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Corey Davis of Darien Passionate About Central Nervous System Medications

In the early 2000s, the specialty pharmaceutical profile for Corey Davis of Darien would begin to rise around the nation. It began when Corey Davis of Darien was recognized in the Annual All America Survey multiple times as a top Institutional Investor. Recognition continued to grow and in 2005 – Corey Davis of Darien “broke onto the scene” as the “Best on the Street” in the Wall Street Journal. These awards would distinguish him as a specialty pharmaceutical professional who is not only passionate about his work but also celebrated for his analysis, insight, and stock-picking acumen.

So how did Corey Davis of Darien master his skills in analysis and predictions in the pharmaceutical industry? Simple: he’s a passionate proponent for central nervous system medication.

By following industry news, reading professional journals, and following the latest medical developments, Corey Davis of Darien is able to maintain the insight needed to make the best predictions and strategic maneuvers possible. In fact, Corey Davis of Darien is so well known for his work on Wall Street for the specialty pharmaceutical industry that he’s appeared on numerous news shows as a guest contributor.

Central nervous system medications include Alzheimer’s disease drugs, amphetamines, analgesics, sedative drugs, anticonvulsants, anti-inflammatory drugs, antipsychotics, Parkinson’s disease drugs, and more, says Corey Davis of Darien. Though the world of central nervous system medications is vast, Corey Davis of Darien is particularly passionate about new research in cancer medication and treatment.

Corey Davis Darien photo enjoying the sun outside.
Corey Davis Darien studied Molecular Biology at Princeton University, earning his PhD in 1997. (Source: Google)

Such passion and concern for the well-being of patients fighting cancer has given him an edge as a Wall Street analysis. Medical concern has enhanced his ability to create detailed financial projections, predict future trends, and gauge the outcome of the ever-important FDA and regulatory reviews. “Specialty pharmaceuticals is a tough industry,” says Corey Davis of Darien. “You have to be passionate about what you do in order to succeed.”

To become the lauded industry insider he is today, Corey Davis of Darien studied Molecular Biology at Princeton University, earning his PhD in 1997. Before then, Corey Davis of Darien attended Middlebury College and was a Series 7 registered representative. He was also registered for Series 63, 86, and 87.

In spite of his thriving career, Corey Davis of Darien always makes sure to keep his family first and focus on serving others. Corey Davis of Darien is currently 43 years old and looks forward to developing his career for many years to come.

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Simple Ways To Save Money

The past few years I have been on a mission to save money.  It seems everything just costs way to much and I’m done with it.  I call it a minimulist lifestyle and of course it’s not for everyone.  Making more money and saving it is something everyone wants but to what extreme you’re personally willing to go is the question.  I’m pretty extreme, however, I believe the tips below are my best simple ways to save money for the everyday person.  I took out the extreme ones like moving out of the country.  Like I said, some people are willing to take a more extreme approach and others are not so pick and choose as you wish.

ENERGY:  I find each month one of the biggest bills is energy.  It’s rediculously high and my thermastat has been turned off for months.  Unfortunately, not much we can do here except try to use less.  I went around the house and unplugged the things I rarely use.  Like lamps I never use but they are plugged in.  The toaster and other kitchen counter appliances are plugged in so I unplugged them also.   Even though, you don’t use things that are plugged into the outlet doesn’t mean they are not charging you for it.  My point is take a walk around the house and unplug the things you rarely use.  If you decide to use it later simply plug it back it and use it temporarly.

INSURANCE:  If you’ve been with the same insurance provider for more than 3 years, you’re probably paying too much.  You always save the most when changing providers so make a few calls and see what there quotes are.

PRESCRIPTIONS:  If you have prescriptions that cost a lot each month, take a trip to canada or simply buy your perscriptions online at a reputable canadian pharmacy.  All that is required is your prescription from the doctor and shipping in some cases is free.  After the Primetine Mist issue I was placed on Qvar for my ashama medication.  It costs $213 for one canister which lasts a little less than 2 months.  I can get the same thing online for $36 bucks.  In short, it cost more in America so look at other options.

