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Pierre Desir
OVERVIEW
2013: First-team AP Little All-American. American Football Coaches Association All-American. Led team with 4 INTs.
2012: AFCA All-American. First-team All-MIAA. Voted team’s Defensive Player of the Year. School-record 9 INTs. Had 9 PBU. Started all 12 games. 2011: Redshirted after transferring. Washburn University: Attended for 3 years, lettering twice in football. Second-team All-MIAA in 2010. High School: All-state DB. Tom Lemming’s No. 17 “athlete” in the nation.
ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Outstanding body and arm length -- looks the part. Good athlete with loose hips and a fluid pedal. Superb two-year production on the ball. Natural interceptor -- attacks the ball in the air like a receiver and tracks it very well. Plays big in critical situations. Very confident demeanor.
Outstanding zone instincts -- sees patterns developing and jumps routes. Solid tackler. Experienced, four-year starter. Mature, accountable father of two. Solid character. Durable and has battled through injuries.
WEAKNESSES Regularly matched up against inferior competition, inflating production, and was not challenged enough. Average timed speed. Loses a half-step in transition and will struggle to carry NFL receivers vertically. Could stand to do a better job wrapping as a tackler and filling faster -- does not always play to his size in the run game. Overaged.
BOTTOM LINE Exceptional-sized, Division II standout with the size, ball skills and anticipation to earn a job as a zone cover man. Has the physical traits to pique the interest of Seattle, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay.
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/pierre-desir?id=2543811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Desir_(American_football)
OVERVIEW
2013: First-team AP Little All-American. American Football Coaches Association All-American. Led team with 4 INTs.
2012: AFCA All-American. First-team All-MIAA. Voted team’s Defensive Player of the Year. School-record 9 INTs. Had 9 PBU. Started all 12 games. 2011: Redshirted after transferring. Washburn University: Attended for 3 years, lettering twice in football. Second-team All-MIAA in 2010. High School: All-state DB. Tom Lemming’s No. 17 “athlete” in the nation.
ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Outstanding body and arm length -- looks the part. Good athlete with loose hips and a fluid pedal. Superb two-year production on the ball. Natural interceptor -- attacks the ball in the air like a receiver and tracks it very well. Plays big in critical situations. Very confident demeanor.
Outstanding zone instincts -- sees patterns developing and jumps routes. Solid tackler. Experienced, four-year starter. Mature, accountable father of two. Solid character. Durable and has battled through injuries.
WEAKNESSES Regularly matched up against inferior competition, inflating production, and was not challenged enough. Average timed speed. Loses a half-step in transition and will struggle to carry NFL receivers vertically. Could stand to do a better job wrapping as a tackler and filling faster -- does not always play to his size in the run game. Overaged.
BOTTOM LINE Exceptional-sized, Division II standout with the size, ball skills and anticipation to earn a job as a zone cover man. Has the physical traits to pique the interest of Seattle, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay.
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/pierre-desir?id=2543811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Desir_(American_football)
Pierre Desir
Desir attended Washburn University, and played for the Washburn Ichabods from 2008-2010. He sat out his freshman year as a redshirt. In 2009, he was named first team all-MIAA after leading the conference with seven interceptions and 13 passes defended, and finished the season with 33 total tackles. He also averaged 29.4 yards per kickoff return on 10 attempts. In 2010, he recorded 46 tackles, including 5.5 for loss, nine pass deflections, one forced fumble, and five interceptions, earning himself second team all-MIAA honors.
In 2011, he left Washburn citing a desire to be closer to his young children, and enrolled at Lindenwood University. After not playing his first year, he returned in 2012 and was one of the top defensive players in the MIAA. To go along with 60 tackles, he finished second among all levels of NCAA football with nine interceptions and tied for the NCAA Division II lead with 18 passes defended. He was also named first-team All-MIAA and was an first-team AFCA Div. II All-American. In his final season, he once again was named an first-team All-MIAA selection and an AFCA Div. II All-American. He recorded 33 tackles, 12 pass deflections and four interceptions. He also won the inaugural Cliff Harris Award, honoring the nation's top small college defensive player.
Desir finished his career ranked first in Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics history in passes defended. His 25 career interceptions are the second most in conference history and rank him in the top 10 in Division II history.
OVERVIEW
2013: First-team AP Little All-American. American Football Coaches Association All-American. Led team with 4 INTs.
2012: AFCA All-American. First-team All-MIAA. Voted team’s Defensive Player of the Year. School-record 9 INTs. Had 9 PBU. Started all 12 games. 2011: Redshirted after transferring. Washburn University: Attended for 3 years, lettering twice in football. Second-team All-MIAA in 2010. High School: All-state DB. Tom Lemming’s No. 17 “athlete” in the nation.
ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Outstanding body and arm length -- looks the part. Good athlete with loose hips and a fluid pedal. Superb two-year production on the ball. Natural interceptor -- attacks the ball in the air like a receiver and tracks it very well. Plays big in critical situations. Very confident demeanor.
Outstanding zone instincts -- sees patterns developing and jumps routes. Solid tackler. Experienced, four-year starter. Mature, accountable father of two. Solid character. Durable and has battled through injuries.
WEAKNESSES Regularly matched up against inferior competition, inflating production, and was not challenged enough. Average timed speed. Loses a half-step in transition and will struggle to carry NFL receivers vertically. Could stand to do a better job wrapping as a tackler and filling faster -- does not always play to his size in the run game. Overaged.
BOTTOM LINE Exceptional-sized, Division II standout with the size, ball skills and anticipation to earn a job as a zone cover man. Has the physical traits to pique the interest of Seattle, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay.
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/pierre-desir?id=2543811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Desir_(American_football)
Desir attended Washburn University, and played for the Washburn Ichabods from 2008-2010. He sat out his freshman year as a redshirt. In 2009, he was named first team all-MIAA after leading the conference with seven interceptions and 13 passes defended, and finished the season with 33 total tackles. He also averaged 29.4 yards per kickoff return on 10 attempts. In 2010, he recorded 46 tackles, including 5.5 for loss, nine pass deflections, one forced fumble, and five interceptions, earning himself second team all-MIAA honors.
In 2011, he left Washburn citing a desire to be closer to his young children, and enrolled at Lindenwood University. After not playing his first year, he returned in 2012 and was one of the top defensive players in the MIAA. To go along with 60 tackles, he finished second among all levels of NCAA football with nine interceptions and tied for the NCAA Division II lead with 18 passes defended. He was also named first-team All-MIAA and was an first-team AFCA Div. II All-American. In his final season, he once again was named an first-team All-MIAA selection and an AFCA Div. II All-American. He recorded 33 tackles, 12 pass deflections and four interceptions. He also won the inaugural Cliff Harris Award, honoring the nation's top small college defensive player.
Desir finished his career ranked first in Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics history in passes defended. His 25 career interceptions are the second most in conference history and rank him in the top 10 in Division II history.
OVERVIEW
2013: First-team AP Little All-American. American Football Coaches Association All-American. Led team with 4 INTs.
2012: AFCA All-American. First-team All-MIAA. Voted team’s Defensive Player of the Year. School-record 9 INTs. Had 9 PBU. Started all 12 games. 2011: Redshirted after transferring. Washburn University: Attended for 3 years, lettering twice in football. Second-team All-MIAA in 2010. High School: All-state DB. Tom Lemming’s No. 17 “athlete” in the nation.
ANALYSIS
STRENGTHS Outstanding body and arm length -- looks the part. Good athlete with loose hips and a fluid pedal. Superb two-year production on the ball. Natural interceptor -- attacks the ball in the air like a receiver and tracks it very well. Plays big in critical situations. Very confident demeanor.
Outstanding zone instincts -- sees patterns developing and jumps routes. Solid tackler. Experienced, four-year starter. Mature, accountable father of two. Solid character. Durable and has battled through injuries.
WEAKNESSES Regularly matched up against inferior competition, inflating production, and was not challenged enough. Average timed speed. Loses a half-step in transition and will struggle to carry NFL receivers vertically. Could stand to do a better job wrapping as a tackler and filling faster -- does not always play to his size in the run game. Overaged.
BOTTOM LINE Exceptional-sized, Division II standout with the size, ball skills and anticipation to earn a job as a zone cover man. Has the physical traits to pique the interest of Seattle, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay.
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/pierre-desir?id=2543811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Desir_(American_football)
Combat Jack
A first-generation Haitian-American, Ossé graduated from Cornell University. There he became a member of Kappa Xi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He later received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He has represented hip-hop producers and entertainers, such as Jay Z, Damon Dash, Roc-a-fella Records, DJ Clark Kent, Nice & Smooth, Capone-N-Noreaga, Deric "D. Dot" Angelettie, Ski Beats, and others, starting from an internship in legal affairs for Def Jam Recordings[1] in 1989. After 12 years of practicing law in the music industry, he retired and wrote Bling, a book documenting hip-hop's history and fascination with jewelry. He also served as the Vice President of Audio/Music DVD at MTV Networks[3] and later managing editor of The Source
Ossé has blogged for byroncrawford.com, ihiphop.com, xxlmag.com, and his own site - daily-math.com. He began hosting The Combat Jack Show, an internet radio show dedicated to hip-hop discussions and interviews, in August 2010. Combat Jack's co-hosts include Dallas Penn, Premium Pete, DJ Benhameen, AKing, and Just Blaze.
