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Warner Bros. Records, Inc. är ett amerikanskt skivbolag, grundat 19 mars 1958. Bolaget är ett dotterbolag till Warner Music Group. Warner Bros. Records är mer känt som WEA International Inc. utanför USA.

En av anledningarna till grundandet av Warners skivbolag var att Tab Hunter, som hade kontrakt med Warner som skådespelare, 1957 fick en hit med "Young Love", utgiven av Dot Records. Warners grundade då sitt skivbolag och skrev kontrakt med Hunter även som sångare. Bolaget var under sina första år inte vidare framgångsrikt men i början av 1960-talet anslöt sig bland andra The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley & The Comets, Peter, Paul & Mary och komikern Bob Newhart till Warners. 1963 köpte man Frank Sinatras Reprise Records. En annan av bolagets framgångsrika artister under 1960-talet var Petula Clark.

Artister

A
 Against Me! (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 America (Warner Bros.)
 Armor for Sleep (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Ash (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Ashley Tisdale
 Ataxia (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Kate Alexa (Liberation/Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Lily Allen (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Attitude
 Avenged Sevenfold

B
 Tyra B
 Eric Benét
 Big & Rich (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Blacklist Union
 bloodsimple
 Michelle Branch (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
 Lindsey Buckingham
 Built to Spill
 Rick Braun
 blessthefall (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Holly Brook (Machine Shop/Warner Bros.)
 Brother Reade (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Blades For Recognition

C
 Cher
 Henry Cho
 Michael Coombes
 Mitchell Cratchley
 The Confession (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Cowboy Troy (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Timmy Curran (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Kasey Chambers
 Cut Chemist
 Colbie Caillat (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Gabriella Cilmi (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Ry Cooder
 Alice Cooper (1971 - 1982)

D
 Dark New Day
 Simon Dawes (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Craig David (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Deep Purple
 Dire Strates
 The Dirt Drifters (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Dirty Heads
 The Distillers (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 The Doobie Brothrss (Warner Bros.)
 Dropkick Murphys (Born & Bred/Warner Bros.)
 Dutch Dub (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Whitney Duncan (Warner Bros. Nashville)

E
 Clint Eastwood (Malpaso/Warner Bros.)
 Elliot Minor
 Bill Engvall (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Eskimo Joe (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Evermore (Sire/Warner Bros.)

F
 The Flaming Lips
 Fleetwood Mac
 Foals
 Foreigner(Atlantic)
 Fort Minor (Machine Shop/Warner Bros.)
 Jeff Foxworthy (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Kristy Frank (Ruffnation/Warner Bros.)
 Frank Fortuna
 John Frusciante (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 The Futureheads (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Future Pigeon (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)

G
 Glassjaw
 Goldie Lookin' Chain (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Gyroscope (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Goo Goo Dolls
 Jean Grae (Blacksmith/Warner Bros.)
 Greeley Estates (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)

H
 Angela Hacker (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Har Mar Superstar (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Jessica Harp (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
 Eddie Hazel
 Faith Hill (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 HIM (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Paris Hilton
 Hot Hot Heat (Sire/Warner Bros.)

I
Iron & Wine
Iyaz

J
 Jah-Free
 Boney James
 Leela James
 Mike Jones (Asylum/Warner Bros.)
 Josephine Collective
Jason Derülo

K
 Kath & Kim (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Jamie Kennedy (JKiss/Warner Bros.)
 King Co.
 Mark Knopfler
 Talib Kweli (Blacksmith/Warner Bros.)
 Kulcha Don (Ruffnation/Warner Bros.)

L
 Lisa Lampanelli
 Larry the Cable Guy (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 Josiah Leming
 Less Than Jake (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Lil Flip (Asylum/Warner Bros.)
 Linkin Park
 Little Feet
 The Lucky Bucks

M
 Mêlée
 Madonna (Lämnar 2009 och joinar LiveNation)
 MC Solaar
 Mika (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.) (Lämnar 2009 och joinar Arista Records)
 Jessi Malay
 Christian McBride
 Brian McKnight
 The Mean Reds (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Meg & Dia
 Brad Mehldau
 Idina Menzel
 Metallica
 Lori McKenna (Stylesonic/Warner Bros.)
 Lance Miller
 Kylie Minogue (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Elliot Minor
 Chad Mitchell
 Van Morrison
 Mt. Egypt (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Murs (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 Muse
 Mute Math
 Missy Higgins
 My Chemical Romance
 Meaku

N
 New Order

O
 Paul Oakenfold (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
 Renee Olstead
 William Orbit (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
 James Otto (Warner Bros. Nashville)

P
 Daniel Powter
 Tom Petty
 Prince
 The Prodigy (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

Q
 Quan

R
 Gina Riley (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Red Hot Chili Peppers
 Lou Reed
 Relient K
 R.E.M.
 Rilo Kiley
 Ruslana

S
 Adam Sandler
 Scooch
 Seal
 Seals and Crofts
 Sex Pistols (Nordamerika)
 Blake Shelton (Warner Bros. Nashville)
 The Shys (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Paul Simon
 The Smashing Pumpkins (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
 The Souljaz
 Shelby Starner
 Static-X (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
 Rod Stewart
 Regina Spektor (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Static Silhouettes
 The Subways (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Styles of Beyond (Machine Shop/Warner Bros.)
 Supreeme (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)

T
 Taking Back Sunday
 Evan Taubenfeld (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Tegan and Sara (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 Tiffany Affair
 Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
 Jane Turner (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)
 Tynisha Keli
 Tyra B (Asylum/Warner Bros.)
 Timbaland (Festival Mushroom/Warner Bros.)

V
 Van Halen (Warner Bros.)
 V.I.C. (Young Mogul/Warner Bros.)
 V-Factory (Warner Bros.)
 The Veronicas (Sire/Warner Bros.)
 The Von Bondies (Sire/Warner Bros.)

W
 The Walkmen (Record Collection/Warner Bros.)
 The White Stripes
 The Wreckers (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
 Wiz Khalifa

X
XV

Y
Rachael Yamagata

Z
Måns Zelmerlöw
ZZ Top

Se även
 Columbia Records
 RCA Records
 PolyGram
 MCA Records
 EMI
 Capitol Records
 Mercury Records
 Polydor

