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Many observers will note that at some point in time or another, they witnessed (if not perpetrators themselves) internet inquiries around the origins of Maghrebi populations, whom as indigenous Africans (let's face it; they are not endemic to any other region outside of Africa), are notable not only for having elements among them who are relative "outliers" in terms of epidermal pigmentation, but also for their own original distinctive language family, properly called Tamazight—otherwise inconsiderately known in English lingo as "Berber". These populations have wittingly or unwittingly been subjects of racism, in the sense that their "African-ness" have been questioned primarily because of appearance of those populations among them with "light skin", "depigmented skin" or "white skin'—the terms change depending on who's speaking. If for example, they were unanimously dark-skinned like the remainder of African populations, it is highly doubtful that "western" researchers would even consider tacitly passing them off as some sort of lost-Europeans (or extensions of Europeans) in Africa, notwithstanding any genetic similarity to the patterns seen today of Maghrebi populations.
They have as such, become the subject of all sorts of speculation and dubious science, from claims that they are descendants of the so-called "Mechtoids" of the Epi-Paleolithic, descendants of European "Cro-Magnons", descendants of Vandals, "hybridized" descendants of some African element that met up with European females on the north coast of Africa, underwent some "jungle fever situation" and created the "Berbers" out of that, descendants of Arabian peninsula "Arabs", to unconfirmed "connections" such as that of descent from the people that the ancient Egyptians referred to as "Tamahou". To cut through all that noise, we will undertake the most objective scrutiny of Maghrebi gene pool, with the aid of a study that just came out, titled "Human Alu insertion polymorphisms in North African populations", by Cherni et al. (2011), and the recall of another study, which had already been discussed on this site, under the heading of "Population Relationships in the Mediterranean Revealed by Autosomal Genetic Data (Alu and Alu/STR Compound Systems)", by Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2010).
The discussion will open with a quote from Fadhlaoui-Zid et al., in a study that just came out, because it expresses a concern that has come up in previous studies, about the astonishing lack of insight into a complete picture of Maghrebi gene pool, considering that the Maghreb is one of the most frequently sampled regions of Africa by 'western' research teams:
"However, the lack of genetic information of certain geographical areas and the focus of some studies in parts of the North African landscape have limited the global view of the genetic pool of North African populations." - Fadhlaoui-Zid et al. (2011), Mitochondrial DNA Structure in North Africa Reveals a Genetic Discontinuity in the Nile Valley.
On cue here, in terms of traditionally restricted and highly selective sampling choices of "western" researchers in coastal Northern African landscape, which has been pointed out on this site on occasions. Limitations of such choices have found expression in such studies focusing on western African Imazighen and/or Arabized populations, like say, the Cherni et al. 2005 finding in the work "Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa", wherein a coastal north-based Tamazight-speaking ethnic group "unexpectedly" displayed a "sub-Saharan" component that was substantially more extensive than its neighboring coastal Arabized counterpart, or that of Pereira et al. (2010) in the work "Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel", wherein the "sub-Saharan" Kels Tamasheq of the Malian area departed from previous DNA reports (see Rando et al (1998), and/or Claudio Ottoni et al. (2009) for example) when samples turned up with extensive so-called "Eurasian" component, respectively.
Aside from selective geographic sampling choices, "western" DNA research teams are on record for making wide-reaching claims about Maghrebi populations being "more related to Europeans than Africans [mainly "sub-Saharan" Africans]", despite repeated demonstrations of "asymmetrical" uniparental gene pool patterns of said populations. Recurring DNA reports about lopsided "Eurasian" constitution of Maghrebi mtDNA or maternal gene pool, have undoubtedly supplied a platform for said researchers to make such claims. On the other hand, consistent DNA reports of a lopsidedly predominant "African" component, on the paternal side, have generally been overlooked. It is any wonder how any population characterized by such asymmetrical genetic pattern can be simplistically adjudged as being more related to peoples of a different continent (Europe) than those of its actual geographic origin (Africa).
It is a common practice of "western" researchers to analyze Maghrebi—or coastal Northern African in general—populations against fairly geographically-representative or comprehensive sampling of Europe and/or from the so-called "Near East", but against only either fairly scattered [i.e. geographically] small samples or single-locality sampling of the so-called "sub-Saharan" region. Western Africa has generally been afflicted by such sampling choices than any other location. As such, DNA reports portray abrupt changes in patterns across populations in the Western hemisphere of the African continent.
To give an example of the aforementioned skewed sampling choices, consider this from Cherni et al. (2011):
"The objective of this study is to compare the genetic structure of some North African populations with respect to the other populations of North Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, by using MDS andAMOVA methods."
Notice how Europe is extensively covered, for a relatively small landmass, comprising "Western, Eastern, and Central Europe". Whereas, Maghrebi populations are often compared with one or just a few scattered and highly geographically-fragmented sampling of so-called "sub-Saharan" Africa—this, for a far larger landmass and a continent reputed to sport the greatest human diversity anywhere. Even on a regional level, i.e. Western Africa—to repeat, one population is often picked from an area below the coastal-north Maghrebi territories and taken for granted as a "representative" population of the remainder of entire region, while "Afro-Asiatic"-speaking populations generally situated in between coastal north Maghrebi populations and those on the southern fringes of Western Africa, are passed off as "North Africans", rather than be counted along with their "Niger-Congo"-speaking and—on occasions—"Nilo-Saharan"-speaking neighbors, under the "sub-Saharan" banner.
"48 from Thala which is a town in western Tunisia located in the mountainous backbone of Tunisia. It is a municipality of 13,968 inhabitants. The traces of human presence in the region date back to the Paleolithic. Several cemeteries have been saying Capsian discoveries. Thala had a rich and eventful history, the human presence dating back at least 50,000 BC marked the Berber identity throughout the region. Its growth was partly caused by its industry based on pottery."
While Tamazight ("Berber") gene pool ultimately trace their origins in the Paleolithic, which pretty much goes for any human alive, it has been determined that the bulk of their gene pool is of Neolithic or post-Neolithic provenance. Some Paleolithic era recent common ancestry does surface in their gene pool, but these constitute a fairly modest component of said gene pool overall [see Arredi et al. (2004), for example], generally on the mitochondrial DNA or maternal side. This appears to be supported by osteological data on the paleontological record of the Maghreb, which does not link the well-known Paleolithic, Epi-Paleolithic or Pre-Neolithic era specimens to contemporary Amazigh ("Berber") populations [See, Brace et al. (2005) for example]. Thus, the authors' claim that human presence dating back "at least 50,000 BC", denoting "Berber identity" in coastal Northern Africa, has very little substance to stand on.