BANKING:  If you have a checking account anywhere that charges you a per month fee – cancel them.  Free checking has been available for many years now so getting charged $7 a month by the bank to hold your money and collect your interest (you ain’t making no interest anyway) is a big rip off.  I love my BECU account.  I hate Bank Of America and US Bank.

PHONE LINES:  If you just have a landline you use for local calls then this probably won’t save you to much.  However, if you’re paying for any long distance or unlimited calling and have a landline you’re getting ripped off.  You’re probably using Century Link or Comcast.  Make the switch to a prepaid cell phone.  You can get them at Walmart (straight talk) and it’s pay as you go (no contracts).  They run off AT&T or Verizon networks and I use the AT&T option.  For $30 bucks I get 1000 min voice, 1000 min text, caller id, voice mail, call waiting, and pretty much all the bells and whistles.  I haven’t had a drop call in so long I can’t remember.  I easily saved over $100 per month doing this.  If you’re thinking about this make sure you look at your bill to calculate how many minutes you’re using now.

INTERNET/TV:  Comcast is my provider and my biggest expense with them is my Internet.  I have found that the Internet costs are the hardest to lower, however, everything else like your TV or phone line can be lowered.  To get it lowered, however, you can’t just ask you have to call them and discuss cancelling.  Just say you’re going through hard times and need to “discuss” cancelling service.  They will forward you to a special team of representives that are hired to keep you around even if you pay less.  I dropped my TV bills down to $10 per month – how much are you paying?

CREDIT CARD DEBT:  (EXTREME TIP – NOT FOR EVERYONE) If you have credit card debt that is out of control and your credit is already not so good – you may want to save up and negociate / settle them.  Strategies online by the pros will tell you to call them and negociate your interest rates I have found that to be difficult or perhaps they are not willing to do that anymore.  If you think about it from their perspective it makes sense.  With all banks $1 dollar given to them allows them to barrow $10 off it it and that is how banks (checking accounts) work.  So, if you’re in a dire situation and thinking about paying one off completely using savings or equity…. consider letting it go a few months.  Next, it will go to collections.  Once it goes to a collection company the credit card company sold it to them for pennys on the dollar and you can negociate it at 25% of the balance or less.  The trick is to don’t be desperate when talking to them and don’t wait to long to settle or you’ll get sued (at which point you’ll settle for even less).  Before starting change your address if possible (go paperless online) and change your number to a Google Voice number so you’re not called all the time.  Like I said extreme option and you’re personal situation determines if it’s for you or not.

MORTGAGE:  If you’ve lost your shorts and you’re home isn’t worth anything anymore consider walking away.  Stop throwing your money into the fire.  Foreclosure takes over a year so considering the amount you’ll save in a year (or add a renter) you’ll make way more than continuing your payments.  Additional Seattle mortgage info here. Another great site is:  LoanSafe.org.

SHOPPING CARDS + GAS:  If you go to Safeway or Fredmeyer for your shopping consider saving & working together as a family to get the best deals.  The trick is to use one phone number as a family.  If everyone uses the one phone number at checkout you’ll save considerably more.  I typically save 30 cents a gallon on gas each fill-up! It’s amazing.

– hope you found at least one of these simple ways to save money tips useful.  I have

 

USA Debt Hits 16 TRILLION

Sad but true our national debt is over 16 trillion dollars now.  Since it’s election time (and even before that) the finger pointing continues.  If we can pull any good news out of the this I guess it would be that China is no longer our big daddy foreign holder.  They are owed about 1.16 trillion of it.  Japan took on about 1.12 trillion of it.  About 5 trillion of it is internally ours for the Social Security Trust Fund and federal pension systems. The rest is divided up between many countries in smaller increments.  The federal reserves buys it up also to keep it stable which is shady but anyway.  The Bush era certainly didn’t help with the wars debt added and Obama’s promise of reducing it in half – just never came (nor will it ever come).  Obama can blame Bush and how he inherited it, however, after a year in office you have to take the rest of the blame being the man in charge.  It’s never going down and another 4 years will produce the same results.  Will Mitt Romney make a difference?  I doubt it but he at least deserves a shot at it in my opinion.  I would prefer someone who would take drastic changes like a Ron Paul, however, America isn’t ready for that yet.  Perhaps another 4 or 8 years will change their minds.

