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Ryan Braun, Jonathan Lucroy officially named to Team USA
It's official. Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun and catcher Jonathan Lucroy have been named to the Team USA roster for the World Baseball Classic this spring.
Braun and Lucroy were the only Brewers named to the prelimnary roster. A final 28-man roster, including at least 13 pitchers and two catchers, must be submitted on Feb. 20.
Braun will be competing in the WBC for the second time, having competed for Team USA in 2009.
Toronto's J.P. Arencibia and Minnesota's Joe Mauer joined Lucroy as the three catchers on the Team USA provisional roster.
Beyond Braun, the outfielders named are Adam Jones, Giancarlo Stanton, Shane Victorino and Ben Zobrist.
Team USA begins pool play in the World Baseball Classic on March 8 in Phoenix against Mexico. Italy and Canada are the other teams in Pool D.
Team USA will be led by manager Joe Torre. Torre's coaching staff includes Larry Bowa (bench coach), Marcel Lachemann (bullpen/pitching coach), Greg Maddux (pitching coach), Dale Murphy (first base coach), Gerald Perry (hitting coach) and Willie Randolph (third base coach). Lachemann and Maddux will oversee Team USA's pitching staff.
"Having talked to all of these players I sense a great deal of excitement about representing the United States in the World Baseball Classic," Torre said. "I share their excitement and look forward to managing this talented group in March."
Only 27 players were named to the provisional roster and Torre said he was holding open a spot for another starting pitcher. Four starters already named are Atlanta's Kris Medlen, Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Texas' Derek Holland and San Francisco's Ryan Vogelsong.
Relief pitchers named to the roster include San Francisco's Jeremh Affeldt, Arizona's Heath Bell, St. Louis' Mitchell Boggs, Miami's Steve Cishek, Kansas City's Tim Collins, San Diego's Luke Gregerson, Atlanta's Craig Kimbrel, and Cleveland's Chris Perez and Vinnie Pestano.
Infielders include New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, Cincinnati second baseman Brandon Phillips, Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins and New York Mets third baseman David Wright, as well as utility man Willie Bloomquist.
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Torre is holding one more spot open- Parra????Hide replies
The spot is for a starter, but Parra could maybe get some work in a blowout game.


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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Bolstering its commitment to an open partner and developer ecosystem, SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), today announced it is collaborating with Xamarin and Service2Media to provide developers with mobile app development frameworks that can efficiently and cost-effectively enable development on the company's market-leading* SAP® Mobile Platform. These mobile development environments are intended to allow enterprises to rapidly build rich and personalized mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices from a single code-base. With built-in support for SAP Mobile Platform, businesses will gain easy, more secure access to on-premise and cloud-based data and processes from Xamarin and Service2Media's leading mobile development frameworks. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress 2014, being held February 24-27 in Barcelona, Spain.
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It is estimated that there are more than 1.2 billion people accessing the Web from their mobile devices and 80 percent of mobile time is spent inside mobile apps.** This dramatic shift in mobile usage behavior is driving a massive increase in mobile workers that require widespread development of rich, easy-to-use mobile apps that are capable of accessing relevant information and enterprise processes via mobile devices.
Xamarin Extends SAP Mobile Platform and Applications to Vast Developer Community
With an extensive developer community representing more than 500,000 developers in 111 countries and a network of more than 150 consulting partners globally, Xamarin provides enterprises with the ability to rapidly build rich native mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows 8 entirely from Microsoft's Visual Studio environment. This powerful, unique approach to mobile app development will now be extended by this new relationship with an enterprise-grade software developers kit (SDK) that will allow direct access to the on-premise and cloud versions of SAP Mobile Platform.
"Xamarin is the development platform of choice for mobile developers who create high-performance enterprise mobile applications," said Nat Friedman, CEO and co-founder, Xamarin. "We anticipate that our collaboration with SAP will make it significantly easier for developers to create rich compelling mobile applications that can leverage enterprise data and processes made available by SAP Mobile Platform."
"Microsoft has been working closely with both SAP and Xamarin, and we see this support for SAP Mobile Platform APIs as a benefit for the Microsoft developer community," said S.Somasegar, corporate vice president, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation. "The ability to build enterprise-class applications across all major device platforms from within Visual Studio will help reduce the time and cost of mobile app development for developers working in a heterogeneous environment."
Initially, Xamarin and SAP will focus on the following initiatives:
- A newly released SDK that can enable developers to create native applications capable of more easily leveraging the rich functionality and enterprise data in SAP Mobile Platform
- A Xamarin Test Cloud with built-in SAP Mobile Platform data verification capabilities, designed to allow developers to perform more fully automated testing of mobile apps across hundreds of devices simultaneously
- A Xamarin certified consultant program available to Xamarin's 150 global consulting partners to help ensure efficient development of compelling apps using both Xamarin and SAP solutions
- An expanded Xamarin University program to include an expert led course for training enterprise developers to build Xamarin mobile apps that can connect to SAP Mobile Platform
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With nearly 10 years of experience developing mobile apps globally, Service2Media has expanded its App Lifecycle Platform M2Active™ to support SAP Mobile Platform APIs through a new connector module. M2Active now gives users a comprehensive set of tools, rapid workflows and cloud services to create iOS, Android and Windows apps that can access SAP systems. With a rich history in building consumer-facing applications, M2Active's built-in support for SAP Mobile Platform will allow customers to quickly create a compelling user experience to engage and grow their customer base while enabling them to take advantage of the security, application services and scalability of the platform.
