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The loss of one of televisions bravest Dads

August 9th, 2008

Actor and comedian Bernie Mac dies at age 50

We know him for the the brave and risky role of a man taking on the role of dad for his sisters kids.

this is something his character did not have to do, but he did it because he felt a responsibility to the community. He did this in a fashion that bared his imperfections, strengths and willingness to involve the community, as evidence when he starts to speak to you ,”AMERICA!”. He invited you into his world of parenting so that you may give some input into his child rearing skills. When you take a good look at that, one may get a sense of a need for communities to raise the children of the community together, in an “each one, teach one” manner, Or, here is a man, “Manning up” in an enormous way i.e. Raising 3 children that he was not originally responsible for, inviting us to see the joy and struggle of raising 3 children, cultivate a relationship with his mate, go through “catharsis” with “AMERICA”, and much more, while touching your emotions, remind you, dad, of what your doing right now, Bernie Mac did this while hitting you with side splitting laughter.

He will be greatly Missed…

R.I.P. Bernie Mac

…maybe Tracey Morgan should pick up the torch again?

IRTMG reporter Eddy James

CHICAGO - Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper “Ocean’s Eleven” and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom “The Bernie Mac Show,” died Saturday at age 50.

“Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital,” his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.

She said no other details were available and asked that his family’s privacy be respected.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body’s organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Associated Press writer Carla Johnson also contributed to this report.

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“A child’s eye view”

July 31st, 2008

“A childs eye veiw” from Protius Indigenous on Vimeo.

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Large Hadron Rap

July 31st, 2008

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.

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Post Modern Hip Hop Now Available on itunes!

July 26th, 2008

The Ep is now available on itunes!!!!!
Click below:

By clicking on the above picture, you enter into The Blak Experiment.

Tius Blak (Protius Indigenous) and Eagle Nebula unite to conduct The Blak Experiment. The two unorthadox emcees rhyme over equally unorthadox tracks.
An alternative and refreshing post modern Hip Hop sound.

“Black Betty” by Eagle Nebula Produced by Tius Blak

Black Betty from Protius Indigenous on Vimeo.

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Playstation 2 component incites African war

July 25th, 2008

Console war reaches past the couch and into the Congo, claims report.

By Ben Silverman

Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?

According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony’s Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the center of the conflict is the unrefined metallic ore, coltan. After processing, coltan turns into a powder called tantalum, which is used extensively in a wealth of western electronic devices including cell phones, computers and, of course, game consoles.

Allegedly, the demand for coltan prompted Rwandan military groups and western mining companies to plunder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the rare metal, often by forcing prisoners-of-war and even children to work in the country’s coltan mines.

“Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,” said Ex-British Parliament Member Oona King.

So where’s the connection to Sony? According to Toward Freedom, during the 2000 launch of the PS2, the electronics giant was having trouble meeting consumer demand. To pump out more units, Sony required a significant increase in the production of electric capacitors, which are primarily made with tantalum. This helped drive the world price of the powder from $49/pound to a whopping $275/pound, resulting in the frenzied scouring of the Congolese hills known for being ripe with coltan.

Sony has since sworn off using tantalum acquired from the Congo, claiming that current builds of the PS2, PSP and PS3 consoles are sourced from a variety of mines in several different countries.

But according to researcher David Barouski, they’re hardly off the hook.

“SONY’s PlayStation 2 launch…was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan that began in early 1999,” he explained. “SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability, because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don’t care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan.”

Currently, the Playstation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all-time, having sold through over 140 million units.

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Barack Obama’s super marketing machine

July 22nd, 2008

July 16, 2008 | WASHINGTON — About every week or so, you get an e-mail from Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, or top deputy Steve Hildebrand, or maybe Obama himself. They’re breezy and informal, addressing you by first name at the outset (before they ask you to donate money at the end). But that’s just the beginning.

