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Police Disappearing Protesting Students in Mexico in 2014
I've written before of police violence against students in Mexico on a much grander scale. And now, in 2014, it tragically appears we have a twenty-first century version, no less horrific even if on a smaller scale:
Authorities were investigating whether several bodies found in clandestine graves in southern Mexico are those of 43 students who disappeared after a deadly police shooting last week.
The pits were found Saturday on a hill in a community outside Iguala, the town where the students were last seen and where witnesses say municipal police officers whisked several of them away. [...]
But two police officers at the scene in the community of Pueblo Viejo told AFP that at least 15 bodies were exhumed from the site, which was cordoned off and guarded by scores of troops and police.
Juan Lopez Villanueva, an official from the National Human Rights Commission, said that six pits were found up a steep hill probably inaccessible by car.
Why were the students missing? Because students in the state had gathered in Guerrero. According to early reports, "depending on the account, they either collected donations for school or sought to hijack buses, as they have commonly done for transportation. The result was police opened fire, killing six people and leaving 43 students "missing."
It is worth noting that, no matter what they had gathered for, opening fire and killing some, and then apparently killing and attempting to "disappear" others is indefensible and among the grossest of human rights violations. And if protests in Latin America have taught us anything, it's that the reasons for students gathering is not an either/or proposition; it seems quite possible that many had gathered for donations in one of the poorest states in Mexico, and a small number escalated the activities (as happened with the "black bloc" in Brazil during the 2013 protests). Yet even if that is the case, it does not justify the use of lethal force against unarmed protesters, and it certainly does not justify the methodical kidnapping and killing of citizens, and attempted destruction of their bodies. And in the off-chance that it turns out that the graves aren't even the students' remains, then not only are students still missing, but apparently other people have been murdered and dumped unceremoniously in hidden graves in an attempt to "erase" evidence of them, which is even worse.
The national government has gotten involved in the investigation, and perhaps the particularly extreme nature of this particular event will remain a question of public memory for some time. Sadly, one of the early lessons of this massacre is that police violence against students is not a remnant of a lost age. Even more sadly, while this incident is particularly extreme, it is all too emblematic of the degree of force that local police forces can and do use in Mexico (and elsewhere); people may recoil at the particularly extreme version of such violence and corruption in this case, but this is a recurring theme on a daily basis for all too many individuals whose stories and lives go unheard and unremembered.
The Consequences of Criminalizing Abortion – Another Brazilian Case
We've covered the effects and lessons of criminalizing abortion before, be it in or Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador, or Chile. Sadly, Brazil,has another tragic example of the horrors that can occur when abortion is criminalized:
Jandira dos Santos Cruz was terrified. In her last text messages, she pleaded with a friend to pray for her. It seems she had good reason to be afraid: The 27-year-old Rio secretary got into a car with strangers on Aug. 26, bound for an illegal abortion clinic, and never came home.
Now police say a burned and dismembered torso, missing its teeth and found in the trunk of a car matching the description of the one Ms. Cruz took to the clinic, may be hers. Nursing assistant Rosemere Aparecida Ferreira, who is believed to be the clinic employee who arranged Ms. Cruz's abortion, and her husband, police officer Edilson dos Santos, were arrested Thursday night in a city three hours away from Rio.
If Jandira's case is exceptional for its horrific outcome, it is not exceptional for its existence. While Brazil allows abortion in the case of rape, incest, or if the mother's health is at risk, even for these cases, it is incredibly difficult to find a doctor willing to safely and openly conduct such medical practices. The result is of the limited accessibility and social stigma of abortion is that, of the roughly one million women who seek an abortion in Brazil, "An estimated 250,000 women a year seek medical help in public clinics for the complications of an illegal abortion" (and that says nothing about those who are privileged enough to seek help from private doctors willing to quietly aid them and keep the issue under wraps). In the worst case scenario, as Jandira dos Santos Cruz reminds us, women die (sometimes in horrific ways) merely for attempting to exercise control not only over their own bodies, but their own futures. Once again we have a tragic reminder that criminalizing abortion does not make it go away; it simply further endangers women.
On This Date in Latin America – September 16, 1976: Argentina's "Night of the Pencils"
Given the recent discussion of memory and military dictatorships, it seems worthwhile to recall one of the many horrific events of Argentina's military dictatorship: La Noche de los Lápices, or "Night of the Pencils."
The Night of the Pencils had its roots in the military junta that had taken power six months earlier. Citing political instability, the new regime launched the "Process for National Reorganization," commonly referred to simply as El Processo. Asserting a centralization of power in the hands of the (military-led) executive branch, through El Proceso the junta (led by Gen. Jorge Videla) gave the military executive, judicial, and legislative powers, launching widespread censorship, undermining habeas corpus, and setting up the mechanisms through which the regime would use torture and "disappear" anybody who it deemed a "subversive." However, such a term was intentionally loose, and the result ended up being the military arbitrarily arresting, torturing, and usually murdering anybody who deviated in the slightest from the military's own political, economic, social, cultural, or ideological vision of the nation. In the subsequent months, the military forces arrested and disappeared anybody who was associated with diverse movements ranging from labor unions to student groups, from liberation theologians to peasant activists, to those who professed even mild sympathies with leftist (or left-ish) worldviews.
It was in this context that the Night of the Pencils happened. Dissatisfied with mounting educational and living expenses, a number of high school students began to mobilize for lower bus fares, part of the quotidian struggles that were part of broader social issues for the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (Union of High School Students; UES). On September 16, 1976, military forces moved, committing the first of what would ultimately be sixteen kidnappings of high school students between the ages of 16 and 18, as the first salvo in trying to dismantle the UES. However, some of those kidnapped had had no affiliation with the UES; yet the mere suspicion, on the part of the military, led to their arrest and Across the next several nights, the military brutally tortured and disappeared many of those kidnapped; only a few would survive to confirm the fate of their colleagues.
The military did not act alone in the Night of the Pencils (named because the targets were high school students), however. Military authorities acted after receiving a tip from Catholic priest Christian von Wernich. The students had admitted to their involvement with UES to the priest in Confession; Wernich, violating the secrecy of the confessional, revealed to the military the students' political activism. His participation was not surprising; many in the Catholic hierarchy agreed with the military over the perceived "threat" of "subversion" to the Argentine nation, and were more than happy to collaborate with the regime. Wernich also was present in the prison where the students were tortured to death, according to the few survivors.
