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So That's Why Palin Believes in the Ingathering of the Jews
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 9:53 am
Last week, Sarah Palin made a strange comment defending Israeli settlement construction by warning that "more and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead." Since worldwide Jewry is unaware of such an imminent threat that would prompt mass immigration to Israel — and certainly not immigration specific to the West Bank – that sounded like some kind of dogwhistle to Christian Zionists, a cohort that promotes unconditional American support to Israel in order to bring about the end of the world and the return of Jesus Christ to earth. Not, in other words, something particularly high on the Jewish or Israeli agendas, but Christian Zionists represent a pretty sizable bloc within the Republican coalition and could, say, help someone win a presidential nomination were someone so inclined.
Palin's apparently eschatological comment doesn't appear to be an accident. The Charlotte Observer reports that she's taking dinnertime advice on Israel from the Graham family:
The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate told Billy Graham about how she came to faith in God as a girl in Bible camp.
She quizzed him on the presidents he's known and wanted his take on what the Bible says about Israel, Iran and Iraq, Franklin Graham reported.
The Rev. Billy Graham is a credit to this country, and has for all of his life eloquently melded evangelical Christianity with a civic-mindedness and a broadmindness that have appealed to people of all faiths and no faith. (He apologized for an unfortunately antisemitic comment with President Nixon that was caught on tape and recently released.) Franklin Graham is a much different story. A Christian Zionist leader, Franklin has described Islam as "a very evil and wicked religion" and suggested erroneously that the Christian God and the Muslim God are two different deities. He even asked President Obama on the campaign trail if he was a Muslim. And unfortunately, Billy Graham is not long for this world, so if Palin is trying to yoke herself to the Grahams, then she'll be palling around with Franklin more and more.
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Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Spencer – You're correct, this is about eschatology. But not the "rapture" variety. Palin's in a little known religious tendency broadly known as the Third Wave and, more specifically, the New Apostolic Reformation.
And, Palin's "flocking to Israel" statement is really about "fishers and hunters."
See: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/11/19/174…
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
They are both evil, bigoted scum who would gladly kill anybody who doesn't worship in their approved style.
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
Bruce Wilson,
I may be ignorant to some facts here, but do you think there will be a push to "twist" the First Amendment's promise of separation of church and state?
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
The influx of Jews into Israel will come about as Jews flee an increasingly islamafied Jew-hating Europe. It will be just as bad as under Hitler. I would think that anyone could see the writing on the wall there.
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
"Franklin…suggested ERRONEOUSLY that the Christian God and the Muslim God are two different deities." (emphasis added) Can you provide a source for the assertion that the two are, in fact, the same god? Particularly one with first-hand knowledge?
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
The fact that it says so in the Qu'ran, when the God of Abraham gives his blessing and makes a covenant with Ishmael, ancestor of the Arabs.
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
Check out http://www.talk2action.org, theocracywatch.org, the dark_christianity community on LiveJournal, or anything by Dogemperor, Troutfishing, Chris Rodda, or Frederick Clarkson on Daily Kos. There's also some good information about this movement, which is already trying very hard to recast the Constitution along "Christian" lines, available at the Southern Poverty Law Center's web site.
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 4:57 pm
Thanks much!
Being secular, I don't keep abreast of these things. Will now, though!
Again, Thanks!
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
And this is what I've been on about for two years running: myth-jacking is the state of the art in manufacturing consent.
Look at the health care (not coverage, dammit, CARE) reform debate during August and answer me this: which has more power to move electorates, facts or carefully crafted myths?
Princess Sarah of the Tundra is the stalking moose of the lesser Kristol and his crew of practitioners of "the noble lie."
How did we get jacked to war in Iraq? By facts? Or myths of brown-skinned infidels with nukes or nerve gas coming to kill us in our sleep tonight?
The irresistible power of myth has been perverted, IMO most likely by the torturers at APA in allegiance with the notorious "crazies" of the intelligence community, and is now powering weapons-grade domestic propaganda.
Excerpted from Mourn on The Fourth of July, by John Pilger originally published in New Statesman 09 July 2009
What the American elite demanded, wrote Frederic F Clairmont in The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism, "was not allies but unctuous client states. What Bretton Woods bequeathed to the world was a lethal totalitarian blueprint for the carve-up of world markets." The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the African Development Bank were established in effect as arms of the US Treasury and would design and police the new order. The US military and its clients would guard the doors of these "international" institutions, and an "invisible government" of media would secure the myths, said Edward Bernays.
Bernays, described as the father of the media age, was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. "Propaganda," he wrote, "got to be a bad word because of the Germans . . . so what I did was to try and find other words [such as] Public Relations." Bernays used Freud's theories about control of the subconscious to promote a "mass culture" designed to promote fear of official enemies and servility to consumerism. It was Bernays who, on behalf of the tobacco industry, campaigned for American women to take up smoking as an act of feminist liberation, calling cigarettes "torches of freedom"; and it was his notion of disinformation that was deployed in overthrowing governments, such as Guatemala's democracy in 1954.
Above all, the goal was to distract and deter the social democratic impulses of working people. Big business was elevated from its public reputation as a kind of mafia to that of a patriotic force. "Free enterprise" became a divinity. "By the early 1950s," wrote Noam Chomsky, "20 million people a week were watching business-sponsored films. The entertainment industry was enlisted to the cause, portraying unions as the enemy, the outsider disrupting the 'harmony' of the 'American way of life' . . . Every aspect of social life was targeted and permeated schools and universities, churches, even recreational programmes. By 1954, business propaganda in public schools reached half the amount spent on textbooks."
The new "ism" was Americanism, an ideology whose distinction is its denial that it is an ideology. Recently, I saw the 1957 musical Silk Stockings, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Between the scenes of wonderful dancing to a score by Cole Porter was a series of loyalty statements that the colonel in Vietnam might well have written. I had forgotten how crude and pervasive the propaganda was; the Soviets could never compete. An oath of loyalty to all things American became an ideological commitment to the leviathan of business: from the business of armaments and war (which consumes 42 cents in every tax dollar today) to the business of food, known as "agripower" (which receives $157bn a year in government subsidies).
Barack Obama is the embodiment of the "ism".
John Pilger: Obama and Empire
Just last week, we witnessed an attempted myth-jacking of the Paul-Grayson Bill. Ryan Grim described it this morning for Democracy Now!
And almost always in Washington when you have this serious, reasonable kind of compromise, come up the pike, then the moderates and some of the liberals who are supporting the other bill will say, OK, you know what? Let's move back to the center and let's take this reasonable approach forward. But what happened on Tuesday, Huffington Post reported that this Mel Watt amendment is not in fact just a compromised version of what Paul and Grayson are doing, but it actually adds restrictions to the ability to audit the Federal Reserve. It added four major restrictions of what could not be audited which currently can and it's said that any audit that takes place must be done in accordance with current law. Current law bars, essentially, audits of the Federal Reserve. So, the amendment was a total sham. Then the Watt Amendment backers sent around a letter by what they called eight prominent economists backing his amendment rather than the Paul-Grayson type. Interestingly, this letter was written in the beginning of November, about a week before Watt unveiled his own amendment. You can kind of guess where this came from.
So what I did was I just Googled the eight economists who were on this letter, seven of them had close ties to the Federal Reserve, four of them are currently on the Federal Reserve payroll. So that kind of showed a little bit of operation in bad faith.
