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Here are the Eurogenes K15 results for AJs and West-Sicilians:
Population Ashkenazi West_Sicilian Norwegian French Danish North_Sea 9.89 9.763333333 39.74 28.25 36.56333 Atlantic 10.7 18.32 23.47 26.05 27.75667 Baltic 6.74 4.696666667 13.26 8.22 11.58667 Eastern_Euro 5.17 3.27 11.48 6.32 10.71333 West_Med 14.82 17.75666667 6.36 15.53 5.99 West_Asian 13.05 10.64333333 2.24 4.66 3.34 East_Med 26.61 26.74666667 0.8 6.72 2.036667 Red_Sea 8.07 5.373333333 0.14 2.83 0.29 South_Asian 1.2 0.566666667 0.81 0.71 1.026667 Southeast_Asian 0.6 0.19 0.08 0.09 0.08 Siberian 0.58 0.083333333 0.5 0.09 0.093333 Amerindian 0.32 0.01 0.72 0.2 0.186667 Oceanian 0.24 0.52 0.32 0.15 0.073333 Northeast_African 1.63 1.326666667 0.06 0.11 0.186667 Sub-Saharan 0.39 0.723333333 0.04 0.07 0.07
The two components that the West-Sicilians most clearly have more of are the Atlantic and West_Med components. This seems plausibly to be in alignment with the theory of them having Norman admixture, since those two components are very West-European, and are carried in fairly high proportions among the French, Norwegian and Danish populations, from which the Normans are said to be descended. The components in order where the AJs are most clearly higher are: Red_Sea, West_Asian, Baltic, and Eastern_Euro, and they are not much higher in those components than the West_Sicilians. The North_Sea component is marginally higher in the AJs. The largest difference is clearly in the Atlantic component. In light of this, maybe I wouldn't rule out just yet the AJs having a bit of that Khazar admixture - albeit a very small proportion. Here's the source table: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...Hc&usp=sharing
AJs are actually closer to Eastern Sicilians on the Eurogenes amateur crap.
Here are my K15 results:
Population North_Sea 8.44% Atlantic 19.52% Baltic 4.00% Eastern_Euro 1.99% West_Med 14.60% West_Asian 16.32% East_Med 26.20% Red_Sea 6.79% South_Asian - Southeast_Asian 0.62% Siberian - Amerindian - Oceanian 0.29% Northeast_African 1.24% Sub-Saharan -
I seem to get double the Atlantic component than an average AJ, but I suppose that just like Joey commented above, Gedmatch isn't very reliable. Is it possible that the similarities between AJs and west Sicilians come from a common Canaanite ancestry (the Phoenicians colonized west Sicily and like the Israelites they were Canaanites)?
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah pretty much that. Eastern Euro Ashkenazis have also a small amount of Turkic ancestry, that Sephardim lack.
A first-hand "census" on Jewish populations is given by Benjamin of Tudela's account of his travel around the Mediterranean in the second half of the 12th century. The figures probably relate to households rather than individuals. Around the Central/ Eastern Mediterranean, the largest Jewish communities he lists are:
- Alexandria 3,000
- Constantinople: 2,000 Rabbinites, 500 Karaites
- Thebes 2,000 (silk-weaving community, partly resettled by Normans into Sicily prior to Benjamin's journey)
- Palermo 1,500
- Salerno 600
- Naples, Otranto, Thessaloniki, Tyros: 500
Other relevant South Italian cities he visited included Capua (300), Taranto (300), Benevento (200), Melfi (200), Messina (200) and Trani (200).
For reference: Rhodes 400, Marseille, Corinth 300, Rome, Jerusalem 200, Lucca 40, Antioch 10, Genoa 2.
All those South Italian Jews must have gone somewhere after their expulsion in the 14th/ 15th century. And the communities were certainly ancient - we are talking about old Greek colonies here.
@joeyc: Yes, I didn't see the East-Sicilians in the table there. And yes, the East-Sicilians (ES) do look closer to the AJs than the West-Sicilians - quite similar actually. The largest differences between the AJ and ES in order are the Eastern_Euro, Atlantic, and West_Med components. Some might not find the table worthwhile, but I feel the percentages are worthy of posting anyway:
Population East_Sicilian Ashkenazi West_Sicilian North_Sea 9.75 9.89 9.763333333 Atlantic 13.27 10.7 18.32 Baltic 6.393333333 6.74 4.696666667 Eastern_Euro 2.26 5.17 3.27 West_Med 17.35666667 14.82 17.75666667 West_Asian 14.43 13.05 10.64333333 East_Med 26.94333333 26.61 26.74666667 Red_Sea 6.763333333 8.07 5.373333333 South_Asian 0.52 1.2 0.566666667 Southeast_Asian 0.03 0.6 0.19 Siberian 0.003333333 0.58 0.083333333 Amerindian 0.063333333 0.32 0.01 Oceanian 0.25 0.24 0.52 Northeast_African 1.596666667 1.63 1.326666667 Sub-Saharan 0.36 0.39 0.723333333
But even a AJ/ Sephardim mix wouldn't make you that "Atlantic", Sephardim also have just 14% of it. Actually, there aren't many populations that are high on "Atlantic" but at the same time low on "North Sea". The best here is French Basques (45% Atlantic vs. 17% North Sea) - in terms of a relevant, ancient Jewish community that should mean Narbonne.
The "best fit" population, as you probably already have realised, is West Sicilians. But West Sicilians, and even more so French Basques lack the West Asian component and are too Western Mediterranean. So I looked for a population that is high on "West Asian" but at the same time low on "Eastern European" and "Siberian". Best fit here is Georgian Jews. From the three together one can already pretty well emulate your ancestry structure, but they miss an East African & Red Sea component. Yemenite Jews fill the gap perfectly. That's not meaning you have actually Yemenite Jewish ancestry, they should rather compensate for the specifically Jewish element that is missing within French Basques. So here is my result:
Population Georgian Jewish West Sicilian Yemenite Jewish French Basque Mix John Doe 35.6% 26.1% 9.1% 29.2% 100% North_Sea 2.27 9.76 0.27 16.85 8.30 8.44 Atlantic 2.67 18.32 1.05 45.40 19.08 19.52 Baltic 1.63 4.70 0.16 4.79 3.22 4.00 Eastern_Euro 2.91 3.27 0.11 2.82 2.72 1.99 West_Med 6.95 17.76 4.40 25.04 14.82 14.60 West_Asian 35.22 10.64 5.41 0.83 16.05 16.32 East_Med 36.66 26.75 54.11 2.74 25.76 26.20 Red_Sea 8.06 5.37 27.46 0.73 6.99 6.79 South_Asian 2.77 0.57 0.48 0.13 1.22 0.00 Southeast_Asian 0.17 0.19 0.06 0.28 0.20 0.62 Siberian 0.10 0.08 0.10 0.04 0.08 0.00 Amerindian 0.16 0.01 0.08 0.03 0.08 0.00 Oceanian 0.11 0.52 0.18 0.10 0.22 0.29 Northeast_African 0.29 1.33 6.11 0.17 1.06 1.24 Sub-Saharan 0.04 0.72 0.01 0.04 0.21 0.00
Except for the South Asian component that comes with the Georgian Jews, it fits quite nicely.
Otherwise, you appear to be a living proof of Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe (Galizia) during Khazar times.
All Jews were completelly expelled from Southern Italy in the XVI century, including all the half breeds and the converts.
Their descendants would become the Italkim of central and northern Italy. All the Sephardim and Ashkenazim of Italy lived in the North (Rome, Trieste, Livorno, Venice....)
AJs are much closer to Eastern Sicilians (Siracusa) than to Western ones (Trapani). Which is funny considering that Siracusa was never occupied by Phoenicians and the Arab influences were quite insignificant.
