations. What a concept, home rule! Instead of bitching about it, get your HOAs to start sending letters to Hutson. Hold his feet to the fire. Don’t blame everybody else.
Edith Campins says:
Another Republican ignoring the wishes of the community that elected him. Vote him out.
Did you listen to the audio. It was both sides of the aisle. All of these Senators should be replaced with common sense people that can not be bought.
Layla, I have never pretended to be unbiased or non partisan. My displeasure with the modern Republican Party and its cronyism are well known to my friends, family, and colleagues. This isn’t a slight on all conservative voters or their values, but it is perhaps an honest mans only recourse for such unethical, amoral, and decadent policy propagated by that same party of delegates for the last 30 years… Sure, there are plenty of problems with the Democratic Party right now, but in all of my experiences with the good, bad, and ugly candidates from my political party, their flaws could not possibly compete with the open and shameless corruption we now see on the other side of the aisle.
Senator Hutson has no allegiance to the people of Flagler and “holding his feet to the fire” won’t change much. It may send a signal to Representative Renner, who needs to hold a district seat in order to become a Speaker or the Florida House in a few years, but don’t expect him to go back to the “trade show” and bargain back for a change of vote on this issue or others. His campaign and that of Senator Hutson have most likely already been promised their campaign contributions tied to this vote – or st the very least, been promised an up vote on priorities I’d theirs that trump this issue. Flagler has been sold out to the highest bidder as I stated in my prior comment. Get used to it if you wish to keep voting that way.
The bottom line is Layla, you shouldn’t be concerned with people throwing rocks or insults at your party as if to imply such action defames it… after all, those who live in something built on a stronger foundation than glass need not worry who is casting stones.
More on occupancy. This is extremely dangerous. 2018 House Bill 773 LaRosa states that persons under 18 years old will not be included in the occupancy count. There will be many deaths or serious injuries if this bill gets passed.
So now seven couples, each with two children under 18, can stuff 28 into a 5 bedroom rental. Looks like our Legislators are trying to one up each other in a race to come up with law changes that cause the most havoc to our residential communitiies. The transients will need to put mattresses on the kitchen table, in the bathtubs, etc.
The 20 Lobbyists for Airbnb must be roaming the halls in Tallahassee handing out cash to reward each new bill, and amendment, that gets filed. Our representatives are tripping over each other as they run for the money.
Hard to understand how these bozos get elected and reelected each time they run. La Rosa, and Stuebe need to go.
Here is the text about occupancy in La Rosa’s bill. Will easily add 10 – 15 people/house if those under 18 not considered a person. Everyone happy with this?
509.6051 Occupancy limits.— Vacation rentals shall have a maximum occupancy limit which cannot exceed the total number of persons calculated by assuming there will be no more than two persons per sleeping room plus an additional four persons. For purposes of this section, the term “persons” only includes individuals 18 years of age or older. Individuals under the age of 18 are not included in the calculation of the maximum occupancy limit.
This commissioner is a boob….he was appointed because he knew someone that knew someone….not because he is qualified. We can fix that next election in 2018…vote him OUT and vote for a qualified commissioner that will represent us the voters and tax payers.
Ben, it is none of my concern which party you belong to. I was attempting to point out that action is better than bitching. It is not the stones I was concerned with. It was the constant bitching with no action being taken. The voters are not helpless. Partisanship fixes nothing, but action does.
Do you belong to an HOA. or any civic organization in town? Write a letter to Hutson and have them all sign it. He doesn’t get re-elected WITHOUT THEIR VOTES.
Are you kidding me, children don’t count toward occupancy? So now we can have perhaps 6 adults and an unlimited number of children in each bedroom of a “residential” vacation rental home.
Our legislators do not represent us and need to be held accountable, no matter of party affiliation. Hutson and Renner are clearly voting against their citizens, counties, cities and other local governments.
Why? Must be the deep pockets of the rental industry buying their votes.
People complaining of possible 30 people in a vacation home are being rediculous and really strerching to find a problem
Dave, below is an example of a rental home built by an investor (lives outside of the US). I copied and pasted this bedroom listing from a rental site advertising this entire house…and this is on my street – no stretch – this is reality.
You tell me….two people/bedroom plus 4 (according to the bill) equals 24 people…and kids don’t count in the occupancy. Note it doesn’t even tell you how many beds are in the 10th bedroom.
You tell me how many people might be in that house if it’s a bunch of couples who bring their children with them….
•Bedrooms: 10
•Bedroom #1 (1 King)
•Bedroom #10 (4 Singles)
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IFund Could Also Fuel Android and Java Brew App Development
If you think Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers’ (KPCB) iFund is just an end run by Apple to keep developers and new high profile mobile Internet applications off other platforms, you’re wrong, suggests Matt Murphy, the KPCB partner in Menlo Park, CA charged with running the $100 million dollar investment pool.
Murphy makes it clear that while Kleiner Perkins is strongly behind Apple’s iPhone as “the platform of choice” for the mobile Internet, “There are no conditions whatsoever” that locks an iFund developer to the Apple iPhone,” Mr. Murphy notes. Moreover, “We fully expect companies to support other (smart phone) platforms to address an even larger user base.”
One of the other mobile internet platforms expected to appear in the us domestic market in the coming months is Google’s Android operating system, which could make it’s appearance on handsets sold by US cell network operators by the end of this year. Android and Java Brew are two of the smart phone operating systems that iFund developers could also build applications for Mr.Murphy says.
“We just believe that developers will find the best platform and the most advanced user base on the iPhone, he adds.
Although the priority of KPCB’s iFund is to invest in standalone applications, it’s large enough that it’s mere presence could create the leverage needed to drive the development of new mobile Internet applications and a new generation of smart phones that are designed from the outset for use with voice and internet connectivity.—Jim Forbes 03/28/2008
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Peter Wilmshurst vs Macchiarini cult at The Lancet
Leonid Schneider
On 4 March 2019, The Lancet published a piece of Correspondence, authored by Laureano Molins, head of thoracic surgery at Hospital Clinic Barcelona in Spain. This short letter, hardly noticed by anyone, opened a new chapter in the trachea transplant scandal of the thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. The issue here is the seminal paper Macchiarini et al 2008, which described the first ever trachea transplant using a bioengineered decellularised cadaveric graft. To this day it is being paraded as an example of a success story, even after the scandal of Macchiarini’s deadly plastic tracheas made worldwide news and eventually led to two retractions in Lancet, in particular Jungebluth et al, Lancet 2011. The journal was very reluctant to retract that 2011 paper, and has been fighting tooth and nail to protect Macchiarini et al 2008. Lancet Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton is convinced that he is a victim of a harassment campaign, and that Macchiarini is a perfectly trustworthy medical colleague who just happens to be vilified. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which Horton co-founded, apparently shares this view.
But others don’t, first and foremost the Liverpool-based regenerative medicine researcher Patricia Murray, and the cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst, legendary whistleblower who once saved countless patient lives by taking on Big Pharma and Harvard elites, and even won in court when sued for libel. Murray and Wilmshurst both have been alerting UK authorities and Parliament to the trachea transplant scandal, Wilmshurst took it upon himself to try and convince The Lancet. He failed, but then television came to the rescue, and now the journal started to show signs of surrender:
If the Macchiarini et al 2008 paper does get retracted, its 5-year follow-up study in same journal Gonfiotti et al 2014 must logically follow, also because it is even more fabricated. Both works still serve as a template for new human experiments with trachea transplants, in UK, Russia and probably also elsewhere. Since that first ever transplant in 2008 on patient Claudia Castillo, at least 12 more patients received such cadaveric trachea transplant, from Macchiarini or his collaborators. All but one boy are dead, and Claudia survived because hers was not a trachea replacement, but a bronchus graft. She merely lost a lung where others lost their lives. The boy, Ciaran Lynch, survived due to permanent intensive care and constant stenting of his airways, yet also his case and the relevant Lancet paper Elliott et al, 2013, serve as justification in UK to keep applying this deadly technology to patients.
Because of Wilmshurst’s and Murray’s incessant advocacy, the case of the cadaveric trachea is being reopened, and I will tell you what has been happening behind the curtains. Lancet does not look good there at all, certainly not as a medical journal with patients’ interests in mind.
The Trachea Transplanters of 2008
That 2008 Macchiarini paper in The Lancet kick-started four different careers:
Macchiarini himself, who went on to trachea transplant spree with cadaveric and plastic grafts which left almost everyone dead, in Spain, Italy, Sweden, Russia and USA. Macchiarini lost all his academic affiliations, but he is still adjunct professor at Hannover Medical School (MHH), the German university was involved into 2008 transplant, and has even today only the highest opinion of that Lancet paper.