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Its official ...he aint Haitian
Its official ...he aint Haitian
As long each county like haiti retains its culture like the concept of having a voffee bar in that marriott hotel rather than starbucks they have their own national cofee Rebo as a cafe and haiian ars speaks volumes. The already established smaller boutique hotels are equally important there...
The international hotel chain has breathed new life into Haiti’s economy with a conscientious development in Port-au-Prince. Judith Baker finds out more
The opening of big multinational chain hotels in the Caribbean can attract criticism, but the launch of a new Marriott hotel in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in March could not have received a warmer welcome.
Marriott itself has broken some of its own rules in Haiti. Visitors here find a different kind of hotel that has pulled out all the stops to become an ethical, sustainable model geared to rebuilding Haiti’s battered economy.
Plans began four years ago when Marriott International reached out to the Clinton Foundation to propose a new hotel to help Haiti rebuild its tourism industry after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Marriott’s interest in investing in Haiti was inspired in large part by the thousands of Haitian associates who, after the earthquake, urged the company to “do what it does best” and open a hotel to spur economic activity through travel and bring hope back to Haiti. Digicel Telecommunications Group agreed to invest $45 million to build the 175-room, five-suite hotel.
In addition to creating 200 jobs for Haitians, the new hotel incorporates Haitian art and artisan products into its design and integrates green technologies such as solar power to reduce the hotel’s environmental footprint.
The Clinton Foundation also worked closely with Marriott and Digicel to identify and contract Haitian entrepreneurs, small businesses and agricultural cooperatives that could provide goods and services to the hotel.
The hotel is staffed by members of the Haitian diaspora who were working in Marriotts all over the world as well as local people from some of the country’s most disadvantaged communities.
Global brand’s new twist
I visit in April to find that behind the glossy Marriott exterior lies an unusual take on the global brand.
You won’t find a Starbucks here but a Reba coffee shop. “Reba is Haiti’s national coffee, and a socially responsible business that is investing in agricultural and financial training for small and independent farmers,” says marketing manager Stephanie Gibson, originally from the US.
“The hotel is also the first in Haiti to source produce from a Kenscoff-based co-op of 5,500 farmers.”
She shows me the rooms, each unmistakably Marriott but with a twist - featuring locally sourced art and Fairtrade toiletries.
“There are more than 200 original artworks here,” says general manager Peter Antinoph. “Metalworks, papier mache masks and voodoo flags, which reflect the vibrant art culture of Haiti.
“The Marriott Port-au-Prince is unique in so many ways. We focus on sustainable actions that will lift people from poverty, drive respect and create jobs for the hotel and, through local procurement, the community at large as well.
“Each action that we have taken to move closer to our goal has been uncomplicated and simple. We simply follow the Marriott ethic of taking care of our staff and our community. We have not reinvented the wheel.”
Human resources director Edwige Solages, herself a returning Haitian from Manhattan, tells me that she went into Haiti’s poorest areas to recruit people to work in the hotel in all areas of hospitality.
“Training was a thorough operation,” she says, “Trainees did a 12-week experience in Santo Domingo, and are now empowered in their roles and have proved to be some of the company’s best workers.” The new associates include Luccardo, who was recruited to work at the hotel’s front desk from the Nos Petits Freres et Soeurs orphanage.
“Our staff are brilliant, wonderful, friendly, energetic, smiling, warm people. I cannot say enough good about them,” says Antinoph.
The Marriott Port-au-Prince should not be viewed in isolation - it’s a pioneering lynchpin within an emerging destination. The hotel is located in the city’s business district, which is also an ideal base for tourists who are beginning to rediscover Haiti’s attractions. They include the famous Citadelle in Cap Haitien (mooted as the Caribbean’s Machu Picchu, and a short internal flight away) and the seaside resort of Jacmel, with its waterfalls and beautiful beaches.
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wait a minute...Capone is HAITIAN!!!!?????
Future
Just watched the big brother Elvis Dumervil on Sportscenter, talking about Haitian athletes uniting to help build an infrastructure back home.
Haitian Family Featured in New Disney Show ‘The Exchange’
Haiti, Haitian, Griot, Creole, Jeremie all mention on a show on Disney?
