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Looks like the homes at brightwater are sitting on top of an ancient burial ground and the developer is trying to cover it up…..check out this article from the OC register

Will Huntington Beach homes sit on ancient burial ground?

174 American Indian bone fragments were uncovered on the Brightwater Hearthside Homes site, which is slated to become a residential community.

BY CINDY CARCAMO

The Orange County Register

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HUNTINGTON BEACH - Archaeologists have unearthed 174 ancient American Indian remains, half of them found over the past 18 months on a site at Bolsa Chica Mesa slated to become a residential community, according to California Native American Heritage Commission officials.

The discovery of hundreds of mysterious cogged stones and now human bone fragments that are up to 8,500 years old confirms decades-long rumors that the Brightwater Hearthside Homes site is an ancient burial ground of international importance, said Dave Singleton, a program analyst with the Native American Heritage Commission.

The land was once shared by the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians and Gabrieleno-Tongva, Singleton said. In addition, he said, the site was possibly a ceremonial area. The 400 cogged stones found in and around the site are considered ceremonial objects by both tribes and were buried with the deceased, he said.

Since the 1970s, activists and tribal members have pushed for preservation of the site that they said belonged to an ancient Indian village.

After a flurry of lawsuits and heated disputes over a plan to build more than 300 homes on the site, developer Hearthside Homes won permission to build as long as any discovered remains were reinterred elsewhere in the area. Archaeologists have worked at the location for decades, but details about the scope of the find haven’t emerged until now.

About eight years ago, Hearthside Homes acknowledged isolated findings of American Indian remains on the site but didn’t file a summary report about the last 87 bone fragments until November. Human remains can mean whole sets or a single fragment belonging to a person. The report, filed with the commission, was written by Nancy Wiley, the lead archeologist who works for the developer.

Flossie Horgan, executive director of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust, said the developer should have made the findings public when the large numbers of bone fragments surfaced.

She called the lack of disclosure a “cover-up” and said the development’s future may have been different if the California Coastal Commission had known the significance of the site.

Hearthside Homes broke ground on the project on June 2006 after gaining state approval.

“The public has a right to know what is going on here,” said Horgan, whose group seeks to preserve open space.

The developer did not return multiple calls for comment on this story.

Wiley’s report also stated that thousands of artifacts were found on the site and that 83 pre-historical features were discovered alongside the last 87 remains, Singleton said. Most of these items were found during grading for the project. Wiley could not be reached for comment.

Joyce Perry, a Juaneño leader who has worked as a monitor on the site, said her policy is not to disclose the burial ground to the public as a way to protect the ancestors. Developers hire monitors who keep watch over sites as they are excavated.

Perry said archaeologists found the first 87 bone fragments little by little over the last 30 years. Those have been reburied, she said. The last 87 remains were uncovered in the last 18 months and are scheduled to be reburied this spring or summer.

“We’ve worked cooperatively with the land owner over many decades to assure the ancestors are taken care of with dignity and respect,” said Perry, who has worked off and on as a monitor for 15 years. “That’s very important because we’ve never worked with more sensitive landowners than Hearthside Homes.”

Others disagree.

Singleton said the developer should simply not have built on the site.

The site may have links to some sacred sites along the Chilean coast where, he said, similar-looking cogged stones have been found.

“Obviously this is a burial ground and ceremonial site of international importance,” he said. “First the Native American Heritage Commission .. in all the letters… recommended avoidance. That means ‘don’t build it.’ That’s our opinion but the law is another thing.”

State law allows the developer to mitigate for the proposed development of the land and move the remains to another site in the area.

Singleton said he is unsure if the developer has been expeditiously reburying the remains, stating that much time has passed since the excavation of the last 87 bone fragments. In addition, he said he’s concerned about the remains and grave goods getting adequate care.

The commission appointed two most likely descendants of the two tribes to keep watch on construction and consult with the developer on how to treat ancient human remains.

One of those most likely descendants, Anthony Morales, a Gabrieleno-Tongva, said the remains are, for the most part, handled well but he’s had to take on the developer on a few points.

In one instance, Morales said the developer tried to exclude him from viewing the handling of a portion of remains.

“I had to call the Coastal Commission and strong-arm them,” Morales said.

He said he eventually got Hearthside Homes to comply.

Though the developer isn’t legally bound to release information about the findings, some preservation activists and archeologists say they are ethically responsible to make significant discoveries public.

“It’s very sad. If this were a cemetery where our people are buried, we’d be outraged,” Horgan said. “Taking bodies out of the ground and putting them in trailers to build McMansions on a sacred site is not appropriate.”

Still, some tribal members want information about their ancestors remains kept secret and protected from intrusion.

“We would ask that the turmoil and controversy surrounding these ancestors stop and let us lay the final ones to rest,” Perry said. “We don’t want the ancestors to be used any longer for anyone’s political gain.

“It’s a 30-year battle. We want these ancestors to be laid to rest with no controversy surrounding them.”

Linda Tran singing Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On

Compton has another budding superstar in the making!!!

A video with great backup dancers

A funny video recorded in neighboring carson. Alica Keys No One

Who wants to go to Vegas on Monday, Dec, 10?! 