Amerikanska skivbolag och skivmärken
Skivbolag och skivmärken bildade 1958


One sour note in an otherwise splendid year for Nintendo during 2018 was the reported behaviour of, and allegations against, Nintendo Russia CEO Yasha Haddaji. After a video in which Haddaji was seen losing his temper with staff - and threatening to fire them - went viral, a handful of Nintendo Russia employees came forward to talk about other issues experienced under his employment, sharing worrying tales of violent behaviour, unnecessary anger, and sexual harassment.
Back in November, we compiled our findings into a full report, sharing the views of former employees who wished to speak to us and have their feelings and experiences heard. After asking for comment, we received a message from Nintendo of Europe which stated that "a thorough investigation" into the allegations was taking place.
We want to ensure that the conduct of all our employees is in line with Nintendo's company values, and we remain committed to upholding these standards in the future."
In short, Haddaji has received a formal warning and has issued an apology to all staff; Nintendo of Europe will provide more support to Nintendo Russia going forward.
Ouch getting a write up that far along in your career? Dang that is more embarrassing than getting fired imo. He better be on his best behavior now that he is in the crosshairs though. One more scandal (or at this point a sneeze) and he's out.
Well I suppose it's a good thing that most of the stuff he was accused of turned out to be false. Still, it sounds like his employees really don't feel safe in the workplace while he's there. I'm sure that just one more loss of temper will result in him losing his job. Hopefully everything works out one way or another!
Well... that seems mild, but he probably didn't deserve ALL the ire he got. When I saw him a few times on nintendo events he did help out people himself. I would say the problem was not only him, but the whole Nintendo of Russia lack of resources (Yasha also being one of them).
Wow, there are loads of incidents that i've read about, but Nintendo says it is within their guide lines?
Hes a psychopath, but ofcourse they always get a "warning"..
Wow people get away with anything apparently. Why would you want him at your company?
Who is seriously surprised? It's a Japanese company, even if a Russian branch, and in Japan the superior is always right and the person on the lower rung of the ladder should just smile and nod and do what they're told.
If the allegations are TRULY false then the accusators should be charged for false accusations.
Nintendo normally go to extremes to prove that they are family friendly and then we've got this.
First off - we don't know if the allegations are false - all we know is that Nintendo's investigation did not substantiate the abuse claims. That is all. It does not mean those things did not happen. Let's not go all nuts on the accusers - what they are claiming might be actually true. Might not - but might be as well.
Our investigation has revealed that Nintendo Russia is located in Russia and as a result, everything is crazy and done with brute force. When we stopped by Mr Haddaji's office, once he climbed down from his pet bear and stopped juggling axes to explain the situation, we looked around and came to the conclusion that this is as good as it gets in this country."
@Zuljaras It says they haven't been substantiated by the evidence, not that the allegations were completely false. Given what has been recorded on camera, it's pretty clear that there's a problem there. It would be a bit ridiculous to reprimand him for his aggressive behaviour and then reprimand workers for spreading 'false' allegations about his aggressive behaviour, wouldn't it?
I don't know what personal issues this person is facing. I think if a person is facing hard times, they should let a temporal subtitude while the person deals with whatever issues he is facing.
I think it's disgusting that Nintendo let this man off.
A slap on the back of the neck, in other words. And water under the bridge.
@Razzy Combine what you said with the fact that Russia has a culture of respecting "strong man" figures who are allowed to get away with murder (not necessarily figurative) as long as they get results and maintain a sense of pride for the loyal subjects.
@SamusLv7 I completely agree with you but in this case it sounds like it was just his personality and he'd been particularly abusive to a number of employees. Imagine how he behaves behind closed doors?
There is probably a reason the other allegations weren't brought up as criminal charges. While he might have been unpleasant to some employees, nothing illegal or policy-breaching seems to have taken place.
Here's hoping he takes the critique to heart, and seeks to straighten out his act, so that people can enjoy their work, and perhaps will remember him a bit more fondly.
@Rob3008 True, I tried to see a pacific solution but I think you are probably right.
There was a enough on that video to sack him 100% - no excuse for the stuff he said and you cant fake that attitude. Very disappointed Nintendo have turned a blind eye to this, this is how people like him get away with it.
@Pod Here's another consideration. I had two bosses while I was in the military prone to fits of rage. One was just a psycho and needed to be removed (he eventually was). The other one, every time I saw him blow up and start yelling, his subordinates really had royally screwed up. I do think his anger was a problem, but he also ran a tight ship and the squadron went downhill after he moved on. So which version of angry boss was Mr Haddaji?
Well, unlike all us commentors, Nintendo was able to address anyone that came forward with concerns in that workplace. That's their decision for now, I suppose.
Not my circus, not my tigers.
@nessisonett the big thing I noted there is the bit at the end basically going "from henceforth nintendo of Europe will give more support to nintendo of russia" which between the lines may well indicate he's on probation in all but name with likely some of even his own responsibilities being sent to Nintendo of Europe instead with him likely going to have to be on his best behavior whenever an overseer/etc from NoE is around.
Especially as I suspect NoE to be rather bigger than "Nintendo of Russia" and likely have more influence(heck I recall a lot of indies voicing how they had an easier time getting into the global eshop by going to Nintendo of Europe rather than even Nintendo of America who seemed to be focused on dealing only with publishers types at the time... meaning NoE had enough influence to get these titles published even on the American eshop at the end of the day even when NoA didn't even want to speaks to the involved devs originally).
@Stocksy considering the bit about "from henceforth Nintendo of Europe shall provide more support to Nintendo of Russia" I don't think he got off quite that easy since I'll suspect a lot of that European "support" will be very much there to watch him... and report on him if need be since I -very- much doubt he'll have the power to fire a NoE employees unlike employees of the Russian branch he likely could give such threats to in exchange for their silence/etc.
Basically Nintendo probably was indeed unable to get employees(whose jobs depends on the guy) too repeat their allegation but they're nonetheless likely going to put him on a leash anyway which may well force him to be on his best behavior since I don't think the European employees will put up much with that kind of crap since their own job won't be dependent on him and him alone.
Should've been fired. This man is not right in the head.
That's disgusting. I feel sorry for his employees, gonna have to keep working under constant fear and pressure.
Pathetic. To be expected, but still pathetic.
With that much stuff against him, I would fire him on the spot.
Soooooo nothing got resolved? So much for "thorough". I feel sorry for all the folks that have to keep working under this clown. Shame on you Nintendo for not getting this taken care of. Poor,poor employees.
@Rhaoulos Nice contribution to the conversation.
People see one article and a couple of videos on the internet and appoint themselves judge and jury.
Maybe, just maybe the people who did the full investigation have a better handle on things than the people who frequent Nintendo Life message boards.
@Wolfgabe They can and I'm pretty sure the evidence from the Live Stream should have been enough.
I know If I had done that in my job I would have been out on my arse.
Mr Yuriy Litvinenko (the author of the investigation) can't accept that he got it wrong.
I recently dealt with someone exactly like this man at my workplace and they eventually got the punishment they deserve. If he really did do all those things mentioned by other people, he will get his punishment in due time, not a slap on the wrist.
@Wolfgabe lol yes they can. They would just either promote someone else to do his role or temporarily get another member of staff to cover while they hire someone permanent.
Although the comment by Nintendo says Europe with be supporting nintendo Russia in releasing products, I really do think it also means keeping tabs on them too. They know this many people wouldn't come forward if none of it was true. It seems to me this is their way of keeping a loose canon in check because they haven't found the evidence to do anything more. I truly hope he isn't doing all the things people have said, because it would be an unacceptable, awful place to work.
Difficult to say without knowing the full details but if they can't prove the allegations, they can't prove them. Sounds to me like he's on a final warning and is going to be closely watched from now on.
Well no surpises there I guess. People were defending him here last time because what he was accused of was "cultural" differences.
Weird that Nintendo didn't just fire him and completely bow down to the Internet mob as I expected it would.
Or did it in fact bow down to the real mob. Dun dun dunnnnnn!
But I guess when it comes to superiors at least, Nintendo is a bit more rational and considered with this kind of stuff and doesn't just go firing people for the tiniest incident because a group of plonkers online got all up in arms over it and called out for a public execution.
PS. It's really easy for people to make exaggerated and false accusations, and other than the shouting incident that was actually on camera in this case, we shouldn't just automatically believe everyone and every claim made against someone else. Because people can and do lie, and they can and do often distort things in their minds after the fact, and that's just something we all need to keep in mind every time we're about to start lighting the torches, especially when it's so easy to get heated after some female claims some kind of "sexual misconduct"--just one of the many accusations thrown at this guy--of which many recent cases have now been proven to be examples of utterly false accusations, which means a lot of women are absolutely willing and ready to abuse the system when it suits their needs and ruin innocent men's life's and careers on a whim.
If he was a peon he'd be fired in any other business.
They're dealing with it according to the Japanese honour culture, he's said sorry so it's all OK now.
Should have fired that scum bag.
Disappointing. Deserves to be fired.
In one of my earlier jobs it was painfully obvious that the district manager was sleeping with and promoting an employee, bullying another manager out of the way for her, sexual harassment, and a number of other shady things. We brought some evidence to HR, they "investigated thoroughly," found nothing, and we were told to never bring it up again. A month later we gave them pictures found on facebook and he was allowed to quit rather than be fired. He was working for a nearby company in the same industry within a week. I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere, but I'm pretty sure a lot of these investigations involve asking the guy if he did the things and him saying no.
@ALinkttPresent it didn't turn out to be false. they just couldn't find more evidence. that's not the same as proving the allegations to be false.
@Ryu_Niiyama Its generally three strikes so I think he can do as he wishes still.
One of the main problems in the world right now, just accusing someone is enough. Doesn't matter about evidence, investigations or a trial because he/she said you did it so must be true.
@Bunkerneath They let him off because they don't believe the stories to be true, not because they think the behaviour in the stories is acceptable.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like Nintendo ARE absolutely sure he's a crappy and abusive boss, but they couldn't find hard evidence for the other complaints against him so they are just muzzling him instead of firing him.
It's definitely not good news for him that another branch of Nintendo is being brought in to "assist". What that really means is, we're not technically firing you but your power trip is officially over.
So basically he just got a slap on the wrist and had to say sorry. That seems a bit light.
Any "manager" with respect for his company would've resigned to not tarnish the image of the company anymore to be honest. Is anyone gonna take NOR serious after NOE didn't fire him?
A company that investigates itself finding no wrongdoings you don't say?
I suppose a formal warning for someone of that rank speaks volumes in the business world. Granted, I'm not privy to all the details and therefore can't really say for sure if Nintendo should have done more. Hopefully this guy cleans up his act now that he'll be more closely supervised....At least that's what I gather from this article.
Now if he was WHITE he would've been out faster than you can say toxic masculinity.
If a worker slags off their boss, the boss has absolute right to fire them.
Boss slags off the workforce though? Meeeh.
The internet will raise a massive stink over this for sure! But then again he isn't WHITE.
Lol who is going through this article and mass disliking every post? Seems like 80% of comments have a dislike and I have never seen anything like that on this website. I know this can be considered a controversial topic but none of the comments seem too outlandish, at least compared to the norm around here.
@UmbreonsPapa It's only "nonsense" to you because you don't know any better.
"Going forward, Nintendo of Europe will be providing more resources to Nintendo Russia to support their efforts to bring Nintendo products and experiences to Russian players."
This guy was given Japan's version of the worst punishment of all: A window office.
That's a polite way of saying he still runs Nintendo of Russia, but Nintendo of Russia has been neutered and put on display and will now simply be a subservient office of NoE, and he gets the be the face of the neutering indefinitely.
It's so good to see that there is a place where angry social media mob won't decide on important matters.
Even this page had published a seriously biased article without even asking the other side - which was shocking to me.
Reading all of these comments, I must ask.... whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?"
Seriously, I hate to get political, but it's like progressive/Democrat/socialist/SJW crazy disease is spreading.
If he truly did something wrong, he should be fired and pursued to fullest extent of the law. However, their investigations showed no merit to the allegations against him, and while I agree he SHOULD NOT have lost his temper and treated employees terribly, that's more of an HR issue, not a law issue.
@nintendork64 They had him verbally berating his employees on tape. What more do you need?
Good. No mob rule. Regardless of what we've heard in one incident, we don't even know any of the context. Everything after that, allegations and what not, is just going after a scalp.
Let him stay, promote him for resilience of he lasts. The last thing I want to have happen to people is being scalped by a crowd.
Any of us can have jokes, misunderstandings or actual behaviors taken out of context. And even if you make a mistake, we all do. We all sound like an ahole on somebody's tape.
Looks like he was wrong. It also looks like others tried to frame him after.
This guy has a job a lot of people can probably only dream of. He must have a lot of good and unique competences in order to get away with this.
People really do like their pitchforks, don't they?
Innocent until proven guilty? Who cares! Guilty because I say so!
We don't know anything except for a video on the Internet without any context. Sure, he has rage fits that don't belong on a person in his position and he got a very severe punishment because of that (and yes, from a business point of view, it was a severe punishment).
We know nothing, only that the investigation didn't prove anything. Who are we to think that he should be fired when we don't have any prove at all?
Anyone can and will make false accusations for any number of reasons and the mob do likes some controversy to spice their days.
Let me put that into a different light. Has anyone think that maybe this was just a set up to make him lose his job? He got angry and did something inexcusable but then the employees got angry and decided to accuse him of all sort of things just as revenge.
How is the situation above any less believable than the accusations directed at him?
I'm not saying he was innocent, of course, I'm saying that if the investigation didn't prove anything then I (we) have no reason to believe otherwise because we know literally nothing.
@BenGrimm: Yes, that definitely is a problem in the world, and despite actual facts, reputations get tarnished, and destroyed. People need to learn to look beyond surface issues, appearances, and consider to themselves if there is more to why a person acts, talks, or lives a certain way, than is usually acknowledged by most others. Things are not always what they seem, is a shorter way of putting/thinking it.
@PuppyToucher: I too, noticed that. At first I thought it was a glitch, but not everyone has a dislike.
@Everyone_Else: We don't know all the details. We only know a portion of.
I am almost certain any high ranking executive at NCL, NOA, or NOE would immediately be fired if he/she did a fraction of what Haddaji did on that 2017 Mario Kart stream. Let's not even mention the other more serious allegations of workplace misconduct.
Pretty disappointed in NOE for this. I guess NOR is that irrelevant to them, to the point where having this kind of a leader is acceptable.
I don't believe "turned out to be false" is a wise choice of words.
It just was not proven enough to be considered official.
Most cases of harrassment and abuse end up never being proven legally even if they are true.
I am not saying it was all true, but nobody can say it was all untrue either.
I personally know several people who suffered abuse of various types and "cannot prove it", of course, because they did not prepare beforehand to have it recorded or evidenced. That's how this world goes.
This is disgusting and I am very ashamed to be a fan of company that gives someone nothing more than a warning for abusive behavior. I know it's pretty much legal to work someone to death in Japan, but mistreating staff is not okay in the rest of the world. Nintendo of Russia employees deserve better.
Have all the people jumping to conclusions based on accusations alone..... never met actual liars or something? There are quite a lot of them.
Now, I don't want to press my opinions on anyone. It's generally considered the best course not to take action when there is no supporting evidence. I would assume Nintendo and its various branches have more information and resources at their disposal than any of us, so I trust their investigation.
Let's consider what would transpire if Nintendo did fire Mr. Haddaji on the spot. One, it would simply not be in line with the widely respected principles of due process, as in America. Just as a criminal is not executed on the spot, even if convicted of a serious crime, so it logically should follow in private business management. If that criminal is confronted with unquestionably incriminating evidence, then the court shall sentence him as it sees fit. In this case, Nintendo reports that it finds no evidence, so it acts accordingly. Two, someone with the right skills and experience would have to replace him. I would assume that it's not easy to find someone to replace that position in a moment's notice. They must look for a highly qualified person to fill that leadership role, and that may take much longer than expected.
In sum, I'd like to compare this situation to that of an American school system. It's similar to if an already unpopular principal gets accused of mistreating faculty by members of his staff. The board of education does an investigation and turns up no substantial evidence. There might be some validity to the allegations, but they lack clear evidence.
Well, they can't reasonably fire him on the spot because they have no absolutely justifiable grounds for doing so. Also, if they were to fire him, who would take his place? They can't just put anyone in charge of the school, so they decide against firing him, even though the students, faculty and other people in the community clamor against it.
However, they decide to give him a formal warning, which, in my opinion, would be quite humiliating. (Just imagine if you got called out by name at a music concert for your behavior. Wouldn't you feel a bit humiliated?) What would be even more humiliating would be if the board resolved to put extra resources into helping them run the school. That's almost an insult, saying the principal can't handle running the school on his own.
TL;DR: I think Nintendo's decision is what it is, and I can't question their reasoning because I don't have all the facts. They dealt with him as they saw fit. In my opinion, anything else would be seen as impulsive and rash. Not trying to assume things, but I doubt many people on this site are in a position of power and leadership like Mr. Haddaji, so something some people would see as "a slap on the wrist" could have more implications than indicated. The statement does remain a bit vague about NoE's plan of action, so there's room for interpretation.
@IHateTombs lol his apology might as well have been I am sorry for throwing trash on your desk instead of calling you trash. But yeah big business and half-assed penalties for their untouchables are quite a tandem. Might as well be the invisible Man.
@frogopus I'm sure Mr Hadaji has friends in high places who are looking out for him too. Let's not forget our good friend Nepotism.
So basically, nothing happened and he can just continue doing what he's been doing?
Nintendo are sometimes really strange.
A CEO losing his temper like that in public should usually be enough to get fired.
@Zuljaras The truth is more like the accusers being afraid to speak out in fear of retaliation. It's Russia after all.
@Jeronan We can't only go on assumptions right?
So now he's on a very short leash. If he got fired, he'd have a very, very bad resume in his portfolio with no job. He has to answer to NoE now.
He f**** up and he now his coworkers will look at him in a bad light.
Working in a hostile environment on all sides is worse tha getting axed.
And this is exactly why the Me Too movement exists. People don't just make up harassment claims. The intense scrutiny that follows is de-humanizing and you run the very real risk of retaliation.
I suspect the working conditions at NoR are not going to improve. The hostility will just become more subtle. Maybe fewer female employees will be hired. Maybe those that spoke out or are suspected of speaking out will stop receiving merit raises. Maybe they'll be turned down each time they apply for a new position in an effort to make them quit.
Regardless of whether or not you believe the harassment claims, the way Yasha conducted himself while representing Nintendo was absolutely unacceptable. Any employee with a lesser status would have been let go.
Every business can identify talent within and it wouldn't surprise me if people would have been earmarked as potential or someone externally marked as an ideal replacement.
Either way, they can sack him on the spot and be in a good enough position to get someone promoted within or keep the seat warm while the recruitment process takes place.
We do not know if the abuse claims are true or not. Of course people will try such claims in conjunction with an outrage like that in order to make the claim appear more believable.
I disagree given what I know about sexual assault. The vast majority of sexual assault claims are legitimate. (See here: https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC_Overview_False-Reporting.pdf.) I don't think it's a stretch to assume the same is true when it comes to harassment.
And again, even if you don't believe Yasha sexually harassed his employees, he conducted himself in a completely unprofessional manner while representing Nintendo. He should have been fired. Nintendo employees have been fired for a lot less. See Alison Rapp and Chris Pranger.
Lastly, it's very hard to actually prove a harassment claim. If there is no physical evidence, all you have is one person's word against the other's. What you should do is look for patterns of abuse. Have multiple people come forward with claims regarding this employee? Yes. Does this employee exhibit other problematic behavior? Yes. Can this person use their position as leverage against their accusers? Yes. That's far too many yesses for my comfort.
Compare how polished and professional ANYTHING Nintendo of America or Europe does either live or recorded over the last 30 years to THIS!!! The fact this happened on an OFFICIAL Nintendo stream is absolutely reprehensible and unforgivable honestly. If Mr. Yamauchi was still alive this clown shoes would've been fired on the spot!!
Booooo! I've searched this man's soul, and he's pure EGO!
@Xploder9825: "I think Nintendo's decision is what it is..." Eloquently put; just one (main) question: what is it, then?
@CodyDogg I realize that we have differing opinions, and that's okay. I cannot objectively say, with absolute certainty, that Nintendo's decision in the matter was right or wrong. "It is what it is" is an admission on my part that I'm going to take the neutral route and acknowledge that I'm powerless to affect the situation.
What you have said may be so; I won't take that away from you, as your opinion is yours to express. For the record, I'm not condoning Mr. Haddaji's behavior in the slightest, and rather frown upon it.
@Xploder6825: Ha, fair enough! It was an accurate analysis, and while I think he should've gotten the axe, we have only been permitted one side of the story. Now...if he's released in the next...ever, all us no-nothing outsiders will be proven correct! Tough position for everyone involved (relying on his indefinite good behavior, that is).