With one exception, consistent with patterns observed elsewhere, the authors note that they observed population structuring characterized by an African/Non-African divide, with the Maghrebi populations—representing the Africans—generally assuming their own position in the MDS plot, away from the European bunch:
"In agreement with previous studies on human diversity using polymorphic Alu insertions (Stoneking et al. 1997; Watkins et al. 2001; Garcia-Obregon et al. 2006) African and non-African populations clearly segregated along dimension I in the MDS representation. Thus, North African populations (North Morocco; West Morocco; Southeast Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; North, Centre-South Tunisia; Sahara; Sejnane; Takrouna; Libyan; Smar, Bousalem and Zarzis ) were plotted in the positive segment of the first axis (dimension I). The exception is for the Tunisian population of Thala which is isolated and seems to be the most genetically dissimilar. This North African population is characterized by having the highest insertion frequencies for B56, ACE, PV92, APO-A1, D1 and F13B (table 1)...
Study populations (Libya, Smar, Zarzis and Bou Salem) are closest to North African populations whereas Thala is isolated and is closest to Western European populations."
"On the other hand, the European populations are spread along dimension II: Western and Central European populations (Andalusia; Basque Country; Catalonia; Valencia;Canaries; France ; Swiss; Germany and Genova) are concentrated in the negative segment of dimension II, whereas Eastern European populations (the Aromuns of Albania; Albania; Greek Cypriots; Turk Cypriots) are situated in the positive segment of dimension II. For Tunisian populations, the two Berber communities Sejnane and Takrouna are separated from North African populations and are closest to the Syrians and some Central European or Mediterranean populations (Germany and Genova) as already described by Frigi et al. 2010a."
These observations attest to a definite pattern that can be assigned to coastal North Maghreb in general, which lends the Maghrebi gene pool a genetic peculiarity in its own right, that separates it from those of Europe. Such structuring belies notions which simply lump coastal North Africans with Europe and portray them as "mere extensions" of Europeans, rather than reflect the noticeably complex genesis of said Northern Africans; the authors themselves acknowledge complexity...
"The different positions of North African populations suggest that the North African gene pool is hybrid in nature, most probably because of a relatively high rate of mixture with other populations that have occupied the Mediterranean area over different periods of history. It indicates also the complex history of human settlement in NW Africa."
...which is a far cry from the often-heard one-sided assigning of genetic-relationship with Europeans, while ignoring other important genealogical sources that make part of the complex mosaic of Maghrebi genealogy.
"The important finding of this study is the proximity of Libya to North African populations. Regarding Tunisian populations, we remark that Bou Salem and Smar have affinities to North-African populations. Zarzis which is relatively isolated is also closer to these populations. The closeness between Libya and some Tunisian populations indicates the gene flow between Tunisia and Libya across the Sahara."
But that:
"The position of the population of Thala is worthy of attention. It's isolated and separated from North African populations but is closer to Western European populations. This finding reflects a high Eurasian genetic component for some North African populations and confirms the heterogeneity of North-African populations."
Indeed, recurring reports of high "Eurasian genetic component", as noted above, are reflective of just snapshots of the complex coastal Northern Maghreb gene pool; other sections of this gene pool tell a different story. However, from this point on, the authors tread into the problem that has been the ongoing subject of this entry. They are guilty of the "North Africans more related to Europeans [than "sub-Saharan" Africans just below them]" line, despite having noted the African vs. non-African structuring through the MDS plots, involving the Maghrebi and European samples, having acknowledged the lopsided African paternal component, of "sub-Saharan African provenance", with essentially negligible to no European component, and having just acknowledged that reports of "Eurasian component" in Maghrebi gene pool provide just snapshots of a rather complex gene pool...
"The sub-Saharan origin of North African populations have been proposed on the basis of results indicating local evolution of Y chromosome and mtDNA African haplogroups (Ennafaa et al. 2009; Frigi et al. 2010). The much later transaharan trade in enslaved persons no doubt played a role in genetic contributions, but the egress from a dessicating Sahara with subsequent population formations would explain some of the "sub-Saharan" variation be it from western or eastern Africa. However, from our results, the North African populations appear more related to European than to sub-Saharan populations. The "Eurasian" component seems to have come in over a longer period of time (Keita, 2010). A small amount of gene flow per generation into a population/geographical region can drastically change its original gene frequencies in only a few thousand years as noted by Cavalli Sforza (1991)."
This again speaks to, at least in part, what these researchers choose to assign to "sub-Saharan" banner and what they choose not to. Moreover, what many of these researchers are reluctant to point out, is that a good part of the "relationship" they see between Maghrebi samples and European counterparts, is the legacy of gene flow from the Maghrebi gene pool into the European counterpart; whereas, many of said researchers prefer to talk about gene flow scenarios from the European end into the Maghrebi counterpart. Again, this can be picked up in earlier reports obtained from using autosomal Alu indel markers, although involving different sets of Alu markers from those utilized by Cherni et al. (2011); the results are still consistent:
|Multidimensional scaling plot (stress 0.036) applied to the Reynolds' genetic distance matrix based on 18 autosomal Alu markers.
The same phenomenon plays itself out in the plotting of three Alu/STR combinations, in terms of the Maghrebi samples forming their own cluster away from not only the other implicated African samples, but importantly, from the European samples that are most geographically closest to the Maghreb, outside of Africa:
|Fig. 3. Multidimensional scaling plot (stress 0.049) applied to the Reynolds' genetic distance matrix based on three Alu/STR compound systems.
These data come from Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2009) [Population Relationships in the Mediterranean Revealed by Autosomal Genetic Data (Alu and Alu/STR Compound Systems)], and an in-depth discussion of that study can be accessed here: link
Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2009) point to persistent genetic exchange from across both sides of the Mediterranean, from times of antiquity to recent, culminating in the distribution of what they call elements of "sub-Saharan gene flow" on the northern Mediterranean end (aka southern Europe). However, in terms of signs of Maghrebi gene flow into the "northern Mediterranean" (southern Europe), specific examples of Alu markers had been named, along with their flanking tandem repeats.
The derived alleles of CD4 110 and DM 107 for instance, serve as imprints of Maghrebi ancestry among southern European samples, by way of not only their heavy concentration in the "southern Mediterranean", even more prominently so in the Maghreb, but also in the pattern of diversity elicited by Gonzalez-Perez et al, involving the derived CD4 and DM loci in general. The authors noted that there was an observable trend in the reduction of variation associated with the CD4 locus for example, with the least variation in southern Europe and the highest in the lone "sub-Saharan" sample of Ivory Coast:
"The most obvious pattern of haplotype variation is observed in the CD4 system. The ancestral CD4(+) chromosomes show a decreasing pattern of copy number variation from sub-Saharans to Southern and Northern Mediterraneans. Among these latter populations, the 85(+) and 110(+) haplotypes are the most frequent (Supporting Information Table 2). The derived CD4 Alu(-) chromosomes present a lower variation than the ancestral Alu(+) chromosomes, which is statistically significant for Northern Mediterraneans (P < 0.01) and Southern Mediterraneans (P < 0.05), but non-significant for the sub-Saharan sample. This reduction trend is considerable in Northern Mediterranean samples (gene diversity: 0.174 for derived chromosomes vs. 0.554 for ancestral ones), moderate in Southern Mediterraneans (0.458 vs. 0.705), and less marked in sub-Saharans (0.721 vs. 0.778)."
