samedi 31 janvier 2009

Para la gente de Ecuador

illegal immigrants from ecuador
En este día en los Estados Unidos, hay muchas cosas que están contra el inmigrante. La culpa no es por racismo o por el mal de el americano ser egoísta de sus oportunidades. La culpa queda en el inmigrante que vienen a un país con los intenciones de la sabiduría y aprovechar por el amor de dinero. Los Estados Unidos tiene las puertas abiertas para todos que respecte el pías y las leyes. Pero cuando vienen a este Pías y no viene invitado o con permiso pero se cruzan las fronteras o se vienen con visas de turismo y se quedan mas que el tiempo permitido ya no son inmigrantes pero criminales. Yo soy Americano nacido En los ESTADOS Unidos y mis Padres vinieron de Latín América y se hicieron cuidándonos respectando todos las leyes. Los que viene sin permiso o se quedan sin permiso y piense que tiene un derecho cuando están en Los Estados Unidos y están ilegales están muy confundido. Ningún Pías quiere gente que no respectan las leyes. Eso no es racismo eso es pretejiendo el bien de la nación. Gente como las hijas de Acilides Maldonado y Marta Arboleda quien Marta es una Maestra de Universidad y esta casado con Políticos Como Rafael Pinto Coto de Quevedo Ecuador. Sus Hijas Que están en Los Estados Unidos ilegales y están para deportación de nuevo a Ecuador hace ver a los ciudadano de Ecuador como gente baja. Avionetas que harán cual quiere cosa como casarse por la Ciudadanía. Especialmente Sashi Yira Maldonado Arboleda quien aborto un niño en Quevedo y si vino a Los Estados Unidos y Aborto otro niño cuando el Padre Americano no si quiso casarse con ella. Muchas mujeres vienen y harán cual quiere cosa para estar en Los Estados Unidos. Esto sol hace dar que el Ecuador y especialmente las Ecuatorianas se ven sin móralas, y se Prostituían para estar en Los Estados Unidos. Mujeres que sen creen que son de las clase alta de Ecuador hijos de Políticos y te gente con dinero solo cían como jineteras en este pías Buscando y caballo que le dan la Ciudadanía. Esto solo has que los Estados Unidos tenga una peor pensamiento de Ecuador.
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Thats really happened in corona, NYC

I am a white man, you are apparently an Ecuadorian female (some body told me the area is Ecuadorian community). Sunday, January 31, around 2:00 pm, there was like a party in a house located in 43 ave area, u were in front of the door, the door was open, i was passing in front of the gate, u kept staring at me, u smiled, u licked ure lips.There was a short fat male with a long nose next to u, i smiled back, i took a dollar bill from my pocket, i flashed it, u run to the gate! You smiled, and said "heiy!!" ...., u were too loud, i guess all corona heard u, u were wearing a small pants u turned around to show of ure big, fat, huge, deformed ass ....The short man came trough the door,stare at me, licked his lips, and said ..."khey welcome gringo !" he has a long nose, he looked creepy, like an white native Indian, i ignored him, and talked to u ..."i need a house keeper" ...! u responded, "oh , si si senior, me good house keeper !", the fat short man asked .."how much, how much??" i didnt answer, he scared me, he was so sneaky, i guess hes ure brother ....i walked away, u were still smiling, u yelled at me, "hey, senior! me good house keeper", and u scratched ure ass, again, and licked ure lips ....

I am looking for just a house keeper, not a hooker, if u still willing to clean my house without ure lil piece of shit, fat brother interfering let me know .

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Savages............

Although there were many headhunting cultures throughout the world, only one group was known for ancient practice of shrinking human heads (tsantsa). They were called the Jivaro clan who lived deep in the Ecuadorian, and neighboring Peruvian Amazon. The Jivaros are one of the most primitive societies that have caught the attention of the Western world because of their unusual customs.



Another reason to believe Ecuadorians, are savages.
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Ecuador's chicas...

