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It almost seems a little unfair.
Curtis McNeal, USC's Darren Sproles-sized redshirt junior running back, has done everything he possibly can over the last several months to try to convince Trojans head coach Lane Kiffin he can be the team's No. 1 option -- from reinventing himself as a person to reinventing himself as a leader to flat-out dominating his competitors in game situations.
Yet, in the week of what appears to be his best chance yet to play the role of No. 1 running back -- with starter Marc Tyler doubtful for Saturday's game against Notre Dame because of a dislocated shoulder -- McNeal still hasn't convinced Kiffin he's ready.
"Well, he's trying to," Kiffin said Sunday, after McNeal took almost all of the first-string reps in practice with Tyler on the sidelines wearing a sling. "He hasn't, because every time he's gotten banged up. Every time, whether it's been a scrimmage or something like that, something has come up.
"He's proved to me that he's trying, but his body hasn't allowed him to do it at full speed yet, so hopefully that'll come."
McNeal, who missed last season while academically ineligible, has heard that sort of veiled criticism before. It's normal when you're generously listed at 5 feet 7 and 180 pounds and not a true speedster. But as he runs between the tackles time and time again, his numbers are starting to speak for themselves. He has been USC's best running back this season, and it really hasn't even been close.
He averages seven yards per carry. Of the four primary backs, the next-best player in that category is Tyler, with an average of 4.4 yards. D.J. Morgan puts up 3.3 and Dillon Baxter 3.2, but neither is playing a major role at this point in the season. It has been a month since either player got more than three carries in a game.
Even so, running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu refuses to publicly rule them out as starting candidates if Tyler is indeed out.
"We'll see," Polamalu said Sunday. "Marc is still our starter until he's called out, and the other guys are always preparing to be the guy if he is out."
McNeal, who had a chance to compete for the starting job in advance of Week 1 while Tyler was suspended, doesn't plan on changing his approach.
"I prepare every game like I'm going to start," McNeal said. "This game doesn't change anything even though one guy went down. I'll be ready to go.
"If I'm the third guy I'll still be ready to go, so I'll be ready no matter what happens."
What happened last Thursday against Cal was this: Tyler started the game and was ineffective against a fairly impressive Bears' front four, and then came out of the game when he got hurt on the first play of the second half. From there, McNeal took control, carrying the ball a career-high 17 times for a career-high 86 yards and adding a 10-yard reception.
He was, for all intents and purposes, USC's No. 1 running back for the final 29 minutes of the game. And he loved it.
"I was just more comfortable," McNeal said. "I mean, I knew I was gonna stay in the game instead of going in one play and going right back. I got into a groove and I was just out there having fun."
McNeal says he was just having fun. Polamalu describes it a little bit differently.
"That kid ran with violence," he said. "He ran hard, he knew the angles and he knew he was unblocked.
"And that, to me, is where we as running backs get better and better."
Another way they get better: regular carries. The easiest way for a running back to continuously improve, it has been said, is to get a steady diet of in-game carries. That finally has happened for McNeal the last two games, and the growth has been obvious.
It was the fall of 2007 -- at Venice High -- the last time he got as many carries in a game as he did on Thursday against Cal.
"As I got more carries, I knew how it was gonna feel, how they were going to approach me and I pretty much just played smart football," McNeal says. "It just gets you more comfortable as a football player, the more snaps you get. You just see more stuff that you wouldn't see from the sidelines.
"I saw a lot last game and I'm ready for this game."


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Joe Simitian's internet nanny bill becomes law
Original post made by nanny, Adobe-Meadow, on Sep 2, 2011
Comments (6)
a resident of Community Center
on Sep 2, 2011 at 3:23 pm
"The new law requires business and agencies where breaches took place to provide victims with a full accounting of what transpired, how it may affect them, and how they can protect themselves."
Wow. Sounds like socialism to me!
a resident of Community Center
on Sep 2, 2011 at 3:25 pm
I forgot the most important part - Thanks, Joe!!
Good work.
Apparently nanny loved the Ahnuld. Not many do.
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 4, 2011 at 6:27 pm
This will open up all businesses in CA to lawsuits, if some hacker gains their file information. What business person, in their right mind, would start a business in CA?
a resident of Midtown
on Sep 4, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Nanny saw and knew everything.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 5, 2011 at 11:00 am
It appears that this bill requires standard notification and actions in the events of a security breach instead of trying to cover it up. I guess owning up to your failures is "nanny" legislation to others.
"Senate Bill 24 would strengthen the state's security breach notification system by establishing core content for data breach notification. Information such as the type and time of the breach along with a toll-free phone number of major credit reporting agencies would be provided to consumers whose information was compromised. The bill would also require public agencies and people subject to the law to send an electronic copy of the breach notification to the Attorney General and the California Office of Privacy Protection if more than 500 Californians are impacted. "
a resident of Menlo Park
on Sep 5, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Jim: "What business person, in their right mind, would start a business in CA? "
Someone who wants access to a highly educated workforce. Someone who wants access to over ten percent of the US population "under one roof." Someone who wants their startup to be surrounded by like businesses, whether leaders in technology, leaders in bio-tech, etc... The list of advantages for California is huge.
Would you prefer Texas, a state with a disaster of an education system? A state that leads the country in minimum wage jobs. Leads the country in uninsured health care. Doesn't educate children in science, preferring creationism to evolution.
A state where the governor's solution to massive wildfires is calling for three days of prayer before he calls the feds for help. Where the governor thinks Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional (says so in his book.) Where the governor calls his administration "transparent" but he requires all emails to be deleted in 7 days.
Or a state that requires accountability: "The new law requires business and agencies where breaches took place to provide victims with a full accounting of what transpired, how it may affect them, and how they can protect themselves."
Jim: what do you have against accountability and responsibility?
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to Internet freedom is government censorship focused on crushing political dissent, and warned that attacks against online piracy are "misguided and dangerous".
Brin's comments were made from his Google+ profile, and were in reaction to what he called "distorted" secondary coverage of comments he made earlier this week, in which he seemed to indicate that governments, Apple, and Facebook all pose threats to an "open" Internet.
While castigating censorious regimes, Brin also warned Western democracies faced making similar mistakes if they continue to pursue a war against online piracy.
"Countries such as the US have come close to adopting very similar [web filtering] techniques in order to combat piracy and other vices. I believe these efforts have been misguided and dangerous," he wrote.
Brin also stressed that his original comments in promoting an open web were not intended as an attack on the walled gardens of Apple and Facebook.
"I have much admiration for two of the companies we discussed – Apple and Facebook. I have always admired Apple's products," he explained. "Likewise, Facebook has helped to connect hundreds of millions of people, has been a key tool for political expression and has been instrumental to the Arab Spring."
He continued: "Regardless of how you feel about digital ecosystems or about Google, please do not take the free and open internet for granted from government intervention. To the extent that free flow of information threatens the powerful, those in power will seek to suppress it."
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Emergency services have been called to an accident on the A38 toward Wellington this evening (June 12).
The accident, which involved a car and a bike, happened at the crossroads near The World's End pub at around 5.50pm.
Emergency services have been called to an accident on the A38 toward Wellington this evening (June 12).
The accident, which involved a car and a bike, happened at the crossroads near The World's End pub at around 5.50pm.
Very dangerous junction. Needs lights here as you have cars coming out from 5 directions at times.
Or a roundabout.
A roundabout and some lights. That will help with the traffic flow.
No room for a roundabout and traffic lights will never go there, from the horses mouth. The 30mph limit should have stayed at this busy and dangerous junction.
I saw this accident happen. Luckily, the motorcyclist didn't appear to be badly hurt.
