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In the 21st century with the mobility of labor, we Americans really need to decouple ourselves from the idea of living/working somewhere and owning a home. It's more likely than not that someone entering the labor market today will change jobs/careers/cities in his or her lifetime. I'm in the military and I know other members of the military that bought homes, knowing that in three or four years they would receive orders and be required to rotate somewhere else because they could not bear the idea of "wasting" equity on rent. They bought houses in high priced areas at the top of the housing bubble and got burnt when they were required to move. Either they sold their homes at a loss, or they rent their property at a discount to what they pay in mortgage fees (assuming they can find renters). Meanwhile, I lived well, enjoying the "discount" I received from renting due to the overabundance of housing (a good hint not to buy) and ignored all advice to own. When I moved, I had orders and was released from my lease. No worries about owning or trying to sell/rent a property thousands of miles from where I am stationed.
In my experience progressing in any field is much quicker if the person in question is happy to move states in case of US or even countries in case of Europe.
Waiting for a promotion in a company for years creates apathy and inefficiency but still many people do it, probably due to the reasons mentioned in the article.
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Just a small digression, but I'm in the market for a new house right now, and am going to see my realtor here in about an hour. She wanted to show my wife and I a house today because, as she put it, it may not be there tomorrow.
I can only wish that I were in one of the buyers markets I have been hearing so much about.
Anyway, I think if you did some more investigating you'd find that people could pack up and move, and that labor would be more mobile, if that mobility added more value. The labor markets during the great depression were far different than those today. The vast majority of jobs required little more than a strong back, and with that strong back you had a decent chance for success. Perhaps more importantly, moving across the country is probably a lot less painful if your survival depends on it. Despite the current comparisons to the great depression, no one is starving now. It's also important to note the importance that people place on health care, as if humankind would perish without it! Yet somehow our species survived without a national healthcare service or single payer plan for hundreds of thousands of years. Truth be told, health care really is a modern luxury, one that happens to be very expensive and very complicated. It also may be the least value- added cost we incur in our daily lives. It will never provide the gratification that comes from a value added purchase, driving many people to forego health insurance for cable TV or a bigger, better car, etc. People only really want it when they need it. By that time it's often too late, and they become bitter about having to pay full cost or being denied service. At that point, health care somehow becomes a right, not a luxury.
I would contend as well that the professional classes are less exposed to health insurance concerns because it is usually offered as part of a larger benefits package. I would think that similar firms on different sides of the country would offer similar packages. if one did offer a better package, they could draw from a greater pool of applicants.
The purpose of providing a national health service is not to help people. The last I heard less than 16% of the population was not covered by any sort of health plan, and that includes those that voluntarily aviod it. For that number of people, a much better plan would probably be to extend medicaid coverage.
This is about power. the chattering classes have been chomping at the bit to remake society in a more perfect image ever sice Marx rebelled against his wealthy upbringing 160 years ago. I guess I'm a reactionary because I don't buy into the notion that government (or Marx) knows better than me what's best for me. I'll accept those additional hardships if it means retaining control of my own life.
Rents are going up because so many people are waiting out the market. This will self correct as soon as credit loosens and the more aggressive investors (who did not prepare for this calamity by reducing debt) are able to pounce on the money to be made off of people permanently frightened by the real estate market.
I have had triple the response to vacancies in the past year; all respondents were perfectly capable of buying a place. They are willing to give me their money to stomach the uncertainty.
However, if you fix rents (as was done in San Francisco and New York years ago), you will immediately destroy the base value of the properties that are now clogging the markets and make sure that they remain that way indefinitely.
In the long term, the burden of increasing rents will be shifted disproportionately onto the new renters, effectively aging the city and making entry prohibitively expensive for young grads in fields other than banking and corporate law.
This will also plant the longer term renters into their rent controlled apartments long after these apartments serve their needs. As a bonus, the landlords of long term renters will loss the motivation to make building repairs and perform maintenance and we will experience neighborhood decline.
From London to Los Angeles, there are no affordable rentals. In many cases it was cheaper to Buy than to Rent, especially when the Tax benifits are taken into account. Even as housing prices are falling in California, Rents are still going up.
More than ever before, we need Rent Control.
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I must be missing something . . . OK, so the decline in home prices which are unique in recent history cramp mobility . . . but what about all the time before this with rising home prices, didn't that increase mobility and won't that return if / when home prices begin a more normal path of increasing?
Kudos to the Economist for this article. For once an economic theory that actually sheds light into the real world.
Publishing Oswald's prescient theories, which I have not seen, give me a reason to renew my subscription. They are a brilliant counterpoint to the conventional wisdom about home ownership and health insurance. These legacy tax laws, mostly dating back to the Roosevelt era, need to be modified. Instead of creating a NHS monstrosity a la UK or Canada a change in the rules can make the current system work much more efficiently.
So before we wreak havoc on the system and create even more budget nightmares for our children, we could at least try to change the tax rules in favor of a much more rational approach.
Times change and the economic incentives targeted in these tax structures are from another era. Instead of a homeownership rate that is too low we now have one that is too high. Hence the number of defaults even before the rapid increase in unemployment.
As the article states medical insurance that is deductible only for employers creates the perverse inflationary incentives we have today. Using insurance companies as gatekeepers is almost as bad an idea as using the government in the same capacity. People need to be incented to make GOOD decisions on health care and not to go running to the clinic with every sniffle or in the caee of the uninsured wait until things get so bad that they have to check into public clinics for monumentally expensive treatments.
Someone must pay for indigent care and the choice is the taxpayer (as in the UK) or the fully insured. But if intelligent decisions are made by the consumer (as in normal markets) the providers are forced to compete, improve productivity and thereby lower prices while adding value.