Martin Birchall, UCL professor and regenerative medicine enthusiast, who regenerated Claudia’s graft in his former veterinary lab in Bristol without telling the authorities. Birchall presently tries to restart his own airway transplant clinical trials after they got suspended or terminated following Murray’s notifications to authorities. Birchall and his partners are responsible for a deadly trachea transplant of their own, on the child patient Shauna Davison in 2012, and they performed another one as compassionate use in 2017, outcome secret.
Philipp Jungebluth, Macchiarini’s student, who prepared the graft and whose award-winning medical dissertation from 2010 at MHH was based on this Lancet paper. In the 2008 publication, Jungebluth pretended to hold a medical doctorate (MD), while in reality he hasn’t even finished his university studies when the paper was published. Such title pretense is criminal in Germany, but Jungebluth is well-supported by German academics and clinicians, and presently continues his career as surgeon. He recently had me sentenced in Berlin court, where the judge educated me that neither Doktor Jungebluth nor Professor Macchiarini ever did anything wrong, certainly not in Spain.
Anthony Hollander, whose fantasy technology of turning bone marrow cells into cartilage served as the rationale for this first ever in-vivo experiment on Claudia and a boon to his company Azellon. Hollander is now Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Liverpool, where Murray works.
The Correspondence piece in The Lancet by Molins from 4 March 2019 went like this:
“In 2008, Macchiarini and colleagues1 described the first patient to be treated with a tissue-engineered airway transplantation, and a 5-year follow-up was communicated by Gonfiotti and colleagues2 in 2014. This patient has since had a left pneumonectomy. Colleagues and I have been monitoring the patient’s progress in the past few years, and at the invitation of the Editors, I here describe the events leading up to the need for surgical treatment and the patient’s current clinical situation.
In June, 2008, the patient received a left main bronchus transplant at the Thoracic Surgery Hospital Clínic, Barcelona University. The patient was followed up in the Department of Thoracic Surgery until March, 2009. 3 weeks after the transplantation, it was necessary to stent the transplanted bronchus because of a homograft collapse. 9 months after transplantation, the patient initiated follow-up in a new institution, and, consequently, we had no further news from her.
In February, 2014, the patient was admitted to the Department of Thoracic Surgery again with acute respiratory failure and total atelectasis of the left lung. Bronchoscopy showed an 80% bronchial collapse. The patient referred that during the previous 5 years, she had been treated with multiple bronchial stents, most of which were bio-absorbable. In this clinical setting, we placed a silicone stent, after which lung re-expansion was achieved.
Since then, however, the patient’s quality of life has not been good; she has needed multiple fibre-optic and interventional rigid bronchoscopies (18 procedures in total) to maintain a relatively open bronchus. The left lung has a very poor function (20% of that expected), and the patient has had repeated bronchial obstructions, with multiple lung infections that required several interventional bronchoscopies, so a more expeditious surgical procedure was indicated. In July, 2016, a transternal left pneumonectomy was done. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged on the eighth postoperative day.
30 months after pneumonectomy, the patient is fully recovered and has not had any other medical events.”
Lancet under siege
That Correspondence is merely a small tip of a huge iceberg. The Lancet has been fighting off critics and even the Hospital Clinic Barcelona for at least 2 years, because the truth would have spoiled its reputation as the publisher of the beautiful seminal trachea transplant paper of 2008. Claudia’s lung test results presented in the paper were simply made up, the graft failed already after 3 weeks the operation, yet Macchiarini and his coauthors wrote in the paper’s abstract:
“The graft immediately provided the recipient with a functional airway, improved her quality of life, and had a normal appearance and mechanical properties at 4 months”.
Antoni Castells, medical director of Hospital Clinic Barcelona, wrote to me on 4 March 2017, exactly 2 years before the Molins letter appeared in The Lancet:
“A research letter explaining clinical evolution of the patient from transplant to year 2016 was submitted to a medical journal but, unfortunately, rejected.”
Castells neither confirmed nor denied if the medical journal might have been The Lancet, but it is the only one which would make sense here. What is known for sure, he contacted The Lancet again in May 2018, as Castells himself wrote to Murray:
“We emailed to The Lancet in middle May; they confirmed its reception but we have not received Editor’s response yet. Our letter included both problems with the pulmonary function tests and patient’s follow-up. With respect to the latter, we specified that “three weeks after the airway transplantation procedure, it was necessary to stent the transplanted bronchus, due to an homograft collapse”.
With respect to where the trachea was regenerated, I honestly can’t ensure it. To the best of our knowledge, we understood it was regenerated mainly in Bristol, but we can not confirm it.
On the other hand, permission to perform the airway transplantation (“trachea homograft treated by bio-molecular engineering”) was granted by Catalan authorities in April 17th, 2008.”
An editorial by Horton from 2015. Never retracted.
Wilmshurst’s letter
On 28 July 2018, Wilmshurst sent a letter to The Lancet’s editor-in-chief Horton, outlining the case for retraction of Macchiarini et al 2008 paper (and by extension, of the 5-year follow up Gonfiotti et al 2013) which described the trachea transplant on Claudia. The letter is available here, it contained followed attachments:
Appendix 1, a FOIA reply from the University of Bristol where they declare to have been informed the operation served “to save the life” of Claudia, something Macchiarini never said. Who postulated that false claim then? Either Birchall, or a bird sang it in a tree. Bristol University also admits to have received patient’s tissue on 1.04.2008, i.e. before an official approval to perform the transplantation was obtained in Spain.
Appendix 2, an official letter from Castells and his Hospital Clinic to Murray, dated 4 May 2018. Castells speaks again of falsified lung function tests and declares that Macchiarini never mentioned any “life threatening risk”. The Hospital Clinic director also states that internal approval for trachea transplant was issued by the hospital’s ethics committee on 2 April 2019 and external approval from Catalan Transplant Organization on 19 April 2008. Which means, the patient was subjected to invasive and painful bone marrow retrieval days or even weeks before an ethics approval was in place.
Appendix 3, translation from a relevant section in the Russian book Megagrant (a Macchiarini biography the man himself dictated his Megagrant manager, Elena Kokurina) where it is narrated how Macchiarini meddled into Claudia’s child custody legal procedure in order to make her agree to a transplant.
Appendix 4, another translated excerpt from the book Megagrant where it is clearly stated that the trachea regeneration process took place in Bristol, something the university found itself unable to confirm after they declared all documentation to be unavailable.
In October 2018, Wilmshurst received a reply from Horton. It contained an attachment, a summary of the recommendations Horton received from COPE on the Macchiarini affair. Horton specifically pointed Wilmshurst to the first sentence in this letter:
The journal should resist being stampeded into a quick decision and should not be pressured to action by threats. Just because an author’s work has been found to be ethically compromised, that does not necessarily mean that every paper from that period is compromised. It also does not mean that earlier work was necessarily compromised.
That may, or may not, be the case. The journal needs to ensure that the concerns are valid and substantiated for these papers as well. The only course of action is due process, where all the information is given to competent third parties to assess, and that takes time. Does the journal know if the institution investigated the other papers as well? Did the institution disagree with the statement from the clinic?
According to the COPE Whistleblower flowchart (https://publicationethics.org/files/RespondingToWhistleblowers_ConcernsRaisedDirectly.pdf), the journal would clarify in detail the specific evidence to support the claims. Are the two papers in question directly related to the retracted papers and the previous reason for retraction (for example, same flawed study, same patient, same dataset, same study that did not have approval, undeclared conflict of interest, no consent?) or is this a new complaints, such as image manipulation? Just having authors in common is not enough, so the specific reason/s for suspicion would need to be documented and relayed to the institution/employer (the university not the hospital), following the Suspected Ethical Problem flowchart (https://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical%20problem.pdf although the flowchart refers to submission step only rather than post publication). It is possible the new cases are directly related to other retractions from other journals, so the whistleblower would need to clarify if that is the case. If the corresponding author was fired, the institution can deal with contacting that person or a coauthor.
According to the Suspected Ethical Problem flowchart, if the response from the institution is unsatisfactory, the next step would be to refer the case to other authorities.
The journal could retract the articles even without a finding by the institution in Spain if they are satisfied they have done due diligence as described above. The journal would have to be very transparent with their retraction notice.
