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Universal Cardiac Screening For All Young Athletes?
It's heart wrenching when young athletes die of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Last week the death of Wes Leonard, a Michigan high school star athlete, was especially poignant since he collapsed right after making the game-winning shot. This sort of tragedy occurs about one hundred times each year in America. That's a lot of sadness. The obvious question is: Could these deaths be prevented? Let's start with what actually happens.
Most cases of sudden death in young people occur as a result of either hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an abnormal thickening of heart muscle, or long QT syndrome (LQTS), a mostly inherited disease of the heart's electrical system. Both HCM and LQTS predispose the heart to ventricular fibrillation — electrical chaos of the pumping chamber of the heart. The adrenaline surges of athletic competition increase the odds of this chaos. Unfortunately, like heart disease often does, both these ailments can strike without warning.
Sudden death is sad enough by itself, but what makes it even worse is that both these ailments are mostly detectable with two simple painless tests: The ECG and echocardiogram (heart ultrasound). Let's get these kids ECGs and echos then. "Git 'er dun," you might say.
On the surface the solution seems simple: Implement universal cardiac screening of all young athletes. And you wouldn't be alone in thinking this way. You could even boast the support of Dr. Manny Alvarez of Fox News and the entire country of Italy, where all athletes get ECGs and echos before competing. But America isn't Italy, and things aren't as simple as Fox News likes to suggest. Read more »
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Mama recalls this photo with some amusement. She'd decided that she fancied a dinghy to mess around with on the beach up at Alnmouth, during one of their many holidays there. What she doesn't tell anyone, is that she doesn't like waves, even those tiny ones! So this is as far as she got with her dinghy adventure – you can see that it's not too deep as Kelpie is there, keeping a watchful eye on her!
On well, she cannot make any claims on discovering any New Worlds out there – other than discovering how silly she looks!


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Microsoft may have decided to scrap the anticipated announcement of a Surface Mini tablet at its New York event earlier this week but according to reports, that doesn't mean the smaller sibling is dead in the water.
Neowin brings word that the '11th hour' decision to drop the Surface Mini from the Surface Pro 3 launch event came down to the fears it didn't have a decent enough value proposition.
The report claims Microsoft may be waiting until the fully touch-enabled version of Microsoft Office, codenamed Gemini, arrives later this year before releasing the Surface Mini into the wild.
That means the 15,000 - 20,000 units Microsoft is said to have taken from the production line will be gathering dust until it can put a designed-for-touch Office on them out-of-the-box.
Focus on the Pro
An Office update would potentially be the "winning ingredient" TechRadar speculated over, following the Surface Pro 3 event May 20.
However, as a result of the Surface Mini's unexpected absence, Microsoft was able to place all of its focus on the new Surface Pro 3, released just nine months after the Surface Pro 2.
The firm hopes this bigger, thinner and lighter device will replace users' laptops with a 12-inch, 2160 x 1440 screen, better processing power and slim form factor.
The device can be configured with a Intel i7 Core processor, up to 512GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. It also boasts an improved Touch Cover, two 5-megapixel cameras and nine hours of battery life.


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McDougall, Alexander məkdo͞o´gəl [key], 1731–86, American Revolutionary political leader and general, b. Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. He was taken (1738) as a child to New York. He became a fiery opponent of British restrictions on trade and helped to form the Sons of Liberty in New York City. In 1770 he was arrested on the charge of having written a seditious broadside. In 1774 he presided over the meeting that decided to send New York delegates to the Continental Congress. He served in the army throughout the Revolution and was notable in the battles of White Plains and Germantown and in the fighting in New Jersey. In 1780, after Benedict Arnold's treason, McDougall succeeded to the charge of West Point. After the war he was (1781–82, 1784–85) a member of Congress from New York.
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#WPLongform, Antofagasta, Argentina "blue" market, Atacama Desert, buses in Argentina, buses in Chile, La Serena, Mendoza, nomads, photography, Santiago, travel
20 Nov-13 Dec 2013. We'd originally planned to fly from Ushuaia to Santiago, Chile, and thought we might spend only a few days in Santiago and then stop at some seaside town for a couple of weeks to catch our breath after the three crazy weeks racing around Patagonia. With a little research we discovered there are no nice little seaside towns in Chile, except perhaps La Serena, which I'll get back to. What we discovered is that there's Valparaíso and Viña Del Mar, where everyone goes, and which are both big resort towns and very expensive, and there's La Serena further up the coast. After that nothing much. But the real kicker was the weather. We checked the weather for all these places, including Santiago and discovered nothing higher than a daily average of about 20C, and of course with a wind off the sea. What? What happened to summer? It's the southern hemisphere and it's late November. It's meant to be summer. Or at least the beginning of it anyway.
We found summer in Mendoza, Argentina. Thirty degrees or more every day. We were in heaven. We rented an apartment right next to a big park and just stopped. We stopped being travellers. We stopped being tourists. For two weeks we didn't do anything except forward planning and nothing much else. There's some lovely day trips to be had from Mendoza including horse riding, trekking in the foothills of the Andes, views of Aconcagua (the highest mountain in South America), and visiting the many wineries in the area, but we didn't do any of it. We walked around the town quite a bit, we walked around the park, we ate a lot of very good ice cream, we reveled in being able to make our own meals again, and we did a lot of micro planning for the next three weeks travel, and a lot of macro planning for the next year or so. Many emails were sent. We joined three housesitting sites. We accepted an offer from an old school friend of Don's to stay in their Cypress villa in April and May. I did a lot of photo editing and blogging, Don did a lot of travel research and booking. And we had oodles of time with no agenda, sleeping in as long as we wanted, staying up as late as we wanted, resting a lot. For two weeks we weren't going anywhere the next day. We baked our bones and thawed out from Patagonia. Heaven.
Mendoza is a lovely desert town with an intricate irrigation system. The water comes from mountain streams fed by the nearby Andes. Almost all streets are lined with big old trees shading the sidewalks. We liked it there. We like the heat. We like to walk in the shade.
Street art
The lake in the park across the street from our apartment
Argentina and Chile don't really feel very much like 'developing countries'. They feel more European than anything and have the cost of living to go with it. Argentina, however, due to rampant inflation, has a "blue market" (meaning not quite as scary or risky or policed as a black market) for exchanging US dollars. We took plenty with us and as a result the apartment in Buenos Aires cost only about $35 per night, and the one in Mendoza not much more. In Buenos Aires the apartment agent directed us to a money exchange place close by. It was set up as a high-end antique jewellery store, with very little merchandise, an opaque front door, and a bell to ring to be let in. On entering we were shown into a small but well-appointed office and the whole thing ran like clockwork. We handed over our dollars and they gave us pesos. In truth I'm sure they did nothing other than exchange US dollars for Argentine pesos, at almost twice the bank rate. I have no idea what they then did with the US dollars. It puzzled me. They certainly didn't take them to the bank. There's also a pedestrian boulevard in downtown Buenos Aires where just about every second guy in a hoody will say "cambio? change money?" as you walk by. In Mendoza we ran out of US dollars. A sad day. We were back to the bank rate of exchange, which meant everything was about the same as, or more than we would pay in Vancouver. Chile, having a more stable economy, has no blue or black market for exchange and is just plain expensive. We missed the inexpensive cost of living in India and SE Asia.
