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Border Guard Wages War on Smugglers (Nov, 1934)
Thank god the border guards were able to stem the massive tide of contraband shoes and serapes (see the picture on page 3). Who knows where we would be without their vigilant efforts.
Border Guard Wages War on Smugglers
Daring Patrolmen in an Endless Fight To Halt the Traffic in Aliens and Contraband
By Andrew R. Boone
CROUCHED beside a squat tum-bleweed not fifty feet from the rusting monument that marks the boundary between California and Baja California hard by the sea, the border patrolman scanned near-by hills with his powerful glasses. He was V. E. Williams, one of Uncle Sam's mounted border officers, and he was keeping vigil on a lonely section of the border awaiting the coming of a smuggler whose habits he had been observing for several days and nights.
From his position he could see the crown of the hill in a broad semicircle to the south. Not a creature could come over and remain hidden. For two hours he watched and waited while not a sound disturbed the silent night. Then he heard a faint purring. Cautiously he arose on one knee. The purring became louder. Through the haze he could see the dim outline of a small boat approaching the border.
Five minutes later the patrolman pointed his Very pistol toward the sea. Plop! A ball of white fire rose in a graceful arc. He fired a second signal, and before its light died away he was racing through cactus and small bushes toward the sea. A half mile further north other officers joined the chase. Out to sea a fast motor boat bounded across the waves. Quickly the officers closed in, the inbound boat driving the smuggler ashore.
Every night, somewhere along the far-flung borders of the United States, border patrolmen halt new invasions of smugglers. Despite repeal, alcohol in various forms continues to prove a profitable contraband. Aliens pay substantial prices for delivery to inland cities. Smugglers of narcotics receive high fees for transporting small boxes of dope to dark clearings serving for a moment as landing fields. Beautiful Mexican mantillas, cheap foreign cigarettes, shoes made abroad, even American-made goods exported duty-free find their way across the borders into eager hands.
Hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors enter the country legally every year. At each port of entry, alert patrolmen question every traveler, examine each car. Through mirrors set at an angle in the edges of concrete platforms they view the • bottom of every vehicle. Lights set in the pavement supply illumination at night.
Both people and goods are caught in many hidden recesses. One large sedan joined the fleet of captured rum runners when inspection revealed the brake drums were copper containers filled with alcohol. In another, two aliens were found back of the rear seat. A coupe yielded two from a compartment behind the seat.
But the drama of the borders is being written in lonely, out-of-the-way stretches of desert, sea, and mountains where keen-eyed patrolmen wage eternal war to beat back smugglers and stop the illegal flow of goods and persons into the United States.
Though the immigration service is interested primarily in persons, customs in things, and the coast guard in both, officers are seldom sure of what they will catch until the arrest actually is made. They go about their plans with military precision, covering a sector much as an army division guards all points on a front, though with infinitely fewer numbers.
The entire immigration watch from Chula Vista was assigned recently to the western sector near Nestor, Calif., covering the Pee Vee road. Somewhere around Nestor or Imperial Beach, they suspected, smugglers would come across the line during the night and make for points north. Two inspectors were stationed in the Emery schoolhouse, which commands a view of three roads and the fields between them.
Meanwhile Roy B. Newport, in charge of the watch, was returning to Nestor to take up a hidden position. While gliding down a hill with his lights out he saw a figure cross the highway.
"Where are you bound, stranger?" Newport asked, as his car rolled to a stop.
"I'm in a hurry," came the whispered reply. "I've just come over the line through the river bottom."
"That's good news," responded Newport. "Stick up your hands and I'll conduct the tour."
He ordered the smuggler into his car, handcuffed him to the wheel and set out with drawn revolver after three Orientals " he could see in the bushes. Sand from the dry river bed, found in the trouser cuffs, linked the border runner with the contraband and not only sent him to a federal prison, but brought confessions which resulted in the conviction of the "brains" of the gang, Clarence K. Aiken, former army officer, who is now serving 19-1/2 years at McNeil's Island. This is the longest sentence ever handed a smuggler.
Aliens often are brought into ocean ports, whence they are whisked away to population centers. Dusk or dawn are the favorite times. Runners leave near-by foreign ports, sail outside the twelve-mile limit, then under cover of darkness return to land unseen. They take off in airplanes, head straight out to sea at altitudes so low they cannot be seen from shore, cutting in when safely beyond the vision of officers on the border.