Girls in the streets of Quito work as ambulatory vendors on in markets selling vegetables, fruit or candy.Like their brothers, girls spend an average of 10 hours each day on the street. In addition to their street work, however, girls have an additional six hours of work at home caring for their younger siblings and doing housework. Girls are also more vulnerable than their male siblings in terms of sexual abuse, incest, teenage pregnancy, physical abuse, a higher probability of being forced to work, discrimination at school and in the work place, and extremely low self-esteem. Centro de la Niña Trabajadora (known by its initials in Spanish as CENIT) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. CENIT uses educational and vocational programs to help working girls and their families overcome grinding poverty and improve the quality of their lives. The result is generations of working women with the education and skills to form healthy families that contribute to a more just and productive society.
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vendredi 30 janvier 2009

The Two Prostitutes Of Tena


Tena is the whitewater capital of Ecuador. Before I bent over some Class IV rapids on the Jondachi River with my monstrous rowing stroke, I studied the townspeople by watching them from a park bench in the central square.Within half an hour, two random girls sat on my bench even though all the others were empty. The alpha of the pair sat next to me and kept “accidentally” touching my leg and whipping her hair back and forth in dramatic motions. The giveaway was that it was 1PM and they were dressed like they were going to the club.

A bourgeoisie Frenchman I met told me he doesn’t get involved with locals from countries that are not equal to his own (i.e. Westernized); otherwise the girls are just seeing dollar signs and there is a good chance of getting drugged and / or robbed. I do agree with him, and it’s not a big deal in Ecuador because the girls here are extremely ugly, but it would be a shame if you travel through Brazil or Argentina and resign yourself to only sleeping with other tourists.
Roosh Travel Sex Rule: Do not pursue a girl who approaches you first. It’s okay if she gives you eye contact and a small smile to encourage you, but if she walks up to you and starts flirting immediately, things are not what they seem. It’s a rule I follow at home too because if a girl is really into me from the start then chances are I can do a lot better.

Even though 98% of the girls in Ecuador are unattractive by Western standards, I am getting a kick out of the attention, mostly in the form of very extended eye contact and “Where you from?” line of questioning. I think it’s my beard and height because Ecuadorian men are unable to grow lush facial hair and I’m taller than all of them, past, present, and future.
In an unrelated request, can someone please order me 1,000 extra wide and extra long condoms and ship them to me via express airmail? I’ve been constructing my own condoms using cow intestines from the butcher shop, which is actually the living room of someone’s house.

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Afro-Ecuadorians

They were brought to Ecuador to work on the sugar plantations. Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found in the northwest coastal region of Ecuador.

Afro-Ecuadorian community is the one that came from the black African slaves during the era of Spanish Colonist. When Spain won the war on Ecuador, at that time they discovered this community known as Afro- Ecuadorian. The blend of real Ecuadorian that is the people of Latin America and the Africans resulted into the existence of an Afro-Ecuadorian community.
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jeudi 29 janvier 2009

Burned alive for being a thief in Ecuador

A suspected thief screams as villagers set fire to his legs after stripping him and tying him to a cross in Pelileo Grande, Ecuador, 75 miles south of Quito.

Mario Quishpe had been caught stealing and locals took summary justice. A priest, along with other villagers,set him on fire after they nailed him to a cross .
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U.N. Says Ecuador at "Appropriate Moment" to Act Against HIV/AIDS

Washington -- It is the right time for Ecuador to act to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS within its borders, says an official with the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF).

In an October 20 statement, UNICEF's Paul Martin said that although the incidence of AIDS in Ecuador -- a country of about 13 million people -- is low compared to sub-Saharan Africa, the disease is spreading at an "alarming rate," especially among women and children. Because of this, Martin said, "preventive action and education are needed so that the evolving history" of HIV/AIDS, "which has resulted in the current dramatic situation in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa, does not repeat itself" in Ecuador.

Martin said HIV/AIDS is affecting women and children in Ecuador at rates higher than ever before. Since 1984, there have been 5,630 officially recorded cases of HIV/AIDS in Ecuador, with 1,546 cases resulting in deaths, Martin said. In 1994, men had much higher rates of HIV/AIDS infection than women, with approximately seven men infected for every one infected woman, but in 2004 that ratio had been reduced to 2-to-1.

