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Thanks again to J.Sharp for passing this along:

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The following is a list of current entries at the 2010 Tournament of Champions.  It reflects both fully qualified participants as well as those individuals or teams whose applications for At-Large entry have already been accepted.  It is current as of 14 April 2010.

Please Note: This list is for informational purposes, verification and preparation, only.  Regardless of anything you see on this (or any other) list, ALL entries must be processed and verified by Linda Barker, the TOC Registration Coordinator.  She has nothing to do with this list.  If you believe yourself to be entered, but do not appear on this list, please contact me to discuss: Hello.Houseplant [at] gmail.com or 859.257.6523.  If you appear on this list, but do not believe yourself to be participating in the 2010 TOC, please contact me as soon as possible.

Best of luck to all.  See you in Lexington in May.

- The Mgt.

POLICY [70 teams]

Ashland – Tim Borgerson & Zach Markovich

Beacon – Damiyr Davis & Miguel Feliciano

Blake – Tom Madsen & David Kang

Bronx Science – Andrew Markoff & Zack Elias

Brophy Prep – Zane Waxman & Michael Maerowitz

Carrollton Sacred Heart – Anna Dimitrijevic & Helen Gomez

Cedar Rapids Washington – Sharon Kann & Tracey Cook

Chattahoochee – Kaavya Ramesh & Megan Cambre

Chattahoochee – Jeff Zhang & Matt Rosenthal

Chattahoochee – Sean Robinson & Adam Kostrinsky

Chattahoochee – Kaitlyn Walker & Cara Venezia

Chattahoochee – Maggie Davis & Mustafa Inamullah

College Prep (CA) – Vinay Pai & Tatsuro Yamamura

College Prep (CA) – Chloe Coughlin-Schulte & Justin Mardjuki

College Prep (CA) – Carlos Penikis & Jordan Trafton

Coppell – Joey Donaghy & Priyanka Krishnamurthy

Dallas Jesuit – Sullivan McCormick & Carson Young

Dallas Jesuit – Joel Diamond & Ryan Gorman

Damien – Reid Ehrlich-Quinn & Pablo Gannon

Damien – Nadeem Farooqi & Alex Velto

Damien – Eric Berggren & Richard Mancuso

Eden Prairie – Brett Beutell & Tanay Mehta

Edgemont – Ben Chang & Nikhil Jayawickrama

Edina – Trevor Aufderheide & Nick Khatri

Georgetown Day – Becca Rothfeld & Isaac Stanley-Becker

Glenbrook North – Flynn Makuch & Alex Pappas

Glenbrook North – Vinay Sridharan & Alexis Shklar

Glenbrook South – Richard Day & Will Thibeau

Glenbrook South – Jacob Kanarek & Jacob Saltzman

Grapevine – Jacob Quinn & Amy Schade

Greenhill – Kush Patel & Arnav Kerjiwal

Gulliver Prep – Jorge Toledo & Greg Adler

Harker – Adam Perelman & Arjun Mody

Harker – Akum Gill & Ashish Mittal

Head Royce – Alex Werner & Takumi Murayama

Homewood Flossmoor – Donald Grasse & Astead Herndon

James Logan – Patrick Berger & Justin Chan

Kinkaid – Layne Kirshon & Nikhil Bontha

Kinkaid – Robert Baldwin & Vivek Datla

Lexington (MA) – Arjun Vellayappan & Tyler Engler

Lexington (MA) – Michael Suo & Jack Caporal

Loyola Blakefield – Patrick McCleary & Tom Pacheco

McDonogh – Patrik Butler & Alex Resar

Meadows – Jesslyn Mitchell & Spenser Sibley

Mercer Island – Sean Ghods & Stephanie Permut

Montgomery Bell Academy – Campbell Haynes & Hershel Mehta

Mountain Brook – Kevin Jiang & Lee Quinn

New Trier – Dylan Carpenter & Ira Slomski-Pritz

Notre Dame (CA) – Jake DeFilippis & Morgan Titcher

Oak Park River Forest – James Hanley & John Hazinski

Pembroke Hill – Thomas Hodgman & Peter Vale

Pembroke Hill – Brad Bolman & Lewis Sharp

Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s – Andrew Arsht & Mario Feola

Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s – Joshua Friedman & Aria Thaker

Saint George’s – Joe LeDuc & Jordon Newton

Saint Paul Central – Laura Johnson & Steve Quam

Saint Francis (CA) – Katrina Kaiser & Chander Ramesh

Saint Francis (CA) – Ish Arora & Sanjana Parikh

St. Mark’s (TX) – Rishee Batra & Alex Miles

Stratford – Richard Min & John Ryan Fehr

University School of Nashville – Bamm Bamm Ball & Emma LaBounty

Wayzata – Krishnan Ramanujan & Dru Svoboda

Westlake (TX) – John Baker & David Mullins

Westminster – Ellis Allen & Daniel Taylor

Westminster – Ayush Dayal & Julia Marshall

Westminster – Drew Cutshaw & Will Morgan

Westwood (TX) – Nishu Mehta & Rekha Tenjarla

Westwood (TX) – Balam Budwal & Christina Qiu

Whitney Young – Kevin Hirn & Misael Gonzalez

Woodward – Matthew Pesce & Max Plithides

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS [80 Debaters]

Altamont – Sasha Arijanto

Altamont – Shawn Tuteja

Anderson – Max McCready

Bainbridge – Jimmy Mooney

Bainbridge – Brendan Silk

Bainbridge – Alex Barker

Battle Ground Academy – Garrett Jackson

Berkeley Carroll – Dylan Scher

Blake – Erik Legried

Bodine – Jalon Alexander

Brentwood – Cory Wynn

Bronx Science – Matt Ross

Bronx Science – Carolyn Clendenin

Bronx Science – Bobby Esnard

College Prep (CA) – Alexandra Kennedy

Crowley – Daniel Lumpee

Glenbrook North – Pat Donovan

Greenhill – Tanya Thanawalla

Harvard-Westlake – Jake Sonnenberg

Harvard-Westlake – Benjamin Sprung-Keyser

Hockaday – Julia Enthoven

Hunter College HS – Isabel Patkowski

Indian Springs – Jeffrey Liu

Indian Springs – Lawrence Liu

Iowa City West – Graham Tierney

Iowa City West – Kui Tang

LaSalle – Sean Janda

Lone Peak – Oliver Gappmayer

Loyola-Los Angeles – Andrew Blay

Loyola-Los Angeles – Andrew Seber

Meadows – Jordan Lamothe

Meadows – Nate Socolof

Meadows – Ryan Fink

Mercer Island – Steven Adler

Miami Palmetto – Zhou Fang

Milburn – Michael Hassin

Monticello – Daniel Cook

Mountain Brook – Elizabeth Ernstberger

Needham – Kaushik Vasudevan

New Orleans Jesuit – Nick Falba

New Orleans Jesuit – Jacob Pritt

Niskayuna – Archith Murali

Northland Christian – Josh Roberts

Northland Christian – Jared Woods

Palo Alto – Nikhil Bhargava

Palo Alto – Avi Arfin

Perkiomen Valley – Karlyn Gorski

Ridge – Susanna Vogel

Ridge – Varun Jayaraman

Scarsdale – Eric Thurm

Scarsdale – Jonathon Bowyer

Southlake Carroll – Patrick Graham

Southlake Carroll – Cathy Creighton

St. Louis Park (MN) – Catherine Tarsney

Staley – Nick Gorman

Strake Jesuit – Nick Lassus

Strake Jesuit – Alejandro Esquino

Torrey Pines – Ilya Gaitarov

Torrey Pines – Colin Scott

Torrey Pines – Naveen Krishnamurthi

University School (FL) – Michael Fried

University School (FL) – Joshua Tupler

Valley (IA) – Ross Brown

Valley (IA) – Matt Kawahara

Valley (IA) – Anna Lyons

Vestavia Hills – Kevin Sipe

Walt Whitman – Ben Lewis

Walt Whitman – Jane Kessner

Walt Whitman – Emily Massey

Walt Whitman – Caroline Sherrard

Walt Whitman – Perry Green

Walt Whitman – Stefanie Rohde

Walt Whitman – Daniel Imas

Walt Whitman – Stephanie Franklin

Walt Whitman – Marshall Thompson

Walt Whitman – Alex Zimmerman

Westlake (TX) – James Monaco

Whippany Park – Ben Yu

William Allen (PA) – Charles Chy

Winston Churchill – Claire Daviss

PUBLIC FORUM [68 Teams]