 I know many sistas in Compton sometimes need a leg up in life.  One example, would be “enhancing” your body. 

No black woman would want D’s when they can have double D’s!
Why pay 7k for a Newport Boob Job w/ Dr. Ambe when you can get it for free?

This post is directed to a specific VFC.com reader, and you know who you are!!!!

A couple days ago Compton had a POLE-A-PALOOZA satellite contest. Read about it here:

 http://www.vufromcompton.com/?p=32

The third semi-annual ‘Pole-A-Palooza’ pole dance competition was held at JET nightclub at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007. 25 contestants competed for a prize money of $10,000 

Here are some photos, from the official contest.  Sadly the ladies from Compton did not win. Good luck next year!

What is black and white and covered in red?

No you silly, it’s not a murder scene in Compton!

A newspaper!!!!! HAHAHA kneeslapper!

 Teenagers, looking up to those elite athletes whose muscles ripple with steroid-enhanced power, are picking up some dangerous training tips, health experts warn. Several national youth surveys estimate steroid use by high school boys at 4-6%, up to 12% in one study, and about 2% for girls. And the numbers are rising. “I’d say 500,000 to 600,000 kids in the U.S. have used these drugs at some time,” says researcher Charles Yesalis, professor of exercise and sport science at Penn State. “Right now steroid use is at an all-time high.”

Check out the pictures of a 15 year old named Tammy.

Those are the biggest guns I have ever scene on an asian 15 year old.  I heard she is trying to qualify for the olympic water polo team in 08.

Here Tammy is westling a 23 year old math student at SJSU.  Look at all that rage!!!!!  If you had to ask, she won.

Yesalis, author of Performance Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise, cites a study published in 2000 that found prevalent use among eighth-graders similar to that of high school seniors. “We’ve shown use down to seventh-grade level,” he says. “It’s scary for anybody to use these drugs, but in particular women and children.” A 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance study by the Centers for Disease Control and the 2001 Monitoring the Future survey both show steady growth in steroid use by eighth- to 12th-graders.

It is not only young athletes who use them, says Yesalis. Because steroids can help turn a 100-pound weakling into a buff beach stud, they “make a young person feel more popular, more sexually attractive,” he says. But there is a price to pay. Anabolic steroids are synthetic drugs related to male hormones. They’re used medically to help AIDS patients improve strength and appetite and to treat men for delayed puberty, impotence and hypogonadism, a condition in which the testes are underactive.

For young athletes, steroids increase muscle mass and strength and shorten the time for muscles to recover from a workout. They also have the psychological effect of boosting assertiveness, giving a “pumped-up mental attitude,” DiNubile says.

Glad to see the police doing their job in Carson. I forsee a spike in marijuana prices this coming holiday, better buy now before you have a sober holiday!!!

Taken from the daily breeze:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/11515891.html

Narcotics detectives arrested two men and seized $20 million worth of marijuana stacked in bales from floor to ceiling at a Carson “stash house,” police said Friday.

Inglewood police called the 5,000-pound seizure the largest marijuana bust in the department’s history.

“Five thousand pounds makes an extremely large dent in the marijuana dealing industry,” Inglewood police Capt. Eve Irvine said.

The seizure occurred Wednesday after Inglewood narcotics officers developed information about a possible marijuana stash house in southeast Carson. Such locations house narcotics until they are distributed to other dealers, who sell to lower-level dealers, who ultimately provide it to the street dealer.

Police would not say where the house was located because they are continuing to investigate the narcotics ring.

But when they arrived to check the house out on Wednesday, they knew immediately that their information was accurate.

“When they drove into the alley, they said they could smell it,” Irvine said. “It was an overwhelming smell.”

Narcotics detectives served a warrant to search the house. Inside, they found about 400 bales throughout the sparsely furnished home. Two bedrooms were packed with pot, detectives said.

Beyond the marijuana, the house contained only a couple of mattresses on the floor for sleeping.

Officers arrested the two men on suspicion of possession and transportation of marijuana for sale, Irvine said. Police also confiscated $3,000 cash and a handgun.

The bales ranged from a football-sized 7 pounds to 33 pounders. Some were low-end “ragweed” marijuana worth $300 to $400 a pound. Others were high-grade “Arizona” at $500 to $600 a pound.

Each bale was wrapped in plastic and painted with oil used in motor vehicle crank shafts. The oil is designed to mask the odor from police dogs, Irvine said.

 Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We were very fortunate that our white friend Katie cooked us a pre-thanksgiving dinner last week. A few things we are thankful for:

1) Making it to November 07 and not getting shot.
2) Our house making it to November 07 without a drive by. (That’s over 300 days!)
3) Our health
5) Our family
6) Our friends
7) Our local gangs patrolling Compton to keep the streets safe from the PO-lice.

Here are some photos taken on 11/17.  Please note that I wanted to post it up after the holidays to ensure that everyone that attended the party didn’t get shot

Not a real white party unless someone brings the Yellowtail.

The person that put everything together! Katie-the-freak-a-lic

 The first morman to visit Compton, the apostle Steve.