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Women in Kerala are at very high risk of developing coronary artery diseases because apart from all lifestyle factors, physical inactivity has cost them the biological protection of estrogen.
Results from various studies indicate that not only are the women in Kerala growing obese, they are also suffering from related complications like elevated lipids and blood sugar levels, hypertension which put them at high risk of coronary events.
As per the data of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry in the State, the ratio of men and women admitted to the coronary ICUs in 1967 with heart attacks was 24 : 1. In 1990, this ratio came down to 9 : 1,and significantly, the age group of women had also come down.
"Shockingly, the ratio has now further come down to 4 : 1, which means that more and more women are now succumbing to heart attacks in the State. In the West, the use of tobacco and alcohol are cited as risk factors for women developing heart diseases. But in Kerala, the single-most reason for this state of affairs is the absolute lack of physical activity among womenfolk," says S. Sivasankaran, Professor of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences.
The high incidence of breast cancer and gestational diabetes among women in Kerala is another indication that all in not well with the fairer sex.
The increasing incidence of breast cancer, world over, has been linked to an unhealthy diet and lack of physical exercise. No wonder then, that from an incidence of eight per one lakh population in 1985, the breast cancer incidence in Kerala has now soared to 32 per one lakh population in 2010. About 25 per cent of these women are under 35 years of age.
Gestational diabetes (diabetes that is detected during pregnancy) has grown four fold in the last ten years. But it is only in recent times that the multi-generational effect of this condition has hogged the attention of researchers and doctors, says MKC Nair, Professor of Paediatrics and the Director of Child Development Centre here.
Obesity results in gestational diabetes. In-utero (inside womb), the high blood sugar is passed on to the foetus, and the baby born is larger than normal size. Maternal diabetes can have adverse consequences for the baby into its adulthood. An overweight baby girl grows into an overweight or obese adult, who is at risk of becoming a diabetic by 30 years, increasing the risk for cardiovascular diseases. She again would become a diabetic mother and the vicious cycle just goes on, Dr. Sivasankaran explains.
The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in women in the less than 30 years age group in Kerala is three per cent, according to a 2010 study done by K. R. Thankappan et al, at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies.
Adolescent health, especially that of girls, is where the Government as well as health policy-makers should focus, Dr. Nair says.
An estimated 50 per cent girls/women between 15 to 35 years in the State have elevated lipid levels (cholesterol, tryglycerides) and low HDL, which is another risk factor for heart diseases.
In 2010, a study conducted among 18,000 school children at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi had reported high blood pressure among girls just into puberty.
"There is an epidemic of polycystic ovarian syndrome as well as thyroid diseases among our adolescent girls, which is inextricably linked to the physical inactivity- obesity- elevated lipids – insulin resistance chain," Dr. Nair points out.
Vitamin D deficiency is another dimension of physical inactivity, which again could precipitate cardiovascular events.
"Unless we focus on the health of adolescent girls, we are jeopardising the health of our future generations. Adolescence is the time for us to focus on their nutrition and ensure that they do not lack physical activity. Unfortunately, in our society, very little importance is attached to physical activity, sports and games for girls," says Dr. Sivasankaran says.
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England coach Fabio Capello is pleased with the emergence of Manchester United pair Phil Jones and Chris Smalling.
He believes the overall balance of his squad is far better than when he took charge almost four years ago.
"I am happy with my players," he said. "I have a lot of confidence in them.
"There are not many young players in the world who are better than the English ones.
"But you need to wait until the end of the season to understand if they are at the top and ready to play with the seniors.
"We had a gap between the oldest and the young. Now, with people like Wilshere, Jones, (Danny) Welbeck, (Daniel) Sturridge - it's really interesting.
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Northern Outdoors Announces MoAugust, A Movember-based Charity Event "Mustaches in August", To Support Men's Health
Northern Outdoors announces the launch of MoAugust, a "Mustache for a Cause" month-long event during August to raise awareness of men's health issues. All proceeds raised will go to Movember, a global charity organization supporting men's health.
The Forks, Maine (PRWEB) August 01, 2013
Northern Outdoors is using its peak season month of August to support men's health initiatives by highlighting a unique and fast growing international charity organization called Movember. Movember is responsible for the sprouting of mustaches on thousands of men's faces during the month of November, all in support of men's health, especially prostate and testicular cancer initiatives. Northern Outdoors' August 'Mustache for a Cause' event (playfully named MoAugust by Northern Outdoors) will donate $5 for every MoAugust participant, up to $2,500, to the Movember charity organization to help support men's health.
"The MoAugust idea stems from my experiences with close friends & colleagues who have survived serious battles with cancer. The challenge was to see how our company could make the biggest difference by rallying around men's health, while also just having some fun with our staff, guides, and guests. August is our busiest time of the year here at Northern Outdoors, so we picked this month in order to have the greatest impact in fundraising and awareness for the Movember cause." – Russell Walters, Owner of Northern Outdoors
How MoAugust works: Participants known as 'Mo Bros' and "Mo Sistas", (think fake mustaches and/or supporters of their men growing 'staches) will start MoAugust on August 1st, and grow their mustaches out the rest of the month. Northern Outdoors will donate $5 for every MoAugust participant who posts his/her mustache photo on Northern's Facebook page on or before August 31st, up to a total donation to Movember of US$2500. The best mustaches grown/sported during August will win adventure vacation prizes from Northern Outdoors.