Which brings us back to Palin and the use of iconography to jack electorates to hell and back, sticking them with the bill both ways. It's gotta be a trick older even than books. Goering announced a notorious formulation of its basic principles:
SEN. ROBERT BYRD: My hands tremble, but my heart still throbs. I read this quote: "Naturally, the common people don't want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." Hermann Goering, president of Reichstag, Nazi Parliament, 1934.
Hasn't that been Karl Rove, Dick Cheney et al.'s MO all this time?
Naomi Klein described it this morning, too, regarding the evolution of branding. And she comes to the same conclusion as John Pilger (above).
NAOMI KLEIN: Well, I mean, it's—it always—branding is expert at absorbing its opposition. So, I gave a couple of examples of companies that had gone "no logo," an example of Absolut vodka taking their label, their logo, off the bottle. And Starbucks opened, interestingly in Seattle, a store without their brand on it at all. They're trying to make their brand disappear. So, you have this evolution in corporate branding.
But, what I decided to focus on is not how corporate—the latest gimmicks and techniques of corporate branding, but, rather, how politicians were—and, indeed, how government has absorbed the techniques honed by the corporations in the '90s in creating and selling their super brands. And now they're being used by political parties, by politicians really, to sell themselves.
And I'm afraid, I think, that that's where Obama fits in, that he really is a super brand on line with many of the companies that I discuss in No Logo. And he has many of the same problems as the companies that I discuss in No Logo, like Nike and Apple and all of these—Starbucks—all of these, sort of 1990s, sort of, lifestyle brands that co-opted many of the, you know—the iconography of the transformative political movements like the civil rights movement, the women's movement. And that was really the hallmark of 1990s branding.
One of the things in this—you know, a large part what I write about in No Logo is the absorption of these political movements into the world of marketing. And, you know, the first time I saw the "Yes, We Can" video that was produced by Will.i.am, my first thought was, you know, "Wow. A politician has finally produced an ad as good as Nike that plays on our, sort of, faded memories of a more idealistic era, but, yet, doesn't quite say anything." We think we hear the message we want to hear, but if you really parse it, the promises aren't there, it's really the emotions.
And, you know, I think that that explains in some sense the paralysis in progressive movements in the United States where we think, Obama stands for something because we—our emotions were activated on these issues, but we don't really have much to hold him to because, in fact, if you look at what he said during the campaign, like any good super brand, like any good marketer, he made sure not to promise too much, so that he couldn't be held to it.
Afghanistan is a very strong example, Amy. I mean, it's hard to build the case that Obama is breaking a campaign promise when, in fact, this—he is doing what he said he would do during the campaign, even if he made us think that he was a pro-peace candidate, even if he used the iconography, the imagery of the peace movement, even if he, you know—it's the same thing with labor. "Sí se puede. Yes we can." This is the imagery of, this is the slogan of the farm workers. Even, you know, Obama's—you know, the famous poster, you know, this is like the poster of Ché, but this isn't a real social movement because it never made those transformative demands.
So there you go. Why are we stuck in this god-forsaken Waste Land? And how do we find our way out? It's the mythology!
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Another case in point (of the state of the art in manufacturing consent, described at length by yours truly earlier) is found in the article by William Black just posted on HuffPo. I'll end with a suggestion.
WILLIAM BLACK, HUFFINGTON POST 23 NOVEMBER 2009: Last week was a bad one for Geithner and Bernanke. Senator Dodd said that Bernanke's confirmation was no longer a done deal. The House Financial Services Committee revolted against the administration, the Fed, and Chairman Barney Frank. It voted for a strong bill to audit the Fed. Senate Banking Chairman Schumer went to a conference at Columbia University — where a generation of students salivated at the prospects of Wall Street wealth — and was overwhelmed by an audience denouncing the continuing stranglehold of the finance industry over successive administrations and the Congress. Neither Barney's blarney nor Schumer's schmooze was any avail before an outraged public.
The administration promptly secured a column in the Washington Post claiming that the effort to fire Geithner "buoy[ed]" him because, as the subtitle to the article explained: "Even ex-Bush aides sympathetic, sources say." The article didn't note that Geithner is an "ex-Bush" senior official who, with his fellow "ex-Bush aides" (particularly Bernanke and Paulson) produced a chain of disasters: the bubble, an "epidemic of mortgage fraud" by lenders, the Great Recession, and the scandalous TARP and AIG bailouts. Of course they're "sympathetic" to a fellow member of the Wrecking Crew that destroyed effective regulation and turned the nation over to Wall Street. The craziest part of the story is that the anonymous Obama administration flack that spread this anecdote believes that we should support Geithner because his fellow members of the Bush Wrecking Crew empathize with him because they, too, have been criticized for wrecking the economy.
The Washington Post article then offers a metaphor that serves as an apology for the Bush Wrecking Crew. The metaphor is driving over a cliff: "'Secretary Geithner has helped steer the American economy back from the brink, and is now leading the effort on financial reform,' White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said." Geithner pushed back against Republicans who questioned his performance, telling them, "you gave this president an economy falling off the cliff."
You? How about we? Bush's financial Wrecking Crew "gave this president an economy falling off the cliff." Geithner was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from October 23, 2003 until President Obama chose him as his Treasury Secretary. He was supposed to be the lead regulator of many of the largest bank holding companies. His failures as a regulator were a major cause of the "economy falling off the cliff." Bernanke held prominent positions in the Bush administration from 2002 to the end of the administration and failed as a regulator an economist. Geithner and Bernanke failed to regulate even after the FBI publicly warned in September 2004 that (1) there was an "epidemic" of mortgage fraud and (2) it would lead to a financial crisis if it were not contained. Their refusal to take responsibility for the harm they inflicted on our nation as leaders of Bush's financial Wrecking Crew adds to their unsuitability. Rewarding their perennial failures with a promotion and reappointment represents a dereliction of duty by the Obama administration.
The Wrecking Crew: Thomas Frank on How Conservatives Rule
Democracy Now! 08 August 2008
"Columnist and author Thomas Frank joins us to talk about his latest book, The Wrecking Crew. Frank writes, "Fantastic misgovernment of the kind we have seen is not an accident, nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. This movement is friendly to industry not just by force of campaign contributions but by conviction."
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BILL MOYERS: Your book describes conservatism as "an expression of American business." Why exclude Democrats? Jimmy Carter triggered the deregulation frenzy. Bill Clinton pushed for NAFTA, signed the Telecommunications Act of l996 which gave the megamedia companies everything they wanted, auctioned off the Lincoln Bedroom, and swooned over Robert Rubin while showing Robert Reich the door. Democratic Congresses were shaking down corporations when George W. Bush was still tipsy in Texas. And who was running Congress during the S&L swindles of the late 80s? Why single out conservatives as the greedy party?
THOMAS FRANK: Democrats can be conservatives too, of course. In fact, certain Democrats' embrace of the free-market faith has been just as consequential as the Republicans' own move to the right. When the Democrats gave up on FDR and came around to the ideology of Reagan, the opposition ceased to oppose.
BILL MOYERS: I read the muckraker David Graham Phillips, whom you quote in your book. A hundred years ago he was writing about The Treason of the Senate when the biggest names in the world's "greatest deliberative body" were serving "interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be, and vastly more dangerous; interests that manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for the few; interests whose growth and power can only mean the degradation of the people." Ralph Nader couldn't say it better. So what's new?