All planes are numbered. If one strange to the locality appears, border patrolmen watch its movements closely. It may be spotted taking off from a Mexican or Canadian field in early morning or late at night. Who meets it? If met by a suspicious character or known smuggler, that pilot's movements are closely watched.
To date the patrolmen have been seriously handicapped by having to operate with automobiles only. Here's where the coast guard enters the picture. Flying in land planes and amphibians, armed with long-distance telescopes and machine guns, their pilots now not only can catch smuggling planes along the borders, but also can chase them out to sea or cut off their retreat to the border and hover over them until fuel expended, they finally are forced to land and surrender to officers.
Coast guard planes, assigned to this particular work, extend the range of vision enormously. In two or three hours an alert pilot, cruising a mile up, can locate and radio to the patrol force commander the name and location of every boat in his area within twelve miles of shore, report conditions along wild stretches of coast line and uninhabited inlets and call for patrolmen in fast motor boats to speed out from their base to turn back or capture smugglers threatening to rush the coast.
"The effect," explained one pilot, "is largely strategic. Our presence alone halts some running of the borders because smugglers know a radio message will send officers on their trail."
Airplanes and radio communications, denied the border patrolmen until the last few weeks, are expected to make possible the halting of a threatened invasion, particularly of liquor, which has been piling up in Mexico. In Ensenada, Baja California, for instance, the border patrol is informed 150,000 cases of alcoholic beverages are now stored. It was taken there because Ensenada is a free port. It must be moved in sixty days. Where? Probably to southern California on small boats and in trimotor airplanes, carrying as many as 200 cases on each run.
A similar invasion, threatened along the Texas border in an effort to escape import duties, is being met by mounted patrolmen equipped with field-radio sets. Eighteen members of the border patrol have been killed by desperate smugglers in Texas in ten years. Every month witnesses a gun fight as smugglers blast their way out of federal traps with six-guns and rifles.
Recently a radio station has been installed at Marfa, Texas. Patrolmen covering the border 300 miles distant report regularly from their portable sets, giving information of suspected border runners and receiving tips which frequently lead to arrests.
All the color of the wild west may be found along the Texas border. There the organized bands are interested in things rather than persons. Only officers of long experience are permitted to risk their lives against these desperate gangs.
"Usually," I was told by a grizzled Texas patrolman, "one or two lone walkers come across the border, each carrying four 5-gallon cans of 'alky,' two slung over each shoulder in gunny sacks. Following them, spread out like a line of skirmishers, come from thirty to forty more, all armed and all carrying similar loads.
"If they get through, okay; but if the advance guard is challenged, rifle fire opens up and the gang protects their retreat."
"How often does this happen?" I asked in astonishment.
"Too frequently for comfort," he said.
In New Mexico the gangs are smaller. There they head for mountain trails in groups of six to eight. Too few in numbers to halt them at the border, the patrolmen watch the line for signs of crossing. Recently four officers found a trail near El Paso and followed the fresh tracks twenty-five miles into the mountains where they captured a burro train staggering under a heavy load of alcohol.
Occasionally a smuggling band transfers its activities from one kind of contraband to another, though seldom to a new territory. They prefer to operate in territory they know. One southern runner of alcohol recently dropped that trade, but the officers soon saw him hobnobbing with two men twice convicted of smuggling aliens.
Two days after they first spotted him with criminal companions, the officers saw the same three men talking together in a saloon on the Mexican side of the line. That night they saw the suspect leave San Diego and approach the border. An hour later four mounted patrolmen followed, going to San Ysidro where they surrounded a lonely spot they thought likely to be selected as a point of delivery. Soon after their arrival, they saw an alien enter the smuggler's car. While three other aliens escaped they captured the smuggler and his lone customer, thus assuring the smuggler a year's stretch in the federal penitentiary at McNeil's Island.
Occasionally, though not often, alert officers capture a receiving agent, hundreds of miles from the international boundary. Not long ago a boy twenty-two years old, was arrested while bringing in aliens. While out on bond awaiting trial, he made several more trips. Finally, having learned where he was delivering them, officers hid one dark night in Spofford alley, San Francisco. As the sun was breaking over the eastern mountains, four patrolmen captured him at the moment he was handing over to an agent six aliens. He was the first receiver to be caught in the act, and convicted, in California during a nine-year period. The young smuggler is credited with having delivered 105 aliens to Spofford alley before he reached prison.
