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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Insurance fight shows Catholic-Evangelical ties (AP)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - After the White House decreed this month that religious employers would have to pay for workers' birth control, it was no surprise that Roman Catholic leaders would protest. That evangelical Protestants would rally to their cause was less expected and unthinkable even a generation ago.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Clooney, Pitt, Dujardin: It's an Oscar charm offensive (Reuters)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Hollywood glamour meets French chic in a battle of charm for Oscar's best actor accolade on Sunday that pits George Clooney and close friend Brad Pitt against dashing Jean Dujardin.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
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What Not To Leave Out Of Your Social Business Strategy
It?s been gratifying to spend the last month looking at social business success stories and documenting their progress and the lessons learned. We?ve come a long way: The maturity of the industry and our collective understanding of how to successfully transform our organizations by adapting the ideas and tools of social media to the workplace is currently at an all time high. In the last several years, many companies have begun long term strategic planning that maps out the changes they need to make in terms of structure and process to become a fully social enterprise.
In recent months, I?ve posted updated views on how to go about social business transformation using strategy as driving force to achieve cultural, organizational, and operational change. In my last post, I explored how you can employ a maturity model to baseline and guide your social business strategy and make sure your roadmap is on track. This is a considerable advance forward in our thinking. Yet, while our understanding of what it takes to be successful has become refined from less sophisticated earlier views of what it takes to deliver on enterprise social media, most of us are still learning what the key details are.
An effective strategy of any kind can?t consist of the kitchen sink. As we see large organizations try to apply social across the board, to marketing, sales, product development, workforce collaboration, and customer care, the size and scope of the strategy effort often becomes 1) large and unwieldy and 2) hard to coordinate and align across the various areas of responsibility in the organization. Business leaders very much want intellectual control over their social business evolution, but the bigger the effort is, the longer it takes and the less likely it is that they will maintain effective oversight. Centralized strategy that encompasses everything, as more and more things become social, means that the strategy is usually quite challenging to maintain, keep updated, and meaningfully communicate across the organization.
Instead of attempting to boil the ocean, what I?m seeing is ? despite a strong and growing desire by large organizations for a global master strategy ? that highly successful social business initiatives tend to focus on one particular area of the business and loosely coordinate with other areas engaged in social business to ensure consistency. Ongoing governance and oversight is frequently provided by a social media committee or social business unit/center of excellence. This cenral group also performs periodic reconciliation with the global social business strategy, typically sponsored or personally driven by a C-level leader. This means that social business strategy seems to be most effective not only at the very top of the organization, but one step down as a part of a program-level strategy portfolio. Sustained focus on a particular business function while maintaining a broader view of the whole organization seems to be the success factor for a strategy effort.
Consequently, one of the questions that seems to come up most often is this: What are the necessary moving parts in a social business strategy? What exactly needs to be included and what can be left out? While the short answer tends to be frustrating and uninformative, namely that it depends on what you?re trying to do. The longer answer, fortunately, is more interesting.
While some aspects of social business strategy are essential and can?t be omitted (examples: stakeholder requirements, IT strategy, change management plan), there?s a 2nd tier of strategy components that are less cut and dried. In general, I find that these break down to the following topics:
- Community management. I?ve long been a advocate of having a strong, well resourced, and professional community management capability. While there are certainly some social business efforts that claim they haven?t needed them, the outcomes from case studies are clear: A social business effort will have better and faster adoption, create more business value, and have lower risk profiles if there is a strategic commitment to create a robust community management capability. Therefore, most social business strategies, global or at the business function level, should address this as a first class citizen on their roadmaps and in their business case.
- Social platform strategy. This can be a tough topic since platform decisions tend to have the quality of a religious debate. There are usually loyal and committed camps in most organizations with a strong preference for particular social media tools and technologies. In reality, there is no one single tool that can deliver all needed social business capabilities. I?ve delved into the elements of the ?social business stack? over the years, but one lesson stands out: An effective social business strategy consists of a managed portfolio of on-premise and cloud-based tools across a wide spectrum. The strategy should, when possible, account for how all this social technology should co-exist and where it should be consistent and integrated when they overlap. Functional overlap of social tools and platforms remains a major source of frustration, confusion and duplication in most organizations and needs to be dealt with pro-actively.
- Risk management. If you?re a regulated industry or have many legal and/or corporate governance obligations, it can be very challenging to determine if your social media strategy stays within the boundaries of what?s allowable. Frankly, robust risk management efforts are a frequent reason that social business strategies slow down or stall. Once the risks are identified and articulated in writing for all to see, it can be very hard for business leaders to get past them and authorize the exposure to risk. I find that the most effective social business strategies often call this something else entirely and plan from the beginning to address risk in simple, straightforward terms without making it a highlight of the effort.
- Business process redesign. One of the big lessons in social business is that the way the organization works on the ground must be directly addressed by the strategy effort. It goes beyond the problems that occur when we perpetuate the artificial divide between our systems of record (transaction systems) on one hand and our systems of engagement (social tools) on the other. A strategy must articular how a business is going to change the way it works in terms of its structure and process. This means re-engineering business processes from the ground up to be inherently social, open, and participative. How to determine what the changes should be and the process to go about delivering on them must be a primary focus of the strategy effort.
- Organizational design. Recently, I?ve seen an significant increase in interest around organizational design as part of a social business strategy. If peer production, community-based processes, and the outcomes of the other power laws of networked organizations change how things get done, doesn?t that have significant impact on both the org chart and how we staff and connect together business functions? It certainly does but it?s often omitted from many strategies, sometimes because the subject is politically sensitive. In my view, org design is best split between the global strategy and the functional strategy, with a long-term plan in the former and more immediate changes in the latter. At first, this may just be the establishment of a central support unit for social business.
- Communication plan. While change management is almost always present in any mature social business strategy, I often find the communication plans are given short shrift. Yet we clearly see in almost all the recent success stories, that extensive, pro-active communication company-wide was central to the success of their uptake, adoption, and ongoing use. Communication plans should be multi-modal, compelling, and consist of education, workshops, just-in-time training, and outreach to areas that are having challenges.
While your mileage will vary and there are certainly many other minutiae in a social business strategy that can unexpectedly contribute to a better than expected outcome, the areas above are the ones I see as high-impact yet often neglected or misunderstood. Despite a current wave of backlash against strategy efforts in some quarters, I find that companies that have cultures receptive to positive change can take great advantage of them. I?d love to hear your experiences in formulating social business strategy below in comments.