As for the French Basque, well look at my K15 results:
Admix Results (sorted):
# Population Percent
1 East_Med 26.2
2 Atlantic 19.52
3 West_Asian 16.32
4 West_Med 14.6
5 North_Sea 8.44
6 Red_Sea 6.79
7 Baltic 4
8 Eastern_Euro 1.99
9 Northeast_African 1.24
10 Southeast_Asian 0.62
11 Oceanian 0.29
Single Population Sharing:
# Population (source) Distance
1 Ashkenazi 9.1
2 Sephardic_Jewish 9.48
3 Tuscan 10.37
4 Greek 10.57
5 North_Italian 16.43
6 Bulgarian 16.92
7 Cyprian 17.15
8 Turkish 18.23
9 Romanian 18.75
10 Lebanese_Muslim 19.17
11 Syrian 20.2
12 Serbian 21.68
13 Spanish_Andalucia 22.16
14 Spanish_Extremadura 22.31
15 Spanish_Murcia 22.54
16 Jordanian 23.15
17 Portuguese 23.16
18 Samaritan 23.47
19 Spanish_Valencia 23.63
20 Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon 23.85
Mixed Mode Population Sharing:
# Primary Population (source) Secondary Population (source) Distance
1 64.8% Lebanese_Muslim + 35.2% French_Basque @ 2.51
2 57.8% Lebanese_Muslim + 42.2% Spanish_Aragon @ 3.25
3 55.9% Lebanese_Muslim + 44.1% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha @ 3.28
4 51.9% Assyrian + 48.1% Spanish_Aragon @ 3.35
5 55.3% Lebanese_Muslim + 44.7% Spanish_Valencia @ 3.43
6 53.7% Lebanese_Muslim + 46.3% Spanish_Andalucia @ 3.48
7 59.4% Lebanese_Muslim + 40.6% Southwest_French @ 3.52
8 52.3% Spanish_Andalucia + 47.7% Assyrian @ 3.54
9 50% Spanish_Castilla_La_Mancha + 50% Assyrian @ 3.58
10 50.6% Spanish_Valencia + 49.4% Assyrian @ 3.72
11 59.3% Assyrian + 40.7% French_Basque @ 3.81
12 58.6% Lebanese_Muslim + 41.4% Spanish_Cantabria @ 4
13 51.9% Spanish_Murcia + 48.1% Assyrian @ 4.38
14 54.2% Lebanese_Muslim + 45.8% Spanish_Murcia @ 4.4
15 55.7% Lebanese_Muslim + 44.3% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon @ 4.43
16 53.5% Assyrian + 46.5% Southwest_French @ 4.44
17 56% Lebanese_Muslim + 44% Spanish_Cataluna @ 4.47
18 63.8% Syrian + 36.2% French_Basque @ 4.5
19 52.7% Assyrian + 47.3% Spanish_Cantabria @ 4.69
20 50.4% Spanish_Castilla_Y_Leon + 49.6% Assyrian @ 4.71
As for the Khazar admixture, maybe, but that still wouldn't explain so much Atlantic admixture. Also I highly doubt I have Yemenite or even Georgian Jewish ancestry, in the case of the former, I'd expect much more red sea and a much closer proximity to Palestinians, Jordanians, Bedouins and Saudis, with Yemenite Jews being Judaised Arabs and all.
Your turkic ancestry is most likely hided in the Baltic and Eastern Euro clusters AFAIK.
@Joh Doe: In the case of French Basque/ Atlantic admix I of course forgot Bordeaux and Toulouse as relevant and ancient Jewish communities. Both were within the Visigothic realm, which appear to have crafted a specific political alliance with the Jews. They didn't issue any discriminations, as Ostrogtothic Theodoric, and Jews are reported to have been among the most ardent supporters of Visigothic rule. Moreover, the region was part of the Norman/ English realm, and thus out of reach of earlier Medieval French discrimination and prosecution during the First Crusade. Especially Jews from Tolouse, however, became implicated in French prosecution of the heresy of the Albigenses in the 13th century - Alsace / Switzerland, and in the mid-14h century from there to Eastern Europe looks like a plausible migration path. Otherwise, Southern Italy with its high religious tolerance under 13th century Hohenstaufen rule would probably be the place to go if you wanted to escape the inquisition yet continue trade in Mediterranean commodities.
Eurogenes K15 West Asian admix centres in on the Greater Caucasus. After 200 years of Russian control, all North Caucasian populations have picked up some 6-10% East European ancestry, which makes them a rather poor fit for your case. So I took the Georgian Jews as a proxy of a lowly-russified Caucasian ancestry. Such ancestry appears to be stronger present with you then with the average AJ - whether due to direct Georgian-Jewish ancestry, or some Caucasian-Khazarian-Jewish ancestry that was picked up in Galizia, is something my amateurish approach cannot tell.
Noting from your Eurogenes admix results that Lebanese Muslims appear to capture the original Jewish (East Med/ Red Sea/ East African) ancestry component quite well, I have run another simulation where Yemenite Jews are replaced by Lebanese Muslims. The caveat here is that Lebanese Muslims have a bit of South Asian and Sub-Saharan African admix. Both tend to somewhat reduce the component's weight, but are probably not a fair representation of how the Levante's genetic mix looked 2,000 years ago. So I constructed an artificial Lebanese Muslim structure where these components are proportionally distributed onto all other components. Since that should capture the Jewish component, I also replaced Georgian Jews by Georgians. Moreover, as your father looks Anglo-German, I took in a fourth component. I have experimented with various options (Dutch, English, West German etc.), Northern German works best for its elevated Baltic admix.
That still left one problem - that 0.6% SE Asian admix in your genes, and with the average AJ, which is neither European nor Levantine. Thus, I looked for a population that maximises SE Asian ancestry with at little as possible Siberian and South Asian admix. Best choice here are the Dai (SW China), though in fact we are probably talking about some Himalayan component transferred via Afghanistan / Central Asia. Its highest frequencies in Europe (1.5-3%) are found among some North Caucasian populations, Ukraine is 0.5% (though Belgorod/Lviv only 0.2%). As such, the Georgian-Dai mix may be taken as a proxy of how the North Caucasian (Khazar) gene pool looked prior to Russification.
Here is the result (f²=0.46):
Population Lebanese Muslim 2 French Basque Georgian North German West Sicilian Dai Mix John Doe 58.0% 32.1% 4.3% 3.7% 1.6% 0.4% 100% North_Sea 2.50 16.85 4.68 33.08 9.76 0.17 8.44 8.44 Atlantic 5.79 45.40 3.90 27.46 18.32 0.17 19.39 19.52 Baltic 2.15 4.79 3.69 13.41 4.70 0.29 3.52 4.00 Eastern_Euro 1.26 2.82 3.27 9.95 3.27 0.29 2.20 1.99 West_Med 10.06 25.04 4.64 6.11 17.76 0.12 14.57 14.60 West_Asian 22.94 0.83 53.85 5.24 10.64 0.20 16.24 16.32 East_Med 41.06 2.74 19.63 2.50 26.75 0.15 26.04 26.20 Red_Sea 11.04 0.73 3.24 0.70 5.37 0.07 6.88 6.79 South_Asian 0.13 2.12 0.83 0.57 2.70 0.18 0.00 Southeast_Asian 0.12 0.28 0.16 0.02 0.19 91.41 0.52 0.62 Siberian 0.09 0.04 0.23 0.08 0.08 2.02 0.09 0.00 Amerindian 0.04 0.03 0.34 0.22 0.01 0.57 0.06 0.00 Oceanian 0.56 0.10 0.08 0.14 0.52 1.47 0.38 0.29 Northeast_African 2.40 0.17 0.13 0.19 1.33 0.17 1.48 1.24 Sub-Saharan 0.04 0.05 0.08 0.72 0.20 0.03 0.00
Except for the Baltic admix, which is still a bit too low, this looks quite good. The under-representation of the Baltic admix is related to its low share within Georgians. If I had taken North Caucasian populations (e.g. Adygei or Balkars) instead, the Baltic admix would have been fine (but in that case I would have gotten too much Eastern European admix).
I also checked which of the above components can be removed without significantly worsening the mix:
- West Sicilian: Only slight worsening (f²=0.48). Of the 1.6% West Sicilian, 1% goes to Lebanese Muslims, 0.6% to French Basques. The Atlantic component actually gets better, but West Med is now slightly under- and Red Sea bit more overestimated.
- Dai: Somehow worse (f²=0.56), as the SE Asian admix cannot anymore be approximated. The mix gets more Sicilian (2.3%), and less Basque/ Lebanese.
- North German: Substantially worse fit (f²=1.29). The simulation is now pushing up Sicily to 12%, Georgians up to 6% and Lebanese Muslims down to 51%,which improves a bit the East Med/ Red Sea/ East African components. However the mix becomes far too West Mediterranean and underestimates the North Sea and Baltic components by 0.5-0.7%.
- Georgian: Far worse. In order to somehow fit your West Asian admixture, the model tries to maximise the Lebanese Muslim component to such an extent that the Sicilian component turns negative. The best valid result has an f² of 2.84, it maximises Lebanese Muslims at 63%, and reduces the Sicilian component to zero. Still, the West Asian component is clearly underrepresented, Red Sea gets too high. Otherwise, it doesn't work too badly. By pushing up the Northern German component to 5.6%, the European components (Baltic, North Sea, Atlantic, Western Med) are reasonably well approximated, though North Sea and Eastern Europe are now also getting slightly too high.