Of the 1800 cases of HIV/AIDS reported in Ecuador in 2003, more than 80 percent of the cases were in Ecuador's coastal region, with the majority of those cases in Guayas Province, whose capital is Guayaquil. The country's Sierra highlands region had 17 percent of the cases reported nationally, Martin said.

Overall in Latin America, Martin said, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the adult population of the region stands between 1.5 percent and 1.7 percent, as compared to sub-Saharan Africa's rate of 7.5 percent to 8.5 percent, the highest rate in the world.

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The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador:

The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's last savages." "Trekking Through History" is the first description of Huaorani society and culture according to modern standards of ethnographic writing. Through her comprehensive study of their extraordinary tradition of trekking, Laura Rival shows that the Huaorani cannot be seen merely as anachronistic survivors of the Spanish Conquest. Her critical reappraisal of the notions of agricultural regression and cultural devolution challenges the universal application of the thesis that marginal tribes of the Amazon Basin represent devolved populations who have lost their knowledge of agriculture. Far from being an evolutionary event, trekking expresses cultural creativity and political agency. Through her detailed comparative discussion of native Amazonian representations of history and the environment, Rival illustrates the unique way the Huaorani have socialized nature by choosing to depend on resources created in the past -- highlighting the unique contribution anthropology makes to the study of environmental history.

These non-contacted groups, whatever their provenance and trajectory, all live like refugees in their own lands, by choice. They no longer prepare clearings, but plant root crops and maize under the canopy to avoid being spotted by helicopters. They cook late at night, so that the smoke rising from their hearths does not give them away. They are on the move at all times, endlessly searching for quieter hunting spots, and better hiding places. According to my Huaorani friends, they hate the noise of machines and engines, and choose to flee to the same places where the monkeys and the peccaries flee.

These self-isolated groups have suffered a great deal because of the loss of their territories, the invasion of oil companies, and the continuous encroachment of poachers, loggers, drug traffickers, tourist companies, and other adventurers. They also fear the 'pacified', ‘Christian’ Huaorani, who dream to ‘civilize’ them. They too have become enemy outsiders. These fears are not unfounded. More than once, I heard young Huaorani men boast that they will attempt to pacify the Tagaeri. “Ingesting rice and sugar like us”, they told me, “the Tagaeri will become wholly tame and gentle, like toddlers”. Some added that this would greatly please ‘the company’ (the term they use to describe the vast and complex consortium of companies, subsidiaries, contractors, and subcontractors that work in partnership with PetroEcuador), which, in return, will behave generously towards them, by offering them all the cash and all the goods they ask for.

Christian Huaorani slaughter savage Huaorani. In May 2003, around 15 non-contacted Indians identified by the press as Taromenani were speared to death by nine Huaorani ‘warriors’. The army recovered twelve bodies (nine women and three children) from the raided longhouse. A spokesperson for the army declared that: “the patrol will not interfere with the customs or ancestral sanctioning procedures of the Huaorani, the armed forces are very respectful in this sense.” Everyone in Ecuador became an expert in ancestral customary law or Huaorani culture, and avidly debated the issue. Why they had done this, what it meant for the nation, what should be done about such fratricide, and so forth. The ‘Ecuadorian Network for Legal Anthropology’ was formed to analyse the Tagaeri-Taromenani-Huaorani conflict from a legal perspective, and propose a reform of the Ecuadorian judiciary system in a way that would accommodate different legal systems, including Huaorani revenge killing.

Thats explain the huge wave of illegal immigrants from Ecuador ,dues mostly to Oil interest from usa:If all the people who boarded boats in Ecuador last year and sailed toward the United States gathered in one spot, they could fill the University of Connecticut’s 40,000-seat Rentschler Field — and then some.

And that doesn’t count the tens of thousands who tried coming to America by land and by air.

Danbury officials have noticed for years the unusual influx of people from the South American nation that has 13 million people in a land area slightly smaller than Nevada.