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Thank you to all our colleagues who attended our CPD Express programmes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane during the first half of 2017. Before the new MARA CPD framework takes effect on 1 January 2018, we will offer our original and high-quality CPD Express programme on one final occasion in 2017. After receiving many inquiries from our colleagues throughout Australia and overseas, we are pleased to announce that our popular "10 points in one day" CPD workshop series will be held for one final time in Sydney on Tuesday 21 November 2017.
For further information and to register, please click the link below.
Click the registration button above which best suits you to make your booking.
Legal practitioners: There are 6.5 hours worth of teaching time in this all-day course, completion of which will enable you to earn 6 CPD units. The course will also cover at least 1 hour in each of the four compulsory CPD fields (Substantive Law, Professional Skills, Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and Professional Responsibility).
The programme will be led and facilitated by our Accredited Immigration Law Specialists Peter Papadopoulos and Kathryn Viegas. Peter and Kathryn have extensive experience conducting advanced CPD for migration agents and lawyers through their previous contributions to CPD run by Migration Practice Essentials (MPE), Law Council of Australia (LCA), The College of Law, Migration Institute of Australia (MIA), Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) and Immigration Advice & Rights Centre (IARC). Peter and Kathryn are excited about sharing the latest developments in migration law and policy along with practical tips to get those more complex cases over the line.


