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On the Triple Axel
May 2, 2014 § Leave a comment
Hardcore and casual figure skating fans know much more figure skating knowledge than they realize. They know there's a whole bunch of jumps, many ways to spin (upright, sitting, leaning back), and that the magical footwork sequences that Charlie and Meryl, et al pull out of thin air shouldn't be recreated at home. That said, it's time to deconstruct and explain one of the most mystical technical elements that a figure skater can do: a triple axel.
As well-known as the Iron Lotus and Chazz Michael Michaels' interpretive dancing, the triple axel is in everyone's figure skating lexicon (much easier to say; most don't want their bae to catch them slipping while dropping "salchow", "camel", "twizzles" in normal conversation). However, would we be able to identify a triple axel?
Bro, Do You Even Single Axel Tho?
Considered a single jump, the single axel contains 1.5 revolutions, requiring a skater to go around all 540 degrees. If landed correctly in competition using ISJ scoring, the jump is worth 1.1 points. At the lower levels, this jump alone ends up separating those who skate all the way through high school from those who quit much earlier. This jump ends up being the gateway towards achieving doubles and eventually triples.
Here's a cool video on what a single axel looks like.
You'll recognize when most skaters are attempting an axel jump when they first prepare for the jump, starting at 0:10 of the video until 0:20. Her weight is over her right leg, her trajectory going counter-clockwise because she's on her back outside edge (her weight is specifically over her right leg, over the right side of her right foot).
The Takeoff (Gliding, 0:24-0:29)
The skater then plants her left skate onto the ice, also bringing her arms back. She'll pass the right leg through along with the arms and launch herself up facing forward without any excess swinging motion.
The Jump and the Landing (Pivot and Landing, 0:33-0:47)
After launching herself forward and doing the prerequisite 180 degree turn, she still needs to finish off one more revolution before her jump is considered an axel by the judges. The skater finishes off her jump by coordinating her arms and feet simultaneously. Her arms are passing forward and gather while the left leg crosses over the right leg, all to conserve angular momentum and quickly rotate before landing the jump.
No excess movements, an equal balance of weight. Any slight tilt in her air position would send her off-balance, making it harder to land the jump and earn a lot of points.
What about Triple Axels?
A triple axel landed correctly is worth 8.5 points and contains 3.5 revolutions. It no longer is the highest scoring jump in competition but it's still required by all male skaters at the international level. Because it isn't required of them to include triple axels in theirs, only one female skater routinely puts it in her competition programs. What does a triple axel look like?
Same gliding into the take-off and a badass landing to finish, just 720 more degrees to get around to count it as a triple. As for the revolutions, the skater completes one revolution on their way up, one revolution at the apex of the flight, and one final revolution on the way down before the landing.
Here's Mao Asada of Japan, taking care of business with this triple axel.
That's the triple axel, figure skating lexicon that you won't be embarrassed to say because you know what's behind it now. It's no quad jump but it's still the bees knees amongst figure skating fans, casual and veteran fans alike. Now you too can understand more about what
Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic (nobodylikesSandraBezic) Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski and Terry Gannon are saying.
On Paralegal Certificate Candidacy
April 20, 2014 § 1 Comment
Happy Easter, whether you hunted some eggs, imbibed some tasty draaaaaaaaanks, or potatoed your way through a fair-weather Sunday.
On another note, it's weird to use the moniker "thefigureskatinglawyer" when I don't even English well, let alone have the requisite qualifications to be a lawyer. What's up with that? About a year and a half of self-reflection, I have decided to forgo the law school route for now and get my paralegal certificate at San Francisco State University.
Weird Undergraduate-Graduate School Limbo
Woah, as a full-time student at SF State, I could theoretically check in with Katie Specht and the USFSA Collegiate Committee and set up a team here.
Looking for other figure skating, aspiring paralegals and optional objectives aside, SFSU Paralegal Studies Program is the only American Bar Association-certified program in San Francisco and one of the few certified programs in the Bay Area. It's a program available to undergrad students looking for additional skills, working professionals looking at a possible career change, and individuals who want a cheaper method of previewing the first year of law school.
At about $825 for a three-unit course, the tuition, books, LexisNexis student subscriptions run a prospective student about 9000 to 10000 dollars to finish the 10 classes (5 required, 5 elective). It's the student's option to run roughshod through this program in 12 to 18 months, take the 4-year scenic route through things, or something in between. All that to gain the relevant skills of a paralegal, have the option to do internships through the school, and decide if the law school route seems attractive at that point. That seems like a solid way to save $30,000-$40,000 in law school tuition/room & board (a conservative guess on a first year's cost) to figure out whether law school is the next time and financial investment to make.
The curriculum allows aspiring legal professionals to gain skills that they would learn and hone in their first year of law school. Performing legal research and Shepardizing cases? Drafting legal memoranda? Ethical conduct? Assisting in the prep of cases for trial? Learn about different types of software used in law firms? That's pretty relevant to aspiring legal professionals, I suppose.
Who Can Take Their Classes
- Create an SFSU ID (linky link here) if you've never enrolled at SFSU before.
- Read up here to figure out how to get your password.
- Fill out this form, have a check for $50 written out to SFSU-CEL and submit it along with a college transcript
You've done all that? Cool, you get to do early registration and swoop on classes before they fill up on a first-come, first serve basis.