(Cross-posted @ Dachis Group :: Collaboratory)
Source: http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/46047/what-not-to-leave-out-of-your-social-business-strategy/
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
From Tohoku-oki Tsunami to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (ContributorNetwork)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]ContributorNetwork - On March 11, 2011, an undersea 9.0 megathrust earthquake was triggered and sent a duel catastrophe rocketing into the coast of Japan. The Tohoku-oki Quake and Tsunami ended up creating the worst nuclear accident in 25 years and the most costly natural disaster in our recorded history. Approximately 20,000 people died from this disaster primarily to drowning. Entire coastal communities and ports were crushed under 3-6 meter waves, producing an estimated 20 million tons of debris.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wall Street cuts early gains, Dow negative (Reuters)
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Reuters - Stocks cut early gains on Tuesday, with the Dow and Nasdaq slipping into negative territory as Wal-Mart weighed.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music (AP)
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AP - Young people want their music, TV and movies now — even if it means they get these things illegally.
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CyanogenMod team seeks donations to support hardware requirements
The CyanogenMod team is seeking donations from the community to help bolster the hardware needed to keep things going. There are some 56 devices supported on CM's official listing, and nightly builds and official releases take some serious hardware to crank out. And that costs money. Writes CyanogenMod:
We need to purchase new hardware to take on this task. A couple of solid, stable Xeon-class servers with large amounts of RAM and fast disks. Virtual private servers won’t cut it for build machines.
CyanogenMod is not a for-profit business. We are just a bunch of geeks, trying to make our phones more awesome. The donations we get currently cover our operating costs and occasionally go towards developer devices. This time, I need to ask for help from the community for something a bit larger. We need to purchase these servers in order to bring the build infrastructure back to full capacity.
As such, there's now a PayPal widget at the bottom of the CM site that allows you to donate as much or as little as you want.
Update: And the CM team has hit its goal.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Sexual Agon ? The Good Men Project
You are not always the person your parents think you are. In fact, you are not always the person you think you are.?
Hard up as I was, you?d have thought I?d jump right on that. We?d flirted much of the summer and that she came to my room in only her underwear and sheerest night dress was, in a sense, inevitable. But she was a broken soul. I was, at 21, merely lost, absent of a clue as to what to do in any aspect of my life. I have friends who?ve known from the time they were nine what they wanted. This purpose imbued their lives and the personalities they took on in the aura of their purposefulness. They were the people who got laid in high school.
I didn?t lose my virginity until college and, even then, was so drunk I didn?t ejaculate, despite which, that single, failed attempt remained, up until and even for some time after the night Stephanie stole into my bedroom, the only time I?d had sex.
A single word sums up my attitude toward the opposite sex and, even more frighteningly, the idea of sex with the opposite sex. Not strictly fear of girls, though there were any number of them, from high school on into my twenties, who I would only ever pine for from afar ? Amy, Julie, Jess, Tammy, Jenn. I adhered to one of Isaac Newton?s lesser known laws of motion. The object of one?s affection will remain admired from afar unless one is acted upon by an outside force.
But I was afraid of something more than the girls themselves, something captured in a more colloquial law than the one promulgated by the father of Calculus. To paraphrase: far better to avoid sex and be thought inept than to engage in it and remove all doubt. When a boy, you assume sexual prowess is a gift you either are or are not born with. I assumed the latter. It never occurs to you that, like all things, sex is only something you get better at the more you do it.
Once he?s reveled in his first ejaculation, a feeling so good how could he not want to experience it over and over again in bed at night, night after night, it becomes difficult for a boy to recall the time before which this feeling so fully permeated his being. One?s individual pre- and post-pubescent eras are as irrevocably divided as our era from our grandparents?. To try to prove the negative, to capture what it was like not to have a sex drive that, when it was installed, dwarfed your adolescent mind?s hard drive, is to be the elderly relative who tries explaining to the grandkids what life was like before modern amenities, how a Coke was a dime and one flipped baseball cards against the brick apartment house wall and ice was delivered by a man with a stevedore?s hook and a pick with which he cut off blocks of it for the ice box because they didn?t have refrigerators.
My father still refers to the refrigerator as the icebox. He is a religious man who studied two years to be a priest before deciding he didn?t, in fact, have that particular calling. He spent most of the rest of his adulthood engaged in the life of our parish. When I was growing up, he served as eucharistic minister at mass and taught CCD to students preparing to be confirmed. It must be a great disappointment that none of his own children today practice the faith to which he was so devoted.
Needless to say, my father never talked birds and bees. Neither did my mother. Having attended Catholic school for all but three years, neither did I get sex ed. I vaguely recall Mr. Williams, a biology teacher at my Catholic high school, where he was also, more importantly, for these matters took precedence, the assistant football coach, rather embarrassingly and haltingly broach the subject one day in class because an administrator tacked it on to the biology curriculum. But that was it. My education proceeded apace elsewhere. It had to.
The first two pornographic magazines I remember were Penthouses. One my friends and I found in the rubble and weeds along the access road to the supermarket a block from my house. The other was my oldest brother?s, who hid it under some tools on a shelf in the back of our cellar. I don?t remember how I discovered this ignoble treasure, but I give my brother credit for an ingenious hiding spot. Though he owned tools, my father never used them. He remains one of the least mechanically inclined men I know. He was an inveterate reader of all genres and periods and the biography of, say, Peter the Great always held greater interest for him than any home or yard project. God bless him. He may have left me in the dark sexually, but a lack of mechanical skill or interest is but one of the tendencies I?m happy to have inherited.
The magazine my friends and I found was for looking. Because it was communal property we kept it hidden in an old cinder block in the rubble where we found it, but an access road isn?t exactly a spot where one can whip it out and have at it, even if, as young and horny as we were, the entire act would have lasted less than 30 seconds. Besides, it rained a few days later and we didn?t think to sheath the magazine in a plastic bag to protect it from the weather. Clearly, we were in need of some form of sex ed.
My brother?s magazine on the other hand was for more than looking. I remember one of the photos in it, an exceptionally close close-up of a vagina that belonged to one of a pair of women who, it?s clear to me now, were only simulating girl-on-girl action, but I was also, back then, a big fan of professional wrestling. Enthralled by the picture I snuck downstairs every chance I could. My brother must have known. I wasn?t exactly sanitary in my upkeep, routinely ejaculating on the magazine?s pages, which began to stick together and would, when I ripped them apart, become blighted with white spots, but he never said anything.