On the DM front:
"In the DM system, ancestral Alu(+) chromosomes show a predominance of 77-bp allele in Mediterranean groups (frequencies > 28%). A majority (>24%) of the derived Alu(-) chromosomes are carriers of the 98-bp allele in sub-Saharan and Southern Mediterraneans, suggesting that the DM Alu deletion probably occurred on a 98-bp variant chromosome (Brook et al., 1992). In Northern Mediterraneans, the most frequent DM(-) variants corresponded to 98- and 101-bp alleles (15.3 and 15.5%, respectively) (see Supporting Information Table 4)."
Taking a quick look at the distribution map involving the aforementioned alleles of the two aforementioned loci, we have as follows:
|Fig. 4. Frequency distribution maps of haplotypes CD4 110(-) (A) and DM 107(-) (B).
Careful inspection shows Maghrebi genetic penetration into Europe, and particularly more extensive in southern European territories around the Mediterranean sea. Gonzalez-Perez et al. allude to the real possibility of this gene flow:
"the distributions of frequencies for the Mediterranean haplotypes CD4 110(-) and DM 107(-) (Fig. 4A,B) are suggestive of gene flow processes across this geographical region."
"The highest frequencies of CD4 110(-) and DM 107(-) have been found in the High Atlas region (7 and 5.5%, respectively) of Morocco, reaching polymorphic frequencies in all the North African samples [barring the Mozabites for the CD4 110(-) combination]. They have also been found in the Iberian Peninsula, scattered along the northern Mediterranean shore to Greece and Turkey, and on the main islands of the western Mediterranean (Majorca, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily; Gonza´lez-Pe´rez et al., 2007). The CD4 110(-) haplotype has also been reported in West Saharans and Mauritanians (Flores et al., 2000) and on five of the seven Canary Islands (Flores et al., 2001), as well as in Adygei from the Northern Caucasus (Tishkoff et al., 1996).
Assuming from their frequency distribution that the place of origin of these particular haplotypes is located in the westernmost extreme of North Africa (Fig. 4A,B), their current ample distribution along both shores of the Mediterranean most likely reflects the effect of gene flow across the region since ancient times, even though specific ages cannot be accurately estimated with our data."
As a result of genetic exchanges between the "Southern Mediterranean" (African) and the "Northern Mediterranean" (European), both the Maghrebi AND southern European populations positioned between the more northward European and the lone sample from sub-Saharan Africa, the Ivory Coast sample. That notwithstanding, the Maghrebi samples maintained their distance even from the southern European populations, nearest to them, of all of Europe.
It seems that these observations had not been lost on Cherni et al. (2011) either, as they proceeded to acknowledge as follows, with respect to the alleged European genetic contribution:
"This genetic flow from Europe seems have happened since Neolithic period. Despite the fact that Neolithic expansion had the same effect in Northern Africa as in Europe, the Straits of Gibraltar acted as a barrier between the two continents, limiting gene flow between North-western Africa and Western Europe through the Iberian Peninsula (Comas et al. 2000; Garcia-Obregon et al. 2006; Varela et al. 2008; Frigi et al. 2010). This justifies the fact that the majority of North African populations appear in the MDS analysis as a separate group from European populations."
So-called "Mediterranean" samples from both sides of the Mediterranean sea, i.e Africa and Europe, in the aforementioned maps both assume intermediate positions, but especially the Maghrebi samples (Gonzalez-Perez et al.'s "Southern Mediterranean")—i.e. separate from the "Mediterranean" European samples (Gonzalez-Perez et al.'s "Northern Mediterranean"). Part of the reason the Maghrebi samples form their own clusters in an intermediate position between the African samples on the extreme positions of the plots and the European samples on the other extremes, is the noticeable higher prevalence of markers shared with the "sub-Saharan" sample in them than in the "Northern Mediterranean" (European) samples. This is reflected in the 18 Alu marker data of Gonzalez-Perez et al., and the FXIIIB locus, one of the three loci considered for flanking STR analysis.
Take the FXIIIB locus, for instance...
"FXIIIB system exhibits general high diversity both in (-) and (+) chromosomes (0.565–0.697 vs. 0.575–0.692, as shown in Supporting Information Table 3). Ancestral Alu(-) chromosomes show relatively high frequencies of low copy number alleles (172 and 176) in sub-Saharan population, values higher than 15% of the 172, 184, and 188 variants in Southern Mediterraneans, and a clear predominance of the 188-bp allele (0.319) in Northern Mediterraneans (Supporting Information Table 3). In the derived FXIIIB Alu(+) chromosomes, the most frequent allele is the 180-bp variant (>20%) in Mediterraneans, whereas in sub-Saharans the most frequent allele is the 184-bp variant."
The Maghrebi ("Southern Mediterranean") samples apparently shared visible frequencies of otherwise a "low" copy number (and hence, relative distribution) allele such as that of the 172 allele, and another marker fairly distributed in the African samples, the 184 allele; these markers were not implicated in the European samples on the other hand.
At the same time, the 188 allele was only implicated for the Maghrebi and southern European samples, and not the lone "sub-Saharan" sample from Ivory Coast. With this kind of sharing of alleles with both southern European and "sub-Saharan" samples, it is easy to see why the Maghrebi sample almost always assume an intermediate position between the European samples and the African ones. The higher concentration of "sub-Saharan" prevalent markers in the Maghrebi samples characteristically sets them apart from the European counterparts...
As a matter of precision, the so-called signal of "sub-Saharan" African gene flow actually ranged between 17% and 37% for the "remaining coastal northern African samples" (outside the Siwa) in the authors' Alu/STR data rather than the "16% and 35%" mentioned above. Gonzalez-Perez et al. characterized the seeming dis-concordance between "sub-Saharan contribution" estimates from the 18 Alu markers and those of the 3 Alu/STR combinations as "a wide range probably related with the different mutational nature of the markers analyzed and with the effect of repeated homoplasic mutation in STRs".