The tax code is the greatest of all inducements to changed behavior. It seems to me that the carrot approach should be attempted before the stick of the aforementioned NHS monstrosity.
Health care in the U.S. is a major impediment to mobility. I have never met a European who hated their job but stayed on for the health insurance, and most wouldn't even understand the concept. As for the quality of American health insurance, if you hung out with the Americans I hang out with--- all educated, all employed (until recently, at least)--- you might not believe the envious looks I get when I mention (brag?) how I never have to fight with my health insurer to get them to cover what my sky-high premiums were supposed to cover.
And owning a home! I am elated to see the Economist score one against the home-owning brigade. While there is certainly some emotional uplift from "owning" one's home, it is certainly overrated. Especially in the 21st century, where the likelihood of staying married and staying in the same city for the length of a mortgage is very low--- well under 50%, just from divorces. Talk about being stuck.
There's another stop to mobility that occurs in the U.S.--- schools. American public schools are run by cities and towns, and are financed by property taxes (except in Hawaii). Of course, rich towns have much better schools than poor ones. As a result of this inequality, people suburb-shop to find the one with the best rated schools they can afford. This ends up increasing the inequality, because it drives up the property value in the suburbs with better schools, which drives up property taxes that fund schools. While the inequality this system engenders might shock some, the important point here is that many people stay put in places they would rather leave because their children's schooling might suffer if they moved.
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Your wife goes to the Mayo clinic when she's sick? Let's see. You're a doctor. Now I get it: you're rich! That's why you bash health systems that are so cost effective... Enjoy your bennies. Just realize that some of us can't even move back home because of the "world's best health care" (for the very rich or very poor). Those of us who are not rich or poor are priced out. I am flabbergasted you think we've got the best system. Even Canada's OK system gives us an extra 2 years' life expectancy than the US (why is life expectancy dropping? Is it because we've got the best system?). Of course, in benighted nations like France or England, your wife wouldn't be able to waltz into the Mayo clinic (do you have any idea what percentage of Americans have access to health care like that?). I sound bitter, I know. But when rich people start trumpeting the greatness of the US health system, I just wonder if they've noticed that the middle class has disappeared from the waiting rooms over the last few years. Sorry you had such an awful time in those countries where they try to cover everyone. Musta been like slumming.
This is depressing. I'm a freelancer, and could make a great living in my homeland if I didn't have to set aside $1500 per month for health care (not all of us are blessed with good health which makes my rates about double) and $350/mo for a cheap car... and while houses are worth nothing, rents are high in any place that you don't need a car... I get attitude at the border (Why aren't you working in the US? Why don't you pay taxes in the US?). Strange to be priced out of your own country when you make a decent living in Canada. But, let's face it, if we make any real efforts to make America more livable for skilled self-employed workers, we'd have to start calling ourselves "socialist" and then we'd become "communist" (domino theory)... and then just maybe we'd have a life expectancy like folks in Canada, Japan, or the EU again. Or health care that doesn't keep workers away from new jobs. Or schools that aren't ranked below all those socialist G8 and OECD countries. And solvent banks... You know, all those things 'socialists' have (and we used to) But America doesn't do socialism, we'd rather implode, thank you very much. After all, our government spends more than any other on health care per person (but that doesn't help me - no, sir, I make more than $8000 a year) None of those socialist countries spend that much on health care for their citizens! Of course, they've got universal coverage, but who's interested in "results"? Thanks Economist - I thought I was doing my math wrong. But you're right. I can't afford to work in the US or start a business there. That would be nuts.
The problem, commenter Ohio, with enhanced tax credits for private insurance, is that the young and healthy will bolt from employer-provided plans. Cherry-picking. Already, quite a few of these 'invincibles' do.
This means that employer-pools suffer adverse selection, and rates go up so substantially that employers drop the benefit.
This is unacceptable in a nation where an estimated quarter of adults (including both my cancer-surviving parents) could not obtain private insurance for any amount of money.
Home ownership is very useful in maintaining democracy---see how Athens prospered and fell.
And US healthcare is still the best in the world. I am an American MD, who has practiced in the US and NZ. NHS is terrible.
My wife, when she has problems, goes to the Mayo Clinics in Rochester. You Brits only dream of hospitals like that.
What an asinine story. Comparing the mobility we used to have in the Great Depression to today's lifestyles? As the author plainly notes, the Steinbeck family had nothing but a TRUCK. People can still pack up with all their belongings in whatever vehicle they had and go on the road to find jobs elsewhere. If you actually own a home, and aren't being evicted, then I'd say your lack of mobility doesn't compare with the Great Depression - and we should be grateful for that.
Not sure I completely agree with a conclusion that home ownership, in itself, allows fewer job opportunities.
Housing price run ups were a product of the ability to pay. An abundance of nearby jobs almost always was surrounded by areas of higher housing values. Despite the loss of jobs, those in areas close to an abundance of jobs still have more opportunities.
It's the areas that people had to settle into because of single incomes, low incomes (no college degrees), etc that are hit hardest. The people in these situations are more impacted by economic down turns, and less likely to find comparable employment as close as the person who could afford to live in a more convenient and affluent area. Unfortunately, the politicians that are most concerned about helping out these people now, were the same ones that set up programs and commissions to make them owners in the first place.
I live in Stockholm, Sweden with an occupational focus that keep me in the capital. Now Sweden still got the rent control from WWII, and we have capital gains taxes on real estate profits (but interest is deductible). So what happens is, you can't rent and live where you want; this in turn inflates prices, and creates a plethora of coops (flats) and ownership houses. Then people get locked in as they will lose 6+ months of income (costs (taxes+fees+liquidity/information costs) compared with income after tax) if they sell their coop or their house to move. This in turn means low mobility, and generally long commutes for everybody in the greater Stockholm region.