Though some of those survivors remained imprisoned until 1978, ultimately it was through them, and their memories of torture, that the fate of their colleagues became known. Likewise, their accounts played a vital role in the eventual arrest, indictment, and conviction in 2007 of Wernich, who was found guilty of complicity in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of the students from the Night of the Pencils, along with dozens of other cases of torture and disappearance; a court sentenced Wernich to life imprisonment. Meanwhile, the tortured and murdered students stand out as one of the early cases of state repression under the military's (problematically-named) "Dirty War," and their names have become a part of the broader historical record of torture and repression that is remembered annually on March 24, Argentina's Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
The Night of the Pencils was not exceptional, but that fact alone makes it worth remembering. From the targeting of unarmed citizens, to the use of torture, to the disappearance of the regime's victims in order to "silence" the historical record, to members of the Church actively collaborating with the repressive regime, the Night of the Pencils is all too representative of the actions and legacies of Argentina's authoritarian regime. But it is this representativeness that makes the Night of the Pencils all the more important to remember: not only does it undo the regime's efforts to silence and erase from the historical record those who disagreed with or merely challenged it by bringing those victims and their stories back into the broader historical narrative of life under military rule in Argentina; it also reminds us that, far from unique, thousands upon thousands of Argentines suffered similar experiences, and that those experiences, and the memories of them, are vital to understanding broader historical narratives and processes not just of Argentine history, but of Latin American history more generally.
Others' Thoughts on The Economist's Foolishness over History and Memory
I wasn't the only one who objected to the various arguments made in The Economist's piece yesterday about how "Memory is not history." There were several other thoughtful pieces that tackle the issue from different angles. Lillie deals with the false equivalency issue from a different perspective by highlighting the disparities in violence of the left and violence of the right under military regimes in Latin America. Likewise, Mike Allison makes a very important argument about the limits of Truth Commission reports and the periods they seek to "reconcile" even while providing a nuanced analysis that suggests the need to avoid romanticizing the left while condemning the more extreme violence of the right. Otto puts yesterday's piece on memory in the broader context of The Economist's often-problematic reporting on Latin America more generally. Steven Bodzin has an excellent piece up that draws on his interview with Ricardo Brodsky, the executive director of Chile's Museu de la Memoria, that emphasizes both why the museums and memory projects are important historical sites even while they aren't "history museums" per se. And Geoffrey Ramsey points out how The Economist manages to get the basic history of Uruguay wrong and ends up being "guilty of engaging in the kind of historical revisionism it claims to condemn."
All are worth reading, and highlight just how many ways The Economist piece fails, be it in terms of history, journalism, politics, or human rights issues.
The Economist Is Wrong Again (Or, Why Memory Is History)
First, The Economist published a book review a few weeks ago that criticized Edward Baptist's book on slavery by saying that it was not "objective" because, according to the reviewer, "Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains," a review that was met with thoughtful rebuttal, understandable scorn and justified ridicule.
But that was two weeks ago, and things had died down, which probably explains why The Economist decided to stir the pot yet again by publishing an article claiming that "Memory is not history."
But here's the problem: yes, memory is history.
Because history is, at its essence, the study of the past as it relates to humans. And memory is a vital part of that process of relating the past to peoples both of the past and the present.
The article is problematic in any number of ways. It opens with the Museum of Memory in Chile, where "a map of Chile shows the 1,132 detention centres set up after the coup, each marked with a flashing light. In videotaped testimony, victims matter-of-factly describe the torture and sexual violence to which they were subjected."
Yet the article then goes on to implicitly suggest that such memory-sites are engaging in "subjective and selective" practices in providing their own understanding of the past. This is highly problematic in any number of ways. First, most historians understand that the pretension to any true, "objective" history is a relic (one that, as The Economist's review of Baptist's book makes clear, The Economist itself seems to be entirely unaware of). Yes, there are dates and names (though even those can be subjective – are we using the Julian calendar, the Jewish calendar, the Islamic calendar, or indigenous calendars?), but dates and names aren't history. History is the study of processes, of change over time, and how those processes affected and were affected by people and by historians. Given the multiplicity of worldviews, cultures, classes, experiences, etc., there cannot really be any non-subjective history, as each person understands and interprets the past (i.e., "does history") in different ways. That is not to say that different ways are equally valid – Holocaust deniers come to mind as a more obvious example of less-valid interpretations here – but history itself has been built on reconciling and interpreting the past based on differing accounts and views.
Just as problematic in the article's implication that memory is "subjective" is the tacit suggestion that there can ever be an "objective" source. The author is likely thinking, in a very Rankean sense, that the written word is more "legitimate," be it in the form of government data, official documents, or, in the case of Argentina, concrete numbers. Yet these themselves are highly problematic. The article cites the original Truth Commission's findings, in the mid-1980s, that the Argentine military disappeared "only" 8,960 people, not the 30,000 that is usually cited. But this is problematic in that A) the Truth Commission itself did not happen in a vacuum, but took place in a fraught political climate where the military still had sway, B) forensics were not nearly as developed then as they are now, making tracking the disappeared more difficult, C) it left no room for the events in which entire families would have been disappeared, making it more difficult to know their fates, D) it left no room for people who had not been in contact with loved ones for years and who were disappeared, and E) understandings and analysis of both forensics and human rights have since pointed to 30,000 being closer to the "actual" number than the 8960. And in some ways, the exact number distracts from the main point, which is: the Argentine dictatorship killed (at least) thousands of its own citizens in a brutally repressive and efficient regime.
And it's not like these regimes did not try to shape memory themselves; even they (unlike The Economist) acknowledged both implicitly and explicitly the importance of memory. That was one intention and effect of using disappearances – regimes could literally silence groups who disagreed with or opposed the regime's own vision of history, effectively trying to monopolize both nation and history (hardly "objective" projects). Indeed, even as such regimes collapsed, they were well aware of the need to shape history in their own way, be it through the destruction of documents (an issue still at the heart of Brazil's Truth Commission), or even in the destruction of physical sites, as Argentina's government destroyed prison centers in order to "eliminate evidence" of their crimes. Some of these physical sites are gone, erased from history.
Or rather, they would be, if it weren't for memory. Because through the memories of survivors of these regimes, they were able to not only recount the horrors of torture, but to help map and uncover sites of torture and disappearance. So if the regime happened to tear down a major torture center where thousands of disappeared passed through, and then built an overpass over it to "erase" it from history, through memory, we have been able to return such centers, and their victims' stories, back to the historical narrative. How do I know? Because I've been to such sites. That's exactly what happened at the Club Atletico torture center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, torn down and with an overpass built over it, but now an archaeological site where they have uncovered the remains of the building and turned the location into a memory site, effectively "rescuing" the site and its history of torture and returning it to historical narrative. How were they able to do this historical rescuing? Through memory.