What if you're not a part of the paralegal program and you kinda want to keep the $50 in your pocket? You can still sign up to take the classes? No way!
Fall and spring semesters have additional sections of the required classes, allowing students to fit their classes around their other class schedule or their work schedule. Maybe your day allows for you to go to class from 2:00 pm to 4:45 pm. If not, maybe you can go to class from 6:00 pm to 9:45 pm. Summer classes don't have that luxury of having extra sections but they do have interesting electives. Summer classes do have a shorter 10 week (and one Saturday!) schedule to go over 17 weeks of material so … meh. However, yay to getting ahead in the program!
At the very least, having a paralegal certificate from an ABA-certified program gives you an advantage over college graduates looking for the same job. After meeting with program director Pat Medina and going through a few interviews with prospective internship supervisors, you can gain valuable experience that would've been tough to get otherwise.
Through professional relationships Pat Medina has cultivated at these public and private organizations, the students have a chance to end the no job because of experience/no experience because no job Catch-22 we've all grown to love. The organizations get to teach some of these students how to paralegal and maybe convince them that they can get a job there. Yay!
My classmates from college are going on to do some big, money-making things. Some are investment bankers. Some are figuring out this whole top-14 law school thing and passing bars, state, patent, etc. Some are going to be the finest dentists and doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area (In looks or skills? We'll let Yelp, Tumblr, BuzzFeed decide on that one). Some are going to be champion figure skaters who coach other champion figure skaters on the side. Some are going to be wonderful parents. Some will have a really hard time figuring out what to do with a lot of money.
Instead of being in a rush to beat others to [random accomplishment], I'm beginning to understand that my peers and I will reach our career and life destinations at different points of our lives. That said, whether or not it takes me 12 months or 4 years, I'm going to finish this rad program and become a certified, bona fide paralegal. I still have no idea which field of law I'm interested in or whether I'll even stay in law. I haven't completely shut the door on going to law school either. I still feel like I've taken a step in the right direction.
Would it be more appropriate to call myself "thefigureskatinglegalprofessional" as opposed to "thefigureskatinglawyer?" Maybe, but that seems like a cumbersome mouthful. Also, TWSS.
On Who Won the 2014 Intercollegiate Nationals
April 13, 2014 § Leave a comment
The championship standings came down to the wire but it's the University of Delaware Blue Hens winning their second consecutive Intercollegiate National Championships. Your standings after this two-day soirée in Adrian, MI:
- University of Delaware (132 points)
- Boston University (115.5)
- Dartmouth (114.5)
- Adrian College (73)
- UC Berkeley (38)
- University of Denver (29.5)
- University of Michigan (25.5)
- University of Miami (Ohio) (24)
Just goes to show you how the depth of the Eastern Conference teams really helps them use up their allotted 35 entries (whether they actually have 35 skaters or skaters who can skate multiple disciplines) and outlast the smaller teams on their way to the top.
Congratulations, University of Delaware and in realizing what it would be like in a post-Laney Diggs era, good showing, UC Berkeley.
On Adrian Bulldogs Figure Skating
April 11, 2014 § 1 Comment
It's the 2014 US Figure Skating Intercollegiate Nationals and every team has arrived in Adrian, MI, getting all Blades of Glory for University of Delaware's crown.
While eight teams decompress at the local Holiday Inn Express and enjoy the typical fare of a Michigander, it is Adrian College who get to enjoy the comforts of their own beds, home cooking, and possibly home-ice advantage. That plays a role in the reason why the Adrian Bulldogs have the best shot from the Midwestern Conference to finish in the top 3.
Adrian Bulldogs
One doesn't simply walk onto the podium… right?
It's a disclaimer I drop on any team not named Dartmouth, Delaware or Boston University but we are talking about one of the best Midwest teams of all-time, ALL-TIME. Led by team captain Tricia DeFelice and last year's US intercollegiate intermediate ladies champion Demi Russo, these skaters are on fire.
- 1st in Bronco Challenge Cup
- 1st in Maize and Blue Matchup
- 1st in Skate on Wisconsin
Adrian College has been taking care of business in the Midwest, manhandling any challenges to their regional throne. Dating back to the 2012-2013 season, the team has won the last 5 Midwestern regional competitions, clinching back-to-back Midwestern championships for the first time in school history.
Coached by Ashley Carlson, these student-athletes will represent the Bulldogs in the team's second consecutive time on the National stage:
- Co-captain and senior ice dancer Tricia DeFelice
- Junior ladies India Johnson
- Novice ladies Meghan Barnes
- Intermediate ladies Demi Russo
- Juvenile ladies Raynise Mancha
- Pre-juvenile ladies Barbara Hipp
- Preliminary ladies Maddie Sena
The additional two points for top-5 finishes in Johnson's junior championship freeskate and DeFelice's international ice dance events will certainly help Adrian in the standings.
The team has enough personnel to field a group for Low Team Maneuvers and another for Intermediate Team Maneuvers. Those two groups will get all Power Rangers-y and present their case on why their jumps, spins and footwork sequences bring all the figure skating judges to the yard.