MoAugust Adventure Vacation Prize Information:
- First place – Weekend Getaway with rafting for two people (two nights lodging, all meals, Kennebec or Penobscot rafting trip, valid through 2014!)
- Second place – Two whitewater rafting passes, valid through 2014!
- Third place – $50 Northern Outdoors Gift Card (no expiration date!)
- Northern Outdoors Staff – Two Sugarloaf lift passes worth $100
Northern Outdoors hopes that this mustachery will not only overwhelm The Forks, Maine, home of Northern Outdoors, but will also rally online participants by allowing social media followers to get in on the mustache-mania. Mo Bros & Mo Sistas can submit their best mustaches in person at Northern Outdoors, or by an online photo submission on the Northern Outdoors Facebook page. Participants not on Facebook can email their photos to Northern Outdoors for posting. Learn more about MoAugust here.
About Movember
The funds raised by MoAugust will support prostate cancer and testicular cancer initiatives. These funds are directed to programs run directly by Movember and their men's health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG Foundation. Together, the three channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programs in four key areas: awareness, education, survivorship and research.
In 2012 over 1,127,152 million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas around the world got on board, raising $145.3 million USD to date. Movember was recently ranked in the Top 100 Best Global NGOs for 2013. http://us.movember.com/
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Northern Outdoors is Maine's Premier Adventure Resort and winner of Yankee Magazine's 2011 Best New England Adventures Award. Established in 1976, Northern Outdoors offers year-round affordable, Maine adventure vacations and is the first and most experienced rafting adventure company in Maine. Summer season adventures include whitewater rafting, river floats, hiking, ATV/UTV rentals & tours, and fishing. The resort includes private cabins, riverside camping, and the Kennebec River Brewery, featured on the Maine Beer Trail. Northern Outdoors is located 2.5 hours from Portland Maine, 2.5 hours from Quebec City, Canada, and 4 hours from Boston, on Route 201, The Old Canada Road National Scenic Byway. http://www.NorthernOutdoors.com
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May 11, 2012
Seminole County's Justin Burke, Chris Brown and Justin Elijah lifted the Indians to a win in Game 1 of their best-of-three GHSA Class A state playoff series with Schley County on Thursday, but Schley came back to win Game 2 and set the stage for a do-or-die Game 3 tonight in Donalsonville.
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GHSA STATE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Seminole splits vs. Schley; Game 3 today at 6; Miller's season ends after Game 2 loss to Calvary Day
Seminole splits a doubleheader with Schley on Thursday, but still has its No. 2 pitcher, Josh Buczek, who will go tonight in the do-or-die Game 3. (ADDS: roundup item on Miller County's Class A series)
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Budget day feels a lot like Groundhog Day
President Barack Obama is releasing his budget on Groundhog Day. You remember Bill Murray in the "Groundhog Day" movie, reliving the same day over and over?
President Obama was stuck in a routine, too. Year after year, his budget bowed to sequestration cuts. "There was the same script over and over again, where he was trying to put out a budget to meet the Republicans halfway," says Mike Konczal, a fellow at the progressive Roosevelt Institute.
He says this year, President Obama is departing from the script. In fact, in an op-ed in the Huffington Post, the President says his budget "will fully reverse the sequestration cuts."
Konczal is delighted. "Yeah, I think it's a great move," he says. But even some Democrats say President Obama may be going a bit too off-script, and could risk alienating voters worried about the deficit.
"There are limits as to how far down the President can go down this road without incurring some political risks," says Bill Galston, a former Clinton White House official and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. And the budget, of course, is mainly a political road map. No one expects Congress to approve it.
You bought a counterfeit sports jersey. So what?
As soon as the clock ran down on Super Bowl Sunday, out came the preprinted commemorative t-shirts and hats. Sports memorabilia is a huge industry, but so is counterfeiting. Federal investigators seized nearly 20 million dollars' worth of counterfeit hats, t-shirts, and other souvenirs ahead of the Super Bowl, in a year-long effort they dubbed "Operation Team Player."
Alan Zimmerman, a professor of international business at the City University of New York Staten Island, says many consumers view knock-offs as a victim-less crime, believing they're taking money from rich firms and rewarding a local manufacturer instead.
But counterfeiters can often be a part of larger criminal organizations.
"Counterfeit products are just a black market revenue stream for criminal organizations, to fund their large scale activities, everything from guns, drugs, violence, you name it," says Bryan Cox, a spokesman with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of the government agencies involved in Operation Team Player.
How do you solve a problem like censoring YouTube?
Silicon Valley was once again on the spot in Europe last week. French president Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that Google and Facebook should be treated as "accomplices" of hate speech if they fail to block "extremist" content. A day later, the European Union's counter terrorism chief said it was up to governments to flag "terrorist-related" videos on YouTube.
All this talk, as well as the disturbing proliferation of terrorist propaganda online, has raised questions about how sites like YouTube can screen what users upload.
