There are a group of human beings related to my 3rd cousin David Harrison and me. David Harrison's aunt and my 4th cousin Marion Jeanette Harrison (b. 1937) married Roland Linwood Hatcher (1927-1995) on October 15, 1964, in Portsmouth, Virginia. Their children are Marlon Terrace Hatcher Sr. (b. 1955), Cheryl Winifred Hatcher (b. 1956), Vernet Daphine Hatcher (b. 1960), and Lynnette Dionne Hatcher (b. 1964). Marlon, Cheryl, Vernet, and Lynnette Hatcher are my 5th cousins. The reason is that all of us are descendants of my 6th great-grandparents of Burwell Williams and Winifred Woodson-Bozeman (b. 1791). My 5th cousin Marlon Terrace Hatcher Sr. married Vanessa Amanda Sparrow in 1976 at Pasquotank, North Carolina. Their children are Marion Hatcher Jr. (b. 1980) and Jenile Nichole Hatcher (b. 1976. She is married to Ricky Kenneth Wilson on May 12, 1997, at Norfolk, Virginia). Marion Hatcher Jr. and Jenile Nichole Hatcher are my 6th cousins. Later, Marlon Terrace Hatcher Sr. married Leslie Althea Adarkwa. Cheryl Winifred Hatcher (b. 1956) married Henry L. Riser (b. 1946) on April 25, 1993, in Clark, Nevada. Their child is my 6th cousin Chanel Attiya Riser (b. 1990. She was born in Harris, Texas, and graduated from the University of Tennessee). Later, Cheryl Winifred Hatcher married Calvin Springfield (b. 1954) on May 6, 2017. Vernet Daphine Hatcher once married Randolph B. Long. Their child is Alivia Randi Long (b. 1992), and she is my 6th cousin. Alivia Long is a professional actress who is a graduate of the College of William and Mary with a degree in Theater (a Minor in Film and Media Studies). She loves to use performance art and wants to inspire children to show their gifts involving the arts. She worked in the Virginia Stage Company for a time. he has roles in Eather: Beat in 2019, Breathe in 2019, and That Quarantine Life in 2020. She earned an MFA in Acting from the East 15 Acting School in the United Kingdom (on May 31, 2018). She has been on web shows, commercials, etc. She now lives in Burbank, California. Lynnette Dionne Hatcher was once married to the late Stefon Bruce Shorts (b. 1961) and their child is the spiritual woman Nia Shorts (b. 1999. She is my 6th cousin). Now, Lynnette Dionne Hatcher is married to Howard Cee Cary (b. 1960). Marion Jeanette Harrison's parents were Lynwood Harrison Sr. (1919-2006) and Carrie Ethel Peterson (1920-1976). Carrie Ethel Peterson's parents were James Edward Peterson (1885-1945) and Rosa W. Peterson (1887-1966). Rosa W. Peterson's parents were Mary L. Williams (1855-1905) and Eddie Drew Kello (1851-1922). Mary L. Williams's parents were John Burwell Williams (b. 1815) and Mary Williams (b. 1832). John Burwell Williams's parents were Burwell Williams (a freeman African American) and Winifred Woodson-Bozeman (b. 1791. His father was Micajah Woodson). Winifred's mother was my 7th great grandmother Nancy Woodson (1760-1808. She was a Nottoway Native American human being).
On my father's side, I found out that Da'shaun L. Collins (b. 2003) is my 5th cousin as we are descendants of George and Esther Perkins. Da'shaun L. Collins's mother is my 5th cousin Latoya R. Collins (b. 1982). Latoya Collins's parents are Calvin Melton Collins Sr. (b. 1960) and Carolyn Renee Dukes (b. 1963). My 4th cousin Calvin Melton Collins Sr.'s parents were James Herbert Collins Jr. (1932-1988) and Lillian Catherine Savage (1937-2019). James Herbert Collins Jr. and Lillian Catherine Savage had the following children of: Darlene Collins (1955-2010), Joseph Lewis Collins Sr. (b. 1957), Calvin Melton Collins Sr. (b. 196)), John Wayne Collins Sr. (1961-2019), Severn Collins Sr., James Herbert Collins the 3rd, Larry Collins, and Geraldine Collins. The parents of James Herbert Collins Jr. are James Herbert Collins (1901-1979) and Olicia Upshur (1907-1963). The parents of my 2nd cousin Olivia Upshur were Charles Henry Upshur (1885-1964) and Messina Upshur (b. 1887). The parents of my 1st cousin Messina Upshur were Henry Upshur (1858-1940) and Caroline Perkins (1862-1927). The parents of my 3rd great grandaunt Caroline Perkins were George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816).