Nobody threatened Horton, but apparently this Elsevier snowflake, accustomed to have his bum constantly pampered, felt that a polite but determined letter from Wilmshurst constituted a threat, and so felt Horton’s protective colleagues at COPE. Mind you, one very rarely sees anyone openly side with Macchiarini (though some German editors at Karger recently did), but here you have COPE advising against thinking bad of that great Italian surgeon and pioneer of regenerative medicine.
COPE’s revenge?
Wilmshurst is COPE member since 1997 and on 31 October 2018, two days after including COPE in one of his emails to Horton, he decided to raise this issue at the upcoming COPE online meeting scheduled on 5 November 2018. When trying to log in, Wilmshurst received this message:
“Your registration for the COPE Forum on Monday 5 November, 4pm, was denied. We thank you for your interest in COPE but the Forum is available to members only.”
Wilmshurst wrote to COPE administrator Natalie Ridgeway, explaining:
“Your records should show that I have been a member of COPE since it was founded in 1997, that I wrote the first drafts of some of its guidelines, that I chaired and lectured at some meetings and I have continued to receive emails and news from COPE until now. I registered for the webinar on 5th November after an email from COPE on 30th October invited me to register.”
COPE administrator Linda Gough educated Wilmshurst then:
“The COPE Forum is for COPE members only. According to our records, you are not a member of COPE”
On 3 November 2018, Wilmshurst explained to Gough that he is very much COPE member, in fact one of the founding ones, author of the first COPE guidelines and co-chair of a COPE meeting on whistleblowing. On 5 November Wilmshurst was informed by Ridgeway:
“We are aware of your previous involvement and the important contributions you made to COPE when COPE first began and during its subsequent years. However, in 2015 COPE underwent a major change in its governance structure, which was approved by its members at that year’s AGM, and one part of that change saw the removal of the honorary membership role. Hence I’m afraid you are not an official member of COPE […]
We strongly refute any implication that the timing of this response is any way connected to your email to Richard Horton, which we have in fact not seen.”
Ridgeway however eventually confirmed to Wilmshurst that COPE did advise The Lancet on the Macchiarini issue, confidentially, and therefore refused to share the full communication:
“The Lancet asked COPE for advice on 7 September. The case as presented to us was circulated to Council for their comments on 10 September and advice was sent to The Lancet on 14 September.”
Non peer-reviewed blogs
On 13 November 2018, The Lancet Editor-in-Chief Horton wrote to Wilmshurst:
“Dear Peter – We have now received replies from Spain and COPE, and we have assessed what actions we should take. We do not find any sound reason to retract the 2008 paper. Disappointingly, most of your reference sources are from non peer-reviewed blogs, books, and letters. As with research papers, we try to base our decisions on peer-reviewed publications and institutional reviews. Regarding the 2014 follow-up paper, there are several issues about which we are seeking further clarification. When we have the answers to these questions, we will be in touch again.”
The Gonfiotti et al 2014 follow-up paper might actually remain standing even if Macchiarini et al 2008 original gets retracted, if Horton insists on a green light from the responsible institution, which in this case is in Italy. After the adventurous surgeon was kicked out of Hospital Clinic in 2009 (one reason might be his continues secret and illegal experiments with trachea transplants on patients), he went to Careggi University Hospital in Florence. Between 2010 and 2013, Claudia had to regularly travel from Barcelona to Florence (it seems Macchiarini paid the trips privately, don’t ask) for examinations. At least 5 patients received a trachea transplant form Macchiarini at Careggi, all are dead. However, the last thing that hospital wishes to do, is to speak about that. One reason might be that the governor of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, is a big fan of Macchiarini’s, even now. The new head of thoracic surgery at Careggi, Luca Voltolini said this In August 2017 about Macchiarini’s local partners in Claudia’s case and the 5 trachea transplants, Massimo Jaus and Alessandro Gonfiotti:
“It is not for me to judge these cases, but I am extremely convinced that it must be made light. As for the two doctors you mentioned, the first one moved from Careggi to Rome before I got there. The second, from the time I am hare, was professionally impeccable.”
Five dead, one mutilated, doctors professionally impeccable. No wonder Macchiarini and the impeccable Gonfiotti later served as expert witnesses in Jungebluth’s court trial against me in Berlin. The judge highly valued their opinion, all my evidence was dismissed as fake or irrelevant. In any case, you now see that Careggi closed ranks behind Gonfiotti and even Macchiarini. The Lancet can rely on Careggi not to say a single critical word about the carnage Macchiarini caused there, or that outrageous Gonfiotti et al 2014 paper which paraded Claudia as completely cured and rehabilitated while she was constantly suffering and almost died because of that failed bronchus transplant. Dead patients mean nothing to medical elites concerned about their “reputation” and money streams. Which is exactly why The Lancet constantly takes sides with its authors against the patients.
Wilmshurst wrote back to Horton 2 days later explaining his un-peer-reviewed references to my blog and other sources:
“You state “most of (my) reference sources are from non-peer reviewed blogs, books and letters”. It is true that 6 of the 33 references cited were blogs and one was a book. The blogger is molecular cell biologist who has worked for 13 years in stem cell and cancer research. He is multilingual and has read the documents that are less accessible to those of us that rely on English and he has communicated directly with some of those involved in the tracheal transplantation research. None of the 33 references was a letter, although there was a letter in the four appendices (see below). The remaining 26 references were not blogs, books or letters. They included two reports of institutional investigations, two sets of evidence to the UK Parliament, 8 articles in peer review journals, one grant application, one report on research to the funder, one PhD thesis, four on-line lectures by those involved in this research (at Innovation in Healthcare, the RSM, University of Oxford and Sacramento State University), one reference to the UCL website and two reports on Pubpeer. I would not consider any of those to be low quality evidence for a journal. The remaining 4 references were news reports. You may have a low opinion of the evidential value of news reports, but it was news reports by Brian Deer that exposed the fact that Andrew Wakefield had hoodwinked the Lancet and its peer reviewers over MMR vaccine and autism.
Of the four appendices, two were extracts from a book that is not in English and you were supplied with translations for your convenience. One of the remaining two appendices was a letter from Dr Castells, which clearly is relevant, because he is the Director of the Hospital Clinic Barcelona where the airway transplantation took place. The other was the response to a Freedom of Information request from the University of Bristol, where the transplanted trachea was prepared for the patient described in the 2008 paper. […]
The summary of the 2008 paper reports findings in two sentences. The first says “The graft immediately provided the recipient with a functioning airway, improved her quality of life, and had a normal appearance and mechanical properties at 4 months.” Dr Castells sent an email to Prof Murray (Liverpool University) in which he said that in his May 2018 email to the Lancet he had specifically informed you that it was clear after a review of the case notes that there was a problem with the reporting of both lung function tests and patient follow up in the 2008 paper. He says that with respect to the latter he specified that “three weeks after the airway transplantation procedure, it was necessary to stent the transplanted bronchus, due to an homograft collapse.” So how could it have had normal appearance and mechanical properties at 4 months. This means that the first of the two sentences in the findings in the abstract is also false.”
Parliament vs Lancet
The experienced whistleblower Wilmshurst then brought the matter to the attention of the UK Parliament, Science and Technology Committee. On 15 January 2018, the Committee chairs asked The Lancet to address Wilmshurst’s concern, via an official letter. Here it should be pointed out that not only are journal’s editorial offices based in London, it is also tightly intertwined with UCL, a public university. For example, Lancet and UCL have a joint commission on stem cells and regenerative medicine, and Birchall is a board member there, together with another UCL trachea transplanter, Paolo De Coppi. Because of earlier parliamentary Committee’s investigations into UCL trachea transplants (prompted by Murray), the Chairpersons wanted to know what The Lancet was up to.
On 25 January 2019, Horton sent this reply to the Science and Technology Committee:
“Many thanks for your inquiry. As you know, The Lancet is a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and we take our ethical responsibilities concerning research very seriously indeed. That commitment includes our responsibilities to authors, as well as our responsibilities to readers and the public.
You may also know that we have already retracted two of Paulo Macchiarini’s papers.
On the issue of the papers cited by Peter Wilmshurst, the advice we have received from the Committee on Publication Ethics recommends that we must not assume that evidence of past misconduct always indicates misconduct in other cases. Each case, and in this instance each paper, must be subject to its own consideration and investigation.