You might profitably ask whether my parents didn?t notice the amount of time I spent in the cellar, considering it was unfinished, little more than a space between the bare granite of the house?s foundation and the beams supporting its first floor, but I was the youngest of three boys and, by the time I ambled along, my parents may have decided they didn?t need to hold the reins so tightly or, what?s more likely, been sapped of the energy to do so. For that, I suppose, I owe my forbearing brothers a measure of thanks.
To me the latitude my parents granted was a good thing and not just in that way any child given a great deal of freedom would claim. Out of the house by 9:00 most summer mornings, I would call for Chris at his house or he at mine. In my back yard, which, though not big, was big enough, we would, the two of us, one pitching, the other batting, using imaginary fielders to project whether a ball one of us hit would have been caught had we, in fact, full teams of players, play whole baseball seasons ? 162 imaginary games ? over the course of a few weeks, keeping meticulous statistics ? hits, home runs, rbi, batting average, earned run average. It would be dinner before we stopped.
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As I grew older, summer?s daily excursions ranged further afield. By that time, my friends included Mike and Danny, who lived a good half-mile and mile, respectively, from my house. We split mornings between Mike?s, where we played basketball in the driveway, and Danny?s, where we played ping pong in the basement. Afternoons, we?d bike it to the river, where it bent behind the abandoned drive-in. This was before the feds mandated the state clean it. The water, turgid where it entered a marsh before turning toward the city and, finally, the ocean, and where older teens drank at night, unbothered by the cops, was filthy. We bided our time, which meandered like the river, throwing the trash at hand into the water and daring each other to dive in, though we were all well repulsed enough that none of us took the dares seriously.
I don?t remember when or for what reason, but at some point my brother?s magazine disappeared and, though, upon discovering its absence, I spent a frenzied afternoon scrambling through every reach of that cluttered and dust-covered cellar, I was forced to accept its loss and move on. In that pre-internet age, there was, luckily, quite the surfeit of masturbaturbable material in glossy ads of everyday magazines. Sports Illustrated became the periodical of choice. There was a Fruit of the Loom ad I liked: smooth, tan, dark-haired model in teal briefs perfectly accentuating the line of his thigh. Jim McMahon graced the cover. The Bears had beaten the Dolphins in the first week of the NFL season. As in my brother?s Penthouse, the pages became difficult to turn.
I was a kid from an outlying, almost completely Irish Catholic neighborhood of a city dominated for decades by Irish Catholics, who didn?t learn not everyone is Catholic until he was 10 when, on a family vacation, he struggled to assimilate into his limited worldview a Protestant minister and his fiancee, whom he met on a sightseeing train from Durango to Silverton, Colorado. I didn?t know what bi-sexuality was and had never met anyone who was openly bi-sexual and, even if I had, these matters don?t usually provide epiphanies. I?m not Gregor Samsa. Sexuality dawns more slowly than that. One?s libido is physical, it is of this world and is, therefore, observable. Though grounded in biology, our sexuality contains a spiritual element. It is part of who we are, which can take a lifetime to ascertain.
The night we met my wife and I agreed everyone has traditionally masculine and femnine aspects to their personalities and is, to different degrees, phyiscally attracted to members of their own gender. I copped to 60-40, that is I thought I was 60% gay and 40% straight. She claimed to be 60-40 the other way. It was an interesting first conversation, one which others, because of the respective revelations of our bi-sexuality, might have found discomfitting. I?d attempted to reveal my bi-sexuality before to friends and even a girlfriend and they had, each of them, found the conversation intensely uncomfortable. One of my best friends, whom I?ve known since third grade, sensing where the conversation was headed, cut me off before I could get there. A girl I?d been dating, and cheating on with men, broke down crying when I told her. I was never sure which she was the more upset about, that I?d been unfaithful or that I?d been unfaithful with men.
I?d gone to England for grad school with the intent of exploring my gay side. I was 32 and, though I?d had sex with men, women always seemed to get in the way. I was, with that one glaring exception, a serial monogamist. Once I got over my fear of women, it seemed I couldn?t go much more than a week between girlfriends. Every time I broke up with one woman, always thinking I?d lead a single, bi-sexual life for a while, I?d meet another almost immediately and, before I realized it, find myself six months into a relationship I didn?t want. In that sense, Nicole, who was in the same program, was no different. We met the first night of the semester, went on a date the second, slept together the fourth, but, two weeks later, in a bar in Amsterdam, where we?d gone for the weekend with some classmates, across the table around which six of us were crowded, Robbie Williams playing on the jukebox, I realized by the look on her face that she loved me and I her.
One might argue I?ve lost the chance to explore my gay side, but I would argue that?s what porn is for and, now that we live in an internet age, it?s so damn accessible. Still, I?m often asked whether my wife and I swing, as if sexual openness must be an aspect of all bi-sexual relationships. For the record, we don?t. I might want to fuck Jake Gyllenhall, but I?m pretty sure there are married straight men out there who want to fuck Gisele Bundchen. Monogamy is monogamy. What does it matter if it?s similarly or differently gendered?
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I never told my parents I was bi-sexual and, as I?m married now, I don?t suspect I ever will. But strewn under my old bed, which rested on a raised frame, providing ample storage for them under it, were the issues of SI and GQ and People that contained the bare-chested models hawking everything from sports drinks to underwear, whose pages became covered in those damning white blotches. My parents did my bedroom over a few years ago. I can only presume that, as they threw the incriminating magazines in the garbage, one of them flipped through the pages to expose my secret, which would, of course, be as obvious to them as my imagination cast it. Those white blotches were Lady Macbeth?s spot.
There were also books, my favorite being, for masturbatory and not aesthetic reasons, Bret Easton Ellis? thinly veiled portrayal of life at Bennington College, The Rules of Attraction. At the novel?s heart lies a love triangle ? one girl, two boys, though one of the boys either denies or doesn?t realize he?s in a homosexual relationship because he?s high when they first jack each other off, the scene to which I most often, in what I guess you could call a form of reader-response criticism, jacked off.