At the moment, a lot of this process is user-based. "This is a very human moment, where people look at something and say, 'That is completely inappropriate for our community,'" says Karen North, Director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities at USC Annenberg. It's our responsibility as a community to alert YouTube, she says.
Among the challenges of policing YouTube's content: the sheer volume of daily uploads — YouTube says 48 hours worth of video is uploaded every minute. There's also the fact that YouTube is all about user-generated content. Given this, North says it's impractical to expect Google to monitor each upload, and then decide whether it's appropriate or not.
This is not a new debate. YouTube was in a similar soup back in 2012, when it was alleged that a video on the site sparked violence in the Middle East. There were calls back then for Google to curate its content far more.
There have also been suggestions of governments being more involved in this process. But North says such a development, especially in the U.S., would only result from "a long, complex negotiation."
A post Super Bowl huddle up
The final score of Sunday night's Super Bowl, which saw the New England Patriots win their fourth title with a last-second interception at the one yard line, following a miraculous play had nearly propelled the Seattle Seahawks to victory. It was a nail-biter, and that's on trend. The New York Times' Upshot points out that Super Bowls are getting more exciting over time, with most games in the past decade decided on a touchdown or less.$20 million
That's how much in counterfeit sports memorabilia was confiscated in a sweep by Federal investigators a week before the Super Bowl. The fake hats, t-shirts, and other souvenirs were all printed in anticipation of the game's outcome. And while some believe they may be supporting local manufacturers by purchasing the goods, a spokesman with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says revenue from the counterfeit industry often supports black market activities.28.4 million
That's how many tweets were sent about the Super Bowl from kickoff to the end of the telecast, Twitter reported late Sunday night. The conversation peaked at 395,000 tweets per minute, when a goal-line interception clinched the game for the Pats at 20 seconds left. Twitter made a gorgeous map showing activity all around the world during the game.$785,216.96
That's what it would cost to buy every item advertised during a Thursday Night Football game from last fall, according to an analysis from the Verge. This total comes from 115 that added up to a little less than an hour of ads.


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Datebook: Events for the region
Stampscapes card making: Make greeting cards using stampscapes with scenic rubber stamps and Adirondack dye inks. 6 to 8 p.m. May 26 or 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 27; Stamping Details, 14009 Midland Road, Poway. $23. Information: (858) 513-8024.
Designer blue jean jackets: Decorate denim using rubber stamps and oil-based ink. 5 to 9 p.m. May 27; Sophie's Art Gallery, 109 Rea Ave., El Cajon. $60. Registration: (619) 593-2205.
Woodworking: Learn oil finishing techniques with Mike Durlak. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. May 23; Rockler Woodworking and Hardware, 8199 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Free. Information: (858) 268-1005.
Cards for celebration: Design and create greeting cards for all occasions with Jill. 10 a.m. to noon. May 30; Paper Tales, 3960 W. Point Loma Blvd., Suite N. $25. Information: (619) 222-2510.
Copic marker class: Learn the techniques of copic marking with certified instructors, Jill and Michelle. 2 to 4 p.m. May 30; Paper Tales, 3960 W. Point Loma Blvd., Suite N. $28. Information: (619) 222-2510.
Tassels and embellishments: Learn how to incorporate tassels and embellishments into your projects with Barbara Chapman. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 30; The Black Sheep, 1060 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. $30. Registration: (760) 436-9973.
Finishing for knitters: Learn how to finish projects with Glenda Hightower. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 31; The Black Sheep, 1060 S. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas. $24. Registration: (760) 436-9973.
Acrylic background cards: Learn how to use acrylic paint with your collage projects. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 30; Stamping Details, 14009 Midland Road, Poway. $28. Information: (858) 513-8024.
Fine silver jewelry making: Learn how to make a jewelry out of precious metal clay using rubber stamps. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 31; Stamping Details, 14009 Midland Road, Poway. $90. Information: (858) 513-8024.
Home-improvement workshops: Outdoor power and maintenance, tile laying, ceiling fans, lawn and garden tips and other topics are covered in classes on Saturdays and Sundays through May 31. Free at local Home Depot locations. Registration: (800) 430-3376 or homedepot.com.
Southern California Bamboo and Palm Societies: A bamboo, cycads and palm tree sale featuring more than 100 varieties of bamboo. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 30; Quail Botanical Gardens, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Admission, $5 to $10. Information: (619) 291-4605.
Fallbrook Garden Club: Will host its fifth annual garden self-guided tour featuring eight new gardens and vintage cars. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 30; Purchase tickets and receive map from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Fallbrook Historical Society, 260 Rockycrest Road, Fallbrook. $20 per person or $35 for couples. Information: (619) 760) 275-7320.
Quail Botanical Gardens with Palm Society of Southern California: A palm and cycad sale, tour and "Palms of Madagascar," a lecture with Mark Riedler. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 30; 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Garden admission, $5 to $10. Information: (619) 291-4605.
All Souls' Episcopal Church: MayFaire Market, offering arts and crafts, jewelry, food and entertainment and a kids corner. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 30; 1475 Catalina Blvd., Point Loma. Free admission. Information: (619) 823-8998 or mayfairemarket.org.