Sometimes the border patrolmen find the key to smuggling closer at home. An Oriental interpreter, who long had been respected by federal agents, at last came under suspicion because of company he kept. Agents watched him leave San Diego in a boat in company with two known smugglers and early in the morning captured all three off Point Loma with nine luckless aliens cramped in the hold of the boat.
From eastern Canada, aliens seek to enter large eastern cities, particularly New York. From western Canada, they hope to gain Seattle. Those entering along the southeastern coast hope to reach inland cities, particularly Chicago. From west Mexico they filter through and dash for Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Chinese, mounted patrolmen told me, want to make their future home in San Francisco, while Japanese prefer Los Angeles. In those cities are large colonies of these nationals. Many Mexicans, though otherwise eligible for citizenship, are smuggled in, particularly in recent years, because they cannot hurdle the public charge visa. The price scale depends largely on the distance to be traveled. An alien may find ways and means of reaching Los Angeles, 140 miles north from Lower California, for $125; but if he prefers San Francisco, he must fork over $200. Usually the longer trips are taken in airplanes, a half-dozen aliens reaching their destination in a four-hour flight from some cow pasture twenty miles distant from the border.
SMUGGLERS take unbelievable chances. Not long ago a party of Americans left a southern California airport in time to fly over Rosarita Beach, ten miles south of the boundary. Fog drove them low and as they passed over a clearing at Rosarita they observed a box being transferred from an automobile to a plane. They were so close, one man recognized the pilot.
Unsuspecting, the pilot took off for a point near Los Angeles. Meanwhile the first plane landed at Ensenada, where a curious passenger telephoned to American customs officials, giving the number of the plane.
"Thanks very much," replied the patrolman. "We've been watching that baby. He lands usually on an airport near Burbank."
Two cars of customs officers rushed to the field. Thirty minutes later, the plane appeared, circled, came down for a landing. As his wheels touched the ground the officers dashed out to intercept him, but the wary pilot saw them, gunned his motor and took off. A few minutes later the disappointed officers saw a box drop from the ship, but intensive search failed to bring it to their eager hands. The plane was seized for failing to clear customs, but because of lack of evidence the pilot could not be convicted for running narcotics.
"A gang may specialize in liquor," one border patrolman of long experience told me, "yet if the price is satisfactory they will attempt to bring in aliens or narcotics."
ODDLY, the bigger the gang the more secretly do Uncle Sam's border agents go about the task of bringing its members to justice. Possibly only three or four men will have even an inkling of what's going on until abruptly the staff in a particular district receives orders to spread a net around a delivery point or some isolated airport. Often, in this way, immigration officers will complete a liquor case before passing the information on to customs officers to make the arrests.
Large gangs are known to operate on both borders, plying their nefarious trade in the dark of night. To catch the leaders and present conclusive, convicting proof in court is, however, a difficult matter. Yet their methods are known and in some cases even the leaders' names are contained in confidential reports hidden away in voluminous files.
One western gang has three leaders. It controls fifteen airplanes, with pilots ready to fly to any Mexican or Canadian destination from Pacific Coast cities, load up with contraband, and deliver it anywhere they may be ordered.
"The pilot," a veteran patrolman told me, "never knows to what foreign field he is to fly until he receives orders a few minutes before taking off. When he reaches his destination another agent delivers the load of aliens, alcohol, or dope. Not until then is he told where to land on his return journey with
the smuggled goods."
The difficulties of apprehending smugglers under these conditions seem insurmountable. They may choose from an almost unlimited number of fields on both sides of the border, and their modern planes fly over the boundary line at night, so high that not even the roar of their motors can heard by ground observers.
But the patrolmen gradually move in, stopping an airplane here, another there, until they so cripple the gang financially that it cannot reap the huge profits its greedy promoters visualized.
Take this case. An airplane was seen to land three times on an eighty-acre clearing near Fallbrook, Calif. A large black sedan met it and sped away. The pilot took off immediately and disappeared into the night with nothing to indicate his destination.