Also, I found out more about my distant cousins who are part of the Wise family in Boston, Massachusetts (of the paternal side of my family) and other parts of the state of Massachusetts in the New England region of America. First, it is time to start at my 4th great grandparents of George and Esther Perkins. They had a child named Easter Perkins (1840-1910). She was my 3rd great-grandaunt. She had children with James Nottingham and George Kelly (b. 1830). One of her children with George Kelly was George Kelly Jr. George Kelly Jr. married Sarah Kelly (b. 1887) and had the children Rayfield Kelley (b. 1903) and Ernest Samuel Kelley (1906-1989). Ernest Samuel Kelly married Sereta Collins in Northampton County, Virginia (on the Eastern Shore) on September 11, 1930. The couple had many children who are Ethel Kelley (b. 1932), Cassell Kelley (b. 1933), Correll Kelley, Ernest Nelson Kelley (1935-1989), Rossley Ivin Kelley (1936-2008), Mae Ellen Kelley (1939-2022), and Sereta Kelley Wise (1940-2020). Mae Ellen Kelley Wise was my 3rd cousin born on March 4th, 1939, at Northampton County, Virginia (in the Virginian Eastern Shore). She loved to study in school, especially the subject of mathematics. She graduated from high school at the age of 16. Later, she married her high school sweetheart Robert Lee Wise (1936-1986), who joined the Navy. They married on September 24, 1955, at Franktown, Virginia. They had five boys and four girls or 9 children after their newborn babies passed away in 1956. Mae Wise was an educator in the Boston Public School system. She worked at a boutique with her daughter Sheila to make items and sell them. She had a religious faith constantly in prayer and helping fellow people. The children of Mae Ellen Kelly Wise and Robert Wise were Stephanie Van Loan, Kwame Wise Sr., Makeda Williams, Salahaldin Wise, Robert H. Wise, Ernest Wise, Rynel Wise, Yolanda Garraway, and Aisha Davis. These children are my 4th cousins. Salahaldin Wise (b. 1962) is married to the former Army veteran and businesswoman Lauren Marie Govan-Wise (b. 1964), and their children are Akeem Wise (b. 1985) and Tatiana Wise. Kwame Wise Sr. (b. 1961) had many children with Donna Alisa M. Wise (b. 1959) who are Kwame Wise II (b. 1984), Kwanna Wise (b. 1987), Dominique A. Wise, and Vambah Sillah Wise. Kwame Wise Sr. is now married to Andrea Weaver, who is from Chicago. Rynel G. Wise (b. 1966) is married to Renee Johnson with the children of Rashawn Wise (B. 1996) and Kiyanna Wise (b. 1999). Sheila Wise Rowe is married to Nicholas Rowe.
There is the existence of haplogroups among human beings. A haplotype is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent. A haplogroup is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single nucleotide polymorphism mutation. Haplogroups pertain to a single line of descent. Maternal haplogroups are determined by sets of genetic variants in a tiny loop of DNA called mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). mtDNA is found in the mitochondria, which are small but powerful structures in our cells that turn fuel from the food we eat into energy. Only mother pass their mtDNA down to their children. mtDNA is used to trace the history of maternal lines because of the way it is inherited. All humans have mtDNA. mtDNA is passed down from the mother to their children in copies. The copies are not always perfectly identical. New genetic variants can be passed down through generations. Paternal haplogroups are found among all men. Genetic men have a copy of their father's Y chromosomes along with a gene called SRY (or sex-determining region Y) that is important for men's sexual development. Only men have a copy of their father's chromosome. Men pass down copies of their Y chromosomes. Small changes to the DNA sequence do occur called mutations. This can create new genetic variants on the Y chromosome. Letter/number codes are used to define the locations of both maternal and paternal haplogroups.
More and more health studies are coming about exposing the dangers of alcohol consumption. The World Health Organization has now published a statement in The Lancet Public Health: when it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health. It is no secret that alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer decades ago – this is the highest risk group, which also includes asbestos, radiation, and tobacco. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, including the most common cancer types, such as bowel cancer and female breast cancer. Ethanol (alcohol) causes cancer through biological mechanisms as the compound breaks down in the body, which means that any beverage containing alcohol, regardless of its price and quality, poses a risk of developing cancer. The risk of developing cancer increases substantially the more alcohol is consumed.
However, latest available data indicate that half of all alcohol-attributable cancers in the WHO European Region are caused by “light” and “moderate” alcohol consumption – less than 1.5 liters of wine or less than 3.5 liters of beer or less than 450 milliliters of spirits per week. This drinking pattern is responsible for the majority of alcohol-attributable breast cancers in women, with the highest burden observed in countries of the European Union (EU). In the EU, cancer is the leading cause of death – with a steadily increasing incidence rate – and the majority of all alcohol-attributable deaths are due to different types of cancers. “We cannot talk about a so-called safe level of alcohol use. It doesn’t matter how much you drink – the risk to the drinker’s health starts from the first drop of any alcoholic beverage. The only thing that we can say for sure is that the more you drink, the more harmful it is – or, in other words, the less you drink, the safer it is,” explains Dr Carina Ferreira-Borges, acting Unit Lead for Noncommunicable Disease Management and Regional Advisor for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs in the WHO Regional Office for Europe. In a bold move, the World Heart Federation released a policy brief Thursday saying that no amount of alcohol is good for the heart (in 2023). We know for a fact that excessive alcohol consumption can cause cognitive damage, heart disease, and liver cancer. That is a fact.