It is extremely common to not take a job you get offered in Stockholm(or even more common not to apply) if you live outside the regions with housing shortages (on the rent side) and HR/recruting regularly spend hours helping new hires getting temporary housing on the grey market (semi-illegal rents). Do that for 50 years and see where your GDP is then.... Its all politics of course.
Eventually you'll find that growth is all micro incentives, not macro (as in tp1024 post) nor 'culture', change the rules and the incentives and the culture will eventually change also. While you can build and destroy trust in an economy, using such things as 'work ethic' or 'Calvinism' as explanatory variables in economics is asinine.
Homeownership or not is usually not much of a factor in terms of unemployment, even mobility can be worth much less than it is made out to be.
People in eastern Germany certainly didn't own a lot of houses, most were renting. They certainly were mobile, leaving the eastern part of the country by the millions when the usual unhampered plundering by corporate takeover destroyed most of the industrial base. Yet, unemployment has been stagnant in Germany for more than a decade once you account for the numerical acrobatics going on.
(Workers receiving welfare payments because they are being paid less than subsistence wages are on the same order of magnitude as unemployed, adding up to the roughly 6 million they have always been. Not to mention the young people drafted for military service, uselessly spending a 13th year at school or being in other occupations that don't count as unemployed.)
The most important factors underlying employment are the obvious ones:
the definition of "work" (social norms that decide what work is being paid for, being done by third persons and what not - nobody packed your bags at wal-mart in Germany and they still weren't profitable enough),
scale of population,
scale of production and primary services needed (pretty low in the USA because of substitution through importation),
labor intensity of production and primary services,
demand for produce,
agreement of demand and supply for labor (oversupplied: unneeded workers, undersupplied: wasted resources/opportunities, losses through damages like missed medical treatments etc.),
distribution of incomes throughout the population for secondary jobs through services, etc. (no, this is not compatible with 25% profit margins)
mobility is pretty far down the list
"Low tax is not a subsidy" - false
You just do not understand the situation. Say I know John and Jane. I buy two identical houses, that I will sell in a year from now.
I rent out one house to John, and there the taxman want USD 10'000 more from me then in the situation with Jane in the other house, as I also rent out to her; the differance? I'll "marry" Jane so its my legal residence with her, she will of course actually contribute as much as John.... So in this case the government subsidy ownership vs. renting. It is not that uncommon, governments usually subsidy strong voter groups. In this case that means its more costly to move so people don't move as much and commute longer and/or don't take better jobs, is fairly basic economics really. I'd say that housing, spouses and taxes is the most common factors for 'non-mobility'. So don't buy a house, marry somebody with a mobile skill set and chose a country with low tax regime if you want to go places and make something out of yourself.
Love the research included. I have always wondered why the government gave such a helping hand toward home ownership. It forces me to do it, because I know it's financially better overall. I really don't want to own it though... in case I need to move for work. Tampa, FL
'America subsidises more than most. Owner-occupiers typically pay no tax on capital gains'
- Low tax is not a subsidy.
This article provides me a refreshing look at relationship of home-ownership to unemployment. Old theories always are found surprisingly true when revisited. The arguments here are convincing. This article entails a series of questions: when do we start tax deductibles for the home ownership and what is the intention of it? To help construction companies? Once policy intervention affects the economic equilibrium in a large and profound scale, it becomes very hard to reverse it. It is hard to imagine stop subsidizing the home-ownership now when millions of people are locked in the thirty-year amortization schedule and increase of monthly payment would result in defaults. That's why we need to be very cautious on any government intervention in the first place.
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Sri LankaƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢s victory against world champion Australians with a series win on 5th November in Sydney was a well-timed stimulus package for the Team in preparation for the 2011 World Cup.ƒÆ'-¡
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During the day of Tsunami, Upul was in Colombo and his sister phoned him and said ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-donƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢t come home, the Sea has come on LandƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ UpulƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢sƒÆ'-¡ house was washed away with several other nearby homes.ƒÆ'-¡ All his belongings including the cricket gear were lost.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ Kumar SangakkaraƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢sƒÆ'-¡ financial contribution to save UpulƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢s cricketing and personal career at that time was admirable.ƒÆ'-¡ Constructive criticisms are intended to encourage potential leaders and not to destroy them, Upul isƒÆ'-¡ certainly seen as a cog in a wheel. He is definitely in line for the leadership of the national team at the appropriate time, in so far as he maintains consistent performance.
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Lasith MalingaƒÆ'-¡ is an inspiration forƒÆ'-¡ the entire team.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ His presence is the greatest Present for the Sri Lankan Team. He would not have dreamed in his wildest dreams to speak in English with Tony Greig in an TV interview.ƒÆ'-¡ His spoken English is just as same as his batting and bowling, very robust, absorbing,ƒÆ'-¡ direct, unorthodox, but results are positive. The West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding during his early stages as a fast bowler was exactly the same when faced at the TV interviews.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ Lasith makes the entire team lively.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ Lasith is likeƒÆ'-¡ an International Food Court in a Shopping Mall. His Menus are Diverse.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ His deliveries are Superb!
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At these matches, in the open arena of the Stadium there were large crowds waving flags in two nearby separate Bays, right in front of the TV cameras.ƒÆ'-¡ ƒÆ'-¡ The crowds at these matches were largely dominated by Sri Lankans in Australia, but there were TWO Sri LankaƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ¢-¾'¢s in Australia.ƒÆ'-¡ i.e. Sinhala Australia and Tamil Australia.