Another major problem with the article is its reliance upon false equivalency, an argument that, as I and others have commented before, is extremely flawed. The article claims that "The historical truth silenced by "memory" is that the cold war in Latin America was fought by two equally authoritarian sides." As Lillie notes, this is nonsense. Yes, leftist groups, often armed, sought revolution that would fundamentally transform society, and yes, such groups committed acts of violence against perceived "enemies." But "equally authoritarian?" Even if armed lefts had taken power, we'll never know if they would have committed violence on the level of the right-wing dictatorships, because the armed and revolutionary lefts did not take power. The right did. Thus, the article is effectively implying a counter-historical "what if" which, while an entertaining and occasionally useful thought exercise, actually is not history (unlike memory). Put another way, whether it was in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, or elsewhere, there was never an equality of violence. While armed leftist groups sometimes (but not always) committed acts of violence, they never had the apparatus of the state, the military institutions that could and did work en masse to repress, torture, and terrorize the population, or the bureaucracies that could cover up or elide the use of such repression. And that's to say nothing of the systematic use of censorship and the stripping of individuals' political rights that authoritarian regimes of the right did commit. Put another way: not all leftist groups were either armed or advocated violence, and even those that did neither theoretically envisioned regimes that used torture and terror against the population writ large, nor actually implemented such regimes. The right did. To suggest that "both sides were equally authoritarian" is nonsense, because in order to be authoritarian, you actually have to have access to the instruments and mechanisms of power that allow you to rule in an authoritarian fashion. The leftist movements, armed or unarmed, never did; the right-wing military dictatorships did.
Is memory alone history? Of course not. To rely on memory alone is equally methodologically problematic for historians, and that's why we often use other sources, written, visual, or otherwise, as well. Yet memory is a part of history. Memory provides a way for people who are often ignored by the "official" sources to be heard, whether it be an illiterate worker who can leave no written record, indigenous peoples whose histories are passed down orally, or just marginalized groups who are finally given to speak beyond those "official" (yet far from "objective") written sources. Likewise, the study of collective memory itself is increasingly important to historians, as it helps us understand the relationship between historical process, historical moment and context, and public memory – put another way, it helps us understand historically why we remember what we remember and, by implication, what we've forgotten (intentionally or unintentionally) and why.
Is memory history? Not in and of itself, no. But memory is a part of history, and a vital one. In light of recent items published in The Economist, it's unsurprising they fail to understand the basic practice or theory of history. Fortunately, we can remember their failings.
On Favela Tours (or, "I went so you don't have to")
I've long been a critic of favela tours, for any number of reasons, few of which are likely unique: it objectifies the poor; it is voyeuristic; it reinforces a so-called "First World"/"Third World" dichotomy that objectifies both the poor and those in "developing countries" (a term as loaded and barely better than "Third World"); it fails to connect local poverty to broader national and global issues and economics; it rarely provides tourists an opportunity to hear the voices of those who live in the favelas, instead relying on tour guides to "interpret"; and they fail to connect local poverty to broader national and global systems that allow for such poverty to exist and that often implicate and involve the tourists themselves, be it directly or indirectly.
In an attempt to perhaps placate and alleviate some of the guilt the (relatively wealthier) tourist may feel, some favela tours insist that the money made from the tours goes back into the community. However, they rarely provide any concrete data or evidence of such reinvestment, any long-term programs designed to address the fundamental socioeconomic inequalities that lead to favelas in the first place. The end result is you have a number of tourists who have likely spent thousands of dollars to travel to places like Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, or Mumbai in order to gaze upon people who likely don't make that much in a year. The analogy to people going to the zoo to see animals is as obvious as it is uncomfortably fair.
It was for these reasons I had always insisted on never going on a favela tour, or on any other form of poverty tourism. So how did I end up on a favela tour?
In spite of my promises, I in fact reluctantly found myself on a favela tour last week as part of a school trip. It had been planned as part of the trip, and while my objections remained, I also thought it unfair to preemptively make that decision for the 22 students who were going on the trip. If push came to shove, I'd rather the students go see the tour themselves, and come to their own conclusions. Additionally, since the trip had already been paid for, I figured I'd go; I'd been critical enough of favela tours for theoretical reasons, but perhaps going would allow me to offer a more thorough understanding of the ways such tours operate.
The short version: my general critiques still stand, but with a more detailed understanding of both the more beguiling and subtle problems of favela tours, as well as some rather grotesque examples of the overt objectification and dehumanization of the poor that makes up poverty tourism.
It was rather problematic from the very beginning. Our group was split into two vans with sometimes-differing messages (more on that later). In my van, we were accompanied by a woman who did not live in the favelas, while a favela-resident drove us around. She talked, but not once did we get to hear his voice, his account of life in the favelas. Already, others were speaking on behalf of the favela residents, and it was clear that, no matter how closely her own interpretations and narration might hew to those who live in favelas, we would never have a way of knowing it.
As we drove to the first favela (Vilas Canoas), she insisted that favela residents "are poor, but they are happy people," that "they work hard," that "poverty isn't misery," and so on. Yet within five minutes, she also said that, as the younger generations begin to get a better education and gain access to better jobs, they are leaving the favelas. It seemed rather clear in the guide's own narrative that, however "happy" and "hard-working" they may be, the broader social stigmas, the living conditions, and the ongoing lack of basic political rights in favelas (what Brodwyn Fischer has referred to as a "poverty of rights") was leading many to leave. Some might see in this a sign of social mobility in Brazil, but the fact remains that favelas continue to grow, reflecting ongoing and wide socioeconomic disparities in Brazil.
Additionally, the narrative in the van of favela residents' happiness and ability to work hard struck me. I'm not sure how many tourists would think they weren't hard-working or happy. There is probably some tendency to associate poverty with misery and lack of agency, but in general, her narrative seemed in some way not to be designed so much to address our own concerns (we had very few opportunities for questions, something I think, perhaps cynically, was not an accident). Rather than directly addressing anything I'd heard students say, she seemed to be addressing views and attitudes that I had heard Brazilians say far too frequently in my year and a half of living in Rio de Janeiro. Put another way: she wasn't necessarily addressing our concerns, but what she thought our concerns were, based on how other Brazilians often view and talk about favelas.
As for the tour, upon arriving at Vilas Canoas, we walked through winding little pathways, no wider than 3 feet, between people's homes. This was the first moment of direct discomfort, as we were walking past people just living their lives, able to see into many people's homes, effectively ogling the impoverished "Other" without any chance to communicate with favela residents as people. For all of the negatives of favela tours, this was also perhaps the most "educational" element for me; it is one thing to read about the spontaneous, improvised, and close-knit space in favelas, but it is another thing to witness it. Being there, at least I was finally able to better understand favelas spatially.
In spite of a veneer of education, however, our presence did seem highly disruptive, whether we wanted it to be or not. Based on at least some residents' faces, we were not entirely welcome there, and our tour guide confirmed this, pointing out that, while some thought the tours were good, others "do not like it," a point that she seemed to brush off and never returned to. (In the other van, they were given a similar line, albeit delivered more aggressively, with the guide basically saying that some favela residents don't like the tour, but too bad.) We then went to a "school," which, while educational in function, was little more than two "classrooms," one a small, poorly-lit room and the other, a covered alcove. This was particularly distressing, as we'd been told that the money from the favela tour went specifically to this "school"; again, there was no quantitative evidence to illustrate that, and it was hard to tell looking at the classrooms and the teaching materials exactly where the money went. Additionally, it was quite clear that we had interrupted the classroom, and one of the teachers seemed particularly annoyed as the students suddenly diverted their attention to us, performing for the tourists. We didn't stay long, but I did not envy the teacher, who was trying unsuccessfully to restart the lesson that we had interrupted; as we left, it was clear he was going to have to further divert his lesson to try to settle down a room of about 5 now-very-energetic children.