Finally it was time to leave Mendoza and start travelling again. Distances in South America are vast and there are few trains, but in Argentina and Chile there are very comfortable buses. To get north to Bolivia and Peru we devised a journey in four stages: Mendoza to Santiago, Santiago to La Serena, La Serena to Antofagasta, and Antofagasta to San Pedro de Atacama. We decided to break the journey by spending two days in each town. Each stage was six to twelve hours on a luxury double-decker bus. The best thing? For each stage we were able to get upstairs front row seats for a fabulous full panoramic view of the countryside as we travelled along, relaxing in our spacious comfortable seats. It was an easy way to cover over two thousand kilometres and to be able to see the country as we travelled.
The first leg – ten hours from Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile, crossing the border into Chile at almost 4000 metres (13,000ft).
The road to Santiago – through the bus window
We enjoyed our two days in Santiago.
It's a cosmopolitan city with a reasonably good infrastructure and a European feel. We wandered around several different neighbourhoods, climbed a hill for a view of the city, and found some really good second-hand boots for our upcoming overland trip in Bolivia. One of the things I most enjoyed was a lot of really fabulous street art.
We came by accident upon a special ceremony for retired firemen, complete with a brass band. This guy was my favourite. I could tell he was pleased to have me photograph him; he asked if I had by gesture, and when I confirmed gave me a twinkly smile as he walked past me into the fire hall.
Like any city it wasn't all pretty
but these kids sure were having fun in the fountain with this very excited dog.
Next leg was a six-hour journey to the seaside vacation town of La Serena. La Serena is a pleasant but odd town; odd in that it's a beach town, a vacation town for Chileans, a less expensive option than Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, and yet the town is two or three kilometres back from the beach. We walked to the beach. This photo shows the vast wasteland between the beach and the town:
Street art, and a Japanese garden
La Serena was followed by a twelve-hour journey to Antofagasta, and this is where the scenery got really interesting. We entered the harsh sere endless expanse of the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions on earth. It held our interest for hour upon hour as the landscape continually changed before us. The road followed the coast and we passed occasional seaside shantytowns, but mainly it was the richly varied terrain of the desert that captured us. And then as we got closer to Antofagasta the mining that supports the town became apparent – copper, nitrate and iodine extracted from the ground under the harshest of conditions.
Antofagasta is a working class town with a rough edge to it, a regular downtown core, and a small beach. We enjoyed our time there, and managed to find a good Chinese restaurant near our hotel. Most of the meals we'd had along this journey were, politely, unremarkable. There's a whole blog post to come about pizza in South America. Truly horrific. Why would we order pizza in South America? Uruguay, Chile and Argentina are big beef and potatoes places, and we're just not big beef and potatoes eaters, and pizza was on the menu at just about every place we went to.
Some random photos of Antofagasta
Next post: after Antofagasta, on the road to San Pedro de Atacama and around San Pedro, the desert scenery becomes even more fabulous, magical, surreal and breathtaking. We went exploring in it.
Happy New Year Everyone!
All words and images by Alison Louise Armstrong unless otherwise noted.
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The Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Monday stripped Shanghai Shenhua of the 2003 league title and banned 33 people for life, rounding off a three-year-long drive to clean up Chinese soccer.
The Shanghai club, among the 12 clubs which received "disciplinary punishments" by the CFA on Monday afternoon, was fined 1 million yuan (160,000 US dollars) and deducted six points for next season.
Shenhua was found guilty of fixing a game against Shanxi Guoli en route to winning the 2003 league title.
Thirty-three people, including former soccer chiefs Nan Yong and Xie Yalong, who are both serving a 10 1/2 years jail sentence for taking bribes, were banned for life from the soccer-related activities.
Also banned for life were former deputy head Yang Yimin, 2002 World Cup referee Lu Jun and four international players – Shen Si, Qi Hong, Jiang Jin and Li Ming, who are serving a 5-1/2 years jail term for bribe-taking.
"These violations of CFA regulations include match-fixing, bribing giving and taking, and gambling," said a spokesman for the CFA discipline commission. "Some violations dated back to over 10 years ago."
The spokesman blamed "the lack of legal criteria, imperfect soccer system and lax supervision and management" on rampant corruption in Chinese soccer.
Former international Xu Hong, who recently took the helm of super league club Dalian Arbin as head coach, was among the 25 people banned from the game for five years.
Super league club Tianjin Teda was fined 1 million yuan and will start next season with minus six points for fixing a 2003 league game against Shanghai International.
Jilin Yanbian, a northeastern Chinese club, was fined 500,000 yuan and deducted three points for throwing a match in 2006.
Yu Changlong, deputy sports head of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, disputed the punishment.
"I just say one word – appeal," said Yu.
The discipline committee demanded Shenhua, Teda and Yanbian to return the awards they won during the years of wrongdoing.
Shandong Luneng was fined 1 million yuan, and Changchun Yatai, Jiangsu Shuntin and Henan Jianye each 500,000 yuan on the charge of bribery.
The soccer-cleaning campaign, launched in 2009, saw Nan Yong and Xie Yalong jailed, along with a number of former international footballers, top referees and officials.
The announcement on punishments came just after Wei Di stepped down as chief of the CFA after a three-year tenure which saw the sport's shameful past of match-fixing and bribery finally tackled.
The 58-year-old Wei was removed over poor results and a need to prepare for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
During Wei's tenure, the team missed out on the 2012 Olympics and failed to reach the 2014 World Cup after finishing third in a group topped by Iraq and Jordan.
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Drag Yourself to Hirshhorn After Hours on July 23
This Friday, get prepared to get down with some drag queens as Hirshhorn After Hours springs into action at 8:00 p.m. The 21+ event will be a festive extravaganza with DJs Matt Bailer (MIXTAPE) and Bil Todd (RAW) beating out the best dance music. In addition to the dance party, Summer Camp, the "tasteless and shameless drag superstar" will be entertaining the crowd with high pumping energy alongside fellow drag performers Karl Marks, Brandon Joseph Neukam, and Sunrize Highway.
The night will also introduce the latest fun and zany digital short from the team at CRACK, a non-profit theater collaborative that highlights some of the best (or worst, depending on how you define camp) that DC's LGBT community has to offer. The short film will feature the talents of Chris Farris, Karl Jones, and, once again, Summer Camp, keeping the tone of the evening light and unpredictable. If that isn't enough, you can still browse the many exhibitions of the Hirshhorn, such as the Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, Colorforms, or Black Box: Chris Chong Chan Fui until 10:00 p.m..
If you want to be a part of this spectacular event, tickets are on sale now! Purchase them online, call (202) 633- 4629 (or toll-free at 868 - 7774), or at the Smithsonian IMAX theaters at the National Museum of Air and Space or Natural History Musem. Get them as soon as you can, since tickets are not available at the door. Tickets are $18, but are free with a Hirshhorn museum membership. Please bring the receipt or e-mail confirmation during when you arrive for Hirshhorn After Hours. For more information, visit here.


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HCC offers business planning course
Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning will be offered from 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays from Sept. 14 through Oct. 7. This four-week course will be held at Haywood Community College in the Freedlander Building in Room 204.
Learn how to take a business idea, improve or expand an existing business, and walk through the following steps: Self-employment assessments, the business plan essentials, legal structures, community analysis, marketing research and feasibility, targeting the customer and meeting customer needs, analyzing the competition, taxes and licenses, utilizing professionals, computerized cash flow analysis and financial feasibility.