The Sinhala Australians in Bay 1, were waving banners and flags supporting the Sri Lankan team, ƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ƒ…-Go Sri Lanka GoƒÆ''¢ƒ¢-¡'¬ etc.ƒÆ'-¡ Each time a Sri Lankan batsman scores runs or a bowler takes an Aussie wicket, these nationalist, patriotic Sri Lankans stand up and cheers Sri Lanka with immense happiness.
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During the first ODI, it has now been reported, that certain elements belonging to the LTTE sympathisersƒÆ'-¡ in MelbourneƒÆ'-¡ have distributed a leaflet outside the entrance gates against the spinner Ajantha Mendis. The leaflets were distributed by the Tamils and White Aussies jointly, to everyone arriving at the gates.ƒÆ'-¡ According to this leaflet, it is alleged that Ajantha Mendis during his career in the Sri Lankan Army has killed several Tamils during the period of War against Terrorism and thereforeƒÆ'-¡ he is a War Criminal and should not have been allowed entry into Australia. We hope that the Sri Lankan HighƒÆ'-¡ Commissioner in Australia will act immediately to investigate the matter and identify the culprits who are making these false accusations.
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(AP) -- A series of poor performances on the mound, particularly from the battered rotation, have played a big part in this dismal stretch by the Texas Rangers.
A day after being pounded by the worst team in baseball, the spiraling Rangers will turn to their 12th starter of the season Tuesday night as they try to avoid matching their longest losing streak against the Houston Astros.
Texas (38-51) has lost 16 of its last 19 and eight of nine while the starters have compiled an 8.16 ERA.
The Rangers got no help Monday from Miles Mikolas, who was hammered for nine runs and 12 hits in 3 1-3 innings of a 12-7 loss in the opener of this three-game Lone Star Series.
They've dropped three straight to the Astros (37-54) for the first time since 2004, one shy of their longest skid in the all-time series set from June 15-29, 2002.
Looking to help avoid matching that dubious mark will be Phil Irwin, who is making his team debut after being acquired off waivers from Pittsburgh on May 28. The right-hander is filling in for rookie Nick Martinez, who has a pulled muscle in his rib cage and may become the fourth Rangers starter on the disabled list.
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? about DCR for my 350 sbc
I was pokeing around a few sites and read a little about DCR which im not fully sure about. I know my 350 sbc, has 9.0:1 SCR, but i dont know what the DCR is, which is what i want to learn more about. It is to my understanding that its suppose to be in the range of 7.5 to 8.5 for a street motor. I dont know what mine is, and would like to know if anyone could tell me. The motor is a 350 sbc, with stock crank and rods, plus KB120 .030 hiper flattop pistons= .007cc valve reliefs, that are .010 in the hole. The heads are WP S/R torquers = 75cc, beehive springs, 2.02-1.60 valves, and 170cc intake runners. The head gaskets are GM Performance .028 composset to give me a .038 quench. The cam is a retro-roller from Comp = EX270HR = 495in-502ex = 218in-224ex = 110 LSA. When i dialed the cam in, i used a 9 keyway timing set which was set on the (0) mark. If my motor is not in the 7.5 to 8.5 range, what could i do to change it. Please Advise :thumbup:
According to the calculator I use you have a DCR of 7.51. You can read up on it here
Change the heads to a 64cc chamber volume.
for a 180cc port head. They are not like the newer improved Dart Platinum/Pro 1 series 200+cc ports. There is no improved 180cc "Platinum" IE head. Pick a better 180ish cc head. Every other popular 180cc head and many smaller 170ish port heads flow better than these heads in stock form.
The Intake port only flows 208cfm @28". Thats weak for a 180cc port SBC head.
Thats why you see them advertised for cheap(er).
Nothing against the Dart Cylinder Heads in general. It's just that these specific heads are a bit of a dissapointment.
It takes a good bit of hand porting to get them up to what the other competitive 180cc heads flow in "out of the box" form. Now the port is 180cc++ volume.
You might as well start with a stock or "S/R Torker" or "S/S" head and port them.
If it was my engine I would Fully port your WP S/R torker heads and mill them to 68-69cc chamber volume. They respond very well to this.
"and have them ported" Porting S/R cast iron heads is time consuming and labour cost prohibitive.
These heads, like most stock heads are not worth paying someone else to port them. Its a do it your self thing or else its just not cost effective.
Unless you do the porting yourself and pay some one just whats required to finish them up with required machine work, its cheaper and more cost effective to just buy a aftermarket head that flows the numbers you want.
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Titus Young's career in Detroit may be hanging by a thread but Lions coach Jim Schwartz isn't ready to bounce him.
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Young's latest flap came when he took to his Twitter account in a since deleted message and said he "won't play anymore" if he doesn't start getting the football more, according to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press.
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Do black girls like Hispanic men?
Interracial dating is more common, but I hardly see a black girl with a Hispanic guy. I myself am looking for one. I would like a girl's opinion about this. What's the deal? Do you ladies like us Hispanic guys? To make things clear, many hispanic guys take a second look at a cute black girl that walks by except that most of us think that they wouldn't give us the time of day. Come on black ladies give us some feedback.
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Of course everyone is different, but I like Hispanic men and many of my friends do too. Especially if he has an accent that just makes me weak lol! I personally rarely date outside of my race because I'm worried about what the guy thinks. I usually am like he might not like black girls so I never make a move or show interest. That is probably true for a lot of girls and that's why we just stick to our own, but yeah I would go out with a Hispanic guy.