THEN the immigration patrolmen went into action. They studied the territory. They noted that an automobile could be spotted from the air if it approached within five miles of the clearing. Two patrolmen drove to the edge of a clump of trees about five miles distant, then walked to the scene of what they hoped would be action. Quietly they crossed the clearing, in the center of which they found a small clump of bushes in which they concealed themselves and waited. Hours passed and they were on the point of giving up the vigil when the glare of headlights swung into the field. The car's lone occupant drove slowly around the borders, circled the island of shrubbery, again traversed the field to make sure no observers were abroad, then stopped a few feet from the spot where the officers lay flat on their faces hidden by the darkness.
As the driver nonchalantly stepped from the automobile a whisper cracked out through the still air:
"You are covered, pardner. Walk over here and don't make any mistakes."
The astonished smuggler moved slowly toward the unknown voice. One officer kept him covered while the other took an automatic from the prisoner's holster. Their instructions were brief:
"Lie down and keep quiet."
Fifteen minutes later, the drone of an airplane engine could be heard in the southeast. Its steady beat grew rapidly stronger, then suddenly stopped as the pilot eased back on the throttle before starting his long glide. Hardly had his wheels touched the earth when a dark figure stepped into the car, drove quickly alongside the plane. The pilot swung the cabin door open, hopped out and lowered two five-gallon cans to earth.
"Give me a hand, Jerry," he said. "I need help."
"More than you realize, my friend," replied the voice within the car. "Stick 'em up and we'll take care of the load."
The "load" consisted of 250 gallons of cargo alcohol.
UNCLE SAM'S mounties of both services patrolled a total of nearly 15,000,000 miles last year in their quest for contraband. In boats, automobiles, and airplanes; on trains and horses and afoot, they seek to stem the tide of illicit entries. An army of nearly 2,000 men spread its thin lines along both borders, keeping watch day and night. In a twelve-month period they will question more than 1,000,000 people in an effort to learn their nationality, residence, and intentions; examine a half-million automobiles, and seize possibly 25,000 aliens and smugglers, a good-sized fleet of automobiles and boats and, occasionally, an airplane.


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This is un-fucking-believable: Amy Goodman and producers were arrested at the RNC protests. Arresting an award-winning journalist for inquiring about her arrested producers. The video of Goodman's arrest ("Update II") should be watched along with the SF Chronicle's interview of her on her release ("Update VII"). See also Washington Post. An AP reporter was arrested later, and there were various other police actions against journalists.
Glenn Greenwald said at the beginning of this column:
Beginning last night, St. Paul was the most militarized I have ever seen an American city be, even more so than Manhattan in the week of 9/11 — with troops of federal, state and local law enforcement agents marching around with riot gear, machine guns, and tear gas cannisters, shouting military chants and marching in military formations.
See also this video of a peaceful protester being tear-gassed at close range (second video; at pharyngula).
As with the Chicago DNC in 1996, and many other political party meetings in the intervening years, activists' homes were raided before the protests began.
Reporting of interest:
* Glenn Greenwald at salon.com
* The Revolution Will Be Twittered – firedoglake / jane hamsher
* raid on an anarchist art production in a theater – The Uptake
* ColdSnap Legal Collective – updates on arrests etc.
* house arrests of journalist group "iwitness"
* interview with st. paul officials – mayor, chief of police, police PR
* Minnesota Independent coverage
* cell phone video of police firing what may be smoke bombs & in general acting like the protesters are enemy combatants — following after a retreat
* "inside an RNC raid" – a house of legal observer coordinators was raided & folks detained.

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Guys, what's up. A penalty on nearly every kick-off and punt. The wealth was spread from Sylvester, Batch, and van Dyke. I think collectively you wiped out over 100 return yards.
Let's get it together guys!
Guys, what's up. A penalty on nearly every kick-off and punt. The wealth was spread from Sylvester, Batch, and van Dyke. I think collectively you wiped out over 100 return yards.
Let's get it together guys!
Van Dyke was brought on partly because of his special teams abilities but he's been flagged multiple times this year for illegal blocks or holding. The entire unit has taken a step back since Al Everest was let go in training camp. Now Amos Jones and Mike Tomlin have taken over and it's gotten progressively worse.