Just kidding, Demi Russo's not sending any mixed messages here, nor does she plan on letting anybody else get first place in the intermediate ladies events. Intermediate ladies from other teams, prepare to get your hopes dashed and hearts broken. Also, decide in a reasonable fashion who gets 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
Adrian College has no flights to make, classes to miss, hotel stays to book, home-cooked dining commons meals to miss.
By virtue of hosting this major event, the Bulldogs have the aforementioned luxuries, as well as not having to get used to another time zone. Adrian, MI also sits 787 feet above sea level, so no complaints of lacking oxygen there.
Skaters from all teams have scheduled practice times Friday night and Saturday morning to get in their final runthroughs and tweaks. They will then have to put their game faces on and skate their best.
Television Coverage: IceNetwork, MLB Advanced Media and NBC will car- oh, there's no way to watch this thing live outside of Arrington Ice Arena.
Social Media Coverage: You might get the occasional tweet about the standings from @USFigureSkating on twitter. Instead, you might get more in-depth coverage from each team's Facebook pages and twitter accounts.
Start Time: 6:45am Central Standard Time
End Time: Award ceremonies around 3:00pm CST
To UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Denver, Dartmouth, Boston University, Delaware, Michigan, Miami (OH), and Adrian College, the Lannis- whoops, thefigureskatinglawyer sends his regards.
On UCLA and Cal at Nationals
April 8, 2014 § Leave a comment
Sorry, totally failed on imparting any figure skating wisdom before and during the Olympics. Let's do a quick rundown for two of the colleges representing the West Coast (best coast) at this year's US Figure Skating Intercollegiate Nationals in Adrian, Michigan.
UC Los Angeles
- 3rd place at Tiger Challenge
- 3rd place at Golden Bear Skate
- 3rd place at Pioneer Open
UCLA, 2nd runner-up in the Pacific Region makes its second straight appearance at Intercollegiate Nationals, this year at the expense of a small but scrappy UC San Diego Skating club team. Too many Universities of California, far too few spots. Next time, UC San Diego. *patpat*
Who Leads The Team
thefigureskatinglawyer wishes Godspeed to Mericien Venzon and Emily Marie Chan, both big reasons why UCLA Figure Skating exists at Westwood and why UCLA has made its presence known on the national stage. That said, it's up to Colorado native Maddison Bullock and Spokane, WA skater Joey Millet to lead the team to success.
Supporting those core leaders in the freeskate and dance events are senior Amanda Sunyoto, junior skater and SF Bay Area kid Evan Bender, and newcomer Ai Ohno. Good luck as well to Adrian Siew, Jillian Campbell, Therese Vesagas and Sarah Palaich and shoutout to team mom, Coral Chou.
Hey, speaking of Amanda Sunyoto, this is probably the last intercollegiate competition of her career before she graduates. It's also the last chance to establish superiority over her kid brother, Sean Sunyoto, who may end his undergraduate skating career early to focus on his pre-dental studies. Who's winning in the lifelong sibling rivalry? Well, that's a tough one. Moving on before I get in trouble.
ohno, nononoYES
It's pretty well-known that Joey Millet and Evan Bender will get UCLA their points in the junior men's events, as well as play big parts in the high team maneuvers. Maddison Bullock will go ahead and give it her best at the senior freeskate but also on her dance events. Not sure where you'll find Amanda Sunyoto during the competition? Look for her competing in the senior championship and senior dance events.
The X-factor you should keep your eye out for is freshman and novice skater Ai Ohno. She faces stiff competition from the East Region teams, including Dartmouth freshman and novice skater Maddy Thornton, but if her regional performances are indication of anything, it's that Ohno's clean skates (no falls, all top-2 finishes) will put tremendous pressure on the rest of field.
UCLA flies out of LAX and get into DTW Friday night. The Bruins have all weekend to drop the powder blue smackdown on its competition.
UC Berkeley
- 5th place at Tiger Challenge
- 1st place at Golden Bear Skate
- 2nd place at Pioneer Open
Cal, first runner-up in the Pacific Region makes their annual trip to Intercollegiate Nationals. Yay, Golden Bears.
Who Leads The Team
The Golden Bears had to scramble after Laney Diggs and Teressa Vellrath retired from intercollegiate skating. The team is also without ice dancers Kelsey Chan (not enough competitions) and Samira Damavandi (studying abroad in the UK). thefigureskatinglawyer sends his regards to Song King, Annaleigh Yahata, Jay Yostanto, Gina DeNatale and Katrina Phan. Seriously though, the team will be without Diggs and Vellrath, who earned a significant amount of points for Cal last year at Nationals.
Team captain Janelle Unger and team president Michelle Hong take on the task of replacing Laney Diggs and Teressa Vellrath. Sara Billman, Sravani Kondapavulur, Amy Nguyen, Kirsten Flores, Audrey Tan, Audrey Phone-Chen, Matej Silecky, Aditya Nandy and Sean Sunyoto will assist Janelle and Michelle in figuring out how to improve on last year's 4th place finish. Bless the hosts for providing Matej, Aditya and Sean their own locker room. God forbid they ruin the sanctity of figure skating should anybody see them changing.