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My current bf is Honduran and my previous bf was Cuban, so I'd say yeah. But not every black girl likes Hispanic men, just like not every Hispanic man likes black women. For me, personality matters more than race, so I'd say if you want to go after a black woman, more power to you lol. good luck! :D
I believe it takes a certain type of Latino. Black girls really love the manliness of "Real Black Men". And their dominance. The Reals ones, now. Not the Trendies you see on TV or the ones out here following. So it would take a Hispanic of that same nature. WHICH THERE ARE MANY, almost as many as blacks--maybe more. However, those are the ones restricted to just their women and hard for us to find. So there you have it.
I myself prefer Hispanic or Latino men over my own race. I don't know exactly why that is. I feel when I see a handsome Hispanic man I myself will look once and don't think twice about it because I feel they would never ve interested in me. Although, for the past 2years I've dated only Hispanic men.
Well, I've been with my hispanic boyfriend for 5 almost 6 years now, and I mean... Its been amazing. I'm a black girl and I thought that when we first started out that we wouldn't have been together for so long, but we have. And like 'inlovewithamexican' , my boyfriend grew up in a black community in New York, and I'm British so, we constantly say "what the hell" how did we end up in love. Personally, I am more attracted to his culture and his heritage, than any other race apart from my own.I believe it depends more upon the person you attract rather than how they you think they percieve you. Not all black girls will be attracted to Hispanic men, but some maybe. It just depends on the people involved and if you "click".
Ok so my current boyfriend is Mexican one of the most beautiful Mexican men to me. When I first met him I liked him but never was approached in a serious manor by any other Hispanic guys so I ended up letting him go as I got older and opened my mind I realized that there were Hispanic men that actually really liked black women so years later I ended up approaching him and putting all thoughts behind me and go after him and I'm as happy as I could ever be. But I to wonder why I don't see to many Hispanic men with black women I honestly believe Hispanic guys have to attract a black women with awareness to urban culture my boyfriend has grown up in a black environment so its easy to relate to each other and that strengthens our relationship.
I LOVE Hispanic guys. I grew up around a lot of Hispanics, mostly Dominicans and I'm just so comfortable around them. I was mistaken for one a lot growing up being "morena" so I just kind of fell in with them. I eat their food, I can dance a mean bachata, and their parents seem to like me a lot more when they find out that I'm not just "black" but Haitian because we're neighbors. I love it when they speak Spanish to me because it's just so sexy and I once dated a guy who called me his mami chula which I just adored. So when it comes to dating they're number one on my list of preferences.When it comes to bringing a guy home my family would much prefer if I brought a Hispanic boy as opposed to Black-American because we have much more in common culturally like with our music and food and how we're taught to treat our men.The problem is I'll get a lot of attention from them, they'll tell me I'm pretty for a black girl and express their attraction, but where I live they seem almost hesitant to try for more...almost as if they're afraid I won't be into them which is crazy since I'm always around them!
I'm black and I like hispanic guys and lots of my friends do. I guess it all depends on where you are. The places where I've been, there aren't many hispanic guys. Back in high school my friends and I used to watch telenovelas and we used to day dream about how it would be like to meet a Miguel or an Antonio.So, don't give up, you will find a pretty black girl.
I am jamaican (indian)and cuban, but considers myself black and hispanic guys are basically the only guys I love. But its weird because on the internet I always see that hispanic guys usually don't go for black girls. Are you just one in a million?
Comment for the jamaicubana: I wish I was the only one...more women for me...lol j/k..im sure there are lots of us who will like you. Especially in California...san bernardino county/riverside county/LA county


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CHICAGO- Four Chicago police officers accused of using their badges to intimidate their way into homes have been arrested and charged with felonies including armed violence, home invasion and kidnapping, officials announced Thursday.Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine declined to give more details about the accusations against the officers, saying that information would be released once the men make their initial court appearances Friday afternoon."I think you can see by the nature of the charges, home invasion and kidnapping charges, gives some sense of what we're talking about," Devine said.The officers are part of the department's Special Operations Section, which focuses on gang and drug crimes, Devine said. They are accused of using their police badges to intimidate people and gain access to their homes, he said.Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline said the officers will be suspended without pay and the department will move to fire them.Officials identified those charged as Chicago residents Jerome Finnigan, 43; Keith Herrera, 28; Thomas Sherry, 32; and Carl Suchocki, 32. If convicted, each officer could face up to 30 years in prison.Finnigan received an Award of Valor in 1999 for his work in special operations.All four officers had unlisted phone numbers and could not be reached.The police officers' union, the Fraternal Order of Police, did not immediately return a call seeking information on any attorneys that are representing the officers.John Gorman, a spokesman for the state attorney's office, said he would not know who the officers' attorneys are until the defendants' first court appearances Friday.


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Jessica Chastain could be about to step into the shoes of a silver screen icon, with The Wrap reporting that she is in discussions to play Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic. According to the report, Chastain is nearing a deal to star in Blonde, Andrew Dominik's adaptation of the Joyce Carole Oates biography of the same name. Naomi Watts had initially been attached to play Monroe, but recently departed the project, freeing things up for Chastain to step into the breach. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dominik claims this version of the Monroe story will come together as a "sprawling, emotional nightmare, fairy-tale type movie", which certainly sounds more interesting than your run of the mill biopic. With a Dominik-penned script already in place, production on Blonde is set to begin this summer, ahead of a planned release date in 2015.
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In "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her," the details and struggles of a marriage are portrayed from two perspectives in essentially two separate films. "Him" tracks that relationship through the eyes of Conor (James McAvoy), while "Her" makes Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) its focus. This week, the Toronto International Film Festival has been screening the movie, occasionally in reverse order, putting "Her" first. In this video, Ms. Chastain speaks about her role and the dual requirements of playing her character in one film, and Conor's impressions of her character in another.
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|Doc Rivers: 'Just like we wanted Ray to stay, I know they wanted Wes to stay'
|03.13.13 at 7:34 pm ET
The shockwaves from the Wes Welker signing in Denver extended not only beyond New England but beyond the NFL.