Regarding the papers Dr Wilmshurst refers to we are, of course, unable to access the patient records ourselves. As is usual practice in such situations, we asked the host institution to investigate the allegations. They have reported back to us that all ethical requirements for the clinical aspects of the work have been appropriately fulfilled. Dr Wilmshurst has been informed of the conclusion from this report.
Based on the evidence we have received so far, we believe that there is insufficient grounds to retract these papers.”
It is ironic that there is another Lancet paper on the topic of regenerative medicine, and in that case, the journal was informed by the University of Gothenburg that the ethics approval was fake, the authors lied about having obtained it. That study also contains manipulated data, and the authors Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson and Michael Olausson, were found guilty of research misconduct. by the University of Gothenburg. Nothing happened to that Olausson et al 2012 paper or ever will. Incidentally, the authors are former Macchiarini collaborators and performed their own trachea transplant, patient died right after.
On 5.03.2019, Lancet‘s Senior Executive Editor (and former COPE Vice-Chair) Sabine Kleinert wrote to Wilmshurst:
“Just to clarify, in his response Richard referred to the summary conclusion by Antoni Castells to Professor Murray (in your Appendix 2):
“Upon reviewing all information and after verification of the original documents and records supporting the study, we concluded that there is not enough ground to ask The Lancet for retraction of the article”. We have further verified this statement with Dr Castells.
However, as part of our continuing investigation we have asked the UK- based authors of the original paper to respond to the Newsnight report from last week and the concerns that you had raised with us in July. We had also invited the most-up-to date information on the patient, which was published in a corresponding letter yesterday (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736
(19)30485-4/fulltext).”
The UK-based authors are obviously primarily Birchall and Hollander. Birchall and his UCL will sure oppose any action on that paper, given how much money they made and also plan to earn with airway transplants. Hollander’s stance is not clear (btw, he once openly admitted that the 2008 trachea transplant was performed without any animal testing whatsoever).
Kleinert sent a similarly-worded statement to UK Parliament, Science & Technology Committee, on 14 March 2019, it was a reply to the Committee chairman’s comment to Horton that
“Your response does not give me any confidence that this issue is being handled appropriately, or with sufficient urgency. More broadly it underlines the Science and Technology Committee’s recommendation that a new national committee on research integrity is needed to improve public confidence in this area.
The risk for human health of mis-reported patient outcomes surely means that there is a need for the Lancet to be proactive on this issue. While it may be tempting to pass all responsibility back to the host institution, I would have thought that you owe a duty to the readers of the Lancet to ensure that problems such as this are actively pursued.
The Lancet has faced criticism in the past about failure to retract unreliable research in a timely manner. Lives are genuinely at risk if inaccurate research is allowed to persist in the published record without at least a ‘statement of concern’ from the publisher”.
On 13 March 2019, Kleinert, Horton, the Science & Technology Committee Chairs and COPE received a letter from Wilmshurst, quote:
“I believe that the Lancet has acted and continues to act in a totally unethical manner and has been prepared to put the lives of patients at risk in an attempt to preserve the reputations of the journal and its employees and associates. I am also concerned that the Lancet has attempted to deceive Parliament as well as doctors and their patients.
Thank you for sending the link to the letter by Dr Molins. Dr Molins confirms that the transplanted airway in Claudia Castillo, the patient described in the 2008 Lancet report by Macchiarini et al (Lancet 2008;372:2023-30), collapsed 3 weeks after the operation and needed to have a stent implanted. The Lancet has known this for 9 months, but delayed making it public until forced to do so when, two weeks ago, Newsnight and Norman Lamb MP exposed your inaction. Now the Lancet seems to be trying to get away with making a partial correction rather than retracting the fraud by asking Dr Molins to submit a letter for publication. […]
Concealment in the 2008 Lancet article that Claudia Castillo’s transplanted airway required a stent when it collapsed 3 weeks after the operation was a disaster for other patients that had transplanted airways without a stent and who died when the transplants they received collapsed (e.g.15 years old Shauna Davison, who suffocated
2 weeks after her tracheal transplantation at Great Ormond Street Hospital).
The letter by Dr Molins does not correct all the errors in the 2008 paper known to the Lancet. For example, the letter does not mention the fact that Claudia Castillo’s lung function did not improve after the airway transplantation. […]
In conclusion, a known research fraudster wrote the 2008 Lancet paper. You have clear evidence of serious errors in the paper that put patients at risk and which are so major that it is impossible to believe that those errors were the result of honest mistakes. The Lancet should not have attempted to save face by inviting submission and publication of a letter from Dr Molins correcting one of the errors, when you know that there are other errors. I cannot help wondering whether the reason that the Lancet is so unwilling to concede that research fraud occurred is that some of the members of the Lancet commission on stem cells and regenerative medicine were co-workers with Macchiarini on his airway transplant research. If, as it appears to me, Dr Horton’s letter was an attempt to mislead Parliament he should consider his position at the Lancet.”
Indeed, what if the Macchiarini affair becomes the final straw for Horton as The Lancet‘s gatekeeping Editor-in-Chief? What else on non-peer-reviewed information must come out before academic and medical colleagues distance themselves from Macchiarini, Birchall, Jungebluth and other trachea transplanters? At which point will human lives matter more than doctors’ careers?
Categories: Academic Publishing, medicine
Tags: data manipulation, Elsevier, Lancet, Martin Birchall, medicine, Paolo Macchiarini, Patricia Murray, politics, regenerative medicine, stem cells, United Kingdom
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Oil Looks To Reignite Rally on OPEC, Storm Barry and Iran Tensions By Investing.com
July 11, 2019 - by admin
© Reuters.
By Barani Krishnan
Investing.com – OPEC keeps pointing to Big Bad Shale as a reason to keep cutting production beyond 2020.
And fears of storm damage to oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico along with Britain’s unexpected emergence as Iran’s new enemy in the Tehran’s sanctions drama briefly drove crude prices to seven-week highs Thursday before the market paused for a breather.
New York-traded was down 3 cents, or 0.1%, at $60.40 per barrel by 1:15 PM ET (17:15 GMT), after shooting earlier to $60.93, its highest since May 23.
London-traded , the benchmark for oil outside of the U.S., slipped by 29 cents, or 0.4%, to $66.72. It rose to $67.64 earlier, its highest intraday high since May 30.
Week-to-date, WTI is up 5% while Brent is higher by almost 4%. On Wednesday, both benchmarks enjoyed 4.5% rallies. For the year, U.S. crude is showing a 33% hike and its U.K. peer a 24% gain.
Oil’s latest spike came after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps 40% of the world’s oil, estimated in its July report released on Thursday that it will be producing about 560,000 barrels per day more than needed by next year, no thanks to the continued surge in U.S. shale oil output.
The report meant that the Saudi-led OPEC and its key non-member ally Russia, will be cutting production indefinitely after agreeing just last week to review in March 2020 ongoing output reductions.
“Even if OPEC ends up believing that shale oil production will decline, they are not taking any chances. They have been burned before,” prominent energy analyst Anas Alhajji said via Twitter.
OPEC is “going to take the highest production growth out there” to figure out its response in output, Alhajji added. “If shale doesn’t deliver, they will love it. If it does deliver, they are safe.”
On the storm watch end, U.S. oil producers cut nearly a third of the crude output from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Barry, which was headed for an already water-logged New Orleans, where it was forecast to make landfall by late Friday or early Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2019 season.
On the Middle East’s high seas, Iran reportedly attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf in a tit-for-tat for last week’s arrest of an Iranian VLCC by U.K. forces in Gibraltar, CNN reported. The attempt was thwarted by a British warship which warned the Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats away, the report said. Tehran denied the entire affair.
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TinCaps Game Notes: April 8 vs. Bowling Green (Game 3)
Fort Wayne TinCaps (1-1) vs. Bowling Green Hot Rods (1-1)
RHP Austin Smith vs. RHP Peter Bayer
Saturday, April 8, 2017— Parkview Field — First Pitch 6:05 p.m. — Game 3
LAST NIGHT: After a 4-1 opening night win, the TinCaps fell to the Hot Rods, 6-4, in Bowling Green. Fort Wayne held leads of 1-0 and 3-2 with a first-inning RBI single from right fielder Jorge Oña and a fourth-inning 2-run homer from designated hitter Brad Zunica. But the Hot Rods put up pairs of runs in the third, fourth, and sixth, respectively. The TinCaps chipped into their deficit in the eighth when G.K. Young hit an RBI triple. The 3 hour, 25-minute game was marred by 12 combined walks, plus 2 hit batters.