I get that it's not uncommon to have an illegal block on returns, but damn, AB had probably 100 yds or more in return yards called back last night.
Don't forget Van Dyke also had a fumble cause in the first game on special teams ...
they just had a bad game ... hopefully it don't turn into a trend
It's the coverages that has me the most concerned, penalties are a close second. Either way, gotta get it together.
Overall penalties this year are just crazy. This team has its head up its own a**.
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Silly stuff! AB is doing his part! They'll get it fixed!
I gotta say Van Dyke has been solid on special teams .I feel bad for Rainey he returns it to at least the 30-40 almost everytime only to be called back . when they show the replays they call alot of ticky tack ****
There is no denying the ST unit needs some serious work, it doesn't matter if the penalties are up league wide or not this team still has to do it's part to help the offense with field position. Rainey and AB are both great returners but it's all for nothing with the penalties. It's just like Polamalu, you can be the best in the world but if you're not on the field it doesn't matter. ST the same way, great returners don't matter when you screw up your assignments in blocking.
STs was better in the 2nd half... if not for turnovers, penalties and dropped balls we woulda beat cinci by at least 30
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Community remembers Sebastian County deputy
Deputy killed in line of duty laid to rest
One community is remembering an officer who died in the line of duty.
Sebastian County Deputy Terry Johnson died last week in a car accident while on patrol.
Family, friends and more than 25 law enforcement agencies gathered at Community Bible Church in Fort Smith Saturday afternoon to remember an officer who friends say was a true hero.
"Terry was the perfect example of a quiet professional," says Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck. "Terry was a man on a mission. And Terry was a man of God who served his Lord by protecting and serving God's people."
The sheriff says he believes Johnson will watch over the community.
"We need to carry on in such a manner as if Terry were watching," says Hollenbeck. "I truly believe that he is."
Officers lined Dallas Street as an American flag waved in tribute to a man who was committed to his family, career and community.
"This pain that we have, it will pass," says Hollenbeck. "We will continue with our mission of protecting and serving our county, because that's exactly what Terry would want."
Johnson had worked for the Sebastian County Sheriff's Department for 17 years.


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Browns assistant general manager Ray Farmer was considered a top candidate for the Miami Dolphins' GM position, but said this week that he "didn't finish the process" for a reason.
"I think Cleveland is primed and I think we're in a position to redefine the history books," Farmer told Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer. "I think change is on the horizon and I didn't want to miss what's going to happen in Cleveland."
Said Farmer: "I assume they would've given me the job. That's the way it was articulated to me. If I took the job, I would've reported directly to (Dolphins owner) Stephen Ross and it was a tremendous opportunity. It still is a dream of mine to become a general manager and run my own program and put together my own team, but it wasn't the right time for me."
Farmer's words fly in the face of widespread criticism that paints Cleveland's front office as a tangled clown car. He insists his decision to return to the team didn't come with promises of a promotion.
"No, and I would've balked at that. I will never hunt anyone's job that I work with. That's not what I'm inclined to do," said Farmer, who went out of his way to praise Browns general manager Michael Lombardi.
"I love Mike Lombardi," Farmer said. "A lot of people in this city don't, but those people don't know him. He's one of my dearest friends at this point. He's intelligent, he's smart, he's witty, he challenges me every day to be better, so I like where I'm at and I like him. There are no assurances in the NFL and coming off a 4-12 season, people are skeptical, people don't understand why some decisions were made inside the building, but, again, I think inevitably, I trust the process we're going through."
Whatever the arrangement, Farmer clearly saw his current responsibilities as a better option than what's happening in South Beach.
The "Around The League Podcast" recapped Super Bowl XLVIII live from MetLife Stadium right after the game.


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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (March 13) – Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) skied into the top ten Thursday at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G final, leading the U.S. women during the final speed event of the 2014 season. All three U.S. women finished in the points during the sunny super G finale, with Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) finishing 11th and Leanne Smith (North Conway, NH) 14th behind race winner and World Cup super G champion Lara Gut of Switzerland. The race is set to air on Universal Sports at 1:00 p.m. EST.
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Why Obama and Romney Are Fighting So Soon
Both candidates for the White House see early engagement as a chance to move poll numbers and frame the fall debate.