Just ask Doc Rivers. The Celtics head coach is a close friend of Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and was the guest of the Patriots coach on Dec. 10 when the Patriots beat the Texans on Monday night football at Gillette Stadium.
So, Rivers, who grew up a Bears fan, actually felt badly for Patriots fans and acknowledged as much before the Celtics hosted Toronto Wednesday night at TD Garden, just hours after Welker's seismic signing with the Broncos.
'Say it ain't so, Wes,' Rivers said in opening his pre-game press availability Wednesday night.
But the most interesting part of Rivers' reaction came later when asked if he ever talked about team building and keeping it together. Rivers compared Welker's exit to that of Ray Allen to the Miami Heat.
'We lost Ray, it feels like, the same way that they lost Wes,' Rivers said. 'We wanted him, we did everything we could, and somehow they go somewhere else.'
The similarity is striking. Allen left via free agency for Boston's chief rival and defending champion Miami Heat. Welker is now going to the Broncos and playing with Peyton Manning, New England's biggest rival behind the Ravens in the AFC.
'Just like we wanted Ray to stay, I know they wanted Wes to stay,' said Rivers. 'It just sometimes doesn't work out.'
For more, visit the Celtics and Patriots team pages at weei.com/celtics and weei.com/patriots.
|Doc Rivers: 'I wish I had given [Kevin Garnett] the night off, too'
|03.12.13 at 10:22 pm ET
All of the talk before Tuesday's game in Charlotte was the decision by Doc Rivers to give captain Paul Pierce his first night off of the season.
Midway through the disaster that was a 100-74 no-show loss to the Bobcats in North Carolina, Rivers was thinking he didn't go far enough. Kevin Garnett played 20 minutes, but struggled badly again, going 2-for-10 from the field.
"Yeah, definitely, otherwise he'd been part of that," Rivers said when asked if he thought he did the right thing in giving Pierce the night off. "What I was thinking was I wish I had given Kevin the night off, too, in the middle of the game. That would've been terrific because then we could've had two guys that got some rest."
As for Garnett, who is 8-for-29 in losses to the Thunder and Bobcats, Rivers says it's a matter of getting him better looks.
"We've got to get him a better rhythm," said Rivers, who refuted speculation that Garnett was tired or injured. "He's been in a [bad] way now for a while now and that's more on us. We have to get him the right shots and we're not do a very good job of that."
Rivers said he could sense early that his team had the wrong approach with Pierce getting the night off.
"I just thought we approached the game with the wrong mentality," Rivers said. "I thought we were really cool tonight and they were really hard. And then I thought everyone thought they were going to take up for Paul's points instead of coming into the game with the right mentality. You grind games out, you move the ball, you defend."
The Celtics clearly had no defensive answer for Gerald Henderson, who torched them for a career-high 35 points, including 21 in the first half.
"You could see it early on. Our guys thought we can trade baskets," Rivers said. "They score, we can score right back on them but we couldn't do that. We fouled a lot. We shot 50 percent in the first half and basically fouled every time down, it felt like. And Gerald Henderson looked at whoever was guarding him and said, 'I'm better than you tonight,' and proved that."
Even though his team was outscored 51-28 in the second half, Rivers didn't want to read too much into the second loss to coach Mike Dunlap and his Bobcats in a month.
"I just thought we laid an egg," Rivers said. "I thought it was a by-product of the first half, honestly. It just carried over. We never could get it started. They played really hard. I tell you, every time I watch them, you look at their record, you have to give Mike a lot of credit, especially with the young guys. They played so hard and we, honestly, just couldn't match how hard they played tonight for whatever reason. That's on me. That's disappointing that I couldn't get that out of our guys. But we clearly did not.
"They were so much more competitive than us the entire night. It felt like we had a band-aid on the dam in the first half and then it came off, and they just blew it open.
"It's one game. I'm not going to overdo it. Listen, we were awful tonight. Our spirit was awful, the way we played was awful but we also have to look at our team as a whole. We haven't had a lot of nights like that. I'm not happy with the way the game went but overall, I like our team."
For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|No show: Doc Rivers gives Paul Pierce night off as C's don't show against Bobcats
|03.12.13 at 9:22 pm ET
Gerald Henderson scored a career-high 35 points and Josh McRoberts dominated with 13 points and 10 rebounds as the lowly Charlotte Bobcats ended a 10-game losing streak with a 100-74 laugher over the Celtics Monday night at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.
Playing without captain Paul Pierce, given the night off by coach Doc Rivers, the Celtics came out and played one of their most uninspired games of the season. Jeff Green got the start for Pierce and led the Celtics with 14 points. Kevin Garnett had another ice-cold game, finishing just 2-for-10 from the field and finishing with five points. Garnett, who is 8-for-29 in losses to the Thunder and Bobcats, will head into Wednesday's game needing just five points to pass Jerry West for 15th place on the NBA all-time scoring list.
Similar to Garnett on Feb. 22 in Phoenix, Pierce – the team's leading scorer – was given the night off after playing in Boston's previous 62 games. Pierce, who has been battling a nerve problem in his neck, has also been averaging over six assists a game in the absence of Rajon Rondo.
Nowhere was the lack of effort more obvious than on the glass, where the Celtics were outrebounded by the Bobcats, 48-29.
The Bobcats (14-50) entered the game with a 10-game losing streak, including seven straight by an average score of 14 points. They also ended the Celtics' seven-game win streak on Feb. 11, making Boston one of just four teams to lose to the Bobcats twice this season. The Celtics will have their chance at revenge on Saturday night when they host Charlotte at TD Garden.