American Heritage – Alvaro Cuba & Matthias Ng

Bellaire – Erik Nelson & Rohini Sigireddi

Bettendorf – Leighton Huch & Honda Wang

Blake – Sarah Watson & Taylor Briggs

Blake – Michael Graham & Mik Kaminski

Bronx Science – Thomas Lloyd & Katie Wong

Brophy Prep – Scott Franz & Nick Petsas

Chaparral – Steffani Jones & Yassamin Ansari

Cypress Bay – Chad Klitzman & Matthew Shatanof

Cypress Bay – Evan Schlossman & Daniel Levinson

Dalton – Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen & Jake Davidson

Dalton – Oliver Simon & Ryan Sit

Eagan – Iaan Reynolds & Rachel Markon

Ft. Lauderdale – Matt Gold & Czar Bernstein

Gabrielino – Patrick Wu & Jordan Chan

George Washington (CO) – Brendan Patrick & Gabe Rusk

Harker – Kelsey  Hilbrich & Frederic Enea

Harker – Justine Liu & Akshay Jagadeesh

Harker – Ziad Jawadi & Aakash Jagadeesh

Harker – Appu Bhaskar & Benjamin Chen

Harker – Rohan Bopardikar & Daryl Neubieser

Harker – Kristi Lui & Ishan Taneja

Hunter College HS – Cara Eckholm & Toader Mateoc

James Madison – Lingran Kong & Valerie Shen

Lake Highland Prep – Will Miller & Danny Welch

Lake Highland Prep – Hal Shimkoski & Shannen Bazzi

Leland – Adil Majid & Mihir Bhaskar

Leland – Ashwath Chennapan & Julian Crown

Lexington (MA) – Kelly Miao & Mark Chonofsky

Lexington (MA) – Brendan Schneiderman & Samantha Segall

Liberty – Alexis Elliott & Matt Orr

Lincoln East – Kyle Carlson & Alex Scheideler

Lincoln Southwest – Kaitlyn Steinacher & Charles Chen

Lynbrook – Carl Shan & Parget Singh

Lynbrook – Priyanka Athavale & Meera Suresh

Lynbrook – Alan Kao & Caroline Tan

Manchester Essex – Jack Kelly & Matt Hoyle

Mercer Island – Zach Gordy & Aaron Poor

Millard West – Mina Davis & James Wilson

Mira Loma – Vrinda Agarwal & Justin Lin

Mira Loma – Kedar Kulkarni & Arushi Saxena

Mira Loma – Aninda Chowdhury & Patrick Chao

Needham – Robert Hurd & Aseem Mehta

New Trier – Joe Eichenbaum & David Walchak

Nova – Vanessa Rodriguez & Spencer Orlowski

Oak Grove (MS) – Will Bedwell & Steven Wild

Parkview (MO) – Devin Kelsey & Aaron Sowards

Ramsay – Jennifer Moore & Sydney Page

Ransom Everglades – Eyvana Bengochea & Garrett Criden

Regis – Mark Andriola & Joseph Eddy

Regis – Partick Cooney & John O’Brien

Regis – Chris Landry & Shane Mangin

Regis – Matt Haynes & Matt McNeirney

Regis – Brian Cronin & Shane Regan

Regis – Joe Cammarosano & Kyle Conlee

Ridge – Brian Moore & Tejus Pradeep

Saint Francis (CA) – Peter Nauka & Aakash Ghai

Saint Francis (CA) – Roxanna Haghighat & Zachary Hargis

Spain Park – Grant Sides & Sami Yousif

Spain Park – John Brinkerhoff & Park Wynn

Thomas Jefferson (VA) – Rebecca Friedman & Emily Yu

Timber Creek – Richard Stein & Esteban Cajigas

Valley (IA) – Molly Fallon & Sam Schulte

Valley (IA) – Gracie Brandsgard & Reid Brown

Walt Whitman – Sarah Houston & Rachel Umans

Walt Whitman – Max Barnhart & Jesse Freeman

Walt Whitman – Richard Scordato & Bruno Velloso

Walt Whitman – Aaron Schifrin & James Dionne

CONGRESS [80 Debaters]