While any of these things can certainly a driving factor, particularly the "different mutational nature of the markers", the relatively more visible "sub-Saharan" connection in the Alu/STR combinations than in the 18 Alu collection is not all that surprising, because the Alu/STR compounds were more likely to preserve the inherited alleles due to the effect of linkage disequilibrium, as another driving factor for the uneven information about possible "sub-Saharan" contributions across the 18 Alu markers and the Alu/STR combinations. Gonzalez-Perez et al. eventually go onto acknowledge the role of linkage disequilibrium on the polymorphic nature of the loci they studied, and indeed, it is more than likely an important contributing factor behind the better preservation of "sub-Saharan" contribution in the Alu/STR loci than the individual 18 Alu loci.
Whereas, the so-called signal of "sub-Saharan" African gene flow in the southern European samples,...
Again, as a matter of precision, the reported "values around 6%" is in reference to the estimated "overall" sub-Saharan contribution in the southern European samples, which must not be reflective of an average, as they don't quite match up with the individual Alu/STR data; but for the individual southern European Alu/STR data, the "sub-Saharan" contribution actually ranged from 7% to 15%, still not as extensive as that of the Maghrebi counterpart.
In the Maghrebi sample, the estimated "overall" contribution for the Alu, STR and Alu/STR combinations, i.e. all samples combined, was reportedly:
...apparently higher than those estimated for the southern European counterpart. The authors do admit that they omitted the STR data, as follows:
There must have been a typing error in there, as it does not make sense for them to omit STR data, if it were a matter of "admixture based on STRs" being "almost identical than those obtained from Alu/STR haplotypes", but it would make sense, if it was omitted because "admixture based on STRs are almost identical to those obtained from Alu/STR haplotypes".
Getting back to that matter of very real (with statistical significance, ruling out chance occurrence) genetic identity differences between the Maghreb and southern European samples, in that the former cannot be dismissed as being an extension of the latter, consider this revelation from Gonzalez-Perez et al.:
Whereas signals of "sub-Saharan" gene flow were estimated in the Maghrebi samples, the authors claim that they were not able to do the same in terms central or northwest European gene flow into southern European samples:
The possible reasons for this may be two-fold; it could speak to the fact that Europeans come from a constricted subset of OOA migrants—whom in turn are generally considered a subset of an ancestral 'eastern African" source, not to mention that they occupy a relatively smaller landmass, and hence, the inter-population differentiation across these markers have manifested modestly and not statistically clearcut; whereas differentiation in these markers between the Maghrebi samples and the "sub-Saharan" counterpart are more marked, as the case might be between any other two African populations, because African gene pool is far more diverse than the European counterpart. We've already seen examples of this trend in at least two out of three Alu/STR combination markers discussed by Gonzalez-Perez et al.
On the other hand, it could very well be, as the authors say, an artifact of the limited discriminatory power of their selected loci; or it could yet be the interplay of both just-mentioned reasons.
Though they used different Alu loci, the results of Cherni et al.'s (2011) analysis has the same effect, wherein the Maghrebi samples mainly keep to themselves, and clearly differentiate themselves from European samples. Cherni et al. do note at least one "outlier" in their Maghrebi bunch, in the form of the Thala sample, which they attribute to possible higher "Eurasian component" than in other samples...
This revelation again goes to show that the Maghrebi populations have a definite genetic profile of their own, such that any excesses from the outside alters the preexisting set up and causes the receiving segment of the Maghrebi gene pool to stand out from the rest. Of course, one can make the case that the Thala sample had received relatively higher external gene flow than the other Maghrebi samples, but Cherni et al. (2011), later on open up the possibility that:
It is as if Cherni et al. would like to think of "outliers" like the Thala sample, as a population that started out as some distinctive "hybrid" product of parental populations from two different landmasses from the very onset, in obvious contrast to the rest of Maghrebi populations which largely adhere to the general Maghrebi genetic profile, rather than the more obvious scenario, which would entail that the "oultiers" received more external genetic contribution at some point in time. It's not like the Maghrebi populations speak some pidgin language family that is a composite of African and "Eurasian" language, or some autochthonous tongue that also typically spoken outside of their African homeland; Arabic is only spoken due to acculturation, and even that has not replaced the original Tamazight dialects of the region.
The samples from Algeria, Sejnane, Takrouna and Zarzis, especially the Zarzis sample with its relatively lower heterozygosity, seemed to have received the least external gene flow of the Maghrebi bunch, including from surrounding regional populations; yet, these populations still managed to maintain close genetic distances with the remaining Maghrebi collection. Whereas, as plainly noted, the Thala and Libyan sample distinguished themselves as "high outliers", which Cherni et al. interestingly attribute to "genetic contributions inherent to their origin", as a more probable alternative reason than subsequent external gene flow, but it is worth recalling how Cherni et al. claim that the Thala sample, for example, assumes this extreme outlier position, which to recall from above, was attributed to a "high Eurasian" genetic contribution:
And then coupling the above, with this earlier mentioned bit:
None of these speak to a general North African social genesis that could have started out as a composite African-European "hybrid" population from the onset. An outlier population in this regard, should therefore be seen first and foremost as a very possible recipient of subsequent gene flow, before entertaining any other consideration. Interestingly enough, Cherni et al.go back to entertaining that very scenario:
They go onto explain how this genetic exchange very likely occurred, made apparent from Maghrebi diversity pattern:
The general coastal Maghrebi genetic pattern cannot primarily be attributed to subsequent regional homogenization through gene flow between coastal Maghrebi populations themselves, since the authors themselves claim that their results negate such a scenario [also see preceding notes about "low outlier" samples like that Zarzis], in that "different genetic structures of North African populations" indicate "weak gene flow between them due to high endogamy rates that also should be considered in patriarchal socioeconomic context".
Furthermore, Cherni et al. (2005) has shown that the African-European ancestry pattern, repeatedly mentioned across several studies published over time, does not neatly spread across all coastal Maghrebi populations; they found that their Kesra Tunisian sample produced a profile that was expected of the "Arabized" counterpart, sporting fairly substantial African maternal component, while their "Arabized" sample (the Zriba), produced the profile a priori expected of the Tamazight-speaking counterpart, characterized by a relatively modest "sub-Saharan" African component. The authors then, attributed this finding to insufficient sampling choices of previous research, and thereby resulting in the reconstruction of Maghrebi gene pool from just a snapshot of Maghrebi overall genetic diversity.
It is necessary to point out that when Cherni et al. (2011) elicit the "relationship of the Maghrebi samples with "sub-Saharan" Africans vs. the "relationship of the Maghrebi samples with Europeans", that they did not actually sample any so-called "sub-Saharan" population. On top of that, their study produced the same finding as that of earlier studies like that of Gonzalez-Perez, which was extensively looked at here as well; accordingly, the Maghrebi populations form their very own group, in between other African samples and European counterparts. The logical conclusion of this, is that the Maghrebi populations have a genetic profile of their own in its own right, and that they cannot be reduced to some "satellite Europeans" in Africa.