Bottom line: The Sicilian component can be eliminated without significantly worsening the mix, the others are required. Essentially, your ancestry can be modelled as 59% Levantine, 32.5% Aquitaine (French Basque), 4.5% Khazarian (Georgian plus additional SE Asian & Baltic admix) and 4% North German. Alternatively to North German, Southern Dutch isn't a bad fit either(f²=0.56), but misses a bit on the Baltic component; Northern Dutch are a bit too North Sea (f²=0.54).
That North German ancestry may of course have been picked up somewhere in Eastern Europe from a German colonist - say 5 generations ago. Otherwise, if some of your ancestors lived as Jews for a longer time in Medieval Germany, one could, aside from Cologne, consider the following places:
A few things.1) Only eastern AJs have a significant amount of supposed Khazar ancestry. Georgians are not a good proxy for the Khazars.2) The Sephardi cluster is made up of Bulgarian and Turkish Sephardim now AFAIK. The original Behar paper from 2009 had the Belmonte Jews from Portugal, who better represent the original Sephardim.
If my rudimentary Italian doesn't deceive me, it says that some 6% of Sicily's population in 1492 were Jews. Out of which total? Surely more than half a million, possibly one million (Sicily's population today is around 5 million, in spite of heavy emigration to the US and elsewhere). That means that at least 50,000, possibly 100,000 or more Jews had to emigrate from Sicily and Southern Italy. I furthermore understand that the stop-over in Central/ Northern Italy was only short, and after 1580 many (most?) of the Sicilian / Southern Italian Jews moved on to Poland (probably meant to include Galicia) and Lithuania.Si stima che nel 1492 gli ebrei componessero oltre il 6% della popolazione della Sicilia.[9] Molti ebrei siciliani inizialmente andarono in Calabria, che già aveva una comunità ebraica sin dal IV secolo. Nel 1524 gli ebrei furono espulsi dalla Calabria e nel 1540 da tutto il Regno di Napoli, poiché queste regioni caddero sotto il dominio degli spagnoli e furono oggetto dell'editto di espulsione dell'Inquisizione spagnola.
Ci fu uno spostamento graduale degli ebrei durante tutto il XVI secolo dal sud d'Italia verso il nord, con il peggioramento delle condizioni per gli ebrei a Roma dopo 1556 e a Venezia negli anni 1580. Molti ebrei da Venezia e aree circostanti emigrarono verso la Polonia e la Lituania in questo period.
That would explain why AJ plot so close to Sicilians / South Italians. I'd guess if you "mix" West Sicilians with South Italians (especially Calabrians), the result should genetically resemble East Sicilians.
Almost all European/Turkish/North African Jews are the descendants of the expelled Iberian Jews actually. There was even a study regarding to Jewish Y-Dna supporting that.
The Khazar contribution is greatly overrated & overestimated.
Moreover, I find most Gedmatch runs wholly unconvincing given the nature of the components (derived from actual components such as WHG, EEF, ANE, ASI, ANI, etc).
Which is why I'm kind of amused when someone claims that "Eastern Ashkenazi Jews" have more "Khazar" or "Slavic" ancestry than "Western AJs". In fact, one of the Behar et al. 2013 paper's conclusions was that "relatively little observable genetic difference exists between representatives of eastern and western Ashkenazi Jewish populations, suggesting that genetically, the Ashkenazi Jewish population approximates a single large community (Guha and others, 2012)".
Regarding the Basque, I think you might be onto something here (no indication of gene-flow though, so the ~65% Lebanese figure is wrong, same story with the ~50% Iberian fits):
The above is an IBD map taken from Vadim Verenich's blog. As you can see, there's a non-negligible amount of IBD sharing with Basques... Along with Sardinians.
IMO this might have something to do with the fact that EEF-like ancestry was much more common around the first couple of centuries CE and managed to remain until the Ashkenazi bottleneck took place.
There's also high IBD sharing with the Greeks, so I'm more & more enclined to think that the Aegean played a big part in the formation of Western (Ashkenazi-Sephardi) Jewry.
In fact, I'm ready to say that some of the Aegean admixture might even go back to the Middle Bronze Age, when contacts between the Minoans (and Mycenaeans later on) and the Levant were thriving. This definitely isn't good news since this means that we'll be grasping at straws and splitting hairs when pre-exilic genome-wide results come in, as it strengthens the case for a Cypriot-like Levantine population prior to the emergence & spread of the arabs (which had already started a few centuries prior to the appearance Islam, mind you).
There's also a noticeable degree of IBD sharing with Eastern Ukrainians, in this case I think it has to do with prolonged cohabitation and the direction of gene-flow would be mostly Jewish to non-Jew given the region's history (replete with examples corroborating such a model, think of the Jewish cossacks for instance) and the paucity (not to say absence) of WHG in Jews.
Also of interest is the level of IBD sharing with Iranians, possibly a remnant of the Babylonian exile (would explain why I have Iranian and Uzbek Jewish relatives on my RF).
The Khazar theory takes yet another blow here, given the low to non-existent amounts of IBD sharing between Turkic speakers and Jews (save Uyghurs and Anatolian Turks, which are special species in their own right, so to speak).
Finally, I can't help but notice the fact that the level of IBD sharing with Italians is pretty low (lower than the amount of IBD sharing with Basques or Greeks, and on par with the level of IBD sharing with Turks & Iranians), which is surprising given the high similarity to Eastern Sicilians and Maltese (though in a sense you could say that AJs are even more similar to Aegean islanders and Cretans, but that's another story).
Oh, and Jewish uniparental lineages seem to be Near Eastern for the most, and yes that includes mtDNA as well.
So what you're saying is that the large IBD sharing between AJs and Greeks could go as far back as the middle bronze age due to contact between the Minoans and Mycenaeans on one hand and Levantines on the other, and later on through the Hellenistic and Roman periods?
The relation to eastern Ukraine could be also from that fact that many Jewish women were raped by Cossacks.
P.S Talking about Anatolian Turks, don't forget that Anatolian Turks aren't exactly Turkmen, I reckon they largely descend from Indigenous Anatolians who were Turkefied and Islamised by the actual Turks, just like modern Hungarians represent a largely indigenous population conquered and assimilated by a Magyar elite.
P.P.S Yeah I'm aware of the fact that Gedmatch is hardly as reliable as Behar and Lazaridis.
P.P.P.S Where did you get that map from?


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After completing his PhD, Williams was employed on the FWF-funded project 24388: Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Nyāya School III with Prof. Karin Preisendanz and Dr. Alessandro Graheli. The project focused on critically editing the earlier parts of one of the foundational texts of the older Nyāya school, Vātsyāyana Pakṣilasvāmin's Nyāyabhāṣya. Williams was responsible for studying and collating the numerous manuscripts used by the project, and for writing chapters for the final project publication.
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They say, hell has no fury like a woman scorned…well they are right.
The woman screams! she screams so loud that her voice is hoarse and rough. she has been screaming for a very long time. Wailing her heart out. She is inconsolable. Outside, her petrified sons and their nanny stand helplessly watching the carnage going on inside their home through a window. The little boys watch with tears running down their faces and the nanny looks on helplessly not knowing what to do. Inside the house, the scene is chaotic. Everything that can be shattered by brute force has been smashed. Plates, glasses, flasks and everything else lies on the floor, broken to smithereens. Even the fridge is on its side, the door hanging by its hinges and the glass oven door smashed in. The wailing woman sits in the midst of the chaos, a look of disbelief or perhaps despair on her face. The mess before her eyes is a perfect replica of her life- inside and out. A life built on hope and faith, around a man she barely knew. The man who by deceit became her husband and father of her four children, of whom only two now survive.
This feels like a bad dream that try as she might, she cannot wake out of. Its been a long nightmare, woven over ten years of denying the obvious and trying to make things work. And now like a spider, the woman finds herself caught in a web of lies so fine, there is barely any wiggle room left. Everything has come to a head and now unable to bear the pressure she is having a nervous break down. Some people might say she is losing her mind. It is surreal. Her eyes scan the room barely seeing the beautiful pictures on the wall. On the far right, there is a picture of her and her husband on their wedding day. The smile on their faces that only earlier that day seemed radiant and warm now appears sardonic. The photo caption reads: Cecilia Weds Wayne
Now, his face, has acquired a cunning and foxy look that the woman knows has always been there but blinded by love, she never saw it before. On the other side of the room. A huge portrait of the father, mother and two young children takes up a big part of the wall-The not so perfect family-. She remembers clearly when this picture was taken. It was just a few months after she had her fourth child, a son, now 15moths old. The day of her 3year old son's birthday. On this day, everyone was genuinely happy. But something happened on that same day that cast a shadow on the future of her family. Another woman came to visit uninvited but not unwelcome. She introduced herself as a friend to the husband and colleague at work. She was expecting a child. Her name is Thato – Meaning love in Sotho.