From there, we went to Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro. As we drove from Vilas Canoas to Rocinha, the tour guide talked more about conditions in the favelas, why they were there, and why the problems persisted. In finding causes for the problems, she always came back to the same problem that Brazilians regularly turn to: politicians. Citing corruption and disinterest, according to her, the problems in the favelas could be traced back to politicians. Yet this again only frustrated me, for it failed to place poverty in its broader national context; with politicians the sole factors for favelas' problems, it exculpated all other Brazilians. Politicians certainly have contributed to problems in some ways, but the ongoing social prejudice against favelas, the systemic forms of racism in Brazil, the widening gap between rich and poor during the military dictatorship, the dispossession of land and unemployment of peasants, and the effects of the "Green Revolution" all contributed to both the migration that led to favelas' growth, and to the ongoing marginalization and "poverty of rights" that in no small part define favelas. Far too often I heard middle-class Brazilians speak in overtly racist and classist terms about the favelas; yet blaming "the politicians" for everything seemed to ignore society's broader implicit involvement in the marginalization of the poor in urban Brazil.
In Rocinha, students got to see the hustle and bustle of the city's largest favela – markets, people in the streets, construction workers. In other words: things that mark any part of any major city. Though my tour guide was not quite so crass, the tour guide for the other group apparently asked why students weren't stopping and just taking pictures on a regular street in Rocinha, and this seemed to cut to the core of the problem with poverty tourism. Here we were, on a street that looked no different than any other part of the city in terms of its activity; and yet students were expected to take photos here, because it was a favela, and thus, "different." The very nature of the tour was designed to highlight differences and to treat people living in one part of the city as something to be photographed, observed, remarked upon, over people in other parts of the city. In short: it was reifying differences and objectifying the poor without making any sincere effort to either undermine narratives of favelas as "other" or point to broader processes that may create socioeconomic inequalities.
As we drove through Rocinha, the tour guide talked about the UPPs, or Pacifying Police Units. This led to another highly problematic narrative. In discussing the rise of the drug trade in the favelas, the tour guide said that it was because "there was no government" in the favelas, that the Brazilian state had failed to consolidate its presence in favelas. This is a narrative that has a particularly limited vision of "government." Since the late 1960s, police operated as "death squads" in the favelas, going after alleged "criminals." By the 1980s, the violence between drug gangs and police officers grew dramatically, and even when I lived in Rio in 2006-2008, headlines regularly told of "raids" in which police went into the favelas and killed 13 "traficantes" ("traffickers"), only to later learn that the victims were elderly women at the grocery store, children going to school, or other favela residents who often had nothing to do with the drug trade. Certainly, the police, both military and civil, are arms of the government; yet according to her narrative, it was only now, with the UPPs, that the government was trying to establish itself in the favelas. In short, the "government" had been in the favelas for over 40 years, but in a militaristic sense; yet this did not register in her narrative as "government" presence. She did not make the police pure heroes, pointing out that a few had been arrested recently for working on the side for drug gangs. However, when a student in my group asked if corrupt police were prosecuted in Brazil, she simply ignored his question, remaining silent until we got off the bus. Rather than get into the unequal justice system in Brazil, the ongoing culture of impunity among police forces that dates back to the military regime's 1979 general amnesty and before, or society's quiet willingness to tolerate police abuses against the poor, she simply stopped talking.
After that, it was a relatively mild denouement. We went to the top of Rocinha, where we were able to enjoy two rather spectacular views of the city from a top of a mountain. The tour guide pointed out how even those in the favelas had incredible views (though I couldn't help but wonder if they'd trade it for greater incomes or greater rights as citizens). After a little time to take in the view, our favela tour ended.
I had gone on the tour in part because I wanted to better understand the mechanisms and particulars of how favela tours operated and what metanarratives they provided, but I also wanted to see what the students saw. Afterwards, we met with students, and to their credit, even going in "blind" about the broader questions of poverty tourism, many of them clearly felt uncomfortable with it. They offered their own cogent analyses, and if anything, came away with a better understanding of the issues of poverty tourism than with the issues behind poverty in Brazil itself.
I'm aware of the question of whether there can be an "ethical" form of poverty tourism. I'm still not certain, but one thing I kept thinking throughout the favela tour was how much I wanted to hear their voices, how, rather than having an interlocutor from a middle-class neighborhood, I wanted to hear what favela residents had to say about their own experiences, their own views, their own role in society. I'm still not certain there could be an "ethical" favela tour, but having one that was begun by those who live in favelas, letting them speak, and ensuring that the money does actually go back to the favela seems like it would at least be a better alternative than the way tours such as ours operate now.
Ultimately, there is probably little here that is new to overall critiques of favelas. There may be something to be said for personally experiencing one and understanding just how those critiques play out in practice, but if anybody is wondering if they should also go, I can't help but think: there are far better and more productive ways to address inequality in the world.
Jenny McCarthy – Bad for Latin America
The anti-vaccination foolishness in the US has repercussions that go far beyond a dramatic increase in entirely-preventable diseases in the US. To wit:
Brazil's immunization program is one of the most impressive in the world. The government makes most of its own vaccines in the country and distributes them cheaply and universally, which led to a steep decline in infant mortality and deaths from infectious diseases after the national vaccination program started in the 1970s – one chart illustrating polio infection rates shows a complete drop-off a few years after national immunization campaigns. Now, though, Brazil is seeing small outbreaks of diseases like measles. But they aren't homegrown – they're reportedlycoming in from Europe and the United States, thanks to anti-vaxxers.
In many ways, Brazil is a model for how national vaccination programs can work, and how vaccines can accelerate a country's development, health and growth. The country's implementation of widespread affordable vaccinations, coupled with an expanding public health system, caused infant mortality to plummet and contributed to a higher standard of living, a healthier populace and a more robust economy. But today, Brazilian pubic health officials are newly concerned that some of the richest, most developed nations on the planet threaten their success
The idea that this movement (and its entirely-unnecessary and damaging fallout) is limited to the US is clearly nonsense. Given the nature of global travel, refusal to prevent awful diseases is not just some fringe issue in the US, but a matter of global health. That a small subset of ill-informed individuals in the US can have (and are having) a dramatic effect on populations even where vaccination programs are strong and successful reveals just how dangerous the anti-vaccine crowd is.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Mountain West announced Monday afternoon its 2014 all-conference awards, and Colorado State juniors Daniel Bejarano and J.J. Avila were honored with second-team and third-team All-Mountain West nods, respectively.