THOMAS FRANK: Morally, those sentiments are right on-target. What's new is (a) the unthinkable is back; (b) it's infinitely more complex; and (c) it's ideological. The Vanderbilts had their own U.S. Senator because that way they could grab more, but the people doing it today are motivated at least partially by ideology. They have a theoretical justification for what they've done: the market is always and in every case better than the bureaucracy.
What's more, many of the people I describe in the book understand themselves as crusaders against corruption. They think *they* are the muckrakers, demanding more and more deregulation or privatization. Government should get out of the marketplace altogether. By what right does it regulate insider trading or price fixing? Get off our backs!
That's the power of myth: to shape the background of the world in which we are right now acting. If we want to change the discussion, Joseph Campbell said, change the metaphor.
For starters, quit using the outdated, reductive, machine-bound terms of Newton's mechanics for us complex biological systems.
"The Market" is a mechanism; are you a mechanism, o reader my beleaguered Reader? Then why do we talk and think and act as if we and our source, the cosmos, are, too? Mechanisms are forced into order; organisms grow from within.
And that's the source of the power of the people: the fire that burns within.
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Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 8:02 pm
"Franklin Graham suggested erroneously that the Christian God and the Muslim God are two different deities."
The word "erroneous" is what is erroneous in this statement. Of course the Christian God and the Muslim God are two different deities. The Christian God is trinitarian, with Jesus Christ the same as God. Both the trinitarian nature of God and the deity of Christ are anathema to Muslim belief. The idea that the Christian God and the Muslim God are the same is true only in the imagination of Western idealists who have no substantive knowledge of basic Islamic or Christian beliefs.
Comment posted November 23, 2009 @ 8:26 pm
So, then, that means the Christian God is not the same as the Jewish God, as the trinitarian nature of God and the deity of Christ are anathema to Jewish belief as well.
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Comment posted November 24, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
One made up superhero verses another….whats the difference? Is the Catholic God different than the Lutheran God? Nope…same…. but Catholics still believe (and recite at EVERY MASS) that everyone who is not Catholic is going to hell…..sorry Jews, sorry Protastants, Sorry Muslims, sorry everyone…. prepare to burn
Comment posted November 30, 2009 @ 12:51 am
After checking out "Assemblies of God" on the web, I was soon reading a Google piece titled "Pretrib Hypocrisy" – yes, info re rapture hypocrisy inside the AG organization. Palin, as you know, has or has had connections to it. Another interesting Google item is "Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism." The author of these is a historian, Dave MacPherson, whose book "The Rapture Plot" reportedly has everything anyone could want to know about the "rapture" revered by millions of evangelicals. One fact that stands out is that MacPherson claims that the same rapture has a 19th century beginning and foundation that is anti-Jewish. You can be sure that I will keep on checking out all of this topic, and your readers may want to also.
Comment posted November 30, 2009 @ 5:51 am
After checking out "Assemblies of God" on the web, I was soon reading a Google piece titled "Pretrib Hypocrisy" – yes, info re rapture hypocrisy inside the AG organization. Palin, as you know, has or has had connections to it. Another interesting Google item is "Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism." The author of these is a historian, Dave MacPherson, whose book "The Rapture Plot" reportedly has everything anyone could want to know about the "rapture" revered by millions of evangelicals. One fact that stands out is that MacPherson claims that the same rapture has a 19th century beginning and foundation that is anti-Jewish. You can be sure that I will keep on checking out all of this topic, and your readers may want to also.
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For some Black women, going on a date with a White man can be extremely nerve-wracking, especially if it's their first time dating a white man. You might be wondering, "Will we have anything in common?" "What are going to talk about?" and "Will there be any awkward moments?" Well, in this case your best bet is to go into the date thinking that he's just a normal guy, regardless of his race. Unfortunately, sometimes that plan fails miserably because some of these White men can't help but keep reminding you that you are Black and they are White. It's not that they do it on purpose, but it's just that sometimes make certain comments that can seem annoying or even inappropriate. Making these comments cannot only ruin the date, but turn you off dating White men altogether. Not sure what I mean? Well, here is a list of the most annoying things that White men sometimes say on dates.
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Growing up in Northern Kentucky, I got used to being the only Black kid in most of my classes. In high school, there were other Black students, but none of them in my close-knit drama and speech class circles. Because of this, I have dated quite a few White guys, and while there are similarities when dating any man, there are still some small cultural quirks that never go unnoticed when you're with a White dude. LIke these nine things, for instance.
1. They will never understand the hair thing. It might start with an innocent "did you get a haircut" right after you wash your hair and there is shrinkage–but it does not end…EVER…after that. From moisturizing, to protecting with a satin cap, there is always a new and interesting thing for your guy to discover. Trust me, while it gets easier to explain, it doesn't ever stop needing to be explained.
2. They don't want to say the N-word, but they do want to talk about why some people do. Though I date smart enough humans to not ever be asked to be the voice of my entire race, I still get asked how I feel about rappers using the N-word, and who has access to it. This conversation doesn't have to be uncomfortable if you're certain of your stance, but if you waiver, they will be forever confused and your weighing-in on the subject can save them from physical harm and embarrassment in the future.
3. They will always be embarrassed about fried chicken. Every damn body loves fried chicken, but now he's far too aware of the stereotypes associated and will be torn about it every time you pass a KFC.
4. They need help knowing what to tell their friends. As much as we live in a post-racial society <#sarcasm<, their friends may not be as enlightened as they are. Their friends want to know what the differences are, even when none are all that apparent. Give him some ammo. If he says the wrong thing, and you catch wind of it, he knows that's his ass. Don't be afraid to give him a script.
5. He's just as scared to meet your family. While you might be dreading meeting older family members due to 50+ years of internalized racism, he just as much fears that your family wants to retaliate for having to endure ignorance while they were coming up. You will both help each other through this. Talk to your family, and if they don't want to meet him, sit with that. Figure out what's important to you. You shouldn't not see a man just because your family has prejudices, and the same goes for his family.
Read on for more tips when dating a white man at Essence.com
Tags:dating, interracial relationships, love, race relations, trust, white men
One Interracial Relationship, Two Cultures And The N-word
Stubbornness, immaturity, constant arguing, jealousy— they're all signs of a teenage love. Insert a black girl from Brooklyn and white guy from New Jersey, and you've got a young interracial couple struggling to find balance in a society still far from being colorblind.
Growing up in a conventional two parent household in Westwood, New Jersey, Paul, 19, describes his life as stereotypical. His family is upper middle class; he drives a Mercedes-Benz, having only had one girlfriend before his current relationship, often the girls he's been attracted to he refers to as "stuck-up."
He believes the biggest obstacle he and his girlfriend, Corrine, 20, face in their relationship of a couple of months is a difference in their upbringings, not race.
"It's not so much a black [or] white thing, but that we're from different areas. She's from an urban area and I'm from a suburban area," he says, with his arm resting on the couch behind Corrine. The three of us sat in his spaciously furnished living room of the Queens house he rents with nine other guys. A black curtain hanging from the doorway, separating us from the den area one of his housemates turned into bedroom.
Starting out from an upper middle class family in East Flatbush Brooklyn, Corrine briefly dated multiple guys from different ethnicities and cultures— from a dope boy to a future Olympian— she's interacted with most.
A month after their first encounter in the car of a mutual friend, the two often ran into each other in the athletic study hall of St. John's University. They quickly entered a relationship, after spending hours a day together doing school work, both not knowing much about the other. She has only had one relationship prior to meeting Paul. Since then, they have constantly clashed over race and culturally sensitive issues. Corrine says she has had to inform him that comments he has made often offended her.