The book was my middle brother?s and, rather comically, it never dawned on me he too might be gay, or at least bi-sexual. I just thought he was, like other college kids in the late 80s, trying to attain a literary hipness Bret Easton Ellis for some unknown reason then conferred. Even after I learned he was gay, I never spoke to him about his gayness or my bi-sexuality or what it was like to grow up gay in a family and community that might have shunned him had they known or why he, I can only assume, fled to California all those years ago or what it felt like, at long last, to come out to my parents, which he did on a June weekend when he was home for a wedding.
If Matt had wanted to see me, he could have hopped the T to the shitty, $900 a month apartment I was sharing with two other guys, so I knew as soon as I heard his voice on the phone something was up. I hadn?t spoken to my mother in months, despite which he asked me to go to dinner at my parents? house, the same house we grew up in, containing still the magazines and books that had shaped our fantasies of sex with men.
But if he thought my presence would ameliorate anything, he underestimated the coolness of my relationship with my mother, who was something more than disappointed with the somewhat less than rapid development of my career. I?d quit my job in public relations to work at a Boys? and Girls? Club for the princely sum of $17,000. For a woman who grew up poor, poorer than I will, hopefully, ever know, who had uprooted her life to emigrate to a new country at the tender age of 28, that I would spurn a Harvard education, one, moreover, she helped pay for, to work for a wage that hovered near the poverty line, which was too close to home for her, was beyond bizarre, beyond the not unusual idealism of a young college graduate. It was, frankly, unconscionable.
On that June evening, as I walked in the back door, the only door in our house anyone ? resident or guest ? ever used, her greeting could only be described as brittle. As she prepared dinner, moving from the kitchen, where I sat in an attempt to engage her, outside to the grill and back again, she said little and looked at me less. After one trip to check on the steak tips, she slammed the screen door on her way back in, then proceeded to stomp around the kitchen opening and slamming cabinet doors, rattling the glasses, bowls, and plates like an earthquake.
Lost in the haze of my ego, I assumed that, as was so often the case, she was pissed at me. What eluded me from my self-inflicted perspective was the reason I was there. On her last trip to check on the tips, my brother, who was outside reading, had jumped the gun on what was to be the primary topic of dinner conversation. In this case, dividing did not conquer. All Matt accomplished was to necessitate he come out twice.
Now, I only learned this later, when, after dinner, my oldest brother called from Tennessee. He spoke first to my father, then to my mother, then, as he was older, to Matt, and finally to me.
His first words were, ?Dude, what the fuck??
The three conversations before mine had gone something like this: Dad, Red Sox, Mom, barely a word of any kind, Matt, revelation of earlier revelation. More damningly, my mother?s reaction to said revelation. She made my brother promise he wouldn?t tell my father, which was unfair, and not just to Matt. My mother demonstrated little respect for my father?s love for his son, which I knew would outstrip even his adherence to church doctrine. Moreover, as some of our cousins knew Matt was gay, it was inevitable my father would learn of it at a family party in the course of what others would presume was cocktail conversation.
I don?t know what happened ? whether my mother relented or my brother defied her ? but a few days later I stopped by the house. My brother had flown back to California and my mother was out shopping. Sitting at the kitchen table as I stood leaning against a counter, my father asked if I?d known Matt was gay.
?Yes. He told me last year.?
My father went on to ruminate that, if given a choice between a son who was straight and one who was gay, he would prefer the former, if for no other reason than that he believed a straight man?s life in this world was easier than a gay man?s and, as a father, he didn?t want to see any of us struggle.
?Life wouldn?t be life without struggle,? I said like a good Darwinist.
Here was an opening to slip in my own bi-sexuality, but I decided against piling on, which is, oddly, how I conceived of it. I made the mistake my mother did. I underestimated my father?s ability to assimilate a primary aspect of my being. That I still haven?t told my parents indicates I yet underestimate them.
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There are versions of ourselves our parents carry with them. In the course of a life, a person changes. What we do and what we like changes, our habits and our tastes change, but, to our parents, the person we were at 17 is the person we are at 39. I?m convinced that when parents die, an event, thankfully, I have yet to experience, children mourn the loss of the image of them their parents hold as much as they mourn their parents.
My parents maintain certain expectations for me. It is with only a dash of facetiousness, but a whole dollop of regret, they say they thought I would grow up to be Mayor of Boston, one of the jobs that, in my mother?s eyes particularly, combined the best aspects of being Irish Catholic and a Harvard graduate. And I can tell you that, at 17, I expressed political aspirations, even as I desired to be a writer, and that, at 39, I continue to straddle the divide, one that coincides with other aspects of my split personality: the extrovert and introvert; the boy who wants to be one of the guys and the man who wants to tell every fucking guy he meets that to be the King of Queens shouldn?t be his highest aspiration; wanting to cinch the community binds that constitute a support network and wanting to cut them so I can go home at night and write free of obligations; the fear of ostracism that so often accompanies living life on one?s terms, outside of society?s prescriptions, and the desire to do so anyway.
All of this, all of the expectations molded and defined by religious belief and societal convention, is inextricably tied up in that fucked up head of mine with my conception of sin, which is one part religious in nature, one part familial, and one part my own. When I think of my parents discovering the cum-encrusted pages of advertisements in the magazines under my old bed, I don?t conceive of it within the natural course of child development, of which it is, of course, a part. Because we didn?t discuss sex in my house, I didn?t know it was perfectly normal to masturbate. And, even if we had, it is unlikely I would have learned that to masturbate to images of other men was just as normal. But it is for neither of these reasons, or at least strictly so, that I conceived of my actions then as sin. To masturbate to advertisements filled with chiseled, sweat-soaked men, then hide the evidence under my bed, was to subvert my parents expectations of me. And that, more than anything else, constituted the gravest sin I could commit.
And isn?t it sad that today my being bi-sexual is likely to help me attain one of my professional aspirations more than the other, the one, not coincidentally, my parents hope I achieve: that it is easier, even in my own mind, to conceive of myself as a bi-sexual writer than as an openly bi-sexual mayor.
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So, when Stephanie walked into my bedroom that night, God, almost twenty years ago, I was scared. Scared of what was a sure thing. Scared of what I wanted and of the consequences of getting what I wanted. Scared I might not perform well, itself, Freudianly enough, part of the high expectations set by my parents, who, though they may not have talked to me about sex, certainly expected I achieve excellence in all aspects of my life.