Here is some food for thought.  The debt added under Obama’s 3+ years in office was more than Bush added in his 8 years of presidency – combined.  Bush added 4.9 trillion total and Obama added 5.4 trillion and climbing.  One last point regarding unemployment rate under Obama, no incumbent has ever been re-elected with unemployment this high – ever.  In the event, Obama takes another 4 years he will have not only made history as the first African American president but also making history being re-elected with the highest unemployment rate.  Congrats if you win I guess.

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The Journal of Buffalo Science

Veterinary sciences in buffaloes?

We recently discovered a new Pakistan-based, hybrid, open-access publisher called LifeScience Global. The site lists 15 journal titles, including the Journal of Buffalo Science.

The site tries to give the impression that the publisher is based in Ontario, but we had a look at their “office” there, and it’s really a tall apartment building, so it’s probably just someone letting them use the address.

This publisher is more sophisticated than most. To attract author fees these days, you have to be more and more convincing, and you have to look like a genuine publisher. This publisher is a member of CrossRef, it assigns DOIs to its articles, and its web design is much better than average.

The site incorporates social media applications, but it also has advertising.

Strangely, the funding model the site appears to be launching with is a hybrid model. It has both open- and toll-access articles, and it offers subscriptions. Many of its journals have yet to publish any articles.

The Journal of Buffalo Science’s first issue (vol. 1, no. 1, 2012) has about 22 articles, but only three of them are open-access. We’re surprised there is so much research interest in buffalo science; we thought it was a dying field.

The publisher offers an economics journal, the Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, despite its name, LifeScience Global. Why worry about a specialization when there’s money to be made? The site’s main page has at least three typos, and strangely, despite its North American office, almost all the authors are from outside North America.

Finally, we’re confused about the cover image of the Journal of Buffalo Science. The image doesn’t look like any buffalo we’ve ever seen. In fact, it looks like some type of bull.

By: Jeffrey Beall
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Comments:

sri says:

September 27, 2012 at 12:51 AM

famous Indian breed “MURRAH” has curly horn and picture is definitely of buffalo

Jeffrey Beall says:

September 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM

Thank you for this helpful comment!

Hachani Samir says:

August 2, 2012 at 12:14 PM

The image does not look like any known buffalo because “it’s bull “!!!!

Dana Roth says:

August 2, 2012 at 9:43 PM

Having lived in India and making yoghurt from water buffalo milk (since most of the cows have TB), there should be lots of interest in these ‘buffalos’, although there must be a surplus of journals already in existence on this subject.

Jay says:

August 4, 2012 at 8:02 PM

Both junk science and the new crop of open access publishers who follow unethical practices to make a quick buck should be monitored closely. Scientific publishing has become a business enterprise. More and more new online publications pop up everywhere not only from Asia but also from the US, Europe, and Africa. Solicitations from most new open access journals are sent from Canada, US, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Another growing trend is conducting scientific conferences almost every week in certain US cities as well as in few Asian cities, organized by industry people who apparently are not the experts of the themes of the conferences. Again, this money making enterprise is jointly operated by representatives from the US, Europe and Asia. So, everyone contributes to this new trend.

It is interesting that papers are retracted in high impact, “peer reviewed” journals by scientists of all nationalities. The disappointing thing is that these scientists go on with their daily business unaffected, including getting the NIH grants. The high impact journals do not acknowledge their role in retractions. It appears that the established journals also should be monitored closely to minimize junk science.

By the way, I am not aware that most cows in India have TB. Buffalo milk is cheaper than cow’s milk and probably contains more fat and so yields more yogurt. Also, yogurt (curd) from buffalo milk tastes better! It is a personal preference, nonetheless.