She told Cecilia, the fact that she was soon to become a mother, made her want to be around children even more. They chatted amiably over lunch but thinking back now, Cecilia knows there was something about her that didn't look right. From her subdued position on the floor, Cecilia can now see what unsettled her so much about this woman.
Much younger, light skinned and shapely,Thato was way more attractive than her but it was not her beauty that sat like a bit of lead on her heart. It was the way she looked at her husband and the way he threw a lustful look at her now and then, when he thought she was not looking.
Thereafter, she seemed to turn up everywhere. She was there at the hospital when Cecilia and Wayne took their young sons for their immunization jabs last week and then again when Cecilia went to her husband's work place late at night to pick him. Mr Wayne Owen is a hot-shot editor of a busy daily newspaper, while Thato works as an Editorial Secretary. That night, Wayne said they were both working late on last minute changes to the newspaper. No one could argue with that. Cecilia could not.
But everything became clear a few days ago, when cleaning out their bedroom, Cecilia found a diary, hidden at the very back of the closet and under a pile of old clothes. She opened it out of curiosity and intended not to go beyond the first page. She told herself, she had nothing to fear. She thought she knew all there was to know about Wayne.You see her marriage was one of a kind. They enjoyed a passionate open and warm relationship. She thought she knew all there was to know about her man and he about her. When they got married some ten years before, they had sworn to keep no secrets from each other and until that point, she had kept her end of the bargain, telling him everything about her movement, friends, intimate thoughts and all.
He on the other hand kept a heavy hand life. He monitored every move she made without making it too obvious. He had this unsettling habit of calling her whenever she left the house. He happened by in unlikely places when Cecilia was out with friends, and on numerous occasions, came home unannounced during odd hours of the day. At the beginning those odd days were filled with passion and love. He would come into her home office where she ran a budding PR firm, grab her from behind and make passionate love to her, right there on the floor. They treasured those moments because with two sons and demanding jobs to hold down, they seldom had time to be alone. Lately however, those moments had died down.
Now when he came hone, he seemed suspicious of something. He was irritable and uncommunicative. Cecilia had noted an odd phone habit with him lately. Where before he took calls freely, he had begun to receive his calls outside or in the bathroom. Once when Cecilia, tried to answer his cell phone, he came out of the shower stark naked and dripping wet, grabbed the phone and shoved her aside. He then spoke hastily into the phone and hang up. Later he gave her a pep talk about how private his phone was and why she should never answer it. Cecilia was shocked and hurt because she believed they had no secrets between them.
Discovering the hidden diary had shaken her faith in her husband and marriage and confirmed with a sinking feeling, what she had known for awhile now. Her husband led a double life. He was not the man he said he was and their life together was nothing but a sham. An extension of a mind boggling web of lies, carefully woven by him to cheat and deceive everyone around him.
Cecilia remembered opening the diary and flipping through hundreds of entries made during the period they dated and during their marriage. He wrote in graphic detail describing how he plotted to lure her into a marriage that to him was just a coverup. In it he admits marrying her to fulfill an obligation.He married her to make his aging parents happy. As the first born son in a deeply traditional african family, it was expected of him to produce an heir. Marrying Cecilia at the age of 38 was a necessity, long over due. He described in graphic detail how he lusted after her from the first time he saw her in the office. How jealously he bid his time as Cecilia flirted with other men at the work. He plotted to lure her into his lair have his way with her and when the time was right, dump her.
That revelation came as a complete shock to Cecilia, for all the year, they had been together, there had been no indication that their marriage was not real. He did all that was expected of him as a husband and father but truth be told, there was a little part of him that told Cecilia he was not all in. He seemed emotionally detached-The unexplained disappearances, the sudden withdrawal of affection and lately his strange obsession with his phone, pointed to a deep rooted problem, which Cecilia thought until now could have been worked out. But it was the entries about other women that blew her top.
He wrote with vivid imagery how he baited women for sex, three four or five different women every week and sometimes even two different women every day. He marveled at himself, wondering how he had been able to fool his wife in to believing he cared for her even as he slept with other women. He was disgustingly indiscriminate with the woman he targeted. They ranged from the cleaner at the office, the fruit and vegetable vendor on the roadside, his children's nannies to the secretary at the office, colleagues at the office to random women he met in bars, and prostitutes he paid for the thrill. Cecilia could not take it. She knew the secret to his high libido. For a man in his late 40's he kept his libido at an amazing high with the famed wonder drug, viagra. She knew because there was a blister pack of Viagra in his jacket pocket. She found it when she emptied his pockets as she often did before putting the laundry in the wash every week. The dairy was explicit about his children born out of wedlock with other women. As a staunch Catholic, Cecilia found this fact particularly sinful and very hurtful. There were three other children sired by him. One of them a girl, born in the first year of Wayne and Cecilia's marriage. Two boys had been born within a few months of her own children. It was horrifying to think that he had at least three women pregnant at the same time. Thato was his latest catch, who Cecilia knew without a doubt was expecting his child.
When she found the diary, she brewed and drank numerous cups of coffee to settle her nerves, as she read, then she drunk a bottle of wine and when that failed to calm her nerves, she went out for a drink with a girl friend. The evening quickly graduated into a teary mess as she narrated to her girl friend what she had found. By the time she drove back home that night, she was a nervous wreck. She retired to her room, showered, drank some more wine and waited for her cheating husband to come home.
He came home in the wee hours of the morning and an argument ensued right then when he tried to convince her he got home much earlier. He infuriated her even more when he claimed the clock on the wall which showed 3.30am was wrong. This enraged Cecilia because it was not the first time he was doing it. He did it all the time as if to imply she did not know how to tell time. Cecilia thought how he took every opportunity to belittle her. He played that hurtful game best when in the company of their friends, telling them what a bad driver she was. He told anecdotes about the days she lost her car in the mall and how she lost her way back home on the same route she took going away every time. The joke was intended to make her out as a brainless moron.
He laughingly told anyone who cared to listen how he put a tracker in her car to help find her when she got lost as she often did. Back then, it sounded to Cecilia like a harmless joke but now the truth was dawning on her in blinding sheets. This was his way of manipulating her. Making her think a lot less of herself everyday. He had taken a chisel and hammer to her self esteem, chipping at it daily, with the things he did and said to her.
Tonight however, Cecilia is determined to have her way. She wants to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So when Wayne attempts to brush her off as he has done many times before, she refuses to budge. Wayne has always been great at avoiding things. So when cecilia hurls the incriminating diary at him, he ducks, changes hastily and gets into bed, turns to face the wall and covers his head, silent as a tomb. Enraged, Cecilia, flips the covers off the bed and yanks him out of the bed with all the force she can master. He reacts by slapping her open handed across the face. The pain comes as a shock to her!. For all the years they have been married, Wayne had never hit her. Granted, he did a lot of damage to her with words, deeds and in what he failed to but never once did he physically assault her until now.
But there was this one night when after a string of nights spent away from home, she refused to give him sex on demand. Then, he lost his cool and became obsessed with having her, any way he could. He grabbed and pinned her on the bed, face down, then he took her from behind! that was as shocking as it was thrilling and even though she knew without a doubt that she had been raped. She enjoyed it so much that he often threatened to repeat it when she was naughty.
Cecilia realized in horror how, in some twisted way, Wayne had succeeded in dominating her, abusing her and taking away every shred of self respect she thought she had. Until today however, Cecilia had thought nothing more of that incident. Now she saw a clear pattern of a serial abuser of women. A man so self centered, he didn't care whom he hurt as long as he got what he wanted.
But in the wee hours of that morning when she confronted him, she knew this was a fight like no other. Not even a slap across the face would stop her from finding out for certain whether she had built a family on one big lie and even brought two adorable children into it.
Cecilia still wept for her two dearly departed children, who died before they were born – One was a still birth and the other a miscarriage in the first trimester of her very first pregnancy. She did not even know she was pregnant when it happened – As a newly married couple, Cecilia and Wayne were on their honeymoon, traveling across three countries of Botwana-Zambia and Tanzania-to Kenya, where they were born. The trip was blissful, filled with love, passion, great food and wine and of course the beautiful sights and sounds. The miscarriage happened in Lusaka Zambia, where in the middle of the night, she was jarred from sleep by a sharp pain in her womb, followed rapidly by huge clots of blood. Admitted in the Lusaka National Hospital for three excruciating nights, Cecilia begun to write her obituary. But if the loss of their first child early in her marriage put a dent into their relationship, it was the still birth of her third child, that drove the first nail into the coffin of her marriage.