Bejarano, the 2013 MW Sixth Man of the Year, earned a second-team all-conference award after sliding into a starting role for the Rams in 2013-14. One of the most versatile players in the conference, he ranked among the league's top 10 in nine different statistical categories including second in the MW in scoring at 18.8 points per game, and ninth in rebounding, pulling down 7.7 rebounds per contest.
"I don't think there are five better players than Daniel Bejarano; I've never been prouder of a guy who didn't even start last year, and developed a new role," said Eustachy. "I think, first and foremost, that it's terrific for him and I know his teammates are happy for him because they helped him get it. But he earned it, because I've never had a guy work harder in between seasons. Never, ever. So I'm really proud of Daniel."
A native of Phoenix, Ariz., who transferred to CSU after his freshman season at Arizona, Bejarano recorded double-figures scoring in 16 of 18 conference games, including 10 20-point outbursts. He also notched three double-doubles in conference play, and flirted with the program's first triple-double on two separate occasions, going for 24 points, 10 boards and seven assists in the Rams' 75-57 win over UNLV (Feb. 5), and notching 20 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists in a Border War win over rival Wyoming on Feb. 22.
Avila earns his first recognition from the Mountain West. He transferred to Colorado State after beginning his playing career at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was named the Patriot League Freshman of the Year in 2011. He returned to the court for CSU this season after not competing collegiately during the 2012-13 campaign while attending South Texas College in his hometown of McAllen, Texas, and immediately made an impact for the Rams. The team's top scorer overall this season (16.8 ppg), Avila ranked eighth in the MW in scoring (14.9 ppg) and also ranks seventh in rebounding (8.3 rpg) and assists (3.3 apg).
"I think it's quite an accomplishment for him, for sitting out all last year and making third team," added Eustachy of Avila's third-team recognition. "That makes him one of the top 15 players in the league. The great thing is they (Avila and Bejarano) are both back (next year)."
Avila reached double-figures scoring in 14 of 16 league games, including four 20-point contests against MW foes, and also eclipsed the 30-point plateau twice during non-conference play. He posted four games in league play with 10 or more rebounds, including a monster effort that included 13 points and 17 boards in the Rams' 76-57 victory over Fresno State on Jan. 11.
Bejarano and Avila lead the Rams into the 2014 Reese's Mountain West Championships this week at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. The ninth-seeded Rams face No. 8 Utah State in the opening round, looking to move closer to the league's tournament title and secure a third-consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament and a fifth-straight postseason berth overall.
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Everyone knows you have to fight your way up the ranks to get to the bigger cards and the bigger promotions. The thought never crossed my mind that there was an all female MMA circuit. The next Cyborg or Ronda Rousey doesnt just fall into Strikeforce or the UFC with a 6-0 record and ready to throw. There are a number of quality women fighters out there and obviously they had to come from somewhere. That somewhere turns out to be places like Invicta Fighting Championships. On Saturday January 5th, InvictaFC held their fourth pay per view event of their short existence. Invicta aired their prelims on Facebook, similar to UFC, and partnered with Ustream to televise the event. Troubles with using the paypal feature, quality of feeds, and other negative factors resulted in Invicta offering a full refund to those who paid for the PPV event. Where they struggled with broadcasting, Invicta excelled in promotion, fights and an overall quality product. The show Invicta put on was well done. They had taped interview packages of the fighters that seemed to run long to fill time between fights. In one of these segments, Leslie Smith had a quote that still lingers: "I just want to hurt something (on Raquel Pennington) that takes a long time to heal". Besides a complaint about length of interviews, the show moved into the cage where the real fireworks happened. Carla Esparza won the first ever Strawweight Championship Fight against Bec Hyatt. The Australian born Hyatt stepped in at the last moment, after an injury sidelined Claudia Gadelha, to save the main event for Invicta FC 4. Gadelha was injured during camp and suffered a broken nose while training. Hyatt did well as a last minute replacement, even posting "I'm sorry. I'll be back" to her facebook page. Esparza proved to be too much with a dominating ground game and took the title to become the first ever Strawweight Champion in Invicta. Carla Esparza, arms raised, as she becomes first Strawweight Champion (photo via invictafc.com) The fight of the night went to Alexis Davis against Shayna Baszler. This was a rematch from Freestyle Cage Fighting event in 2010 where Baszler defeated Davis. Davis showcased a strong striking ability and showed a ground game that would be tough to defend against. Baszler did steal the second round on many scorecards, so it was anyone's fight heading into the final round. Davis removed any doubt with a rear naked choke for the submission victory. Alexis Davis celebrates her submission victory over Shayna Baszler at Invicta FC4(photo via invictafc.com) Hailed as a knockout artist, Leslie Smith showed off some heavy hands and crisp combo strikes as she defeated Raquel Pennington. Smith was very technical and proficient with her striking. Pennington was unable to do much damage or get the fight to the ground. Smith controlled the pace and followed her around the cage. The fights provided a good show and the commentary was a welcome compliment to the action. Bas Rutten, former UFC fighter and current co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV, carried the color commentary and part of the play by play. Rutten is very knowledgeable but also does a great job connecting with the audience in explanations and personality. Julie Kedzie was the main play by play commentator, and "King Mo" Lawal provided an added bit of color to compliment Rutten. Had Invicta FC 4 not had so many troubles with paypal and Ustream, I might not have been lucky enough to watch. Their troubles indirectly lead to more viewers, and having more eyes on a product is never a bad thing. It was a great night of fights. Invicta Fighting Championships put on a great show and provided hours of quality entertainment, while showcasing some up and coming talent in the female divisions of the sport. I'll be sure to tune in for Invicta FC 5. Fight Poster (via invictafc.com) Full fight card results Main Card: Carla Esparza Defeats Bec Hyatt, unanimous decision, Strawweight Championship Alexis Davis Defeats Shayna Baszler, technical submission (rear naked choke) Leslie Smith Defeats Raquel Pennington, unanimous decision Sarah D'Alelio Defeats Amanda Nunes, unanimous decision Ediane Gomes Defeats Hiroko Yamanaka, unanimous decision Joanne Calderwood Defeats Livia von Plettenberg, unanimous decision Preliminaries: Cassie Rodish Defeats Stephanie Frausto, TKO (strikes) Tamikka Brents Defeats Amanda Bell, unanimous decision Jodie Esquibel Defeats Liz McCarthy, split decision Rose Namajunas Defeats Emily Kagan, submission (rear naked choke) Tecia Torres Defeats Paige Van Zant, unanimous decision Veronica Rothenhausler Defeats Katalina Malungahu, KO (punch) Laura Marcusse-Sanko Defeats Cassie Robb, submission (rear naked choke) This has been read 5 times
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We, with our background in attacks/offense, who have taken on the mission
to defend, have embedded ourselves inside these corporations for years to
essentially "backdoor" more meaningful security improvements into them.