Mostly, though, I was scared that this broken girl would, even through the glass shards of her life, see me for what I was. Scared of the dawning recognition that, somehow, the different aspects of my personality didn?t represent a Manichaean divide only the one side of which, if I were to be happy, I needed to choose, but, rather, an integrated whole. Scared, ultimately, of, in the words of another great bi-sexual, the multitudes I contain, unsure if those multitudes would meet my parents? expectations. And, today, though I?m too fast approaching 40 and my parents 80, the fear remains. I?m just a latter-day Jacob wrestling the better angels of my parents for their blessing.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Giada De Laurentiis Target - iVillage
Do you remember that horrible moment in high school (or maybe your last meeting at work) when the teacher asks a question and everyone stares at their laps, praying that they won't be picked? That's exactly what happened at a Giada De Laurentiis event for her Target cookware line that I attended last Friday.
When Giada, spoon in hand, cheerfully asked for a volunteer sous chef to help her cook lunch, an entire table of editors shifted in their seats. Not because Giada isn't warm and friendly (which she is) or that her recipes are complicated (which they aren't) -- the idea of cooking with a pro is intimidating. After the longest 10 seconds ever, I raised my hand, bravely (stupidly?) stepping up to help her prepare Linguine with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Olives and Lemon. I'm a food editor, I can handle making pasta, right?
(I'll pause here to tell you what you really want to know: Up close, Giada is just as tiny and perfect as she looks on TV. She had on a killer blue dress and a sparkly diamond ring. It is hard to not feel like an oaf next to her. There you go.)
Whenever you cook with someone, be it your grandmother, friend or even a celebrity chef, you learn something new. Everyone does things a bit differently in the kitchen, and watching someone else chop and dice and saute makes you reevaluate how you chop and dice and saute. Sometimes you'll find that you've been doing something completely wrong all these years.
Not surprisingly, Giada is a great teacher and she passed on lots of useful tips on cooking pasta and other kitchen skills. Thanks to her, I now know the correct way to zest a lemon, something I do all the time at home. (Tip: Hold your microplane horizontally across your bowl, then gently grate the lemon across.)
More pasta-making wisdom from Giada:
- When cooking pasta, Giada says she adds "a handful" of kosher salt to the pasta water. I have always used a generous pinch of salt, but she says that's not enough to really season the pasta. If your noodles are boiled in properly seasoned water, you won't have to be heavy-handed with the salt in your sauce or toppings.
? - When you drain your cooked pasta, never, ever put oil on it. Some poor stage manager did this to Giada's linguine and was swiftly (but nicely) corrected. Giada says that oil will make the sauce slide right off and pool underneath the pasta, instead of clinging deliciously to each noodle.
? - Put enough water in your pasta-making pot so the noodles can move around and get thoroughly cooked. Giada recommends filling it three-quarters of the way full.
? - Don?t worry if you can?t find the specific type of pasta mentioned in a recipe. If you can?t get your hands on bucatini or orechiette, you can easily substitute ziti or spaghetti.
? - For the best cheese flavor, don?t buy pre-grated parmesan, which often has additives. Go for a block of the real thing, grate it in your food processor and store it in an air-tight container in your refrigerator.
? - If you?re carb-averse, make pasta for your family and save some of your pasta sauce (almost any sauce will work) to top a piece of chicken or fish for yourself.
So how was the pasta we made? The group pronounced it simple, fresh and delicious, like most of Giada?s recipes. Even though I was sweating and trying not to spatter my dress with pesto, the recipe was truly foolproof. Unlike in high school, it was totally worth raising my hand.
Source: http://www.ivillage.com/giada-de-laurentiis-target/3-a-426976
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels (Reuters)
SINGAPORE (Reuters) ? U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.
John Wahr of the University of Colorado in Boulder and colleagues, in a study published on Thursday, found that thinning glaciers and icecaps were pushing up sea levels by 1.5 millimeters (0.06 inches) a year, in line with a 1.2 to 1.8 mm range from other studies, some of which forecast sea levels could rise as much as 2 meters (2.2 yards) by 2100.
Sea levels have already risen on average about 18 centimeters since 1900 and rapid global warming will accelerate the pace of the increase, scientists say, threatening coastlines from Vietnam to Florida and forcing low-lying megacities to build costly sea defenses.
To get a better picture of the pace of the melting, Wahr and colleagues used a satellite that measures variations in gravity fields to study changes in the mass of large ice-covered areas. The data covered 2003-2010.
The glaciers and ice caps included those in the Arctic, South America, Asia as well as Greenland and Antarctica.
Globally, the rate of sea level rise has accelerated in recent decades to reach about 3.5 millimeters a year, with more than half coming from thermal expansion of the oceans.
Water expands as it gets warmer.
While the creeping annual increase might seem small, the rate of sea level rise is expected to grow. Yet scientists have struggled to refine estimates given the uncertainty about the future pace of global warming, growth trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and the rate at which ice caps will melt.
Using satellite data instead of more limited and time-consuming data from ground measurements was crucial, Wahr said in an email to Reuters.
The team found that loss ice from Greenland and Antarctica was pushing up sea levels by just over one millimeter a year, comprising most of the 1.5 mm annual rise.
Glaciers and mountain ice caps elsewhere comprised the rest, at 0.4 mm/yr between 2003-10.
"That's a large number, and represents a lot of melting ice," said Wahr. "But it's at least 30 percent smaller than previous global estimates, none of which have used GRACE," he said, referring to the name of the satellite.
FASTER MELTING
The United Nations' Climate Panel estimates sea global sea level rise of 18 to 59 centimeters from 1990 to the 2090s. But those numbers do not include melting from polar regions where the vast majority of the world's freshwater is locked away.
Some climate scientists say the rise is more likely to be between and 1 and 2 meters. They point to accelerating melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic icesheets over the past two decades. Both contain enough water to raise global sea levels by about 60 meters.
Other glaciers and mountain icecaps contain enough water to raise sea levels by nearly a meter.
GRACE measured the changes to ice mass over regions greater than 100 square kilometers. The data showed ice-covered areas in Asia, including the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges, was much less than other estimates, meaning the region contributed very little to sea level rise, in part because many glaciers were at freezing high elevations.
Wahr said the study gave a much clearer picture of what was happening to large ice-covered areas globally, particularly in remote parts of the Himalayas.
"There are simply too many glaciers, and most of them too remote to access, to be able to monitor all of them from the ground. There are more than 200,000 glaciers world-wide," he said, adding only a few hundred have been monitored over time spans of several years or more.