"[He would say] I'll act 'ethnic' or I'll act 'black' or I'll act like I'm from Brooklyn. Oh, this is my favorite one— 'you're acting like a ghetto black girl from Brooklyn,'" she sarcastically says. "It used to make me so mad, until one day I finally had to let him know, he can't say things like that because it sounds offensive coming from [him]."
Paul interrupted her, "Coming from me? So what if it came from a black a person?"
"It's still offensive," she says.
Paul believes such is an example of being from different areas, saying that one night after a Chinese restaurant messed up Corrine's order; she called the place demanding the rest of her food after failing to soothe her anger.
According to the National Healthy Resource Center, interracial relationships are most common among the middle class, among those with higher education. College increases individuals exposure to other races/ethnicities and the idea of intermarriages.
Unlike Corrine who has been attracted to guys of different ethnicities. Paul didn't develop an attraction for black women until college. She often worries about being too ethnic, debating one night while dressing if she should get braids because Paul doesn't like them.
[Extended Cut] I Always Wanted To Ask… Are Black Women Jealous Of White Women?
Yesterday we unveiled our new series "I Always Wanted To Ask," which garnered a lot of mixed reviews. Most people stopped dead in their tracks at the thought of being questioned about being jealous of a white woman but there was a lot of dialogue you missed between Madame Noire and the ladies of The Frisky.
Check out the extended cut of episode 1 in which we talk about interracial dating from the perspective of those who've actually had that experience. Watch as we delve into everything from assumed stank eyes, exoticism, and sexual myths about not just Black and White women, but also Black and White men. Enjoy!
Sounds Familiar: "Racist" Asian Woman Refuses To Date Asian Men
On Friday, xoJane, the irreverent women's blog founded by Jane Pratt, posted the latest in its "It Happened to Me" series, first-person confessionals on topics that are sometimes whimsical ("My Toilet Exploded. Again."), sometimes dark ("This is the First Time I've Written About My Rape, and I'm Doing it For You, Todd Akin"), sometimes awkward ("I Tried to Have Sex With My Gay Best Friend"), but nearly always shocking. Shock is what xoJane does best — it is, after all, the publication whose former beauty editor, Cat Marnell, wrote an essay about using Plan B as her preferred form of contraception, and posted regularly about her spiraling drug addiction until the site fired her for refusing rehab.
Shock draws attention. Shock generates pageviews. And this installment, by freelance writer Jenny An, seems poised to blow all of its predecessors out of the water. It's been tweeted and Facebooked thousands of times and is now the most commented-on "It Happened to Me" story ever. It may yet end up as the most discussed piece in xoJane history; the editors are savvy — they've since given the story prime positioning as the main feature on the site's home page. Which seems odd, given that the story is seemingly about as insider-y an inside-baseball piece as you might possibly imagine: Titled "I'm an Asian Woman and I Refuse to Date an Asian Man," it's an extended and somewhat bizarre diatribe in which An outlines the reasons why she finds dating someone of her own race to be anathema, and chooses to date white men instead.
"It has nothing to do with skin color," the subtitle says. "It has everything to do with patriarchy." An then goes on to write that she's "one of those [Asian girls] that date lots and lots of (mostly, but not always) white guys. Why? It's simple: I'm a racist."
Now, to proudly out yourself as a "racist" in the second line of a first-person confessional takes a nearly terminal excess of chutzpah, blissful ignorance or both. It also serves as a smoking gun that something was up in the piece's narrative — that maybe it shouldn't be taken entirely at face value. Especially when An goes on to state bluntly that her "pale, white-bread boyfriend jokes that I'm one of the whitest people he's ever met"; that "Dating white men means acceptance into American culture. White culture"; that she's "drinking the same Kool-Aid as everyone else [of] white supremacy. The idea that white is still tops, SAT scores, corporate jobs and fancy degrees be damned" — all while simultaneously acknowledging that her "thinking is Fawked up."
For me at least, it triggered the same instinctive reaction I had when I first encountered the now-infamous Wall Street Journal book excerpt, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," by Yale law professor and mother of two Amy Chua, now better known by the sobriquet Tiger Mom: These are ideas and phrases that have been consciously engineered and carefully chosen to generate maximum backlash.
Which is why, when I posted An's piece to my Facebook circle for comment, I did so with the following message: "Oh, boy. Girlfriend is so totally trolling. But…thoughts? And by thoughts, I mean thoughts that aren't a long string of expletives. Thank you."
Trolling is the online term for — we'll let Wikipedia chime in here — posting "inflammatory, extraneous or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response."
Trolling is often done merely to taunt or prank (especially as a kind of hazing to newcomers to an online community). With the rise of the clicks-for-cash business model in digital media, however, trolls have found a new place in the Internet ecosystem: As highly effective breadwinners for the sites in which they nest.
Tags:AlterNet, asian men, asian women, Jenny An, Patriarchy, white men, xo jane
True Life: I Experienced Racism When…
Though many try to pretend that we live in a colorblind society; for many people of color, racism is a very real issue. Considering we speak to an audience of black women everyday, we thought we'd ask them to share their racist, ridiculous and hurtful experiences with us. Here's what they had to say.
Artemis: I was 18 in Zurich, learning to speak German. A guy walks up to me with this sneering smile and said, while touching my hair:
"du bist einen schwarzen schlampe.. ja?"
I understood up until the "schlampe" because I had had no reason to know what that meant until then… when I said I didn't understand it, he just laughed and muttered it again, then got off the tram.
I asked my uncle (who's white, he married my mom's sister) what it meant, and watched him get angrier than I'd ever seen him… and told me to punch anyone who ever did it again in the face and get to his office asap.
MN: Did you ever find out what it meant?
Artemis: "You're a black Slore? yes?" … My uncle told me … Didn't hurt, but I was pretty pissed off… this guy was nothing like what "tv" in the islands portrayed racists to look like, he looked "normal," not a monster that will try to rape you. Heck he didn't even look like he could take me in a fight… meh… I got over it quickly.
I'm Gonna Get Me A White Man!: Are You "Swirling" for the Right Reasons?
Here at Madame Noire we talk a lot about interracial dating. In one of our most popular (and most controversial) articles of all time, our writer listed reasons why black women should look to our fairer skinned brothers when it comes to dating options. We've done very popular slideshows about the white men in Hollywood who have a sista on their arm. We're about keeping our options open when it comes to dating and marriage. That being said, please don't look to the white man to save you from your brothas.
Yeah, I said it…because it had to be said.
As an editor on this site, it's so frustrating to see black woman after black woman claim that she's "done" with black men; that she'll just go out and get herself a white man, as if they sell them at your local corner store. If you want to date a white man, by all means go right ahead but make sure you're "swirling" for the right reasons.
It seems that some black women have forgotten that sickening, rejected feeling we get when we hear a wayward brotha talk about how he's "upgraded" to white women because black women have too much attitude, are nothing but gold diggers and welfare queens. How are these hurtful stereotypes any different from black women saying black men are all cheaters, incarcerated or don't take care of their children? It isn't. Just like those stereotypes [hopefully] don't apply to you, neither do these stereotypes apply to all black men.
I realize, some of us have been so scarred, so emotionally (and sometimes physically) battered by a black man or two, that we can't recognize and appreciate the good brothas there still are in this world. If you want to cross the color spectrum, more power to you; but assuming that all of your male problems will disappear right along with the melanin, is just ridiculous. Any sane person, whether they've dated interracially or not, will tell you that people are people, men are men. Some are shady and some are sweet.