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South Pole Skua
June 11, 2010
The South Polar Skua is the most southerly bird in the world. Although they live around the coastal edge of Antarctica, they have been seen flying over the South Pole, over 1,575 km (850 miles) from the coast. (Date of Image: Jan. 20, 2005)
Topics: Environment, Skuas, Poles, Physical geography, Geography, Birds of Western Australia, South Pole, Brown Skua, Political geography, Great Skua, Seabirds, Extreme points of Earth, Antarctica, Bird


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Is it possible to get the effective uid of a captured tcp packet with libpcap? In other words, can I use libpcap to get the user id of whomever created said packet?
If the packet was sent from another computer, there is no guarantee that whoever sent the packet has a user ID - it might have, for example, been sent by a small embedded operating system that has no notion of user IDs.
If the packet was sent from your computer, libpcap can't, by itself, tell you the user ID of who sent it. However, if you parse the TCP packet, you can get the source IP address and port number of the packet and, depending on the operating system on which you're running, you might be able to get a table of all active TCP connections on your machine, perhaps with a process ID or user ID associated with it. (Note, however, that, for example, on a UN*X system, a given file descriptor for a given TCP connection can be shared by multiple processes running with different effective or real user IDs, in which case if all you have is the transmitted packet as captured using libpcap, you wouldn't have enough information to determine the user ID, effective or real, of the process that sent the packet, as you wouldn't know the process that sent the packet.)
No, the UID info - if there is any to start with - is not propagated through the AF_PACKET channel that pcap uses.


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Ovary removal aids high-risk women but at what age
Wednesday - 2/26/2014, 7:40pm EST
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- For women who carry a notorious cancer gene, surgery to remove healthy ovaries is one of the most protective steps they can take. New research suggests some may benefit most from having the operation as young as 35.
Women who inherit either of two faulty BRCA genes are at much higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer than other women, and at younger ages. Actress Angelina Jolie generated headlines last year when she had her healthy breasts removed to reduce her cancer risk.
Monday's study is the largest yet to show the power of preventive ovarian surgery for those women. The surgery not only lowers their chances of getting either ovarian or breast cancer. The study estimated it also can reduce women's risk of death before age 70 by 77 percent.
Ovarian cancer is particularly deadly, and there is no good way to detect it early like there is for breast cancer. So for years, doctors have advised BRCA carriers to have their ovaries removed between the ages of 35 and 40, or when women are finished having children.
The new study suggests the surgery, called an oophorectomy, should be timed differently for the different genes.
For women who carry the higher-risk BRCA1, the chance of already having ovarian cancer rose from 1.5 percent at age 35 to 4 percent at age 40, said lead researcher Dr. Steven Narod of the University of Toronto. After that, the risk jumped to 14 percent by age 50.
In contrast, the researchers said carriers of the related BRCA2 gene could safely delay surgery into their 40s. The study found only one case in a woman younger than 50.
Ovarian surgery "is the cornerstone for cancer prevention," declared Narod, whose team published the research in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. "The typical woman with a BRCA1 mutation will benefit to a large extent from an oophorectomy at age 35, and we want to make that a pretty standard recommendation."
Future studies would have to verify the findings, and other specialists urged caution.
Waiting until age 40 for ovary removal, as many women with BRCA1 do today, makes a very small difference, stressed Dr. Claudine Isaacs, an oncologist and cancer risk specialist at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, who wasn't involved in the new research.
The findings shouldn't frighten women into acting sooner if they're not ready, agreed Dr. Susan Domchek of the University of Pennsylvania's Basser Research Center for BRCA, who also wasn't involved in the study.
Many women have babies during their late 30s, and ovary removal sends women into early menopause that can increase their risk of bone-thinning osteoporosis or heart disease later on.
"Thirty-five isn't necessarily a magic number," Domchek said. "If you are talking to a woman who hasn't yet finished having her kids, it's a completely reasonable thing to discuss the low risk of ovarian cancer by age 40 in the context of the other decisions that she's making in her life."
But Domchek added: For BRCA1 carriers, "by age 40, I will be nagging you about this again."
About 1.4 percent of women develop ovarian cancer at some point in life, but 39 percent of BRCA1 carriers do, and between 11 percent and 17 percent of BRCA2 carriers, according to the National Cancer Institute. Likewise, 12 percent of average women will develop breast cancer, but a BRCA mutation raises the risk four- to five-fold.
The new study included 5,787 BRCA carriers from Canada, the U.S. and parts of Europe. Researchers tracked their health for an average of 5½ years, and found 186 who eventually developed either ovarian cancer or related fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer. Ovary removal reduced cancer risk by 80 percent.
Interestingly, removing the ovaries can reduce the risk of breast cancer as well by affecting hormone levels in the body -- and Narod found the surgery increased women's chances of survival even if they already had developed breast cancer.
Specialists say more than two-thirds of BRCA carriers undergo ovary removal at some point, compared with about a third who choose a preventive mastectomy. Insurance generally pays for the procedures.