Britain is pushing for Russia to be stripped of the right to host the 2018 World Cup under tough new political sanctions to be suggested by David Cameron at a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels.
The Prime Minister, with growing support across the EU, wants Russia to be ostracised from high-status international events, such as the football tournament, to teach Vladimir Putin that he will become a pariah unless he pulls troops out of Ukraine.
"The idea of taking the World Cup away from Russia has come up in talks between European leaders. Britain especially has pushed it as a way of taking broader and more imaginative measures against Russia," said a senior European diplomat.
European diplomats who are currently working on the EU's response to Russia are drawing up a list of "symbolic" political sanctions aimed at President Putin's highly developed sense of prestige, robbing him of the high-profile sporting events and barring him from participating in international summits.
"The existing sanctions have not yet changed Russian behaviour and we need to be more imaginative," said another senior EU official involved with coordinating the European response to Russia.
"We need to have tougher sanctions with new economic measures as well as looking at new options, for example, not holding the World Cup in Russia, dismissing Putin from the G20 or ASEM meetings between Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand."
Mr Cameron and other EU leaders are aware that the Russian leader fears losing popular support if he cannot hold the 2018 World Cup which is already complicated by Russia's intention to play matches in Crimea, illegally invaded and annexed by Mr Putin in March.
Speaking yesterday (FRI), Mr Putin expressed his "hope" that Russia would not lose the right to hold the football tournament as pressure grows on Fifa, the sport's governing body, to punish Russia for invading Ukraine.
"Fifa has already said soccer and sport are outside politics and I think that is the right approach," said the Russian President.
In July Fifa insisted that it remained committed to the 2018 World Cup in Russia and claimed that "boycotting sport events or a policy of isolation or confrontation are not the most effective ways to solve problems".
EU leaders are also expected to give the green light to new economic sanctions against Russia including measures to paralyse its banking system and to hit the country's immense mineral wealth.
Mr Cameron will call on the EU to bring its sanctions into line with US measures that target many Russian oligarchs close to Mr Putin and companies with links to the Russian state.
Britain is also pressing for Russia to be blocked from accessing the Swift banking transaction system which is one of its main connections to the international financial system.
Additionally, the EU is discussing bans on the import of Russian luxury goods, such as caviar and vodka, including Russia's economically vital diamond monopoly Alrosa in sanctions for the first time.
The EU last year bought non-industrial diamonds worth as much as much as EUR2.5billion last year, with 97 per cent of the trade controlled by Alrosa, which is run by Yury Trutnev, Russia's deputy prime minister and is 44 per cent state owned.


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<?php
/**
 * controller class yg digunakan untuk mengelola
 * data kelas di level guru
 */
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Backend;

use App\Helpers\Fungsi;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Requests\Kelas\createKelasRequest;
use App\Http\Requests\Kelas\updateKelasRequest;
use App\Models\Mst\KelasUser;
use App\Models\Ref\Kelas;
use App\Models\Ref\Mapel;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class KelasGuruController extends Controller
{

    private $base_view = 'konten.backend.kelas.';
    protected $fungsi;
    protected $kelas;
    protected $kelas_user;

	public function __construct(Fungsi $fungsi,
								Kelas $kelas,
								KelasUser $kelas_user
								)
	{
		$this->kelas = $kelas;
		$this->fungsi = $fungsi;
		$this->kelas_user = $kelas_user;
		view()->share('backend_kelas_index', true);
		view()->share('base_view', $this->base_view);
	}

	/**
	 * halaman awal list kelas
	 * @return [type] [description]
	 */
	public function index()
	{
		$kelas = $this->kelas
				->where('mst_user_id', '=', \Auth::user()->id)
				->orderBy('id', 'DESC')
				->with('mst_kelas_user', 'ref_mapel')
				->paginate(10);
		$vars = compact('kelas');
		return view($this->base_view.'index', $vars);
	}

	/**
	 * GET form untuk menambah kelas
	 */
	public function add()
	{
		$q_mapel = Mapel::all();
		$mapel = $this->fungsi->get_dropdown($q_mapel, 'mata pelajaran');
		$vars = compact('mapel');
		return view($this->base_view.'popup.add', $vars);
	}

	/**
	 * POST action untuk menambah kelas
	 * @param  createKelasRequest $request [description]
	 * @return [type]                      [description]
	 */
	public function insert(createKelasRequest $request)
	{
		$insert_kelas = $this->kelas->create($request->except('_token'));
		$k = $this->kelas->findOrFail($insert_kelas->id);
		$k->kode_kelas = \Hashids::encode($insert_kelas->id.''.date('YmdHis'));
		$k->save();
		return $k;
	}

	/**
	 * POST action untuk membuka status kelas agar siswa bs join atau sebaliknya
	 * @param  Request $request [description]
	 * @return [type]           [description]
	 */
	public function aktivasi(Request $request)
	{
		$k = $this->kelas->findOrFail($request->id);
		if($k->is_open == 1){
			$k->is_open = 0;
			$k->save();
		}else{
			$k->is_open = 1;
			$k->save();
		}
		return $k;
	}

	/**
	 * POST action untuk me-regenerate kode_kelas
	 * @param  Request $request [description]
	 * @return [type]           [description]
	 */
	public function regenerate_kode_kelas(Request $request)
	{
		$k = $this->kelas->findOrFail($request->id);
		$k->kode_kelas = \Hashids::encode($request->id.''.date('YmdHis'));
		$k->save();
		return $k;
	}

	/**
	 * POST action untuk menghapus kelas
	 * @param  Request $request [description]
	 * @return [type]           [description]
	 */
	public function delete(Request $request){
		$k = $this->kelas->findOrFail($request->id);
		$k->delete();
		return 'ok';
	}

	/**
	 * GET halaman untuk melihat detail kelas
	 * @param  [type] $id [description]
	 * @return [type]     [description]
	 */
	public function view_detail_kelas($id)
	{
		$kelas = $this->kelas->findOrFail($id);
		$vars = compact('kelas');
		return view($this->base_view.'popup.view_detail_kelas', $vars);
	}

	/**
	 * GET halaman untuk edit data kelas
	 * @param  [type] $id [description]
	 * @return [type]     [description]
	 */
	public function edit($id)
	{
		$q_mapel = Mapel::all();
		$mapel = $this->fungsi->get_dropdown($q_mapel, 'mata pelajaran');
		$kelas = $this->kelas->findOrFail($id);
		$vars = compact('kelas', 'mapel');
		return view($this->base_view.'popup.edit', $vars);
	}

	/**
	 * POST update data kelas
	 * @param  updateKelasRequest $request [object]
	 * @return [type]                      [json]
	 */
	public function update(updateKelasRequest $request)
	{
		$kelas = $this->kelas
			 		  ->where('id', '=', $request->id)
			 	      ->update($request->except('_token'));
		return $kelas;
	}

	/**
	 * GET daftar siswa, untuk melihat list siswa
	 * @param  [type] $id [ref_kelas_id]
	 * @return [type]
	 */
	public function siswa_kelas($id)
	{
		$kelas = $this->kelas->findOrFail($id);
		$vars = compact('kelas');
		return view($this->base_view.'siswa_kelas.index', $vars);
	}

	/**
	 * POST submit persetujuan bergabung dalam kelas
	 * @return [type] [description]
	 */
	public function do_join_kelas(Request $request)
	{
		$ku = $this->kelas_user->findOrFail($request->id);
		$ku->is_aktif = 1;
		$ku->save();
		return 'ok';
	}

	/**
	 * POST hapus siswa dari kelas yg ada
	 * @param  Request $request [description]
	 * @return [type]           [description]
	 */
	public function hapus_siswa_kelas(Request $request)
	{
		$ku = $this->kelas_user->findOrFail($request->id);
		$ku->delete();
		return 'ok';
	}

}

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Q: What makes Express fall in the category of framework instead of web server? I was surprised to see that it's called a framework.  In the MEAN stack acronym, it replaces the web server "(A)pache" and "(I)IS" (e.g. LAMP, WISP, etc.) which are both web servers - not that that's reason to not call it a framework, but can anyone provide clarity as to why it falls into the framework camp?

A: First off, Express isn't a web server.  It does not have its own web server code.
 It can either create a standard node.js http server for you (when you do app.listen() or you can create your own http or https server and pass it to Express as part of the setup.
Instead, it's a "framework on top of a web server".  It provides a general purpose mechanism for defining routes and middleware, error handlers and template renderers (and other things).
As an indication of this, there are tons of NPM add-ons that plug-in to your web server via the Express middleware or Express routing mechanism or rendering APIs (they plug into the framework in a standard way).   This means of plugging in via a standard mechanism is, in my opinion, what makes it a framework.
So, whereas Apache is actually a web server itself, Express is a layer that runs on top of the web server that is already built into node.js.
It's certainly not a general purpose programming framework, but a very specific type of web server framework.
From WikiPedia's page for "Software framework":

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. A software framework provides a standard way to build and deploy applications. A software framework is a universal, reusable software environment that provides particular functionality as part of a larger software platform to facilitate development of software applications, products and solutions

Evaluating Express against this definition, it gets checkmarks for all these elements:
✔  Abstraction providing generic functionality
✔  can be selectively changed by additional user-written code
✔  thus providing application-specific software
✔  A software framework provides a standard way to build and deploy applications
✔  A software framework is a universal, reusable software environment that provides particular functionality as part of a larger software platform to facilitate development of software applications, products and solutions

"applications" in this case is a node.js web server.