Losing a full term baby is never easy for any mother but without emotional support, the loss can be devastating. Cecilia received little of that from her husband or family and that threw her into an year long depression, during which time she toyed with suicide and thoughts of running away and leaving her young son, then barely two years old, plagued her mind for days on end. Looking back now, she blamed her husband for the loss of their child because it was around that time that he begun seeing other women actively. Diary entries around that period confirmed her suspicions. In some African cultures it is believed that if a man slept with another woman during his wife's pregnancy and then slept with his wife, that child would not live.
Even though she believed herself to be above superstition, Cecilia put down the loss of her handsome baby boy to a bad omen. How else could one explain the death of her child at 38weeks after a healthy pregnancy. She had attended all her pre-natal clinics and done all the tests necessary and not just at any hospital but at one of the best private hospitals in Southern Africa and not one doctor picked up a problem with the baby. She had even shopped for the boy, decked his nursery in blue and prepared her elder son for the new baby's arrival, then out of the blues, her doctor said he could not find the fetal heart beat. That on the day before she was due to deliver was the hardest thing she ever had to bear.
Cecilia remembered that day vividly. She had planned an elective C-section and told Cecilia to come ready to receive her baby so she packed her baby bag, dressed in a blue loose fitting gown and told her nanny to clean the baby's room one last time. She then phoned her husband to meet her at the hospital before she drove herself to the Gaborone Private Hospital. She was mentally prepare for the elective c-section agreed upon with her doctor on account of her narrow pelvic canal and nothing could go wrong.
She hummed a beautiful tune as she drove through the streets of Gaborone that warm summer day, eager to receive her second bundle of joy. Nothing could have prepared her for this. The tragic news sat like lead at the pit of her stomach when the doctor said he could not find the fetal heart beat but determined to save her baby's life Cecilia rushed out to a nearby clinic for a second opinion. She got the same devastating news! her baby was dead. in fact, he had been dead for a while because by the time an emergency procedure was done to remove the fetus, rot had set in.
The boy came out fully formed with a full head of hair and nails. He weighed in at 3.4kg. Cecilia remembered holding his lifeless body in her arms moments after he was born with tears strumming down her face. She recalled how tall he was, when they placed him on the weighing scale. His legs went right over the top. The mental image of his handsome face-handsome even with his eyes closed would remain with her forever. But it was the heart wrenching funeral that followed days later that she wished to forget in a hurry but could not. In a dark corner of her mind is a another picture of an amazingly small white coffin and in it, the remains of her dearly beloved and departed son. The echo of the soil hitting the coffin, still rings loud and clear in her mind more than a decade later.
Her reverie is shuttered by a loud knock on the door but she does not open or make an indication that she has heard, until the door is kicked in with brute force, bringing the man and the door crashing into the house to join the pile of broken pieces of her life on the floor.
Cecilia is enraged. She sets her feet firmly on the ground daring the men who have just burst into her home to touch her. The men respond with enough aggression to dry her tears in an instant. They waste little time before grabbing her roughly and dragging her out screaming and writhing, between two men. A third male pushes Cecilia from behind and then shoves her roughly into a waiting car. Sirens blaring, the car carrying the woman and two burly men, one on either side as though barring her from escaping drives off with screeching tires on the drive way. Two chase cars follow at top speed, leaving behind a bewildered crowd of curious onlookers gaping after them.
The cars stop outside an imposing building outside of town. Two armed and imposing police men escort their handcuffed prisoner in to the building. This is a maximum security prison somewhere close to the kalahari desert, notorious for its brutal prison guards and inhumane conditions under which prisoners are held. Cecilia now hand-cuffed is pushed into an interrogation room where a male officer, baton on hand begins the interrogation. Sitting across the long metal table, Cecilia looks and feels frail. She is accused of killing her husband and father of her children. Up until that point, the husband is nowhere to be found. No one can say for sure whether he is dead or alive but before he disappeared, he reported a threat on his life, made by his wife.
Police were called to the house by a frightened house maid, who woke up to find the mistress of the house trashing the kitchen. Police responded fast, since an alert was already out on the same address. The burly officer sitting in the interrogation room is cross. She addresses the, accused tall but trim with stern crisp tones. He wants to know what she has done with her husband's body and if the meltdown his officers witnessed earlier that day had something to do with her husband's disappearance.
The officer claims to have the murder weapon, a hammer that police say was recovered in the house. Shocked, Cecilia remains mum. She stares across the room as if in a trance. Mumbling to herself. The violent confrontation that took place outside the room where she is now being held is playing itself out in her mind and in the minds of everyone present. No one can tell who that woman outside was. She accosted the woman now in the interrogation shoving and pushing and addressed her in a foreign language, deepening the intrigue surrounding the woman in this room. The police will hold her for the next 24 hours for questioning to try and find out what happened to Wayne but with no evidence of a murder being committed and no body to show for it, they know all too well they will have no choice but to let her go.
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Washington Free Beacon
September 27, 2016
FBI Director James Comey explained Tuesday how top Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills received immunity and was able to sit in on Clinton's interview with the bureau despite being on her legal team during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) asked Comey why Mills was given immunity in return for her laptop as part of the FBI investigation into Clinton's private email server.
"Director Comey, why was Cheryl Mills granted immunity in the classified data investigation for Secretary Clinton?" he asked.
Comey explained that the type of immunity Mills was given, active production immunity, is meant to safeguard her from criminal prosecution by the Justice Department
"So, it was not personal immunity for her," Comey said. "It was–the immunity was, we will not use, we the Department of Justice, directly against you anything we recover on this laptop. Fairly common tool of criminal investigations, but that's what it was."
He said the reasoning behind this was that the FBI needed the laptop for its investigation, and Mills' lawyer negotiated the deal so the bureau could get it.
"The FBI's judgment was we need to get to that laptop," Comey said. "We need to see what it is. This investigation has been going on for a year, and this was, in the negotiation, a tool that her lawyer asked for that the Department of Justice granted so we could get the laptop."
Sasse asked if Mills was Clinton's lawyer during her interview with the FBI.
"Is that irregular?" he asked.
"Our understanding was that she was acting as a member of her legal team," Comey responded. "Not irregular."
He said that Mills' ability to sit in on Clinton's interview was because the FBI does not "police" who can and cannot observe a voluntary interview.
"Not the FBI's job to decide who can be in a voluntary interview," he said. "There are ethical canons that govern lawyers, but we don't police that."
Mills served as Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department.
James Comey's Clinton Immunity
More questions about the FBI's special handling of the email case.
FBI Director James Comey appears Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, where he'll get another chance to explain his agency's double standard regarding Hillary Clinton. His probe of the former Secretary of State's private email server is looking more like a kid-glove exercise with each new revelation.
House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Friday disclosed that the FBI granted immunity to Mrs. Clinton's top aides as part of its probe into whether Mrs. Clinton mishandled classified information. According to Mr. Chaffetz, this "limited" immunity was extended to former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and senior adviser Heather Samuelson, in order to get them to surrender their laptops, which they'd used to sort through Mrs. Clinton's work-versus-personal emails.
Why the courtesy? "If the FBI wanted any other Americans' laptops, they would just go get them—they wouldn't get an immunity deal," Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan told Politico. He's right. The FBI merely had to seek a subpoena or search warrant. By offering immunity, the FBI exempted the laptops and their emails as potential evidence in a criminal case.
Beth Wilkinson, who represents Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson, says the immunity deals were designed to protect her clients against any related "classification" disputes. This is an admission that both women knew their unsecure laptops had been holding sensitive information for more than a year. Meanwhile, Mr. Comey also allowed Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson to serve as lawyers for Mrs. Clinton at her FBI interview—despite having been interviewed as witnesses and offered immunity.
The FBI also offered immunity to John Bentel, who directed the State Department's Office of Information Resources Management; to Bryan Pagliano, Mrs. Clinton's IT guru; and to an employee of Platte River Networks (PRN), which housed the Clinton server. Usually, the FBI only "proffers" immunity deals in return for genuine information. In this case the FBI seemed not to make any such demands. The deals also did not include—as they often do—requirements that the recipients cooperate with other investigating bodies, such as Congress.
Meantime, the FBI waited until late Friday to dump another 189 pages of documents from its investigation, including notes from interviews with Ms. Mills and Ms. Samuelson, Mr. Pagliano, Clinton confidante Huma Abedin, and Platte River Network employees. They raise even more questions.