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Ecuador #1 in Illegal Immigration

The number of Ecuadorians illegally entering the US by sea has surpassed the number of Cuban boat people or illegal Hatian immigrants, according to a recent study by the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador. The source of the problem is that the Ecuadorian government is not funding any resources to stop this wave of emigration, as they do not give it priority in their budget and military planning.

The Ecuadorian immigrants have thus become protagonists of the largest wave of maritime ilegal immigration in modern history, according to the Embassy.

Since the year 2000, between 234,000 and 350,000 Ecuadorians have set sail for Guatamala in illegal embarcations, from where they are smuggled across the Mexican border and into the US by "coyotesm" according to the study by Terry S. Wichert, Naval Attache, and Leiutenant Coronel Michael Trevett.

This surprising figure is twice the previous record for Cuban boat people (in 1980 124.776 people left Cuba) and is ten times greater than the numbers of Haitianos (25.177, between1993 y 1994) attempting to enter by sea.

It has been largely a silent migration, according to the authors, as the international media have given little or no attention to this migratory
crisis, while for the Ecuadorian press it has become a routine story.

The mass Ecuadorian emigration began in 1999, shortly after a banking
crisis caused millions to lose their life savings, and continues to grow.
"We know that between 4 and 7 ships leave every week, with between 100 and 150 people on each one," according to the embassy.

From the old fishing boats that set out each week from dozens of Ecuadorian beaches, it is common to find not only Ecuadorians, but Peruvians, Albanians, Chinese, Iraquis, Koreans and even Irishmen. The route of illegal immigration from Ecuador is "so succesful that, frankly, it has gained international fame. Around the world it is said that if you want to sneak into the United States, go to Ecuador and get on a ship,"according to the report.

The Embassy report adds that some of the ships that carry illegals also
transport drugs, and that the profits from the sales of these drugs reach
the Colombian guerillas. Sometimes the ships return from Central America
carrying arms and munitions.

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Ecuador #1 in Illegal Immigration




The number of Ecuadorians illegally entering the US by sea has surpassed the number of Cuban boat people or illegal Hatian immigrants, according to a recent study by the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.  The source of the problem is that the Ecuadorian government is not funding any resources to stop this wave of emigration, as they do not give it priority in their budget and military planning.

The Ecuadorian immigrants have thus become protagonists of the largest wave of maritime ilegal immigration in modern history, according to the Embassy.


Since the year 2000, between 234,000 and 350,000 Ecuadorians have set sail for Guatamala in illegal embarcations, from where they are smuggled across the Mexican border and into the US by "coyotesm" according to the study by Terry S. Wichert, Naval Attache, and Leiutenant Coronel Michael Trevett.


This surprising figure is twice the previous record for Cuban boat people (in 1980 124.776 people left Cuba) and is ten times greater than the numbers of Haitianos (25.177, between1993 y 1994) attempting to enter by sea.


It has been largely a silent migration, according to the authors, as the international media have given little or no attention to this migratory crisis, while for the Ecuadorian press it has become a routine story.


The mass Ecuadorian emigration began in 1999, shortly after a banking crisis caused millions to lose their life savings, and continues to grow. "We know that between 4 and 7 ships leave every week, with between 100 and 150 people on each one," according to the embassy.


From the old fishing boats that set out each week from dozens of Ecuadorian beaches, it is common to find not only Ecuadorians, but Peruvians, Albanians, Chinese, Iraquis, Koreans and even Irishmen. The route of illegal immigration from Ecuador is "so succesful that, frankly, it has gained international fame. Around the world it is said that if you want to sneak into the United States, go to Ecuador and get on a ship," according to the report.


The Embassy report adds that some of the ships that carry illegals also
transport drugs, and that the profits from the sales of these drugs reach the Colombian guerillas. Sometimes the ships return from Central America carrying arms and munitions.

Ecuador: The Huaorani People of the Amazonia, self-isolation and forced contact

Huaorani culture and society is shaped by their will to self-isolation. Very little is known about their past, except that they have for centuries constituted nomadic and autarkic enclaves fiercely refusing contact, trade and exchange with their powerful neighbours, be they indigenous or white-mestizo colonists. Ever since their tragic encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, the Huaorani have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's last savages". Despite the "civilizing" efforts of missionaries, they have largely retained their distinctive way of understanding the world. Relations with outsiders, seen as murderous enemies, are fraught with hostility and fear; there seems to be little space for communication and exchange, other than complete avoidance or the threat to 'spear-kill'.