Allan Steinberg, REAL certified instructor, will facilitate this class. Steinberg is also the executive director of Smoky Mountain Development Corp. and works with the SBA 504 loan program.
$65. Register by visiting Enrollment Management in the HCC Student Center building. 828.627.4505.


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The music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible because the ties are 50 percent audio cassette tape.
If you have $90 to spend on one of the ties, and you are willing to sacrifice an old Walkman for the project, you can make this a fixture of your formal wardrobe. Of course, walking around with a broken Walkman asking every one to rub you with it is not recommended.
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Numerous sites keep posting stats that claim a majority in Catalonia want a vote but do not support independence.
I have stated those polls are old and likely wrong thanks to the pitiful tactics of prime minister Mariano Rajoy.
A new last-minute poll suggests I have this correct.
Please consider Huge upsurge in support for independence is revealed in world exclusive final Catalan poll.
A SENSATIONAL new poll which The National is publishing on the eve of the Catalan independence referendum shows an upsurge in support for independence that varies dramatically depending on whether or not Spain's central government boycotts the vote.
The telephone poll was carried out over the last three weeks and completed on Thursday, but the results could not be published in Catalonia. They were released to The National yesterday.
Two scenarios were put to a sample of nearly 3300 voters: "With the current situation in Catalonia, with Spanish government and main Spanish political parties calling for a boycott of the referendum," and "a referendum agreed with the Spanish authorities".
Jordi Sanchez, president of the Catalan National Congress, welcomed the results and told The National: "This poll confirms there's a majority of people that want to vote and will vote, and this can't be stopped by any police or state of emergency.
Ok Rajoy, what are you going to do?
If there is a vote, the expected results are pretty clear.
The Spanish government claims most of the polling places are closed? The Catalonia government says the vote will take place and millions will show up.
Which side is correct?
We will find out within hours. Voting day has arrived in Spain.
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Starting this Thursday, 10 June 2010, the opening festivities of the 19th World Cup screen live at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, with spectacular events planned—including South Africa's own R&B sensation Lira—kicking off the world's most popular sporting event. This year feels bigger than ever, so in addition to some earlier coverage (see Nike's high-tech gear and their epic ad, soccer ball ice, and the official U.S. jersey), we put together a look at some of the most creative projects surrounding the beautiful game.
Umbro World Champions Collection Unlike City Guides
For those visiting South Africa to attend the games, Fact Magazine and Unlike sponsored new city guides designed by the artists behind Umbro's new World Champions Collection.
Fred Perry Limited Edition World Cup Polos
Highsnobiety has some great coverage of course, featuring Fred Perry limited edition World Cup Polos in bold primaries to show understated chic team spirit.
Louis Vuitton World Cup Travel Case
Highsnob also unveiled the custom Louis Vuitton travel case designed specifically to carry the FIFA World Cup. (We like the inclusion of the white gloves.)
One Shot! Exhibit
Currently in Charleroi, Belgium, the work of over 40 contemporary artists from around the world is coming together in a group show all in the name of soccer. B.P.S.22, the contemporary art space hosting the "One Shot!" exhibition, will house works from the likes of Kendell Geers, Wim Delvoye, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno until 11 July 2010. The exhibit takes the evolution of soccer through the media over the course of thirty years as a premise, beginning with Hellmuth Costard's film "Football as Never Before" (1970) and ending with Gordon and Parreno's documentary "Zidane" (2005). Aiming to draw connections between the sport and the contemporary world, the collection explores the politics, traditions, economics, and nostalgia of soccer and how these aspects, and others, have evolved over time.
Happy Socks x Wong Wong World Cup Editions
Happy Socks' range of socks allows wearers to show out allegiance to our team of choice this world cup without painting our faces,bellies or wearing a wig. Collaborating with NYC's Wong Wong designer (and former Helmut Lang Art Director) Stephen Wong, Happy Socks' range takes in eight of the teams competing for glory this June.
So fans of Argentina, England, Holland, South Africa, Brazil, France, Germany and Italy rejoice and make sure you adorn your feet with some of the best socks money can buy. Teams which have previous held the golden trophy aloft are indicated by a number of embroidered stars according to how many times they have triumphed, giving Brazilians can have another way to rub it in.
Mixco Design
Designer and soccer enthusiast Alex Garnett of the English-based fashion and interior company, Mixco, has a new series of designs inspired by the world's most popular sport. The line includes the cleverly named "Footbowl," a fruit bowl resembling a deflated classic soccer ball, as well as a version based off of this year's Africa Ball, selling for £100 each. Bridging the gap between furniture and art, Garnett also offers a 1:18 scale sculpture of a referee's whistle, which also functions as a chair. All products sell either on Mixco's website or from Etsy.
Komodo Fair Play Tees
Joe Komodo's company holds up their fair trade tradition with a new line of world cup-inspired "fair play" t-shirts. Featuring teams such as Bafana Bafana or Tibet, shirts come in either '70s-esque raglan or rounded v-neck, selling for £25 each on Komodo's website. As an extra bonus, they make their vintage-inspired tees of 100% organic cotton, and manufacture all of their products in family-run fair-trade factories in Nepal.
PlayBeautiful Pop-Up Shop
Bringing the pop-up shop experience to spectator sports, PlayBeautiful will hold World Cup events at bars, restaurants and soccer fields throughout New York City starting 11 June. It will feature an indoor stadium playing live game broadcasts, a store with official athletic gear, a PlayStation gaming zone and "world cupcakes." From 20 June-11 July 2010, PlayBeautiful will also set up shop at Openhouse Gallery. Reserve your free tickets online.
ESPN Match Trucks and Murals
With all due respect to hot dog stands and halal carts, don't miss the ESPN Match Trucks in NYC during the World Cup. Throughout the tournament, the 24-footers will hit spots in New York City and Los Angeles, broadcasting matches on flatscreen TVs and serving international street fare created by Roy Choi, Food & Wine's recent "Best New Chef." Keep up with the ESPN Match Trucks via Twitter handles @ESPNWCTruckNYC and @ESPNWCTruckLA. Also from the sports media behemoth, a series of accompanying faux-naive murals created by South African illustrators Am I Collective depicts the 32 teams making their way to the World Cup. Check them all out on Fubiz.
Dutch Football Federation 2010 World Cup Shirts
Widely circulated recently, We are Bas and Daan riff on the common ritual of players pulling shirts over their heads in victory. Celebratory mugs of the top three Dutch players are printed inside the shirts so that when pulled over the head, fans can become a World Cup player for a moment to show Dutch pride.
The Weee Soccer Urinal
To keep yourself entertained during bathroom breaks, The Weee urinal mat also keeps bathrooms cleaner by encouraging good aim. The new company is resurrecting the concept for the '70s, allowing nearly any male to score a golden goal.
Adidas F50 Adizero Soccer Cleat
The competitive spirit of the World Cup doesn't stop at the field. At a mind-boggling 5.8 ounces, the Adidas F50 Adizero is the lightest ever—one ounce lighter than its competitor, Nike's Mercurial Vapor Superfly (above). The brand achieved the breakthrough by dispensing of the insole board and using innovative hollowcore construction for lightness and stability. From $200-$210 at Adidas.