Was the FBI concerned that Ms. Mills in the fall of 2013 (after Congress began investigating the Benghazi attacks) called Mr. Pagliano to ask about software that could be used for "wiping computer data"? Or that a Platte River Networks employee, after getting instructions from Ms. Mills to begin deleting Clinton emails more than 60 days old, entitled the resulting work ticket the "Hillary coverup operation"? Or that a PRN employee was instructed by the company's lawyer "not to answer any [FBI] questions related to conversations with" David Kendall, Mrs. Clinton's personal lawyer?
The FBI documents also disclose that Mr. Pagliano admitted to having, at the beginning of Mrs. Clinton's tenure, several conversations with unnamed State Department official(s) who expressed concern that her private server posed "a federal records retention issue," and that it was likely transmitting classified information. When Mr. Pagliano relayed these concerns to Ms. Mills, she ignored them.
We'd also love to hear what the FBI made of the news that Mrs. Clinton maintained a Gmail account. The Democratic presidential nominee has never disclosed this detail. Speaking of revealing, President Obama has publicly said he found out about Mrs. Clinton's server through "news reports." Yet the FBI notes reveal that he emailed Mrs. Clinton on her private server under a pseudonym. Ms. Abedin told the FBI that the White House was notified when Mrs. Clinton changed her email address so the President's secure server wouldn't exclude her emails. Was Mr. Obama fibbing too?
These columns have long opposed the appointment of special prosecutors, but that depends on the ability of established legal officers to do their jobs without political favor. Mr. Comey's handling of the Clinton case understandably makes Americans wonder if their government can be trusted to perform this duty. On the evidence of the FBI's special treat for Mrs. Clinton and her aides, they are right to wonder.


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Kong Audio has announced the release of Chinee Orchestra SE, a collection of 27 Chinese instruments, plus one set of Chinese percussion. The Standard Edition is a streamlined version of Chinee Orchestra Full Edition, with a much smaller size and a more affordable price tag.
"The result is satisfying," says DongSheng Shan, CEO of Kong Audio, "even though it seems like a simple library, it actually is gorgeously expressive, thanks to the use of QIN engine's Extenders."
Shan says Kong Audio's design philosophy has always been to keep the size down and make the instruments as slick as possible, while keeping it expressive. This old school approach is especially manifested in the creation of Chinee Orchestra SE.
"What is interesting is that a simplified instrument actually sounds more closer to being an ideal instrument. So we believe even the professionals may prefer to use this Standard Edition than the Full Edition sometimes," reveals Shan.
Chinee Orchestra is powered by the QIN RV engine, the native sample playback plugin developed by Kong Audio. Chinee Orchestra features a dynamic range of sound palettes suitable soundtracks, film/TV/game scores, pop music, commercials or live gigs. It is designed to meet the needs of Chinese professional composers, and it is evidenced by its wide use in current Chinese professional productions.
Chinee Orchestra SE is scheduled to be released in February, 2014.
More details at http://www.chineekong.com
Author: World Music Central News Department
World music news from the editors at World Music Central


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Dr. Shakti Butler
Dr. Shakti Butler is the Founder & Creative Director of World Trust, a nonprofit based in Oakland, CA. She is the producer and director of groundbreaking World Trust documentaries including The Way Home: Women Talk about Race in America, Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, and Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. She travels extensively across the United States to share the films and catalyze change. Dr. Butler is a master at inviting people to see themselves as indelibly connected to each other and the world we live in. Dr. Butler is a multiracial African-American woman (African, Arawak Indian, and Russian- Jewish) whose work as a creative and visionary bridge builder has challenged and inspired learning for over two decades. To learn more about Shakti Butler and see footage of her, and the films, go to www.world-trust.org.


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I called it that because it took me that long to finish - time spent in attaining a level of detail beyond any of my previous efforts, while reducing the total prim count from over 600 in the initial design down to the finished 280.
While simpler in look and layout than the others, the complexity of the post & beam vernacular style and design of the individual parts places this house firmly as the most difficult of my designs to complete. It is, in many ways, the summation of what I have learned in my time as a home builder.
The Forever House has been designed to fit between the existing range of LagNmoor Village homes in size and prim count, larger than the Crooked House and Seaside Cottage but not as big as the Carriageway House. I have also listened to the many requests and implemented a variety of changes for this and future houses in the LagNmoor Village collection, such as a reduction in scripts, less prims, open floorplan and a completely new rezzer system.
The Forever House contains a variety of sculpted primitives created specifically for this house. The focus on detail and craftsmanship includes:
• Post and beam/plaster construction over stone foundation, beamed ceiling
• Vented gable roof and vented front and rear dormers
• Center split, leaded glass doors and windows with diamond mullions and functional hardware (the doors all open from the right side, unless you are on the other side of them, in which case they open from the left.)
• Sculpted House Djinn to adjust window textures and transparency
• Split barn-style Dutch door with working hardware
• Front Corner Lamp (touch to turn on or off)
• Two working stone fireplaces with a functional chimney and tiled hearths. (click hearth tile to turn on or off the chimney smoke)
• Crown/Shoe moulding
• Qoined corner facades inside and out
• Crenellated machicolations on the tower, varanda and patio
• 1-off and baked texture work throughout
• Curved pocket doors in the stairwell tower at each level
• Front veranda, back patio off the master suite
• 3rd floor tower patio with conical roof for open-air use. (touch to turn on or off)


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Today we are chilling with a new up and coming rapper named Grimez. He comes from Charlotte, North Carolina and has been making a name for himself by being the official rapper on the Mac Attack show on CBS radio and dropping his video for "Raise Em Up". Not too mention making tons of appearances on the Digital Dynasty mixtape series over the last 4 years. Grimez has an agenda to get many things before the end of 2012 and with that said we got to chop it up with the wild boy and it went a little something like this…
HipHopLead – Grimez is an interesting name. For starts where did the name come from?
Grimez- I came up with it before I even wrote my first rhyme, when I was starting out on the production side. It comes from Grimes Street in uptown Charlotte, where I got my introduction to the grimier side of life with my boy SB, currently incarcerated, who I started my label, Grind It Out Records, with.
HipHopLead – We know you rep Charlotte, NC all day. Have you always lived there?
Grimez- Born and raised, I grew up a few miles outside of the city limits. But I've bounced around all over the city for the past 10 years. I've seen it come from nothing to what it is now.
HipHopLead – Lets clear the air .. you have a WuTang tattoo and love the NY Jets …. are you sure you are living in the right state? (laughs)
Grimez- Charlotte was way different when I was growing up. This was before the Hornets, before the Panthers, and before the whole Atlanta music scene. But yeah, I was into Wu-tang heavy in high school. My nickname was even "Chef" after Raekwon. I've always had a facsination with New York tho.
HipHopLead – What made you wanna get into HipHop?
Grimez- Honestly I made my album because I was sick of the shit I was hearing on the radio and I really felt that rap was dying. I didnt make this album for the masses, I made the kind of music I like to listen to. Simple as that. I never grew up wanting to be a rapper. I never even knew I had the talent. I was pissed off at some girl one day and sat down and wrote my first verse in like 15 minutes. That verse made the album. I don't write just to write. I always write to music and I rarely, if ever, freestyle. I don't force it. But 90% of all the verses I've written have been recorded, or will be. It's a zone I go into, it's hard to explain.
HipHopLead – Who were your influences to get into music?
Grimez- Needless to say my biggest influences are Wu-Tang Clan and 3-6 Mafia. I was hardcore, even into the spin offs like Killarmy and Lil Wyte. Wu-tang from 93-99 and 3-6 from 99 to present day. I'm big on 36 Mafia, not lyrically, but their consistency and the volume of listenable music they release. They've put out well over 50 projects collectively
and I can ride to almost all of them. Outside of hip hop. Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, and Pink Floyd.
HipHopLead – A lot of people say the majority of the rappers in the South are not lyrical or lack substance. After listening to "All I Know" and "Raise Em Up" it seems like you have a dark story to tell and recognize quality lyrics are important to you. What makes you not want to not dumb it down?
Grimez- I think that comes from writing only when I have something on my mind to write about. I like to get as much info across in a verse as I can get without a bunch of filler or nonsense. I want every bar to make a point, to have a reason for being in there besides the fact it rhymes. Anybody can rap in one or two syllable words. i like to throw some 5 or 6s in there. And I respect other rappers who are passionate about their music
HipHopLead – What projects have you released to date?
Grimez- Pretty much every song I've ever recorded up to this year is on my debut "Actions Speak Louder Than Words", which I'm debuting exclusively on HipHopLead.com. In my biased opinion there's not a bad song on there. I recorded 25 songs for the album and 21 made the cut. I'm not the type of artist who's gonna record 100 songs a year like 2 Chainz or Lil Wayne. I prefer quality over quantity. I paid for everything out my pocket for this so I dont like to waste my time. I do have 10 appearances to date on Advo's Digital Dynasty series and did the "Tebow" song for CBS Sports Radio, here in Charlotte.