Key to the ovary decision is having a doctor who knows how to treat the hot flashes and other menopause problems that can make women delay the surgery, said Georgetown genetic counselor Beth Peshkin.
Lauren Dubin of Olney, Md., knows what a difficult choice it is. Her mother, aunt, sister and cousins all developed breast cancer, but Dubin didn't know ovarian cancer also was a risk until she underwent gene testing at age 40 and learned she carried BRCA1. Despite fear of early menopause, Dubin had her ovaries removed a few months later, managed the symptoms and is glad she did.


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Dodgers agree to terms with Brian Giles
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UPDATE: ESPN.com's Buster Olney reports that Giles will earn $500,000 if he lands on the big league roster. The contract also contains another $200,000 worth of performance-based bonuses.
9:18am: According to MLB.com's Ken Gurnick, the Dodgers have signed outfielder Brian Giles to a minor league contract.
Included in the deal is an invitation to spring training, though it's no sure bet that Giles will crack the Dodgers' Opening Day roster. The club already has outfielders Jason Repko, Xavier Paul and Reed Johnson headed to spring camp and Giles might just be the least valuable of the bunch. The 39-year-old left-handed swinger batted just .191/.277/.271 in 225 at-bats with the Padres last year. He was limited to 61 games due to a knee contusion and remains a major injury risk heading into the 2010 season.
Oh, and if you're keeping score at home, Giles is also a poor defensive outfielder.
- dave - Feb 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Giles wad doing what almost every player will do. Sign. And why not? If baseball will pay this much money for a has been and cling on why not sign. Has a better chance then winning a lottery. Hell for $700,000 it will be worth it. If he does not make the team , he will go home. He is not riding the bus.
- GimmeSomeSteel - Feb 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM
With Frank McCourt throwing nickels around like manhole covers (to borrow Mike Ditka's line about George Halas), why waste any money on a has-been like Giles? He was a fine player in his day, but that day is long past, plus he's a scumbag as a person. The Dodgers would be just fine with Johnson as the 4th OF and either Repko or Paul as #5.
- paul from DC - Feb 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Why waste Giles time and the Dodgers. GimmeSomeSteel is absolutely corrct. The LAD have six outfielders. And Johnson, Repko or Paul are perfect to fit in the # 4 & 5 slots. The GM should spend his time looking for some more pitching. We love Joe T. but he uses up pitching like no one else in baseball.
- rje49 - Feb 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Re: "Poor defensive outfielder"; ever notice that during this offseason, nearly every outfielder has been described this way? I never heard a complaint about Jason Bay's outfield play until he became a free agent, but then it became a liability and cause for concern. Similarly, we Sox fans think Jacoby Ellsbury is a good, fast, centerfielder. But now he's suddenly called a poor fielder, so this year he will use his speed in the world's smallest left field.
- BIGBRUCE11047 - Feb 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I think Brian Giles signing with the Dodgers is somewhat a surprise to me. I am a avid Dodger fan and have been since the team moved to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. The outfield is, of should be, set with Manny Ramirez in left, Matt Kemp in center and Andre Ethier in right. Brian Giles could be a good bat coming off the bench as a pinch hitter but that's about it.
- Old Gator - Feb 8, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Perhaps a better title for this blog would have been Giles Submits to Dodgers' Humiliating yet Merciful Terms, don't you think?
- Ryan - Feb 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM
That's the truth. I wonder if he still has to pay that 1 million dollar donation.
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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. Coming of Age in Second Life is the first book of anthropology...
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. Coming of Age in Second Life is the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe.
Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group.
Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.
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"Boellstorff applies the methods and theories of his field to a virtual world accessible only through a computer screen....[He] spent two years participating in Second Life and reports back as the trained observer that he is. We read about a fascinating, and to many of us mystifying, world. How do people make actual money in this virtual society? (They do.) How do they make friends with other avatars? The reader unfamiliar with such sites learns a lot—not least, all sorts of cool jargon...Worth the hurdles its scholarly bent imposes."—Michelle Press, Scientific American
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"If you thought a virtual world like Second Life was a smorgasbord of experimental gender swaps, nerd types engaging in kinky sex or entrepreneurs cashing in on real world money making possibilities, think again. . . .Could Boellstorff be right that we're all virtual humans anyway, viewing the world as we do through the prism of culture?"—New Scientist
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"Where many of his colleagues insist on making a mystery of things that are straightforward (so to neglect mysteries real and pressing), Boellstorff is a likeable, generous, accessible voice. . . . This book, once it gets down to it, does truly offer a detailed and deeply interesting investigation of Second Life."—Grant McCracken, Times Higher Education
"Boellstorff makes important contributions to ethnographic theory and method while providing a fascinating excursion into a virtual world, Second Life, inhabited by graphic manifestations of real-life people who interact with one another in localized parts of a vast virtual landscape that they themselves have largely created. . . . In classic anthropological fashion, Boellstorff entered Second Life, conducted ethnographic research within it as an avatar, and has written a vivid, highly engaging account of that world for real-life readers."—A. Arno, Choice
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"This is a remarkable book. Tom Boellstorff has successfully achieved the extremely difficult task of writing a book that will appeal equally to the general reader and scholar alike. Coming Of Age In Second Life is well written, very well researched and whilst it does not get bogged down in academic detail and theory, it does provide reference to such theories that undergird the author's research."—Rob Harle, Metapsychology
"One can almost guarantee this book will become one of those contemporary classics in anthropology that travel beyond the discipline as well."—Marilyn Strathern, European Legacy
"The book is absolutely invaluable for anyone who wants to understand what's happening with virtual worlds. Like the very best of ethnography, it transports; it is classically thick with descriptions of everything from the linguistic and the proxemic to the metaphysical and the erotic."—Christopher M. Kelty, Current Anthropology
"The monograph is an elegant tribute to the relevance and strengths of anthropology in the study of virtual worlds, a field of growing social significance that younger generations in particular are keen to investigate more fully. This was evident when I introduced the book to students in a recent course on digital anthropology, who could relate it to their own online every day experiences. As one of the early Internet ethnographers, I can but appreciate Boellstorff's efforts in strengthening this important domain of research, while crafting analytical tools with which to better understand the virtual essence of the human condition, as exposed to us through Internet-mediated virtual worlds."—Paula Uimonen, Social Anthropology
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Arrivals and Departures.
Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical beach close to a native village while the launch or dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight (figure 1.1). You have nothing to do, but to start at once on your ethnographic work. Imagine further that you are a beginner, without previous experience, with nothing to guide you and no one to help you. This exactly describes my first initiation into field work in Second Life.
Many anthropologists will recognize the paragraph above as a famous passage, slightly altered, from Bronislaw Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, published in 1922, describing the culture of the inhabitants of the Trobriand Islands north of Australia. Despite his shortcomings, it was Malinowski more than any other anthropologist, and Argonauts more than any of Malinowski's books, that established the conviction that anthropologists should have extended experience in close proximity among those about whose lives they wished to speak:"it would be easy to quote works of high repute ... in which wholesale generalizations are laid down before us, and we are not informed at all by what actual experiences the writers have reached their conclusion" (Malinowski 1922:3, emphasis added): "Living in the village with no other business but to follow native life, one sees the customs, ceremonies and transactions over and over again, one has examples of their beliefs as they are actually lived through, and the full body and blood of actual native life fills out soon the skeleton of abstract constructions" (Malinowski 1922:18, emphasis added). Malinowski speaks of "actual" experience, "actual" belief, "actual" life. In this book I take the methods and theories of anthropology and apply them to a virtual world accessible only through a computer screen. Because virtual worlds are so new, I will spend quite a few pages introducing some general issues to keep in mind, before plunging into the details of Second Life. I am an anthropologist whose previous and continuing research focuses on sexuality in Indonesia (Boellstorff 2005, 2007). Coming of Age in Second Life is an anthropological study of Second Life (abbreviated "SL" or "sl"). This is a virtual world owned and managed by a company, Linden Lab, where by the end of my fieldwork tens of thousands of persons who might live on separate continents spent part of their lives online. To explore how anthropology might contribute to understanding culture in virtual worlds, I have departed from many previous studies of Internet culture by conducting fieldwork entirely inside Second Life, using my avatar Tom Bukowski and my home and office in Second Life, Ethnographia. I went through standard human subjects protocols and engaged in normal anthropological methods including participant observation and interviews.
It might seem controversial to claim one can conduct research entirely inside a virtual world, since persons in them spend most of their time in the actual world and because virtual worlds reference and respond to the actual world in many ways. However, as I discuss in chapter 3, studying virtual worlds "in their own terms" is not only feasible but crucial to developing research methods that keep up with the realities of technological change. Most virtual worlds now have tens of thousands of participants, if not more, and the vast majority interact only in the virtual world. The forms of social action and meaning-making that take place do so within the virtual world, and there is a dire need for methods and theories that take this into account.
Another foundational conceit concerns the possibility of descriptive analysis, rather than the prescriptive modes of argumentation that characterize most discussions of virtual worlds, often due to legitimate interests in social implications and design. When studying gay Indonesians, I do not ask "is it a good thing that gay identities have emerged in Indonesia?"; I take their emergence as given. Similarly in this book I do not ask "is it a good thing that virtual worlds have emerged" or "is Second Life headed in the right direction?" While such questions are important to many persons in Second Life and beyond, in this book I take Second Life's emergence as given and work to analyze the cultural practices and beliefs taking form within it.
The idea of "virtually human" appearing in this book's subtitle can be interpreted in two ways, indexing two lines of analysis I develop throughout. First, although some insightful research has claimed that online culture heralds the arrival of the "posthuman," I show that Second Life culture is profoundly human. It is not only that virtual worlds borrow assumptions from real life; virtual worlds show us how, under our very noses, our "real" lives have been "virtual" all along. It is in being virtual that we are human: since it is human "nature" to experience life through the prism of culture, human being has always been virtual being. Cutlure is our "killer app": we are virtually human.