New Leaders
UC Berkeley loses Katrina Phan, Michelle Hong, Sravani Kondapavulur, Janelle Unger and Sean Sunyoto to graduation next year. The team still has two cornerstone pieces to build around and keep Cal relevant for the rest of this decade. That said, US junior champion Matej Silecky and senior ladies Sara Billman will take on the bulk of the leadership during the rest of their time at Cal. Their broad network of skating friends and their strong presence at team competitions and events will make Cal known to Sara and Matej's respective hometowns of Palo Alto/Silicon Valley and Verona, NJ. Yay, baby Golden Bears!
New Head Coach
Head coach Dani Schraner is taking care of business in San Antonio, TX so the team added alumna Marissa Minovitz to the coaching staff.
Cal Figure Skating leaves the Bay Area from SFO/OAK Friday morning and arrives in DTW Friday afternoon. Have fun, everybody.
On 2014 Golden Bear Skate
January 28, 2014 § Leave a comment
tl;dr: Berkeley won, Denver can book their tickets to Michigan, and 3 UCs are fighting for 2 championship spots. Oh my.
The Nitty-Gritty
- Colorado College, Colorado State University, UC Irvine, and Northern Colorado are eliminated from contention. Thanks for skating but they have no shot at competing in Adrian, Michigan at the end of the year.
- UC Irvine and UC San Diego have college figure skating teams? Whattttttttttttttttttttttttttt?
- Natalie McLain, Ruhan Yan, Jennifer Alfred, and Ellen Wilson put UC San Diego Figure Skating on their backs though.
- The Sunyotos send their regards to all dance competitors.
- Karen Yamasaki overcame bronchitis to do her thing in the preliminary ladies event. Lauren Montgomery came back from Scotland and did her short program. These two mainstays will help junior ladies skater Sophie Fritz and preliminary ladies skater Ana Sorenson lead the Denver Pioneers and overcome the transfer of Rylie Pepich.
- Janelle Unger overcame a difficult week off the ice to take home two second-place finishes in her novice events. IN YO FACE!
- Cal skaters who you won't see in Adrian, Michigan: Jay Yostanto, Benjamin Yeh, Annalise Mahoney, Gina DeNatale, Katrina Phan, Kelsey Chan, and Samira Damavandi.
Passing of the Torch
- UC Berkeley hosted its competition with its best ladies skater, Laney Diggs and its best ice dancer, Teressa Vellrath.
- UC Los Angeles skated on without their top junior and senior skaters, Emily Chan and Mericien Venzon.
Because all four skaters have missed the both Tiger Challenge and Golden Bear Skate, they will not be able to skate at Intercollegiate Nationals. These four 4th year skaters have one more chance at the Pioneer Open in Denver, Colorado to clinch Intercollegiate Nationals berths and tie up their intercollegiate skating careers. Best of luck to these ladies on their studies of their final semester.
So who do the four ladies seamlessly pass the torch to?
UC Los Angeles
Pre-existing core: Joey Millet, Evan Bender, Sarah Palaich, Colorado native Maddison Bullock, and Amanda Sunyoto
Alumna/team supporter: Coral Chou
- Jillian Campbell
- Evelyn Karin
- Carol Lin
- Tyler Vollmer
- Adrian Siew
- Ai Ohno
- Elizabeth Miller
- Sarah Stegman-Wise
- Sara Villalon
- Collette Del Poso
- Rachelle Santos
- Amanda Smith
- Ashley Pournamdari
- Courtney Cruz
UC Berkeley
Pre-existing core: Sean Sunyoto, Matej Silecky, President Michelle Hong, Team Captain Janelle Unger, Kelsey Chan, Amy Nguyen and Sravani Kondapavulur.
Alumnae/coaches: Marissa Minovitz, Dani Schraner
- Aditya Nandy
- Kathleen Albert
- Sara Billman
- Audrey Phone-Chen
- Audrey Tan
- Kirsten Flores
- Claudia Nguyen
- Maryssa Ziegler
- Elizabeth Zeng
- Anneliese Tung
Most of the newcomers for both UC Los Angeles and UC Berkeley have skated for a long time but the nerves are still there. The last thing you want to do is to tell them "Have fun!" just before the longest 2 to 4 minutes of their lives. In the meantime…
- Cal
- Denver
- UC Los Angeles
- UC San Diego
- Colorado State University
- Menlo College/Colorado College
By virtue of their 2nd place finish in Oakland and their 1st place finish in Colorado Springs, Denver has 9 points. It's mathematically impossible for them to host a competition at Joy Burns Arena, bring their entire team and somehow not make Intercollegiate Nationals in Adrian, Michigan.
Because Cal placed 1st, UC Los Angeles missed 2nd by 0.5 points, and UC San Diego placed 4th, we have three Universities of California with 6 points. Well, shit. If Denver has one championship spot locked up, that leaves two spots for three Universities of California.
My guess for the Pioneer Open? Denver wins while UC Berkeley and UC Los Angeles take UC San Diego's lunch money and the remaining championship spots. I may have spoiled much of the 2014 Pioneer Open in Denver for you, but it doesn't mean the last Pacific regional of the year is any less exciting.
On Pacific Coast Sectionals
November 30, 2013 § Leave a comment
Sitting in refrigerator-like conditions for 7 hours will change a man. Primarily, it just makes him wish he brought a pair of gloves, a heavier-duty jacket, and a blanket to make the cold a little more tolerable.