This is a dangerous junction. I can understand why a roundabout and traffic lights aren't feasible, but a reconfiguration to improve visibility could be carried out.
I don't think improving visibility would help too much, it's just a very busy road with almost constant traffic between Taunton and Wellington. Improving visibility doesn't make more gaps for people to pull out from the side roads and reducing the speed limit might just cause cars to bunch up more and remove some of the gaps that would otherwise exist.
It's been a difficult junction for a long long time but with 3 offset side road junctions and limited space, I don't think the solution is as trivial as some would like to make it.
1 Close it off and force traffic to motorway roundabout. Longer journey but this is a death trap and something has to be done
2 Knock down World's End to increase visibility
3 Make new junction to West Buckland through the girls to the East of Willowbrook
Is anyone in Somerset Highways actually investigating options, for things can only get worse. Perhaps consult the traffic light company and use a BOGOFF
Last post should read 'fields' not 'girls'!
If you don't have a sensible suggestion it'd be better to keep quiet, it doesn't exactly help the situation to come up with crazy ideas that couldn't possibly work and just makes 'comments from the public' look stupid to those actually doing the planning/work.
Ooh err, Bighead, get off your high horse or is it a cat?
None of the suggestions were intended to be spurious, more discussion points, but the question remains the same. Is someone in the road traffic industry investigating how to improve this death trap junction or not BEFORE there is a multiple pile up ? If you are able to offer something YOU consider to be more constructive then please do.
Of course if you have the time, you could tell us why any of the ideas are crazy. The Worlds End IS an obstruction and in truth the amount of development in West Buckland should not have been allowed without thought of the traffic increase
Opening up a new road in the fields east of Willowbrook, or east of the Worlds End, would give access onto a straight piece of road with good visibility
Of the ideas I would plump for traffic lights, one of the less controversial Deane placements, and cheapest option.
Something must be done.
At the moment there is nothing, not even permanent flashing warning lights and a crash even at 30 could be fatal as it has been in the past. How long do the planners need, perhaps you have an inside view.
How many times, road junctions are not dangerous themselves. What creates danger is people driving too fast both for the speed limit and the conditions and people making eroneous judgements such as speed and distance of approaching cars and/or pulling out without looking properly or too slowly.
The Council did a lot of work at this junction years ago which included lowering the speed limit to 50, yellow backed staggered junction warning signs, slow road markings with rumble strips etc
There is only so much that can be done. Whilst lowering the speed limit could reduce accident speeds, this is only if they are not abused and someone made a good point about lower speed limits bunch cars up.
There probably aren't enough traffic movements to warrant lights and there is not enough room to put in a roundabout.
If people didn't abuse speed limits, paid attention, kept off their mobiles, didn't spend most of the time talking instead of concentrating on the road ahead, didn't drink and drive, kept their vehicles roadworthy, didn't make errors of judgement and actually realised that the machines they are under control of have the potential to kill then, maybe, but only maybe, collisions would reduce.
Lets have a look at your 'suggestions'.
1. Close 1 side road out of 3 off and force people from that direction to take a longer route. Ignoring the distance because that isn't a big deal, that still leaves 2 side roads with people trying to get out on to a busy main road... and the road from the motorway into the village is a lot narrower....
2. Knock down someone's business to improve visibility. So, even if it was decided it was such a critical need to actually consider that a viable option, you presumably want the tax payer to cough up quite a large amount of money to compensate the owners while also upsetting the owners and no doubt many local people.
3. Buy up a load of land off local farmers and build a brand new road further up the busy main road. Once again, massive cost and for what benefit, moving 1 road junction to another location on the busy road while the other 2 stay as they are.
In comparison to those suggestions, yes traffic lights would be cheaper! But still cost many thousands of pounds with some complex layout due to the offset nature of the junctions no doubt.
Overall, it is a dodgy junction which is difficult for people coming from Bradford-on-Tone or West Buckland. However, I'm not sure I'd call it a death trap. There have been a number of smaller accidents there but it's not like people are constantly being seriously injured or killed.
I don't have any particular ideas on solutions, as I said in a previous comment, I don't think it's a trivial problem to fix.
As swjoduk says, some work has been done on that junction and the A38 along there in general, but they were pretty limited by funds and options so it was mostly about signs and lines improvements.
Because of that, it may be that there are no current thoughts about doing more to the location though perhaps a file somewhere has some notes about options previously considered.
What isn't going to help is people moaning at planners or Somerset Highways with wild statements asking why they aren't carrying our multi-million pound developments all over the road network. Unfortunately other people who might have more serious, useful ideas might just get lumped in with those 'stupid public comments' category because the people looking at this stuff have gotten tired of reading terrible ideas that are never going to be viable.
Have you tried to get out of this junction coming from Oake direction in the morning rush hour? It's nothing to do with speed, but the volume of traffic and traffic coming out from 3 different turnings onto a main road. When turning out onto the main road you are trying to negotiate 4 lots of traffic at times.
swjoduk is always bleating on about driver error and lack of skill. There is more to it than that at this junction. Turning right from West Buckland to Taunton is a gamble each and every time, whether speed limits are being adhered or not. You take the plunge and the notice your opposite number from Oake is taking the same gamble
yeh not much fun!
was heading back towards taunton and without warning someone pulled out in front of me!
Its not ideal.
Put some barriers up manned by men in little white huts that can control the traffic 24/7. Best solution ever.
Careful in case you annoy topcataj who seems to want to control contributors
I think knocking down The Worlds End is a good idea, it's a **** hole.


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In 1925, a seventeen year old Häyhä joined the Finnish Army for a year of mandatory service and achieved the rank of corporal. Eventually Simo Häyhä joined the Suojelskunta (Finnish Civil Guard) similar to the National Guard of the United States prior to being entangled in the Winter War under the 6th Company's banner. Simo responded to the aid of his country when the USSR invaded in November, three months after the eruption of WWII in 1939. While drifting through the tundra, Simo concealed himself by wearing white camouflage and refused to use a scope for he noted that the sun would reflect off the glass and give his position away. Another innovation he utilized was to put snow in his mouth in order to deny a foggy exhalation from escaping his lips. He took every precaution to avoid tipping off Russian counter-snipers of his location; soldiers bent on deposing their most feared adversary whom they dubbed "White Death." Such a title was legitimized by his impressive five hundred and five head count. Using a Mosin-Nagant rifle which suited his short stature, Häyhä achieved the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills in any major war.
(An account of Simo Häyhä's background & military experience)
After his recovery, Simo advanced to the rank of second lieutenant, a rapid promotional feat nonexistent in the Finnish military. Offering a transfixing quote, Simo explained his regret by stating that "I only did my duty, and what I was told to do, as well as I could." Permanently disfigured, the humble man soared as a national hero. In his later years, the outdoors man occupied his retirement by hunting moose, breeding dogs and responding to interviews related to his wartime exploits. Häyhä embodies the spirit of Finland; having played a pivotal role through which his accomplishments contributed to preserving Finnish sovereignty. The great sniper and Finnish warrior encapsulated the strength of a nation reflected by his valiant service and calm resolve.
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Myth 5: You can only crowdfund through established online providers.
Part of the JOBS Act gives a company the ability to market directly to accredited investors. That could allow apartment operators to crowdfund directly from investors instead of relying on an intermediary like Realty Mogul.
"To me, the immediate opportunity for larger private groups is for them to utilize a white-label platform but generally solicit on their own and spend their own money to create a sustainable network of investors," Cress Capital's Parkin says.
While Parkin admits that a sponsor creating its own platform would have to absorb some up-front costs—such as marketing, buying lists of accredited investors, and hiring investor relations (IR) professionals—the rewards could be great.