Over these years, we have been buffeted from both sides by our
offense-oriented brethren and by the often conservative organizations who
pay our salaries, as we raged against the corporate machine.
This year, as the content chair of BlueHat, I took a risk by inviting open
conversation about the fact that trust itself is under attack. For the
technology giants to survive and remain as strong as they have
traditionally been, they must unite against those who undermine that trust.
This is why I was able to invite an engineer from a competitor mega
corporation to close the conference with a talk about designing products
and services that are resistant to abuse and surveillance.
Corporations may be powerful now, but that power is dependent upon people
being willing to buy or use the products and services they build. No green
can grow out of rocky terrain when the soil of trust has been eroded.
To me, with my chosen mission of defense, the adversary is not important.
Those of us embedded in these companies use our influence as individuals to
turn the giant ships, sometimes setting course straight for the eye of the
I've been Leia for a long time, devising strategies that turn the ship on
which I sail towards thwarting common adversaries, calling upon my
collective Obi Wan Kenobi's to band together for defense. Here is a blog I
wrote back in 2008, when life seemed simpler (but we all knew it wasn't as
simple as it appeared):
And here is the blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago, where the last two
paragraphs discuss engaging across borders, across company lines, to help
defend the users, no matter the adversary:
While I cannot predict what will happen in 2014 or beyond, if we set our
united course to meet the adversaries, whomever they may be, we can only be
struck down temporarily - before we rise up more powerful than you can
possibly imagine.
The Force is strong in all of you, friend and foe - many of you are both.
Those who know me know my profound respect for both sides of The Force.
So Merry Christmas, crank up that rebel music: http://youtu.be/yv9XZI3zwF4. And
Happy New Year, May The Force be with you all.
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Subject: Re: [Dailydave] 2013 - A New Hope
I think you just highlighted the catalyst for a truly Gibson-esque future
where the power of corporations greatly supersedes governments. When
corporations are forced to turn their resources and innovation towards
defending against governments, their agility and cross-border capability
will play to their advantage. Taxation is an example on the finance side.
We will see how it plays out on the information side.
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2013 - A New Hope
So I hesitate to make predictions, but I think it's important to at some
level acknowledge that 2013 was a huge year for information security. A few
things happened... :
o The rebirth of managed security services.
When you don't care about bringing hackers to court, but you DO care about
the security of your IP, you start to evolve a very different fabric on
your network and you need a completely different specialist set of skills.
Managed Security Services used to be the haven of total technical
wash-outs, with IDS monkeys watching screens for alerts nobody cared about.
This has changed, and I think the watershed moment was February 2013, with
Mandiant releasing their APT1
We are moving to a much more highly skilled, and expensive, version of
managed security services, with Mandiant, Crowdstrike, Terremark, and
others all competing with similar technologies and methodologies and price
points. This is the pendulum swinging away from offense a bit more,
assuming people can afford these services (which is not at all a given).
o The Snowden Event
Look, there's very little in the "revelations" Snowden has talked about
that wasn't already highly visible to industry insiders: What can be done,
is being done. And everyone who says Cyber is a asymmetric warfare should
be eating their words now, since you cannot believe the US Intel Community
has succeeded to the level they have in this space and think it was a game
for small players anymore. My USENIX talk from 2011<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ULFP4CgQU>pointed out much of
what has come out. The most obvious angle on the story
is the growing push-back from corporations. Google building certificate
pinning into Chrome by default hurts not just Iran, but also all the allied
governments Google calls home, who are just as happy about how the global
PKI system SSL depends on bends to their whims. The corporations have been
taking huge unbalanced risks on behalf of their governments, and these
chickens are coming home to roost. Or, to be more specific, vultures, as Huawei
being thrown out of the largest market for IT gear in the world. But
it's exactly that horrifying prospect that scares Facebook and Google and
every other big US IT company into taking a hard line with the USG, and no
doubt, with one eye on Cisco's revenue sheet
To quote from today's Washington Post
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith took to his company's blog and called
the NSA an "advanced persistent
— the worst of all fighting words in U.S. cybersecurity circles, generally
reserved for Chinese state-sponsored hackers and sophisticated criminal
What should scare administration officials is that when you talk to big
financials in NY, they feel the exact same way. In my discussions, they are
now MORE invested in securing themselves against the US Government than the
Chinese government!
It is safe to say these battle lines have yet to be completely redrawn,
and when they do the Chinese and US governments will be on the same side,
with Chinese and US corporations allied against them.
And we will then officially exit the "Golden age of SIGINT" and enter the
scrappy Bronze Age of Targeted Access.
o The rise of Bitcoin
The financials (and business in general) are extremely excited about the
useful shared delusion that is Bitcoin. Nobody knows how this pans out, but
it doesn't necessarily pan out well for groups whose root of power is
controlling the flow of
o The cementing of Leaks as cyberweapons
Every reporter I talk to now who is starting a new venture has a
foundational element of "some place people can send me leaked documents".
The concept of leaking things into the public eye as a cyber-weapon has
gone from "Assange is a crazy loon" to "This is how things get done" in a
fairly rapid space. It's easy to forget that the whole reason he started
WikiLeaks was that he believed that you could forever change how government
works by draining the ocean of secrecy they live in (and of course, to get
babes). The Russian and Chinese and Iranians and so forth are snarkily
reveling in how the USG is painfully handling the leaks, but of course,
their turn is coming, and they are far more vulnerable.
So to sum up, 2013 was a year governments (and in particular the USG)
found their influence sharply contracting, with budget cuts, shutdowns, and
philosophical pressure on all sides. I, with the rest of the hacker
community, look forward to 2014, when the empire can strike back.
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Today's Streak for the Cash board is well-stocked with a Saturday stacked with picks starting from 10:00 this morning and going allt he way through an 11:02 tip-off in the Pac-12. There's plenty of college and NBA basketball joining a pair of NFL games on today's slate and the BBVA Compass Bowl from the College Football Bowl season.