"We anticipate that our relationship with SAP will ensure smooth integration of the data generated by SAP Mobile Platform directly into our software development tool chain," said Marcel E. Smit, CEO, Service2Media. "We can now carry our experience developing mobile consumer apps into the enterprise via one of the most flexible and comprehensive mobile enterprise application development platform in the industry. The combination of SAP and Service2Media can allow for the shortest time to market for user-friendly, feature-rich mobile enterprise apps for Service2Media's customers."
"Today's businesses are looking to mobilize a much broader set of enterprise apps and workflows through easy-to-use yet powerful native, hybrid and Web applications," said Bill Clark, global vice president, Mobile Strategy, SAP. "To meet this demand, we are constantly looking to expand SAP Mobile Platform through support from third-party software development frameworks that companies like Xamarin and Service2Media provide and by staying true to our open standards-based, bring-your-own-tools approach. Mobile app development sets the tone for mobile business and by engaging in this relationship SAP is able to extend its lead in providing end-to-end application life-cycle management for mobile while allowing developers – who have invested skills in development frameworks from Xamarin and Service2Media – to plug into the power and breadth of SAP technology."
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Jehovha's witnesses are not a cult, but the Jews said the same thing about Jesus and his disciples.
Jehovah's witnesses are not loved or respected by the majority of mankind, and that is also expected.
But the people who are searching for the truth, and want a better life, and know that God is real and did create this world as a paradise in the beginning.
These people will listen to the direction by Jehovah God's visible earthly organization today, they will be meek and honest and be willing to give up this world and Satans influence over mankind.
It is you, the individual person that Jehovah God cares about, your relationship with Jehovah God is between you and him alone, Almighty God Jehovah will help you to find the truth and give you a place of safety in these last days.
It takes your time and your energy to take the first steps to everlasting life, it is not automatically given to you. You have to exert effort to obey Jehovah's requirements, then you will receive the blessings the Bible promises.
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As a Wilmington resident and environmental anthropologist, I am disturbed at North Carolina's lack of attention to environmental and health issues surrounding fracking. New York State just extended its moratorium on drilling; its regulatory document eclipses all others, but is not enough.
Ohio is studying the dangers of deep injection of fracking waste, as your March 5 story outlined for our coastal communities. Injection into our changing coastal land mass is an enduring danger. Ongoing studies confirm the relationship between seismic events and injection, and our own history indicates the way chemical pollutants leach into soils.
Frack "flowback" includes a chemical and mineral cocktail, plus radioactive brines that come from deep below the ground. An ongoing Duke study of the effects of brine in coal extraction shows that nothing grows in those soils.
The short-term payoff of an energy economic boom-bust cycle will not counter the long-term implications of injection or drilling. Even a 10 percent reduction in coastal tourism and home ownership due to fear of potential pollution will have a lasting effect on the region's economy.
The literature and evidence are mounting against the fracking process. Rest assured that 30 years from now, the state will be paying huge sums to injured parties, just as the tobacco industry did.
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Utah Jazz notebook: Indiana still loves Gordon Hayward despite rough night
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
INDIANAPOLIS — This wasn't the type of homecoming Gordon Hayward envisioned.
Five turnovers, 2-for-6 shooting, eight points and a 104-84 loss to the team he grew up cheering for made for a rough return for the hometown hero, who led nearby Butler to the NCAA championship game in 2010.
"You've got to give the Pacers credit," Hayward said in his third trip back home as a pro player. "They played hard and they took us out of what we wanted to do."
The opposite could be said of Utah and Hayward, who had dozens and dozens of supporters in the Bankers Life Fieldhouse crowd sporting his No. 20 Jazz uniform, eager to cheer him on again.
Hayward's dazed and frustrated look during the second half of Wednesday's blowout was a stark contrast to the big smile he had on before the game while being interviewed by numerous local media outlets.
"It's always good to be back," Hayward said before tipoff. "I can't believe it's already the third time."
The Jazz won his first visit his rookie season, and he still considers the loud ovation and outpouring of support that night to be a career highlight.
"It was kind of like my I-can't-believe-I'm-here-in-the-NBA moment, when I went in, just because I'd watched so many Pacers games growing up and dreamed about playing there," Hayward said. "To have everybody cheering for you, it was pretty special."
Since then, one of Reggie Miller's biggest fans has dropped two straight to the home team.
Hayward gave the Indianapolis area even more reason to love him lately. He donated what Butler called a "significant gift" during a campaign aimed at raising funds to renovate Hinkle Fieldhouse, his college's famous gym.