The coastal Maghrebi samples assume an intermediate position, as they should, because they have received gene flow from both directions, internally from Africa and across the Mediterranean sea from Iberia. This is a far cry from saying that they are lopsidedly related to one population (Europe) than another (Africa). Part of the reason 'western' research teams see the relationship between Maghrebi samples and those from right below them, in "sub-Saharan" Africa, versus that of "relationship between Maghrebi samples and Europeans" is due to their sampling procedures and clouded preconceived "balkanization" of Africa.
The "relationship between Maghrebi samples and "sub-Saharan" Africans" is almost always going to be misleading, because most 'western' research teams compare coastal Maghrebi samples with limited samples from "sub-Saharan" western Africa, while expunging certain groups from that very region and counting them as "North Africans" instead of counting them as part of the said "sub-Saharan" region. These populations usually involve nomadic Tamasheq groups from Mali and Niger, and "Afro-Asiatic"-speaking sedentary populations of Mauritania, while neighboring populations of those very same locations are included in the "sub-Saharan" block.
Other times, geographically-intermediate populations in between coastal Maghrebi populations and those well-below the Saharan desert in the western African general region are altogether excluded, giving an abrupt change within the region, instead of a clinal relationship. Indeed, Gonzalez-Perez et al. for example, made a passing note of incidences of CD4 110(-), which they touted as an example of "Mediterranean haplotypes", in geographically-intermdiate populations such as West Saharans and Mauritanians, who are positioned between coastal northwest populations and those well below the Saharan desert but were excluded in the Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2009) study. Such incidences go to show that continuity of genetic connection can be achieved, if comprehensive sampling of the Western African region were taken, and that said gene pools were all equally recognized as that of western Africa, rather than the region being "balkanized" into "North African"/"sub-Saharan" African dichotomy, wherein certain populations of territories otherwise traditionally called "sub-Saharan" by "westerners", are conveniently assigned to the "North African" block.
Furthermore, given the oft acknowledgment by these researchers that Maghrebi paternal gene pool is lopsidedly of "sub-Saharan" origin, it is bizarre that they do not generally consider their relationship with "sub-Saharan" eastern Africans, whereby the latter represents part of the "sub-Saharan" continuum. Even in rare occasions when Maghrebi samples are compared against "sub-Saharan" eastern African counterparts, the latter are often treated as part of "northeast" African block rather than "sub-Saharan" Africans. After all, it would make sense that some of the genetic components that coastal Maghrebi populations don't seemingly share with "sub-Saharan" western Africans, could well be part of their original "sub-Saharan" eastern African gene pool.
Also take note, that when authors speak of "Maghrebi relationship with Europeans", they don't specify that any reputed "close relationship" is essentially with only southern European samples; 'western' researchers tend speak of Maghrebi "close relationship" with Europeans, without specifying which Europeans this situation actually applies to, yet they generally take care to point out that only certain Africans, namely "sub-Saharan" Africans (usually limited selective western African samples), are being implicated in their estimation of "Maghrebi relationship with sub-Saharan Africans". As the plots (above) show, northwest and/or central European samples showed a relationship no more considerably closer than the lone "sub-Saharan" from Ivory Coast did to the Maghrebi samples. In fact, in some angles, the Ivory Coast sample was even more closer to Maghrebi cluster than certain European samples.
In the earlier posted 18 Alu marker MDS plot for example, along the vertical dimension, the lone "sub-Saharan" sample from Ivory Coast assumed much closer distances from the Maghrebi cluster than the German sample did, while just as close as the general southern European cluster did, if not even closer when compared to some southern European samples, like say the Pas Valley, from the Iberian peninsula. Along the horizontal dimension, both all the European samples and the lone "sub-Saharan" sample from the Ivory Coast assumed almost equidistant positions from the Maghrebi cluster.
Other segments seemingly absent in "sub-Saharan" western African sample(s), could well be relics of "sub-Saharan" eastern African ancestry that underwent micro-evolutionary polymorphic events within coastal Maghrebi populations themselves in isolation from the so-called "sub-Saharan" populations. Then factor that in with subsequent gene flow between Maghrebi populations and those from across the Mediterranean sea. This would allow Maghrebi genes to enter southern European gene pool and vice versa, giving a veneer of similarities to the populations exchanging genes. Other occasional similarities between the Maghrebi gene pool and their southern European counterparts could very well be rooted in their common "sub-Saharan" eastern African ancestry, which are generally tested against limited samples from "sub-Saharan" western Africa.
Such oversight of information will give misleading impressions of actual "sub-Saharan" African relationship with coastal Maghrebi populations, outside of uniparental markers. Then comes into equation, that observation just mentioned in the Cherni et al. piece above, about the African-European asymmetrical lineage among Maghrebi populations. Much of that asymmetrical ancestry very likely comes from institution of historic slavery enterprise involving mostly European females in the Maghreb. Of course, a lot of devout Eurocentrists balk at such a prospect, but it is a fairly reasonable explanation for the aforementioned asymmetric parental pattern, and importantly, it is backed by history.
The skeptic-wisdom is, after all, that European male contribution seems all but negligible in the Maghrebi gene pool, and yet, that the slave enterprise in the Maghreb would have included European males. For one, slave-male genetic exchange with any preexisting local maternal gene pool would have been strongly discouraged by slave-holders, as was the case with many locations that have put in place institutions of slavery, while the Maghrebi male population would have had a freer hand in exchanging genes with enslaved European females. Additionally, Maghrebi enthusiasm for European male slave market would have been relatively modest compared to that for the European female slave counterpart, since the Maghrebi would have then had firsthand access to preexisting slave trade with "western African" polities just geographically beneath them, where a labor pool of more physically-robust males could have been extracted than that from European counterparts.
In an ironic twist, devout Eurocentrists like to portray any so-called "sub-Saharan" African contribution in Maghrebi gene pool as "slave"-mediated, when in fact, it appears to have been the other way around: the asymmetric African male-to-European female ancestry speaks more to a European contribution that was mediated by and large through slavery than the case is for the "sub-Saharan" contribution in coastal Maghrebi gene pool, which Frigi et al. (2010) for example, determined to have been around since prehistoric times.
*As with other entries on this site, this entry is subject to modifications in response to new revelations in scientific research and/or additional information brought to the attention of the author of this entry.
—Fadhlaoui-Zid et al. (2011), Mitochondrial DNA Structure in North Africa Reveals a Genetic Discontinuity in the Nile Valley.
—Cherni et al. (2011), Human Alu insertion polymorphisms in North African populations.