A & M Consolidated – Kovid Amin

Adlai Stevenson – Evan Ribot

Adlai Stevenson – Michelle Layvant

American Heritage – Morgan Baskin

American Heritage – Hannah Esquenazi

American Heritage – William Vasquez

American Heritage – Travis Noddings

Anderson – Daniel Kane

Bellaire – Louise Lu

Blake – Susie Marshall

Brophy Prep – Andrew Berens

Brophy Prep – Konstantine Vrazhilov

Brophy Prep – Steven Ebensberger

Carlsbad – Jeremy Wertz

Chaminade Prep – Priya Rajan

Chaminade Prep – Amay Gupta

Desert Vista – Gregory Hietala

Desert Vista – Brittany Stanchik

Desert Vista – Brendan Porter

Durham Academy – Ethan Grant

Durham Academy – Indira Puri

Durham Academy – Alex Young

Esperanza – Emily Wells

Fordham Prep – Nick D’Angelo

Fort Dodge – Arthur Chou

Fullerton Union – Daniel Tuchler

Harker – Michael Tsai

Highland Park (IL) – Jacob Arber

Highland Park (IL) – Bryan Schatz

Highland Park (IL) – Dana Schwartz

Highland Park (IL) – Evelina Yarmit

John Hersey – Anjelica Tillander

John Hersey – Sarah Prostko

Lake Highland Prep – Paras Saxena

Lake Highland Prep – Jimmy Bagley

Lake Highland Prep – Dylan Bruschi

Little Rock Central – Siteng Ma

Los Altos – Mason Satterwhite

Loyola Academy (IL) – Christina Baworowsky

Magnificat – Emily Brincka

Menlo-Atherton – Greg Nisbet

Milton Academy (MA) – Martin Page

Monte Vista – Sebastian DeLuca

Monte Vista – Sam Stone

Mountain View – Rylan Schaeffer

Mountain View – Akshay Shrivastava

Nova – Anna Tsiotsias

Nova – Jacob Gilson

Nova – Cameron Pennant Isaacs

Nova – Max Wexler

Nova – Robert Hill

Nova – Jarik LaPorte

Nova – Thad McMullen

Pennsbury – Jonathan Fried

Pennsbury – James Montgomery

Plantation – Gregory Bernstein

Ridge – Alex Smyk

Ridge – Clare Yao

Ridge – George Philipose

Ridge – Shivam Patel

Ridge – Bardia Vaseghi

Ridge – Sam Schraer

Southlake Carroll – Arvind Venkataraman

Southlake Carroll – Scott McWilliams

Southlake Carroll – Paul Samuel

St. Joseph’s Prep – Charles Gress

St. Joseph’s Prep – Fred Deritis

St. Joseph’s Prep – Chris Cannataro

St. Thomas Aquinas (FL) – Frances Rodriguez

Stuyvesant – Joseph Puma

Trinity Prep – Andrew Block

Trinity Prep – Dhruv Ranadive

Walt Whitman – Mike Neubauer

Walt Whitman – Jessica Sheehan

Walt Whitman – Ross Slaughter

Walt Whitman – Amar Mukunda

Walt Whitman – Emma Furth

Western (FL) – Brian Lynn

Western (FL) – Kevin Bowie

West Springfield (VA) – Erik Bakke

Here’s what we’ve heard on speaker awards and elim results. We will post the packet as soon as we get it!

Congratulations to all who participated!