Anyway, I caught the last 7 hours of the 2014 Pacific Coast Sectionals at Oakland Ice, where the top 4 placing skaters in each event secure trips to Boston for the 2014 US Figure Skating Championships. The junior and senior pairs, the junior and senior men, and the junior and senior ladies finish up their chance to show why they should move on. Here are the results page for the 2014 Pacific Coast Sectionals.
Depending on how many competitors are in the event, there can be up to four to five skaters on the ice for 5 minute warm-ups at a time. The first couple of things I notice from these higher-level skaters during their group warm-ups are their ice awareness and self-confidence.
Ice Awareness
Each of these skaters who have made it this far in the qualifying stages have been skating for a very long time. They don't need to rely on their sight to know where their arms and legs are. Instead, these athletes rely on muscle memory and the feel of how they've practiced their jumps, spins and footwork to successfully complete their routines.
It isn't as if the skaters are ignoring what they see completely. They just won't keep their gaze affixed on the ice beneath them. Nope, nothing interesting down there. Instead, they will set their eyes on where they will skate next to anticipate where other competitors are going.
Speaking of where competitors are going, these skaters are fearless. They will each practice their portions of their routine, coming within a yard of each other at certain areas of the ice. These close encounters would freak out a new skater who isn't used to such a welcoming.
These junior and senior skaters will give physical body cues that tell other skaters when a jump or spin will occur. Competitors will defer space to those jumping and spinning before navigating around them and getting ready for jumps/spins of their own. They have great spatial awareness, honed by practicing on crowded sessions at home, that allow everyone to avoid collisions and injuries altogether.
If the same skaters you see during warm-ups are feeling the nerves and the gravity of the stakes at hand, you can't immediately tell.
At this level of skating where everyone has the same jumps, it comes down to the mental side of things to determine who lands those jumps flawlessly. When triples are necessary to get the highest possible scores, now isn't the time to waver over whether or not you can land the jump.
"Regardless of whether everything is perfect before the jump takeoff, I will land this f___ing jump" dominates the mental thoughts. It's what ensures that the muscle memory repeats every little detail that the skater practiced in the training sessions. The crowd cheers on successfully landed jumps, whether the skaters landed perfectly or salvaged things from going wrong. They groan when skaters just miss making all 1080 degrees of rotation.
In 7th place after the short program with 45.43 points due to a fall on a triple flip, Laney Diggs was within striking distance of making top 4 in the standings. In a ladies long program marred by falls and aborted jumps, Diggs stood tall.
Skating 5th out of 14 skaters, Diggs dug deep and produced a beautiful performance, relying on a cleaner skate than populating her performance full of triples. She successfully lands the triple flip this time, mixing in two more triple salchows (one not rotated all the way) and two double axel-double toe loop combinations.
A sixth trip to the national championships, this time in Boston sadly wasn't meant to be. Vanessa Lam, Rachael Flatt, Leah Keiser and Caroline Zhang maintained their leads over Diggs in the short program, leaving her in 5th place and first-alternate in case anything should prevent Lam, Flatt, Keiser or Zhang from competing at Nationals.
Should she decide not to compete with UC Berkeley's intercollegiate team this year and not continue with skating after this year, it's a bittersweet ending to the season and career for Laney Diggs. Sure, it would have been great to see her get to Boston but if you have watched her skate as a teammate or a fan, her performances have been a treat to watch. I wish nothing but the best for her heading into her final year of college.


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President Obama to sign a UN treaty
At 4:45 pm this Friday, President Obama will sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), beginning the process of U.S. ratification. This is a good thing.
The CRPD addresses barriers that impede the full participation of people with disabilities in their communities on all aspects of daily life. The treaty enhances opportunities for community access, employment and entrepreneurship, international exchange, and the attainment of an adequate standard of living for all individuals, children and families affected by disability.
53 countries have already ratified the Convention, which went into effect in May 2008, after the 20th state ratification. According to U.S. law, though, for the United States to ratify the treaty, the Senate will still need to vote in favor of it. And due to what seems to me a very silly protocol, the Senate can only consider one UN treaty at a time. This means, among other things, that the United States cannot ratify a convention upholding the rights of women at the same time as it ratifies an equally overdue treaty upholding the rights of children, nor, it seems, one that affirms the rights of people with disabilities.
Victory for the Save Darfur movement, or the next challenge?
If you haven't looked at Mark's thoughtful consideration on the place of the Darfur advocacy movement in today's world of Sudan policymaking, read it now.
I largely agree with Mark's analysis, but I'd offer a different possible conclusion: instead of the end of the "Save Darfur" community's role, this may be a make-or-break moment for Darfur advocacy, or even for foreign policy advocacy writ large.
Most savvy Darfur advocates already know this, but the time for sloganeering and awareness raising is long past (and endured well past what should have been its expiration date). In some respects, the kind of misguided, generalist "stop genocide" tactics that one could find in early Save Darfur campaigns and that are so maligned by critics like Mahmoud Mamdani have affected the position we find ourselves in now, in which rhetoric that generates a lot of heat but no light can supplant directed action. This is not entirely the fault of vapid aims by advocacy organizations, to be sure; policymakers actually need little excuse to make noise instead of policy, and stopping genocide provides the perfect soundbite.