HipHopLead – Your new project, "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" is about to drop. Where did the title come from?
Grimez- It's a saying I use in relationships alot. But its really just something I live by. You can say your gonna do something till your blue in the face or you can actually go out and make it happen.
HipHopLead – What type of music are the fans in store for with this mixtape?
Grimez- My music is very beat and story driven. I always write to music, and I won't record a song unless im feeling the beat. But its really a journey through some of my darkest days. It all comes from the heart. I was dealing with some major demons during the recording process, and this album was my release, what kept me going, what kept me alive. I can promise you it's like something you've never heard. Its definitely in your face. My real goal as an artists is to explain to the world what its like to be bi-polar/schizophrenic. And how my brain really works, which even I dont totally understand
HipHopLead – Which was your favorite song and why?
Grimez- The song that is most personal to me is "One of a Kind" That's really what Im going for an artist. I explain what I go through mentally on a daily basis. A struggle to keep my sanity.
HipHopLead – Any new projects coming out after that? Any features?
Grimez- I've got an album in the works with Ben Freezy, who just signed a distribution deal with Island/Def Jam, entitled "Embrace the Madness". He produced over half of "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" and is featured heavy on it. I'm also working on a project with Advo and his crew in NYC. I'm hoping to drop both in 2013.
HipHopLead – Speaking of that we heard that you have a song with Tha Advocate, J.D. Artist and Shawn Blayze coming soon. We know the details were scarce but Advo told us that the song is "A dark eye opener about life". Can you give us anymore details on that song and how it came about?
Grimez- We getting deep now. The song is really just the next step I want my music to head in. My verse really comes off as a straight up suicide letter, which is something ive battled for over a decade. its another, deeper glimpse into the workings of my twisted brain. We got a tight ass video in the works for it this Christmas in New York City.
HipHopLead – Speaking of Advo he told us something crazy. We don't want to put you on front street but we have to know .. is it true you drove all the way to New York to shoot a music video with only 2 dollars left in your pocket, while running thru EZ pass tolls and putting a $1.35 in gas in your car to make it over the bridge?? (laughs)
Grimez- (Laughs) Something like that. I'm a bit of a free spirit. my label's called Grind it Out for a reason. I've put roughly $8,000 in my music out of my own pocket without dealing and I was fucking homeless for the majority of the recording process. I've had over 30 jobs since high school, but my condition and my personality makes it hard for me to keep a normal job. I'm a bit of a loose cannon. I go off my gut and feeling. I live my life day to day, no one is promised tomorrow.
HipHopLead – A lot of artists wouldn't do what you did. Whether you call it poor planning or dedication its up to the person from the outside looking in. What made you take such a risky trip?
Grimez- It's all perspective. Your reality is created inside your own head. I'm never gonna be content with a 9-5 job. That's just not me. This is a fire thats in me. I've tried to put it out but its not goin away. Call it fate or call it destiny, this is what I'm here to do.
HipHopLead – Was it true some nights you even slept on the beaches and in your car?
Grimez- Oh yeah like I've said I've been homeless off and on for years. More times than I care to remember. I move around so much I usually dont know my own address, ask Advo if you dont believe me! (Laughs) Not the first time and probably wont be the last…
HipHopLead – What was it like meeting and working with Advo and Monstar films?
Grimez- It was definitely an experience. That whole trip was kind of surreal. It all still seems like a dream. I look forward to working with Monstar Films again this christmas for "End Of My Rope". Advo was just as I expected, larger than life.
HipHopLead – Are you happy with the sacrifice you made to shoot your music video for "Raise Em Up"?
Grimez-Hell yea!
HipHopLead – How would you describe your style of hip-hop?
Grimez- Precise, militant, rugged, raw, emotional, passionate.
HipHopLead – What is a typical day like for you?
Grimez- Oh lord. Wake-n-bake, meditate, try to make it the rest of the day without killing somebody.
HipHopLead – Other then music what do you do to make that paper?
Grimez- Before I got back into this game, I was planning to move to vegas to concentrate on betting college and pro football. But I've bartended in Charlotte in 23 different restaraunts since I was 18. I was a pro wrestler for a couple years as well, but that didn't really pay the bills.
HipHopLead – After hearing your music it's no secret you struggled with addiction and had a hard life. In 2012 how are you coping with everything and are you staying clean?
Grimez- I got to a point in my addiciton to where I could only write when I was geeked up. And when I got clean I quit writing and was on heavy psychopathic meds, which made me like a zombie. I definitely lived a hard lifestyle for a few years. And in retrospect I was probably subconsciously trying to kill myself, which I came damn close to doing a few times. I'm coming up on my one year anniversary of being cocaine free. And I've done more with my music this year than I did in the previous five. Staying clean is all mental once you get past the first few weeks.
HipHopLead – What was your drug of choice when you were going thru all the crazy situations?
Grimez- Definitely cocaine I would spend at least $100 a night 5 or 6 days out of the week on that shit. But the bad started to heavily outweigh the good. The paranoia would consume me and I would have auditory hallucinations and shit. It got way out of hand for a while. But I still smoke weed like 6 times a day. I prefer it to prescription meds. I don't smoke to get high, I smoke to maintain my sanity and try to live as close to an ordinary life as I can. You may think medical marijuana is a crock, but I believe its a miracle drug and is key to our future on this planet.
HipHopLead – How does being Bi – Polar effect your music, or the creative process?
Grimez- It's where my music comes from. I'm really just starting to grasp how my brain really works. I wouldn't wish my bad days on my worst enemy. But the high is like no drug you can buy. I'm starting to learn to control it without the meds, and that scares even me. There's a thin line between genius and insanity and you're looking at it. There's a reason I'm here and a reason I'm like this. I don't think the universe would have created me this way if I couldnt handle it
Here at HipHopLead.com we like to ask our features some questions that really are out of the norm.We do this because it gives the fans a broader outlook on you.So lets get it cracking ….
HipHopLead – What do you think about the Chad Ochocinco and Evelyn Lozado situation?
Grimez- I think he was set-up and provoked into it. It's a he said-she said deal, and we all know who the authorities believe. She's obviously a gold digger and attention whore and probably had it planned. Who knows how it really went down. But to end a man's career over that? Come on. Alot women think they can say and do whatever the fuck they want without suffering the repercussions because they're women. Look at the Dez Bryant situation. Another overreaction. He smacked her in the face with a hat for running off at the mouth. He supports her financially, he's her meal ticket, he's like the parent. Why you think she dropped the charges? And I'm not saying all women are like this but the fair share are. Yeah I'm single and plan to stay that way!
HipHopLead – Best Eminem album of all time?
Grimez- Marshall Mathers hands down, but I like his early underground stuff the best. I was force fed alot of eminem in the early 2000's until the sound of his voice made me wanna puke. There's probably less than five songs of his I've liked since the 8 mile soundtrack.
HipHopLead – It's no secret you like Tim Tebow, you even made a song about him! But lets face it when you look at his stats can you agree the media over rates him?
Grimez- I never cared for Tebow before this off-season. I don't respect him as a quarterback, I respect him as a football player and as a man. I wanted Tebow for his leadership and to light a fire under Sanchez's ass. I respect how he handles the media and the constant scrutiny.
HipHopLead – Tell us one of the wildest stories of ya life?
Grimez- Okay my car note was behind, I been dodging the repo man for months, I'm living in a hotel. I had all my clothes in the back seat and threw a cigarette out the window, it blows back in and catches all the clothes on fire and sets the roof on fire, needless to say this car was fucked up. Anyway I'm driving home from a Christmas party in uptown Charlotte coked out of my mind and my boy is following in his car behind me. I'm driving down the road and one of my fucking tires comes off the car and passes me. I get out grab my shit and hop in my boys ride. A couple of crack heads are watching and come up to the car and say, "Hey we gotta get this out of the middle of the street.'" I give em a Tiger Woods fist bump and tell em "Yall can have it, I'm out" and leave that shit in the street at like 3 in the morning.
HipHopLead – WOW! (Laughs). Should Obama be re-elected..
Grimez- I pay zero attention to U.S. politics. I'm a bit of an anarchist and conspiracy theorist, but I think I've gotten in enough hot water from this interview. I'll just say "Open your eyes people!" If I had to choose a canidate it'd be Ron Paul, Jesse ventura, or whoever is in the most favor of legalizing marijuana, which would be Obama in this case, even though he hasn't totally kept his word on the subject.
HipHopLead – Who is the baddest chick in the game right now?