"By utilizing a third-party inbound center and an IR follow-up, you can get money directly without being exposed to third-party bad-actor and fraud risks," Parkin says. "It streamlines compliance and administration.
"Though it will be more expensive initially, a company will have access to capital that will eventually snowball, and they won't have to pay fees to anybody."
In fact, Parkin could see it advancing beyond that. "As long as there aren't too many bad actors causing the SEC to clamp down, the long-term opportunity is that a traditional money manager gets in the game, like Fidelity or Franklin Templeton," he says. "They have enormous lists of investors."
Eventually, Helman could see this happening as well. "You're always going to have people that will want to do it on their own. I think that's to be expected," she says.
But an analyst at one established multifamily firm that is considering crowdfunding says there are a things a sponsor needs to consider if it goes this route. "If an operator/sponsor chooses to bypass the online intermediaries, then I think a big question for them is which form of media will bring in the best leads," he says. "You will see a lot of wasteful spending in the beginning stages as operators/sponsors search for the most effective media strategy to raise capital."
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Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore released 283 additional tags for deer, elk and pronghorn for the special drawing.
Moore announced the drawing in response to confusion about eligibility requirements for the first drawing. A new law that went into effect July 1 allows 10 and 11 year olds to hunt big game. The first drawing occurred before the new law took effect, however nearly 300 tags were awarded to 9 to 11 year olds. In allowing the tags to stand, Moore cited inadequate communication of Fish and Game's interpretation of controlled hunt eligibility requirements.
Eligible hunters who were at least 12 years old prior to July 1 who applied in the original drawing for tags awarded to 9 to 11 year olds will automatically be entered into the special drawing, which will take place as soon as possible. No additional action by these eligible hunters is necessary to participate in the special drawing. Successful applicants will be notified by July 10th.
- The special drawing will be among 106 controlled hunts in which tags were awarded to 9 to 11 year olds.
- Not all applicants will be eligible for the special drawing; only those eligible hunters who applied for hunts in which 9 to 11 year olds received tags for hunts with limited tags will be re-entered.
- Only those eligible hunters who did not draw their first choice tag will be entered into the special drawing.
- Hunters who drew their second choice tag will be re-entered if additional tags are available in their first choice hunt. If unsuccessful in the special drawing, those hunters will retain the second choice tags originally awarded.
- Hunters who chose one of the 106 hunts as their second choice will be eligible only if tags are left after first choice applicants have been awarded a tag.
- Successful applicants in the special drawing will be notified by mail, and will also be able to use the Fish and Game website at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/CH to see if their license number was selected.
- Successful applicants in both the June 23rd original drawing and the special drawing will have until August 1st to claim their tags.
- Any unclaimed tags from either drawing will be available in the second drawing in August.
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2011 (Sophomore): A key cog in the CSU defense, played in all 12 games, with 11 starts...A third-team all-conference choice (Phil Steele), finished ninth in the conference with 7.2 tackles per game...Ranked third on the team with 87 tackles (49 solo), including three tackles for loss...Also broke up a pass and picked off another...Made his first career appearance in the starting lineup in season-opening win at New Mexico (Sept. 3), and on CSU's first 2011 snap, threw QB Tarean Austin for a 3-yard loss; later in first quarter, blew up a screen for a 7-yard loss and UNM missed a field goal three plays later...In home-opening win over Northern Colorado (Sept. 10), had a team-leading 10 total tackles, a career best...With a tip of his cap to fellow LB Mychal Sisson and former LB Austin Gillmore, both of whom sustained serious injuries in UNC contest, wore each player's jersey during practice leading up to the Denver loss vs. Colorado (Sept. 17)...In fourth quarter of exhilarating win at Utah State (Sept. 24), dropped a USU back for a 2-yard loss in a 14-13 game, and shortly after helped the Rams preserve a 35-34 triumph in double overtime by preventing a two-point conversion...Early in second quarter of loss vs. No. 5 Boise State (Oct. 15), lost his helmet on a play and sustained a blow to the head in the pileup; left the game with and did not return...Passed concussion tests and returned to starting lineup at UTEP (Oct. 22) ...In windy, 18-15 loss vs. San Diego State (Nov. 12), registered his first career interception, picking off all-time Mountain West passing leader Ryan Lindley at the Aztecs' 41-yard line to end the first SDSU possession with the Rams holding an early 7-0 advantage; later in the quarter, broke up another Lindley pass...In loss at No. 19 TCU (Nov. 19), hurried QB Casey Pachall to force a first-quarter incompletion...Did not start loss vs. Air Force (Nov. 26) as CSU opened in 3-4 alignment; played several snaps as an inside linebacker...In season finale vs. Wyoming (Dec. 3), diagnosed a run and stopped Alvester Alexander for no gain in the fourth quarter.
2010 (Freshman): A grayshirt that enrolled in January, went through spring ball as a safety with the Rams but shifted positions before fall camp and played a significant role in the CSU defense as a true freshman linebacker...Played in all 12 games as a reserve, totaling 37 tackles (21 solo), two sacks and 2½ tackles for loss; also forced a fumble, broke up a pass, and delivered one of the most memorable hits in CSU history, against UNLV...The Rams' fourth linebacker in their `Dollar' 3-4 package, also saw playing time as a reserve in the base defense...Made his college debut in season opener, vs. Colorado (Sept. 4) at Invesco Field, and posted three tackles...Registered his first career sack in Buffs contest, killing a first-quarter drive nearing FG position by dropping Tyler Hansen for a 13-yard loss on third down...Delivered the hit of the night at Nevada (Sept. 11), a crushing blow on a sweep...At Miami-Ohio (Sept. 18), came out of nowhere to bat down a Zac Dysert pass late in the first half, then dropped a RedHawks punt returner for zero yards in the third quarter...In loss at No. 25 Air Force (Oct. 9), led the team with six tackles...Late in first half of 43-10 win vs. UNLV (Oct. 16), with the Rebels facing a third down at the Rams' 3-yard line, lowered his center of gravity and delivered one of the most memorable hits in CSU history, the force of which drove RB Tim Cornett's helmet back 5 yards to vault the play onto SportsCenter highlights; later in the game, forced a fourth-quarter fumble that was recovered by teammate Crockett Gillmore...At No. 9 Utah (Oct. 23), his pressure forced a third-down incompletion and the Utes had to settle for a second-quarter field goal...In 38-14 win vs. New Mexico (Oct. 30), flushed the QB out of the pocket and hurried him into an incompletion to help snuff out a drive late in the first half...At Wyoming (Nov. 20), combined with Shaq Bell on a first-quarter completion to hold Alvester Alexander to no gain on fourth-and-1, giving the Rams possession at their own 34; then, in the fourth quarter, sacked Austyn Carta-Samuels on third-and-long, pinning the Cowboys at their own 3 after a 12-yard loss, forcing a punt.
High School: A first-team all-District 21-4A selection as a safety at Westbury High School in Houston, led his team in tackles as both a senior and a junior from 2007-08...As a senior, made 88 tackles, three interceptions -- one of which he returned for a touchdown -- and two sacks, leading the Rebels to an 8-2 record and the second round of the 4A playoffs in Texas...Had a 24-yard run on a fake punt against Sharpstown...Named all-district as a junior at linebacker after registering 92 tackles, three sacks and two interceptions...Was listed by MaxPresps.com as one of the top 20 linebackers in Texas...A team captain as a senior...Head coach was Keeath Magee, who described him as a true leader on and off the field...Selected to participate in the National Down Under Bowl...Also recruited by Oklahoma State, Houston, Boise State, New Mexico, Central Arkansas and Prairie View.