Nike "Elite Series" Soccer Cleats
Nike's new "Elite Series" boasts lightweight carbon-fiber material and improved visibility in specially designed colors. The top-of-the-line model, Mercurial Vapor Superfly II, features "adaptive traction technology," spikes in the forefoot that activate with pressure to respond to ground conditions. They start at $275 from Nike's webstore.
Adidas Originals: Star Wars Cantina 2010
Adidas also steps up with their Daft Punk-meets-Star Wars flick featuring cameos by Snoop Dogg, David Beckham and others.
Nike Stadiums
With locations in Berlin, Tokyo and other cultural hotspots, Nike's Stadiums are incubators for creativity and expression within athletics. We liked what we saw when Bowery Stadium in New York opened its doors mid-May. with its first installation, "Order and Progress," commemorating legendary Brazilian soccer. London gets a psychedelic installation of shaman warriors dreamed up by the local creative firm Zoltar.
Haribo Football Mix
Haribo gets in on the action with gummy candies (free from artificial colors) in ball, jersey and cleat shapes, packaged in team colors for different countries.
Limited Edition World Cup Tic Tacs
For their "Shake Some Noise for the England Boys" campaign, Tic Tac created a cherry-orange edition in red and white, encouraging fans to make videos showing how they support their team.
Voodoo Copa
Help out your favorite World Cup team by bringing rivals bad luck with Voodoo Copa soccer player dolls from Brazil. Collect all 32 at about $6 each to ensure victory. via Bem Legaus
Highsnobiety x Adidas Adicup Jersey
Struck with World Cup Fever, the team at online mag Highsnobiety collaborated with Adidas for a special-edition Adicup soccer jersey.
Brazil BlackPack
Brazil leads with five World Cup championships under its belt. The nation's team color, yellow, inspires awe and intimidation on and off the field. Nike's Brazil BlackPack inverts this colorway to black—including jackets, hoodies, shorts and caps—which Brazilian players will wear during travel.
Design Hotels Kick Off the World Cup
Design Hotels will let guests bet on the World Cup, offering special room rates for ten competing countries during the tournament. The first round starts at a 10% discount, and reservations for the nations that reach the finals will end at half-off. (Discounts stop as teams are eliminated.) Book on Designs Hotels' website starting 11 June, with travel applicable the rest of the year.
Pitch Perfect
Pitchfork points us to a series of mixes that Fader commissioned from six continents as one part of their collaborative World Cup program with Nike Sportswear. The initiative includes posters, a documentary series, and a live music event on 16 June 2010 at Nike's new soccer training center in Soweto.
Havianas Limited Edition Team Flip-Flops
The Brazilian flip-flop kings are celebrating the World Cup with a special collection representing 17 different teams, along with events at various NYC bars featuring their VW bus. Pick up a pair of the sandals at Havianas for $24 a pop.


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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) had strong words for the Obama administration during his opening statement of the 11/15/12 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack. He addressed Amb. Susan Rice and the Obama administration's willful deception of the American people on the true nature of the Sept 11, 2012 attack.
"This administration, including the President himself, have intentionally misinformed, (read that LIED) to the American people in the aftermath of this tragedy. Now, President Obama has the gall to name as possible Sec of State the name of the person who is the actual vehicle used to misinform the American people during this crisis," he said.
Meanwhile, via The Other McCain:
CBS News has obtained the CIA talking points given to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on Sept. 15 regarding the fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, four days earlier. CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan says the talking points, which were also given to members of the House intelligence committee, make no reference to terrorism being a likely factor in the assault, which left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Rice . . . has been attacked by Republican lawmakers for saying . . . on Sept. 16 that all indications were the attack "began spontaneously" – suggesting it likely sprang from a protest against an anti-Muslim video found on the Internet. Protests of that nature had been seen in other Muslim nations in the days and weeks before the Benghazi attack.
"Available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault… There are indications that extremists participated," read the CIA's talking points.
And if you believe anything the Regime is saying about this, I've got a bridge to sell you – any bridge, anywhere.. Name your price. I've got a bridge just for you.
I can name one Republican who doesn't buy it: Sen. John McCain launched a fierce counterattack on Obama after he called McCain's criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice "outrageous" and said critics of Rice should "go after me."
McCain then reminded Obama that although he is the president, he is not the king:
He really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. I'm a United States Senator. We have our responsibilities, we have our duties, and we are not picking on anyone here.
And McCain connected the dots by noting that whatever Rice said, her marching orders came from upstairs:
Those talking points did not come from the CIA, they came from the White House. Who at the White House gave her those talking points?
Obama might do well not to cross a man who's survived more serious issues than a verbal attack.
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Give a dog a bone: UC-Davis regrows jaws
Veterinary surgeons and biomedical engineers at the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) have successfully adapted cutting-edge biomedical technology to regrow jawbones in dogs, according to a UC-Davis press release. In the new procedure, surgeons reconstruct the jawbone using a titanium plate and screws and a piece of scaffolding that contains proteins to stimulate bone regrowth. Bone can be felt forming under the skin two weeks after the procedure and within three months there is new bone similar to the original jaw. Eight dogs have now undergone the procedure; all are well with functional jawbones. Total cost of the procedure ranges from $7,000 to $8,000.
Photos by Gregory Urquiaga
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Whiskey, pictured above with owners Robin Addams (left) and Tom Swierk in their San Francisco home, was the sixth patient to undergo the jawbone procedure at UC-Davis. Surgeons extracted a piece of Whiskey's diseased lower jaw and inserted a metal plate and a bone-growth sponge, allowing the bone to recover.
Whiskey, a Munsterlander breed dog, recovered well from his operation.
Tom Swierk plays with Whiskey on Crissy Field in San Francisco, Ca.
(l to r) Robin Addams holds cocker spaniel Kahlua, while Tom Swierk holds Whiskey, while playing at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Ca.
Wildfire rescue
Photos courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service
A baby bobcat injured and apparently abandoned in the Chips wildfire in Plumas National Forest in California was rescued by members of the Mad River Hand Crew Aug. 25.
Named "Chips" after the wildfire from which it was rescued, the baby bobcat suffered second-degree burns all four of her paws and her eyes were infected. She is expected to make a full recovery.
Crew superintendent Tad Hair and the Mad River Hand Crew decided to bring the apparently abandoned kitten to the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care (LTWC) organization for care. She was found wandering, alone and dazed, along a roadside.
The Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care organization cares for Chipsas she heal. The kitten enjoys a soft bed and up to six pulverized mice per day plus additional K.M.R. formula. Chips will soon be exposed to other bobcats and eventually be released back into the wild.
For more state veterinary news, see the next page.
Here's more veterinary news from around the states:
Officials with the police department and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office executed a search warrant at a Hialeah, Fla., townhome in August to end an apparent animal hoarding situation. Ileana Arnais and Rubiin Dario Arrojo were arrested and charged with 34 felony counts of animal cruelty due to severe neglect. "These animals were suffering in some ghastly circumstances, lacking food, water and medical attention, living in unsanitary conditions and confined to small spaces," said state Attorney General Katherine Fernandez Rundle in a release. "This is a textbook example of neglect. I'm also certain that the neighbors suffered a different type of cruelty from these conditions." Two dogs taken from the residence were euthanized.