PARKVIEW FIELD OPENER: Tonight begins year 9 for the TinCaps in Downtown Fort Wayne. This is the franchise’s 25th season overall. Since moving into Parkview Field, the TinCaps are 5-3 in home openers, including a 9-5 win over Lake County on April 7 last year.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES: The temperature at first pitch for Parkview Field’s Opening Day last year was 36°. The morning of the game the field was covered in snow.
YOUTH MOVEMENT: At 17, Eguy (Eggy) Rosario is not only the youngest TinCap and not only the youngest in the Midwest League, but the youngest player in all of Minor League Baseball right now (according to Baseball America). Reinaldo Ilarraza is the 4th youngest in the MWL, while Fernando Tatis Jr. checks in at 5th, Hudson Potts 7th, and Jack Suwinski 10th. They’re all 18.
STRIKEOUTS APLENTY: Through the first 2 games of the season, TinCaps pitchers have recorded 29 strikeouts, while Hot Rods pitchers have racked up 32 Ks.
BIG BRAD: Brad Zunica, who led the TinCaps with 14 home runs last year (tied for 6th most in MWL), launched his first long ball of the season last night and also doubled. Zunica homered in each of the first 2 games at Parkview Field in 2016.
OÑA ON TRACK: Right fielder Jorge Oña is the first TinCap this season to 3 hits, as well as 3 RBIs.
SUWINSKI SETS TABLE: Left fielder Jack Suwinski has 2 hits and 3 walks as the leadoff hitter through 2 games — good for a .556 on-base percentage.
THE OTHER GUYS: Bowling Green’s roster features the following Top 30 Tampa Bay Rays prospects, per MLB.com… OF Josh Lowe (No. 6), OF Jesus Sanchez (No. 7), OF Garrett Whitley (No. 11), SS Lucius Fox (No. 13), and 3B/SS Adrian Rondon (No. 14).
PADRES ON DECK: The TinCaps will wear white Padres jerseys tomorrow and for every Sunday home game this season.
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Carmina Burana, Wheel of fortune, Enneagram ;)
eBrain
What I am reading (Dunces) make me think about the Wheel of Fortune; just see what I've found in Wiki:
Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
status is bad,
well-being is vain
always may melt away,
shadowy
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
bare backed
I bear your villainy.
The wheel is turned by Fortuna;
I go down, demeaned;
another is carried to the height;
far too high up
sits the king at the summit -
let him beware ruin!
for under the axis is written
Queen Hecuba
Eh ;) Queen Donna, keep the wheel rolling ;)
What I am reading (Dunces) make me think about the Wheel of Fortune; just see what I've found in Wiki: Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, status is bad, well-being is vain always may melt away, shadowy and veiled you plague me too; now through the game bare backed I bear your villainy. . . . . . . . . . The wheel is turned by Fortuna; I go down, demeaned; another is carried to the height; far too high up sits the king at the summit - let him beware ruin! for under the axis is written Queen Hecuba Eh ;) Queen Donna, keep the wheel rolling ;)
Queen Hecuba - wow, you quote pretty ancient and venerable stuff here - Homer and Ilias. The wailing of Queen Hecuba was once quoted in the play of Hamlet.
Hecuba - what is she to him, what's he to her
That he should cry for her?
(no verbatim citation)
'He' is an actor who performed the wailing of Hecuba
for Hamlet and bursted out in tears on stage, so vividly could he transpose his role.
Hecuba was the Queen of Troy, once blessed with conjugal bliss and a happy mother of many. But the siege and conquest of Troy and the sacking of the town by the Greeks (Odysseus) killed her hubby and deprived her of all her children. The famous wailing expresses her grief and pain. She became the epitome for all the suffering women had to bear because of war.
Queen Hecuba - wow, you quote pretty ancient and venerable stuff here - Homer and Ilias. The wailing of Queen Hecuba was once quoted in the play of Hamlet. Hecuba - what is she to him, what's he to her That he should cry for her? (no verbatim citation) 'He' is an actor who performed the wailing of Hecuba for Hamlet and bursted out in tears on stage, so vividly could he transpose his role. Hecuba was the Queen of Troy, once blessed with conjugal bliss and a happy mother of many. But the siege and conquest of Troy and the sacking of the town by the Greeks (Odysseus) killed her hubby and deprived her of all her children. The famous wailing expresses her grief and pain. She became the epitome for all the suffering women had to bear because of war.
It seems, Mrs Moa, that you have time to waste going to the beach. Then I suggest that you stop your car near a farm and observe the farmer with a wheelbarrow carrying manure. Then you will see the wheel : it is a real and active way of keeping the wheel rolling...
Well, that point has something to it.
Sophie, it's nothing against you, I am not critizing you - I mean the general point.
We're living in times, in which alas hard physical work is much less appreciated and valued than it should be. 'Real' work, how it is called, is not very attractive anymore - even though it's still very important. And people, who still do that 'dirty' work are not only underpaid, they even get less attention and appreciation than white-collar workers and some so-called 'artists'.
I don't know. Sometimes I think: In what crazy times we life.
Acting in movies, writing books, showmanship are more attractive - and actors and writers are much more valued and paid than real hard working people.
It's nothing against art and artists, not at all, but sometimes I have the impression that being an artist in any way whatsover is a goal for some people who have no talent and only want to escape reality and, in their view, a trite existence as commonplace workers or simple employees. A kind of self-fulfillment. As if there could be no self-fulfillment and content in being a simple employee, doing something for the community. That's my point.
Well, that point has something to it. Sophie, it's nothing against you, I am not critizing you - I mean the general point. We're living in times, in which alas hard physical work is much less appreciated and valued than it should be. 'Real' work, how it is called, is not very attractive anymore - even though it's still very important. And people, who still do that 'dirty' work are not only underpaid, they even get less attention and appreciation than white-collar workers and some so-called 'artists'. I don't know. Sometimes I think: In what crazy times we life. Acting in movies, writing books, showmanship are more attractive - and actors and writers are much more valued and paid than real hard working people. It's nothing against art and artists, not at all, but sometimes I have the impression that being an artist in any way whatsover is a goal for some people who have no talent and only want to escape reality and, in their view, a trite existence as commonplace workers or simple employees. A kind of self-fulfillment. As if there could be no self-fulfillment and content in being a simple employee, doing something for the community. That's my point.
We have the wheel, we have Peirce's Arrow (see GG Users topic), are we going to the moon again ?
Are we going to the moon again?
It could be. And I hope we will do. Engaging in a common, international endeavor to visit the moon again is any way better and unifying than waging childish religious wars on earth and pondering how the prepare the next financial collapse.
Even though the last and first mond landing was a by-product of a cold war and extremely national, it was at any rate a propulsion for scientific, technical interest among the generation which was young back then. The moon landing in 1969 must have been a roiling event for those who were lucky enough to experience it consciously back then.
I, pesonally, in those days, was still liquid. ;)
Are we going to the moon again? It could be. And I hope we will do. Engaging in a common, international endeavor to visit the moon again is any way better and unifying than waging childish religious wars on earth and pondering how the prepare the next financial collapse. Even though the last and first mond landing was a by-product of a cold war and extremely national, it was at any rate a propulsion for scientific, technical interest among the generation which was young back then. The moon landing in 1969 must have been a roiling event for those who were lucky enough to experience it consciously back then. I, pesonally, in those days, was still liquid. ;)
capablanca
From Alumnus Alumni:
My concept of the ministry only says No W once again. The Lunokhod Rovers've already looked for the black magic woman on the moon. There is no magic fairy, this wheels on fire were rolling down the road for god and all. And the so-called man in the moon is only the last sucker, as always. Don't worry Prof Alumnussi, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel. In spite of Peirce's Arrow, Jehova built my Hot Rod!
What a wonderful world - God save the moron,
[blockquote]From Alumnus Alumni: We have the wheel, we have Peirce's Arrow (see GG Users topic), are we going to the moon again ?[/blockquote] My concept of the ministry only says No W once again. The Lunokhod Rovers've already looked for the black magic woman on the moon. There is no magic fairy, this wheels on fire were rolling down the road for god and all. And the so-called man in the moon is only the last sucker, as always. Don't worry Prof Alumnussi, keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel. In spite of Peirce's Arrow, Jehova built my Hot Rod! What a wonderful world - God save the moron, Capablanca
I like the Wheel of Fortune as a comparison of life cycle very much : some desperate let them fall from the wheel, some others, just like David Servan Schreiber fight and hang upon the wheel. There are good times on the top, bad times at the bottom...How long will an old Alumnus like me stay on the GG Wheel of Fortune ?