"They're adding a bunch of stuff to it. They're still going to keep that tradition and history of it, but kind of catch up with everyone else," Hayward said. "I just wanted to do my part. Butler meant a lot to me. I know wouldn't be here without them — coach (Brad) Stevens and the whole basketball program. I think the opportunity was there, especially financially for me, so I'm happy to give and help them move that project along."
Earl Watson, one of three Jazzmen with ties to Indiana, focused his answer to Hayward when asked if he feels extra emotion returning to the place where he played for a season before signing with Utah in 2010.
"It's extra emotion to come back with Gordon Hayward. It's like your'e coming back with a rock star. I'm like the backup band member," Watson joked. "I'm following him everywhere in Indiana. I'm in the background of every picture that's taken — photo crashing. I'm the photo crasher."
Unfortunately for the Jazz, the Pacers were Hayward's party crashers Wednesday.
TINSLEY TOWN: Point guard Jamaal Tinsley played the first seven seasons of his NBA career with the Pacers — from 2001-08 — but he was less than nostalgic about returning. He had some terrific seasons as a player but also had some off-the-court issues that hampered his stay in Indiana.
"I had a lot of good memories in here, a lot of bad memories," he admitted.
Tinsley, whom the Jazz signed before last season after his career led him to the D-League, said he's grown from when he was a Pacer. He knows how to take care of his body better. He tries to be a good example to the younger guys on the team and "be a good teammate when things aren't going right for other teammates."
The 34-year-old guard backed up Mo Williams in Brooklyn during Tuesday's 92-90 win, but it was Watson's turn to play Wednesday.
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July Fishing Update - Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers
Author: Trouts Staff
Hang 'em high and dry
The stone flies started popping and suddenly it looked as if the sky was full of small helicopters. I dug into my box and pulled out the biggest stone imitation I could find and fished around for my floatant. The good news is that I had a couple of stimulator patterns that would do the trick; the bad news is that I had left my floatant in another pack.
The exchange:
Michael Gracie (MG): "You see the fish?"
Greg Moran (GM): "Yup."
MG: "Can you make that cast between the two trees?"
GM: "Yup."
Trout's had a chance to fish a few headwater creeks with Aaron Kindle, who works on the Sportsmen's Conservation Project for Trout Unlimited. Aaron is a fishy guy and is also leading the charge to protect fish species and habitat here in Colorado. Aaron spent a few minutes giving Trout's the lowdown on Roadless areas and why they are important to anglers and other Coloradans.
Who wants to take a shot at a brand new Ross F1 and Sharkskin Fly Line? At Trout's Fly Fishing, we're big fans of fish related photography. We know that there are a lot talented photographers out there and many of them are already our customers. We're launching a photography contest this summer – we know that you are going to be getting after it and we want to showcase your fish - and your photography skills.


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Taking sdvantage of the early voting and absentee ballot opportunity, some 250,837 people have already cast their ballots in Fulton and DeKalb counties as of Nov. 1.
That's about 22.4 percent of the total 1,119,605 people who are regsistered to vote in both counties combined.
You can still vote early through Friday, Nov. 2. That's today. Remember to bring your photo ID.
Fulton County residents, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.:
- Adamsville Recreational Center (3201 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW, Atlanta)
- Buckhead Library (269 Buckhead Ave., Atlanta)
- Fulton County Government Center (130 Peachtree St. SW, Suite 2186, Atlanta)
- North Fulton Service Center (7741 Roswell Rd., Suite 232, Sandy Springs)
- Ocee Library (5090 Abbotts Bridge Rd., Johns Creek)
- South Fulton Service Center (5600 Stonewall Tell Rd., Room 108, College Park)
DeKalb County residents, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.:
- Downtown Decatur - Clark Harrison Building, 330 W. Ponce de Leon, Room A, Decatur
- North DeKalb - Chamblee Civic Center, 3540 Broad Street, Chamblee
- East DeKalb – Berean Christian Church Community Center, 2440 Young Road, Stone Mountain
- Voter Registration & Elections Office - 4380 Memorial Dr., Suite 300, Decatur. There will be two areas, one exclusively for senior and disabled voters.
- South DeKalb - Community Achievement Center Inc., 4522 Flat Shoals Parkway, Decatur
- Tucker Recreation Center, 4898 LaVista Rd., Tucker
Here's a tally of the votes so far, from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1:Fulton County No. of votes cast Adamsville Recreation Center 24,128 Buckhead Library 17,285 Government Center 14,229 North Service Center 20,657 Ocee Library 19,980 South Service Center 28,822 DeKalb County No. of votes cast Memorial Drive (Reg) 40,730 Memorial Drive (AAP) 13,798 Tucker 20,046 S DeKalb (CAC) 22,278 Decatur 4,246 E DeKalb (Berean) 5,069 N DeKalb (Chamblee) 6,584 By Mail-in 12,985


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If this was apostolic Christianity then we must examine ourselves as to whether our emphasis corresponds with it. Is the cross central to the message we preach in our evangelism?