Henderson scored at will in the first half, as the son of the former Celtics guard scored 21 points and the Bobcats built a 49-46 lead. Henderson hit a jumper at the halftime buzzer to give Charlotte the three-point advantage.
The Celtics came out sluggishly in the third quarter and allowed Charlotte to open the second half on a 12-3 run. Garnett continued to be ice cold from the field, carrying over his performance from Sunday when he was 6-for-19 against the Thunder in Oklahoma City.
Down 20, 83-63, Rivers pulled the plug on Garnett with 10 minutes left. Shav Randolph and DJ White saw their first action in a Celtics uniform. The Celtics had a season-worst 27 field goals and scored just 28 points in the second half. Boston (34-29) was embarrassed 51-28 in the second half in losing their second straight game.
The Celtics return home to take on the Raptors on Wednesday night at TD Garden. For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Thunderstruck: Kevin Durant, Thunder have just enough to hold off Celtics
|03.10.13 at 3:39 pm ET
Kevin Durant scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds while former Boston College star Reggie Jackson hit a couple of key baskets off the bench as the Thunder ended the Celtics' five-game winning streak with a 91-79 win Sunday afternoon at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 20 points while Kevin Garnett added 10. But Garnett, who hit four of his first eight shots, missed 10 in a row at one point, including his first eight of the second half as Boston fell short in their bid to sweep the Thunder, who improved to 47-16. The biggest difference in the game came at the free throw line, as the Thunder hit 27-of-33 shots while Boston attempted just 20, making 14.
The Celtics (34-28) hung in with No. 2 seed in the West, overcoming a pair of 10-0 runs by the Thunder in the first half to trail by just five points at halftime, 50-45. After shooting 51 percent in the first half, the Celtics went ice cold in the second half, making just 10-of-40 shots in the second half. They finished shooting just 37.7 percent (29-of-77) from the field.
The Celtics turned up the defensive pressure in the third quarter, holding the Thunder to just 18 points and cutting Oklahoma City's lead to three, 68-65, heading into the fourth quarter.
But the Celtics went ice cold to start the fourth. Oklahoma City opened on a 10-2 run, highlighted by a jumper by Jackson as the shot clock expired. He changed his shot in mid-air and double-pumped to connect.
The Celtics missed 15 of their first 17 shots of the quarter while the Thunder built their biggest lead, 87-73, on a Durant baseline jumper with 3:13 left. But the Celtics responded with six straight points to get the lead down to eight with 2:20 left. After a defensive stop, the Celtics appeared to get the ball back with 1:44 left and a chance to cut the lead even more. But a replay overturned a ball out of bounds off Jason Terry and the Thunder got the ball back with a new shot clock.
The Celtics forced the Thunder to use all 24 seconds without allowing the Thunder to get a shot off. Jeff Green's 3-point attempted rimmed out with 59 seconds left. The Thunder got the next basket with 37.4 seconds remaining on a layup by Serge Ibaka to put Thunder up, 89-79, and ice the game.
The Celtics are off Monday before taking on the Bobcats in Charlotte on Tuesday night.
For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Front-running: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett lead the way as C's hold on against Hawks
|03.08.13 at 10:47 pm ET
Jason Terry connected on a straightaway 3-pointer with 35 seconds left in overtime to lead the Celtics to a thrilling 107-102 win over the Hawks Friday night at an electrified TD Garden. The game marked a franchise-record 11th overtime game for the Celtics this season, with Boston going 7-4 in those contests.
More importantly, it extended Boston's home-court winning streak to nine games and improved them to a season-best seven games over .500 at 34-27. They tied Atlanta (34-27) in the East. The Hawks entered the night as the No. 5 seed in the East.
Paul Pierce had 27 points while Kevin Garnett added 17 points to lead the Celtics, who won their ninth straight at home. Terry had 19 points to lead the Boston bench while Jeff Green added 12.
The Hawks, who burned the Celtics with 12 3-pointers in their double-overtime win in Atlanta on Jan. 25, came out blazing again Friday night. Devin Harris, Jeff Teague and Josh Smith connected from long range to account for Atlanta's first three field goals on the night.
Smith finished with a game-high 32 points while Al Horford had 22 points and 13 rebounds. The Hawks finished the night 9-of-27 from long range.
The Celtics built a 10-point lead in the second quarter, 41-31, as the Celtics rode the hot shooting of Pierce and Jason Terry. Pierce was 5-for-7 from the field in the first half, including a pair of threes in the first quarter while Terry scored all 10 of his first-half points in the second quarter. Terry finished with 14 off the bench.
But the Hawks made a 13-2 run to take a very brief 44-43 lead on an Anthony Tolliver 3-pointer. The Celtics responded by finishing the half on an 8-4 run to take a 52-47 lead to the locker room.
After the Hawks closed to within seven, 86-79, Jeff Green, who was slowed by the Hawks for the first three quarters, threw down a spectacular reverse dunk with 5:14 left to put Boston up, 88-79.
But the Hawks weren't done. Jeff Teague converted a three-point play when he was fouled on a layup and hit the free throw to help Atlanta close to within five, 90-85, with just over three minutes left. Smith then hit a layup with 2:54 left as the Hawks cut the Boston lead down to three, 90-87.
Pierce hit an 18-foot fadeaway jumper with 2:26 left to restore the lead to five before Smith came back to answer, making it 92-89 Celtics. After a Garnett missed jumper, Kyle Korver hit a three with 1:31 left to tie the game, 92-92. Pierce hit another fadeaway from 18 feet to put the Celtics up but Al Horford got free for a game-tying dunk with 55.2 seconds left.