Furthermore, resolving to be with a white man by any means necessary might not be as easy as you think. Just like there are some black women who are not physically attracted to white men, there are some white men who are not physically attracted to black women. You heard John Mayer. Please believe, he's not the only one who shares such sentiments.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to discourage or dissuade you from dating interracially; but stepping into the game believing that every white man is going to want you because you're black, is simply unrealistic.
If and when you do find a white man to love you, how do you think he'll feel knowing that you chose him and his color as a last resort? Just like we don't want to be someone's chocolate fantasy, I'm sure white men don't want to be the milk in your coffee. There's so much more to people than skin tone and there's so much more to a successful relationship than the union of two different races. Whatever man you find, whether he's black, white or leopard print, you better make sure the two of you have more in common than your obsession with each other's hue.
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Men Attack Iraq Vet Who Told Them Not to Use the N-Word
It's not uncommon to hear a lot of inappropriate conversations on public transportation, but when Jim Hardie, a white, eight-year Marine and Iraq war veteran, heard black men throwing around the n-word and the b-word on a bus in Seattle last week, he said he couldn't tolerate it.
He told King 5 that he said to the young men:
"Given the nature of what we've gone through with the word n***** it's not appropriate to loosely throw that word around or refer to white women as white b***** and I'd appreciate if they stopped that."
But that confrontation didn't go over so well. Camera footage shows the three guys first began arguing with Hardie, then hitting him before jumping off of the bus. Although the altercation was three against one, Hardie came out uninjured.
It's interesting that Hardie said he stood up to the men to protect the other passengers on the bus. Despite the tussle, he said he would do it all over again to stand up for what he believed in. I wonder if his words had any effect on the young men. Judging by their reaction it would seem the answer is no.
What do you think about Jim Hardie confronting the men? Was it the right thing to do?
Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.
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Robin Thicke Says Black Women Aren't Better Off with White Men
Paula Patton and her husband Robin Thicke definitely know how to make marriage look good, from Paparazzi shots of the two out and about to Red Carpet debuts, and even his music videos.
With the release of his new album, "Love After War," Essence chatted with Robin about what separates him from other artists and his thoughts on black women and love. Here's what he had to say:
On people getting married and making love to his music
To be a part of your biggest days — you know your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle — there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth.
It's actually the best thing. It's nice if you can make someone drop it like it's hot, or pop a bottle. But we're always dropping it and popping it. What I realize about the difference between me and my peers — you know, Chris Brown and Drizzy Drake and all my musical peers — is that they haven't been with the same woman for 18 years and I've been with a Black woman for 18 years. I've never dated a White woman. Don't want to. I've never been on a date with a White woman. When you have that relationship and that means the most to you — you know I can't live without that woman, she is my muse, my best friend, and my creative partner. I didn't have a great relationship with my mom and she didn't have a great relationship with her dad and we became that for each other. She's my mama and I'm her daddy. I even call her mama and she calls me daddy. We are that to each other.
On being misunderstood
A lot of mainstream magazines, like SPIN and Rolling Stone, they still don't get me. They can't figure out how a funny guy with a dad on a sitcom can have a 90 percent Black female audience. It's never happened before. I didn't plan it that way. I just love the music and I love my wife and she is a strong Black woman, so if my wife doesn't like it, how can the other Black women like it? If my wife approves of the song, I'm doing it.
On whether black women are better off with white menI think that's ridiculous. There are so many good Black men out there that are hardworking, decent, and handsome, you know? To start that rumor is as bad as starting any other negative rumor. There are great Black men out there. There are only a few good White men — trust me. (Laughs) Good luck finding a good White man who understands your journey. I only have three White friends. I've got 20 Black male friends, who are all good men who take good care of their wives, and good care of their children. I know amazing Black men. Maybe the women have to take better care of their men. Maybe you're being too stubborn. Maybe you're not saying you're sorry. You have to take good care of him, too. You have to give love to get love.
Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.
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Dear Toni Braxton, Please Go Play in the Snow Quietly
I have really come to love Toni Braxton from watching her and her sisters on the Braxton's Family Values every Thursday—I truly have—but she is really pulling me back with the commentary on her dating life and it seems to be getting worse.
It was sort of cute when she called dating a white man "playing in the snow" on Anderson Cooper, but her appearance on Chelsea Lately last night was just…I have to say it, ignorant.
She told Chelsea Handler she's playing in the snow—again—and said, "It's kind of nice. It's something different." Then she said the man's skin is different. "The skin feels different, that's kind of nice. It smells different… Is that in my head? I can't explain it."
She didn't even catch on when Chelsea cleverly, and obviously, made fun of her when she said, "No you can't explain it because when you try to explain it, you sound totally racist but you're not."
Then to throw all black people in the same, "I don't do anything that involves nature and getting my hair wet" boat, she says, "He likes hiking–black people don't hike; kayaking, is that how you say it—that stuff too. But other than that, it's the same."
Toni says she's also dating her ex-husband and hasn't slept with "the white guy," as Chelsea called him, since they're only six-eight weeks into their relationship, and because she's been on lock down for 10 years, she says "I'm not comfortable with the Slore in me yet."
Oh Toni, where do we begin? The good thing is that she's Toni Braxton, meaning no one is coming to her for commentary on anything of substance, and white people probably don't even know she's still making music so hopefully this foolishness can be swept under the rug. But can you imagine the outrage if a white person said black people smell differently—even jokingly? Apologies would have been demanded within minutes. But here she goes saying they smell different, like wet dog perhaps? And feel different? C'mon Toni, maybe it's just been too long since you've felt skin other than Keri's?
In 30 seconds she became the poster child for the inspiration behind every black girls do run, black girls swim, black girls like nature campaign there is. Yes, some white people are a little more nature-loving and adventurous than black people but black people don't hike Toni, really?
And what's up with the "Slore in me" comment? I know sometimes women like to play with that word to sort of give them a pass to be sexually liberated, but not when you're 40-plus and dating. I need her to stop trying to play cute, naive, jungle fever sex kitten and be a grown non-condescending woman. If "white guy" has even half of a brain, he'll exit stage left immediately.
Watch the embarrassing clip below and peep the end where she gives Chelsea a little lesson in Russian: "I don't know if you know Rosetta Stone, but if you say 'yellow blue bus' that means I love you." Somebody take all mics away from this woman unless she's singing into it.
What do you think about Toni Braxton? Is there any hope for her career revival, much less her dating life?
Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.
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Ball three, take your base.
UFC 139: "Henderson vs. Shogun" went down last Saturday night (Nov. 19, 2011) at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, featuring a unanimous decision win for Dan Henderson following a
three five round bloodbath that was not only "Fight of the Night," but perhaps of the year, as well.
What would have been a three round lopsided win for "Hendo" became an unlikely comeback for "Shogun," who stunned the former Olympian with his Axel Stone-inspired Dragon Smash in the fourth frame.
Round five, which many argued in favor of the Brazilian 10-8, not only made it a much closer (and much greater) fight, but supports the promotion's recent decision to increase all televised main events from three rounds to five.
Unfortunately nobody told referee Josh Rosenthal (via MMA.tv), who warned the San Jose headliners that round three would be their last. Whoops!
Here's why:
"Thanks for all the support and kind words, i truly appreciate it. As far as the "last Round" comment, my paper work for the fight said 3 rounds, My bad. Funny though when Dan told me 3 more rounds. It was an true honor to officiate over true legends of our sport. They both showed how great their hearts are."