A recent study by Kansas State University, published in an online version of the journal Vaccine, found that a new commercial siderophore receptor and porin protein vaccine for feedlot cattle can reduce levels of E. coli by more than 50 percent. The vaccine also reduced the prevalence of high shedders by more than 75 percent.
A 6-year-old yellow Labrador retriever shot in the face during a home invasion Aug. 18 survived, as did his owner, Gail King, who was shot in the chest. Niko received treatment at Affiliated Veterinary Emergency Services in Allen Park, Mich. Niko lost several teeth and suffered damage to the left side of his jaw and nasal passages. While recovering, Niko has a feeding tube in his esophagus and is on a liquid diet. A call for donations for Niko's care prompted a $15,000 response in 10 hours.
Gaide Veterinary Hospital in Jackson, Miss., is reporting an increased number of parvovirus disease cases. The clinic usually sees two cases a month but is now seeing three a week.
New York
A pit bull puppy tied inside a bag and thrown from a moving vehicle in Brentwood, N.Y., is now out of the hospital. The 3-month-old puppy, named Joey, was taken to the West Islip Emergency Veterinary Clinic after another driver saw the incident and heard sounds coming from the plastic bag. Joey was malnourished and suffered fractured cervical vertebrae—essentially a broken neck. It's also been reported that Joey had bite wounds on his neck, indicating that he may have been used in dog fighting. Board-certified neurologist Georgina Barone, DVM, DACVN, performed a full neurologic exam on Joey and believes he may regain use of his forelimbs and hind legs. Donations for Joey's care reached $39,000; $27,000 was raised for information leading to his abuser's conviction.
In the wake of the October 2011 release and subsequent death of dozens of exotic animals in Zanesville, Ohio, Ohio's revamped exotic animals law took effect Sept. 3. The law prohibits the acquisition of dangerous exotic animals and requires a person owning a dangerous exotic animal to register it with the state Division of Wildlife. The law classifies dangerous exotic animals as large cats other than a domestic cats, nonhuman primates, alligators, crocodiles, constricting snakes and venomous snakes. Owners must meet detailed requirements of ownership under the law and register animals within 60 days of the law's enactment.
In other Ohio news, The Ohio State University's College of Veterinary Medicine will open a new hospital in Dublin, Ohio. The Veterinary Medical Center will be an expansion of the Hospital for Companion Animals in Columbus, Ohio, and will be a 24-hour private specialty hospital with emergency services.
Naturally occurring anthrax has been ruled the cause of death in a Klamath County, Ore., steer Aug. 22, according to the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory. The incident is said to be isolated to one herd, which is now vaccinated and monitored. State veterinarian Brad Leamaster, DVM, says the risk to other livestock is minimal outside the affected ranch, and state officials say the incident does not pose a threat to public health.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will not issue permits for pet stores to sell turtles or for people to own turtles because of the animal's capacity to harbor dangerous bacteria, including Salmonella. The agency's captive wildlife coordinator, Walter Cook, says pet turtle ownership is a public health concern. The agency also wants to deter people from removing animals from their natural habitat. Those who own turtles are encouraged to donate them to one of Tennessee's wildlife education facilities.
Utah's Administrative Rules Review Committee recently listened to ongoing debate on who should be able to administer rabies vaccines to shelter animals. Retired veterinarian Donald Venda, DVM, advocated upholding current rules, which allow shelters to administer rabies vaccines with indirect supervision of a veterinarian. The Utah Veterinary Medical Association contends that only veterinarians should administer the vaccine. The committee decided to add wording to clarify that shelters can administer the vaccine with proper training and indirect supervision of a veterinarian.


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Second Chances
Presidential encores have a reputation for being rocky. But there have been exceptions—and Obama's new term could be one of them.
Second terms in the White House have, in many cases, ranged from the disappointing to the disastrous. Sick of the political infighting that intensified after his reelection, George Washington could hardly wait to retire to Mount Vernon. Ulysses S. Grant's second term was plagued by political scandal and economic panic. Woodrow Wilson left office a broken man, having suffered a massive stroke during his failed crusade to persuade America to join the League of Nations. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was routed in his last political battle, leaving Democrats in control of the presidency, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court for nearly the rest of his life. More recently, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace; Ronald Reagan was tarred by the Iran-Contra scandal; Bill Clinton was impeached; and George W. Bush watched helplessly as his opponents surged into both houses of Congress and then the White House.
Hence the legendary "second-term curse." In the early days of the republic, second-termers were by tradition discouraged from seeking another term, and nowadays, presidents are legally barred from a third term, thanks to the Twenty-Second Amendment. Popular wisdom has it that second-termers are therefore lame ducks. Unable to run again, how can a term-limited president reward his allies or restrain his adversaries? If he is seen as a fading force, won't his allies hitch themselves to the next rising star? Won't his adversaries attack relentlessly?
Fortunately for Barack Obama, the situation is not that bleak. For one thing, the idea of a second-term curse fails to account for basic probability. Most presidents fail in one way or another, and many nose-dive so fast that they never get a second term. Perhaps the "curse" is actually an example of what statisticians call "regression to the mean": those presidents who beat the political odds in term one usually cannot maintain their lucky streak in term two. Nor does the curse account for several exceptional presidents whose authority increased following reelection. By looking at these two-term stars more closely, we can see how and why Obama might be more blessed than cursed.
From our nation's founding to the present, politics has followed a tidal pattern. Once a party devises a new and successful electoral formula—a workable coalition that can consistently outnumber the opposition—that party tends to win, and keep winning, until eventually, the tide changes and the other party takes the lead. So far, U.S. history has seen four such reversals, each of which coincided with the election, and reelection, of an exceptional president. Yes, each of the four figures who presided over these great shifts—Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan—had his share of second-term tribulations and catastrophes. (Lincoln, of course, died weeks after delivering his epic second inaugural address, and only days after Lee's surrender.) But thanks to his own exceptional skills, as well as the fragility of the opposition party, each man forged a new electoral coalition that kept winning long after he left office.
The first turning of the political tide occurred shortly after George Washington's death. In 1800, Jefferson's triumph over John Adams marked the beginning of the end of the Federalist era. In 1804, Jefferson won a second term, and in 1808 he transferred power to his political lieutenant, James Madison. Jefferson and Madison's Democratic-Republican Party (later renamed the Democratic Party) remained America's dominant presidential party until the Civil War era, when the tide turned a second time. Lincoln, a Republican, won, won again, and (in the election following his assassination) was succeeded by a political heir, Ulysses Grant. Republicans dominated the presidency until the Great Depression—and FDR's election and reelections—marked a third tidal shift. The Democrats' resulting New Deal/Great Society coalition generally held until it was ripped apart by the Vietnam War and the migration of white southern Democrats to the GOP. Enter Ronald Reagan, whose two terms marked a fourth turning of the electoral tide.
We have been living in the Reagan era ever since. But now, inexorable forces—the changing voting habits of women and young adults, the rising political power of nonwhites and immigrants—mean that the Reagan electoral formula, with its reliance on southern whites, tax-averse businessmen, evangelicals, and Catholics, no longer yields a working majority. The tide may be turning back to the Democrats. Obama's reelection is particularly historic given modern Democratic presidents' track record of failing to win the popular vote. He is only the second Democratic president since the Civil War to win two popular majorities—the other was FDR (who, of course, won four). Since Lincoln, in fact, only four Democrats have won even one popular-vote majority—and that tally includes Jimmy Carter, with 50.1 percent of the vote. Bill Clinton never had a popular majority.