But how are we to preach the cross? Does our preaching resemble that of the NT apostles? Does it match the passionate freeness with which the church's greatest evangelists preached the cross to needy sinners?
In this booklet, Iain Murray helps us to think through the message of the cross, to appreciate God's love and justice in the death of Christ, and to grasp the truth afresh that 'by Christ crucified the love of God and his willingness to save is to be made known to all people.'


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The company's tax payments to counties increased by more than $2 million over last year as property values climbed and PG&E invested in infrastructure.
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Nov 26, 2010
Are Filipinos considered Asians or Pacific Islanders?
I'm a Fil-Am based in Hawai'i, and I know of Filipino folks who consider themselves "Asians" and I also know others who consider themselves "Pacific Islanders." What do you think -- what are we really?
Hopeful Hawai'ian
Dear Hopeful,
Check out this video below: Maybe Filipinos are actually Latinos? ;-)
And so that you don't feel bad about your question, check out this next amateur video made by young Filipino-Americans, which shows just how much you're not alone in this confusion when it comes to our identity:
I don't know about you, but I kinda liked the theory of that guy in the video about the Filipino people -- or Pilipino because there is no "f" in Tagalog -- being the "chosen" (pili in Tagalog) and "fine" (pino in Tagalog) people. :-) Except, of course, that assertion is pure bunk. :-( And as I said in an earlier post, Filipino is a derivative of "Las Islas Filipinas," the name the Spaniards christened the Southeast Asian archipelago they colonized in honor of King Philip II of Spain.
But back to the question: Are we "Asians" or "Pacific Islanders"?
While this question pertains to Filipinos, it is really an American issue because Filipinos in the Philippines are not vexed by this question at all. Ordinary Americans are honestly confused as to how to classify us (many typically think of Asians as only those from North Asia: China, Japan and Korea), while we, US-based Filipinos, are regularly faced with this "identity confusion" ourselves, at the most basic, when filling out forms which take this data into account. Which box to check?
More importantly, however, we get confused, even insulted sometimes, when others, favorably or unfavorably, view and lump us with other ethnic groups because of how we look and how they view our culture, or exclude us from the group we think we rightfully belong. Most importantly, this question bedevils us when we want to reach out to be part of a bigger community with whom we can have a sense of affinity, kinship and pride. We are conflicted because we seem to be both and neither at the same time.
You have to understand though that the correct classification boils down to the definition of terms. Are we of the folks who hailed from the same geographic region or of the folks who, generally, ethnically look like or act like us?
In other words, does "Asian" or "Pacific Islander" refer to geographical provenance? If it does, we're actually both: because the Philippines is in Asia and it is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. But under this definition, the Japanese would also be both, even if they don't seem to be as contorted as we are by the labels.
Now, if the term "Asian" or "Pacific Islander" refers to ethnicity, then I think both terms are misnomers. Actually, even if I concede that "Pacific Islander" may be a little more specific than "Asian" and conceivably acceptable as an ethnic classification, there is really no such thing as a single "Asian" ethnicity for the simple reason that the continent of Asia is so big and so diverse. By this definition, any school kid with the most elementary knowledge of geography would know the term "Asian" would encompass many ethnicities, including, among others, the yellow-skinned North Asians, the dark-skinned South Asians, the brown-skinned Southeast Asians, as well as the Persians, the Arabs and the Turks (who, by the way, also consider themselves Europeans because their country straddles the continents of Asia and Europe). In fact, it can be argued that "Pacific Islander" is just another subset also of the Asian umbrella of ethnicities.
What exacerbates the issue really for us is that we have never been in the position to define these terms for ourselves. Thus, even if we do have historical and genetic kinship with the "Pacific Islanders," the US Census defined the term as referring to "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Tonga, Samoa or other Pacific Islands" and otherwise those "of Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian cultural backgrounds." And said government agency purposefully did not include the "Philippine Islands" as among those "other Pacific Islands."
The term "Asia," on the other hand, is another Western construct -- i.e., "a concept exclusively of Western civilization." In fact, according to Wikipedia, "the peoples of ancient Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Persians, Arabs etc.) never conceived the idea of Asia, simply because they did not see themselves collectively," and the term was "first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BC) in reference to Anatolia or -- in describing the Persian Wars -- to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece [Europe] and Egypt [Africa]."
Coming from a heterogeous and polyglot society which has a colorful history of mass migrations (Negritos and Malays) and colonial occupations (by Spain, US and then Japan), the earlier waves of Filipinos who migrated to America became more contorted by racial identity issues because of ignorant and discriminatory American laws in the not-too-distant past. For instance, in California, a state anti-miscegenation law prohibiting interracial marriage between whites and "Negroes, mulattoes, or Mongolians" had been routinely applied to Filipinos because they were deemed members of the "Mongolian race." It took a controversial case, Roldan v. Los Angeles County (1933), for Filipinos to successfully argue that Filipinos are actually descended from the "Malay" race (which technically is, of course, not entirely accurate). However, the victory celebration was short-lived because the ever-reliable California legislature then, unhappy with the judicial decision, quickly responded by adding "Malay" to the restricted races because Filipinos then were viewed as "scarcely more than savages" whose "social problems were based almost entirely on their sexual passion."
kababayan, no less! -- who, like many Filipinos, had also spent childhood years in Southeast Asia and who considers himself a "mutt," which most Filipinos are.