After Rosenthal instructed his fighters that round three would be for all the marbles, Henderson was good enough to remind him that in fact, it wasn't, prompting a chuckle out of UFC commentators Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan.
No harm, no foul.
For complete UFC 139 results and a detailed recap of all the action click here. To check out a recap of the UFC 139 prelim fights that were seen Spike TV, click here and here. Want to know what happened with the UFC 139 Facebook Prelims portion of the card? To read a full recap click here.
And just in case you want to get up to speed on the entire UFC 139 fight card from top to bottom click here.


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At the risk of mixing sports and politics, here is a Politicker article on Woody Johnson.
Eric Allen spoke with Tony Sparano about the new Jets offense.
Conor Orr caught up with Muhammad Wilkerson in Linden yesterday.
Tim Graham hails Sione Pouha as one of the best in the division.
Brian Costello writes about the potentially increased playing time for Bart Scott.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson receives a shout out from the United Way.
Check out where Dustin Keller ranked at Pro Football Focus' yards per route run.
In case you haven't seen it yet, check out Stephen Hill representing Gang Green Nation.
Jets Twit shares pictures of Santonio Holmes and Jets West.
Jets Insider sounds off on the Jets quarterbacks.
Infinite Jets needs your help in clarifying a certain football loyalty ad campaign.
Laveranues Coles shares some words on wisdom via social media.
Here is a youtube video of the Packers at Jets game in 2002.
Here is an article about the NFLPA shop, where you can get merchandise online.
Enjoy your hump day, Gang Green Gangsters! Oh yeah, and don't forget to get your free slurpees at 7-11 today.


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Port Charlotte, FL (Sports Network) - Gustavo Molina's two-run home run in the ninth inning lifted the New York Yankees over the Tampa Bay Rays, 5-2, in spring training action.
Starter Phil Hughes allowed two runs on three hits and one walk in five innings for the Yankees. Cole Garner had a double and scored two runs.
Matt Joyce hit a two-run homer for Tampa Bay, which saw Burke Badenhop throw two shutout innings.
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The latest release of the Nokia which is the Nokia C7 does not intent to break the chain of command. It is slim, simple and more affordable and it also comes with a conservative design styling. The C series handsets are always well balance and they have received an accomplished leader. The specs of the C7 are quite impressive but they do well in order to maintain a distance with the N series. The C7 however gets very close to the N8 in certain ways while some features are left behind.
Dimension: 117.3 x 56.8 x 10.5 mm
Weight: 130 grams
Operating System: Symbian v3
Processor: 680 MHz ARM 11, 3D Graphics HW accelerator
Display: 3.5 inches, MOLED touch screen, capacitive, 360 x 640 pixel resolution, 16 million colors
Camera: 8 mega pixel, dual LED flash, fixed focus, 3264 x 2448 pixels, 720 pixel videos at 25 fps, secondary VGA at front
Memory: 8 GB internal memory, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM, micro SD slot up to 32 GB
Connectivity: GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSDPA, 3G HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/b, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP support, micro USB port
Battery: 1200 mAh lithium ion, 9.5 hours stand by time, 5 hours talk time
The C7 has most of the features of the N8 and it is enclosed in a different shell. It does not use the unibody aluminum but the metal cover for the battery is good as the one used in N8. it is of an elongated oval shape with curved corners. The front panel of the C7 is occupies by the 3.5 inch AMOLED screen of nHD resolution. It has the multi touch support like the N8. the quality of the indoor images is pretty good producing deep blacks and saturated colors. The sunlight legibility of the screen is also impressive.
The screen sensitivity is quite good as it is capacitive in nature. An important boost in the usability is the excellent haptic feedback that is produced. The secondary camera for video calling is placed above the display on the right side. Next to it are the proximity and the ambient sensors. Under the screen, there are a set of three physical keys which are for the Answer, Ignore and Menu functions.
The power button is at the top and this handles the ringing profiles and the screen lock. This edge also houses the micro USB port and the 3.5 mm audio jack. This jack behaves as a TV-Out port also. The left side has the 2 mm charger plug while the right side has the shutter key, lock slider and the volume keys. The back side has the camera lens, the dual LED flash and the speaker grill.
User Interface
The C7 is the second handset to make use of the Symbian^3 user interface. The Symbian^3 is surely an improvement but it is not an overhaul like Microsoft. There are changes in both the appearance and in the functionality. There three home screen panes in the C7 and they can be filled with widgets that can be reshuffled. The panes that are not necessary can also be deleted. The structure of the main menu is not changed. It is of the hierarchical folder structure. The task manager has undergone some modifications. It shows screen shots of the applications that are running instead of icons. The new version of Symbian has done certain effects to skimp on the eye candy like the predecessors and it has bumping and revolving icons, menus which open with zoom in and out effects and occasional fading.
The C7 is a nicely designed handset with a very thin profile. It has a distinct E series styling and attitude of C series that is suitable mainly for the business users. The 3.5 inch touch screen that is used in this is the best among the ones that we have seen in Nokia handsets. However, the lack of the Clear Black Display of Nokia is a flaw. The camera produces high definition videos which are a treat to us. The display also does a good job of supporting the DivX/XviD videos seamlessly. The handset also produces excellent audio quality and a great connectivity package. The latest version of Symbian shows the company's interest ti improve and change but this excludes the camera and the web browser. The handset will be available for a cost of 350 euro currently which is fair enough for its feature set.


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The NASA Space Grant Robotics team is made up of undergraduate students that compete in yearly competitions to represent the engineering excellence of ASU. These competitions challenge our knowledge and bring us new horizons and goals. This year, the team took 3rd place at the National Underwater Robotics Challenge (NURC) in Chandler, Arizona with Aquadevil. The team also traveled to Seattle, Washington to compete in the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) competition. The team mainly focuses on underwater vehicles but they have also branched out into land rovers with the project ROAR. This project (Robot On A Rocket), was a collaboration between the Space Grant Robotics team and Daedalus Astronautics to launch a payload robot a mile high and release it simulating an exploration mission. Currently the team is preparing for 2014's MATE competition, for which we will be traveling to Michigan and California. For further information, please contact Peter Tueller at ASU.


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Perioperative Neurosciences and Pain
Subthemes in this research area include:
Perioperative medicine carries a risk for neural injury via many mechanisms, but has the unique advantage of temporal predictability. Mechanisms of and strategies for neuroprotection comprise a rapidly expanding focus of several of the basic and clinical investigators in the department.
For example, Andrew Kofke, MD is exploring genetic risk factors and biomarkers for CNS damage in patients undergoing cardiac and major vascular surgery.
Similarly, Albert Cheung, MD and Stuart Weiss, MD a re developing biomarkers and clinical methods for preserving the spinal cord during aortic aneurism surgery.
Roderic Eckenhoff, MD is exploring whether specific anesthetic protein interactions might contribute to synaptic injury and neuronal loss in progressive neurodegenerating diseases, such as Alzheimer's. Together with Maryellen Fazen Eckenhoff, Rod is investigating the interaction between anesthesia, surgery, neuroinflammation, and chronic neurodegenerative disorders.
William Armstead, PhD's research focuses on characterizing mechanisms important in the control of cerebral hemodynamics under physiologic and pathologic conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, and cerebral hypoxia/ischemia, particularly in the newborn. Current projects focus on interactions between the NMDA receptor and plasminogen activators after TBI, optimizing the efficacy/toxicity ratio of tPA, the only FDA approved treatment for stroke and translational research concerning the roles of sex and age in outcome after pediatric TBI.