Double octofinals

1 Damien GE vs. 32 San Dieguito EG Manuel, Behrens, Lecavalier
16 New Trier Township SW vs. Los Alamos NM Maycock*, Alderete, Paredes
8 Coppell KD vs. 25 Lone Peak BO Greenstein, Shook, King
9 Brophy College Prep WM vs. 24 Damien BM Munksgaard, Tribble, Gaston*
4 Brophy College Prep MM vs. 29 Glenbrook South KS Fiori, Chen, Kosmach*
13 Damien VF vs. 20 College Prep PT Oddo, McCaffrey*, Singer
5 Meadows MS vs. 28 Notre Dame CG Harrigan, Burton, Sabransky
12 Saint Francis RK vs. 21 Glenbrook South CH Pipkin, Powell, Romeike*
2 Glenbrook North MP vs. 31 Juan Diego Catholic RS Crowe, Holmes, Allen
15 Gulliver Prep AS vs. 18 Rowland Hall-St. Mark FT Hines, Saez*, McClay
7 College Prep CM vs. 26 Lynbrook TU Clark, Grossman, Dn. Shackelford*
10 Harker PM vs. 23 Palo Alto LD Tallungan, Casey, Duran
3 Glenbrook North SS vs. 30 Nevada Union AM M. Shackelford, Cochran, Kelsey*
14 Law Magnet CS vs. Saint Francis AP Tang, Ewing*, Bettilyon
6 Ashland (OR) BM vs. 27 Fullerton Union GS Peterson, Bentley*, Dv. Shackelfor
11 Bingham RW vs. 22 Ashland (OR) TM Smelko, Hidalgo*, Del Curto

Octofinals

1 Damien GE (Neg) vs. 16 New Trier Township SW Manuel, Pipkin*, Tribble
8 Coppell KD (Neg) vs. 9 Brophy College Prep WM Greenstein, Tang, Maycock
29 Glenbrook South KS (Aff) vs. 20 College Prep PT Clark, Saez*, Hidalgo
5 Meadows MS (Neg) vs. 21 Glenbrook South CH Harrigan, Crowe, Bettilyon*
2 Glenbrook North MP (Aff) vs. 18 Rowland Hall-St. Mark FT Fiori, Smelko*, Chen
7 College Prep CM (Neg) vs. 10 Harker PM Shackelford, Tallungan, Lecavalier
30 Nevada Union AM (Aff) vs. 14 Law Magnet CS Peterson, Bentley*, Cochran
6 Ashland (OR) BM vs. 22 Ashland (OR) TM

Quarterfinals

1 Damien GE (Neg) vs. 9 Brophy College Prep WM Peterson, Saez*, Cochran
29 Glenbrook South KS vs. 5 Meadows MS (Aff) Smelko, Chen, Maycock
2 Glenbrook North MP vs. 7 College Prep CM (Neg) Alderete, Bentley*, Crowe
14 Law Magnet CS (Aff) vs. 6 Ashland (OR) BM Fiori, Tribble, Singer

Semis

Damien GE vs. Meadows MS Greenstein, Harrigan, Hines
College Prep CM vs. Law Magnet CS Cochran, Fiori, Saez

Finals

Damien (aff) vs. CPS

Damien Wins 2-1

Speaker Awards
15. Titcher, Notre Dame
14. Ades, Gulliver Prep
13. Gaffney, San Dieguito
12. Waxman, Brophy
11. Borgerson, Ashland
10. Shklar, Glenbrook North
9. Coughlin-Schulte, College Prep
8. Maerowitz, Brophy
7. Pappas, Glenbrook North
6. Sridharan, Glenbrook North
5. Ramesh, St. Francis
4. Slomski-Pritz, New Trier
3. Gannon, Damien
2. Ehrlich-Quinn, Damien
1. Makuch, Glenbrook North

Congrats to GBS, New Trier, and everyone else on a fantastic tournament!

We’re proud to say that GBS had the InfinitePrep Politics File all weekend!