So what lessons might Obama borrow from his successful two-term predecessors to avoid being perceived as a lame duck? First, though he cannot succeed himself in 2016, he can designate a proxy to replace him—a loyal lieutenant willing to help his friends, smite his foes, and keep his secrets long after he leaves office. Reagan fared as well as he did in part because he had designated George H. W. Bush as his wingman, and in effect won a third term when Bush became "Bush 41." By contrast, Eisenhower kept his vice president, Richard Nixon, at a distance. (When asked during the 1960 general election whether his administration had adopted any major ideas of Nixon's, Ike replied, "If you give me a week, I might think of one.") The Lewinsky scandal drove a wedge between Clinton and his wingman, Al Gore. A successor—or the lack of one—can shape not just a president's performance, but also his legacy. When George W. Bush's time was up, his party tapped John McCain, a White House outsider whose relationship with the president was feisty and rivalrous.
Second, Obama should take advantage of his relative youth, which gives him a distinct edge over most of his predecessors: Until recently, most second-term presidents were well past their prime, both physically and mentally. At age 51, Obama can remain a potent political force even in retirement; he should exploit this fact to enhance his current clout. (Only Grant and Clinton were younger than Obama at the start of their second terms—and think of how Clinton has remained relevant in recent years.)
If he's to beat the second-term curse, Obama will also need to go bold and big. Just as FDR's New Deal programs and Reagan's tax cuts won over whole generations of voters, Obama must find ways to entrench his own legacy—and in the process, his new base. Immigration reform, for example, could draw the kind of young, highly skilled workers who might be able to pay for Social Security benefits for retiring Baby Boomers. Election reform might restore the luster of American democracy—while making it easier for Democratic voters to cast ballots.
One caveat: big changes like these can't succeed unless another big change comes early in term two—Senate filibuster reform. The signature accomplishment of Obama's first term, Obamacare, crowded out other reforms because Senate Democrats had to scrape together 60 votes to avoid a filibuster, rather than the simple majority the Constitution requires for passage of a law. If Senate reformers can tame the filibuster early in Obama's second term—and it appears that Democratic leaders are indeed serious about changing the Senate's rules this January, using a party-line vote to limit the minority party's power to slow or stop legislation—then the political picture will change dramatically.
Without filibuster reform, the 45 Republicans in the Senate can quietly block up-or-down votes, with the result being that individual senators from moderate states don't have to visibly go on record voting against popular Obama agenda items. But if the filibuster were blunted, and only 51 senators' votes were needed, many key bills would pass with or without the GOP, and some savvy Republicans would choose to swim with the larger electoral tide. Americans would begin to see Republicans and Democrats working together again in the Senate—and this could change dynamics in the House.
And if not, there's always 2014. When it comes to midterm elections, lameness, handled deftly, can be a source of strength. In 2008, Obama ran as a uniter; had he campaigned aggressively against House Republicans in either 2010 or 2012, he might have tarnished his image, and imperiled his own reelection prospects. But this time around, there's nothing to stop him from going after those who obstruct his agenda. Beware the lame duck: he can bite hard.
By then, in any case, most eyes will be turning to the 2016 campaign trail. Which brings us back to our first lesson—possibly the most important one: each previous tide-turning president was succeeded in the next presidential election by a handpicked ally. Like Reagan, Obama has a possible wingman in his vice president. Joe Biden could dutifully offer to replace him, thus safeguarding Obama's power throughout his second term and beyond. But Obama has at least one other outstanding option: just as Jefferson handed presidential power to his talented secretary of state, James Madison, Obama could do the same with Hillary Clinton.
Ultimately, nothing succeeds like succession.


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Gas Drilling Awareness for Cortland County
March 13, 2016
Source: Deadly-Crossing-Web-Version.pdf
March 15, 2013
In this landmark report, PCI Fossil Fuel Fellow David Hughes takes a far-ranging and painstakingly researched look at the prospects for various unconventional fuels to provide energy abundance for the United States in the 21st Century. While the report examines a range of energy sources, the centerpiece of "Drill, Baby, Drill" is a critical analysis of shale gas and shale oil (tight oil) and the potential of a shale "revolution."
A print version of the report can be purchased here.
It's now assumed that recent advances in fossil fuel production – particularly for shale gas and shale oil – herald a new age of energy abundance, even "energy independence," for the United States. Nevertheless, the most thorough public analysis to date of the production history and the economic, environmental, and geological constraints of these resources in North America shows that they will inevitably fall short of such expectations, for two main reasons: First, shale gas and shale oil wells have proven to deplete quickly, the best fields have already been tapped, and no major new field discoveries are expected; thus with average per-well productivity declining and ever-more wells (and fields) required simply to maintain production, an "exploration treadmill" limits the long-term potential of shale resources. Second, although tar sands, deepwater oil, oil shales, coalbed methane, and other non-conventional fossil fuel resources exist in vast deposits, their exploitation continues to require such enormous expenditures of resources and logistical effort that rapid scaling up of production to market-transforming levels is all but impossible; the big "tanks" of these resources are inherently constrained by small "taps."
J. David Hughes is a geoscientist who has studied the energy resources of Canada for nearly four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager. He developed the National Coal Inventory to determine the availability and environmental constraints associated with Canada's coal resources.
As Team Leader for Unconventional Gas on the Canadian Gas Potential Committee, he coordinated the recent publication of a comprehensive assessment of Canada's unconventional natural gas potential. Over the past decade, he has researched, published and lectured widely on global energy and sustainability issues in North America and internationally.
He is a board member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas – Canada and is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He recently contributed to Carbon Shift, an anthology edited by Thomas Homer-Dixon on the twin issues of peak energy and climate change, and his work has been featured in Nature, Canadian Business, and other journals, as well as through the popular press, radio, television and the internet. He is currently president of a consultancy dedicated to research on energy and sustainability issues.
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Most of you are aware of what happened in Arizona on Saturday:
Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot Saturday in Tucson during an attack that left six people dead and 13 others injured. The Arizona man accused in the weekend shooting that left a congresswoman injured and six people dead is due to make his first court appearance on Monday. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is to appear at 2 p.m. MT before a judge in Phoenix. The dead include a federal judge, a congressional aide and a nine-year-old girl. The shooting also wounded 13 people.
The media has (rightly, in my opinion) pointed out that the kind of language that is consistently exploited on the right, about the need for revolution, "second amendment remedies", "ballot or bullet" arguments, and so forth, have poisoned the political environment to the point where political disagreement has become tantamount to a struggle between good and evil. Perhaps most damning (or at least getting the lion's share of the attention) is the "targets" used in a Sarah Palin ad to describe how Tea Party voters should target vulnerable districts in the midterm election. My nemesis has (predictably) chosen to lobby on behalf of the forces of stupid. Depressingly, so has CLS. I suppose I shouldn't expect much more from dyed-in-the-wool libertarians – the entire premise is based on overlooking complexity and trying to reduce issues into single-concept nuggets, so you can go back to lighting your cigar with your hundred dollar bill or something.
