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		<title>Fowl language: Deadly Viper and how we got the word &#8220;turkey&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/fowl-language-deadly-viper-and-how-we-got-the-word-turkey</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadly Viper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jud Wilhite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Foster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orientalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[origins of turkey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zondervan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New posts have been noticeably absent here on semaphoric, and it has been some six months since I last updated the blog. What better time for a new entry than this Thanksgiving season. At the risk of disappointing my readers, I will not gush about the things I&#8217;m thankful for (even though there is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I were a world leader and had a Facebook page&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/if-i-were-a-world-leader-and-had-a-facebook-page</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/if-i-were-a-world-leader-and-had-a-facebook-page#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hu Jianto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimg Jong Ill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social-networking got a big boost last week when the White House entered the Twitter fray with its first ever tweet about the swine flu. The Obama Administration has been pushing Washington to utilize and master the universe of cyberspace as a way to promote government transparency and accessibility. I&#8217;m neither President Obama&#8217;s Facebook friend nor am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/earth-day-2009</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/earth-day-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compact fluorescent lights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Information Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduced footprint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical household electricity usage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Earth Day. There are many things we can do to be good caretakers of this planet and to be ever more aware of the impact human activity has on the environment. It wasn&#8217;t until recently that I became aware of how much electricity I waste in a typical day. With all our appliances, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of the model minority</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/the-world/the-model-minority</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/the-world/the-model-minority#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binghamton shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[model minority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myth of the model minority]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another mass shooting. This time in Binghamton, New York, and the alleged gunman is Asian American. This is the second of such shooting where the perpetrator is Asian American. When news of the Virginia Tech tragedy first broke two years ago, I did not believe for the longest time the gunman was a fellow Asian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ghost twitterer</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/trends/the-ghost-twitterer</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/trends/the-ghost-twitterer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghost twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.semaphoric.org/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is still much to be said about the ubiquity of the Internet. With Twitter, there&#8217;s no escaping being attached 24-7 to the Web. I recently started twittering and am still trying to figure out the best way to exploit this phenomenon. For the time being, I&#8217;ve used it mostly to promote my new blog, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation blues</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/reconciliation-blues</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/reconciliation-blues#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norwuz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.semaphoric.org/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night around 11:55 p.m., just five minutes before the Iranian New Year, Norwuz, the White House release a video wishing Iranians around the world, especially those in Iran, a happy new year. The message is conciliatory and groundbreaking, with Obama asking Iran to pursue a new day of engagement and dialog with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/rumors-of-my-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/rumors-of-my-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bebbington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[institutional religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Berger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodney Stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secularization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subjective spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bainbridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an alarming story floating around the blogsphere for the past week about the death of evangelicalism. This story first originated on Michael Spencer&#8217;s blog and then was picked up by The Christian Science Monitor. Spencer&#8217;s predictions are dire and portentous. Simply put, evangelicalism, as we know it here in the West, is &#8220;on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholics and evangelicals together</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/theology/catholics-and-evangelicals-together</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/theology/catholics-and-evangelicals-together#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Trueman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Protestant dialog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelical Theological Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelicalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Beckwith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this little book at the 2008 annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting last November in Providence, Rhode Island. Francis Beckwith, who was the former ETS president in 2007, narrates his return to the Roman Catholic church. This fine book is divided into two parts: personal narrative and theological reflection. I found the latter [...]]]></description>
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