For the last sixty years, Huaorani history has unfolded in response to oil development, although it is only recently (in 1994) that oil has been commercially extracted from their land. In 1969, a decade after having "pacified" the Huaorani, the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) received government authorisation to create a protection zone around its mission. The 'Protectorate' (66,570 hectares, or 169,088 acres) represented one tenth of the traditional territory. By the early 1980s, five-sixth of the population had been called to live in the Protectorate. On April 1990, the Huaorani were granted the largest indigenous territory in Ecuador (679,130 hectares, or 1,098,000 acres). It is contiguous with the Yasuní National Park (982,300 hectares, or 2,495,000 acres), and includes the former Protectorate. The population (around 1,700) is now distributed in thirty or so semi-permanent settlements organised around a primary school, except for one, or possibly two, small groups that cling to autarky, and hide in the remote forested areas of the Pastaza province, along the international border separating Peru from Ecuador.

The non-contacted Huaorani, known as the Tagaeri and the Taromenani, comprise between thirty and eighty people. The Tagaeri used to live in the Tiputini region, which became the heart of the southern oil fields in the early 1980s. The Tagaeri decided to separate permanently from the main Huaorani population when the SIL mission caused a major population displacement by actively encouraging the eastern groups to come and live under SIL authority within the Protectorate. Relatives of the Tagaeri who now live in the Protectorate say that the latter’s decision was partly due to intra-tribal feuding (they did not want to live in the territory of their enemies), and partly to their straight refusal to integrate; they did not wish to receive "the benefits" of civilisation. In other words, it was their political decision to live in isolation.

During the next thirty years, many raiding and killing episodes marred the interactions between Tagaeri and outsiders. Famous for their fierceness, the Tagaeri have ‘spear killed’ oil workers, missionaries, and others whom they saw as intruders. Most famously, they killed an Archbishop from the Capuchin Mission and a Colombian nun from the Laurita mission in July 1987. And their people have been wounded and killed as well. In the early 1990s, various informants told me that military helicopters had thrown rockets on Tagaeri longhouses, and that Tagaeri dwellings had been burnt down by company security guards. There was once a plan to exterminate them all. And then the hope, especially amongst missionaries, that they would finally surrender and accept 'pacification'. Oil exploration in the block where the Archbishop and the nun had been found dead was suspended, and the government promised to grant protection to the non-contacted Huaorani who kept fleeing away from the blocks operated by PetroCanada, Texaco, PetroBras, Shell, and Elf Aquitaine. The implicit policy, though, was to push them further to the south, in the hope that they would cross the border with Peru, and cease to be a national problem.

The number of Ecuadorians illegally entering the US by sea has surpassed the number of Cuban boat people or illegal Haitian immigrants, according to a recent study by the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador. The source of the problem is that the Ecuadorian government is not funding any resources to stop this wave of emigration, as they do not give it priority in their budget and military planning.

The Ecuadorian immigrants have thus become protagonists of the largest wave of maritime illegal immigration in modern history, according to the Embassy.

"THEY ARE INFESTING the hole EST coast of America. After their economy collapsed in 2000 and they adopted the US dollars so they can sell their ass easily to sex tourist,they discovered a new land other than their shit hole Mestizos Republic AKA Ecuador. They discovered that they can illegally immigrate to U.S.A. and its 10,000 times better than ekhuador ...They are infesting all the NYC , NJ, LI large part of CT...They live just like RATS with their inferiority complex as the largest wave of Mestizos immigration in modern history always struggling with the deep scare of inferiority that they have vis a vis of Colombians and all other ethnic.. groups in general.....But anyway it's better than the amazon jungle where they come from, plus they can make more than 5 dollars a day (average income in Ecuador among middle and upper class, 80% of Ecuador population lives under poverty line).