Darfur advocacy organizations for the most part adapted their tactics, targeting their energies and substantial constituencies toward specific aims, such as deployment of UN peacekeepers and the provision of long-needed helicopters. Some have had more, and some less, success (and in ways intended and unintended) than others, but the trickiest of them has always been the promotion of a robust peace accord.
This may be simply past the ability of advocacy organizations to effect, as Mark suggests, but it could also represent a stunning opportunity for transforming the nature of grassroots foreign policy campaigns. If the "Darfur movement" is successful in navigating the complicated and unsexy terrain of policymaking, then it will be a major victory for Darfur, for citizen activism, and for democracy.
The power of 1874
One of the snippets from Hillary Clinton's ASEAN speech in Thailand tomorrow, as obtained by Laura Rozen:
We are also asking every country to join in demanding transparency from the North Koreans. A recent incident involving the North Korean ship, the Kong Nam, led the United States to conduct intensive conversations with states in the region to avert North Korea's efforts to send shipments abroad without declaring their contents. We were pleased that the ship turned around and returned home. The bottom line is this: If North Korea intends to engage in international commerce, its vessels must conform to the terms of 1874, or find no port.
1874, of course, is UN Security Council Resolution 1874, which carries with it the remarkable power to make North Korean cargo ships cryptically turn around before they can deliver any nuclear material (to Burma or elsewhere). Well, okay, maybe the U.S. destroyer following the North Korean ship had something to do with it.
Still, the resolution, which also tightened sanctions on top North Korean officials, has certainly brought some pressure to bear, and it's good to see that it forms the crux of the U.S. position on the matter. 1874, agreed to by even frequent Pyongyang ally China, represents the best leverage the international community has right now, both because of its own strengths, and, more importantly, because of the consensus that it brought together.
More troops make more peace
Neocon and former occupation mouthpiece Coalition Provisional Authority spokesperson Dan Senor on the upcoming Kurdish elections:
On Saturday, the Kurds vote on a new parliament and president. While polls show that President Massoud Barzani and the two largest Kurdish parliamentary parties will be re-elected, the dynamic of this election is making Kurdish leaders nervous. Historically, Kurdish elections turned on the KRG's power struggle with the national government. But in this election, the Iraqi Kurds seem to be more preoccupied with local governance issues such as KRG corruption. This may be prompting KRG officials to foment tension with Baghdad in the hope that the perception of external threats will strengthen their position at the polls. [emphasis mine]
He uses this analysis to argue for increasing not decreasing U.S. troop presence in Kurdistan. I don't buy that, but I also don't buy the logic underlying it. If Kurdish voters are mostly concerned about corruption in their own government, then their votes are most likely going to be in response to corruption in their own government. Kurdish politicians can try to foment all the tension they'd like (over the next three days), but that's not likely to assuage their constituencies' concerns about corruption.
Senor seems to be doing a little fomenting himself here. If there's tension between Kurdistan and Baghdad, then he can argue for a greater U.S. military troop presence (and conveniently oppose the president's agenda). And there's nothing to reduce tension like an enduring occupation force.
When newspapers are closing their foreign bureaus…
…who will report from the desolate border area between Kenya and Somalia? For now, fortunately — though covering what seems like half a continent — there is The New York Times' Jeffrey Gettleman, who reports how easily Somali al-Shaba militants are slipping easily to and from the thinly marked border with Kenya.
The most interesting takeaway from the piece, for me — more so even than the dangers of Shabab recruitment in refugee camps, of destabilization in Kenya, or of the bribery that is rife along the border — is that the region is not going unwatched.
Ever since Al Qaeda blew up the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing more than 200 people and wounding thousands, American counterterrorism officials have been watching East Africa warily. But in the areas along the Kenya-Somalia border, it seems that anti-Americanism is still spreading, despite the millions of dollars the American government has spent on a hearts-and-minds campaign.
Take an American-built well in the village of Raya. No one is using it, though Raya is desperately poor and dry.
"The Americans wanted to finish us," said one villager, Ibrahim Alin, convinced that the American water engineers who built the well had poisoned it to sterilize him.
Bizarre. I don't think this shows the futility of "hearts-and-minds" campaigns, but it does speak to their great difficulty, when anti-Americanism is such a cheaply easy political card for regional actors to play.
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The most neglected Millennium Development Goal…
…is #5, the agreement to reduce global maternal mortality levels by 75%, according to a moving appeal in The Huffington Post by Ethiopian model Liya Kebede. She sounds a welcome call for a "Global Fund for Moms," whom she rightly calls "our best stimulus package":
In times of economic crisis, it is tempting to turn inward, to ignore or postpone the problems of the outside world and focus on ourselves. But, if we hope to thrive once again, we must realize that there are no outside problems in today's interwoven, globalized world. Each mother who dies leaves behind a devastated family and weakened community that will eventually, somehow, affect each of us. Each mother who dies deepens the financial and social strain on our world and puts economic recovery further away. Mothers are our best stimulus package because they invest in their families and in our collective future.
Half a million women and girl, disproportionately in the developing world, die in childbirth every year, yet funding for maternal health programs from wealthy nations has actually decreased. While this sad statistic may not be surprising, given the desperate humanitarian funding shortage that has accompanied the slumping economy, it is nonetheless counterproductive. Helping mothers around the world ensures a better future for all, in this generation and the next.