Yet it is not true that nothing is new under the unblinking light of a virtual sun. My second line of analysis is that virtual worlds do have significant consequences for social life. Drawing upon the meaning of virtual as "almost," a second interpretation of this book's title is that in virtual worlds we are not quite human-our humanity is thrown off balance, considered anew, and reconfigured through transformed possibilities for place-making, subjectivity, and community. Anthropology, "a positive and definite study of the human knowledge of the human" (Wagner 2001:xvii), can help reveal the layers of contingency within the category of the virtually human, rather than exiling such contingency into a category of the posthuman and thereby retrenching the borders of the human itself. I approach these two lines of analysis by writing an "ethnography," a text produced through fieldwork-based research, also known as ethnographic methods. Contemporary understandings of ethnographic method presume historical and comparative perspectives, and at various points I will discuss the history of virtual worlds as well as virtual worlds other than Second Life.
The online fieldsite of Coming of Age in Second Life might seem utterly different than Indonesia, but like my earlier work this book touches on broad issues concerning selfhood and society, and like my earlier work this book is a methodological experiment. Building upon a significant body of prior research on virtual worlds, I argue that ethnography holds great promise for illuminating culture online, but not because it is traditional or old-fashioned. Ethnography has a special role to play in studying virtual worlds because it has anticipated them. Virtual before the Internet existed, ethnography has always produced a kind of virtual knowledge. Borrowing a phrase from Malinowski, Clifford Geertz argued that the goal of ethnographic understanding is to achieve the "native's point of view" (Geertz 1983). The quotation from Malinowski that started this book asked you to "imagine yourself" in a new place (Malinowski 1922:4), to be virtually there. Representations of persons in virtual worlds are known as "avatars"; Malinowski's injunction to "imagine yourself" in an unfamiliar place underscores how anthropology has always been about avatarizing the self, standing virtually in the shoes (or on the shores) of another culture.
I intentionally draw upon classic anthropology to demonstrate the promise of ethnographic methods for the study of virtual worlds. This book's title is meant to recall Coming of Age in Samoa, the work that first established Margaret Mead's reputation (Mead 1928). At the same time, it will be obvious that I draw upon contemporary anthropological critiques of ethnographic method-not least, the vociferous debate over Mead's book. Anthropologists now recognize that the boundaries of "fieldsites" are contested and produced in part by ethnographers themselves (Gupta and Ferguson 1997). They also recognize that ethnographic research need not limit itself to a single fieldsite. Indeed there is a sense in which this study of Second Life is part of my own multisited project, an anthropology of modernity that treats gay Indonesians and Second Life residents as nodes of an emergent cultural formation that is at once transnational, national, and local, at once virtual and actual.
Many different kinds of books could be written about Second Life, each with certain audiences in mind. A challenge I face is that I wish Coming of Age in Second Life to be read and debated by several different groups of people. I hope the book will be useful to those with interests in anthropology, including graduate and undergraduate students. I also hope it will be read by scholars, students, and designers in fields like game studies, informatics, and science and technology studies. Another hoped-for readership includes persons who participate in virtual worlds or online games. Persons who spend time in Second Life fall into this category, including the many friends and acquaintances whose kindness, patience, and insight made this book possible. Then there are all the readers I cannot foresee who simply find the topic interesting.
It is impossible to write a book that will please all of these audiences all of the time. Some may find my writing too laden with jargon; others, too informal. Some may find my extensive use of sources distracting; others may think of literatures they would have liked to see referenced. Some may be frustrated with my sympathetic stance toward virtual worlds; others will feel I underplay their importance. Those with little experience in virtual worlds may wish I had focused on why people find virtual worlds compelling, and their potentially negative effects; others with substantial experience in virtual worlds may wish I had written a book that went into more detail about subcultures and controversies specific to Second Life. I can only hope that all parties will meet this text halfway and find in it something useful or provocative.
This book provides an ethnographic portrait of the culture of Second Life during the period of fieldwork upon which the portrait is based (June 3, 2004 to January 30, 2007). Since Second Life first went online in June 2003, this book chronicles the formative years when the virtual world was "coming of age," as the book's title indicates. A problem of spatial scale appears at the outset: "Second Life" seems too big and too small. Too small, because most of those who resided in Second Life during my fieldwork participated in other virtual worlds or online games, as well as blogs, forums, and other websites. The engagement ethnographic research demands makes it impossible for me to conduct ethnographic research in Thailand while conducting such research in Indonesia; similarly I could not study other virtual worlds while engaging in ethnographic research in Second Life. For this reason, comparing Second Life to other virtual worlds in detail lies beyond the scope of this book. Without good ethnographic work in place there is nothing upon which to base comparison. Obviously all virtual worlds differ and Second Life was quite distinct from, say, combat-oriented virtual worlds that existed at the same time, like World of Warcraft (Koster 2006). Yet there are common aspects to virtual worlds, just as there are features shared by all human languages even when they are mutually unintelligible.
Too big, because as was the case for many virtual worlds during the time of my fieldwork, Second Life was already so large that there were many subcultures within it. At various points I discuss subcultures in Second Life and in future writings I hope to analyze such subcultures in greater detail, but the goal of this book is to explore what might be learned from Second Life taken as a single culture. Just as it is possible to study Indonesian national culture or more localized cultures like Javanese culture, so one viable approach to Second Life is to examine its general aspects. It is typically much easier to recognize subcultures than cultures: no one during my research denied that there were subcultures in Second Life, but many questioned if there was a Second Life culture. Claims that a virtual world like Second Life is composed of nothing but subcultures mistake notions of subculture in terms of identity and style (Hebdige 1979) for anthropological notions of culture in terms of shared meanings and relations of power.