FINALS
Gbs vs New Trier (GBS Wins 2-1)
SEMIS
GBS (aff) v Woodward
Carrollton (aff) v New Trier

QUARTERS
Woodward vs Bronx
GBS vs Rowland Hall
Damien Vs New Trier
Carrolton Vs Whitney Young
OCTAS
1. GBS vs Bish. G
8. Rowland Hall vs Kinkaid
4. Woodward vs McDonogh
5. Bronx vs Pembroke
2. Damien vs Brophy
7 New trier Vs St marks
3. Carrolton vs Notre Dame
6. Greenhill vs Whitney Young

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DOUBLE OCTAFINAL ROUND PAIRINGS

Bingham RW Advances without debating
Brophy College Prep MM Advances without debating
Brophy College Prep SiMi Advances without debating
Chandler Preparatory HM Advances without debating
Desert Vista CL Advances without debating
Fullerton Union GS Advances without debating
Juan Diego Catholic RS Advances without debating
La Costa Canyon LB Advances without debating
Lone Peak CC Advances without debating
Nevada Union AM Advances without debating
San Dieguito High Sch NN Advances without debating
South Eugene MM Advances without debating
West PC Advances without debating
West/Davis LT Advances without debating
Kent Denver MR vs. Phoenix Country Day GL Cradit, Ko, Brasch
Meadows WaWh vs. South Eugene EV Kulpa, Karras, Brimhall

OCTAFINAL ROUND RESULTS
bingham RW (Neg) defeated Meadows WaWh 3-0 Brasch, Ni Mardian, P Kelsey, Mi
Juan Diego Catholic RS (Neg) defeated Kent Denver MR 3-0 Gray, John Brimhall, Makridis,C
Lone Peak CC (Aff) defeated Nevada Union AM 2-1 *Kulpa, Da Romeike, K Mushtaq, R
West PC Advances Over West/Davis LT Newkirk, T Wong, Mike
La Costa Canyon LB (Neg) defeated South Eugene MM 2-1 Clark, Jos *Cradit, A Hwang, Mik
Fullerton Union gs (Aff) defeated San Dieguito High Sch NN 3-0 Bentley, J Karras, De Maerowitz,
Brophy College Prep SiMi (Aff) defeated Chandler Preparatory2-1 Goldberg, *Zahorcak, Sobek, Mic
Brophy College Prep MM (Aff) defeated Desert Vista CL 2-1 Kim, Bobby *Ko, Brian deBeus, Al

QUARTERFINAL ROUND PAIRINGS
Brophy College Prep MM vs. Bingham RW Bentley, J Newkirk, T Wong, Mich
Juan Diego Catholic RS vs. Brophy College Prep SiM Romeike, K Brasch, Ni Goldberg,
Lone Peak CC vs. Fullerton Union gs Clark, Jos Brimhall, Maerowitz,
West PC vs. La Costa Canyon LB Gray, John Mardian, P Ko, Brian

SEMIS

La Costa D. Brophy
Juan Diego d. Fullerton

Finals

3-2 LCC LB over Juan Diego.

Aff was critical disabilities.

Neg was states cplan.

Way to go La Costa and Juan Diego on the bid! Awesome stuff.

Congrats LCC on winning the tournament!!!

Looks like a giant foreign policy topic coming up next year! We know how busy you are prepping for your poverty debates, but we are excited for the upcoming topic.

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey.

What do you think? Comment on this thread!

Also download the topic paper to get a feel for what debates will look like next year.

THREAT OF SANCTIONS BOOSTS US LEADERSHIP AND DIPLOMATIC POWER

HADLEY 2009 – FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR

FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, CSIS REMARKS, 1-7

The third false choice is between hard power and soft power, or military force and diplomacy. The President understands that we do not have to choose between these tools. Instead, we must integrate all elements of national power – including diplomatic, economic, and military – to advance our interests. When properly employed, these tools can be mutually reinforcing. Hard power makes soft power more effective. And by maintaining the credible threat of military force and economic sanctions, we add weight to our diplomacy.