Also, I am very thankful that as Filipino-Americans (emphasis this time on Filipino), the US now, increasingly, has better literature and forms with regards to race-related classifications. By this, I mean, of course, that we now have a checkbox designed just for us:
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21 comments:
- Frenchman said...
It's a sad thing that the US always feels the need to put people into racial boxes, especially improperly designed racial boxes... (when I think that some people think the US is not a racist country)
- November 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- The Filipino said...
Having traveled extensively, I strongly believe that the US is still the (or among the) least racist. Having said that, like you, I do have misgivings about classifying people based on race because, according to one online encyclopedia:
"Attempts have been made to classify humans since the 17th cent., when scholars first began to separate types of flora and fauna. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was the first to divide humanity according to skin color. In the 19th and early 20th cent., people such as Joseph Arthur Gobineau Gobineau [French diplomat and man of letters and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, mainly interested in pressing forward the supposed superiority of their own kind of culture or nationality, began to attribute cultural and psychological values to race. This approach, called racism, culminated in the vicious racial doctrines and anti-Semitism anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany and was used to justify slavery slavery and segregation (see integration) in the United States, apartheid in the Republic of South Africa, and European imperialism and colonialism generally."
HOWEVER, I am in favor of collecting these types of data if policy-makers use the data to address structural defects in the system in order to provide equitable opportunities and ensure that everyone gets reasonable access to advancement in society. In other words, if the data is used for nefarious purposes, then it IS racism; otherwise, it may well be necessary to help manage a very diverse country like the US which, with limited resources, has to make sure that peoples of all types live in relative harmony alongside each other.
Also, the data has other uses -- e.g., in medicine, some races have much higher incidences of certain types of diseases than others, etc.
- December 1, 2010 at 4:01 AM
- I-Love-Hate-America.Com said...
I had written a similar post about this....in a different angle;
- February 3, 2011 at 4:11 AM
I agreed with what you said in your post about the need for categories being an American thing. Indeed we may blame the census responsible for this whole debate!
While Filipinos in the Philippines may not ponder of such categorizations to the extent that their identity-searching 2nd gen Fil-Amers do, I think that the 2nd gen Fil-Amers provide an opportunity for new perspectives into race, region, and identity - issues that often only become salient when viewed under alternative contexts, such as being a Filipino in America.
But to the point: As an Asian American myself, I have always associated with being Asian. This may sound superficial, but I feel that much of our tacit identity formation is created not by conversation, but rather by our daily actions - what we eat, where we go grocery shopping, the spaces that we occupy. In this regard, I find that Filipinos more often occupy the spaces that are shared by other Asians. Granted this quick comment may seem like I am attributing our brethren's categorization to a grocery store, but I do think that the comforts found in our daily lives can help answer this question.
To seal the deal, here's a quote from my mom - something she said a few years back when we were shopping at the local Vietnamese market. At this point in her life, she was getting old, and sometimes said things that were both awkward and keenly aware.
"I like this place. It reminds me of Manila."
"Mom. We're in a market full of Vietnamese people. In a strip mall in Houston"
"Yes. But we're all small, and brown and it smells like rice."
- February 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Marianne said...
"I like this place. It reminds me of Manila."
"Mom. We're in a market full of Vietnamese people. In a strip mall in Houston"
"Yes. But we're all small, and brown and it smells like rice."
I loved this post! When I see it on paper, I tend to think of myself as Pacific Islander, but ask me in person and I'll stop for a second, think about it, then end up saying Asian.
I have to say...the quote from julianvalente's mother made me laugh out loud! It sounds like something my mama would say. :)
- February 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Filipinos are Asians. Just check the world map and history. If you need further proof, just google the DNA studies conducted in the past 20 years and the Filipino people share the same DNA with Taiwanese, Japanese, etc. The only reason why Filipinos look "different" compared to stereotypical "Asians" is because the Philippines is a melting pot and many cultures have migrated in the country which resulted to various culutural subgroups and mixed bloodlines. So don't be surprised if some look Indian, some Chinese, some Arabian, some even look white, etc.
- March 21, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Filipinos are Isalnders! I'm not slanted eyed.
- March 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM
- So Lang said...
Sincere thanks for the refreshing post. (:
You brought up a very important point that the divisions of continents and races were based upon Eurocentric perspective, and it wasn't the Philippines, nor the Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Yemenis, Israelis or Turks who determined that they were Asians. It got imposed by them by Europeans who also decided that they would deserve a separate continent in spite of geographical facts not supporting any true division of Eurasia into different continents.
In fact, South Asia, which is sometimes called a "subcontinent" would have more reasons to be designated as a separate continent. But I'm aware that that's not the main subject of this post.