—Pereira et al. (2010), Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel.
—Frigi et al. (2010), Ancient Local Evolution of African mtDNA Haplogroups in Tunisian Berber Populations.
—Gonzalez-Perez et al. (2009), Population Relationships in the Mediterranean Revealed by Autosomal Genetic Data (Alu and Alu/STR Compound Systems).
—Claudio et al. (2009), First Genetic Insight into Libyan Tuaregs: A Maternal Perspective.
—Cherni et al.(2005), Female gene pools of Berber and Arab neighboring communities in central Tunisia: microstructure of mtDNA variation in North Africa.
—Brace et al. (2005), The questionable contribution of the neolithic and the Bronze age to European Craniofacial form.
—Arredi et al. (2004), A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for Y-Chromosomal DNA Variation in North Africa.
—Rando et al. (1998), mtDNA analysis of Northwest African populations reveals genetic exchanges with European, Near Eastern and sub-Saharan populations.
*Personal notes, 2011.


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The Smile of GOD is Victory…
John Greenleaf Whittier, December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892.
Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.Now that we have entered 2016, one great aspiration and desire we should have is to walk in the victory given to all believers in Yeshua by Yeshua Himself. As we consider what Yeshua did for us as He laid down His life willingly as a sacrifice for our sins, we should also consider what the result of His action was. For you and for me, one overarching descriptive term applied to the result of the sacrifice of Yeshua, is victory.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!
His victory prevails on an eternal level and dare I say it, His victory should prevail in the here and now of our lives. And, it is the here and now that rightfully should be our emphasis.
How can we walk in His victory in this upcoming year?
Believing GOD and continuing in ongoing obedience to Him are base line aspects of walking in the victory in the here and now which Yeshua has given to us. These come forth from the inner attitude of our heart, the deepest place of connection to the LORD, deep within our spirit, and are empowered by HIS Spirit. As we yield to the promptings of His Spirit, we find ourselves in the realm of victory as GOD deems victory.
With this New Year before us, here are three things we can do which are intricately connected to victory and with conducting ourselves here and now in the victory Yeshua gave to us.
1. We can deal with all our personal relationships with a victorious attitude. This means, we are not to allow others to trample us under their feet, take advantage of us or lead us astray for their own misguided purposes. Rather, we are to clearly express within our relationships that we belong to the LORD and will not deviate from what is right in His sight. We also want to do all we can to maintain good husband/wife relations as well as parents/ children relationships. Within the body of believers we want to do all we can to build up the community through good relationships and solid, godly friendships.
2. We can be proactive (take the initiative) in service. We can participate more faithfully in the outreach, well-being and maintenance of our spiritual community. We can volunteer our time and efforts to help our spiritual community. We can give generously in an ongoing manner to the financial wellbeing of the community. Without across the board faithfulness at work within a community, the community becomes stagnant. Ministry efforts dry up. Volunteers can become worn out if others will not join in and volunteer. Without generosity within the community, the community efforts can be stymied. I am thankful and glad to say that at Rosh Pinah many participate in maintaining the community but there is always room for expanding our volunteer base and increasing our financial resources for the LORD's purpose. And we don't want to think such responsibilities only apply to others. They also apply to each member of the community.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 So, my dear brothers, stand firm and immovable, always doing the Lord's work as vigorously as you can, knowing that united with the Lord your efforts are not in vain.
3. We can recognize GOD wants to use us as His ambassadors. We can overcome our shyness, intimidation or even fear by telling others about Yeshua's love, mercy and forgiveness. We can also offer our personal testimony of GOD's work in our lives. Truthful testimonies are undeniable witnesses of GOD's mercy and extended grace. Once we recognize that we are His ambassadors bearing the seed of His word of salvation through the merit of Yeshua, we will all the more want to share the Good News every chance we can. Doing so is a great privilege which should not be taken lightly.
When Whittier expressed the idea that the smile of GOD upon an individual is a sure sign of victory, he seemed to be restating a certain truth of the Bible in a most charming way. I trust this year the LORD will smile upon you as you honor Him, for He has gotten you the victory and that victory applies to the here and now of your life.


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Unanswered: Strange problem
First of all, i am DBA and not app. developer, so please forgive me if i told something wrong
We have JAVA app on Websphere 5.0 who is accessing DB2 on z/os through DB2 CLIENT. DB2 client is on version 8.1.14. DB2 on z/OS is also v8.
Now, our app developer said to me that is "something wrong with db2 driver". He said that is missing method in SQLJ.zip. He said that "everything works fine with DB2 7.2". In short, he thinks that is "missing method" here.
Any help will be great
This is error code here:
0;ActionID=][CLIENT][ERROR[Execution of EJB transaction Name=PNZ.OST020 LogicName=null failed.
class hr.fina.framework.common.business.BusinessObjectEx ception: FRMTR930019E - Unexpected error while executing ejb transaction.
at hr.fina.framework.common.business.ejb.EjbBusinessO bjectRunner.run(EjbBusinessObjectRunner.java:95)
at hr.fina.pnz.os.transaction.os.OST020Bean.execute(O ST020Bean.java:63)
at hr.fina.pnz.os.transaction.os.EJSRemoteStatelessOS T020_dd90256a.execute(Unknown Source)
at hr.fina.pnz.os.transaction.os._OST020Remote_Stub.e xecute(_OST020Remote_Stub.java:275)
at hr.fina.pnz.os.transaction.os.OST020EjbCaller.call (OST020EjbCaller.java:45)
at hr.fina.framework.client.business.router.ejb.EjbRo uter.routeBusinessObject(EjbRouter.java:92)
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From this it's impossible to know what's going wrong.
Given your "developer"'s reaction though, he's almost certainly using some internal classes from an old driver.
This is his problem, internal driver classes should never be used if it can be avoided, or if there's a need to restricted to as few places as possible because they can change without notice.
He'll have to fix his shoddy (almost certainly) code to not rely on those classes.


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Awhile back I asked about items that are a wise investment for a small space, and several BTDT moms suggested the Pack n' Play. I started looking into this, and it seems perfect for our needs. I would like to buy one that can be used as a bassinet as soon as the baby comes home with us. My question is, which one is the best investment? I looked on Amazon and they seem to have three flavours...one looks like a mini crib that may not be good for newborns, one has a changing pad/bassinet station (one station that can be flipped to fill noth needs) that looks rather shallow to be used as a bassinet, but I really don't know for sure, and one with a removable bassinet/rocker and separate changing area. What do you recommend?
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With no snow in the Chicago land area, it's hard for me to think of Christmas as being a few days away! I went for a long walk yesterday at lunchtime to try to find some cheer. Here's what I found:
At Marina Towers, some of the boats are still in the water . . .