With the vast amount of talented Haitian producers and actors in Hollywood it was just a matter of time before the door was open to us, and thanks to Haitian-Jamaican writer and director Daheli Hall who created the new Disney show “The Exchange,” families and classrooms from all over the world can sit with their children and learn more about Haiti’s rich history and culture.
What makes the news of this new show even better is the fact that anyone can watch it from anywhere. Disney Channel has always been a go-to destination for the best TV shows and movies but Variety reports, that in an effort to drive young viewers to digital destinations the network premiered a block of 12 short-form movies in a way that will make it much easier for anyone to watch on its ad-supported streaming platforms and YouTube. The shorts will be available under what will be known as “Free Period” via Disney’s website, mobile apps, and connected TV devices starting Aug. 5 through Aug. 18.
The Exchange Short:
“When their study abroad program is canceled, a teen girl suggests her classmates spend a week at each other’s houses.” While Haitian student Bridgette spent a week at her classmate Jeremy’s, Jeremy spent a week at Bridgette’s learning about Haiti, the languages, the food, the culture and even some riddles.
The Haitian Family:
Haitian Actress Carla Jefferey as Brigette
Haitian Actress Karina Bonnefil as Granmè
Yvans Jourdain “Jean” Brigette father
Nakia Secrest as “Marlene” Brigette mother
Check out the full list of shorts below, and head to Disney Channel’s YouTube page to see the first installments.
Carla Jefferey, Nakia Secrest, Yvans Jourdain, Karina Bonnefil
Facebook response from Haitian writer and director Daheli Hall.
What do you think?
http://www.lunionsuite.com/watch-haitian-family-featured-new-disney-show-exchange/
Haiti, Haitian, Griot, Creole, Jeremie all mention on a show on Disney?
With the vast amount of talented Haitian producers and actors in Hollywood it was just a matter of time before the door was open to us, and thanks to Haitian-Jamaican writer and director Daheli Hall who created the new Disney show “The Exchange,” families and classrooms from all over the world can sit with their children and learn more about Haiti’s rich history and culture.
What makes the news of this new show even better is the fact that anyone can watch it from anywhere. Disney Channel has always been a go-to destination for the best TV shows and movies but Variety reports, that in an effort to drive young viewers to digital destinations the network premiered a block of 12 short-form movies in a way that will make it much easier for anyone to watch on its ad-supported streaming platforms and YouTube. The shorts will be available under what will be known as “Free Period” via Disney’s website, mobile apps, and connected TV devices starting Aug. 5 through Aug. 18.
The Exchange Short:
“When their study abroad program is canceled, a teen girl suggests her classmates spend a week at each other’s houses.” While Haitian student Bridgette spent a week at her classmate Jeremy’s, Jeremy spent a week at Bridgette’s learning about Haiti, the languages, the food, the culture and even some riddles.
The Haitian Family:
Haitian Actress Carla Jefferey as Brigette
Haitian Actress Karina Bonnefil as Granmè
Yvans Jourdain “Jean” Brigette father
Nakia Secrest as “Marlene” Brigette mother
Check out the full list of shorts below, and head to Disney Channel’s YouTube page to see the first installments.
Carla Jefferey, Nakia Secrest, Yvans Jourdain, Karina Bonnefil
Facebook response from Haitian writer and director Daheli Hall.
What do you think?
http://www.lunionsuite.com/watch-haitian-family-featured-new-disney-show-exchange/
Mona Scott
Claudine Joseph, Chief Operating Officer, LL COOL J Inc., U.S
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/the-woman-making-hillary-clinton-cool
Back in March, when millennial voters feeling the Bern threatened to crush Hillary Clinton’s Presidential ambitions, Karen Civil, a thirty-one-year-old social-media marketer, helped throw a Clinton rally at the Apollo Theatre. Renée Elise Goldsberry, a star of “Hamilton,” sang the national anthem. Before the event, Civil posted a video on her Snapchat account. The record producer DJ Khaled, a Snapchat superstar, has a shtick that involves him asking a friend how his business is going; the answer is always “Booming!” Civil suggested that she and Clinton copy it. So Civil asked Clinton, backstage, “Hillary, how’s business?” Clinton grinned and replied, “Booming!”
“I like to take people out of their element,” Civil said the other day, at a juice bar in downtown Los Angeles. She wore Chanel sneakers and a pink baseball cap embroidered with “Inspire or Retire.” “With Hillary, I’ll say, ‘We’ve got to do something funny. We’ve got to do something different, even when we take pictures.’ We did the ‘dust your shoulders off’”—a visual reference to Jay Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”—“at the first rally I did for her in Atlanta.”