Yesterday was a solid day personally yesterday as I got four in a row sticking with my most confident picks. Here's the picks I like the most on today's board:
Streak Picks for 1/5
10:00- Crystal Palace Win or Draw: Palace hosts Stoke in this FA Cup match. Stoke City is 10th in the EPL while Crystal Palace sits third in the Championship which is the second-tier of English soccer. Stoke is playing well, but are primarily a defensive team and are just 1-6-4 away from home this season in the EPL. With Crystal Palace at home getting the draw, I think they're the pick if you're looking to go green early this Saturday. Confidence Meter: 4 (out of 10)
1:05- Ole Miss Rebels: The Rebs and the Pittsburgh Panthers find themselves in the BBVA Compass Bowl after 6-6 seasons. The game's in Birmingham, Alabama so there should be plenty of Rebel supporters that make the trip. Coach Hugh Freeze has turned the Ole Miss program around in his first year taking them from 2-10 last year to 6-6 this year with a 3-5 record in the SEC. Pitt lost last year's Compass Bowl to SMU and started this year with losses to Youngstown State and Cincinnati. They pushed Notre Dame to triple overtime in a game they could and should have won and finished the year with nice wins over Rutgers and at South Florida to become bowl eligible. The Panthers finish to the year has nothing on Ole Miss though who won against Mississippi State in their rivalry game 41-24 to close out the season. They played close games this year against Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, and LSU. Overall, I expect the Rebs to be more motivated and ready to represent the SEC well against the Big East. Confidence Meter: 5
1:07- Sam Houston State: Sam Houston State isn't ranked but is on quite a roll as they look to avenge their loss from last season's FCS Championship game. North Dakota State won 17-6 last year in a defensive struggle with 14 unanswered points in the second half. This year their defense hasn't been as solid but they can throw the ball more effectively. Sam Houston State has put up points at their usually alarming rate, but has won low-scoring games as well. I think they'll learn from last year's defeat and get the FCS championship over the Bison from North Dakota. Confidence Meter: 4
1:30- Kansas State Wildcats: K-State opens its big 12 schedule with Oklahoma State in a matchup of ranked opponents. The Wildcats are 8-0 at home as they host the Cowboys with their lonly losses coming against then-#4 Michigan and then-#14 Gonzaga on neutral courts. The Wildcats best win also came on a neutral court on December 22 as they knocked of Florida. Oklahoma also has an early-season signature win after knocking of then-#5 NC State but lost the Gonzaga on their home floor by one in their last game. OSU also lost their only true road game as they fell at Virginia Tech by 10 on December 1. It's a good matchup ans should be a goog game, but take the home team and go with Kansas State in Manhattan. Confidence Meter: 6
2:00- Marquette Golden Eagles: The #10 ranked Georgetown Hoyas are actually the underdog as they open their Big East schedule at Marquette. The Golden Eagles opened Big East play with a win over Connecticut in overtime in part due to a 24 foot heave at the buzzer to force overtime. Georgetown has won seven in a row but hasn't played in two weeks and could come out a bit rusty in their first true road game of the season. Marquette has won 17 in a row at home and beat the Hoyas in four of their last five meetings. Don't go solely on rankings, go with Marquette at home. Confidence Meter: 4
2:02- Baylor wins by Double Digits: The Texas Longhorns travel to Baylor where the Bears will be looking to bounce back after losing at Gonzaga by seven in their last game snapping a four-game winning streak. Texas comes in just 8-5, but they have been playing better winning three of four including a nice win over then-#23 North Carolina. That win was in Austin though, and Texas is 0-2 in true road games and three of their five losses have come by double-digits. Texas is a defensively minded team which usually wins games with scores in the 50's and 60's and will have a hard time keeping up if Baylor scored like they can ranking 35th in the country averaging 77.8 points per game. Confidence Meter: 5
4:02- NC State wins by Double Digits: The Wolfpack are 11th in the nation in scoring and lead the country in FG%. They've won five of their last six by double-digits and have put up 80 or more in each of those six games. BC is young and has already lost games by double-digits to Baylord, Dayton, and Harvard. The Eagles won't be able to keep up with the Wolfpack's pace. Confidence Meter: 7
4:40- Cincinnati Bengals: In my preview I posted yesterday (click here for full post) I picked the Bengals to pull the upset. Confidence Meter: 3
4:41- A.J. Green: The Texans try to establish the run early in games leaving Johnson without a ton or yards in the first half many times. The Bengals secondary is significantly better than Houston's and the quarterbacks are pretty even. Confidence Meter: 6
7:00- Boston Celtics: Boston got back in the win column last night with a much better defensive performance in a home win over Indiana. Tonight they head to Altanta to take on the Hawks who also played last night losing by a point in Detroit. Josh Smith is banged up and Atlanta is struggling to find contributors especially coming off the bench. The C's have taken four of six from Atlanta. Confidence Meter: 4
8:10- Packers win by Double Digits: I'll have the full analysis posted soon but the short version is that Green Bay has too many offensive weapons and Minnesota has Christian Ponder. Confidence Meter: 5
9:30- Washington State: The Cougars host the Huskies in their Pac-12 rivalry game tonight. They're four-point favorites at home and have won four in a row. Washington lost at UCONN their last time out at the start of a tough four game road swing. Wazzu's only home lost came to then-#10 Gonzaga and only by two. Confidence Meter: 6
11:02- USC: Cal meets USC in this Pac-12 late game looking to bounce back from their loss to UCLA on Wednesday. USC also played on Wednesday getting a win in their conference opener over Stanford. USC isn't very good, but at home against the Golden Bears who have dropped five of seven after a good start I'll take them to stay upbeaten in the Pac-12. In a matchup this even, I'd stay away if I had much of a streak though. Confidence Meter: 3
January Results
Yesterday's picks (click here to review): 5-4
Overall Record: 17-13
Confident Picks (5+): 9-2
Longest Personal Streak: W4
Current Personal Streak: W4
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Say what you want to say as John Mayer would say but rookie camps don't give much insight into what rookies will do, or can do. For one, they are out there competing with other rookies, practice squad players, and Cameron Wake…an "NFL rookie"…and two, they ain't wearing pads and hitting anyone. Oh, it's fun to talk about, mainly because right now, there is little to talk about. So when you open up the morning edition of local papers you will read what great speed and agility this guy has and how this guy couldn't stay onsides with no noise surrounding him. It's not useless journalism it's simply all there is.
"I just want to see them moving around, changing directions … see the things athleticly that make you feel like you bought with the drafted guys and the other guys," Sparano said.
Yes, these are those kind of days. Take Pat White for instance. He had a jammed finger and couldn't take snaps from the center. A jammed finger. Let me say this again. A jammed finger. Not a broken finger, a jammed one. You know those. The one where your friend walks up and says, "let me see it". Then grabbing it and pulling it hard towards him, seems to "un-jam" it. O.k. so really I'm not picking on White, he hasn't signed a contract yet so why risk anything. From the Dolphins side as well.
He did however throw two interceptions one of which went to first round pick Vontae' Davis. He also threw a very nice pass to Anthony Armstrong (a practice squad player) according to the Miami Heralds' Armando Salguero.
Salguero also points out that LB Cameron Wake looked very sharp and said, "Wake is just a strong-looking dude who obviously has as much as five years on a lot of the youngsters on the field."
Speaking of Cameron Wake, it appears that he is the one the Dolphins are paying the most attention to in terms of Jason Taylor's future. When the words "Progress stopper" is used, they may mean him. The Phins, according to a report will be watching Wake to see if they need to invest in Taylor. Personally, why would you not want Wake learning from JT? Rotate them and see opposing offenses cringe.