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"modifier" of the set without own identity.
way to express "gimme that") allows reasoning and server-side optimization.
- what is the set to be subset?
- what is a subset?
- what constraints have to hold on a subset?
> original query, where it was made, and the time it was made?
> fits the UK implementation better than a query-defined subset.
> defines a subset of data.
> conflating these two perspectives of "subset".
> Cheers, and farewell to 2015.
>     defines an implicit set of potential URIs, each of which denotes a subset.
>     begin to commit some ideas to a page .
>     way forward, including its geo-temporal extensions defined by the OGC.
>     turns a URL into a query.
>     layer with another one that also returns the same subset, we're done.
>     returns a list of all stations in Britain.
>     identifies Manchester Piccadilly station.
>     All of that data of course comes from a single dataset.
>     Does this work in the real worlds of meteorology and UBL/PNNL?
Next message: Frans Knibbe: "Re: Subsetting data"


TENSION RESISTANCE: Continues Tension control system, allows the user to adjust the tension level for an easier or more difficult workout.
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My previous blog post on using essential oils in the office generated a lot of cool responses. It seems like folks are interested in this idea but want more ideas on what specific essential oils to use.
A few years back a study of 4,000 office workers was funded by the Health Promotion Research Trust. Surprisingly 80% of those surveyed reported feeling unwell as a result of working in a particular office. The most common complaints were 1) lethargy, 2) stuffy nose, 3) dry throat, 4) dry and itchy eyes, 5) headaches.
Of course, in all cases you want to use some sort of diffuser so that you're breathing the aromatics in small amounts while you go about your business. That's why we carry the USB-powered diffuser that plugs into you laptop on your desk. Of course you can create your own diffuser with cotton balls in a small dish but that doesn't have any flair.


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•	Students should be performing at or above grade level and be in positive academic standing in their previous school history.
•	Student recommendations should show a behavioral history that is in harmony with the expectations of Legacy. The student must exhibit a strong desire to attend Legacy.
Legacy has to offer for your entire family.
Experience Life@Legacy is a wonderful opportunity to meet our Head of School, Legacy parents, and students. Parent and Student Ambassadors are eager to share about your grade of interest as you experience our vibrant, hands-on learning environment.


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Q: How to pass NSArray from an NSObject class to a UIViewController class? I am new to Objective-C. I am trying to create a weather app where I parsed data from open weather map. I have stored the parsed data to an array. Now want to access the array value from other class but getting null value.
Can anyone help me?
What I have tried:
Here is my NSObject class where I am storing data and trying to send that to view controller:
- (void)getCurrentWeather:(NSString *)query
{
    NSString *const BASE_URL_STRING = @"http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=";
    NSString *const API_KEY = @"&APPID=APIKEYSTRING";

    NSString *weatherURLText = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@",
    BASE_URL_STRING, query,API_KEY];
    NSURL *weatherURL = [NSURL URLWithString:weatherURLText];

    dispatch_async(kBgQueue, ^{
    NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:weatherURL];
    [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(fetchedDataSmile | :) withObject:data waitUntilDone:YES];

    });
}

- (void)fetchedData:(NSData *)responseData {
    NSError* error;
    NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:kNilOptions error:&error];

    NSString* cityName = [json objectForKey:@"name"];

    int currentTempCelsius = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    int maxTemp = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp_max"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    int minTemp = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp_min"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    NSString *weatherDescription = [[[json objectForKey:@"weather"] objectAtIndexBlush | :O ] objectForKey:@"description"];

    weatherArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:cityName, weatherDescription,
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", currentTempCelsius],
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", maxTemp],
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", minTemp],nil];

I have NSObject.h file as:
@interface WeatherData : NSObject

@property (nonatomic) NSString *weatherDescription;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *currentTemp;
@property (nonatomic) int maxTempCelsius;
@property (nonatomic) int minTempCelsius;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray *weatherArray;

- (void)getCurrentWeather:(NSString *)query;

@end

In my view controller:
.h file:
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray *weatherResultArray;

.m file:
-(void)searchButtonClicked:(UIButton*)sender
{
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
    WeatherData *weather = [[WeatherData alloc] init];
    [weather getCurrentWeather:_textField.text];
    self.weatherResultArray = weather.weatherArray;

    //temperatureLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d°",weather.currentTempCelsius];
}

I just want to show the results in UILabel.

A: Have you tried returning NSMutable array in this method
- (NSMutableArray*)getCurrentWeather:(NSString *)query

instead of this,
- (void)getCurrentWeather:(NSString *)query

This would be the easiest way to verify and also value can be retrieved in single statement as:
self.weatherResultArray = [weather getCurrentWeather:_textField.text];

One more thing, Don't forget to allocate and initialise your weatherResultArray as:
self.weatherResultArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];

A: In NSObject class, define a weather protocol.
//NSObject.h file
@protocol WeatherDelegate<NSObject>

-(void)getWeatherData:(YourNSObjectClass*)viewController getWeatherData:(NSMutableArray*)array;

@end

//NSObject.m file, in
- (void)fetchedData:(NSData *)responseData {

NSError* error;
    NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:kNilOptions error:&error];
    NSString* cityName = [json objectForKey:@"name"];

    int currentTempCelsius = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    int maxTemp = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp_max"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    int minTemp = (int)[[[json objectForKey:@"main"] objectForKey:@"temp_min"] intValue] - ZERO_CELSIUS_IN_KELVIN;
    NSString *weatherDescription = [[[json objectForKey:@"weather"] objectAtIndexBlush | :O ] objectForKey:@"description"];

    weatherArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:cityName, weatherDescription,
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", currentTempCelsius],
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", maxTemp],
    [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", minTemp],nil];

   id<WeatherDelegate> strongDelegate = self.delegate;

    if ([strongDelegate respondsToSelector:@selector(getWeatherData:getWeatherData:)])
    {
        [strongDelegate getWeatherData:self getWeatherData:weatherArray];
    }

}

In yourViewController class,Add this WeatherData protocol and add the delegate function in .m file to fetch the data.
@interface yourViewControllerClass()<WeatherDelegate>
{
   YourNSObjectClass *nsClass;
   NSMutableArray *dataArray;
}

-(void)getWeatherData:(YourNSObjectClass*)viewController getWeatherData:(NSMutableArray*)array{

 dataArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithArray:array];

}

-(void)searchButtonClicked:(UIButton*)sender
{
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
    WeatherData *weather = [[WeatherData alloc] init];
    [weather getCurrentWeather:_textField.text];
    self.weatherResultArray = dataArray;

    //temperatureLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d°",weather.currentTempCelsius];
}


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What is a pencil-in-cup deformity?
What does psoriatic arthritis look like on MRI?
Are inflammatory markers raised in psoriatic arthritis?
What is pencil-in-Cup deformity in psoriatic arthritis?
Which radiographic findings are characteristic of psoriatic arthritis?
Share on Pinterest 'Pencil-in-cup deformity is a rare bone disorder. An X-ray of this deformity shows the affected bone with the end of the bone eroded into a sharpened pencil shape. This "pencil" has worn away the surface of an adjoining bone into a cup shape. '
What is Mutilans deformity?
Arthritis mutilans, or pencil-in-cup deformity, is a rare form of psoriatic arthritis. It typically affects your fingers and toes, deforming and curling them. Read on to learn more about this condition including its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
What does psoriatic arthritis look like on a bone scan?
Characteristics of PsA on radiologic imaging might include joint erosions, joint space narrowing, and bony spurs. Imaging might also show other deformities, including a pencil-in-cup deformity and a telescoping appearance, which, while rare, can be seen in the hands and feet of a person with severe PsA.
The MRI findings of psoriatic arthritis include enthesitis, bone mar- row edema, and periostitis accompanying articular or flexor tendon sheath synovitis in the early stage accompanied by destructive and proliferative bony changes, subluxation, and an- kylosis in the late stage.
Does psoriasis lead to lupus?
Psoriasis and lupus are both autoimmune conditions that can cause skin problems. Although there are some similarities between them, these conditions have different causes and symptoms. Lupus is more severe than psoriasis. It is rare to have both lupus and psoriasis, but it is possible.
What is sausage digit?
Everybody gets swollen fingers or toes sometimes. When your fingers or toes are so puffy that they look like sausages — and they hurt, too — you need to see your doctor. You could have a type of inflammation called dactylitis, or sausage digits. It can damage your fingers if you don't get the right treatment.
Background CRP and ESR are the most commonly and probably the most studied inflammatory markers among patients with inflammatory arthritis. In contrast to rheumatoid arthritis, however, these markers are raised in less than 50% of people with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
Is psoriatic arthritis worse than rheumatoid?
A study published in 2015 in the journal PLoS One found that the overall pain, joint pain, and fatigue reported by psoriatic arthritis patients was significantly greater than that reported by people with rheumatoid arthritis.
What is the most severe form of psoriatic arthritis?
Arthritis Mutilans This is the most severe and rarest type of psoriatic arthritis. Fewer than 1 in 20 people have this pattern. It damages the small joints and tissues in the ends of your hands and feet. It may shorten your fingers and toes because of bone loss in the joints.
Pencil-in-cup deformity is the description given to one of the appearances on plain radiograph in psoriatic arthritis. The appearance results from periarticular erosions and bone resorption giving the appearance of a pencil in a cup. Although classically described with psoriatic arthritis,…
What is a pencil in a cup deformity?
"Pencil-in-cup" describes what the affected bone looks like in an X-ray: The end of the bone has eroded into a sharpened pencil shape. This "pencil" has worn away the surface of an adjoining bone into a cup shape. Pencil-in-cup deformity is rare.
What is pencil-in-Cup arthritis?
The term "pencil-in-cup" describes what is seen in imaging in a bone affected by psoriatic arthritis mutilans. X-rays from this type of destruction show damaged bone where the end of that bone has been eroded into a shape that appears pointy and sharpened like a pencil.
The pencil-in-cup deformity is a common radiographic feature of psoriatic arthritis. See article for more information.
What is the No 1 reason agile transitions fail?
What is soap made of and how does it clean?

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Could the Jaguar XK Be Reborn One Day?
The New York Motor Show coming up next month, it has prepared a wide range of 2015 model cars on display and sale, one of these model cars is the Jaguar XF. See why this supercar is set apart from the other model cars on display.
Today, the new all-wheel-drive Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé helped the Bloodhound SSC World Land Speed Record program pass a significant high-speed testing milestone on its way to attempting a new Land Speed Record in 2015.