Civil creates marketing campaigns for hip-hop artists and music companies. Growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, she built fan Web sites for the Backstreet Boys and J. D. Williams, an actor on “The Wire.” She dropped out of community college to intern at the radio station Hot 97. Later, while working at Asylum Records, she decided that the brand she really wanted to build was her own. In 2008, she launched her Web site, featuring flip-camera interviews with up-and-coming rap stars like Drake and Nicki Minaj.
“I wanted it to be a girl’s point of view of hip-hop,” Civil said. “Not about personal lives or gossip but about the music: who produced it, when they recorded it.” Two years later, Beats by Dre asked her to move to L.A. and help its marketing department. Beats is now a client of her marketing agency, Always Civil Enterprises.
In 2014, the television host Terrence Jenkins invited Civil to a holiday party at the White House. (“I wanted to take home a plate, but when Barack started his talk he said, ‘Make sure you don’t take the china or silverware.’ So I took a napkin and a macaroon.”) Last year, Civil spoke at a White House event for young women activists, and got on the radar of De’Ara Balenger, the Clinton campaign’s director of engagement. “From the outset, we were obsessed with Karen,” Balenger said. She invited Civil to critique the campaign’s social-media presence. The good: Clinton’s old Instagram tagline, “Pantsuit Aficionado.” The bad: Clinton’s general unhipness.
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In September, 2015, Balenger hired Civil to help make Clinton cooler. Since then, there has been a noticeable uptick in rap and R. & B. stars on the periphery of the campaign. Usher attended the October, 2015, rally that Civil organized in Atlanta. At a campaign event in Philadelphia, in August, the rapper Freeway, who’d been diagnosed with kidney failure, spoke about affordable health care. “We gonna get it poppin’ for Hillary,” he told the crowd. A few weeks ago in Florida, Civil helped put Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, onstage with the rapper Pusha T (sample lyric: “They call me Pusha for one reason, ’cause I keep that sniff all seasons”). Afterward, on “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert asked Pusha T if he actually knew Clinton. “We met each other via FaceTime, via Karen Civil,” he said.
As Clinton has got up to speed, so have campaign elders. Minyon Moore, a senior adviser who worked in Bill Clinton’s White House, said, “With the millennial space, you don’t have to understand it to try and get involved with it.”
“I just hang with all the young, cool kids there,” Civil said. She mentioned Balenger’s boss but struggled to remember her name. It’s Huma Abedin.
Civil took a sip of beet juice (she went vegan a year ago). Her phone buzzed. The rapper Paul Wall wanted to know if she’d be at the opening of his Houston store. It specializes in “grillz” for teeth, and Wall had engraved a gold one with Civil’s name for her birthday, which is on Election Day.
“It’s really about continuing the legacy that Obama started,” Civil said. “I know we still deal with racism and being divided, but he makes you feel like this is one nation, with his demeanor, his swag.” She went on, “It’s, like, there’s never going to be another them. But I want somebody to keep that momentum going.” ♦
When you have an ongoing corrupt government for decades, who gives zero fucks about the people, that in lies the answer to your question.
Sak Pase
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Some other few notables who I had no idea were Haitian.
Rapper Max B is of Haitian descent.
Rapper Capone is of Haitian descent.
Former rapper Jacki-O is half-Haitian.
Actress Zoe Saldana’s mother has Haitian roots.
Singer Usher’s father is from Haiti.
NBA player Blake Griffin’s father is Haitian.
Rapper Pastor Troy’s father is Haitian.
Jamie Hector is an American actor of Haitian descent.
Singer Jason Derulo was born to Haitian parents.
Free agent NFL player Jonathan Vilma’s family hails from Haiti.
Singer Maxwell is half-Puerto Rican and half-Haitian. His mother was raised in Haiti.
Link
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/15/20-celebrities-you-didnt-know-were-of-haitian-descent/4/
Rapper Max B is of Haitian descent.
Rapper Capone is of Haitian descent.
Former rapper Jacki-O is half-Haitian.
Actress Zoe Saldana’s mother has Haitian roots.
Singer Usher’s father is from Haiti.
NBA player Blake Griffin’s father is Haitian.
Rapper Pastor Troy’s father is Haitian.
Jamie Hector is an American actor of Haitian descent.
Singer Jason Derulo was born to Haitian parents.
Free agent NFL player Jonathan Vilma’s family hails from Haiti.
Singer Maxwell is half-Puerto Rican and half-Haitian. His mother was raised in Haiti.
Link
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/09/15/20-celebrities-you-didnt-know-were-of-haitian-descent/4/