Tim Wise has, true to form, articulated my argument far better than I ever could:
In a media environment where highly paid commentators can keep their jobs even as they insist that those who call for the shooting of government agents so as to stop a world government takeover are"beginning to have a case," or that a national service initiative is just a run-up to the implementation of a literal stormtrooper corps like the Nazi SS, or that "multicultural people" are "destroying the culture of this country," or that Latino migrants are an "invasive species," that seeks to undermine the nation, or that the President is intentionally "destroying the economy" so as to pay white people back for slavery, or that, worse, he and other Democrats are vampires, the only solution for which is a "stake through the heart," to feign shock at the acts of a Jared Loughner is a precious and naive conceit that we can no longer afford.
It's like looking at erosion and saying "there's no way water could do this. Look, I just poured a cup of water on a rock and nothing happened. Therefore erosion isn't real." The continued failure of people to look at forces from a broader perspective than what is happening in the here and now is sad to me. There are consequences to using violent themes in your rhetoric – they are precisely the consequences that you are intending to elicit when you use it. To pretend otherwise is either wholly disingenuous, or the mark of a mind that fails to grasp even the basics of the human psyche.
Incidentally, my use of the word 'terrorist' in the title is intentional. This man is not an isolated crazy person, or an outlying kook, or some kind of unique case of youth gone mad. He's a terrorist – he executed people as part of a political strategy to strike fear into the heart of the populace and destabilize the government. Can we stop pretending it's only those Ayrab jihadis that are doing this? Please?
I also feel compelled to point out that if this guy is an atheist, then he's an asshole atheist. He isn't "not a real atheist" or any such ridiculous dodge. He very well might be atheist, and if that's the case then he's a murderous fuckhead of an atheist. Do I think that his atheism lead him to commit those acts? Doubtful. Even if it did, that has nothing to do with whether or not there is a God (spoiler alert: there isn't).
Edit: Looks like he wasn't an atheist after all, he was… well you decide
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Dawes, Henry Laurens, 1816–1903, U.S. Senator (1875–93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for W Massachusetts (1853–57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857–75). He performed his most important service as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and gave his name to the Dawes Act and the Dawes Commission.
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Tailbone (Coccyx) Fracture
Your tailbone (coccyx) is the bone at the very end of your spine. Most tailbone injuries are caused by a "seated" fall or direct blow. Often, the area around your tailbone is just bruised. But sometimes the bone itself may break (fracture). A tailbone fracture can be very painful and may take some time to heal.
Risk factors
Women are more likely to injure their tailbones than men. That's because the bone is more exposed in women. In some cases, tailbones can fracture during childbirth.
When to go to the Emergency Room (ER)
Tailbone injuries are likely to cause pain, swelling, and bruising. Sitting or having a bowel movement may be especially painful. Still, most tailbone fractures are not medical emergencies. Go to your healthcare provider for treatment. Seek emergency care if you have extreme pain, tingling, or weakness in one or both legs.
What to expect in the ER
Here is what will happen in the ER:
A healthcare provider will examine your tailbone. This is done by pressing on the area and gently inserting a gloved finger into your rectum.
X-rays may be taken to check the extent of the injury.
You may be given medicine to ease discomfort.
There is no way to hold a fractured tailbone in place. For that reason, treatment focuses on making you more comfortable while the injury heals. You may be told to ice your injury for a day or two to help relieve swelling and pain. During healing, a special pillow or cushion may be recommended to protect your tailbone while you sit. Surgery for a traumatic coccyx injury may be indicated if there is no response to the above treatments.


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A strong believer in embracing life's journey, Adele delights in sharing that adventure with others, be that through the pages of a story or engaging in a social or professional context. Through her broad personal and professional interests, she has welcomed diverse engagement opportunities, including science based student experience sessions, conference presentations, literary readings and musical exploits.
With a long standing interest in historical fiction, Adele based her Master's dissertation on this topic and is currently anticipating release of her first novel in this genre, A Devil's Ransom (www.roseandcrownbooks.com). She has also had a variety of poems, short stories, inspirational meditations, devotions and magazine articles published. Her first YA novel Integrate was awarded the 2013 Caleb Prize for unpublished manuscript, and is due to for release in September 2014. Replicate is the second book in this series and was released in October 2015.
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Adam Jones, ed. Gendercide and Genocide. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 336 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-1445-5; $69.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-8265-1444-8.
Reviewed by Maureen Hiebert (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Published on H-Genocide (September, 2005)
"Too Many Cides" to Genocide Studies?
In the first chapter of his edited volume Gendercide and Genocide, Adam Jones asserts that "gendercide," in a global-historical perspective, "is a frequently and often defining feature of human conflict" and a "ubiquitous feature of contemporary politico-military conflicts worldwide" (p. 2). More importantly for Jones is the contention that genocide is not restricted to the victimization of women, but includes the targeting of battle-aged men. This gender-specific targeting of men has, in Jones's view, "attracted virtually no attention at the level of scholarship and public policy" (p. 2).
Thus, with this opening salvo, Jones launches a concerted and important effort to place gender in general, and the victimization of men in particular, front and center in the growing literature on comparative genocide studies. As scholars in the field are aware, the literature to which Jones and his fellow contributors speak is already filled with competing definitions of genocide and has spawned the definition of other "cides" such as "politicide" and "democide." Thus, Jones and some of his fellow contributors argue that another "cide," "gendercide," is necessary.
The volume is anchored by an introductory essay by Jones in which he outlines his own definition of gendercide and the need to gender genocide studies in a way that the targeting of noncombatant "battle-aged men" is acknowledged as a central feature of many genocides. Drawing on Mary Ann Warren's original definition of genocide, Jones defines gendercides as "gender-selective mass killing" (p. 2) where gender and sex are taken to be relatively synonymous by virtue of their interchangeable use in everyday discourse. For Jones, the targeting of battle-aged men is pervasive because the removal of adult males, be they elites, non-combatants, or soldiers, is often the first step in the wider victimization of groups defined by ethnic, racial, religious, national, or political criteria. Jones explores this phenomenon more fully in his later chapter, "Gender and Genocide in Rwanda." He argues that the genocide was, in part, a result of the enormous stress placed on maintaining traditional masculine gender roles stemming from years of economic crisis and resource scarcity. Further, he claims that the genocide itself evolved from "a tradition-bound gendercide" targeting predominantly adult and adolescent males to a "progressive and culturally transgressive targeting of Tutsi women" (pp. 98-99), or what Jones calls the "root and branch" phase of genocide. Throughout Jones's analysis, it is the gender identity of the victims that is of primary importance rather than their ethnic, racial, national, or socioeconomic identity.
All of the other contributors explore gendercide from either a theoretical, empirical, or conceptual perspective. Oystein Gullvag Holter, in his chapter, "A Theory of Genocide," is the one contributor who offers the most explicitly stated theory of gendercide. In what he calls a "devaluation, regression, and aggression" model, Holterin suggests that gendercide is the result of four elements: social, political, and economic devaluation (i.e., crisis); "reactive reevaluation" through gender, race, and other social mechanisms; a buildup of aggression; and antagonistic conflict and war (pp. 63-64). In her chapter, "Gendercide and Humiliation in Honor and Human-Rights Societies," psychologist Evelin Gerda Lindner outlines a slightly less explicit theory of genocide while at the same time citing empirical cases to illustrate her gendercide-as-response-to-male-humiliation thesis. The chapters by Augusta Del Zotto, "Gendercide in Historical-Structural Context: The Case of Black Male Gendercide in the United States," and Stefanie Rixecker, "Genetic Engineering and Queer Biotechnology: The Eugenics of the Twenty-First Century?" focus less on theoretical or conceptual issues and instead detail what they see as actual or potential instances of gendercide based on the sex (Del Zotto) or sexual orientation (Rixecker) of the victim group.