Personal: Given name Michael Orakpo...Born Feb. 5, 1991, in Houston, Texas...Son of Aurthur and Gloria Orakpo...Has an older brother and an older sister...Older brother, Brian, was a first-team All-American at Texas in 2008, when he also won the Nagurski Trophy and Hendricks and Rotary Lombardi awards before the Redskins selected him in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft...Westbury alums include two Olympian hurdlers and four NFL players, including former New York Giants All-Pro Michael Strahan...Met senior citizens at the North Shore Health and Rehab Facility to spread goodwill, take some photos and share a few laughs on a Saturday afternoon in February before the '10 season...Made a couple Saturday appearances at the Centre Avenue Health & Rehab Facility in Fort Collins, working social events with patients, in February 2011...In the summer of 2011, devoted a day to meeting and playing with kids at the Boys and Girls Club in Wellington, Colo. ...Undeclared, interested in business administration at Colorado State...Hometown: Houston, Texas.
Division I career statistics |
Year |
School |
Solo |
Ast |
Tot |
Yds |
No |
Yds |
Yds |
Int |
Yds |
2010 |
Colorado State (fr.) |
12 |
0 |
21 |
16 |
37 |
2.5 |
27 |
2.0 |
25 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2011 |
Colorado State (so.) |
12 |
11 |
49 |
38 |
87 |
3.0 |
12 |
0.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
-1 |
1 |
Career totals (two years) |
24 |
11 |
70 |
54 |
124 |
5.5 |
39 |
2.0 |
25 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
-1 |
2 |
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Note: Turki is a common "nickname" or even a Proper name in Saudi Arabia.Webster's dictionary: 1: one of the Turkic peoples 2: any Central Asian Turkic languages particularly of the eastern group. The reason why Turks have Arab names, is because as they converted to Islam, they took on Arab names. Thus the Turk Alp-Arslan assumed the name of "Muhammad bin Da'ud Chaghri" when he embraced Islam. The Turks of Saudi Arabia will often take the name or nickname "Turki" in deference to their origins. Indigenous Black Arabs do not follow this Turkish tradition. |
Note: Just as modern Christian culture is far removed from ancient Hebrew culture - it is now European culture. So too is modern Arab culture far removed from original Arab culture - it is now Turkish culture. During the time of the Turkish Ottoman Empire (1299 - 1922), Islam was not known as the Arab religion, it was known as the Turkish religion.
The Thawb (Arab Robes) Emblematic of Arab culture, is not Arab at all. The original Arabs, like the Egyptians, Berbers, Mesopotamian's, Elamites/Persians: had Black skin, they did not need the Head to Toe protection from the Sun that the Thawb affords. It is not known who invented the Thawb, but it is known that even though the Turks once ruled from Baghdad, they hated to go there because of the hot climate and burning Sunshine. Being that the original Turks were a very pale skinned Albino people who needed protection from the Sun, it is likely that they invented the Thawb.
Modern man of Turkic ethnicity in a Thawb
Even with all of the above proofs and logic, we know that there are those delusional "Many" who will still insist that those Turks and Turk Mulattoes are really Arabs. In answer to those delusional people, we offer these comments:François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821 – 1881) French scholar, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. "OUTLINES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY" TRANSLATED AND EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY MARY BRODRICK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK, 1892 Page 28 Quote: "How often do we see in Eastern monarchies and even in European states a difference of origin between the ruling class, to which the royal family belongs, and the mass of the people! We need not leave Western Asia and Egypt; we find there Turks ruling over nations to the race of which they do not belong, although they have adopted their religion. In the same way as the Turks of Baghdad, who are Finns, now reign over Semites, Turanian kings may have led into Egypt and governed a population of mixed origin where the Semitic element was prevalent. If we consider the mixing up of races which took place in Mesopotamia in remote ages, the invasions which the country had to suffer, the repeated conflicts of which it was the theatre, there is nothing extraordinary that populations coming out of this land should have presented a variety of races and origins." "The inhabitants of this part of Arabia nearly all belong to the race of Himyar. Their complexion is almost as black as the Abyssinians,"-- Baron von Maltzan, 'Geography of Southern Arabia' (1872) " [the Hamida are] small chocolate colored beings, stunted and thin… with mops of bushy hair… straggling beards , vicious eyes, frowning brows … armed with scabbards slung over the shoulder and Janbiyyah daggers…" a people "of the great Hejazi tribe that has kept his blood pure for the last 13 centuries…"-- Sir Richard Burton (1879) "The people of Dhufar are of the Qahtan tribe, the sons of Joktan mentioned in Genesis: they are of Hamitic or African rather than Arab types…"--Arnold Wilson, The Geographical Journal (1927) "the most prosperous tribe of all the Hamitic group, possessing innumerable camels, herds of cattle and the richest frankincense country. They resemble the Bisharin tribe of the Nubian desert. Men of big bone , they have long faces long narrow jaws, noses of a refined shape long curly hair and brown skin."--Richmond Palmer (1929) "Mahra is the Arab name for the Bedouin tribes who are different in appearance to other Arabs, having almost beardless faces, fuzzy hair and dark pigmentation – such as the Qarra, Mahra and Harasis… Also on "…the Qarra, Mahra and Harasis with parts of other tribes. The language is derived from the language of the Sabaeans, Minaeans and Himyarites. The Mahra with other Southern Arabian peoples seem aligned to the Hamitic race of north-east Africa… The Mahra are believed to be descended from the Habasha, who colonized Ethiopia in the first millennium BC"-- David Phillips, Peoples on the Move (2001) "European observers have made much of their physical resemblance to Somalis and Ethiopians, but there is no historical evidence of any connections."-- E. Peterson, 'Oman's Diverse Society: Southern Oman' "Mr. Baldwin draws a marked distinction between the modern Mahomedan Semitic population of Arabia and their great Cushite, Hamite, or Ethiopian predecessors. The former, he says, 'are comparatively modern in Arabia,' they have 'appropriated the reputation of the old race,' and have unduly occupied the chief attention of modern scholars."-- Charles Hardwick (1872)"Among 'these Negroid features which may be counted normal in Arabs are the full,rather everted lips, shortness and width of nose, certain blanks in the bearded areas of the face between the lower lip and chin and on the cheeks; large, luscious,gazelle-like eyes, a dark brown complexion, and a tendency for the hair to grow in ringlets. Often the features of the more Negroid Arabs are derivatives of Dravidian India rather than inheritances of Hamitic Africa. Although the Arab of today is sharply differentiated from the Negro of Africa, yet there must have been a time when both were represented by a single ancestral stock; in no other way can the prevalence of certain Negroid features be accounted for in the natives of Arabia."-- Henry Field, Anthropology Memoirs Volume 4 (1902) "In Arabia the first inhabitants were probably a dark-skinned, shortish population intermediate, between the African Hamites and the Dravidians of India and forming a single African Asiatic belt with these."-- Handbook of the Territories which form the Theater of Operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited and its Associated Companies In scouring for these comments, one can't help but wonder: Who in the hell could possibly believe that Pale people could be native to a Hot land with burning Sunshine and a UV index guaranteed to fry all but the darkest people. It's delusional, just delusional! |
Though by the Albino Mans edict, not a part of Africa. The people of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa have freely interchanged since man first walked the Earth. All of the people of the Desert regions from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf share a similar physical type, Black skin color, lifestyle and culture: pale skinned people would not survive long in the Desert.
