Saturday, January 21, 2006

An update on the killing in my Neighborhood....




So all the details are out there now. My neighbor's name is Adrial White and he is in the Racine County Jail awaiting charges of homicide and attempted homicide.

I was having a discussion with some of my staff earlie tonight and I told one of my servers that I feel what Mr. White did was within his rights...weather Wisconsin thinks so or not. These "slime bags" were infringing upon his "personal space" and for that they paid the price. Well one of them paid the ultimate price and the others got a damm good scrare.

I would have done the same thing had I a gun.....so I am probably glad I do not because I really do not want my friends to have to visit me in the pokey even if it would only be for a short time....which I am hoping will happen for Mr. White.

I am sure this is going to get some national attention soon....so you can say....you heard it hear first. On "John's Crazy World".

The update from the Racine Journal Times and comments that were posted by different people. Mine is in there somewhere with "John" as the author.

Read on...
http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=3679

And the latest on this interesting story can be found in my hometown "Newspaper's" Online Edition.

http://www.journaltimes.com/

On the front page of the online edtion are also links to courtroom video and other stories and blog comments about what is happening.....

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And so I thought some good cherry stuff is in order also.
Here is an intersting story I came across the other day...

Anyone know anyone with one of the following last names?

(O')Neill, (O')Gallagher, (O')Boyle, (O')Doherty, O'Donnell, Connor, Cannon, Bradley, O'Reilly, Flynn, (Mc)Kee, Campbell, Devlin, Donnelly, Egan, Gormley, Hynes, McCaul, McGovern, McLoughlin, McManus, McMenamin, Molloy, O'Kane, O'Rourke and Quinn.

Read on below......

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Medieval Irish warlord boasts three million descendants
18 January 2006
NewScientist.com news service
AFP and NewScientist.com staff

Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to a new genetic study.
It suggests that the 5th-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen, say researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Niall established a dynasty of powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries.

In a study of the Y chromosome - which is only passed down through the male line - scientists found a hotspot in northwest Ireland where 21.5% carry Niall’s genetic fingerprint, says Brian McEvoy, one of the team at Trinity. This was the main powerbase of the Ui Neills, which literally translated means "descendants of Niall".
McEvoy says the Y chromosome appeared to trace back to one person.
"There are certain surnames that seem to have come from Ui Neill. We studied if there was any association between those surnames and the genetic profile. It is his (Niall's) family."
Enduring dynasty

The study says that Niall "resided at the cusp of mythology and history but our results do seem to confirm the existence of a single early medieval progenitor to the most powerful and enduring Irish dynasty".
The results also lend support to surviving genealogical and oral traditions of Gaelic Ireland and are a "powerful illustration of the potential link between prolificacy and power".
The study says the chromosome has also been found in 16.7% of men in western and central Scotland and has turned up in multiple North American population samples, including in 2% of European-American New Yorkers.
"Given historically high rates of Irish emigration to North America and other parts of the world, it seems likely that the number of descendants worldwide runs to perhaps two to three million males," the study says.
Modern surnames

It compares the result with similar research that suggested that Mongol emperor Genghis Khan has 16 million descendants after conquering most of Asia in the 13th century.

Though medieval Ireland was Christian, divorce was allowed, people married earlier and concubinage was practised. Illegitimate sons were claimed and their rights protected by law.
"As in other polygynous societies, the siring of offspring was related to power and prestige." The study points out that one of the O'Neill dynasty chieftains who died in 1423 had 18 sons with 10 different women and counted 59 grandsons in the male line.

Niall of the Nine Hostages, who became high king of Ireland, got his name from using the taking of hostages as a strategy for subjugating his opponent chieftains. He is known in folklore as a raider of the British and French coasts. Supposedly slain in the English Channel or in Scotland, his descendants were the most powerful rulers of Ireland until the 11th century.

Modern surnames tracing their ancestry to Niall include (O')Neill, (O')Gallagher, (O')Boyle, (O')Doherty, O'Donnell, Connor, Cannon, Bradley, O'Reilly, Flynn, (Mc)Kee, Campbell, Devlin, Donnelly, Egan, Gormley, Hynes, McCaul, McGovern, McLoughlin, McManus, McMenamin, Molloy, O'Kane, O'Rourke and Quinn.

Journal reference: American Journal of Human Genetics (February issue)
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