The "Bash Obama" mantra from Republican presidential hopefuls leaves the president's campaign team with little choice but to join the battle.
The formula is pretty simple: When winning swing states such as Iowa and New Hampshire is essential to your strategy, either you fight or you lose.
SEE ALSO: What a President Romney Might Do
So Obama operatives are taking the punches thrown at their guy seriously. In truth, though, top aides and allies have been eager since last summer to get into a bare-knuckles brawl with the Republican candidates. And now, after just one caucus and one primary, the Democrats are focusing on the GOP front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Romney complains that Obama is a nice guy who doesn't know much about creating jobs, while the Obama folks argue that Romney isn't a very nice guy and gutted jobs during his tenure at private investment firm Bain Capital. In an election year when jobs and the economy are foremost on the minds of voters, expect the centerpiece argument of the campaign to be which candidate will do a better job with the financial state of the nation?
The president's people insist that their strategy of targeting Romney has panned out. They point to state-by-state numbers showing that Romney's favorability ratings have fallen after primary-season skirmishes with the Obama campaign.
But there is also evidence that Republicans have landed a few blows against Obama. Some recent polls, for example, show more potential voters saying they would choose Romney over Obama in a head-to-head contest. That's a crucial factor during an election season in which electability is held up as a major reason to support a particular candidate.
Obama's top political advisers made the decision to focus solely on Romney early last fall, after Texas Gov. Rick Perry went into a tailspin and his campaign crashed and burned. They saw Perry as the GOP candidate with the last real hope of toppling Romney.
The candidate calculus seems to have paid off. Romney appears to have a clear path to the nomination, but he'll have to go through the motions for a while because of "in it until the end" candidates such as Texas Rep. Ron Paul. The Obama brain trust weighed whether giving Romney marquee billing so early in the race would elevate him but concluded that the hurt they are putting on Romney far exceeds any potential risk to Obama's reelection effort.
The Obama camp has come up with worst-case scenarios for attacks from Romney, going through fire drill after fire drill, confident that the president will survive whatever Romney throws at him. It's a smart strategy, since Obama faces the prospect of more than $100 million in attack ads from pro-Romney super PACS alone -- a fact that causes indigestion for Obama's seasoned political wise man, David Axelrod.
It's not a big surprise that the election will come down to which of the two candidates will better use hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising to define himself as the economic savior while painting the other guy as a poseur.
There is one wild card in the deck: Ron Paul's cultlike following. Paul is likely to have the second-largest cache of delegates heading into the Republican convention this summer. No matter how well Romney does, Paul will have a fairly strong hand. Just how he'll play it is what's keeping Republican operatives awake at night.
The question vexing Republicans is simple: Where do voters faithful to Paul go once Romney secures the nomination? Can Romney bring them into his corner? Do they stay home in November? Or -- the real doomsday scenario for the GOP -- do they stick with Paul if he launches a presidential bid as an independent?
At the moment, there is no clear-cut answer. But everyone with an elephant or a donkey in this race knows one thing for certain: A third-party run by Paul would essentially hand Obama four more years in the White House.


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The other day I talked about my accent and whether I should embrace it or continue to attempt to erase it. For the sake of brevity, (which I don't think I quite succeeded at anyway), I edited the post before publishing and took out some other points I wanted to make.
One of the rabbits I didn't chase down the path the other day, but will today, is the fact that the gringo/a accent in Spanish is often perceived as one of two things:
1. Ugly, (i.e. "That gringo's accent is horrible. He's butchering our language!")
2. Amusing, funny, hilarious
Latinos born and raised in the United States who have difficulty speaking Spanish are often made fun of or criticized even more heavily than Caucasian gringos who try to learn the language. Jennifer Lopez, Cristina Aguilera, Erik Estrada and many other celebrities have taken plenty of flack in the past.
Yet native Spanish speakers with heavy accents in English are often considered "sexy."
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And so the question occurred to me – why the double standard? It seems rather unfair, (and yet, even I admit that I would rather hear a native Spanish speaker speak English with an accent than a native English speaker speak Spanish with an accent.)