Middle East; Iraq; Ebola
Middle East: During the last 48 hours of the continued ceasefire, humanitarian workers have delivered food to hundreds of thousands of people, repaired water and sanitation infrastructure, re-stocked medical supplies, and some of the 520,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to their homes. However, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator remarked the scale of needs remains "unprecedented in the Gaza Strip."
Middle East; Ebola; South Sudan
Middle East: At today's informal session of the General Assembly on Gaza the SG remarked that the most recent ceasefire has held since yesterday at 8 a.m. local time. He noted that a durable ceasefire is necessary and UN shelters must continue to remain safe zones. The SG thanked UN staff in Gaza and will fly the UN flag at half-mast tomorrow in memory of those who died in the conflict.
Middle East; Ebola; Syria
Middle East: The SG commended Israeli and Palestinian parties for committing to a 72-hour ceasefire that took place at 8 a.m. local time today. He urges all parties to abide by the ceasefire and commence peace talks in Cairo to address underlying issues and agree on a durable ceasefire to sustainably stop the violence. The UN lends its full support toward these efforts.
Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan
Middle East: The SG condemned yesterday's shelling outside of an UNRWA school in Rafah that killed at least 10 Palestinian civilians. The SG stated that the attack violated international humanitarian law and UN shelters must continue to be safe zones and not combat zones.
SG; Security Council; Middle East
SG: Last night the SG spoke at a joint press conference with the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica where he repeated his call for an unconditional and extendable humanitarian ceasefire. Speaking about yesterday's shelling of a UN shelter he said: "Nothing – nothing – justifies such horror" and demanded "that all parties immediately respect UN premises".
SG; Ukraine; Middle East
SG: The SG met with President Ortega yesterday in Nicaragua where he visited a wind farm and praised the country's commitment to renewable energy. The SG arrived in Costa Rica today where he is expected to lecture about "Costa Rica and the United Nations: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century".

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Olympus has announced four new cameras in their "Fun and Easy" (FE) line of entry level, affordable digital cameras. The FE-170, FE-180, FE-190, and FE-200 are designed for the price-conscious or gift buyer who is looking for an easy to use camera. Newly redesigned, the four new cameras range between $149 and $249.
Pentax has announced two updates to its Optio line of compact point and shoot digital cameras. The Pentax Optio A20 features 10 megapixels and three methods of providing anti-shake. It will be available in September for under $350. The Pentax Optio M20 features 7 megapixels and long AA battery life. It will be available in September for under $200.
Thirty years after that first K1000 rolled off a production line in Japan, Pentax has introduced its digital doppelganger, the Pentax K100D. Point & shoot digital cameras have dominated the photography marketplace for most of the past decade, but reasonably priced entry level dSLRs are now the fastest growing segment of that lucrative market. Entry-level digital SLRs allow photographers to move to the next creative level by providing affordable access to modular imaging devices and interchangeable lenses.
In the first installment of this article (Don't Be Afraid; They Won't Bite: M, P, and S Exposure Modes Demystified), I provided an introduction to the different exposure modes (or manual modes) that are available on digital cameras. I covered the "P" (programmed auto), "M" (full manual), and "S" (shutter priority) modes in more depth, but left the description of my favorite mode for this installment.
Fujifilm has announced a modified version of their Finepix S3 Pro. This new limited edition camera, the Fujifilm Finepix S3 Pro UVIR, is modified to be sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) light. This camera is the first "factory made" digital SLR to be specifically designed for UV and IR photography.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- With four starters back off a 21-win team last season, the optimism is high surrounding the Morehead State women's basketball program. Second-year head coach Tom Hodges and his staff welcomed back seven letterwinners and eight newcomers this year, and Monday the Eagles officially began preseason practices.
The team opens the season with a pair of exhibition games against Kentucky Christian (Nov. 3 -- 5:30 p.m. ET) and Asbury University (Nov. 7 - 6 p.m. ET) before tipping off the regular season at home against nationally-ranked Kentucky (Nov. 11 -- 7 p.m. ET).
The Eagles return the nation's third-ranked rebounder in Division I in junior forward Ashar Harris, arguably the OVC's most tenacious defender in senior two-guard Linda Dixon, and one of the most efficient point guards in the league in senior Courtney Lumpkin. MSU also has the services of sophomore guards Allie Turner, Terrice Robinson and Tyler Ituen back after they all put together solid freshman campaigns. Sophomore forward Shanice Parker also has a year in the system and is ready for an expanded role in 2011-12.
Newcomers to the roster include freshmen guards Natalie Greenwell, Almesha Jones and Ashley Henry, first-year forwards Casey Ryans, Whitney Kyle, Kristin Perry and MacKenzie Arledge and sophomore forward Tara Arnold, a Western Kentucky University transfer.
The Eagles do have to replace the school's all-time leading scorer in Chynna Bozeman, but for Hodges, the team should be more balanced on offense this year and will still utilize an aggresive style of defense.
MSU will be practicing each morning during preseason. Updates on the progress of the team as well as features on various athletes will be available on www.msueagles.com.
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NEON implements a suite of patented sensor fusion and dynamic mapping algorithms, which intelligently correlate information from a broad range of sensors (magnetic, accelerometer, gyroscope, light, pressure, RF, etc.).