By the date that this panel was carved, the Arab tribes of northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Sinai were becoming increasingly important. They relied for long-distance travel and rapid movement on the one-humped camel or dromedary, which had been domesticated in Arabia. The Arabs first appear in Assyrian records in the ninth century B.C. Texts tell of tribes, often led by queens, living in the southern borders of the Assyrian Empire. Sometimes they guarded the borders, escorted armies in desert country, and controlled the caravan trade, especially the lucrative incense trade from Yemen.
Some tribes were also ready to take advantage of any sign of weakness in the central government. They then raided settled communities, supported rebellions, robbed caravans, and disrupted communications. The Assyrian kings launched several attacks against them without much success, since the Arabs conducted guerilla-style warfare, and were usually able to escape into the desert. Both the Assyrians and their successors, the Babylonian and Persian kings, tried to maintain peaceful relations with Arabia by threats and diplomacy. one Babylonian king, Nabonidus (555-539 B.C.) resided for several years at Teima, a centre of the incense trade in Saudi Arabia.
The Turks first started usurping the Arabs when the Seljuq Turk chief Toghril Beg proclaimed himself sultan at Neyshabur in 1038. Toghril entered Baghdad in December 1055, and the Arab caliph al-Qa'im (reigned 1031–75) enthroned him, and married a Seljuq princess.
The Turks took direct control of Arabia when Sultan Mahmud II (1808-39), ordered his viceroy/governor of Egypt, the Turkic Albanian Muhammad Ali, to send an expedition to Arabia: which between 1811 and 1813 expelled the Arab Wahhabis from the Hejaz. In a further campaign (1816-18), Ibrahim Pasha, the viceroy's eldest son, defeated the Wahhabis in their homeland of Najd, and brought central Arabia under Albanian control.
In 1820-21 Muhammad Ali sent an expedition up the Nile and conquered much of what is now the northern Sudan. By so doing, he made himself master of one of the principal channels of the slave trade, and began an African Empire that was to be expanded under his successors. The conquest of the Sudan was intended to provide recruits. But the slaves, encamped at Aswan, died wholesale, and Muhammad Ali had to look elsewhere for his troops. In 1823 he took to conscripting Egyptian peasants for the rank and file of his new army. On the other hand, the officers were mostly Turkish Ottomans, while the director of the whole enterprise, Sulayman Pasha (Colonel Sève), was a former French officer. The conscription was brutally administered. In 1882 the British once again invaded and occupied Egypt. This occupation was to last until the end of WWI. After which, Egypt became a protectorate of Britain.
As with the Berbers, Egyptians, etc. After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, and the granting of independence to those countries after WWII, The Arabs saw their identity stolen by Whites (mainly Turks and their mulattoes) and other mixed race people.
Thus Egypt is "The Arab Republic of Egypt" Syria is "The Syrian Arab Republic" Libya is "The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" Jordan is "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" (Hashemite is the Latinate version of the Arabic transliteration of Hāšimī) and traditionally refers to those belonging to the Banu Hashim Arabs, or "clan of Hashim", a clan within the larger Arab Quraish tribe. It also refers to an Arab dynasty whose original strength stemmed from the network of tribal alliances and blood loyalties in the Hejaz region of Arabia, along the Red Sea. (One can only wonder how sparsely populated Arabia could have possibly produced all of those people - what nonsense)!
Mitochondrial DNA structure in the Arabian Peninsula
(This is a study of FEMALE Mt-dna)
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The results showed that the Arabian Peninsula has received substantial gene flow from Africa (20%), detected by the presence of L, M1 and U6 lineages; that an 18% of the Arabian Peninsula lineages have a clear eastern provenance, mainly represented by U lineages; but also by Indian M lineages and rare M links with Central Asia, Indonesia and even Australia. However, the bulk (62%) of the Arabian lineages has a Northern source. (That's just a mealy mouthed way of saying that 60% of the people in Arabia calling themselves Arabs, are actually from somewhere else, (They are Central Asia Albinos).
Genetic data and such things are fine, however it would be a dereliction not to make note that the major confusion of who are actual Arabs, is as usual, not an accident, but rather, another way the Albino people falsify and obfuscate history for the purpose of writing Blacks out of history. Take the work of Bertram Thomas - his book "Arabia Felix - Across The Empty Quarter of Arabia" was published in 1932. What is incredible about Thomas's book is that he supposedly transversed a large swath of Arabia taking pictures, and somehow managed to photograph NOT ONE SINGLE BLACK ARAB! Only Mulatto Arabs were photographed. Examples follow:
In October 1959 Wilfred Thesiger did the same thing: He wrote the book "Thesiger's Journeys in Arabia - First Empty Quarter Crossing 1946-7" and like Bertram Thomas, Wilfred Thesiger somehow managed to photograph NOT ONE SINGLE BLACK ARAB! Only Mulatto Arabs were photographed. Examples follow:
The Rashaida, (Rashaayda or Bani Rashid "Refugees") are a tribe populating Eritrea and northeast Sudan. In 1846, many Rashaida migrated from the Hejaz in present day Saudi Arabia into what is now Eritrea and northeast Sudan, after tribal warfare had broken out in their homeland. The Rashaida of Sudan and Eritrea live in close proximity with the Beja people. Large numbers of Bani Rasheed are also found on the Arabian Peninsula. The Bani Rashid are related to the Banu Abs tribe.
The Rashaida keep their traditional dress, culture, customs, camel breeds and practice of Sunni Islam. The racing camel breeds of the Rashaida tribe are prized all over Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula and fetch very high prices. The Rashaida speak Hejazi Arabic.
Bani Rasheed people (Rashaida) - Camel herders at the Riyadh Camel market.
In human population genetics, haplogroups define the major lineages of direct paternal (male) lines back to a shared common ancestor in Africa. Haplogroup J-P209[Phylogenetics 1] is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Its history since the Iron Age has been tied to the great events and migrations in this area and in particular to the Semitic people.
J-P209 is divided into two main subclades (branches) J-M267 and J-M172.
Haplogroup J-M267
In human genetics, Y DNA haplogroup J-M267[Phylogenetics 1] is a subclade (branch) of Y-DNA haplogroup J-P209,[Phylogenetics 2] along with its sibling clade Y DNA haplogroup J-M172. Men from this lineage share a common paternal ancestor, which is demonstrated and defined by the presence of the SNP mutation referred to as M267, which was announced in (Cinnioğlu 2004). This haplogroup is found today in significant frequencies in many areas in order near the Middle East. For example it is among the most frequent haplogroups in Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the Caucasus, Sudan and the Horn of Africa. It is also found in high frequencies in parts of North Africa Jewish groups especially those with Cohen surnames. It can also be found much less commonly, but still occasionally in significant amounts, in Europe and as far east as the Central Asia.
(White people are Dravidian Albinos who migrated from India into Central Asia in search of cooler climates and less intense Sunshine). Jews (Khazars) are a Turkish tribe, quite distinct from Hebrews.
Haplogroup J-M172
In human genetics, Haplogroup J-M172[Phylogenetics 1] is a Y-chromosome haplogroup which is a subclade (branch) of haplogroup J-P209.[Phylogenetics 2] J-M172 can be classified as Greco-Anatolian, Mesopotamian and/or Caucasian and is linked to the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia. It was carried by Bronze Age immigrants to Europe, and ultimately descends from the Cro-Magnon population (IJ-M429 Y-DNA) that emerged in Southwest Asia around 35,000 years ago (Sengupta 2006).
In modern Saudi Arabia, the original Arabs (the Black ones) have been relegated to the deserts and the tribal areas in the south at the Yemeni boarder. The preponderance of haplogroup "J" in the Saudi Arabian DNA, suggests that these areas were purposefully avoided or severely under-represented when doing the DNA survey. For it is extremely unlikely that these Qahtan and Wayla tribesmen from the Najran area, close to the border with Yemen, would be of haplogroup "J".