They feel dangerously down as an savage unknown Ethnic group descendent from amazon Indians, Mexicans and Colombians look at them as the shame of Hispanics in U.S.A. ...."

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Ecuador Suffers "Alarming" Levels of AIDS: Health Ministry

Ecuador now has an "alarming" level of AIDS infections, with 18 of the country's 22 provinces reporting infections of the disease, the country's Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
The country reported nearly 60,000 cases of the deadly disease nationwide in 2004, although AIDS organizations say the true figure could be much higher.

The country's Health Ministry Spokesman Washington Aleman said the region of Guayas has the largest number of HIV infections and its capital Guayquil has the largest number of AIDS cases.

Aleman also said Ecuador had passed a law to help expectant mothers who have AIDS, saying attention should be paid to prevent their children from contracting the disease.

The disease was first detected in Ecuador in 1984, with 180 people tested HIV-positive and 90 of them developing into full- blown AIDS.
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Ecuador ---> native Indians roots

















Tiguino, Ecuador -- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge.

In May 2003, nine Huaorani warriors from the village of Tiguino killed 26 Tagaeri men, women and children. They justified the massacre of nearly one- fifth of a tiny tribe that shuns outsiders as payback for a 1993 murder. But Colombian loggers may have instigated the raid so they could seek lucrative stands of Spanish cedar and a mahogany called aguano abundantly found on Tagaeri land, according to recent interviews with government officials, police investigators and several Huaorani leaders.

"They (the loggers) were scared of the Tagaeri and went to Tiguino," said Penti Baihua, a Huaorani leader who spoke with several of the nine raiders after the attack. "They told them: 'We'll give you gasoline and bullets if you kill the Tagaeri. We want to work in that area.' "

Regional laws protect the Tagaeri -- a nomadic tribe of fewer than 150 people who subsist on hunting and fishing in a 1.7 million-acre reserve -- as well as thousands of other indigenous peoples living in remote areas of the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. But all are feeling the pressure of "civilization" advancing on their territories.
Tiguino, Ecuador -- In the years since development began in Ecuador's Amazon region, the Huaorani and Tagaeri Indians have taken very different paths.

In the first recorded encounter with the outside world in 1956, the Tagaeri -- also known as Auca or Jivaro -- killed five American missionaries. In 1987, they murdered Spanish Bishop Alejandro Lavaca and a Colombian nun, Ines Arango, with poison-tipped spears. An oil company helicopter had dropped the two off so they could bring the word of God, discuss the arrival of oil workers and offer ways to help the tribe.

In contrast, Ecuador's government spent decades working through U.S. missionaries, the Catholic Church and the armed forces to "civilize" the 2,000- strong Huaorani tribe and pave the way for oil drilling in their ancestral lands. In 1989, Babae Ima, the leader of the Huaorani, settled in the community of Tiguino along an oil road, which remains the only land access to the muddy Tiguino River. Ima, who is in his 70s, charges a fee to all outsiders who enter his territory. No one travels down the river without his consent -- not missionaries, eco-tourists or illegal loggers.

Standing beside a ramshackle outhouse on the outskirts of his remote Amazon village, Ima shook a yellowing canvas sack until a grisly object rolled into view -- a human skull from the raid that he led last year that killed 26 Tagaeri in what he called revenge for the death of a Huaorani man by a Tagaeri spear-thrower in 1993. The gruesome memento is a long-standing tradition of Amazon warfare, he said.

Federal investigator Marco Vargas, who visited the massacre scene a week afterward, said revenge might have been one reason for the deadly raid, "but I'm absolutely sure it wasn't the only one. The business ties between the loggers and Tiguino are very, very strong," he said. "The only people who represented an obstacle to the loggers (in that area) are now dead."

Vargas' investigation -- detailed in a 200-page report -- was abruptly cut short by the Organization of the Huaorani Nation of the Ecuadoran Amazon, a council of elders of 32 Huaorani communities, who pardoned all nine attackers after they promised never to do it again. Ecuador's 1998 constitution gives indigenous communities the right to settle internal conflicts according to their traditions.

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