NEON sensor fusion has been designed to specifically support pedestrian navigation applications. The intelligence of sensor fusion portion of the NEON Navigation Engine lies in part in its ability to isolate and select the sparse areas in which a degraded sensor's (e.g., compass, GPS) estimates are accurate, and eliminate the rest. This distinguishes NEON from filters and systems that severely drift away from the truth in the presence of a majority of incorrect predictions from a sensor.
NEON uses received sensor information to infer site maps (including structural, magnetic, and RF features, and other landmarks) dynamically as people move about an area or building. Information from multiple people moving about in the same building is merged to deliver crowd-sourced enhancements, producing accurate navigation maps that enhance location estimates. Ranging information (e.g., from known beacons), if available, can also be used to constrain location results. Such ranging Information includes ranging between people operating close together and between a person and a fixed RF node if infrastructure is available.
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That's My Issue: The youth vote
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Chloe Groome, a UCLA student, talked with KPCC about the youth vote.
This post is part of KPCC & WNYC's "That's My Issue" series, and represents the views of its author, not of either station.
There's a lot of issues that matter to me on an individual basis, but the thing that I think is most important, overall, is getting young people to vote.
There're a lot of issues in California right now that are going to come down to a few thousand votes. So, I just feel that it's just really important for young people to get their voice out there and realize that their vote matters.
I pay attention to politics, and I know that politics matters on an individual level. The personal is political. And so, in my own life, I try to make other people realize that their decisions matter and that voting matters.
I'm young myself. I want to see my interests represented.
Final 3rd-party candidate debate between Gary Johnson and Jill Stein (archived video)
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Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson (L) and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein during a debate hosted by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and moderated by former CNN talk-show host Larry King on Oct. 23, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.
A third-party presidential debate between Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein took place Monday, and you can watch the archived video below.
The debate was originally scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 30, but was delayed due to Superstorm Sandy.
The participants in this debate were decided after Free and Equal's previous debate, with online voting to decide which of the four participants in that debate would advance. Johnson won that round of voting almost two to one over Stein, while she received almost four times as many votes as Rocky Anderson.
Johnson and Stein both appear on the California ballot, while Anderson and the other participant in the first debate, Virgil Goode, do not. The other candidates on the California ballot are Peace and Freedom candidate Roseanne Barr and American Independent candidate Thomas Hoefling.
Mayor Villaraigosa stumps for Obama in Florida
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With the presidential election down to the wire, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Tampa and Florida Monday to campaign on behalf of President Barack Obama.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will campaign for President Barack Obama until the last minute before Tuesday's election, making final stops Monday in Tampa and Miami.
The mayor - who chaired the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina - has stumped in New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Iowa and Florida on the president's behalf. He also attended presidential debates in Colorado and New York.
Villaraigosa's schedule in Florida included interviews with CNN, MSNBC, Telemundo and Spanish-language radio. He also visited Obama campaign headquarters and a field office in Tampa.
"I think the biggest reason to vote for President Obama is that we have, what now, 31 straight months of growth," Villaraigosa told CNN. "The other reason is that 32 million people have health care and that 12 million jobs will be created, according to Moody's analytics, in the next four years if we keep charting the course ahead."
Maven's Morning Coffee: John Noguez wants bail money, FPPC requires donors' names, DA's race in homestretch
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County Assessor John Noguez is asking his supporters to help him raise money to pay his $1.16 million bail, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In Rick Orlov's Tipoff column, the San Fernando Valley Democrats get out the vote in Nevada, and charter amendments and ordinances for the March 2013 ballot go out for signatures.
The Fair Political Practices Commission will release the names of individuals who donated to an anti-Prop 30 campaign, reports KPCC. The California Supreme Court determined that Americans for Responsible Leadership must immediately provide documents to the state's elections watchdog.
Top two system shuts out third party candidates in CA races
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Republicans and Democrats will face candidates from their own party on Tuesday's ballot thanks to California's new top-two primary system.
Voters heading to the polls on Tuesday may be surprised to look at their ballots and see races of Democrat versus Democrat and Republican versus Republican. It will be the first general election since California instituted the new top two primary system.
Two years ago, California voters approved Proposition 14, which mandates that the top two vote-getters in a primary – regardless of party affiliation – face off in the general election. The new rules apply to Congressional and state legislative races. Gone are the days when a candidate only had to beat members of his own party in the primary to advance.
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When employees opened the store the morning of April 18, they discovered a hole in the wall through to the neighboring vacant business and the cash register was missing.
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Dr. Thomas C. Sundberg has been practicing medicine for 38 years. Dr. Sundberg graduated from the Univ Wurzburg, Med Fak, Wurzburg, Germany (407 20 Pr 1/71) in 1976. He practices medicine in Charlotte, NC and 1 other location and specializes in Rheumatology. Dr. Sundberg is affiliated with Carolinas Healthcare Medical Center.
Gender: Male
Years in Practice: 38 Years
Languages Spoken: English
Medical School: Univ Wurzburg, Med Fak, Wurzburg, Germany (407 20 Pr 1/71)
Graduation Date: 1976
Hospital Affiliations: Carolinas Healthcare Medical Center
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