RESISTANCE TO NORMALIZING GLOBALISM WILL CAUSIVE LARGE SCALE NATIONAL CONFLICT ALONG XENOPHOBIC LINES

PETERSSON 2003 – ASSOCIATE PROF POLY SCI @ LUND U

COMBATING UNCERTAINTY COMBATING THE GLOBAL, IJPS, VOL 8 NO 1, AUTUMN/WINTER

Much current research tends to nurture the idea that the influence of nation states is overall on the wane, squeezed as they are between globalising influences and the concomitant greater assertiveness of local belongings. Ulrich Beck (2000: 14), for instance, argues that “globalization means one thing above all else: denationalisation”. Basically, I concur with this analysis, provided that it is designed to point out a discernible, long-term trend. However, what seems to be overlooked in much of the literature and above all in the general public debate, is that we may well be talking of processes that could take several decades to complete. In this sense, there seems to be a lack of awareness that the sandwiched position of the nation-state might in the interim give rise to rather violent recoils, as national identities seek to assert themselves and stave off perceived dangers. Jan Aart Scholte (2000: 160) is certainly one of those who displays recognition of the processes that might occur in this context: “[N]ations have remained buoyant and show little sign of disappearing”. What has happened, he concedes, is that the bond between state and nation has loosened up to a certain extent (Scholte, 2000: 164). The state has not “withered away” as predicted by Marxism in quite another context, but it has “withered somewhat” (Waters, 2001: 158).

In discussing the effects of this process, Ole Waever and Morten Kelstrup (1993: 69-70) some years ago sketched a scenario where the national states are on their way out, but where national identities struggle to defend themselves from local, transnational and global pressures. As they (1993: 69-70) pointed out, “[l]eft behind we find nations with less states, cultures with less shell”. This might add up to a situation where, for the first time in world history, national sentiments are widespread among sizable collectives of individuals, at the same time as there are dwindling numbers of territorial state frameworks to defend and promote them. Such a world would be volatile and unpredictable indeed, for we are here entering the realms of terra incognita.

Before we pass into this unknown domain, however, one might well envisage that promoters and defenders of the national rally to defend their cherished values against the perceived onslaught of globalism and its representatives. In Giddens’ (1999: 20-35) vocabulary, our times are fraught with risks of a never hitherto experienced magnitude and variety. Globalisation, being perceived as a cause as well as a symptom of many such risks, seems to have prompted nationalists all over the globe to take reactive measures. “The more that distance and borders have disintegrated, the more national differences have seemed precious”, maintains Scholte (2000: 164). The globalising world, he goes on to argue, “has left some people feeling torn and lost” (Scholte, 2000: 226). The consequences of such feelings of loss are well worth delving into.

Considerable attention has in recent years been awarded the so-called processes of glocalisation, whereby substantial effort has been spent analysing the global-local nexus (Robertson, 1992). My own preference is instead to study the somewhat neglected national-local nexus, where I assume national and local identity structures interact and reinforce each other. Together they combat the unknown, which one way or another is perceived as emanating from the global. I hold that there is a need to study these defensive mechanisms, as they might be expected to generate tensions and conflicts in the interaction between majority and minority groups. As Cris Shore (2000: 232) rightly admonishes, “[l]ike decapitating the mythical hydra, the break-up of old nation-states may simply replace them with a plethora of new nationalisms often more xenophobic and ethnically exclusivist than that from which they seceded”.

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Here is an interesting way to capture benefits of federal action on food stamps through a State Counterplan mechanism. As a result of lawsuits in Texas, they are performing an audit of food stamps programs:

AUSTIN – State Health and Human Services Director Thomas Suehs – in recognition of woeful time lags, backlogs, lawsuits and federal noncompliance – has asked the state auditor to review his food stamp operations and recommend changes.
The unusual move to request a performance audit comes as the state has struggled to meet federal requirements to process requests for aid within 30 days.
Earlier this month, families seeking food stamps at offices in Garland, Arlington and East Fort Worth found that they had to wait 60 days to even be interviewed for eligibility.

Keep an eye out for how the audit turns out, and make sure to check the news for new Food Stamps articles as a result of the recent attention given to the issue.