Jacob says:

August 5, 2012 at 2:33 AM

the image seems to be of an asian water buffalo with rounded horns.. nevertheless.. more important is the content being published.. new entrants in open access publishing are coming thick and fast .. we have to weed out the ones doing unethical practices .. on the other hand, the publishing giants (the Elseviers, the Springers etc) want scholarly publishing to be their property and never would like smaller publishers to grow.. with low production & labor costs and highly skilled workforce in Asia its natural that many big names in publishing moving their offices to India etc.. as a result smaller publishing companies are coming out from the region..

Info says:

August 30, 2012 at 1:19 PM

The second issue of Journal of Buffalo Science is now online. The September 2012 issue contains a Theme Section entitled “Use of Reproductive Techniques in Buffalo” edited by Dr. Vittoria L. Barile (Italy). The section contains six papers on various aspects of this topic. The issue also includes a general articles section containing five papers covering various areas of interest on buffalo related research. Lifescience Global also announced that all articles of the first issue (Volume 1 Number 1) are now available in OPEN ACCESS and can be downloaded with full text in PDF.

Matt Hodgkinson says:

November 19, 2013 at 4:08 AM

One person involved is Atif Hussain, who previously did marketing for Bentham Science. He is apparently studying digital marketing at the University of Toronto, so there might be a real connection to Canada: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14149853

Jeffrey Beall says:

November 19, 2013 at 4:10 AM

Thanks, Matt.

Six New Vanity Presses — One with an Unbelievable Name

Wudpecker Research Journals (see below)

Today we present six new (or newly discovered) vanity presses that we have added to the list of predatory publishers.

Intellectual Archive

This site is an “institutional repository” for people who ought to be institutionalized. They accept anything, so this makes for very interesting reading; some very wacky ideas are presented here. Also included, surprisingly, are many legitimate offprints (some violating copyright). The site boasts that it sends abstracts of all submissions to major libraries via its Intellectual Archive Bulletin (ISSN 1929-1329), but it may not really exist yet– it’s not cataloged. I wrote and requested a copy. They told me that my library could subscribe to the bulletin for $200 (electronic) or $400 (print). This is misleading — the language implied that the bulletin was sent to libraries, implying that it was sent for free.

For an additional fee you can have your submission published in their print journal, Intellectual Archive Journal (ISSN 1929-4700). To publish, you must pay a fee ranging from $20-$50 depending on length. You can also pay to get a certificate that says your deposit was made into the repository. Online-only deposits are free. Subscriptions to this journal are $700 (electronic) and $1,400 (print).

The only real value of this site is the entertainment value that the crazy articles provide. It’s worth a look, just for the laughs. This is a true scholarly vanity press.

Wudpecker Research Journals

I could hardly believe the name either. This is a brand-new operation based in India. It has half a dozen journals, but they have little content. Why the name? I’m not sure, but maybe it’s to make this start-up publisher stand out among the increasingly-crowed open-access publishing industry.

Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)

This mega-site offers dozens of journals and even more conferences. It’s based in India, but the conferences take place all over Asia. You get to pay for attending the conference and also for having your paper printed in the corresponding journal. Almost all its journal titles begin with “International journal of … ” but in most cases the authors are from India. If you need a couple publications to meet your yearly minimum, this is a good place to send something you can write in a couple days; I have a feeling they will accept it.

MASAUM Network (website down)

The “contact us” page for this bogus publisher lists addresses in the US and the UK, but it’s really based in Pakistan. The publisher states,

“MASAUM Network is an international, independent publishers [sic] for high quality journals, proceedings, books, e-books from all areas of science, engineering, technology, humanities, social sciences, management science and medical sciences etc.”

They charge £200 for accepted papers.

Centre For Info Bio Technology (CIBTech)

Each week, we discover at least one, new open-access publisher from India. This one offers 16 journals and promises a quick turnaround time for article submissions.

The publisher states, “CIBTech is always committed to maintain highest standard of workings whatever project it undertakes and work with never to compromise attitude.” Too bad their commitment to high standards doesn’t apply to the text on their website.