At the Lyric Opera, no snow I saw no signs of snow . . .
At the Wrigley Building the sun was shining . . .
At Trump Tower it smelled like money . . .
At the Merchandise Mart there was partial sun . . .
At the Chicago Sun-Times building it looked like a summer day!
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When the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup gets underway in Germany, Japanese technology will help fans enjoy the action on the pitch. The Allianz Arena, where the tournament's first game is scheduled to take place, is constructed from panels containing a fluoropolymer film called ETFE foil, which was developed and manufactured by Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. The panels form the stadium's walls and roof. A major advantage of Asahi Glass's foil is that it allows light to pass through it. This is crucial for the stadium's natural grass, which needs sunlight to grow. The other advantage is the foil's lightness and flexibility, making it easy to install in the smoothly curved panels.


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Cody Stanley Suspended for PEDs, but Did He Receive the Wrong Punishment?
Not sure if you guys have heard, but yet another Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) suspension has been dished out.
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Studies show that replacing a grain-based breakfast with eggs can help you eat fewer calories for the next 36 hours, and lose more weight and more body fat (4, 5).
If you can't eat eggs for some reason, then that's fine. Any source of quality protein for breakfast should do the trick.
Coffee has been unfairly demonized. Quality coffee is loaded with antioxidants, and can have numerous health benefits.
Studies show that the caffeine in coffee can boost metabolism by 3-11%, and increase fat burning by up to 10-29% (6, 7, 8).
Just make sure NOT to add a bunch of sugar or other high-calorie ingredients to it. That will completely negate any benefit you get from the coffee.
Like coffee, green tea also has many benefits, one of them being weight loss programs.
Green tea contains small amounts of caffeine, but it is also loaded with powerful antioxidants called catechins, which are also believed to work synergistically with the caffeine to enhance fat burning (9, 10).
Although the evidence is mixed, there are many studies showing that green tea (either as a beverage or a green tea extract supplement) can help you lose weight (11, 12).
Coconut oil is very healthy. It is high in special fats called medium chain triglycerides, which are metabolized differently than other fats.
These fats have been shown to boost metabolism by 120 calories per day, and also reduce your appetite so that you eat up to 256 fewer calories per day (13, 14).
Keep in mind that this is not about adding coconut oil on top of what you're already eating, it is about replacing some of your current cooking fats with coconut oil.
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The Taming of the Shrew Trailer (1976)
10 November 1976 Comedy, Romance 102 mins
San Francisco's prize-winning American Conservatory Theater's rowdy commedia dell'arte production incorporates slapstick, pratfall and earthy humor into William Shakespeare's comedy about the two unmarried daughters of a wealthy Italian merchant. While daughter Bianca is genteel and popular, daughter Kate is foul-tempered and strong-willed. No one dares to marry Kate, until Petruchio arrives in Padua and tries his hand at courtship.
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Map Havoc
You want madness? You've got madness. Havoc is a smaller map that will no doubt be a good place for quick firefights, although there are spots near the sides where snipers can easily set up shop and pick off a few targets. Taking place in a demolished operation base in the North African desert, this map has a fair amount of space to run around in, along with a few rock formations to hide behind, should things get a bit too hot for you.
The ends seem just as good for action as the center, so be sure to roam around if you're looking for enemy forces. Just watch for the higher-up areas, as they're bound to be "hot spots" for snipers to pick you off from. Use your defensive abilities (Thrust Jump, wall-running) to get around, and keep your weapon handy in case someone pops up.


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LUMBERTON — Local artist Joy McGugan is offering drawing classes at the new home of the Robeson County Arts Council beginning Wednesday.
Classes will be held each Wednesday through Nov. 16. A daytime class and an evening class will be offered. A time has not been scheduled for the daytime class. The evening class will be held at 6:30 p.m.
No experience is required for the step-by-step instruction. Each student will finish the class with a completed large, graphite portrait. Registration costs $150 for the nine weeks. Students need to bring a large sketch patch, erasers and 6B pencils.
McGugan taught visual art for 27 years, retiring from teaching at St. Pauls High School in 2015. An artist since fifth grade, she specializes in oil paintings and oil pastel drawings and enjoys teaching drawing. Her work has been shown at Southeastern Health Park and at the Carolina Civic Center.
For information or to reserve a seat, contact McGugan at 910-736-4686 or email@example.com. Look her up on Facebook at mcguganART.
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Adele: Following the Signs is the result of over 2 years of hard work from the people at Unosquare Labs. It is an extremely challenging 2.5D puzzle-platform strategy game with beautiful graphics, original art and music, and an interesting gameplay written by Unosquare. Special guest music composer coming soon!
Adele is not meant to be a zombie killing game. Players have to strategically maneuver objects to block their path, run away or trap zombies into falling in order to escape them. The game is set in different environments which impact your interaction with the zombies, being in a factory is going to be different than in the countryside, or underground.


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Even if a married couple is considering a divorce, they may not be ready to legally end their union immediately. In this case, they may simply decide to separate. In New Jersey, there is no legal status designating a couple as being formally separated. However, a couple deciding to separate may encounter a number of different legal issues, including issues relating to children and property held in common. For this reason, it may be necessary to pursue the services of a qualified legal professional to help resolve these issues.
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Robert Browning
A Face - Poem by Robert Browning
If one could have that little head of hers
Painted upon a background of pure gold,
Such as the Tuscan's early art prefers!
No shade encroaching on the matchless mould
Of those two lips, which should be opening soft
In the pure profile; not as when she laughs,
For that spoils all: but rather as if aloft
Yon hyacinth, she loves so, leaned its staff's
Burden of honey-colored buds to kiss
And capture 'twixt the lips apart for this.
Then her little neck, three fingers might surround,
How it should waver on the pale gold ground
Up to the fruit-shaped, perfect chin it lifts!
I know, Correggio loves to mass, in rifts
Of heaven, his angel faces, orb on orb
Breaking its outline, burning shades absorb:
But these are only massed there, I should think,
Waiting to see some wonder momently
Grow out, stand full, fade slow against the sky
(That's the pale ground you'd see this sweet face by),
All heaven, meanwhile, condensed into one eye
Which fears to lose the wonder, should it wink.
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Highly sensible poem
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A very good poem with perfection of imagination of asthetic face of angel like beauty with so much words to say about the complexion.Minute points on the creative side is also praiseworthy and it is very good to read aloud and also understand with once own understanding. I respect the poet very much. (Report) Reply
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Do Not Pass Go Paperback
by Tim Moore
A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board.
In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free.
In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his reputation as a player who always paid that -10 fine rather than take a Chance, fearlessly tackles the real thing and along the way tells the story of a game and the city that frames it.