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Sabaʾ, biblical Sheba, kingdom in pre-Islamic southwestern Arabia, frequently mentioned in the Bible (notably in the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) and variously cited by ancient Assyrian, Greek, and Roman writers from about the 8th century bc to about the 5th century ad. Its capital, at least in the middle period, was Maʾrib, which lies 75 miles (120 km) east of present-day Sanaa, in Yemen. A second major city was Ṣirwāḥ.
The Sabaeans were a Semitic people who, at an unknown date, entered southern Arabia from the north, imposing their Semitic culture on an aboriginal population. Excavations in central Yemen suggest that the Sabaean civilization began as early as the 10th–12th century bc. By the 7th–5th century bc, besides "kings of Sabaʾ " there were individuals styling themselves "mukarribs of Sabaʾ," who apparently either were high priest–princes or exercised some function parallel to the kingly function. This middle period was characterized above all by a tremendous outburst of building activity, principally at Maʾrib and Ṣirwāḥ, and most of the great temples and monuments, including the great Maʾrib Dam, on which Sabaean agricultural prosperity depended, date back to this period. Further, there was an ever-shifting pattern of alliances and wars between Sabaʾ and other peoples of southwestern Arabia—not only the important kingdoms of Qatabān and Ḥaḍramawt but also a number of lesser but still independent kingdoms and city-states.
Sabaʾ was rich in spices and agricultural products and carried on a wealth of trade by overland caravan and by sea. For centuries it controlled Bāb el-Mandeb, the straits leading into the Red Sea, and it established many colonies on the African shores. That Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was peopled from South Arabia is proved linguistically; but the difference between the Sabaean and Ethiopian languages is such as to imply that the settlement was very early and that there were many centuries of separation, during which the Abyssinians were exposed to foreign influences. New colonies, however, seem occasionally to have followed, and some parts of the African coast were under the suzerainty of the Sabaean kings as late as the 1st century bc.
Toward the end of the 3rd century ad, a powerful king named Shamir Yuharʿish (who seems incidentally to be the first really historical personage whose fame has survived in the Islamic traditions) assumed the title "king of Sabaʾ and the Dhū Raydān and of Ḥaḍramawt and Yamanāt." By this time, therefore, the political independence of Ḥaḍramawt had succumbed to Sabaʾ, which had thus become the controlling power in all southwestern Arabia. In the mid-4th century ad, it underwent a temporary eclipse, for the title of "king of Sabaʾ and the Dhū Raydān" was then claimed by the king of Aksum on the east African coast. At the end of the 4th century, southern Arabia was again independent under a "king of Sabaʾ and the Dhū Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Yamanāt." But within two centuries the Sabaeans would disappear as they were successively overrun by Persian adventurers and by the Muslim Arabs.
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(The Qajar dynasty is a Persianized Iranian royal family of Turkic origin, which ruled Persia (Iran) from 1785 to 1925. The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794 after deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last of the Zand dynasty rulers - who were also foreigners).
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Newfound stone artifacts suggest humankind left Africa traveling through the Arabian Peninsula instead of hugging its coasts, as long thought, researchers say. Modern humans first arose about 200,000 years ago in Africa. When and how our lineage then dispersed has long proven controversial, but geneticists have suggested this exodus started between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago. The currently accepted theory is that the exodus from Africa traced Arabia's shores, rather than passing through its now-arid interior.
However, stone artifacts at least 100,000 years old from the Arabian Desert, revealed in January 2011, hinted that modern humans might have begun our march across the globe earlier than once suspected. Now, more-than-100 newly discovered sites in the Sultanate of Oman apparently confirm that modern humans left Africa through Arabia long before genetic evidence suggests. Oddly, these sites are located far inland, away from the coasts."After a decade of searching in southern Arabia for some clue that might help us understand early human expansion, at long last we've found the smoking gun of their exit from Africa," said lead researcher Jeffrey Rose, a paleolithic archaeologist at the University of Birmingham in England. "What makes this so exciting is that the answer is a scenario almost never considered."
The international team of archaeologists and geologists made their discovery in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman, nestled in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. "The coastal expansion hypothesis looks reasonable on paper, but there is simply no archaeological evidence to back it up," said researcher Anthony Marks of Southern Methodist University, referring to the fact that an exodus by the coast, where one has access to resources such as seafood, might make more sense than tramping across the desert.
On the last day of the research team's 2010 field season, the scientists went to the final place on their list, a site on a hot, windy, dry plateau near a river channel that was strewn with stone artifacts. Such artifacts are common in Arabia, but until now the ones seen were usually relatively young in age. Upon closer examination, Rose recalled asking, "Oh my God, these are Nubians — what the heck are these doing here?" The 100-to-200 artifacts they found there were of a style dubbed Nubian Middle Stone Age, well-known throughout the Nile Valley, where they date back about 74,000-to-128,000 years. Scientists think ancient craftsmen would have shaped the artifacts by striking flakes off flint, leading to distinctive triangular pieces. This is the first time such artifacts have been found outside of Africa. Subsequent field work turned up dozens of sites with similar artifacts. Using a technique known as optically stimulated luminescence dating, which measures the minute amount of light long-buried objects can emit, to see how long they have been interred, the researchers estimate the artifacts are about 106,000 years old, exactly what one might expect from Nubian Middle Stone Age artifacts and far earlier than conventional dates for the exodus from Africa.
Finding so much evidence of life in what is now a relatively barren desert supports the importance of field work, according to the researchers. "Here we have an example of the disconnect between theoretical models versus real evidence on the ground," Marks said. However, when these artifacts were made, instead of being desolate, Arabia was very wet, with copious rain falling across the peninsula, transforming its barren deserts to fertile, sprawling grasslands with lots of animals to hunt, the researchers explained. "For a while, South Arabia became a verdant paradise rich in resources — large game, plentiful fresh water, and high-quality flint with which to make stone tools," Rose said.
Instead of hugging the coast, early modern humans might therefore have spread from Africa into Arabia along river networks that would've acted like today's highways, researchers suggested. There would have been plenty of large game present, such as gazelles, antelopes and ibexes, which would have been appealing to early modern humans used to hunting on the savannas of Africa.
Yemen, officially known as the Republic of Yemen, it is an Arab country in Western Asia, occupying South Arabia, the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is the second-largest country in the peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the south, and Oman to the east and northeast. Although Yemen's constitutionally stated capital is the city of Sana'a, the city has been under rebel control since February 2015. Because of this, Yemen's capital has been temporarily relocated to the port city of Aden, on the southern coast. Yemen's territory includes more than 200 islands; the largest of these is Socotra.
Yemen was the home of the Sabaeans (biblical Sheba), a trading state that flourished for over a thousand years and probably also included parts of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 275 AD, the region came under the rule of the later Jewish-influenced Himyarite Kingdom. Christianity arrived in the fourth century, whereas Judaism and local paganism were already established. Islam spread quickly in the seventh century and Yemenite troops were crucial in the expansion of the early Islamic conquests. Administration of Yemen has long been notoriously difficult. Several dynasties emerged from the ninth to 16th centuries, the Rasulid dynasty being the strongest and most prosperous. The country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires in the early twentieth century. The Zaydi Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was established after World War I in North Yemen before the creation of the Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. South Yemen remained a British protectorate known as the Aden Protectorate until 1967. The two Yemeni states united to form the modern republic of Yemen in 1990.
Yemen is a developing country, and the poorest country in the Middle East. Under the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen was described as a kleptocracy. According to the 2009 international corruption Perception Index by Transparency International, Yemen ranked 164 out of 182 countries surveyed.