You know, of course, that Obama has your e-mail address. You may not have realized that he probably also has your phone number and knows where you’re registered to vote — including whether that’s a house or an apartment building, and whether you rent or own. He’s got a decent estimate of your household income and whether you opened a credit card recently. He knows how many kids you’re likely to have and what you do for a living. He knows what magazines and catalogs you get and whether you’re more apt to get your news from cable TV, the local newspaper or online. And he knows what time of day you tend to get around to plowing through your in box and responding to messages.

The 5 million people on Obama’s e-mail list are just the start of what political strategists say is one of the most sophisticated voter databases ever built. Using a combination of the information that supporters are volunteering, data the campaign is digging up on its own and powerful market research tools first developed for corporations, Obama’s staff has combined new online organizing with old-school methods of voter outreach to assemble a central database for hitting people with messages tailored as closely as possible to what they’re likely to want to hear. It’s an ambitious melding of corporate marketing and grassroots organizing that the Obama campaign sees as a key to winning this fall.

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The sheer scale of the operation — because of Obama’s large network of supporters and heavy emphasis on field organizing — means the data can be sliced in ways that the Bush-Cheney campaign couldn’t have dreamed of in 2004. It’s most likely also more advanced than what either side did in the 2006 elections, or, for that matter, what John McCain is doing now.

All that data gathered in one place may seem a little spooky, though the average credit card company already has it and then some. Ultimately, the approach is about greater sophistication and efficiency. It means the campaign may not wind up wasting time contacting people who are probably voting for McCain, and that when Obama aides or volunteers go out looking for supporters, they have a pretty good idea of what issues those potential supporters care about most. It’s the political equivalent of what big corporate marketers have been doing for years: If you’re a baby boomer living in Westchester County, N.Y., golf gear catalogs will show up in your mailbox, but if you’re a 20-something living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you might get a free trial of Spin magazine instead. Now the same goes for politics — if you’re in a demographic that makes you statistically likely to have children, Obama might send you an e-mail about education policy instead of one about taxes.

“It takes getting out the vote from the horse and buggy era to the space age,” said Andrew Rasiej, the co-founder of techPresident and founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, who has advised Democratic candidates on online politicking for years. By collecting their own data, then bouncing it against publicly available information like Census reports, voter registration files and other databases, Obama aides can slice the electorate up almost any way they want.

Neither the campaign or its consultants would offer up many details about the operation; what they have is most likely a mix of hard data and predictions based on statistical models. Some very specific tidbits are available from consumer marketing firms; if you’ve ever registered a product — a TV, a computer or a microwave, for example — chances are the campaign knows you own it. Likewise, they know if you’ve signed up for the frequent customer club at your local Whole Foods, or if you’ve joined the American Civil Liberties Union. (Yes, those last two probably make you an Obama supporter). Or whether you own a gun and have a current hunting license. (An indicator you’re less likely to pull the lever for him in November.)

They can add that to what they know about the neighborhood in which you live — even about your specific block — then run all the information through a computer, and voilà: Obama aides can pull up a list of, say, married white men over 30 from an area where people buy a lot of gourmet potato chips and Miller High Life sells well.

For the most part, no one particular piece of information has an overwhelming Democratic or Republican tilt, though there are a few exceptions. For instance, people who live in “multi-unit dwellings” — apartment buildings — tend to be overwhelmingly Democrats, possibly because that one indicator tends to bring others along, like income, neighborhood density and living in a city.

“People get hung up looking for a silver bullet,” said Ken Strasma, a Democratic consultant whose firm, Strategic Telemetry, worked on more than 100 races in 2006 and is mining data for Obama now. “They want to know, is it cat owners or bourbon drinkers or some nice buzz phrase like that. It’s when you see the interactions between hundreds of different data points [that patterns emerge] — it’s rare that you see one single indicator pop.”

The Obama campaign staff wouldn’t talk about what patterns they’ve discovered among supporters, but it may be that such broad categories as “soccer moms” from races past are being replaced by others as complex as “iPhone owners with master’s degrees in their 40s who shop at Costco and get frequent flier miles for their credit card purchases.”