From Yann Le Ster:
Exactly. But in Mrs. Moa's world, the electric energy comes out the socket in the wall, the food comes from the supermarket and a wheelbarrow is a strange object in the museum. But she is haunted by wheels.
[blockquote]From Yann Le Ster: It seems, Mrs Moa, that you have time to waste going to the beach. Then I suggest that you stop your car near a farm and observe the farmer with a wheelbarrow carrying manure. Then you will see the wheel : it is a real and active way of keeping the wheel rolling...[/blockquote] Exactly. But in Mrs. Moa's world, the electric energy comes out the socket in the wall, the food comes from the supermarket and a wheelbarrow is a strange object in the museum. But she is haunted by wheels.
Yes, we are all on the wheel of fortune : optimistic people :) are rolling and enjoy while pessimistic :( doubt, fall to the ground and are destroyed.
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[Drama 2019] The Secret Life of my Secretary / I love you from the beginning, 초면에 사랑합니다
By 0ly40, October 24, 2018 in k-dramas & movies
how to train your blind boss
jin ki joo
i love you from the beginning
tinymel 1,667
If anyone ever poo-poos kdrama to me again, I am showing them this thread.
I mean we are covering moral philosophy, psychology, literary analysis, intertextuality (covering several media/genres), and also some hardcore heart flutterings... while talking about a 16 episode romcom in a language we(most of us) don't speak... bring on the PhDs
grake 1,709
Now that her secret is out, my hope for our heroine is to come out of her mess a stronger, smarter, nicer, a more honest and confident person. I don't want her to stay sulking for too long and start picking herself up. Min Ik will forgive her at his own pace, at his own terms. Knowing Gal Hee, she will find a way to help Min Ik even secretly because that's the person she is, a caring one.
It has been mentioned a few times how she is always taking care of other people. Her moment of weakness was due to the fact that she just wanted to know and feel what it's like to experience things differently - eat gourmet food, be treated as a lady, be the one being taken care of. I think this will also be a significant factor when Min Ik finally finds the heart to forgive her.
ktcjdrama 33,422
Stargazing Fireflies
6 hours ago, thranduils said:
ouuu! I find conversations about intention so fascinating! Does it matter if the person meant to do well if eventually they caused more harm than good? Should intention be acknowledged or thrown out the window in the face of actions that were objectively harmful *in the end?* I don't think there's one definitive answer, but I'd love to hear any of your thoughts on this matter ~
Personally, I believe that regardless of intentions, the individual has to take responsibility for their actions and acknowledge what they have contributed towards. So, for me, it makes a lot of sense that GH would be fired and forced to critically reflect on what she ultimately did, because regardless of her *intentions*, the reality remains that trust was breached and that Dom is hurting, very very deeply. If Dom does decide to forgive her, I really really hope that he does so because GH actively and intentionally works to regain his trust again (which in reality would probably take years but w/e LOL). Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't want Dom to forgive GH simply because he *loves* her? He's coming from a place of deep longing for love and affection in his life, and forgiving through this vulnerable (and yearning?) state feels really disingenuous to me? It feels almost exploitative (towards Dom ofc) ??? Idk if that makes sense LOL but lemme know what y'all think ~
Intentions... I recently just told off a friend, who has nothing but good intentions, because she was making me uncomfortable by invading my personal spaces. So yeah, even good intentions still ended up to be meaningless when it's making the other party uncomfortable (we're not even talking about hurt/harm here).
What I was trying to say is not to defend GH of having good intentions with her actions, but that she never intended any hurt/harm. Nevertheless she is aware that it will hurt him and the guilt been eating her up. I have no problem with the firing because when trust is breached, there is no way to work together, so yeah I'm fine with Dom's decision. I won't even fault him saying that it's for personal or unethical reason, because he has every right to fire the person working for him.
Agree that GH will need to take responsibility and bear the consequences of her actions. The way she did it is by showing up at the office to await her fate and also making doc's appointment considering Dom had allergic reaction. Contrary to some opinions, I appreciate she didn't just disappear from the office (or his life) because she felt ashamed and dare not face Dom. And again, in the drama we are shown that she has been extremely anxious about whether or not he would forgive her, that she would not mind whatever happen to her, that she still has to tell the truth no matter.
As for forgiveness, it is of course totally Dom's call whether or not to forgive her. Does she deserve forgiveness? For me, yes, because she is not a malicious person, just clueless on how to undo her snowballing lies. I don't know how the writer is going to write up GH's character ~ an active seeker for forgiveness, or a passive "I don't deserve his forgiveness" person, who will just respect Dom's decision and stay away. However, being a kdrama, I guess she will not be able to stand not running to help/care for Dom, secretly or openly. Just like above post of @grake which I totally agree with, including second paragraph.
Will be back with the list of impersonation since I have to do some proper rewatch for accuracy.
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thistle 7,595
4 hours ago, tinymel said:
... bring on the PhDs
Alas I was unable to complete my PhD work but my specialties were in research and explication. (Not kidding.)
As a wise person once told me, The true purpose of an education is to teach you HOW to think and Not to tell you WHAT to think. My educational background is actually why I really like to hear everyone's different views. That's the way I was trained to see things: to listen impartially to all facets, to draw conclusions from that, and then to defend my own assessment of what has happened--it's like drama as an intellectual exercise for me, even though I love the romantic stuff, too. Everyone has something valid to say, and I want to know why people like what they like; I don't have to agree, and that's just fine.
As you said earlier, there's some great discussion going on in this thread. Although I may be angry with the way things have gone with GH in this drama, it's still really enlightening to see how other people view what she has done and how they defend her.
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I suppose from Dom's POV, intentions don't matter so much right now. If you're on the receiving end of a deception/etc I think at first you're going to only care that you've been lied to/hurt, not whether the person meant to do it. I think intentions start to matter when it comes to forgiveness. Ofc most people are not going to forgive someone who maliciously hurt them. I think when Dom comes to realize GH's true intentions, then it will matter in terms of him forgiving her.
I don't think intentions matter much to GH right now either. I don't think we're going to see her saying "oh well my intentions were never to hurt Dom so it's okay." I think instead we are gonna see her hating on herself and not being able to forgive herself.
I guess where intentions matter most then would be with myself as a third party. Knowing where GH's heart really lies helps me understand her intentions and be able to forgive her.
ara8 2,300
Hi everyone, Im new to this forum. I have been actually following this forum since beginning but only now decided to appear..hehe.
I just love how you all were discussing in terms of DOM and GH POV. Wow, the latest episode was among the best episode. I love how the main cast potrayed their emotions especially the 'TRUTH' scene between GH and DOM. It was so painful, I felt so sad for both of them...keep repeating the scene.
I understand why DOM was so angry, disappointed but at the same time I also know GH was feeling so guilty that she become speechless and can only say sorry. When GH met her mom after the sad scene, I think it is the best dialogue, how she felt so guilty and can only say sorry. DOM cries was so painful. This is the best breakup scene in kdrama in my POV...the dialogue and emotion was accurate.
I wonder how the director/writer will do the reconciliation between them. What a long waiting now.....
Let's refresh our memory ... It's really long, so I put the rest in spoilers. The main thing for me is, the snowballing effect of her initial lie to have fun, and how she has always been apologetic about it since the beginning. It's long I know, but at least read the red highlighted words of GH.
Impersonation #1 (ep.5/6 and 7/8) ~ Fancy Dinner
- The episode begins with narration from GH "Sometimes, one minute can change everything". Also earlier that day, she was influenced by what Senior Sec said in the pantry: "He made it seem like it's a gift when it's something natural. He made you become happy about what you're entitled to receive" ~ so I believe there is a little resentment about her life on that day.
- While she is being dolled up for clubbing, she still thinks about whether he made it to the dinner in time due to traffic. When making calls to check, she found out the mixed up of venues and rushed out in the middle of it, complete with rolls in hair. Since Dom forgot his phone is car, she has no choice but run to the venue. She called and told VP she will go inform Dom that VP will be running late, but VP refused because she wanted to spend time with DJ instead. VP's motto "If you made a mistake and get all tangled up, just tango on". GH worried because Dom has told her to prepare everything thoroughly, but she decided "For now, I should just go and tell him the truth"
- She reached the restaurant, but stunned when Dom said he's been waiting for her (meaning VP). She saw Dom pulled out the chair, the food served, and curious to know how Dom treats other woman. It was an impulsive decision, not premeditated. Up to that point, her intention was to tell him about VP not being able to come. Anyway, they had dinner and then the peanut incident happened. While at the restroom, she told herself to wrap things up and call it a night. She wanted to go home on her own, but Dom insisted on walking with her. While walking, both of them are further impressed and falling deeper into each other. She massaged his hand because she felt it's partly her fault that he got indigestion due to skipping lunch since his secretary took the full hour for lunch. They said goodbye, and she said "It's nice meeting you. And I'm sorry" ~ she apologized, but of course she is thinking something else and Dom also not catching what she is really sorry for.