I decided to ask an acquaintance I made this past year, François Grosjean, a Professor of psycholinguistics and author of several books including, Bilingual: Life and Reality. I don't know him in person but I discovered him via the fascinating articles he writes on Psychology Today and once E-mailed him questions I had regarding the phenomenon some bilinguals experience which feels somewhat like having a split personality. He happened to be working on an article on that very topic and asked permission to quote me. (The article: Change of Language, Change of Personality? is here. I'm quoted as "Bilingual 1.")
And so, when I had this new question on my mind, I didn't hesitate to contact Dr. Grosjean again. I asked:
…Why is it that when White/Anglo/"Gringos" speak Spanish with an accent, it is usually considered "ugly" sounding or "funny" – Yet it seems when native Spanish speakers speak English with an accent, it can be considered "sexy"…
I'm sure this can be said about other languages as well. If you asked Americans if they preferred to hear a native French speaker speak English with an accent or a native German speaker speak English with an accent, I believe the majority would choose the French speaker. The French accent in English is considered sexy or pretty, but the German accent is considered ugly and harsh.
Are these learned cultural preferences or are there scientific linguistic differences that simply make one scenario more pleasing to the ears than the other?
Dr. Grosjean gave me permission to share excerpts of his E-mail. He answered, in part:
"As for the other question: "are there scientific linguistic differences that simply make one scenario more pleasing to the ears than the other?" – I don't have an answer. You'd expect that researchers would have examined this but I personally don't know of a study. Everything you say is correct but how much is due to the way the dominant language sounds and how much to cultural preferences is simply not known."
So there you have it – it's still a mystery!
While I had Dr. Grosjean's ear though, I also asked him what he thought of my dilemma regarding my accent. Should I erase it or embrace it? His opinion?
"I think the best thing is to accept it as it is. Your loved ones like you the way you are, with an accent, and that is what really matters. As for the others, hopefully, with time, they'll put more emphasis on how well you speak Spanish and not on the accent that you have. In any case, the more you do speak Spanish, the more your accent will improve; so it's a win win situation all the way, I think."
Thanks to Dr. Grosjean for allowing me to quote him and for being so kind in answering my various linguistic questions. Check out his most recent Psychology Today post – it should hit home to many of you, (as it did for me!)
Falling in Love With a Culture and a Language.
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Ebola victim flown home as Congo finds new outbreak
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[August 25, 2014]
By Josephus Olu-Mammah and Kylie MacLellan
FREETOWN/LONDON (Reuters) - A British
medical worker was flown home from West Africa on Sunday after becoming
the first Briton infected in an Ebola epidemic, and a separate new
outbreak of the disease was detected in Democratic Republic of Congo.
A specially adapted Royal Air Force cargo plane picked up the male
healthcare worker in Sierra Leone on Sunday after British Foreign
Secretary Philip Hammond authorized his repatriation for treatment.
The Department of Health said the patient - whose identity has not
been disclosed - was "not currently seriously unwell". The man will
be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in
The hemorrhagic fever has killed at least 1,427 people, mostly in
Sierra Leone, Liberia and neighboring Guinea, the deadliest outbreak
of the disease to date. The disease also has a toehold in Nigeria,
where it has killed five people.
In Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi
said an Ebola outbreak had been confirmed in the remote northern
Equateur province - 1,200 km (750 miles) from the capital Kinshasa -
but it was a different strain of the virus from the West African
There have been six outbreaks of Ebola in Democratic Republic of
Congo since the disease was discovered there in 1976, with a total
of more than 760 deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that more than 225
health workers have fallen ill and nearly 130 have lost their lives
to Ebola since the West African outbreak was detected in the jungles
of southeast Guinea in March.
The Boeing C-17 plane carrying the British medic left the Sierra
Leonean capital Freetown at around 1250 GMT. Television footage
showed the plane arriving at RAF Northolt air base in Britain after
a flight of just over 7 hours. An ambulance backed up to the plane
to receive the patient.
Britain's Deputy Chief Medical Officer John Watson said final
approval for the evacuation was given by a team of physicians who
had traveled to Freetown on the plane.
"We understand that this patient, during the course of the work that
he was carrying out, was exposed about a week ago and became unwell
two or three days ago," Watson told Sky News.
The Royal Free Hospital has Britain's only high-level isolation unit
for treatment of infectious diseases, as well as a team of specially
trained staff.
Paul Cosford, director for health protection at state body Public
Health England, said strict protective measures were being taken to
minimize the risk of transmission when transporting and treating the
individual in Britain.