Republicans have been doing this sort of thing for the last couple of election cycles; George W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004 boasted about using consumer data to find new supporters (based on eye-catching pieces of information like whether voters drank whiskey or vodka, which probably came from statistical models, rather than actual surveys). But Democrats mostly used targeting information to help with fundraising, building impressive databases that only tracked wealthy contributors, not regular voters. There were some successes — John Kerry, four years ago, used data provided by Strasma’s firm to find wealthy Republican women in the suburbs who could be persuaded to vote for him because they favored stem-cell research.

Now Obama’s campaign is aiming to be ahead of even the GOP’s standard in applying sophisticated data mining techniques across the board, supported by all the traditional canvassing, door-knocking and other work it’s been doing. The campaign is collecting some of the most helpful data on its own. For example, aides can track what time you open e-mails from them, and if you show a consistent pattern, they’ll start sending them at around that time of day. “The marginal benefit of sending some people an email at 2 o’clock vs. 3 o’clock vs. 4 o’clock might not make sense [at first],” said Michael Bassik, a Democratic consultant with MSHC Partners, the firm that did John Kerry’s online advertising in 2004. “But once you start getting an e-mail list that’s 3 million, 4 million, or 10 million people, increasing the returns for a fundraising e-mail by 5 or 10 percent means additional returns of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

If you’re one of the 1 million people who have a login on Obama’s social networking site, they know how often and when you visit, and they can use that to gauge how committed you are to the campaign. A few months ago, the campaign sent out a three-page survey asking people about their voting habits, how often they go to church, which groups and issues they identify with and whether they’ve given money to political candidates in the past. The point of all of the online gadgetry is to get people to show up for offline events. “We’ve tried to orient the tools less as a social network and more as a mobilization network,” said Joe Rospars, Obama’s online director. “We’re creating opportunities for people to get out there and do things — the campaign is election-outcome oriented.”

Offline, volunteers are canvassing neighborhoods where they think they’ll find supporters, or getting contact info at Obama’s big rallies, picking up chunks of similar data. Unlike with previous campaigns, Obama’s aides dump all the information they get into one centralized database. So if you give the campaign $50 from an online solicitation, then show up at a rally organized offline, the campaign knows that. Likewise, if you join Obama’s Facebook group (approximately 1 million strong), then later buy an Obama ‘08 umbrella, aides file that away for possible use later.

That’s part of what makes the Obama effort different from, say, Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign, which raised (for back then) impressive amounts of money online and built a large e-mail list but never really integrated everything into one system. Now, Obama isn’t letting any pieces of potentially useful information go uncollected. “It’s not an innovative campaign, but it’s an extraordinarily professional one,” said Zephyr Teachout, who ran Dean’s online organizing. “They’ve taken all our stupid ideas and made them smart.”

But they’ve also taken all of Capital One’s ideas and put them to work. It seems Joe McGinnis had it right 40 years ago, when “The Selling of the President” chronicled how techniques from Madison Avenue helped send Richard Nixon to Pennsylvania Avenue. If Obama wins the White House in part by looking at voters the way corporations look at consumers, by 2012 it may be even harder to tell where politics ends and marketing begins.

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Book: LADY PINK “GRAFFITI LOUNGE”

July 22nd, 2008

DIRTY PILOT EDITIONS PRESENTS
LADY PINK

Edition of 50 Giclee prints
Museo Portfolio Rag, 350gms, 24″x 17″

FIRST IN A SERIES OF ARTIST EDITIONS

Lady Pink was born in Ecuador, but raised in NYC. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon was well known as the only female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. She is considered a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture since the release of the motion picture “Wild Style” in 1982, in which she had a starring role .At the age of 21 had her first solo show at the Moore College of Art. As a leading participant in the rise of graffiti-based art, Lady Pink’s canvases have entered important art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, the MET in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groningen Museum of Holland. She has established herself in the fine arts world, and her paintings are highly prized by collectors.

you can cop it at this here

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Fines & Jail Time As Saggy Pants Are Outlawed

July 22nd, 2008

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

Many US cities have begun placing fines and penalties on individuals caught in public wearing saggy pants.