ELEMENTS could just as well be called EMERGING. It is a body of work in formation, one that is exploring work that is rooted to the earth, rather than the constantly changing environments of sea, sand and ice.
I will be adding more material and a clearer statement as it continues.


London based comic Hannah Warman always delivers a set packed full of jokes, energy and silliness.
Hannah performs stand-up all across the UK, including performed for the full run of Edinburgh fringe festival in 2009 and 2010, and a week's run at Brighton fringe 2010.
Submitted 2 years 4 months ago by natts.


Style and function team up in this women's training t-shirt. The climalite® fabric sweeps sweat away from your skin to keep you dry and comfortable during your workout. The roll-up cuffs and droptail hem give this tee a look fit for the streets or the gym.


This is Nik and Inna. Happy. And this is their wedding teaser.
Well of course, but what's cool is that we love filming weddings! Including this one. When I edited the first version of this teaser, I wasn't to happy. I didn't even want to post it online. So I waited couple days, and pulled off something I love. Totally starting from scratch, choosing a new song, and bringing couple new shots. After completing the teaser version 2, I was satisfied and here it is for you to enjoy. Enjoy and share!


Artur Krasniqi, Kosovo: Pray for an easing of the political situation in Kosova and answers to the ongoing tensions with its northern neighbour, Serbia.
Artur Krasniqi, Kosovo: Pray for two ILIRIA Bible students from Fellowship of the Lord's People who are supporting the church plant work in their home town of Vushtrri.
Artur Krasniqi, Kosovo: Pray for the growth of the ILIRIA Bible School and that God would provide new premises.
Dragan Manev, Macedonia: Please pray for the Christian puppet team from Bristol who will be taking part in evangelistic events from 23rd–30th April.
Ruslan Telpiz, Moldova: Pray for everyone who will watch the play, Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames, 22nd–23rd April.
Benjamin Martin, Spain: Pray for the two volunteers from Argentina who wish to return to Spain and work with Evangelism in Action.
Benjamin Martin, Spain: Pray for two Ukrainian refugee families being supported by members of the Torremolinos church in Spain.
Benjamin Martin, Spain: Pray for the young people attending Christian camps this year in the Malaga region.
Dusan Beredi, Serbia: Pray for the team from the United States helping with evangelism and building up contacts among the people of Novi Sad.


So I started Creme de Boston over two years ago and while it started as a lifestyle blog, it has also slowly morphed into a sort of diary for myself. And after so many posts, I've been able to create a sort of timeline of what I deem noteworthy in my weeks (especially in my Weekly Tid Bits posts). And while I always try to chronicle to good moments, I also finding myself needing to note some of the not-so-great ones too.
Today is one of those times. I learned that an old friend of mine that I was once considered my closest friend passed away on Monday of this week and attended his funeral today. I'm not going to go into it more than that but I did want to say something. I feel like so much of the time bloggers tend to illuminate the happy moments of their life without shedding light on the dark ones. And some times just knowing that we go through unhappy times too can make someone feel a little less alone in their imperfect life. No ones life is perfect and it's ok to be sad sometimes.
I'm so sorry to hear about your friend, I hope he's at peace now. thank you for sharing this, I agree that no one's life is perfect & it does definitely help to know it's not just you!