Pelagia Research Library

I cannot tell where this publisher is based; their “contact us” page only gives email addresses (but the author fees are stated in dollars and rupees, so it’s probably Indian). It lists five journals. The website has a sloppy yet bare appearance; this site was probably set up in a matter of hours. The journals all started in 2010 or 2011. One of the journals is the European Journal of Experimental Biology. I think it’s deceptive and unethical to name a journal after a region that it’s not published in.

By: Jeffrey Beall
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Comments:

L says:

June 19, 2012 at 7:22 AM

Hi there,

I’m leaving a comment to thank you for your work. I’m a graduate student in Montreal (Canada) and two days ago, I stumbled upon your blog searching for informations about the Center for Promoting Ideas.

My departement sent a call for papers yesterday for one of their journal and it looked like something I could eventually publish in. Plus, it was open access, which I support. After a quick search, your blog came up with other blogs and emails telling people NOT to do businness with them. I wasn’t even aware that fake publishers or open access journals were out there.

So I wrote back to my departement telling them about your blog and other sources and told them to warn students about this publisher. Turns out two students in my grad school were thinking about publishing with them but had small problems that felt weird. One of them was a few hours away from sending a payment to Pakistan!

So thank you very much for your work, keep it up! You “saved” at least three student yesterday from days of pain with this publisher. We then found out that a professor we know was on the editorial board. Turns out, he was not. It was also fake.

P.S. Please forget all the errors in the text, english is not my first language.

L

abhaga says:

June 28, 2012 at 9:02 PM

http://whois.domaintools.com/pelagiaresearchlibrary.com shows that Pelagia Research Library is likely based out of India.

Morgaine Dinova says:

June 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM

I can’t seem to find a list of *good* open access publishers here.

The headline link to “List of Publishers” would be expected to link to a page of reasonable OA publishers, given the name of this site. Instead it links to “Beall’s List of **Predatory** Open-Access Publishers”, which is the opposite. It’s confusing.

Likewise, the side-link “Scholarly Open-Access Publishers” just leads back to the whole blog (which is mostly dedicated to predatory ones), instead of to selected articles about good or reasonable OA publishers. Perhaps the Categories aren’t being used properly? I would expect them to categorize articles.

I came here looking for a list of publishers to recommend because of their good policies on open access. Isn’t there such a list?

Jeffrey Beall says:

June 29, 2012 at 12:31 PM

The UC Berkeley Library maintains such a list here: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html

Morgaine Dinova says:

June 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM

Thanks Jeffrey. 🙂

Luis Murrell says:

February 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM

Hello,

I’m doing my PhD from Ontario and i’m thinking about publishing my dissertation with a reputed org. Some of my colleagues suggested me to use sciedu resources for the same, since they are all benefited with the same, but i’m confused. Please suggest me some well accepted and honered press, I would be really grateful.

Jeffrey Beall says:

February 12, 2013 at 2:17 PM

I recommend this list prepared by the UCB libraries:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html

Luis Murrell says:

February 19, 2013 at 5:37 AM

Thanks for the help Mr. Jeffrey. I am looking for more resources for my anthropology research papers, is there any online library having a lot of sciedu press releases or unique sciedu resources? Please advise.

Andy says:

September 6, 2015 at 9:50 AM

Surely, as you were doing your research and writing your paper, you used published work from several to many sources. You can look through the list, and choose whichever journals you cited most often?

Sheikh says:

October 6, 2015 at 9:48 PM

Thanks for the information about predatory publishing. People in the third world don’t have the luxury of choice in where to publish. I do not think The Journal of Finance will accept submissions from a Nigerian, a Kenyan or an Indian graduate student trying to finish up a PhD.
I agree these online publishers cut corners, are expensive and have crazy practices like asking the authors to send $200 fees to Bangladesh through Western Union, but what choice do the Non-Europeans of the world have?.
While I agree with you that some practices are unethical, I think you should be careful not to sound condescending in fighting predatory publishing. The way to go is to provide a list of Journals accessible to students from far corners of the world that will understand their unique circumstances.

David Publishing: Flipping Its Model

Part of the David Publishing web page. After clicking on “help,” a user is show a box that says “help” and nothing more.