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy: ("rule by thieves") is a term applied to a government seen as having a particularly severe and systemic problem with officials or a ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) taking advantage of corruption to extend their personal wealth and political power. Typically this system involves the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service.
Yemen Demographics:
Yemen's population is 24 million by 2014 estimates. Yemeni ethnic groups are predominantly Arab, followed by Afro-Arabs, South Asians and Europeans. When the former states of North and South Yemen were established, most resident minority groups departed. Yemen is a largely tribal society. In the northern, mountainous parts of the country, there are 400 Zaidi tribes. There are also hereditary caste groups in urban areas such as Al-Akhdam. There are also Yemenis of Persian origin. Note; the Zaidi Houthis, now at war for control of Yemen, are said to have occupied Northern Yemen since about 869 A.D.
The degeneracy of Albinos and their mulattoes is apparent in the above demographic. A true Arab looks exactly like an African, how could they tell the difference? Because Albino media prefers to not show indigenous Blacks in what they want known as "Arab lands" (really invader lands), we will show them.
Religion in Yemen consists primarily of two principal Islamic religious groups: 60%–65% of the Muslim population is Sunni and 35%–40% is Shia, according to the International Religious Freedom Report. Sunnis are primarily Shafi'i but also include significant groups of Malikis and Hanbalis. Shias are primarily Zaidi and also have significant minorities of Twelver and Ismaili Shias. The Sunnis are predominantly in the south and southeast. The Zaidis are predominantly in the north and northwest whilst the Ismailis are in the main centers such as Sana'a and Ma'rib.
Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab country in the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Holding a strategically important position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the nation is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the south and southwest, and shares marine borders with Iran and Pakistan.
From the late 17th century, the Omani Sultanate was a powerful empire, vying with Portugal and Britain for influence in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. At its peak in the 19th century, Omani influence or control extended across the Strait of Hormuz to modern-day Iran and Pakistan, and as far south as Zanzibar (today part of Tanzania, also former capital). As its power declined in the 20th century, the sultanate came under the influence of the United Kingdom. Historically, Muscat was the principal trading port of the Persian Gulf region. Muscat was also among the most important trading ports of the Indian Ocean.
Oman is an absolute monarchy. The Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said has been the hereditary leader of the country since 1970. Sultan Qaboos is the longest-serving current ruler in the Middle East, and seventh-longest current-reigning monarch in the world. Oman has modest oil reserves, ranking 25th globally. Nevertheless, in 2010 the UNDP ranked Oman as the most improved nation in the world in terms of development during the preceding 40 years. A significant portion of its economy is tourism and trade of fish, dates, and certain agricultural produce. This sets it apart from its neighbors' solely oil-dependent economy. Oman is categorized as a high-income economy and ranks as the 74th most peaceful country in the world according to the Global Peace Index.
Oman Demographics:
Oman's official religion is Islam. Omani people are predominantly Arab, Baluchi, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi), and African ethnic groups. Omani society is largely tribal and encompasses three major identities: that of the tribe, the Ibadi faith, and maritime trade. The first two identities are closely tied to tradition and are especially prevalent in the interior of the country, owing to lengthy periods of isolation. The third identity pertains mostly to Muscat and the coastal areas of Oman, and is reflected by business, trade, and the diverse origins of many Omanis, who trace their roots to Baloch, Al-Lawatia, Persia, and historical Omani Zanzibar. Consequently, the third identity is generally seen to be more open and tolerant towards others, and is often in tension with the more traditional and insular identities of the interior.
The Ibādī movement, Ibadism or Ibādiyya, also known as the Ibadis: is a school of Islam dominant in Oman. It is also found in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and East Africa. The movement is said to have been founded 20 years after the death of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, thus predating both the Sunni and Shia denominations. It would seem that "Real" Arabs follow an older type of Islam than the converted others.
Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab world, mainly in Western Asia, North Africa, Southeast Africa, the Horn of Africa and certain parts of Europe. The trade was conducted through slave markets in the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, with the slaves captured mostly from Africa's interior.
The trade of slaves across the Sahara and across the Indian Ocean also has a long history, beginning with the control of sea routes by Arab and Swahili traders on the Swahili Coast during the ninth century (see Sultanate of Zanzibar).
The captives were sold throughout the Middle East. This trade accelerated as superior ships led to more trade and greater demand for labor on plantations in the region. Eventually, tens of thousands of captives were being taken every year. The Indian Ocean slave trade was multi-directional and changed over time.
To meet the demand for menial labor, Bantu slaves bought by Arab slave traders from southeastern Africa were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to customers in Egypt, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, European colonies in the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands, Ethiopia and Somalia. Slave labor in East Africa was drawn from the Zanj, Bantu peoples that lived along the East African coast
In answer to this stupidity: Egypt, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, etc: Teem with Black people who for thousands of years worked their own fields, and in the case of Egypt, was the Breadbasket of the ancient world, why would they need Slaves to do what they had been doing for thousands of years?
A flair for history is a prerequisite to understanding the Muslim world and its people. Their yesterdays are closely bound up with the here and now. A good grasp of geography will be helpful as well. Slavery in Early Islamic History: It was intriguing to note in Bernard Lewis' book, The Arabs in History, that paper was made first in China in the year 105 B.C. In A.D. 751, the Arabs defeated a Chinese contingent east of the 'Jaxartes'. (Jaxartes is a river that lies on the border between China and present-day Afghanistan. Persian King Cyrus was killed fighting near this river, about 500 B.C.) The Arabs found some Chinese paper makers among their prisoners. Many such skills were brought into the Islamic world in this way. The use of paper spread rapidly across the Islamic world, reaching Egypt by A.D. 800 and Spain by the year 900. From the tenth century onwards, evidence is clear of paper-making occurring in countries of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the European country of Spain.
The Arabs profited from the craft of the paper makers they had captured as slaves. From archaeologists and records kept in ancient times, we learn that slave trade existed for a long time in the Arab world. Back in the days of the caliphs [early Muslim leaders], having a slave for a mother was not a stigma for a Muslim man. Due to polygamy, this was quite common.
At first the caliphs maintained a kind of aristocracy among themselves, making it imperative that the mother of a caliph was from one of the Arab tribes. However, as more and more slaves adopted the religion of Islam, noble birth and tribal prestige lost their value. By the year 817, the Abbasid Caliphs and succeeding Muslim rulers often were the sons of slave women, many of whom were foreign. Such parentage ceased to be either an obstacle or a stigma.
Growth of the Slave Trade
Quite possibly, the maintenance of slavery and the social acceptance of slaves were important drawing cards for Islam as it penetrated Africa. Without a knowledge of history many Africans may be unaware of the fact that Islamic traders carried on a steady slave trade from East African ports for many centuries. Records are available which contain the lists of goods involved in trade with the rest of the world.
Muslim merchants traveled to India, Ceylon, the East Indies, and China, over sea and land, bringing back silks, spices, aromatics, woods, tin, and many other items. Records mention 'slave girls' from the Byzantine Empire along with gold and silver, marble workers, and eunuchs. Surprisingly, Muslim traders went as far away as Scandinavia, and especially Sweden, where scores of Muslim coins have been found with inscriptions from the seventh and eleventh centuries. On the long lists of goods which Muslim traders imported from Scandinavia, are found 'Slavonic slaves, sheep, and cattle' (cited by Lewis in The Arabs in History). An early ninth century geographer, Ibn Kurradadhbeh, describes Jewish merchants from the south of France 'who speak Arabic, Persian, Greek, Frankish, Spanish, and Slavonic. They travel from west to east and east to west, by land and sea. From the west they bring eunuchs, slave girls and boys, brocade, beaver skins, sable and other furs, and swords'.