Everyday Second Life.
A man spends his days as a tiny chipmunk, elf, or voluptuous woman. Another lives as a child and two other persons agree to be his virtual parents. Two "real"-life sisters living hundreds of miles apart meet every day to play games together or shop for new shoes for their avatars. The person making the shoes has quit his "real"-life job because he is making over five thousand
U.S. dollars a month from the sale of virtual clothing. A group of Christians pray together at a church; nearby another group of persons engages in a virtual orgy, complete with ejaculating genitalia. Not far away a newsstand provides copies of a virtual newspaper with ten reporters on staff; it includes advertisements for a "real"-world car company, a virtual university offering classes, a fishing tournament, and a spaceflight museum with replicas of rockets and satellites.
This list of occurrences does not begin to scratch the surface of the myriad ways those who spent time in Second Life interacted with each other and the virtual world. During the time of my fieldwork, the level of "real" world news coverage of Second Life increased dramatically, often focusing on aspects of the virtual world seen as sensational (for instance, that over US$1,000,000 of economic activity was occurring daily, or that a "real" world musician was performing inworld). But events seen as exceptional are of limited value; they take place in the context of broader norms that at first glance may seem uninteresting, but are the true key to understanding culture. For this reason it will prove helpful to introduce Second Life not by means of some infamous incident, but through a portrait of what an uneventful afternoon might have looked like during the time of my fieldwork. I do not intend this portrait to be representative of everyone's experience, just one example of what life in Second Life could be like during my fieldwork. Readers with experience in virtual worlds may find the description obvious, but I would ask such readers to consider what kinds of cultural assumptions are encapsulated within these apparently banal details of everyday Second Life.
IMAGINE YOURSELF suddenly teleported into Second Life, alone in your home. You already have a Second Life account and thus an "avatar," which we will call Sammy Jones. On a computer-at home, at an office, or on your laptop at a café-you start the Second Life program just as you would an email program, word processor, or web browser. After logging on with your avatar name and password, you see your avatar, who never needs to eat or sleep, standing in your home (figure 1.2). You built this house out of "primitives" (or "prims"), as objects in Second Life are known. You did so after practicing with Second Life's building tools in an area known as a "sandbox," where you can build for free but everything you build is deleted after a few hours (figure 1.3). The piece of land upon which your house sits is 1,024 square virtual meters in size; you paid a virtual real estate agent about thirty dollars for it, conducting the transaction in linden dollars or "lindens." For the right to own land you paid Linden Lab, the company that owns Second Life, $9.95 a month for a "premium account" and an additional $5 a month for the ability to own up to 1,024 square meters of land: this is known as a "land use fee" or "tier fee."
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
PART I: Setting the Virtual Stage 1
CHAPTER 1: The Subject and Scope of This Inquiry 3
Arrivals and departures--Everyday Second Life--Terms of discussion--The emergence of virtual worlds--The posthuman and the human--What this, a book, does.
CHAPTER 2: History 32
Prehistories of the virtual--Histories of virtual technology--A personal virtual history--Histories of virtual worlds--Histories of cybersociality research--Techne.
CHAPTER 3: Method 60
Virtual worlds in their own terms--Anthropology and ethnography--Participant observation--Interviews, focus groups, and beyond the platform--Ethics--Claims and reflexivity.
PART II: Culture in a Virtual World 87
CHAPTER 4: Place and Time 89
Visuality and land--Builds and objects--Lag--Afk--Immersion--Presence.
CHAPTER 5: Personhood 118
The self--The life course--Avatars and alts--Embodiment--Gender and race--Agency.
CHAPTER 6: Intimacy 151
CHAPTER 7: Community 179
The event--The group--Kindness--Griefing--Between virtual worlds--Beyond virtual worlds.
PART III: The Age of Techne 203
CHAPTER 8: Political Economy 205
Creationist capitalism--Money and labor--Property--Governance--Inequality--Platform and social form.
CHAPTER 9: The Virtual 237
The virtual human--Culture and the online--Simulation--Fiction and design--The massively multiple--Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds.
Glossary 251
Notes 255
Works Cited 271
Index 303
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas A Texas man convicted of carjacking and fatally shooting a stockbroker was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first prisoner in the nation's most active capital punishment state to be executed under a procedure using one lethal drug instead of three.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials announced last week they were modifying the three-drug injection method used since 1982 because the state's supply of one of the drugs - the muscle relaxant pancuronium bromide - has expired. Yokamon Hearn, 33, was executed using a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital, which had been part of the three-drug mixture since last year.
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Hearn was condemned for the March 1998 slaying of 23-year-old suburban Dallas stockbroker Frank Meziere. About 3 1/2 hours before Hearn was put to death, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeals to halt the execution. None of the appeals addressed the change in the state's execution drug policy.
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