Exploring a novel potential mechanism of anesthetic neurotoxicity, Huafeng Wei, MD, PhD studies the effects of anesthetics on calcium regulation, particularly the IP3 receptor.
Max Kelz, MD, PhD is studying the overlap between the neurobiology of sleep and anesthesia.
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD, is investigating the molecular interactions between opioids and their receptors using multiple approaches, including protein model and modeling, docking and molecular dynamic simulations, receptor engineering, thermodynamics, and high resolution structures.
Michael Ashburn, MD, the Director of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care is conducting NIH funded clinical trials into novel therapies for chronic pain.
Gordon Barr, PhD is a developmental psychobiologist who studies how nervous system maturation mediates the rapid changes in the behavior that occurs in development. He studies the mechanisms that mediate reinforcement, pain and stress, including studies on drugs that modulate these mechanisms.
Jiabin Liu, MD, is determining, with clinical studies, which form of anesthesia, regional or general, results in better outcomes after orthopedic surgery. In the lab, Jiabin is investigating how to prolong peripheral nerve blocks.
David Eckmann, PhD, MD is studying the neurobiology of cerebrovascular gas embolism and the prevention of CNS injury by administration of intravascular surfactants and perfluorocarbons.
Rita Valentino, PhD, head of the Stress Neurobiology Group, and colleagues, Sheryl Beck and Seema Bhatnagar, are studying the effects of stressful stimuli on brain function and behavior.
Raymond Roginski, MD, PhD has discovered a novel gene, GRINL, that may play a role in glutamatergic signaling.
Finally, Andrew Ochroch, MD is studying the genetic and gender basis of surgical pain in thoracic surgery patients.
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Literary Arts and the International Writers Project are pleased to welcome to Brown Ugandan playwright George Seremba, recipient of the 2013 – 2014 International Writers Project Fellowship. The IWP Fellowship provides a stipend and working space to writers who have been subjected to political harassment, imprisonment, or death threats in their homeland.
We are also pleased to welcome Gazmend Kapllani of Albania, who is IWP Visiting Scholar this year.
George Seremba was forced to flee Uganda in 1980 after he survived a botched attempt on his life by Milton Obote's military intelligence ('G' Branch). After leaving Uganda, he moved first to Kenya, then to Canada, and later to Dublin. Since leaving Uganda, he has had an extensive career as a playwright and performer. He is the author of three full-length plays, The Grave Will Decide, Come Good Rain, and Napoleon of the Nile, as well as of poems and radio plays. An accomplished actor, he has performed in feature films, on television, and on the stage.
He was previously in residence at Brown in August and September, 2010, as IWP Visiting Playwright. He will be in residence on the Brown campus for the 2013-14 academic year.
Gazmend Kapllani is an Albanian-born novelist, journalist and scholar whose novel, A Short Border Handbook, was a best-seller in Greece, where he has lived for the past 21 years. Actively involved since 1997 in the anti-racist movement in Greece, he faced systematic harassment and threats and was targeted by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. He left Greece in 2012 to become a Radcliffe Harvard Fellow, and will be a Visiting Scholar at Brown during the 2013-14 academic year. He currently teaches history and creative writing at Emerson College in Boston.


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There was lots of entepreneurial energy in the room at MIT's Kresge Auditorium today -- as a sizable crowd gathered in the morning for a free daylong"Startup Bootcamp" full of lessons from technology entrepreneurs. Here are some insights from just a few of the day's speakers:
- MIT's Ken Zolot offered a set of questions to ask about an invention when you're thinking about starting a business around it:
- Does it work yet?
- Is it special?
- Who cares?
- What do I have and who do I know?
- Who can help?
- When you're in those early stages of developing your idea, Robin Chase, founder of the car-sharing company Zipcar, advised entrepreneurs to think of every person you meet as a free consultant -- and pay attention to the questions they ask you about your idea when you explain it to them. "When people ask you things, they aren't asking dumb questions," she explained. "You should hone your idea and the way you express it and move forward."
- Adam Smith, founder of Xobni, mentioned the importance of staying small until you achieve product market fit -- i.e., you have a product that people want. When you achieve that, you can scale up, according to Smith -- and then it's more about execution.
- Daniel Theobald, founder and CTO of Vecna, recommended avoiding taking "other people's money" as investments if you can -- particularly if you have a socially responsible business model as a vision. Vecna, he said, allows employees to spend up to 10% of their work time on community service projects -- and the company's model wouldn't have worked if the company had taken outside investors' money. Instead, he said, the company used IT consulting to bootstrap its startup stage -- structuring its consulting agreements so that Vecna retained the intellectual property.
- More than one speaker alluded to the need for start-up entrepreneurs to experiment and iterate quickly until they get to a successful business model. But that process isn't necessarily easy for entrepreneurs -- as Kyle Vogt, one of the founders of Justin.TV, vividly described. Vogt spoke of stages Web start-ups go through -- including the "Trough of Sorrow" that occurs after the initial product has launched but before the company has reached a stage Vogt calls "Acquisition of Loyalty." While in the "Trough of Sorrow," Vogt said, entrepreneurs may face tough questions from family, friends -- and from themselves. However, according to Vogt, if you stick to it long enough and try enough times, you'll probably find something people will like. Justin.TV, which began by providing live video coverage from the life of a guy named Justin, now includes a wide range of live video, such as coverage from the Startup Bootcamp -- including this excerpt from Robin Chase's presentation:
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Recently, Ball Don't Lie has listed the top NBA players by position and Peachtree Hoops has made note of how our Hawks players rank. It is interesting to know that the Atlanta Hawks are one of seven teams to have 3 top ten players according to position on its roster. The L.A. Lakers (Bryant, Bynum, Gasol), Chicago (Rose, Boozer, Noah), San Antonio (Duncan, Ginobli, Parker), Denver (Carmelo, Billups, Nene), Utah (Williams, Jefferson, Kirlenko), Boston (Rondo, Pierce, Garnett) and of course Miami (Wade, James, Bosh) all boast lineups with 3 top ten players. However, my personal opinion allows for only five teams with legit top ten talent. Denver and Utah deserves an asterik with Nene and Kirlenko being borderline.
The Hawks players that made the top ten by position are Horford (#4 Center), Johnson (#4 Shooting Guard), and Smoov (#7 Power Forward). And if you noticed, that's two top 5 players. Only the Lakers and the Heat have more than one top 5 players, and which both have 3). This is the Core. This is the Hawks version of the Big 3. And they are pretty darn good.
This is the season that the growth over the past 6 or 7 years will culminate into elite status. Horford has yet to see his best years. Horford should be the Captain and the vocal leader of this team now. He has earned it. Smoov has shown that he is willing to harness and tame his world class athletic ability and potential. He has learned how to play, so now all he has to do is play and that will prove to be danger for any opposing team. Joe is Joe. Sure the consensus is that the Hawks overpaid but if anything else had transpired, we would be talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Hawks in the same sentence. For years, Johnson carried this team and without Johnson, the Hawks would not have seen anything that looked like close to a 2nd round.
Are they good enough?
I think so... But the best teams don't just rely on its best players alone. The best teams have defined roles and role players who fit the mold and when put together around the core and in a winning system, elite/championship status is reached. So now it comes down to Larry Drew and whether his new system is a winning system that defines roles and allows role players to flourish. It comes down to the play of Zaza, Teague, Jamal (if he is still a Hawk), Marvin, Bibby, Evans, Joe Crawford, Collins, Sy, and Etan (hopefully).