"With GRACE, though, we're able to directly monitor the sum total of all ice loss in an entire glacier system or ice cap."
Ongoing monitoring by the satellite should help scientists get a better handle on the pace of ice melting and sea level rise as the planet heats up.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all 11 years in the 21st century so far, including 2011, rank among the 13 warmest in the 132-year temperature record.
(Editing by Ed Lane)
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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The federal court ruling Tuesday that Proposition 8, California?s ban on gay marriage, is unconstitutional will not lead to an immediate rush for marriage licenses across?California, say?legal analysts as well as same-sex couples who have been waiting for the court?s decision.
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The main reason is the stay on the decision, which prevents same-sex couples from marrying in order to avoid having to undo the marriages if another court were to overrule the decision. This actually happened in 2008, when 18,000 couples got married after the state Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was legal, only to have voters pass Prop. 8 five months later. Their legal status remains in question.
But the general uncertainty over the status of gay marriage nationwide is also a factor for some couples.?
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Long Beach?residents Kimberlee Ward and Anne Albertine, who have had a domestic partnership certificate for seven years ? and who have a 13-month-old daughter, Ava ? say they are?not going to get married until the US Supreme Court weighs in.
?We are waiting until it is fully recognized on the federal and state levels,? says Ms. Ward, director of admissions at an elementary school. ?We don?t want to be married one day and then be declared illegal the next, or be considered differently for federal and state taxes.?
Ward is Ava?s birth mother, but the couple has given their daughter Ms. Albertine?s last name, to give Albertine more legal rights. The couple has not gone through adoption procedures.
?We love the idea that now Ava can see us in the same light as the parents of her friends and understand our marriage and relationship is just as valuable and loving as any other married couple,? says Ward.
According to the an analysis by the Williams Institute, which compiles statistics countrywide on sexual orientation and gender identity, nearly 100,000 same-sex couples live in California, raising more than 30,000 children under age 18. Based on how many couples have gotten married in other states upon the legalization of same-sex marriage, the institute predicts that more than 24,000 couples are likely to marry within three years of the stay being lifted, or a Supreme Court ruling in their favor.
Opponents of gay marriage called the ruling by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco a mistake.
?Today?s decision was disappointing but not surprising, coming from the most liberal Circuit Court in the country,? wrote?Family Research Council President Tony Perkins?in a statement. ?This Hollywood-funded lawsuit, which seeks to impose?San Francisco?values on the entire country, may eventually reach the Supreme Court. This is not about constitutional governance but the insistence of a group of activists to?force their will on their fellow citizens.?
For?San Francisco?couple Lorie Nachlis and Abby Abinanti, who have been in a committed relationship for 13 years, anything other than marriage is a second-class arrangement. They have?rejected the idea of a legal domestic partnership.?
?Within seconds of this decision, my son texted me to say, ?Now are you getting married?? ? says Ms. Nachlis, who is divorced from a heterosexual marriage. ?We have a lot of extended family for who this will give a great feeling of stability.?
With a legal background as divorce lawyer, Nachlis thinks the stay will be in effect until the US Supreme Court rules or refuses to take the case. But because she is nearing 60, Nachlis says she may be inclined to go to another state to get married.
?This age issue hit home a couple weeks ago when I was hospitalized, and it occurred to me that I don?t have a surviving spouse, and also who would be making decisions for me,? says Nachlis. ?I really, really want to get married in California, but this moment made me realize maybe it?s time to get married in Iowa.?
Indeed, even beyond court rulings, the issue of gay marriage is in flux in California.?
?This is the time to celebrate this incredible victory,? said Eric Harrison, interim executive president of Love Honor Cherish, an anti-Prop. 8 organization.
But if it is not clear by spring whether or not same-sex couples can legally wed,?his group is still planning to?collect signatures for an 2012 ballot initiative to overthrow Prop. 8.
He says: ?It?s obviously a lingering question, whether gays and lesbians can get married now or how long this stay will be in place.??
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Hasbro 4Q net income down 1 percent (AP)
NEW YORK ? It was a blue Christmas for Hasbro. The No. 2 toy maker said Monday that its fourth-quarter profit slipped 1 percent, pinched by softer-than-expected demand in the U.S. and Canada and slow sales of games and puzzles during the key holiday season.
The results contrasted with larger rival, Barbie-maker Mattel Inc., which last week reported better-than-expected results for the season. Toy makers can make up to half of their annual revenue during the holiday quarter.
While earnings for Hasbro ? maker of Nerf, Transformers and My Little Pony ? matched Wall Street estimates, revenue was slightly below forecasts.
Hasbro owns such classic board games as Monopoly, Life and Scrabble. It has updated the brands with digital versions and high-tech features, but board games were not big sellers this holiday season. It has also started making action movies with board game titles. "Battleship" from Universal hits theaters in May.
"We did not meet our expectations for growth in the U.S. and Canada segment, as we experienced weaker demand than we had anticipated, especially post-Thanksgiving, including challenges in the games and puzzles category," President and CEO Brian Goldner said in a statement. He added that the company is putting new leadership in charge and has plans to rejuvenate results.
The company has been revamping its games business and Goldner said in a call with analysts that this will help results improve going forward.
"(We have) established the new Gaming Center of Excellence, and they are innovating, creating new technologies and inventing new brands," he said. "We continue to believe that through a combination of face-to-face, off-the-board, and digital gaming there is an opportunity to grow our gaming business."
Hasbro Inc., based in Pawtucket, R.I., reported net income of $139.1 million, or $1.06 per share, for the period ended Dec. 25. That compares with $140 million, or 99 cents per share, a year earlier.
The results matched expectations of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Earnings per share rose because there were fewer shares outstanding in the current quarter.
Last week Mattel, the No. 1 toy maker in the U.S., reported its fourth-quarter profit climbed on strong holiday demand for its toys. But like Hasbro, the El Segundo, Calif., company said that its U.S. performance was weak.
Hasbro's quarterly revenue rose 4 percent to $1.33 billion from $1.28 billion, buoyed by overseas sales and its boys and preschool categories. Revenue dropped in its girls and games and puzzles categories
Wall Street expected $1.34 billion in revenue.
Revenue in the U.S. and Canada segment dropped 2 percent, to $592.8 million, while international sales rose to 8.4 percent, $669.8 million. Entertainment and licensing segment revenue climbed to $64.1 million from $53.5 million.