I've also been sharing your view that Philippines can be both Pacific Islanders and Asian.
I kept on asking why is it that some people insist on "either X or Y" when in fact many of us are "X and Y".
Linguistically and phenotypically Philippines belong to a large contiguous Austronesian family stretching from Madagascar to Rapa Nui to NZ to Taiwan, yet following our modern Eurocentric science, which I'm not deeming as not valid, this family is divided into three different continents.
So yeah, Philippines are Pacific Islander as well as Asian, because Europeans decided that the islands are to be apportioned to the (half)continent Asia, which itself was also a European concept.
Keep up the good work! (-:
an API ;-)
- April 16, 2012 at 4:32 PM
It is very unfortunate that the "Land of the Liberty" has a need to label all there people into certain ethnic categories. During my travels all around the world people of other countries cannot understand why when people from the USA are approached with a question like "Are you American?" people from the USA get confused and answer with something that is long and drawn out. What is so wrong with just saying for a person from the USA to say that they are American? Everyone all over the world knows that most Americans are or were imports at sometime or another, that includes the Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and even Native Hawaiians. Regarding "are Filipinos considered Asians or Pacific Islanders?" ... Hmmm ... The Philippine Archipelago is not part of Asia or Southeast Asia. The Philippine Archipelago is a part of the larger archipelago known as the Malay Archipelago which exists between Southeast Asia and Australia. People of the Malay Archipelago have more in common with of the people of the Pacific Islands except for the islands that are part of New Guinea. Filipinos are are not Asian as the commonalities between Asians (including Southeast Asians) are very few. Scientist have determined that it was the peoples of the Malay Archipelago that migrated and populated the islands of the Pacific including such places as Hawaii, Easter Island and even New Zealand. Peoples Polynesia are decendant of the peoples of the Malay Archipelago. so no for a Filipino to list themselves as a Pacific Islander is not lame but rather scientifically and even politically correct.
- May 12, 2012 at 5:11 PM
- filipino singles said...
Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines as part of South-east Asia. But describing Filipinos as Pacific Islanders isn't necessarily wrong either. In fact, for a long time, Filipinos were known as Pacific Islanders.
The Philippines used to be called the Philippine Islands of the Pacific, and when the Americans first arrived more than a century ago, they described the Philippine Islands as 'orphans of the Pacific.'
They might well have been referring to the geographical distance of the country from mainland Asia. Composed of more than 7000 islands, the Philippine archipelagic state was a political creation of Western colonizers. It was Spain during the 16th century that united the major islands of the Philippines—if it hadn't occupied the islands, the Philippine nation state wouldn't have existed.
- July 6, 2012 at 10:04 PM
My parents (and relatives) always referred to us (Filipinos) as Pacific Islanders and I am teaching my kids the same thing. All my life that is what I have referred to. I am full blooded Ilocano and our language is closely related to the Hawaiian, Fijian, Samoan, Maori, Tahitian, and Chamorro language. My family traits resemble more of the Pacific Islander look than the Asian look so I can't say that I relate more to Asians besides eating rice which other islanders eat as well. Either way, Ilocanos come from the Austronesian stock and nesia means islands so Pacific Islander or not, filipinos are still Islander. Mabuhay Pinoy!
- August 1, 2012 at 2:14 PM
- Mandela said...
A black person and a white person are both living in the US. Does this mean one is "American" and the other one must not be? No...just because they are different, doesn't mean they are not both American.
A Filipino and a Japanese are both encompassed within the Asian continent. Does this mean one is truly "Asian" and the other is not? No....just because they are different, doesn't mean they are not both Asian.
This debate would become clearer if Filipinos could try to understand that "Asia" is a geographic term, not a cultural or a scientific term. Just because our skin tone, height, religion, etc. may be different from some other Asians, doesn't make us any "less" Asian than them. Yes, Malay is an ethnic subgroup. But Japanese is also an ethnic subgroup. Tibetans as well. All these groups are different from each other.
I have always felt that Filipinos are unlucky, because our long period of Spanish colonization has left us deeply confused about where we belong. There are still some Filipinos who think they have "Spanish blood" because their last name is Gonzales. (What Mr. Gonzales doesn't know is that, during colonial times, the Spaniards assigned native Filipinos with random Spanish names, in order to make annual tax collections easier.)
- August 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- solstice said...
The short answer is if you are from Micronesia, Polynesia or Melanesia, you are by definition a Pacific Islander. If you are from Brunei, Philippines, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore or Malaysia which are in the maritime Southeast Asia, you are Asian. Filipinos are Asians. It has nothing to do with the shape of your eyes or color of your skin or your affiliation to a culture. Yes it's geographic.
- September 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM
I was born in the Philippine Islands and proud of my heritage. I'm an Islander and Filipino by birth. So I am a Filipino Islander. Just because PI is in Southeast Asia doesnt't make me Asian. Never considered myself Asian and never will. I agree with Anonymous' post on Aug 1, 2012. I, too, am Ilokano and find my roots through the Austronesian people. Maybe other Filipinos with closer ties to the Asian culture believe to be Asians but not so, in my case.