DJ Akademiks has been an insecure, mean-spirited, classist, and disrespectful fake person. Now, we have another woman accusing his friends of raping her and Akademiks raping her (Akademiks denies that he raped her). These are serious allegations. The accuser is a woman named Ziya Abashe. She said the allegations on Saturday, December 30, 2023. Abashe said that a rape kit was done. Akademiks has responded to the allegations by saying that the police raided his house and did a search warrant, video shows the incident, and he confronted the woman about her getting tested. Ziya responded again saying that Akademiks is lying. Akademiks is an enemy of the truth, because he supports Donald Trump (who is a lying, racist, sexist, xenophobic, and evil person), and he is a disgrace to his Afro-Caribbean Jamaican heritage. Money doesn't make the man. We know plenty of fake people without a lot of money and with little money. Money doesn't define character. Character is timeless regardless of how much money you have. Akademiks is the same person who denied that Megan Thee Stallion was shot by Tory Lanez, he disrespected hip hop pioneers who are older as "dusty." This person is a coward who tries to disrespect women and men who he feels are between him. Yet, when Saucy Santana (who disrespected Beyonce's child, so I don't respect him either) called him out, Akademiks cried and claimed that he doesn't want to be canceled. He is known for massive alcohol use, disrespect of people (especially against black women which is wrong and evil), massive profanity, insecurity, and blind hatred. These are the fruits of a person that no one should emulate period.
2024 is the 20th year anniversary of Facebook. That is an incredible time. Facebook is filled with massive contributions and critiques at the same time. It is a company based in Menlo Park, California with control of Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp along with other products and services. When Facebook came out, it was used heavily by younger Generation X, older Millennials, Boomers, etc. Today, the younger Zoomers love to use Twitch and the service of TikTok. Facebook is one of the Big Five American information technology companies alongside Google's parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. Back in the early 2000's, there were no universal online facebooks at Harvard with only paper sheets distributed and private online directories. Mark Zuckerberg wanted that to change. By January 2004, he wrote code for a new website called TheFacebook. He worked with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin and they invested $1,000 in the site. By February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched it under the named The Facebook. Zuckerberg wanted to connect people across the Harvard University. Just six days after the launch of the website, three Harvard University seniors (Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevos, and Divya Narenda) accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product. The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation, so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Zuckerberg tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them. In the end, three Crimson members filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg which was later settled.
Membership was initially restricted to students at Harvard University. Within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service. Zuckerberg was joined in the promotion of the site by Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston-area schools. It gradually reached most universities in the United States and Canada. Facebook was incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. On October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom and others around the world. Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 2,000+ colleges and 25,000+ high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Late in 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, allowing companies to attract potential customers and tell about themselves. These started as group pages, but a new concept called company pages was planned. In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process, and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve computational problems which gave them an opportunity to be hired by Facebook.
As of February 2011, Facebook had become the largest online photo host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have 100 billion photos by summer 2011. As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic. The Social Network, a film in 2010 about the beginnings of Facebook directed by David Fincher & stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark is released. The film is met with widespread critical acclaim as well as commercial success; however, Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened. Facebook launched a redesign that emphasizes the most important parts of someone's life, including one's biographic information, photos, education, work experience, and important relationships. It replaces the tabs at the top of each profile page with links on the left side of the page (in December of 2010). Facebook grows in acquisitions along with controversies. January 25, 2018, Facebook admits to the United States Senate that its software, in some cases, recommended content produced by Russian propaganda operatives around the time of the 2016 presidential election; stating however that it has found insignificant overlap between Russian-produced content and pages created by the Trump's election campaign. Facebook bans all ads promoting cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and initial coin offerings. It reports losing daily users for the first time ever in America and Canada by January 31, 2018. Yet, globally, the number of people using Facebook daily rose 14% compared to the previous year but falling by 700,000 people in the US and Canada for the first time.
A whistleblower revealed that British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested 50 million Facebook profiles and used personal information taken without authorization in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual voters in the United States, to target them with personalized political advertisements. On March 26, 2018, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was investigating Facebook's privacy practices following the revelations. The scandal would affect deeply the image of Facebook, with a loss of nearly US$50 billion in market capitalization since the data scandal. Mark Zuckerberg goes to a Senate hearing on data privacy from April 10-11, 2018, to defend his company. He apologizes for mistakes and promises privacy reforms on Facebook. Facing tougher questions on the second day regarding Facebook policies about user privacy, data collection, political bias, and the social network's business model, Zuckerberg rejected suggestions from Congress members that Facebook users did not have enough control over their data. However, he would explain plans to tighten data policies, protect users from further leaks, and become more transparent about who's advertising on his site. By November 7, 2023, a former Meta employee, Arturo Bejar, testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, alleging that Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, had ignored warnings about the harmful effects of Instagram on teens for years. At the end of the day, there should be a balance to promote body positivity for teenagers and all people (in promoting healthy mental health and rejecting bullying) while rejecting draconian censorship on the Internet (that some Republicans and even some Democrats erroneously advocate).
By Timothy
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