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IBM Offers Performance Protection Plan on AS/400e
Article Published June 30, 2005
IBM today announced performance protection for customers implementing new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions on AS/400e servers. Offers two-year plan that the server will perform at a predetermined level.
Sun Completes Acquisition of Cobalt Networks
Article Published December 7, 2000
Sever developer becomes server appliance business unit of Sun.
Apache 1.3.9 Now Available
Article Published August 20, 1999
The Apache Group has released the 1.3.9 version of the Apache HTTP server, including a version for Windows. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. It is more widely used than all other web servers combined according to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for August 1999.
iPic Web Server Aims to Make Toaster-Net a Reality
Believed to be the world's tiniest implementation of a TCP/IP stack and a HTTP web-server the iPic Web Server is a complete micro-computer on a single chip. And at less than $1, it seems poised to get your next toaster talking to you through the internet.
Halcyon Releases ASP Servlet
Halcyon Software, has released Instant ASP (iASP) version 1.01, a Java Servlet that supports both Active Server Pages (ASP) and JavaServer Pages (JSP) development and cross-platform deployment. iASP provides Microsoft-compatible ASP functionality and capability on Web servers, application servers, and operating system platforms - from NT to Sun, Novell, AIX, AS/400, S/390, Apple, OS/2 and Linux to Apache, Netscape, Websphere, and more.
IBM Announces Server Designed for Lotus Domino
Article Published July 28, 1999
The new IBM AS/400e Dedicated Server for Domino is built to run multiple Domino applications with greater security and reliability. They can run Domino applications, connect people through e-mail, collaborate on projects or host a Web site -- all on a single server.
Linux World Paper: Low Cost Embedded Network Appliances
Moreton Bay's chief software person, Greg Ungerer is presenting a technical paper at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, Calif., on Aug. 11, 1999. In the paper, "Building Low Cost Embedded Network Appliances With Linux," Ungerer presents Linux as the new standard for embedding in internet appliances and internet devices.
IBM Releases a Shark
IBM has announced the IBM Enterprise Storage Server -- code-named "Shark" -- a new enterprise disk storage system designed to provide universal access to data across enterprise computing environments.
Rebel.com unveils the NetWinder Office Server
Rebel.com Inc., has unveiled the NetWinder Office Server an internet server appliance providing small and medium-sized enterprises with Internet and intranet network support while offering interoperability, compatibility and ease of use. Based on the StrongARM RISC microprocessor and the Linux operating system, the NetWinder Office Server is configured with a range of network services and is ready for collaboration and communication through the enterprise and to the outside world.
Network Associates Ships CyberCop Sting
Network Associates, Inc. today announced the availability of its CyberCop Sting software, a new ``decoy'' server that silently traces and tracks hackers, recording and reporting all intrusive activity to security administrators. CyberCop Sting is a component of the CyberCop intrusion protection software family which also includes CyberCop Monitor, a real-time intrusion detection application that monitors critical systems and networks for signs of attack and CyberCop Scanner, a network vulnerability scanner.
AOLserver Ships as Open Source
Article Published July 9, 1999
AOLserver has been released as a stripped down open-source server. Many of the features that were causing the software to bloat through three incarnations from NaviServer to GNN before AOLserver have been removed. Many of these features were not being used on AOLserver's highest volume sites, including aol.com.
MeetingPoint 4.0 Ships
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White Paper: "Internet Guardians" emerging as new security solution.
The Aberdeen Group has released a White Paper concerning a new, integrated security solution that is emerging from the combination of existing component technologies. Internet Guardians - consisting of anti-virus, applet containment, e-mail filtering, URL filtering, content inspection, authentication, authorization, network privacy, auditing, and reporting - can be deployed for simultaneously shielding the enterprise from external threat, and enabling IS to reach new markets using popular e-mail and Web platforms. The Paper, entitled "The New Internet Guardians: Integrated Coverage, Better ROI", is available here. Users must register with Aberdeen Group to access the free report.
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Buckingham Palace have issued an unexpected response
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released a statement confirming that they'll be stepping down as senior members of the Royal Family in order to become financially independent.
The news sent shockwaves through social-media last night, with royal correspondents saying that the Queen herself was not made aware of their decision to go public with these plans.
Just two hours after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released their statement on Instagram, Buckingham Palace shared the following curt response.
"Discussions with The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage. We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through."
Royal.UK
Insiders have told the BBC that the palace is "disappointed" by the entire situation, with senior royals also being said to be "hurt" by the shock announcement.
The couple broke the news on their Instagram page, @SussexRoyal, with the statement explaining that it took them months of deliberation to come up with a plan that would work for them going forwards.
The couple, along with their son Archie, will be splitting their time between the UK and North America while "continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages."
Both Meghan and Harry have previously been candid about the impact of press intrusion into their personal lives and had recently taken a six-week break in Canada to spend some time out of the spotlight.
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Posts Tagged 'Interracial Relationships'
On Being Human: Choosing Interracial
December 9, 2016 leoadambiga Leave a comment
As one half of an interracial couple living in the racialized America of the Black Lives Matter movement and the presidential election, more than a few thoughts find expression here.
What does it mean to be in an interracial relationship in 2016 America?
What extra responsibilities or burdens, if any. does this reality carry?
Is our being together a political statement in and of itself?
How are we perceived by whites and blacks? Does it really matter to people?
As a couple, do we-should we care what people think about us in this way?
Is there a natural kinship or fraternity between black-white couples?
Have there been real-life awkward Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? or Something New or Guess Who? moments to our yoking? If so, how did we handle them?
If you find yourself in an interracial relationship, how have you handled these things?
Call us what you will:
Halfies
She's black. I'm white.
But what do our skin colors actually say about us as a pair, as a union – about our couple-hood?
Why might some view us as traitors to our own kind for having "gone to the other side"?
Did she and I purposely, intentionally go looking for this combo?
Are we fetishizing being with someone from another race?
Or, at the end of the day, are we simply two people who found each other and fell in love and one just happened to be black and the other white?
Is it ever that simple when it comes to race in this country?
What are your experiences and thoughts regarding this?
How might we have invited trouble by getting together?
What price have we paid, if any, for our choice in partners?
Have we lost friends, have we alienated family?
How does race come up in our relationship as an issue or topic?
How might our opposite identifications sometimes create tension or misunderstanding? How has it worked out for you?
How can we possibly be defined by our skin color when we are the collection of a lifetime of experiences, even though those experiences come through the prism of our race?
How can we ever get beyond the words, the symbols, the cultural taboos and the historical-psychic weights that attach to being black and white in America?
If you're not down with the whole interracial thing, why does it bother you? What does it threaten that you hold dear?
How do these questions and concerns take on added steam with Trump in office?
Are she and I modern day pioneers pushing the shaded boundaries of love? Or is this so routine now that it's no big deal?
Unless maybe it happens to you or to a loved one, huh?
Where do black-white couples fit within the context of Black Lives Matter? What is our role in the growing multicultural scheme of things? Is this about to be a cold season for interracial couples, biracial children and multicultural families or will we help lead the way to this nation's racial healing?
As you can see, this post isn't about answers, it's about questions – questions that only she and I can answer for ourselves and questions that only you as readers and observers can answer for yourselves.
Besides, the knowing is in the asking.
Categories: Interracial, Leo Adam Biga, Multicultural, Pamela Jo Berry, Race, Relationships, Writing Tags: Interracial, Interracial Dating, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Relationships, Leo Adam Biga, Pamela Jo Berry, Race
Color-blind love: Five interracial couples share their stories
February 6, 2014 leoadambiga 8 comments
This report from The Wrap describes a 2016 fall movie release with an interracial love story for the ages and the history books:
'Loving' Tops Indie Box Office, Poised for Awards Season
Meriah Doty | November 6, 2016 @ 10:43 AM
Focus Features' historical drama about an interracial couple that found themselves at the center of a Supreme Court case, "Loving," was recently No. 1 at the indie box office.
Directed by Jeff Nichols ("Mud," "Midnight Special"), the film stars Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, Michael Shannon and Marton Csokas. It follows the relationship of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, who were arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for violating interracial marriage laws and later sued the state.
"The story is obviously very timely with the election …" said Lisa Bunnell, president of distribution at Focus, who also cited exit polling in the nineties across diverse audience segments, playing equally well among men and women.
It has a strong 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and expands to 45 theaters next weekend, including Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Toronto.
The movie is also timed for a holiday season roll-out, as well as awards season. "We're getting it ready for Oscar season," Bunnell told TheWrap on Sunday.
The film's opening is in line with past awards darling "The Theory of Everything," which opened the same weekend in 2014 with a per screen average of $41,753.
If you've noticed I write a lot about race, you're right. That is to say I do revisit the subject in various ways in assorted stories, though truthfully race makes up a very small percentage of what I write about. But there are reasons why I keep returning to the topic and some of them are very personal to me. The following cover story for The Reader (www.thereader.com) about interracial relationships will appear in that newspaper's Valentine's issue. Why interracial relationships? Well, I've been in three in a 14-year period. Each with an African-American woman. The first of these was of long duration, 12-plus years. She died in October 2012. The next was of very short duration. The most recent is with my girlfriend of six months. We intend to get married one day. My interest in dating interracially can be traced in part to my growing up experience. I was raised in a northeast Omaha neighborhood that was almost entirely white until I was 10 or 12. I was born in 1958 and it wasn't until the late 1960s that blacks could get homes as far "west" as 42nd Street in North Omaha because of restrictive covenants and red lining tactics. We lived at 42nd and Maple. As the landmark TV series All in the Family became a sensation in the very early 1970s my older brothers and I used to joke that our father was our family's own Archie Bunker. It was an exaggeration to call him that but he definitely had some bigoted attitudes. For proof that God has a sense of humor the first black family on the block moved on one side of us, the second black family on the block moved on the other side of us, and for good measure a single black woman moved across the street. My father and mother got along famously with our black neighbors. My brothers were too old to be playmates or friends with the black neighbor kids but I wasn't and so I spent a fair amount of time over their homes as they did over my home playing Army Man, ping pong, pool, and just exploring the neighborhood. My folks and the black adults next door to us and the black woman across from us enjoyed amiable, cordial, even warm relationships. While this was playing out on my home turf I had a very different experience when visiting my Italian-American and Polish-American relatives in South Omaha. Many of them said racist things, freely using the "n" word and criticizing my parents for staying put as our neighborhood became increasingly integrated and within a few years predominantly black. My uncles and aunts said things like, "How can you live with those people? Why don't you move?" But my folks didn't feel right joining the white flight bandwagon. My mom actually worried about the message that would send to our black neighbors, who by the late '70s were all around us.
By the time I became a journalist in the mid to late 1980s I had personally observed the transformation of my neighborhood from virtually all-white to nearly all-black. I would remain in that neighborhood, in the house I grew up in, until 2005, my parents having long since moved out. I saw a lot of things play out in The Hood that gave me a certain appreciation for and understanding of African-American life from a social justice, sociological, cultural, anthropological perspective. By the mid 1990s I had begun interviewing and profiling African-Americans and reporting on black subjects, past and present, and that work began giving me additional perspective. I've filed a few hundred stories by now related to various aspects of black culture. It doesn't make me an expert, but I am an interested and careful observer and I hope my work synthesises some of the complex history, issues, and context that inform these subjects. My work in this area led me to develop many sources, acquaintances, and friends among blacks, male and female, young and old, from all walks of life. I've long admired black women and I've found many attractive but I never acted on that interest or impulse until I was 42. My first interracial dating experience ended up being a long-term committed relationship with a wonderful woman named Joslen whom I met at the same American Red Cross job we worked. Twelve-plus years with her afforded me my most intimate window yet into Black America. She passed away far too young at age 53. I'm still very close with her family. The next relationship only lasted four months but it gave me an intense immersion into the life of a talented singer, devout Christian, and outstanding mother. Her name was Carole. My current relationship, though only six months old, is quite serious and shows every indication of being for keeps. Pam is a writer, photographer, mixed media artist, and community activist-advocate with a strong faith life. She's the mother of two adult children. Through her I'm obviously getting a whole new exposure to the journey of a woman who happens to be black and it's only enriching me even more. Of course, in the vast majority of my time spent with these partners race didn't-doesn't enter the picture. We engaged-engage as a couple, as man and woman, as distinct personalities with both shared and divergent interests, not as racial tokens or archetypes.
Though the following story is not about me or my interracial datiing history, my background with regards to intermixing inevitably, inescapably infuses what I write and how I write about it. I did quite intentionally choose to make black-white couples the focus of my piece because that has been my own lived experience in relationships these past 14 years. Besides, the black-white dynamic is the core racial dynamic in America and I feel at least that any examination of racial relations, and in this case racial mixing, needs to begin and end there, even though I fully recognize there are many other interracial pairings beyond this that could very well and should be examined. But I'm just one writer and this is just one story. I chose to write this article because it's closest to my heart and head. Someone else will have to write that other story.