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(The GRID Blogger) Lily Mathews: Providence, Rhode Island
A big Global Site Plans welcome to our newest blogger, Lillian Mathews from Providence, Rhode Island.
Lillian (Lily) Mathews is a senior at Brown University pursuing a B.A. in Environmental Studies (Honors), where she focuses on Urban Sustainability and Land Use issues. For the past year, she has designed and implemented an arts-based gardening site at a neighborhood center in Providence, Rhode Island, and has completed work in ecological planning and design, sustainable agriculture, and urban planning. Although she has plans to relocate to the California's Bay Area, she currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island, where she will be reporting on environmental design projects in the Northeast.
Lillian, also known as Lily, joins the March 2012 Environmental Design Internship program and will be blogging with The GRID until October 2012.


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This project focuses on the G3BPs which are proteins implicated in cell cycle progression and tumour biology (Irvine etal. 2004) . Our interest is focussed on the role of G3BPs in breast cancer progression ( French etal. 2002) . The overall goal of the project is to examine ways of exploiting G3BP2 to develop anti-breast cancer therapeutics and to progress our current technology in breast cancer immunotherapy (Nestle etal. 2001) . The scientific aims of this project are: 1. To determine the correlation of G3BP2 expression in human breast cancers with those of other diagnostic cancer markers 2. To explore the role of G3BPs in cancer progression by examining its biological roles 3. To validate G3BP2 as a breast cancer Tumour Associated Antigen (TAA) for targeting immunotherapy Model We propose that G3BP2 is required by breast cancer cells to facilitate the tumour's proliferation and progression. An immune response against G3BP2 would destroy the cancer by a specific CTL response to cells expressing the TAA. Techniques The validity of our model will be tested by addressing the aims of the projects using the following techniques: 1. To correlate the expression of G3BPs and other known breast cancer biomarkers in human breast cancer sections. This includes assessing sub-cellular localisation of the markers and correlation with clinical databases to determine the aggressiveness of the tumour. 2. Studying the biological role of G3BP by exploring its activity in oncogenic transcript processing. These studies are directed at determining if G3BPs are regulating cell cycle or tumour progression by regulating the expression oncogenic transcripts ( ie. c-myc ). 3. The project also describes the use of in vivo , biochemical and tumour-immunology techniques to assess G3BPs as valid targets for anti-breast cancer therapies or as Tumour Associated Antigens (TAA). This will be achieved by use of isolated human Dendritic cells and their activation by G3BP2-specific peptides or RNA loading. These cells will be used to activate naive T-lymphocytes to cytotoxic T-lymphocytes. Their activation will be assessed by elispot and chromium release assays. references French, J., Stirling, R., Walsh, M., and Kennedy, H.D. (2002) Histochemical Journal 34 : 223-231 Irvine, K., Stirling, R., Hume, D., and Kennedy, D. (2004). Int J Dev Biol 48 : 1065-1077 Nestle, F.O., Banchereau, J., and Hart, D. (2001). Nat Med 7 : 761-765
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Immunotherapy is a treatment for use in patients that relies on their own immune response to destroy a tumor. In many cases the body does not naturally raise an immune response against cancers because the tumor is not recognized as foreign and therefore left to grow uncontrolled. In our therapy, we activate the patient's immune response by collecting white blood cells from a patient and "train" them to recognize the breast tumor. The white blood cells are then put back into the patient to elicit an immune response against the cancer. We have identified a protein, called G3BP2, which is over-expressed in many human breast cancers, and therefore can be used as a diagnostic and a target for immunotherapy. We aim to re-validate our data by correlating the expression of G3BP2 with other established diagnostic markers so that we can confidently present our data to clinicians in a fashion that they will accept the process we are proposing for clinical trials. We will also continue our work into defining the biological role of G3BP2, this work is designed to expand our knowledge of how G3BP2 may assist in the growth of tumors. Once we have established this role we can determine how to improve our current methods or discover other potential targets for anti-breast cancer therapies. Our experimental process will also focus on defining the optimum mechanisms for the delivery of our therapy once we have defined G3BP2 as a tumor associated antigen. Our goal is to enter clinical trials within the next 18 months with this procedure.
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PlayMakers Present Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES, Now thru 2/9
PlayMakers Repertory Company kicks off the New Year with a sparkling comedy classic, "Private Lives" by Noel Coward, onstage today, Jan. 22-Feb. 9.
PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Special events associated with the show begin Jan. 13.
Sparks fly when divorced, newly remarried lovers land in adjacent honeymoon suites one glorious evening on the Riviera igniting a timeless battle of the sexes. A comic masterpiece wrapped up in the epitome of 20th century glamour and whip-smart wit of the incomparable Noel Coward, "Private Lives" is sophisticated, urbane, and as hilariously catty as they come.
Coward, an English playwright, composer, director and actor, known for his wit, charm, and what Time Magazine called "a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise" starred in the original 1930 production. He later wrote, "The critics described 'Private Lives' as 'gossamer, iridescent, and delightfully daring'. All of which connoted in the public mind cocktails, repartee and irreverent allusions to copulation."
PlayMakers performances will be in the Paul Green Theatre in UNC's Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Show times will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays and Saturday, Feb. 1.
Theater-goers can add to their enjoyment with special Café Society seating. For $20 in addition to the price of a Section A show ticket, a Café Society upgrade includes floor seating surrounding the stage next to the action, plus mocktails designed by The Crunkleton and appetizers and coffee from The Weathervane at Southern Season served 1930s style.
For a complete schedule, more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.playmakersrep.org. Individual ticket prices start at $15. Tickets are also available as part of PlayMakers subscription packages.
PlayMakers company members Julie Fishell and Jeffrey Blair Cornell will play the couple with tempestuous marital history. They appeared together last season as Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz in "Cabaret" and in very different guises as Prospero and Caliban in PlayMakers' recent production of "The Tempest."
"Private Lives" is directed by Sean Daniels, Director of Artistic Engagement and Artist-at-Large for Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY, co-founder of Atlanta's Dad's Garage Theatre and former Associate Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he directed a record 17 productions in four years including five Humana Festivals of New American Plays. He has been named "One of the top fifteen up and coming artists in the U.S., whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come" by American Theatre Magazine.
In conjunction with "Private Lives," PlayMakers will host "The Vision Series-Directors in Conversation," a behind-the-scenes preview with Daniels accompanied by designers for the play Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Paul Green Theatre. The event is free and open to the public. Participants share coffee and hors d'oeuvres provided by series sponsor Jujube Restaurant, learn about the vision for the show and get a sneak peek at the sets and costumes in progress. Reservations are appreciated. Call PlayMakers' box office at (919) 962-7529 to RSVP.
Other special events will include:
Jan. 22-24, 7:30 p.m.: preview performances;
Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.: opening night performance with complimentary gala party afterward;
Jan. 28: an all-access performance for attendees with special needs, with sign language interpretation and audio description;
Jan. 29 and Feb. 2: free post-show discussions with members of the creative team;
Feb. 1, 2 p.m.: open captioned performance;
Feb. 8 and 9: free post-show "Mindplay" discussions sponsored by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society.
PlayMakers is based in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. The Drama League (new York) has named PlayMakers among the "best regional theatre companies in America." www.playmakersrep.org


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