The structure of the book is sound, beginning with the general argument for the necessity of gendering genocide studies and the concept of gendercide, followed by several essays in which the concept is put into practice and/or explained, and then finally critiqued. All of the eleven essays in Gendercide and Genocide are updated versions of previously published articles, seven of which first appeared in a March 2002 special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research. Helpfully, each essay has been revised in light of the other essays in the volume, thus providing the book with a welcome level of added coherence and scholarly debate among the contributors. That said, the superior ability of three dissenting contributors to map out the conceptual landscape with respect to the concepts genocide, gender, and gendercide, brings needed conceptual clarity to the book only at the end, when such clarity would have been more helpful at the beginning. This is not so much a problem of organization, but with the first few chapters of the book.
In a courageous move not often seen in edited works, Jones has included three "heretics" who, in a genuine spirit of constructive academic debate, raise a number of interesting and well-placed criticisms of the concepts gender and gendercide as defined and applied by Jones and the other authors in the book. In a chapter that should be included on syllabi for courses on genocide, Stuart Stein ably navigates the scholarly debates over the definition of genocide and then carefully dissects how genocide and gendercide are used in the volume. Stein effectively questions the utility of adding yet another "cide" to the already crowded genocide lexicon. He suggests that gendercide, as conceived by Jones, risks placing too great a focus on gender at the expense of other explanatory factors. Similarly, R. Charli Carpenter thoroughly examines the conceptual problems evident in how gender/sex is variously formulated in the book. Finally the book concludes with a chapter by political theorist Terrell Carver, in which Carver goes some way toward clarifying the issue of gender and masculinity and suggests how some of the arguments in the book might be more profitably reformulated. Many of the criticisms discussed below are drawn from these three chapters.
Jones's volume can be commended for bringing gender into genocide studies and for making the hitherto overlooked point that many genocides involve the disproportionate victimization of men. Where the book falters is over the concept gendercide itself and the evidence used by many of the authors to illustrate the concept. The critiques of how gendercide is conceptualized with respect to the existing concepts genocide (Stein) and gender (Carpenter) get at this very problem. However, despite the strenuous arguments of Jones and many of the contributors to the contrary, it remains unclear as to whether gendercide is a useful concept. A concept that combines both gender and genocide, "gendercide" brings with it the conceptual muddle that surrounds its constituent parts. Both gender and genocide are highly contested concepts which have been formulated and reformulated, debated, and dissected by analysts in the fields of feminist, gender, and genocide studies, respectively. Scholars of genocide need to ask whether an even more contested concept is needed than the one (i.e., genocide) with which we already are struggling.
Further, gendercide, as presented in the book, does not seem to define a distinct phenomenon. Even Jones himself suggests it is a "component" of genocide. To be a useful and necessary concept, gendercide should define a unique, although closely related phenomenon. Gendercide would then be, and Jones often treats it as if it is, an attack on a group of victims based on the victims' gender/sex. Such an attack would only really occur if men or women are victimized because of their primary identity as men or women. In the case of male gendercide, male victims must be victims first and foremost because they are men, not male Bosnians, Jews, or Tutsis. Moreover, it must be the perpetrators themselves, not outside observers making ex-poste analyses, who identify a specific gender/sex as a threat and therefore a target for extermination.
As such, we must be able to explicitly show that the perpetrators target a gender victim group based on the victims' primary identity as either men or women. To be sure, many of the cases cited in the book--from the appalling treatment of Soviet POWs by the Germans in World War II, to the slaughter of Tutsi men and boys during the Rwandan genocide, or the wholesale extermination in the death camps of women and their children during the Holocaust--clearly show that there is often a gendered aspect to genocide. But the concept of gendercide risks minimizing more proximate identities such as race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class that motivate the perpetrators. If, as Jones might reply, gendercide does not dismiss the importance of other factors and identities, the logical question is then, do we need the concept gendercide? Put another way, does gendering genocide, a worthy goal to be sure, require "gendercide"?
The problem of showing that gender is the primary identity upon which a genocidal attack is based reveals not only a conceptual problem, but a second, empirical one. Of the cases cited by Jones no hard evidence is presented from the perspective of the perpetrators that gender was the primary motivating identity behind the attacks. As Stein notes, the evidence Jones presents with regard to these cases can just as easily be read as showing that Soviet soldiers, Tutsi men and boys, Jewish and Tutsi women and children were victimized first and foremost because they were Soviets and soldiers, Jews and Tutsis, and only secondarily because of their gender identity.
In a case of both concept and evidence stretching, Lindner argues in her chapter that the suicide of males in certain societies in response to humiliation is a case of male gendercide. Lindner's approach is both an unsatisfactory argument and a questionable source of empirical evidence of gendercide. Presumably, gendercide, like genocide, involves separate collective actors; that is, victims and perpetrators, the latter of who plan and execute the destruction. Killing one's self is an individual act of self-destruction in which the "victim" and the "perpetrator" are one and the same. Similarly, Del Zotto suggests that black-on-black male violence and reckless behavior leading to black male quasi-suicidal violent deaths constitutes male gendercide. Here we are again left without a perpetrator since the victims are also the ones doing the victimizing. Del Sotto rightly suggests that it is the history of race relations in the United States, the persistent lack of economic opportunity, and negative conceptions of black men as inherently dangerous that has produced the desperate situation in which many black men find themselves. However, society, the economy, "the system" (or prejudice), are not collective actors capable of perpetrating genocide/gendercide based on an intentional, explicit, and systematic plan of destruction.
In the only chapter that comes close to describing actual gendercide (destruction based solely on the gender/sex identity of the victims), Rixecker suggests that advances in biotechnology may one day allow fetuses to be tested for sexual orientation and aborted if found to be gay or lesbian. While a truly frightening prospect, it is, at the moment at least, hypothetical. And even if in the future parents may abort "queer" fetuses, as they do now in some places with female fetuses, one could argue that this is not gendercide/genocide since such a drastic action would most likely remain an individual act and not part of a coordinated plan of destruction. As well, depending on how one conceptualizes gender and the connection, or lack thereof, between sex/gender and sexual orientation, one might also argue that destruction based on sexual orientation of the kind Rixecker fears is not gendercide because the primary perceived offending identity is sexual orientation, not sex or gender.
Despite its problems, Gendercide and Genocide, makes an important contribution to genocide studies and should be taken seriously by scholars in the field. Jones breaks new ground in the further conceptualization of the concept gendercide and by highlighting the often neglected victimization of battle-aged men. Some or the entire book can be used profitably in undergraduate and graduate courses on genocide and perhaps gender studies, particularly the skillful chapters by Stein and Carpenter, who admirably wade through and analyze the literature of genocide and gender respectively. A potentially controversial volume, Gendercide and Genocide will likely spark further debate in an already highly contested and controversial field.
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Maureen Hiebert. Review of Jones, Adam, ed., Gendercide and Genocide.
H-Genocide, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2005.
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