Originally appeared in The Reader (www.thereader.com)
Two bodies in the mirror:
one's me, the other's you,
with two far different cultures
some say will bring just strife.
A DIFFERENT SHADE OF LOVING,
a different color of life.
Valentine's Day is a reminder that though love comes naturally, it's not without obstacles.
Given America's apartheid legacy, interracial romance has historically been taboo, scandalous or confined to back-door liaisons. As recently as 1967 Southern anti-miscegenation laws criminalized having intimate relations with or marrying someone of another race.
If you think America's beyond all this, consider that a Louisiana justice of the peace denied an interracial couple a marriage license in 2009. A Cheerios commercial depicting a black-white couple and their biracial child elicited complaints in 2013. Interracial love portrayals are still rare enough to make news. Hollywood treatments range from treacly (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?) to melodramatic (Monster's Ball) to sophomoric (Guess Who?) to banal (Something New).
Whether your interracial poster couple is Kim and Kanye or newly elected New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio with his black wife and their biracial children high profile images such as these reinforce the emerging mosaic. The phenomenon is real, not hype. In 2012 the Pew Research Center found interracial marriages in the U.S. reached a record 4.8 million or an all-time high of 8.4 percent of all U.S. marriages. More recent Pew studies find broad acceptance of interracial coupling among all major racial-ethnic groups and the increase of biracial children blurring color lines as never before.
This organic movement is a result of individuals pairing off according to the law of attraction, not social constraints.
Newly elected New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and family
Even when mixing risked not just gossip or indignation but danger and imprisonment, it still went on. Some couples openly defied convention and ostracism. Some challenged race laws in court. It seems human heart desires trump artificial efforts to keep different persuasions apart.
There's also the intrigue of exploring the other side. Online adult sites promote interracial hookups that range from romantic dates to one-night-stands to paid sexual encounters.
When it comes to amour, anecdotal currents say race is not a driving factor for mixed couples though it can be for those around them.
In the 1960s Richard and Mildred Loving were an interracial couple living in Virginia, where interracial relationships were once illegal. Their union brought to the nation's attention this issue with the US Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia of 1967. The case changed the face of love across the States, forever transforming the fabric of what the U.S. accepted as true love.
Five metro couples, all variations of black-white twosomes, recently shared their stories. None of the individuals involved went looking for a partner of another race, it just happened. While their relationships are not racialized, race is an undeniable factor in their lived experience.
Emily Pearce and Travis Mountain are 30-somethings who each dated interracially before getting together. He has two children from previous relationships, including a son whose mother is white. Emily, a fitness instructor and elementary school vocal instructor and Travis, a U.S. Marine veteran, personal trainer and rapper, are parents of a girl, Rebel Mountain.
They're keenly aware being interracial matters to some.
"I do think it makes a difference to people," Emily says. "I don't think we'll ever live in a post-racial world, honestly. Neither of us thinks of us as being in an interracial relationship but other people do, and it does bother me."
"As far as interracial couples, like it or not it's something popular now," says Travis, aka Aso. "It's just more accepted. If people do have a problem with it it's more just kept to themselves."
"It does get thrown in your face ," Emily says. "If you go somewhere without a lot of diversity you do get looks."
She says at some schools she's taught at black women staffers became unfriendly when they discovered she was dating Travis.
"They treated me differently. They were nasty to me."
"Her dating me has opened her eyes about how differently she's treated by dating somebody that's black," Travis says. "Black women hate to see 'a good black man' date a white woman because they look at it like you're taking that black man away from our community but I don't look at it that way.
"People want to put you in a category and it's so stupid."
The two hail from widely divergent backgrounds. She's from an intact middle class family in Enid, Oklahoma. He was the only male in a single mother-headed home in North Omaha projects. She says her educator parents brought her up to be color-blind and never had an issue with her dating outside her race. He says the matriarchs of his family disapproved of interracial dating but didn't have a problem when he did it. Each feels accepted by the other's family.
"It's like homosexuality – you can have a problem with it if you want to but what happens if it's your brother or your kid? So be careful what you're really hating because it might just happen to you," says Travis.
"Neither of us set out to be in an interracial relationship, we just liked each other and we really balance each other out and I think it is because of the totally different experiences we have," says Emily.
Dell and Lena Gines are another 30-something couple. They too faced little family resistance. She's white and he's the product of interracial parents. Together 23 years, Dell and Lena have five children. They feel America's moved forward on race but has far to go.
Lena, a fitness instructor, says Dell's parents have "shared some of their struggles and we definitely didn't have to go through the same struggles. I think their generation kind of paved the way a little bit. It's come so much further from even when we were dating. Seeing that progress is encouraging but it's very slow."
"It's going to take more time," says Dell, senior community development director with the Omaha Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. "I've never met somebody that's past the race thing but I know people who are comfortable with interracial relationships while acknowledging the race thing. I do think we're more aware of race and are more willing to recognize people can get together and function in relationships regardless of race."
Dell grew up in multicultural northeast Omaha, where he says he came up with "tons of mixed kids." Self-identifyng as black, he and his biracial friends dated both black and white girls.
"It was a normal thing."
Lena didn't grow up around people of color. Her first interracial dating experience was with Dell, whom she took for Middle Eastern. When she discovered he was black, she says, "I didn't think it was that big of a deal."
For them, it's never been about race. "We fit and that was it," she says.
Dell says, "I think it's very important to note our similarities outweigh our differences."
"I didn't even think about the racial thing until he came to my family's Christmas party, where everybody else was white and I was like, 'Oh, this looks different.' Then he took me to an African-American church and it was like reversed," says Lena.
Dell and Lena Gines
The couple intentionally reside in North O for the diversity it exposes their biracial children to.
One of the few times someone confronted her about being with a black man was when a woman at a hair salon called Lena a n_____-lover.
"It took me by surprise," she says. "That's when it kind of became real. I didn't have any friends, black or white, who had any issues with it, but I had other black women say things to me like, 'You're taking one of ours' and 'Why don't you leave him to us?'"
Dell says racial baiting is "past the tipping point" now that interracial relationships are trending up, adding. "East of 72nd it's such a common sight. Maybe if I lived out west I would have a different experience. You're rarely going to hear it from black guys anyway. You're much more likely to hear it from black girls. I've never had anybody actually come up to me and challenge or question me on that. I would dare anybody to say anything about it to my face."
He believes intermixing will create a new racial narrative in America.
"You're going to have kids like me or my children identifying along lines that aren't so clear anymore. It's going to change the way people look at race and ethnicity. It has to. Once you can get past identifying people as a class or a group and you identify them as individuals then it's hard to keep gross intolerance in play.
"The rise of interracial relationships is going to force change because it means families that probably haven't intermixed now have to. When you meet people on that basis then you begin to see things other than ethnicity or race."
Ron and Twany Dotzler make their 33-year mixed marriage and large rainbow family – they're parents to 14 – a living symbol of inclusion and tolerance through their Abide Network and Bridge Church.
The mid-50ish couple met at now defunct Tarkio (Mo.) College, where both played basketball. He came from insular all-white rural Iowa. He was naive about his own prejudice and the plight of Black Americans. She came from an almost exclusively black Washington D.C. neighborhood and the discrimination her family endured made them wary of whites. Twany says she once couldn't conceive of being with a white man because "I just couldn't see what two people from different backgrounds would have in common."
The Dotzlers, Twany and Ron (holding baby), 5th and 6th from left, back row
When they got together in the early 1980s his family had no problem with his choice of mate but many residents of his hometown did.
"A lot of people were outraged. A big uproar."
Twany's family opposed their union. It took time, but acceptance came.
Each partner also had to work on their own racial hangups, especially when they began having children.
The family's encountered welcome and disdain. The first few years the Dotzlers were married they lived in Broken Bow, Neb. They moved to the burbs, where Ron says, "Everybody seemed to accept us." After entering the ministry the pair committed themselves to mission work. North Omaha became their calling. Racial incidents began happening.
"We were at a restaurant in Fort Calhoun and this guy at the bar yells, 'Hey, you n––––r, yeah, you n––––r, get out of here.' At a church picnic one of my kids goes to kick a ball and another kid kicks it and says, 'Aw, go get it n––––r."
When the couple applied to have their kids attend a small Washington County school local residents turned out en mass at a school board meeting to oppose their admission.
"Other families had been accepted. Our family had been rejected. We were denied access to the school," Ron says.
"That was a real blow," Twany says. "They didn't want us to come."
Overturning fear-based perceptions is what the Dotzlers do through Abide sponsored home renovation projects, neighborhood cleanups and justice journeys that bring diverse people together.
"I think that's why I love what we do," says Twany. "We can be a bridge to expose people to those differences, to people who may not think like you do, act like you do, look like you do, yet if you can just be intentional about getting to know them through relationships you'll see what we do have in common and what we can do together.
"It's all relational – seeing a person different from you and being able to value them right where they're at. We've been getting people together to build relationships, to break down those denominational walls, those racial walls, those economic walls, for a long time. When you have to be together for a long period of time you learn some things about yourself and about others."
Somehow some folks are threatened
by what we represent,
Although to make a statement
was never our intent.
Michael and Cassandra Beacom
When Michael and Cassandra Beacom began dating in the '80s he was not only a newbie at interracial romance but to people of color having grown up in white-centric Keystone and attending white Catholic schools. Moving with her father's Union Pacific job, she was exposed to both integrated and segregated environs. She dated mostly black guys in college, though a white boyfriend did propose marriage.
The Beacoms fell head over heels upon first meeting at a party. When they became a couple not everybody approved.
"The girl that introduced us was not thrilled with us being together," Cassandra, says, "so you find out who your friends are or at least their viewpoints anyway."
"Some friends said we support you, we're behind you all the way," Michael says, "and some others cut and ran or had their thing about it."
He says her parents were cool but while his folks liked her as his friend they were "definitely not prepared" for him to have a black girlfriend.
"They said horrendous, horrible, evil, terrible things, to the point where I understood I would have to be saying goodbye to my family."
Nothing negative was said to her, an administrative assistant with the Omaha Public Schools, only to Michael, a senior agent at PayPal.
"They gave him all the grief, they didn't give me the grief," says Cassandra, who adds she only found out much later the extent of his family's unease.
Rather than cause a scene, the couple eloped and kept their marriage secret. Michael says, "I was terrified." When Cassandra got pregnant with their first child, the family embraced her. The big wedding the couple put off was finally held. She and her late father-in-law became close and she's tight today with her mother-in-law.
Their biggest hurdles with race have been with institutions. They say racist assumptions forced their son into foster care before a court intervened. That separation trauma still hurts. As do double standards that have seen her treated one way because she's black and him another way because he's white. Then there's the times people assumed they couldn't possibly be a couple.
Tim Shew and Brigitte McQueen Shew
Union for Contemporary Art founder-executive director Brigitte McQueen Shew upsets expectations in northeast Omaha. Not only is she a mix of African-American and Iranian-Chaldean, she's married to a younger white man, chef Tim Shew.
"I have run-ins with people who say I'm not black enough to understand the African-American crisis. I do feel because of my work here, my advocacy for North Omaha and the fact I live in this community there's an element of surprise when people realize my husband is not African-American. This is nonsense. Could we stop doing this to each other?"
The couple's experience differs from that of her parents, whose extended families wanted nothing to do with Brigitte and her siblings.
"We were the yellow kids with funny hair. We were different and were always treated as such."
She says she's glad things have progressed to where she and Tim don't have to go through what her interracial parents "went through in the '60s," adding, "It's interesting how much of a non-issue that factor is in our relationship."
Brigitte, who grew up in Detroit, dated interracially from the jump.
"Race is not a criteria. It's not something I think about, it's more about personality and who the person is than what color they might be," she says. "With my mom it never mattered. I had moments with my siblings where it was like, 'Why is it you always seem to be dating white guys?'
It wasn't an issue, it was more of an observation. I don't think anybody would say that if you were dating someone who was blonde or brunette. I realize not everybody has that sort of blindness to it."
Tim, who grew up in west Omaha, was curious about brown girls but never did anything about it until Brigitte. Their families have always been fine about their relationship. She says the only time her race has come up with them was at a birthday party for one of his nephews.
"I made a chocolate cake. We were all at the table and I was sitting across from this sweet little boy who said, 'Why are you the same color as the cake?' Some people were really embarrassed and Tim's brother totally defused things with, 'I'm glad somebody finally asked that question, I've been wondering that since you started coming around.' It was just this perfect moment."
The Shews plan to have children one day. Though aware biracial kids can have a tough time they take solace in the fact their families and friends don't hold the prejudices earlier generations did.
"I'm excited for our child to be part of the family we've created," she says. "It's a brilliant thing."
We sense their eyes upon us:
the glance, the stare, the gaze.
Some puzzled, some condemning,
some burn with inner rage.
With but a few accepting,
some hurl the jagged knife.
Lyrics are from "A Different Shade of Loving" by Mick Terry.
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