This publisher is an enigma to me.

David Publishing made my 2012 list of predatory open-access publishers. I wrote:

“Although this publisher purports to be headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, United States, it actually appears to operate out of China. The home page shows a view of the Libertyville Industrial Park, the supposed home of the operation, as if to prove it operates in the U.S.”

Now, the picture of the Libertyville Industrial Park is still there, but it rotates with a stock photo of three diverse, scholarly-looking people. This operation seems to have abandoned Libertyville, as the contact us information now lists an El Monte, California address¹. Also, the site was completely down for a couple months between December 2011 and February 2012.

More importantly, the publisher’s model seems to have changed from open access to toll access. All the content (except for the article abstracts) are behind a pay wall. And strangely, it may be continuing to charge author fees, for I found this (unidiomatic) statement on a submission form: “8. Please confirm to pay for the publication fee for the delivering article.” If this is all true, then it would be the first toll access publisher I’ve heard of that also charges author fees.

It’s also possible that this site is a total fraud. It’s a Chinese operation and every page on the site is slow to load. It could be set up mainly as a place for Chinese authors to get credit for foreign publications. The Chinese government does have incentive programs with monetary rewards for Chinese scholars who publish abroad.

I regularly get emails about this publisher. It is a big spammer that harvests emails from other publishers and from scholarly websites. It panders to graduate students who lack publications, offering to publish their work but failing to inform them about the author fee (that information comes later).

The list below contains David Publishing’s current journal portfolio. I recommend that scholars do not conduct any business with this publisher including submitting articles, submitting on editorial boards or advertising. I would also be very skeptical of any article bearing the David Publishing imprint.
o China-USA Business Review
o Chinese Business Review
o Computer Technology and Application
o History Research
o Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
o Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
o Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture
o Journal of Communication and Computer
o Journal of Earth Science and Engineering
o Journal of Energy and Power Engineering
o Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering (A & B)
o Journal of Food Science and Engineering
o Journal of Life Sciences
o Journal of Literature and Art Studies
o Journal of Materials Science and Engineering (A & B)
o Journal of Mathematics and System Science
o Journal of Mechanics Engineering and Automation
o Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing
o Journal of Physical Science and Application
o Journal of Shipping and Ocean Engineering
o Journal of US-China Medical Science
o Journal of US-China Public Administration
o Journalism and Mass Communication
o Philosophy study
o Psychology Research
o Psychology Research
o Sino-US English Teaching
o Sociology Study
o US-China Education Review A & B
o US-China Foreign Language

[¹]. David Publishing Company, 9460 Telstar Ave Suite 5, EL Monte, CA91731, USA Tel: 323-984-7526; Fax: 323-984-7374

By: Jeffrey Beall
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Mike A Noorzai – Rare Classic Cars

With the passing of Mike A Noorzai, his family has asked us to list many of his classic cars.  If you’re interested in any of them listed below send the Emerald City Journal an email.  Funds will help support his family including college tuition for his daughters.  A portion of the profit will also go to local charities supporting cancer awareness.

Mike A Noorzai
Mike A Noorzai a consultant and journalist at the Emerald City Journal.

 

Mike A Noorzai classic car for sale. 1955 Chevy Bel Air
Mike A Noorzai classic car for sale. 1955 Chevy Bel Air
Mike A Noorzai Classic 1992 Jaguar XJS Convertible
Mike A Noorzai Classic 1992 Jaguar XJS Convertible

Updated Oct 2014 –
The family of Mike A Noorzai sent us a handwritten letter thanking the Emerald City Journal for the years of work and personal friendship with him. They expressed he was always happy working for us as a freelancer but all the great team who always respected him plus took his advice on matters. Additional photos are being added below as well supplied to us. They are from his personal car collection – one of his favorite personal hobbies.