- Next morning in the office, she berated herself for acting crazy the night before. Then she got called by VP to match up their alibis.
Impersonation #2 (ep.7/8 and 9/10) ~ Returning Yellow Umbrella
- Dom insisted to get VP's number and GH got him the fake number. Dom called wanting to return the umbrella. She didn't want to take the call, let first call go unanswered, and texted instead but accidentally answering his second call with a tap while texting. She asked him to throw umbrella away, but he insisted to go to her office to return it. Of course that cannot happen. Dom suggested to meet again that evening.
- Evening came, she dreaded meeting Dom as VP. She promised herself "Today will really be the last time", so she walked up to him. Alas, Dom lied and intentionally did not bring the umbrella to return to her. Next episode opens with her walking away from Dom who is running after her. He was wooing her with his talks, even though she tried to tell him she (VP) is infamous for her personality. She basically dumped him, and walked away. But then Dom got a call from DJ about him beating up the driver, and she overheard it, and became concerned. She couldn't help but turn back and offered assistance. Thus extending their time together while waiting for the security guard to come home. With more interactions, they fall for each other further. She immediately left when security guard came home. Dom: "Will we be able to meet again?" GH replied firmly "No." ~ not intending to carry on with the charade.
In 11/12 and 13/14 we also see how regretful and conflicted GH was about the deception (sea side talk). She also shared to her mother that she didn't deceive Dom on purpose, but admitted that she liked the way Dom treated her when she is fake VP.
Impersonation #3 (ep.13/14 and 15/16) ~ Breaking Up that ends in One Day Dating
- VP instructed GH to meet up again with Dom to end the relationship, saying that she is seeing another man. Using the arranged marriage as ultimatum. GH is conflicted, but in the end she agreed to do it so as to be able to still remain by his side as secretary.
- They met. She told him as instructed by VP and walked away. Yet she was worried that Dom will be sad, still she told herself not to turn back and look, because then she will never be able to go back to working for him. However, Dom pulled her back and proposed to spend their last 12 hours together, promising to let her go after that. At the end of the date, Dom requested for a kiss.
In ep.19/20 ~ GH got found out by VP herself at the funeral home. She admitted in tears that "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that I even feel bad about apologizing. I'll tell Director Do everything tomorrow and gladly get punished for what I did." But VP said she wants to take the night to think of the right punishment for her and asked GH to meet her at her office next morning. Although GH needs to get punishment from Dom, VP has the right to punish her as well. Next day, VP got her dressed up and told her to continue faking her. GH said, again in tears: "I can't do that. I can't lie to him again... I like him, but I have to lie to him. He trusts me, but I betrayed him. I can't do it anymore. I would rather just tell him the truth and end this whole thing. I will accept any other punishment but this. I don't care if it's much harder.".... But VP pleaded with her to help her out this time. Again using the arranged marriage as the reasoning.
Impersonation #4 (ep.21/22) ~ CinePark
- Dom suddenly showed up at VP's office. VP ordered GH to come running there.
Impersonation #5 (ep.21/22) ~ Going to Concert
- Didn't end up happening, because GH already could not take it anymore seeing Dom is in love with another woman, even though technically it is herself. She ran to VP's office and said: "I can't do this." and cried her hearts out for all the conflicting emotions in her. Turned out that VP has meant for it to play out that way, for GH to experience the pain of impersonation. According to VP, it's a severe punishment. GH said while crying "I have to end this today. I'll tel him the truth even if we'll have to cut ties. I don't care if my life will end today, but I have to end this today. I can't do this anymore. Please. Please let me tell him everything." VP finally said "I guess you've been punished enough." ~ On the way to meet Dom, the car accident happened. At the hospital, VP asked GH: "What if he doesn't forgive you?" GH: "Even if he doesn't forgive me, I think I should tell him the truth and apologize first."
Impersonation #6 (ep.23/24) ~ Time to Tell the Truth
- GH went with her cast on. Surely she knows she would be found out like that. And with the kdrama rules, she doesn't get to tell the truth because Dom found out about it already, so that the angst can be cued in. Yes, she kept saying sorry, well what else could she say though.
so definitely agree with you but given this is a mini-series as opposed to a daily or a weekend drama, we may not get to see gal hee truly take responsibility for her actions or acknowledge the result of her actions. it may just be forgotten and forgiven simply because he loves her. but realistically speaking, such a relationship would be doomed because min ik needs trust.
so to give context, in a weekend drama thread, we debated this question - why some forgive while others don't (in regards to infidelity). so the answer was surprisingly deep -- it really depends on your top most need and want from a relationship. meaning if trust and honesty is important to you, then it is going to be hard for you to close your eyes and pretend it is okay. however, if something like financial security, companionship etc is most important, then a character might overlook the spouse cheating.
so back to our drama, min ik very clearly told gal hee that he requires trust. he lives in a family where he can't trust to tell them of his illness. he works for a company where he can't trust anyone to share how he is struggling. and he shared how devastated he was by the actions of his first secretary and how his decision to trust gal hee was a huge momentous step. he was choosing to place his trust in her. it was a very big deal for him and that was very clearly communicated. if trust wasn't a big deal for him, then it is easy to see how he could forgive her simply because he loves her. but for a person whom trust is overarching need in a relationship, how can he trust again?
if this was a weekend or daily drama, we would have plenty of time to really explore this kind of issue. many of them really explore such breakdowns in relationship in a beautiful way and the reconciliation makes total sense. but since time may be a factor here in this drama (how many episodes do we have left?), maybe all will be forgiven simply because he loves her and not because she has earned his trust again.
oneandthree3 10
Wohoo so many interesting discussions going on here. Really appreciate it.
I do agree that GH is unintentionally impersonating VP. These are moments I remember (Already deeply analysed by uri fellow eonnie @ktcjdrama):
1. 1st time: GH actually wasn't planning to do it. Once she met DMI, DMI DIRECTLY greeted her as VP. GH also saw the food she really wanted to taste, so she just went with it. The next morning, she planned to admit it but perhaps she wasn't ready yet, so she didn't do it. (Look! Even from the beginning she already planned to admit it.) ------ GH unintentionally took advantage for the food and how to be treated as a lady.
2. 2nd time: DMI asked to meet for returning the umbrella. He also made GH to stay for a while although GH really felt uneasy. In this point, real VP already knew the condition and she asked GH to keep impersonating her ------- GH didn't take any advantages, she just followed what DMI asked that made her stay.
3. 3rd time: Real VP and GH discussed how to end the ties with DMI by saying that VP had got another man. GH went to DMI to cut ties with him but DMI asked her to stay for the last 12 hours. GH wasn't prepared for this so she decided to go for it, thinking that it would be the last. Also, as she had started to like DMI, she wanted to feel how to have a proper date, at least for 12 hours. --------- GH didn't expect it. She unintentionally took advantage for being DMI's girlfriend for 12hours as she also started to like DMI.
4. 4th time: Real VP made a deal with GH for impersonating her for 1 month. She taught GH how to impersonate her correctly. They dressed like twins and VP-GH didn't meet DMI yet.
5. 5th time: DMI suddenly came to the cinema, wanting to meet VP. VP then hurriedly asked GH to impersonate her as she disguised as a secretary. Here, DMI was feeling uneasy and made many excuses to leave as DMI started to figure out whom he liked. GH couldn't admit it yet because of the deal with VP.
6. 6th time: DMI asked VP to meet in the concert hall and to ask her for dating. VP-GH already came but she really felt guilty and couldn't take it anymore. So, in the end she didn't meet DMI but VP instead. The car accident happened.
7. 7th time: They met in the merry-go-round. GH had prepared everything (The note, calling DMI as Director Do, keeping the hand cast) to admit while DMI already figured out everything. GH couldn't do anything other than saying sorry.
From those seven times dressed as VP, only in no. 1 and 3 did she take the advantages. It was also unintentional. That's why I don't really agree to put all the blame to GH, even to call her as the bad girl.