Sampling the rags and the riches he stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one in the Old Kent Road, enjoys quality time with Dr Crippen in Pentonville Prison and even winds up at the wrong end of the Water Works pipe. And, solving all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail and many other you certainly wouldn't, Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.
The stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, Do Not Pass Go is also an epic and lovingly researched history of London's wayward progress in the 66 years since the launch of the world's most popular board game
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date: 02/10/2003
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Sometimes I feel that many travel writers look at Bill Bryson and think that maybe if they could sell half as many as he does, they'd be damn happy with their lot. So why not try and do a similar take? Enter Tim Moore. To be fair, Moore does have some original ideas for his tours and this is a cracker, touring the London of the Monopoly Board. Why didn't I think of that?! It allows him to dig up some off-beat facts, but I couldn't help but think that I could too with a broadband connection and enough time to spare.
Review by LittleRach
An interesting travel around the places on the Monopoly board. Lots of interesting facts, some less interesting ones. I quite enjoyed it, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I knew London better. I've never lived in London, and have only really visited for work, so my knowledge is pretty limited. If I could have pictured more of the places he visited, I would probably have found it more interesting.
Review by MiaCulpa
Growing up in Australia my knowledge of London was all-but restricted to the Monopoly board. Thus, I knew that Mayfair and Park Lane were out of my price range if I ever moved to London, I learnt how to pronounce "Pall Mall", I knew to avoid Old Kent Road and above all I wondered what on earth "The Angel, Islingdon" was (spoiler alert; it's a building that currently hosts a pub and bank).If "Don't Pass Go" was around in the late seventies/early eighties it would have saved a lot of wondering on my behalf. Moore does a bang-up job filling in our knowledge of each of the Monopoly, giving context as to why a particular street or location was chosen and supplying the odd dab of self-depreciating humour to keep it rolling.Of course, when I finally got to London a few decades after first encountering it on the Monopoly board, it didn't seem to have the same magic that the board game instilled in me. That's not Moore's fault though.
Review by GeoffSC
This book outlines the history of the Monopoly board game takes you on a fascinating tour of London via the Monopoly board locations. It is creatively written in a lighthearted manner. It delves into interesting history behind all the M board squares. A bit crude in places, but a good entertaining read. I always thought the London based board was the original, how wrong you can be.
Review by nandadevi
Moore has a great affection for Monopoly, but very little for many of the gaucheries of modern London, or for the pomposity of Governments or Industry (including it might be added Hasbro, the modern licensee of Monopoly). What could be a dry account is enlivened not just by Moore's disinclination to suppress saying what he feels at any point in time (and a lot of it is about local UK politics and culture), but also by his boldness at inserting himself into situations that wiser cooler heads might have avoided. But having a quest does that to a person, gives them courage - and a reason - to plod on and tackle the many obstacles on his path to discovering not just the history, but also the character, of all of the locations mirrored in the UK version of the Monopoly Game board. It's painless history, and a fillip for anyone with a Monopoly obsession, but mostly it's just a well written, easy reading, guide to parts of London that you might add to your itinary if ever you're passing that way.
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A credit market in early stages of economic development
Even if the relatively rich and the poor are initially caught in a poverty trap, the relatively rich can escape poverty by receiving payments from the poor. Further accumulation of wealth by the rich allows the poor to escape poverty.
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Walkfair Early Origins
Norfolk where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when held lands.
Walkfair Spelling Variations
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Spelling variations in names were a common occurrence before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago. In the Middle Ages, even the literate spelled their names differently as the English language incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other European languages. Many variations of the name Walkfair have been found, including Walkfare, Walkesare, Walksare, Walkshop, Walkshar, Walkshore, Walkey and many more.
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The Great Migration
Families began migrating abroad in enormous numbers because of the political and religious discontent in England. Often faced with persecution and starvation in England, the possibilities of the New World attracted many English people. Although the ocean trips took many lives, those who did get to North America were instrumental in building the necessary groundwork for what would become for new powerful nations. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America bore the name Walkfair, or a variant listed above: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Immigrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, Virginia, the Carolinas, and the islands. Richard Walkey was one of the earliest settlers, going to Connecticut in 1644. Andrew Walkey went to New England in 1720.
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People + Policy
= Positive Change for the Public Good
There are a handful of things that make me want to curse like my mother and last week two of them collided.
Let me explain.
Clear Channel, the largest owner of full-power AM and FM radio stations, refused to carry ads for a women's health-care clinic in Kansas. They called the ads "indecent" and "divisive."
One look at the ads makes it clear they are neither.
Here's one ad:
At South Wind Women's Center, our physicians are committed to providing quality reproductive health care in Wichita. Each physician is board-certified in family medicine or obstetrics in gynecology. Between them, they have over 50 years of experience and dedication, ensuring women are able to ensure the care they need when they need it.
And the other:
South Wind Women's Center was founded to reestablish full access to reproductive health care. The center provides high-quality medical care and trusts women to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. South Wind Women's Center: entrusting women with their own medical decision making.
What is divisive is Clear Channel's move to exploit its control over our airwaves and prevent women from hearing about reproductive health services.
Broadcasters like Clear Channel make billions in profits while using the public airwaves for free. In return, they're supposed to provide programming that fulfills community needs. But Clear Channel is picking and choosing what communities will hear according to its own selective set of "indecency" standards.
Clear Channel's empire, and its ability to control a significant portion of what we hear on the radio, grew by leaps and bounds after the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which relaxed media ownership regulations and made it possible for Clear Channel to buy up radio stations across the country.
A wave of media mergers is currently sweeping the country and if we don't speak up we will continue to see and hear only what a tiny handful of corporations thinks is appropriate. That's divisive.
Today we're standing with our allies at UltraViolet and Women Action & the Media to push back against Clear Channel for blocking women's access to essential health-care information.
Tell Clear Channel to put South Wind Women's Center's ads back on the air.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With the film direction of Darko Nikolic, Katarina Cas heads the cast of this feature film originally of Serbia, with original script in Serbian (see subtitles), whose premiere was scheduled for 2016. You can watch Macori iz slivnika online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Serbian at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2016.
Rating: 5 by 11 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Katarina Cas, Sergej Trifunovic, Nina Senicar, Nebojsa Glogovac, Marko Mandic and Ljubomir Bandovic.
Drama, Thriller.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Darko Nikolic.
The original audio of Macori iz slivnika has dialogues in or Serbian, it was produced in Serbia.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2016.
Screenplay written by Pedja Jerotijevic.
Mirko Pivcevic.
Slobodan Jocic and Marko Jocic.
This film was produced and / or financed by Viktorija Film.
Composed by Sky Wikluh.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Macori iz slivnika has a duration of 100 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Serbian in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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