The Hawks had a chance to take the lead with 31 seconds left but Smith committed a turnover with a bad pass and Garnett came up with the steal with 25 seconds left. Pierce ran an iso play at the top of the key before dishing to Garnett with five seconds left in regulation. Garnett missed his jumper, giving the Hawks a chance with 2.2 seconds left. Harris inbounded for the Hawks to Smith, who missed an open look over Brandon Bass.
The Hawks scored the first four points of overtime before the Celtics responded. Green's baseline three hit the front of the rim, bounced straight up in the air and rattled home with 2:34 left in overtime, putting Boston back up, 99-98. With the shot clock about to expire, Smith drained a three with 2:14 left to put Atlanta back up, 101-99. Pierce connected for a three with 1:37 left to put the Celtics back up, 102-101. Smith connected on 1-of-2 free throws with 1:20 left to tie the game, 102-102.
Terry drilled a straightaway three with 35 seconds left to put the Celtics up, 105-102. The Celtics are off Saturday before taking on Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. ET
For complete coverage from the Garden from Mike Petraglia and Ben Rohrbach, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|Doc Rivers pregame Friday: 'I can't even tell you what our exact record is'
|03.08.13 at 9:56 pm ET
Doc Rivers spoke at length before Friday's game at with the Atlanta Hawks about how teams are preparing for defensive star Avery Bradley, how much the Celtics have been playing their "Manwich" zone defense and whether or not he's paying attention to the Eastern conference standings.
Rivers said he also doesn't spend much time looking at the Eastern conference standings. The Celtics came in Friday at 33-27 and in seventh place in the Eastern conference. But it's quite the log-jam in the middle of the East. The Celtics were just a game behind the fifth-place Hawks and just 4 1/2 games behind the second-seeded Knicks. The Knicks, Pacers, Nets, Bulls, Hawks and Celtics are separated by just five games.
"I can't even tell you what our exact record is," said Rivers. "But I know it's close with everybody else's record. That's how much I look at it… I think later in the year, I may at [look at] times. Right now, we just have to keep getting better, so that's my focus."
Of course, the Hawks and Celtics have met in the past in the playoffs, with the Celtics coming out on top in 2008 and last year.
"I think both teams understand where we are both at — that all our games now are important," Rivers said. "I don't think there's another game this year that's not important. It's just that close with everybody. That's great. That's what I said I liked about the way we did the All-Star break — we've been doing that lately anyways — but I just like it when you come out of the break, it's a sprint. And everybody kinda is in it, and it's good."
As for teams gearing up for Bradley's defense, Rivers said he can sense it more and more now coming into games.
"You know it's coming," Rivers said. "I'm sure they're warned by it. Some guys do pretty well and some guys don't. It'd be no fun."
Why aren't there more players like Bradley in the NBA?
"Because they don't have the ability," Rivers said. "You have to have great instincts, great speed. It takes a lot of things. You can't just [say] I'm going to be a great defender because if it were just that, it would be more [players playing great defense].
"It is a lot [of desire] but you just have to have great everything, great feel, great feet, great instincts, great strength. It takes a lot."
Speaking of defense, Rivers gave great insight to his use of the zone defense, schemed in part by assistant Mike Longabardi.
"It's been good. We just keep running it. We don't do it for long periods. We have in the last couple [games]. A lot of that has been situational – Kevin was in foul trouble or JET was struggling defending so were trying to hide him in some ways but a lot of times a team scores five times in a row, throw a zone on them twice and then get back man just to get them out of rhythm."
Meanwhile, Rivers said it was a "bummer" that his son Austin Rivers suffered a broken right hand and is likely done for the year with the New Orleans Hornets.
For more, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
|The true brilliance of Doc Rivers: 'It's great when you win on execution'
|03.06.13 at 11:09 pm ET
Everyone is going to point to the back-pick play drawn up by Doc Rivers, with a huge assist to offensive coach Armond Hill, as the latest example of what makes Rivers one of the truly best coaches in the NBA.
And they should.
But his real brilliance comes in how he's prepared Jeff Green for the game-winning moment all season. Kevin Garnett fired a bullet pass to Green under the basket after Paul Pierce set Green free on a perfect back-pick. Green makes the adjustment under the basket, puts the game-winner off glass for an 83-81 road win over the second-seeded Pacers.
'It was executed great," Rivers said. "We got it down to the last second. Either Kevin was going to try and hit Jeff or [hit Paul Pierce]. The whole play was [made] by Paul Pierce's back pick. He was terrific. He set a nice back pick. They [Pacers] got a little mixed and then Jeff had to make a tough shot. They doubled Kevin so the pass was a little bit off-mark and Jeff had to adjust but it's great when you win on execution.
'I told our players I had drawn up another play. Armond Hill walked over, and he rarely does it, and he says, 'Listen, the play you drew up in the first half worked so let's run it again.' So I switched to the play that he wanted me to run and it was great. It worked out perfect."
Funny thing, earlier in the season, Rivers probably would've gone with his first instincts for a pick-and-roll but decided to go with Hill's recommendation.
'It was going to be a pick-and-roll, actually a pick-and-roll with Jeff and Kevin because we like that combination because Jeff is at the '4' with his speed can always get a shot off," Rivers said.
Green has been brought along at a pace all season that varied between breakneck and breakdown. Rivers struggled all season to find that comfort range for Green to excel so that he could put Green in the position he was Wednesday night on the road – a tired team that needed young legs to make up a 14-point deficit in the second half against a red-hot, No. 2 seed in the East.
Thursday night was not one of Green's best games but it was one of his best moments. Eleven points in 34 minutes. He was just 5-of-14 from the field. Still, Rivers and Hill believed in Green enough to draw up the game-winning play to go to him. It was why Pierce was grinning ear-to-ear coming out of the timeout. Read the rest of this entry »
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