Noorzai Great Family Photo
Noorzai Great Family Photo
Noorzai Old House Photo
Noorzai Old House Photo

Mike A Noorzai

Mike A Noorzai
Mike A Noorzai (1950-2014). Seattle, Washington Biography

A member of the Seattle community and active athlete, Mike A Noorzai was a dedicated journalist and consultant for the Emerald City Journal. With over 20 years of experience in print and media, his passing just shows how fragile life can be. Mike A Noorzai served in the Navy and many years later retired. He was a family man, community advisor, and experienced businessman. Everyone here was always impressed with the way he communicated. Mike knew a lot about the business and little about everything.

One of Mike’s greatest passions was going to the baseball games in Seattle and his large collection of classic cars. I remember him telling me so many stories of how his father would take him to the games and how much he loved spending that time with his father. He tried to go to many of the Seattle Mariners games with his children because as he grew up he understood how much he loved that time together. Mike A Noorzai is survived by his wife Nancy Noorzai. Many of the staff members of the Emerald City Journal took the day off in March 2011 to just show how much he gave to the company and the experience he shared.

On a personal level, Mike was a good friend. Together we shared a passion of motorcycles and classic cars. Mike had a fantastic collection of cars that I was really jealous about. Many were passed down from his father but he continued to add to his collection even up until his passing last March. We loved talking about cars and sometimes would even go on road trips. These are the moments I will remember the most.

Mike A Noorzai's Classic Cars From His Collection
Mike A Noorzai’s Classic Cars From His Collection

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Neglected Graves Household to ‘Invisible Dead’

Duncan Shropshire stops by the edge next to the tree line, exactly where the meadow will become a forest. His yellow linen shirt is mis-buttoned and crooked, leaving the bottom of his stomach somewhat uncovered.

His 8-year-old daughter, Mia-Grace, stands a foot or so behind him, wiping her runny nose together with the sleeve of her blue sweatshirt. Right after about a moment, she lets out a sigh of boredom.

Shropshire, 51, clasps his daughter’s hand and starts talking…stop her in to the Northwest Georgia forest.

“This is exactly where your ancestors are buried, again right here,” Shropshire says. “C’mon, I am going to show you.”

And having a loving tug, Duncan Shropshire shares along with his daughter a crucial bit of their family’s background.

Nonetheless keeping fingers, the pair weaves by means of the maze of skinny pines, stepping more than fallen oaks and basketball-sized sinkholes. Mia-Grace stays silent though her father appears singularly targeted on transferring ahead. Immediately after 5 minutes, they visit a mass clearing exactly where rows of fist-sized rocks bulge out from the floor.

Each and every rock sits atop modest depressions inside the floor.

“You see these humps inside the floor?” Shropshire asks.

“Uh-huh,” Mia-Grace replies.

“Those are rows of graves. They are stacked like spoons right here,” Shropshire says. “There was a good deal of people today right here. People today with the 1800s are buried right here. And I am attempting to maintain it inside your memory the way in which granddaddy held it in mine so it will not be forgotten.”

The 2 crouch down getting closing to the ground, flat rock with all the phrases “Lewis Dickson, 4? scratched into it. For the left with the marker is often a row of twelve rocks. Towards the entrance, you’ll find 4 other rows of stones, various in range.

“How long did they bury our kin right here?” Mia-Grace asks.

“They began within the early 1800s, child,” Shropshire solutions. “They labored our individuals to die right here. They had been slaves. And most likely by about 1905 is the time they stopped burying in this particular region. Your great-great-great grandfather, a (slave-owning) gentleman named Wesley, he had 5 youngsters by this slave lady, your great-great-great grandmother. She is buried more than right here on this facet. Her title is Molly.”

Mia-Grace’s mild green eyes get massive. “I’m anxious may I possibly plan on them,” she says.

“Oh, child,” Shropshire says having a chuckle, “they’re gone. They are gone! They are sleeping now, awaiting the Lord to arrive.”

A “rare” and “special” location this is.

The Shropshire gravesite is inside the Appalachian foothills exterior Gore, Georgia. About 1,000 ft from your clearing. It is definitely an outdated abandoned church on the dusty dirt street. Specialists say that if slaves or previous slaves are buried in the are it could be a exceptional archeological find.