For the full year Hasbro earnings fell 3 percent to $385.4 million, or $2.82 per share, from $397.8 million, or $2.74 per share, in the previous year. Annual revenue increased 7 percent to $4.29 billion from $4 billion.
Hasbro expects higher earnings per share and revenue in 2012.
Shares rose 80 cents to close at $36.66 Monday.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Interview: Linda Abarbanell on ?Spatial Language and Reasoning in ...
Linda Beth Abarbanell is a Postdoctoral fellow in Education at Harvard. In 2010 she received a Post-PhD research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to aid research on ?Spatial Language and Reasoning in Tseltal Mayans?. Recently we reached out to Abarbanell to learn more about her work in Chiapas, Mexico, examining the relationship between language, culture and thought in the area of spatial language and cognition.
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Whom or what inspired you in choosing your specific research topic or area?
I?ve always been interested in knowledge ? how it?s structured and learned, how concepts develop and change, where they come from. I studied philosophy as an undergraduate, where one of my favorite works was Kant?s Critique of Pure Reason ? all about a priori intuitions of space and time. Later, I worked as a fourth grade teacher in New York City, teaching mostly recent immigrant and second-generation children. I became curious about how context, particularly language and culture, interact with different types of knowledge to affect the learning of each child. When I went back to graduate school, I discovered that cognitive and developmental psychologists were finding answers to the questions that philosophers had debated for centuries by studying how infants and children perceive and reason about the world. I started working as a research assistant in a psychology lab at Harvard, helping with a study that was looking at how children learn spatial words ? whether they interpret made-up directional terms like ?ziv? and ?kern? in terms of their own bodies (e.g., left/right) or the environment (e.g., north/south) ? going back in a way to Kant. Because of my interest in language and culture, I was drawn to the cross-linguistic work on this topic, looking at how speakers of different languages use different frames of reference to talk about spatial relationships and whether and how this affects their nonlinguistic representations of space. In particular, I was drawn to a series of studies done with the Tseltal Maya of Chiapas, Mexico, by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson that argued for rather strong effects of these cross-linguistic differences on speakers? perception of and reasoning about space.
I decided to go to Chiapas the summer after my first year as a doctoral student to see if I could learn this language and to find out if the claims in the literature were really true. My mentor in the psychology lab, Dr. Peggy Li, had previously worked on this question, prompting English speakers to perform like the Tseltal speakers tested by Brown and Levinson by changing the availability of environmental cues. With her help designing the studies, I collected pilot data on that first trip. I remember boarding the plane the day after testing ten participants, watching the mountains getting smaller and smaller. From that first trip, I fell in love with the region, the language, and fieldwork.
You collected data from informants using a number of ?fun games?. How did you design these games and how were they received?
With my collaborators, primarily Peggy Li, we adapted tasks that had previously been used with this and other populations, such as the ones used by Brown and Levinson and colleagues, and also designed new tasks based on other studies of spatial reasoning. We?re testing things like memory for small-scale spatial arrays, mental rotation, and navigation, which adapt well to a game-like format. So we do things like arrange toy animals in a pattern, and ask participants to arrange the animals in the same way after moving to a new location and turning to face a different direction. Or we hide a coin in an array while the participant watches, blindfold the participant and rotate the array, then remove the blindfold and ask the participant to find the coin. The games are challenging enough to engage people, but also relatively easy and short so they can be used with children and adults, and with individuals that are less familiar with school-like tasks. Sometimes the tasks are too hard the first time I try them, or the directions are unclear. Designing is always a process of piloting, reviewing and revising. Once I collect reliable data on a particular task, the next step is to analyze it and figure out what to manipulate to address the next question that comes out of the results. I always work with a research assistant that is a native speaker of Tseltal and lives in the community ? a woman I have worked with for several years. We go through the instructions and translations carefully and test everything out on family members first. I value her input greatly. I can?t speak for the participants, but I think they enjoy the games and like participating. It is something different and fun and doesn?t take up too much time. At this point, most people where I work know me and will sometimes ask if I am working on something they can participate in.
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What was a major obstacle that you encountered in the course of your research? 
How did you adapt?
The biggest challenge, but also one of the greatest areas of interest, has been dealing with cultural and language change, and worrying about how my studies might be affecting the population with respect to the phenomenon that I am trying to study. Almost all children now attend school where they acquire Spanish, which uses an egocentric system (e.g., left/right). They also learn to read and write, where left-to-right and up-to-down orientations are important. And each year I see more and more infiltration of Western media and culture, particularly in the municipal center. You also see more and more migration of younger people to urban areas within Mexico and to the US for work. Many return to their community and families after saving money for several years. It would be inaccurate to portray these as static cultures or languages, cut off from the rest of mainstream Mexican society and the world. My data show that younger bilingual speakers who have attended secondary or high school use a combination of both left/right terms, generally in Spanish, along with geocentric directional terms in Tseltal, depending on the constraints of the task and who they are talking to. Younger children who have not yet acquired the use of a left/right system and older adults with lower levels of schooling who do not generally use a left/right system, provide stronger contrasts with speakers of languages like English, but it is still not clear cut. It is hard to know just how much exposure to Spanish and other cultural and environmental artifacts would be predicted to have an effect on patterns of spatial reasoning. It?s also a concern, where there is a limited participant pool, that participants who have been in multiple studies have been exposed to, or even taught the use of a left/right reference system though all the studies that they?ve done. They are also no longer na?ve participants, but may think that I am looking for a particular response where I am not.
There is no easy way to deal with these issues, which are research questions in themselves. I always collect background information on the participants, including their educational level, knowledge of Spanish and literacy skills, and I try to conduct as many comparisons as I can, working with different demographic subgroups within the same general population and geographic region. They aren?t clean comparisons since many factors covary, but they do provide a snapshot of the range of individual variation in the population at this particular point in time.
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The notion that language is deeply connected to thought is, as you recognize, the subject of heated discourse in both academic and popular science. What do you think is at stake, politically, in the tension between universals and particulars?