DMI can also be blamed; there are some moments in which he gave high hopes to GH only to put her down.
1. He grabbed GH's face. GH was so happy to be called pretty although she had no parents, no money, no buildings. But then DMI said that he thought it was VP's. Imagine if we were GH.
2. The fish tank scene. He already leant for kissing GH and GH was ready. But then he broke it! He opened his eyes, pushed GH and didn't say sorry. Once again, imagine if we were GH.
3. In the cinema,(after they already promised not to see each other again) VP-GH asked DMI whether he, perhaps, had liked another woman. But then DMI said that he didn't (He lied! He actually liked GH, too, but he didn't say so!). And then VP-GH ensured again and he said that he didn't like another woman. VP-GH looked very sad.
4. He never told GH the moments he could see people's faces. He also hadn't told GH that he could also see faces when he was with her/the woman he loved, aside from the high blood pressure.
Additionally, it is not only DMI who faced problems (love problem, friendship, and the company). GH also did (love problem, Sec. Lee seemed to have an agenda for her, his sister lied to her about the university.)
That being said, each of them is flawed and suffered from some problems. They are quite even. Therefore, to say that GH is the bad girl (without considering DMI's side) is a bit harsh and unfair, in my opinion.
Edited June 13 by oneandthree3
Adding some parts
thranduils 406
5 hours ago, ktcjdrama said:
AH, sorry, I wasn't trying to insinuate at all that you were justifying GH's actions with her good intentions - my inquiry was directed at everyone, I was just building off of what you had previously articulated . Sorry about that, I should be more clear next time!
1 hour ago, Lmangla said:
so back to our drama, min ik very clearly told gal hee that he requires trust. he lives in a family where he can't trust to tell them of his illness. he works for a company where he can't trust anyone to share how he is struggling. and he shared how devastated he was by the actions of his first secretary and how his decision to trust gal hee was a huge momentous step. he was choosing to place his trust in her. it was a very big deal for him and that was very clearly communicated. if trust wasn't a big deal for him, then it is easy to see how he could forgive her simply because he loves her. but for a person whom trust is overarching need in a relationship, how can he trust again?
This is really really cool stuff! I wonder if alternatively, it could be argued that along the hierarchy of Dom's needs, the need for love could triumph (or at least challenge) the need for trust? I think the way they've written Dom is that he is very emotionally starved in that he actively wants love and affection from those around him. He doesn't really get that from his mom, his family, and at some point, not even from Dae Ju (because his resignation is seen as a personal insult towards Dom and their relationship). I remember that one scene vividly where homeboy actually grinned at the idea of getting married and starting a family!! (It stays fresh in mind because when was the last time a k-drama chaebol ACTUALLY wanted to settle down ?? lmao).
Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if Dom's need for love is used as the main motivation behind his willingness to forgive, then I would feel doubly cheated and exploited ?? on his behalf. In my eyes at least, there's a huge difference between Dom forgiving out of love vs. the average (emotionally sated) person forgiving out of love. In Dom's case, it's unfair because his forgiveness is contextualized by a history of deep, deep yearning and fear of remaining unloved for the rest of his life. And that doesn't really feel healthy or authentic? to me. And so while I'm already anticipating that this is the route the writers will go down (for the reasons you've elaborated above), I would feel doubly wronged because forgiving out of love is already a questionable cop-out, but then doing that with a character who is emotionally vulnerable takes this to a whole different level of hell LOL.
Anyways, hope this rant made sense, lemme know what y'all think
28 minutes ago, oneandthree3 said:
3. In the cinema,(after they already promised not to see each other again) VP-GH asked DMI whether he, perhaps, had liked another woman. But then DMI said that he didn't (He lied! He actually liked GH, too, but he didn't say so!).
Should add here too that he lied about having to leave immediately because of meetings and pretended to be on a call with his secretary
11 minutes ago, thranduils said:
Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that if Dom's need for love is used as the main motivation behind his willingness to forgive, then I would feel doubly cheated and exploited ?? on his behalf. In my eyes at least, there's a huge difference between Dom forgiving out of love vs. the average (emotionally sated) person forgiving out of love. In Dom's case, it's unfair because his forgiveness is contextualized by a history of deep, deep yearning and fear of remaining unloved for the rest of his life. And that doesn't really feel healthy or authentic? to me. And so while I'm already anticipating that this is the route the writers will go down (for the reasons you've elaborated above), I would feel doubly wronged because forgiving out of love is already a questionable cop-out, but then doing that with a character who is emotionally vulnerable takes this to a whole different level of hell LOL. Anyways, hope this rant made sense, lemme know what y'all think
I don't think forgiveness can ever be earned... It is an undeserved gift. If you've wronged a person, it is up to the graciousness of that person to forgive you. How do we measure how much is enough to earn forgiveness?
Forgiveness is a choice. Even if the offending party is unrepentant and does not ask nor work for forgiveness, we can still choose to forgive and free ourselves from the bondage of hatred and anger that will only eat us up.
reign84 72
19 hours ago, Yanni Yanni said:
Yes, indeed, i think the same too, the yellow umbrella will be a thing that will make them reconcile..
Crossfingers it will happen
blademan 16,186
HAHAHA he’s ridiculously tall
rocat 1,655
I just caught the subbed episode with the most spectacular demonstration of good hand-washing techniques; by the time it ended, not only were their hands squeaky clean, it seemed there was no soap left. The heat generated must hv evaporated all the liquid.
they were so cute, as were VP and 2nd male lead (forgot his name...hiaks!)
Being betrayed by the person one trusts is a terrible feeling, what more when the person is one you trust the most. I think Gal Hee is that person to Min Ik - she had unconsciously replaced the position his BFF used to hold. As a business partner, he trusted her for everything but matters of the heart - never saw her that way or fathomed the possibility. But when presented as a romantic partner (thou thru false identity but her characteristics remain), he had the avenue to gradually develop that liking for her as a person further into love; however, trust in the romantic relationship was absent.
He first needed to know/trust a person to love a person. With Gal Hee, he did. Not so much with GH-VP. I guess that’s what he was yoyo-ing over when wondering where/who to go to after the accident.
Trust is a big deal to him.
Once that crumbled, he took the absolute action of cutting her off by removing her from office. We all know that doesn’t take away the pain but perhaps increases it.
Looking forward to see how they deal with this...:)
VanillaSalt 5,181
Hey, have they explained why Do Mi Nik's mother is constantly reminding him that he isn't actually part of their family? And she's also always telling him he should be grateful that she "accepted him" into their family despite his illness? Also, why did he have to have brain surgery? I think I missed something. Dang, he's been in a toxic environment for a long time and their all connected to each other, it's like he can't escape it. The company he's apart of is his family business (or, his dad's), but with that his toxic fake mom and uncle are connected to that too. The only real, genuine, person so far has been Gal Hee (minus being fake veronica park).
On a separate note, I think the title says a lot about the drama: "I love you from the beginning." My theory is that Mi Nik has been able to recognize gal hee only because, as the title says, he's loved her from the beginning, before his illness. He fell in love with her a while ago, but started to realize it or was forced to consciously think about it when the relationship with "Veronica park" began to take a leap. Obviously, all will be well for them, it is a rom-com after all.
The crack in his voice when he asked:
"Why did you do this to me?"
"How could you do this to me?"
Still not over this scene...
1 hour ago, VanillaSalt said:
Hey, have they explained why Do Mi Nik's mother is constantly reminding him that he isn't actually part of their family? And she's also always telling him he should be grateful that she "accepted him" into their family despite his illness? Also, why did he have to have brain surgery? I think I missed something. Dang, he's been in a toxic environment for a long time and their all connected to each other, it's like he can't escape it. The company he's apart of is his family business (or, his dad's), but with that his toxic fake mom and uncle are connected to that too.
Most information is in ep.3/4, around the beginning. I will try to sum it up based on my understanding.
The company belongs to the Sim family (the mother and uncle). Dom's father took over from his father-in-law, but had Dom with another woman. I think the mother cannot conceive children so she reluctantly took in Dom (7 yo) as an heir and put him in the family registrar. He had a congenital giant aneurysm and underwent a surgery to insert a clip. The clip seems to have moved with the trauma on his head from the fall and that affected his facial recognition ability.
Additional info: DJ's mother, Sec.Choi, was the secretary of Chairman Do, passed away when DJ was in high school. DJ never knew who his father is. The current secretary of DJ (Sec.Lee) I think used to be Dom's father's secretary too.
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