With two practices today, the Dolphins will begin at 10:00 AM and then finish with an afternoon of work as well. Yesterday, again according to Salguero because I haven't heard it myself, Tony Sparano made a comment regarding the rooks ability to learn the playbook stating "if they don't have it down yet they better study because they aren't waiting for anyone." Apparently they will be adding more today.
In what I find more interesting that the bomb that White threw or the two gloves that he wears, or the Jason Taylor watch, or anything else was a small blurb at the bottom of Ethan Skolnick's article in the Sun-Sentinel that the Dolphins have had some discussion on whether they will bench one of their QB's during games, making them inactive.
Sparano acknowledged that the Dolphins had talked about the "third quarterback" dilemma before the draft. Iblogged on this on draft day. Sparano said that White would be the second quarterback in that scenario, but that the situation would be fluid, and needed to be further considered. The question is whether to activate Chad Henne as the third guy, or to make him the "third quarterback." There are advantages and disadvantages to both. If Henne is inactive, and he enters before the fourth quarter, then Chad Pennington and White wouldn't be allowed to play anymore. If Henne is active, that means that the Dolphins would need to deactive another player, to get to eight. And that guy might be valuable on special teams.
This to me is important because as the Phins talk about "progress stoppers" when referring to Jason Taylor, keeping Chad Henne inactive in favor of Pat White means Henne isn't progressing. Should make for an interesting training camp this year.
And so the rookie camp will continue. Offering glimpses of speed, hip movement, and false starts. Cramming playbooks and south Florida heat. While they don't offer much into whether a player will develop into a solid contributor, at least they will get a glimpse of the hell they have in store for them…good luck!
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In the world of sports, there's not much more painful than watching a one time star fade into obscurity because they played too long.
That's exactly what happened to seven time NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady, who announced his retirement from the NBA this morning.
Per ESPN First Take:
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@Real_T_Mac has retired from the NBA.
McGrady, who entered the NBA out of high school struggled for minutes during his first two seasons in the league which were with the Toronto Raptors, but quickly emerged as a star soon after he was traded to the Orlando Magic.
In his debut season with Orlando, T-Mac posted an impressive 26.8 points per game which grew to an even more jaw dropping 32 points per game in 2002-2003 with the Magic.
A few seasons later though injuries began to hamper the Florida native where he floundered around both the NBA and China in his final few seasons.
Now just months removed from turning 34, McGrady has decided to hang up the sneakers for good.
He ends his fifteen year career with an average of 19.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.2 steals and nearly a block per game.


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Though we've been having a bit of good-natured fun at Apple's expense as of late, we legitimately think that they put out a lot of nice products. It goes without saying that the iPhone has been a major player in the smartphone industry, with a high adoption rate and almost universal praise. However, they might soon have some legitimate concerns to tend to. In addition to recent news indicating that the market share of Google's Android OS had surpassed that of Apple's iOS, they now have to contend with the announcement that Sony is planning to bring its PlayStation to Android 3.0. While we wouldn't go so far as to say that this is, in any way, indicative of an impending death knell for the iPhone, it's still a concern that Apple would do well to immediately address. The rise of smartphones has led to a subsequent increase in the number of users who actively partake in mobile gaming, which has since become a multi-billion dollar industry. Indeed, even Apple's own App Store boasts of thousands of games in its library, indicating that there's a very real market for it.
Sony, of course, has a long established reputation has a heavyweight in the gaming world. Since the inception of the company's original PlayStation in the mid 90s, to the current success of the PlayStation 3, they've repeatedly shown that they're more than capable of putting together the right combination of hardware and software to make for an engaging and immersive gaming experience. Additionally, choosing to adopt Android rather than using a proprietary mobile operating system could prove to be an especially savvy move. By using Android OS, Sony is integrating itself into what is quickly becoming one of the largest phone platforms worldwide, meaning they don't have to build a market for their games and service from scratch.
However, this could also easily prove to be a moot point. Other companies, most notably Nokia with its N-Gage, have tried and failed to successfully integrate mobile phones and gaming. Still, Nokia's handset may have been doomed from the start only because of their lack of experience building gaming hardware. The combined expertise of Sony and Google could prove to be exactly what many techies have been waiting for.


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The Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores at Benton Harbor is now less than a month away.
Major names like Tom Watson, Fred Couples, Colin Montgomerie and 2012 champion Roger Chapman highlight the field for the tournament, which begins play May 22nd and runs through May 25th.
Watson did not play two years ago due to a wrist injury but is no stranger to the course--having opened Harbor Shores four years ago in a golf outing with course designer Jack Nicklaus and fellow legends Arnold Palmer & Johnny Miller.
Defending Senior PGA Champion Kohki Idoki of Japan will also be in the star studded field. Idoki was at Harbor Shores on Thursday for Media Day and took part in quite the spectacle.
Idoki hit golf shots off the rooftop of the new Inn at Harbor Shores onto a makeshift green. In took several shots to hit his mark, but he finally did.
"It was a great setup but since I'm afraid of heights, it was hard for me to hit from here," Idoki joked through a translator.
Despite his limited English, Idoki was quite the showman and put on an entertaining performance.
"We had a blast with him--he's so engaging," said Pete Bevacqua, the CEO of PGA of America. "He has so much positive energy and I think he was really happy to be here today."
Bevacqua is a Notre Dame graduate and is excited for the Senior PGA Championship to be in Benton Harbor for the 2nd time in three years.
"I know the area has gone through some hard times but to see how its being revitalized and to see the role Kitchen Aid and Whirlpool has made to bring this event here in 2012, this year, and then again in 2016 and 2018, it really allows us to build a bond with the community," Bevacqua said.
And despite all the bad weather in Michiana over the winter, the course itself is already in great shape. General Manager Ross Smith credits course Superintendent Brad Fry for ensuring the course did not have ice damage like many courses in the Midwest.
"He did a lot of preparation last fall to get ready for this," Smith said of Fry. "We're really amazed at the condition of the golf course right now and it's only going to get better if we get some heat in the next 30 days."
Tournament officials say they will build on the success of the 2012 championship to make this year's event even better for fans.
"I'm really excited," Championship Director Jeff Hintz explains. "To welcome these players back to this community. It's so unique. We're ecstatic and people have really embraced this championship."
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It doesn't matter if you start a room with some nearby cubicle mates or with friends scattered across the globe: what you begin to realize — almost instantly — is that taking turns playing music with friends is a kind of communication. One song leads to another. Music, enjoyable in and of itself, becomes a sort of shorthand when played among people who have shared memories attached to it. Someone plays a song that was popular when you were college, then another friend plays another song from that same period and — just like that — you've traveled back in time. It's like you're all sharing in the same inside joke.
What Sam Grobart at the Times is getting at is entirely true. It's a shame the two music listening services launched around the same time, because while Spotify had the benefit of international hype, Turntable.fm is a revolutionary tool.


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