“In Appalachia, it could be incredibly uncommon to possess a black or slave graveyard,” explained Ruth Small, co-author of “Sticks and Stones: 3 Centuries of North Carolina Grave markers.” “The farms in Appalachia had been modest, and there had been less slaves.”

Small says slave cemeteries within the region would already be marked with area stones, such as the rocks in the site, or wood stakes that burned down.

“It’s incredibly regional and extremely nearby,” Small continued. “I’ve observed within the coastal location with graves marked with seashells.”

Other grave markers utilized in black burial cites all through the Southeast incorporate iron pipes, damaged dishes, cups, bottles and reside cedar trees, based on Chicora Basis Executive Director Michael Trinkley. He focuses on cemetery preservation.

“The difficulty with preserving these kinds of sites is the fact that African-American cemeteries are challenging to uncover,” Trinkley mentioned. “You can believe the folks buried there because of the invisible dead. Instead of understanding exactly where they’re, or how a lot of you can find, helps make them prone to be hard to find.”

Even when gravesites are acknowledged, they nevertheless could be destroyed for improvement. Trinkley factors towards the very low nation of South Carolina.

“The regions that had been employed for burial grounds,” Trinkley explained, “those locations had been near to h2o. They had been regarded as waste locations, locations exactly where burying slaves was not a considerable reduction for the planter. These places currently are amongst probably the most sought-after for actual estate.”

Officials in Chattooga County, exactly where the web page is situated, say that they’re unaware of any grave websites within the hills close to Gore and the web-site requirements to become registered with all the library being a cemetery prior to it could be regarded as for safety via nearby ordinances.

Trinkley and Small each say the possible historical significance of grave websites warrant investigation by nearby or state officials.

“What if in that grave was your mom or your youngster?” Trinkley asked. “It’s an concern of respect and an concern of dignity. It is the final choice culture as well as the person make with each other.”

“There are not numerous traceable slave graveyards, and every single 1 is unique in it is personal way,” Small additional. She says the Shropshire family members can position to that spot and say, “This is exactly where we’re from; this can be exactly where our roots are.”

Two cemeteries for two ancestors

Shortly prior to sunset, Mia-Grace and Duncan Shropshire head more than to an previous white cemetery about a mile in the forest gravesite. The dates about the gravestones recommend that it absolutely was utilized across the very same time because the forest cemetery.

There, Shropshire and Mia-Grace stroll more than to some marble headstone that tops ten ft. Before it really is a modest plastic Confederate flag flapping inside the breeze.

“This is Wesley Weatherspoon Shropshire. … He was 1 from the colonels within the Civil War for your Confederacy,” Shropshire says. “He had 5 young children by means of a slave he owned through the identify of Molly.”

“My great-great grandmother?” Mia-Grace asks.

“Your great-great-great grandmother,” Shropshire corrects her. He turns to level towards yet another grave site when Mia-Grace notices her father’s misbuttoned shirt. She stops him mid-sentence and starts to repair the crooked buttons.

“Why is Molly buried more than there and Wesley more than right here?” she asks.

“Because that is the way in which it absolutely was, Mia,” Shropshire solutions.

Mia-Grace’s confront is filled up with intensive focus as she tries to undo the bottom button on her father’s shirt.

Lastly, she pries the button absolutely free. She seems up at her father and says assuredly, “But people today are individuals. It does not issue what they’re. They are all of the very same.”

“That’s a great factor to believe, but back again then it was not like that, Mia,” Shropshire tells her. “The dark-skinned men and women had been buried way back again more than yonder, as well as the light-skinned folks had been buried right here.”

Mia-Grace lastly fixes her father’s shirt, leaving it straight. Then, she skips more than towards the other finish with the cemetery. Shropshire watches her race throughout the whole lot.

“You cannot do effectively in existence in the event you do not know your background. Without having your background, you are absolutely nothing,” he says.

Mia-Grace playfully hides behind a massive headstone, calling for her daddy to chase her. A quarter-way towards her, he stops, turns about and yells back again, “I reckon she’ll be buried wherever she desires to.”

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