Village leaders in south Chicago’s suburb, Lynwood, have already approved an ordinance levying fines up to $25 against people showing at least three inches or more of their underwear, according to the Associated Press.

The law has received acclaim from Lynwood’s mayor, Eugene Williams, who claims half-dressed young men had previously kept the area from growing as major retailers and economic developers were swayed away.

According to Newsweek, a similar law has sprouted in Flint, Michigan as new police chief David Dicks has given approval to begin arresting “saggers” in addition to threatening them with jail time and fines. He has been quoted calling the popular urban style “immoral self expression” although the look has been around for decades.

“I’ve been sagging since the fourth grade,” Flint resident Jayson Miguel told Newsweek. “I’ll be sagging when I’m old and gray.”

As of today, Dicks has only issued warnings, but has promised anyone wearing their pants below their underwear violates the city’s disorderly conduct code and will be punished by 93 days to a year in jail or a fine up to $500.

The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has begun taking matters in to their own hands telling the top cop he may either stop the policy or face a court battle. Attorney and president of ACLU Greg Gibbs felt the new law is simply based on personal dislikes of Dicks.

“Under no stretch of the imagination does wearing saggy pants that reveal the top of one’s boxer shorts violate the Flint disorderly conduct ordinance,” Gibbs said. “This man has basically taken his own dislikes of a style of dress and made it a violation of criminal law.”

In addition to the legal battle Dicks may face from Gibbs, the chief could also have an uphill racial fight as a Flint police officer called into a local radio station last week claiming officers were previously using the policy to profile minorities.

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Fathers have needs

July 21st, 2008

It’s not obvious to us Dads sometimes, because our thoughts are dominated by a western hemispheric “machismo” world view.
This in fact includes amongst others, is being out of touch with one’s feelings, or even being scared to show feelings, even not knowing HOW to feel.
Men give disproportionate attention to thier lusts, egos, gadgets, ability to destroy, earn money and a host of other distractions from being a nurturing human being.
Most of the dads I know including myself did not plan to have a child, it just happened. Some of us Manned up and readjusted our thinking and habits for the Fatherhood task at hand.
I was fortunate enough to have my Father in the picture until, age 17, when he bounced in shame at the time that my mom was the primary breadwinner of the house. Yes he was there for the most part
and I am greatful for the contribution he gave to the creation of Protius Indigenous, BUT…… he was not emotionally present for a greater part of the 17 years he lived at home with me. Sound familiar?
This manifests today in the form of me in a mild struggle with free flowing, self taught, nurturing of my daughter Faith. Though my nurturing shines through, I feel it is impeded by the lack of this example as a child.

This is echoed by many dads I encounter in a group I attend called D-UP! (Dads United for Parenting). With groups like this one, Fathers have an opportunity to examine self, i.e., self love,and self care, within the context of devolping attitudes and skills for male nurturance.

Some may not see the importance of this, but the associated detriments include what we see today in a male run,
self destructive pop culture, bent on promoting unloving, morbid realites for future generations to be influnced under?
Nuturing is not presented as in ‘vogue” at the moment and society pays in not so subtle ways.
If you live in the NYC area and you have been having a burning urge to check your fathering style and make some improvements, I highly recommend D-UP (Dads United for Parenting).
There you will find men ready to sharpen men into the finest dads society has to offer. Don’t expect to come here and have a pity party and call your baby moms a bitch all day, it’s about men doing self examination to identify the root of the fathering style, positive and negative patterns, and solutions to baby mama drama.

D-UP is located at:
314 W. 54th st
Ny.NY 10019
646-264-1344
or
646-264-1338
From time to time visit us as we examine this subject that needs a louder voice than just an article on a blog..

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How To Tell People They Sound Racist

July 21st, 2008

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