Two U.S. doctors, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and were evacuated
to the United States, were discharged from hospital last week after
receiving treatment with an experimental drug, ZMapp. It was not
clear what role it played in their recovery.
Its U.S.-based manufacturer, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, has said
limited supplies of the drug have already been exhausted after it
was used to treat three African doctors in Liberia.
In Democratic Republic of Congo, in central Africa, dozens of people
have died in Equateur from a mysterious disease in recent weeks, but
the WHO said on Thursday it was believed to be a kind of hemorrhagic
However, Minister Kabange Numbi said that two out of eight cases
tested had come back positive for Ebola and he said the region
around the town of Djera would be quarantined. He said 13 people had
died from the disease, five of them healthcare workers, and some 80
others were being monitored.
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"This epidemic has absolutely no link with what is happening in West
Africa," the minister told a news conference.
Numbi said that one of the two cases that tested positive was for
the Sudanese strain of the disease, while the other was a mixture
between the Sudanese and the Zaire strain - the most lethal variety.
The outbreak in West Africa is the Zaire strain.
A WHO spokesman said it could not confirm the results of the tests,
which were conducted by Congolese authorities.
Separately, the WHO said a healthcare worker it had deployed to
Sierra Leone had tested positive for Ebola. It was the first time
someone working under the aegis of the WHO has been infected, it
said in a statement.
A government source in Sierra Leone, who asked not to be identified,
said the worker was a Senegalese expert deployed by the WHO in the
eastern town of Kailahun.
The WHO has sent in nearly 400 people from its own staff and partner
organizations since the outbreak was detected in March.
It is the first outbreak of the disease in West Africa and the worst
since it was discovered in 1976 in the jungles of Democratic
Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire.
The WHO is due to release next week a draft strategy to combat the
disease in West Africa. The U.N. agency has faced criticism that it
moved too slowly to contain the outbreak.
With the healthcare systems of Sierra Leone and Liberia already
fragile following a decade of civil war in the 1990s, and still
lacking staff, the WHO said a surge in foreign healthcare workers
was essential.
The WHO has warned that a decision by many transport companies to
suspend services to Ebola-hit countries was leading to shortages of
basic goods and foodstuffs. The U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) airlifted more than 16 tons of medical equipment
and emergency supplies to the Liberian capital Monrovia on Sunday.
(Additional reporting by Umaru Fofana in Freetown, James Harding in
Monrovia and Daniel Flynn in Dakar; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing
by Robin Pomeroy)
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This weekend an estimated 20,000 people per day will flood Plano for the first-ever Suburbia Music Festival.
Live Nation Entertainment is hosting the two-day event at Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve.
Anthony Nicolaidis, a Live Nation employee, said the idea for the festival came to him 18 months ago when he was going for a jog in the park.
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"This is a beautiful spot. This is an oasis in the middle of Dallas-Fort Worth," Nicolaidis said.
He began to work with Live Nation Chief Operating Officer Danny Eaton to collaborate on creating the event.
Nicholadis even asked local high school students what bands they would want to see perform.
"I just asked them what kind of music they like. They put together a list and we booked about three to four of them," he explained.
The line-up includes major acts, such as Grammy-nominated Alabama Shakes, house music producer David Guetta and hip-hop artist J. Cole.
Within the park, crews have spent a week building three stages. They also teamed up with AT&T Stadium's catering company, Legends, and brought in several local food trucks and vendors.
"I think the main thing for us is we're going to be outside and you're going to experience the freedom of being outside, but we are going to provide all the creature comforts you could possibly have in a setting like this," said Eaton. "It's like a festival where you can get out here and feel like you're in the middle of the country, but you can go home and sleep in your own bed at night. And there's a lot to be said for that."
Safety is a concern with 20,000 people expected per day for the festival. Organizers said they're prepared. They have teamed up with the Plano Police Department, fire department and medical services who will be onsite the entire weekend.
Alcohol will be sold at the event.
Overall, Eaton said he hopes the festival will turn into a major event known throughout the country over the next few years.
"This is going to be way fun, which is what this is all about by the way. The reason we're doing this is for fun," Eaton said.
For further rules on what patrons can and cannot bring, along with road closures for the weekend, click here.