- October 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM
I'm cambodian every time I travel people call us or ask us if we are filipino, my mom was ask that all the time.my cambodian friends was asked the same thing.my eyes are slanted, my cambodian friends aren't slanted either.are food is different from china...our culture is hindunized, at the end of the day we are south east asians and philippines is too. Your country is part of the ASEAN.associates of south east asia nations
- October 16, 2012 at 6:47 AM
Filipino = Islander....end of story! I ain't asian.
- November 16, 2012 at 1:47 PM
i'm Filipino born in philippines and my family moved to america when i was 15 and we are southeast asians. We look like our southeast asian neighbors. I had alot of friends from Malaysia, indonesia, thailand, cambodia .. and back when i lived in the philippines I would show them pictures of my friends from those other southeast asian countries and they thought they were Filipinos but no they are from other countries in southeast asia.Like other ASEAN countries we were colonized by the europeans. Malaysia was colonized by Great Britian. Indonesia by the Dutch, Vietnam by the French, Philippines by the Spanish etc.. Our language is part of the same language family as the Malaysian and Indonesian languages and also the language of Madagascar. Its also said to be that descendents from Madagascar were from Indonesia. and for your information.. the eastern Island of Indonesia is actually considered by some geographers to be part of the pacific islands. Like other southeast asian countries there are numerous filipinos who have distant Chinese blood... many malaysians, indonesians, Thai, vietnamese, also have some distant chinese blood. Like other southeat asian countries Philippines used to have their own alphabet... but it is long forgotten due to colonization. Philippines also has a larger eurasian population than the other southeast asian countries. In which i wish my country wasnt so heavily infulenced by the western world.... then we could have retained some of our own culture and last names (i hate spanish last names) btw my surname isn't spanish :P We are southeast asians! and i am a Filipino from the philippines but moved to usa when i was 15 and people in america always mistake me for being Thai or another asian ethnicity.. also im a Filipino and i have the eye hook or the epicanthic fold and slanted eyes with brown.. and who are americans to tell me that im nnot asian... cuz Im ASIAN not pacific islander or latino... FILIPINOS ARE Southeast ASIAN! and i wish filipino-americans would stop asking americans of any race what we are... if u really want to know ask people who are from and live in asia!!!
- November 27, 2012 at 5:42 AM
We are Southeast Asians!
- November 27, 2012 at 5:44 AM
Filipinos issue with either being Asian or Pacific Islander will never come to an end. In my view, I don't see anything wrong with some pinoys considering themselves Asian and another part considering themselves Pacific Islanders. It all depends on their roots as many pinoys do look more Islander than Asian and vice versa, and who they find more similarities with so for one to say we are this or that, it's not up to us to label that person because of what we believe is right. I've heard of cases where Ilocanos don't consider themselves Filipino and would rather be known as Ilocanos. So, overall. It's up to the person who chooses to lean more towards one ethnic group or the other. In the end, we are all brothers and sisters of the same race.
- December 7, 2012 at 12:53 PM
As a Filipino-American, I agree to the fullest that Filipinos are Asians. If Filipinos were to be considered Pacific Islanders then Japanese people would also be considered Pacific Islanders. If Filipinos are not Asian, I ask, why doesn't President Benigo Aquino III opt out of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
- December 9, 2012 at 8:41 PM
Why does it matter to other people what someone considers themeselves?! they don't know that person's history enough to make that call for them. I'm filipino but if someone wants to be called Asian, let them. If someone wants to be called Pacific Islander, let them! It ain't hurtin' anybody! Asians and Pacific Islanders are all related somehow anyway! One love!
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two area woman are getting national headlines after petitioning Kraft to remove food coloring from their popular mac and cheese.
Lisa Leake and Vani Hari are Charlotte food bloggers. It all started when the ladies realized some American food products are made with food colors or additives banned in other countries. They say that includes Kraft Cheesy Pasta, the UK version of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner.
Hari and Leake first started a petition on change.org. To date, they've received more than 274,000 signatures. Later, they made a video that went viral and was picked up by several national TV networks.
They're asking Kraft to remove two kinds of artificial dyes. According to Leake, "they add no nutritional value, they don't change the flavor and do pose risks. They potentially cause hyperactivity in children, they can negatively affect their ability to learn. They have a lot of potential negative effects."
Kraft has responded to the bloggers, posting a letter on their web site pointing out they offer mac and cheese with no coloring or natural colors. Kraft also reminds consumers they only use artificial colors approved by the FDA.
Leake and Hari plan to visit Kraft's headquarters on Monday to take the petition and to try and talk to Kraft representatives in person.


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WENDELL — When former fire Chief Tom Vaughan needed a right-hand man, he looked no further than Herb Ramsey Jr., the man he was replacing as fire chief.
For the next 27 years, Ramsey held the No. 2 spot in the fire department and helped guide the department through a host of changes.