Though some slaves attained an honored class, doing either domestic work or military service, they were exceptions. 'Generally, slaves were employed for manual labor on a number of large scale enterprises, in mines, in the fleets, in the drainage of marshes, etc.. They were herded together in settlements, often thousands belonging to a single landowner. Slaves of this kind were mainly black, obtained more especially from East Africa by capture, purchase, or in the form of tribute from vassal states. Such were the slaves in the salt flats east of Basra, where unprecedented numbers were employed by the wealthy men of that city in draining the salt marshes in order to prepare the ground for agriculture and to extract the salt for sale. They worked in gangs from five hundred to five thousand. Their conditions were extremely bad. Their labor was hard and exacting, and they received only a bare and inadequate keep consisting, according to the Arabic sources, of flour, semolina and dates. Many knew little or no Arabic. Eventually a leader arose among them and led a great uprising which aimed, not at ending slavery, but at securing better living conditions.
A Recent Study
Another book by Bernard Lewis entitled Race and Slavery in the Middle East a Historical Enquiry, published in 1990 by Oxford University Press, features color plate illustrations dating back to 1237 and the 1500's with 80 pages of notes to back up its contents. These intriguing paintings were discovered in famous libraries in London, Paris, and Istanbul. They depict the variety of slaves and their livelihoods.
In his book, Lewis describes how the Muslim world reacted when cries for abolition of slavery resounded around the world in the 19th century
'The revulsion against slavery, which gave rise to a strong abolitionist movement in England, and later in other Western countries, began to affect the Islamic lands. What was involved was not, initially, the abolition of the institution of slavery but its alleviation, and in particular, the restriction and ultimately the elimination of the slave trade. Islamic law, in contrast to the ancient and colonial systems, accords the slave a certain legal status and assigns obligations as well as rights to the slave owner. The manumission of slaves, though recommended as a meritorious act, is not required, and the institution of slavery not only is recognized but is elaborately regulated by Sharia law. Perhaps for this very reason the position of the domestic slave in Muslim society was in most respects better than in either classical antiquity or the nineteenth-century Americas. While, however, the life of the slave in Muslim society was no worse, and in some ways was better, than that of the free poor, the processes of acquisition and transportation often imposed appalling hardships. It was these which drew the main attention of European opponents of slavery, and it was to the elimination of this traffic, particularly in Africa, that their main efforts were directed. The abolition of slavery itself would hardly have been possible. From a Muslim point of view, to forbid what God permits is almost as great an offense as to permit what God forbids - and slavery was authorized and regulated by the holy law. More specifically, it formed part of the law of personal status, the central core of social usage, which remained intact and effective even when other sections of the holy law, dealing with civil, criminal, and similar matters, were tactically or even openly modified and replaced by modern codes. It was from conservative religious quarters and notably from the holy cities of Mecca and Medina that the strongest resistance to the proposed reform came. The emergence of the holy men and the holy places as the last ditch defenders of slavery against reform is only an apparent paradox. They were upholding an institution sanctified by scripture, law, and tradition and one which in their eyes was necessary to the maintenance of the social structure of Muslim life'.
Further on, Lewis mentions how the overwhelming majority of white slaves came from the Caucasian lands. This was in the days of the Ottoman empire and it was not until 1854 that orders against the traffic in white slaves from Georgia and Circassia were issued and put into effect.
Arabia was another major center for the slave trade. The flow of slaves from Africa into Arabia and through the Gulf into Iran continued for a long time. The extension of British, French, and Italian control around the Horn of Africa (the area of Somalia and Kenya today) deprived the slave traders of their main ports of embarkation.
As far as Islam was concerned, the horrors of the abduction and transportation of slaves were the worst part. But once the slaves were settled in Islamic culture they had genuine opportunities to realize their potential. Many of them became merchants in Mecca, Jedda, and elsewhere.
A puzzling question comes to mind, however. If this is so, why does the Arab world have no corresponding Black population as is found in the New World? Lewis provides an answer, 'One reason is obviously the high population of eunuchs among Black males entering the Islamic lands. Another is the high death rate and low birth rate among Black slaves in North Africa and the Middle East. In about 1810, Louis Frank observed in Tunisia that most Black children died in infancy and that infinitesimally few reached the age of manhood. A British observer in Egypt, some thirty years later, found conditions even worse. He said, 'I have heard it estimated that five or six years are sufficient to carry off a generation of slaves, at the end of which time the whole has to be replenished'.
The Abolition of Slavery
The institution of slavery regrettably existed both in the old, classical Christian and Islamic civilizations. Yet it is to the credit of Christianity that the abolition movement took root in Great Britain, Western Europe, and the United States and brought an end to this buying and selling of human beings. The way in which slavery was practiced in Islamic countries had both bright and dark sides. What is regrettable now is that this practice among Muslims is seldom openly discussed - as if slavery was exclusively a Western phenomenon. This deliberate silence enables Islamic propagandists in America to represent Muslims as liberators of the people of African origin, contrary to historical fact. Shirley Madany has assisted her husband for many years with the Arabic Broadcast of The Back to the Bible Hour.
Shirley Madany was no doubt a sincere woman, but her ignorance of true history, lack of first hand knowledge, and failure to understand the duplicity of the degenerates who Albinos pass-off as historians, left her attempt at telling history, a waste of her time.
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The Mamluks was the knightly military caste in Egypt in the Middle Ages that rose from the ranks of slave soldiers who were mainly Turkic peoples, Circassians, Abkhazians, Georgians, and Copts. Many Mamluks could also be of Balkan origin (Albanians, Greeks, and South Slavs). The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior class, was of great political importance and was extraordinarily long-lived, lasting from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries.
Over time, mamluks became a powerful military knightly caste in various societies that were controlled by Muslim rulers. Particularly in Egypt, but also in the Levant, Mesopotamia, and India, mamluks held political and military power. In some cases, they attained the rank of sultan, while in others they held regional power as emirs or beys. Most notably, mamluk factions seized the sultanate for themselves centered on Egypt and Syria as the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). The Mamluk Sultanate famously defeated the Ilkhanate at the Battle of Ain Jalut; they had earlier fought the Crusaders in 1154-1169 and 1213-1221, effectively driving them out of Egypt and the Levant. In 1302 they formally expelled the last Crusaders from the Levant, ending the era of the Crusades.
While mamluks were purchased, their status was above ordinary slaves, who were not allowed to carry weapons or perform certain tasks. In places such as Egypt from the Ayyubid dynasty to the time of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, mamluks were considered to be "true lords" and "true warriors" with social status above the general population in Egypt and the Levant.
The Janissaries were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards. Sultan Murad I created the force in 1383. They began as an elite corps of slaves made up of conscripted young Christian boys, and became famed for internal cohesion cemented by strict discipline and order. By 1620, they were hereditary, corrupt, and an impediment to reform. The corps was abolished by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826 in the Auspicious Incident in which 6,000 or more were executed.
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Pincode | 744201 |
Name | Swdeshnagar B.O |
District | North And Middle Andaman |
State | Andaman And Nicobar |
Status | Branch Office(Delivery) |
Head Office | Port Blair H.O |
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Address | 744201, India |
Indian Postal Code System Consists of Six digits. The first to digits represent the state, the second two digits represent the district and the Third two digits represents the Post Office.In this case the first two digits 74 represents the state Andaman And Nicobar, the second two digits 42 represent the district North And Middle Andaman, and finally 01 represents the Post Office Swdeshnagar B.O. Thus the Zip Code of Swdeshnagar B.O, North And Middle Andaman, andaman and nicobar is 744201 |