Grimez- I'm still on the Kim Kardashian bandwagon, sad but true.
Back To The Norm…….
HipHopLead – Name 1 song you've done that will have the HipHopLead.com viewers hooked!?
Grimez- Probably the most commercial song ive yet to release on Digital Dynasty from my album would be "Love da Greenery" The hook is catchy as hell
HipHopLead – Thanks for hollering at us and in closing give any shoutouts….links to your sites….F.U.'S or whatevers clever
Grimez- Shout out to Tha Advocate, Shawn blayze, Clock in Mass, and Ben Freezy and special shout out/ FU to everyone who helped inspire this album, you chicks know who you are. Add me on Facebook.com/johnnygrimez or on twitter @grimezbitch
O yea and download my newest mixtape "Grimez- Actions Speak Louder Than Words (Hosted By : Tha Advocate)" here – http://www.sendspace.com/file/4hv5ll


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ANZAC Day. 25th April 2010.
Here are some photos of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. I took these two weeks ago when I visited the Shrine to see the exhibition of embroidery and textiles relating to war (the photos I took at the Exhibition are on my linens blog Patra's Place).
This is taken from Melbourne CBD, looking down St Kilda Road toward the Shrine. When it was built in the 1930's, they placed it so that it will always be seen from Melbourne without anything being put in the way of that view.
The Eternal Flame.
The Cenotaph.


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Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez follows up her 'Back it Up' music video with new images for her Kohl's summer collection.
J.Lo looks like her usual glamorous self with her hair in blonde waves while sporting a leopard print top and matching shorts in one image. For the other, Jennifer sports bohemian print dress with cutout shoulders. J.Lo's summer collection is available at Kohl's now.


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I wanted to share an interesting exchange I had with my 8 year old yesterday.
8 year old proudly crooning to siblings: "I don't like math."
Mom: "But you are good at math. It is one of your better subjects."
8 year old insisted: "I still don't like math."
8 year old half-shocked and half-confused meekly said: "But what about my job?" He wants to work in a computer science field when he grows up and knows math skills are important for that.
Mom: I shrugged.
8 year old speaking a little louder now said: "Well, I do like math a little."
Things may not always be as they seem.


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At Okonomi (150 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn; no phone) chefs Yuji Haraguchi and Tara Norvell devote their mornings and afternoons to ichiju sansai, a multi-course breakfast of soup, fish, and accompaniments like subtly sweet pickles made with rice vinegar and sour yuzu. Presented in gorgeous ceramic vessels, this regal morning meal also includes creamy cubes of Japanese-style rolled omelet, mixed with soy milk or heavy cream to create a deeply caramelized exterior. But even those elegant ova pale in comparison to the kitchen's dreamy onsen egg.
Poached in the shell and cooked to the approximate temperature of a hot spring, the egg arrives in its own cup, floating in sweet soy sauce and topped with togarashi — a Japanese chile powder spiked with roasted citrus and sesame seeds. It's served as a two-dollar supplement, meant to pair with bowls of remarkably fluffy and nutty brown rice crowned with pungent cured bonito flakes. Mix everything together and pour its viscous yolk and barely-there white over the grains to season them. The result is close to a porridge, but with loads more personality than that term suggests. Lush and salty-sweet, its depth of flavor is a delightful surprise in a meal full of them.
The Village Voice is counting down to our Best of New York City issue in October. We're combing the city every day, one dish at a time, to guide you to the most delicious food in NYC. These are our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2015, in no particular order, save for the top 10. To read about previous dishes, browse our 100 Favorite Dishes page.
Here's our countdown up to now:
#100: Laminated Blueberry Brioche at Dominique Ansel Kitchen
#99: Egg Shop's Golden Bucket Fried Chicken
#98: Ramen Lab's Torigara Shoyu
#96: Breakfast Sandwich at Dimes
#95: Banana Royal at Eddie's Sweet Shop
#93: Almayass's Mante
#92: Empellon Taqueria's Fish Taco
#90: General Tso's Pig's Head at the Cannibal
#89: The Vegetarian at Meat Hook Sandwich Shop
#88: The 21 Club's Creamy Chicken Hash
#87: Deep-Fried Olives at Via Carota
#85: Shelsky's Hot Pastrami Sandwich
#85: Pearl & Ash's Smoked Bread with Chicken Butter
#84: Gluten-Free Pizza at Rossopomodoro
#83: Perry St's Chocolate Pudding With Candied Violets
#82: Whit's End's 'Fuckin' Bluefish Dip'
#81: Morgenstern's Salt and Pepper Pine Nut Ice Cream
#80: Levain Bakery's Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie
#78: Cafe Cluny's Avocado Toast
#77: Brooklyn Star's Cinnamon Bun
#76: Pork Belly Cotton Candy at Carnem
#75: Ippudo's Pork Buns
#74: Mission Chinese Food's Oil-Cured Anchovies
#73: Johnnycakes at LoLo's Seafood Shack
#72: The Starving Artists Steak at Belle Reve
#70: Xi'an Famous Foods' Tiger Vegetable Salad
#69: Crème Brûlée Truffle at Kee's Chocolates
#68: Pok Pok's Muu Paa Kham Wong
#66: Pulpo at Toro
#65: Junior's Something Different
#63: Banana Miso Ice Cream Sandwich at Neta
#62: Breads Bakery's Chocolate Babka
#61: Braised Lamb Neck at the Gorbals
#60: Dough's Passionfruit Doughnut
#59: Uncle Jesse Bao at Baohaus
#58: Patatas Bravas at El Colmado
#57: Lupulo's Razor Clams
#56: Bar Masa's Spicy Dancing Shrimp
#54: The Virgola Platter at Virgola
#53: Noreetuh's Monkfish Liver Torchon
#52: Amarena Cherry Merveilleux
#51: Roasted Mushrooms at Bara
#50: Fonda's Oaxacan Black Mole Enchiladas
#49: Flinders Lane's Lamb Rump
#48: Blue Ribbon Sushi's Temaki Honnin
#47: Dirty French's Chicken and Crepes
#46: The Vegetarian Combination at Zoma
#45: Merguez Sausage Flatbread at Irvington
#44: Le Grand Aioli at Marlow & Sons
#43: Shelsky's Hot Pastrami Sandwich
#42: Hippie Banjo at Pies 'n' Thighs
#41: Malted Milkshake from Dizzy's Diner
#40: Graffiti's Graffiti Burger
#39: Beef Rolls at Kottu House
#38: Cafe Katja's Wiener Schnitzel


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Economic Development • (559) 324-2060
Affordable Housing
Safe, affordable housing is a priority in Clovis, where targeted efforts including grants, loans, self-help programs, and home repairs have improved living conditions for more than 2,000 low-income homeowners in the past 20 years. The City of Clovis offers housing assistance programs for existing home owners (including mobile homes), and those wanting to purchase their first home. A summary of each program is listed below.
Program Highlights
Fair Housing
The Fair Housing Council of Central California is available for Clovis residents to utilize in matters of fair housing. Education, guidance, and compliant filing are some of the services offered. For more information, contact them at (559) 244-2950. In addition you can contact the City of Clovis at (559) 324-2094 if you have any fair housing concerns.
First-Time Homebuyer Program
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Skip to comments.Judge: Fort Hood suspect could be forcibly shaved
Posted on 07/25/2012 10:23:54 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- A judge says the Army psychiatrist charged in the fatal Fort Hood shooting rampage will be forcibly shaved if he doesn't remove his beard on his own.
Maj. Nidal Hasan appeared in court Wednesday sporting a beard, as he did during a court appearance last month.
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I hope they use a lawnmower.
I volunteer to do it(with a baseball bat)!
"Don't worry Muzzie, we'll put it back later."
Git'er done.
How many freekin' weeks does it take to get through the shaving phase of the trial?
How about dipping the blade / chains in lard first?
Feed him pork chops, too. This is the USA. We are not a Muslim Nation. Islam is not a religion. It is a political system.
Burn it off, and pull what is left off with wax and tape.
Get over it. There is nothing to see here. Hasan is not guilty. This was just a simple case of WORKPLACE VIOLENCE according to the DOJ. Move along...
They should also shave his head while they're at it.
How about forcibly hooking up some #4 awg jumper cables to his scrotum....?
Isn't the $hit bag paralyzed? Is it just his legs or his arms too? If it is his arms is the military creating this stupid f ing problem by acceding to his wishes not to be shaved?
I'd rather have the military remove his gonads
two inches below his chin.
With a straight razor and a barber with severe Parkinson's.
How long until "Kah-eer" Cair starts complaining like a dirty unclean stuck pig?
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