On Monday night, Ramsey was named the winner of the 2014 Wendell Mayor's Award.
Fittingly, Ramsey couldn't attend Monday night's annual chamber of commerce banquet because he was helping someone else: his granddaughter, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer.
But a room full of people at Monday night's banquet cheered his name as it was called anyway.
Ramsey served the fire department for parts of six decades. Beginning in 1969, Ramsey joined the all-volunteer department as a firefighter, working his way up the chain of command to become the fire chief in 1981. He held that post for three years, stepping away in 1984 to assume the role of assistant chief. He held that post until his retirement in 2012.
Wendell Mayor Tim Hinnant, in recognizing Ramsey's service, recounted his own memories of Ramsey's service. He recalled an incident in which his children were involved in a car wreck. Ramsey was one of the firefighters who responded to the scene. Later, as Hinnant sat in a hospital waiting room awaiting updates on his children, Ramsey and Vaughan came to him. The men sat with Hinnant and his family for several hours.
"When they got up to leave, they both reached into their pockets and pulled out their wallets and gave us every dime they had on them," Hinnant said. "(Ramsey) told me it would be a long, slow road and that I would need to keep my hopes up. I think it says a lot about the character of a man to do something like that, especially when he didn't have to do it."
Ramsey was always much more than just an administrator for the fire department. When the alarms sounded, Ramsey was there to answer the call for help more than most. For several years, Ramsey led the department in the number of calls responded to.
As an administrator, Ramsey helped Vaughan lead the department through a major structural change when the organization moved from an all-volunteer agency to a hybrid form that included volunteers and paid staff.
In an anonymous letter, Ramsey's nominator praised Ramsey's dedication.
"(Ramsey) spent thousands of hours protecting and serving the community, and even risking his life when you and I were at home in bed or at our job away from Wendell," the writer said.
Ramsey also provided his services at a cost, his nomination letter read.
"This service came at a great cost, not to the taxpayers of Wendell, but to Mr. Ramsey. His sacrifice of family time, material gain and personal cost were never a factor in his decision to serve, but can never be measured in terms of profit and loss to the citizens of Wendell."
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As Politico reporter Mike Allen noted at the beginning of the Playbook Cocktails event he was hosting Thursday evening, it was serendipitous that the release of "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski's book "Obsessed" — about America's and her own issues with weight, food and body image — coincided with another headlining-making weight loss revelation. Tuesday The New York Post reported New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had undergone lap-band stomach surgery in February, in an aggressive measure to trim down his estimated 350 pound figure.
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"I just don't believe it's anybody's business except mine and my family's." Christie said over the phone with Brzezinski at the event, when she asked him why he had kept the surgery a secret for so long. (Judging by the way she had been clinging to her iPhone throughout the talk, the call was probably not coincidental.)
"I was never going to lie about it. But certainly it wasn't offered up because I think it's just between me and my wife and my kids and my doctor," he said.
Yet, by the way Brzezinski described it her book and in an excerpt posted on MSNBC.com, her weight struggles — and her decision to confront them — involved a whole lot more than just her family and doctor.
"It starts when you're very young, and I just documented in this book times in my life when I had success and when I got adulation or I got compliments, and it was when I was really skinny, uncomfortably skinny, exhaustingly skinny, starvingly skinny," Brzezinski said. "Obsessed" recounts her drastic efforts to stay 118 pounds and her decision to allow herself to gain some weight, even if it meant going up two dress sizes.
At the event, her "Morning Joe" cohost Joe Scarborough suggested that Brzezinski had been asked by television execs to lose 10 or 15 pounds earlier in her career. He also noted her obsession with weight and fitness (she is also an avid runner) was also a part of the "act" on "Morning Joe" (perhaps best illustrated in this 2011 promo, which some called sexist). Brzezinski describes it in her book: "he played the undisciplined food slob and I filled the role of the hyperdisciplined health nut." While obviously an intensely personal issue, how Brzezinski views her body is also a part of her public television persona, one that she is now deconstructing on an equally public stage in her new book.
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To compare Christie's and Brzezinski's recent revelations may be apples to oranges. She had seemingly the perfect figure, yet was torturing herself to keep it. (It's worth noting that even 15 pounds heavier she still looks fabulous). He was obese, and says his decision was motivated by being healthy for his children. She chose to gain weight. He decided to lose it.
But what motivated Brzezinski to reexamine was a friend who had more in common with Christie than herself, fellow newswomen Diane Smith who also cowrote the book. Brzezinski decided to confront her friend about the weight she had gained over the course of her career.
"I also told Diane what she already knew: that her obesity had stopped her ascent to the top of the media world," Brzezinski writes. The two made a deal, Smith would lose weight if Brzezinski would gain some.
Many have speculated that Christie's decision to undergo the surgery may also have to do with a possible 2016 presidential run. Yet so far he has resisted giving into such reasoning. Yet for Brzezinski her struggles with weight were imbued with her public, professional persona. Not surprisingly, her decision to confront them is equally public.
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