The region where I work is fraught with political tensions and divisions. As a researcher, I try to understand what is, rather than taking a position on what ought to be, but of course, the question of the relationship between universals and particulars is extremely political ? or rather, can very easily be co-opted towards political ends. It cuts right to the question of how different groups of people differ as a result of the very things that define them as a group. In addition to the question of translatability and whether there can be true communication and understanding across groups, it?s a slippery slope to the question of whether one system or way of conceptualizing the world is in some way better or more optimal than another. Are speakers at a cognitive disadvantage if they have fewer number words in their language, or because they have no way of expressing ?to the left of the tree?? Do such speakers not develop the same capacity to reason about large quantities or to remember where things are from the perspective of an independent viewer? Do mature speakers lose the flexibility to acquire categories and concepts that are not encoded in their language? While innocent in itself, taken to an extreme, the argument that we are locked into how our language and culture conceptualize the world can be used to deepen divisions and further oppress already marginalized groups.
In the region where I work, indigenous children were at one time prohibited from and punished for speaking in their native language at school. Today, individuals may be reluctant to admit they speak an indigenous language after moving to an urban or mestizo region. In the community where I work, parents have expressed that the monolingual schools (where the teachers speak only Spanish) are better than the bilingual ones since their children acquire Spanish more quickly. They know that Spanish is the language of currency if their children are to further their education and advance in the mainstream Mexican economy. Identifying indigenous and minority languages as a barrier to acquiring more Western concepts might further contribute to their devaluation and ultimate loss. On the other hand, we can focus on the range of possibility that different languages and cultures afford, the strengths and advantages of each system as a unique solution to an environmental and communicative problem, and find arguments for maintaining linguistic and cultural diversity, particularly if we take these differences to result in flexible shapings at the margins of a largely shared conceptual core. I prefer to avoid such discussions, both for the sake of remaining true to the scientific process and also because I believe the question of cultural rights is separate from the market value of any particular language or cultural practice. It does concern me, however, that the academic debate in this area has tended to be so polarizing, and in the process, to polarize certain languages and cultures by perhaps overemphasizing differences while overlooking similarities.
Are you a current or past grantee and want to be featured in a mini-interview on our blog? Contact Daniel (dsalas@wennergren.org) to find out more.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
More MegaUpload Fallout As BitTorrent Search Engine BTjunkie Calls It Quits
BTjunkie, a popular BitTorrent search service, has been 'voluntarily' shut down by its operator(s). In a goodbye message, BTjunkie writes: This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on. It's been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!
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Hoekstra Super Bowl ad raises sensitivity question (AP)
LANSING, Mich. ? The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra against Michigan incumbent Debbie Stabenow is bringing charges of racial insensitivity.
GOP consultant Nick De Leeuw flat-out scolded the Holland Republican for the ad.
"Stabenow has got to go. But shame on Pete Hoekstra for that appalling new advertisement," De Leeuw wrote on his Facebook page Sunday morning. "Racism and xenophobia aren't any way to get things done."
A media consultant who has advised Democrats also thought it could prove problematic.
"Some Asian-Americans may be offended by the stereotype that is portrayed in the spot," said Robert Kolt, who teaches advertising part-time at Michigan State University and had previewed a number of Sunday's Super Bowl ads. "Pete seems like a nice guy in the ad, but I think he is wasting a lot of money now. ... It's just not Super Bowl-worthy. It's not cute, it's not funny and it's not memorable."
Hoekstra campaign spokesman Paul Ciaramitaro said the ad is meant to be satirical. Hoekstra's Facebook page, which by early evening was getting a barrage of criticism on the ad, snapped back that those "trying to make this an issue of race demonstrates their total ignorance of job creation policies." On YouTube, the ratings buttons on the ad were disabled after it aired.
"Democrats talk about race when they can't defend their records," Ciaramitaro said. "The U.S. economy is losing jobs to China because of Stabenow's reckless spending policies. China is reaping the reward."
The 30-second ad was filmed in California and never mentions China directly. It opens with the sound of a gong and shows a young Asian woman riding a bike on a narrow path lined by rice paddies.
Stopping her bike, the woman smiles into the camera and says, "Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie Spenditnow. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spenditnow."
The scene then shifts to Hoekstra telling viewers near a cozy fire, "I think this race is between Debbie Spenditnow and Pete Spenditnot."
The Hoekstra campaign set up a website, http://www.DebbieSpendItNow.com, that features the ad and includes Chinese writing, paper lanterns, parade dragons and Stabenow's face on a Chinese fan. It accuses the Democratic senator of "pouring American dollars into the Chinese economy."
Democrats were quick to challenge the premise of the ad, referring to Hoekstra's 18 years in the U.S. House and the fact that he joined a Washington-based law and lobbying firm last year.
"Hoekstra's ad is nothing more than a hypocritical attempt at a Hollywood-style makeover because the fact is, Pete spends a lot," Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer said. "Hoekstra voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and voted for trillions more in deficit spending before quitting Congress to get rich at a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm. Hoekstra is using the big game to play games with Michigan voters."
Hoekstra GOP Senate rival Gary Glenn of Midland struck a similar theme.
"Saving America from the Washington, D.C., politicians who gave us this crippling debt and deficit crisis, Republican and Democrat alike, means Hoekstra and Stabenow should both get benched," Glenn said in a release.
In response to the Hoekstra ad, the state Democratic Party launched a website, hoekstrahoax.com, as well as a 60-second Web ad Sunday that shows a 2010 campaign ad run against Hoekstra by GOP gubernatorial rival Mike Cox.
Hoekstra's hoping to get the same bump from his ad that now-Gov. Rick Snyder got with his 2010 Super Bowl ad portraying himself as "one tough nerd." Both ads were created by media strategist Fred Davis of California-based Strategic Perception Inc.
The new ad is a twist on the anti-Republican "moving jobs to China" theme that Michigan Democrats successfully used against 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos and tried to use against Snyder in 2010. This time, the focus isn't on Republican businessmen sending jobs to China but on what Hoekstra says is Democratic overspending that has weakened the U.S. economy.
Stabenow, who's running for a third term, has pushed for trade policies aimed at China that impose duties and penalties on countries that manipulate their currency and penalize companies that steal intellectual property from U.S. companies. She's using the Hoekstra ad to raise money for her campaign, which already has nearly $6 million on hand.
Hoekstra's campaign is spending $75,000 to air the ad statewide Sunday. Supporters who donated $7.50 got to see the ad online before it aired Sunday morning in the Detroit media market. It aired in the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo areas before the Super Bowl began and during the game in the Traverse City, Flint, Lansing and Marquette media markets, the campaign said.
The ad is set to run over the next two weeks on cable TV shows targeted at GOP voters.
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