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS DEFINITION: NEGATIVE ECONOMIC LEVERADGE = DISTINCT FROM AFFIRMATIVE

DAMROSCH 1989 – PROF COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, POLITICS ACROSS BORDERS, 83 A.J.I.L. 1

III. ECONOMIC LEVERAGE
In addition to the forms of election campaign assistance discussed in the preceding part, various techniques of economic leverage are available to influencing states in their efforts to strengthen or weaken political factions and trends in another state. These techniques fall roughly into two categories: (1) affirmative tools of leverage, which include the award of economic and financial benefits such as government-to-government aid, trade preferences and loan facilities; ¹²⁰ and (2) negative techniques, often called economic sanctions, which involve suspending or terminating such benefits (or threatening to do so). ¹²¹ In general, legal regulation of the application of economic leverage is the subject of a large literature going well beyond the scope of this article; ¹²² for present purposes, the relevant question is the extent to which state practice and elements of principle legitimize or delegitimize the use of economic techniques to affect internal political developments in another state.

POVERTY MUST BE A KEY FOCUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH EFFORTS – NEW STUDIES SHOW HIGHEST RISK FACTOR FOR POOR HEALTH

LA TIMES 12-22-2009

BEING POOR COULD BE THE GREATEST HEALTH BURDEN, STEIN

Poverty trumps smoking, obesity and education as a health burden, potentially causing a loss of 8.2 years of perfect health, according to a new study.

Researchers looked at health and life expectancy data from the National Health Interview Surveys and the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys and came up with various behavioral and social risk factors that affect quality of life, then used a formula to estimate the quality-adjusted years of life that would be lost.

The average person whose income level is below 200% of the federal poverty line (the bottom third of the country’s population) would lose an estimated 8.2 years of perfect health, smokers 6.6 years, high school dropouts 5.1 years and the obese 4.2 years. Binge drinking and being uninsured were at the bottom.

Risk factors were determined by previously published literature and from the information provided in both surveys. Behavioral risk factors included smoking, being overweight or obese, and binge drinking. Social risk factors included socioeconomic status, race (non-Latino black versus non-Latino white), absence of health insurance and education (less than 12 years of school versus more than 12 years).

“While public health policy needs to continue its focus on risky health behaviors and obesity, it should redouble its efforts on non-medical factors, such as high school graduation and poverty reduction programs,” said Dr. Peter Muennig, assistant professor of health policy and management at theMailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and lead author of the study.

We already knew that debate is a wonderful activity that can sharpen critical thinking skills and correlates strongly with success in higher education and beyond. It’s always great to see recognition of this from media outlets as well!

Through debate leagues, many youths around the country have been given hope for a better future. Debate has helped students prepare for college and the future ahead of them. One local Boston organization helping these youths is the Boston Debate League (BDL), an organization geared toward guiding students to enhance their speaking skills while keeping them off the streets and out of trouble after school hours. Founded in 2005, the BDL has since helped a many students from Boston area public schools prepare for college and to ultimately change their future lives.

Read more about the Boston Debate League here.

Both a topicality argument as well as a description of all sorts of possible affirmative and counterplan options, Ohaegbulam describes all the different ways a nation can utilize economic statecraft to achieve foreign policy objectives. Many distinct options exist, and it is also a helpful piece of evidence differentiating things that might not be considered sanctions.

THE TOOLS OF ECONOMIC STATECRAFT INCLUDE A VARIETY OF TANGIBLE MECHANISMS

OHAEGBULAM 1999 – PROF INT’L AFFAIRS @ U SOUTH FLORIDA

A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, PAGE 333

Economic Instruments of Foreign Policy

Historically, the principal instruments of economic statecraft which the United States has used to achieve its foreign policy goals include free trade, tariifs, investment, freezing of assets, trade embargos, economic sanctions, trade boycotts, trade quotas, fair trade, and foreign economic and military assistance.

As is becoming an InfinitePrep tradition, here is the team list for MBA linked up to the NDCA Wiki’s cites on these teams.

We are also excited to announce a tournament partnership with MBA, with InfinitePrep awarding a prize to the winning team!

Enjoy your holidays, and don’t forget to PREP. We sure won’t…

William Stokes – Nicholas Vail Baltimore City College
Jared Wright – Conor McMann Barstow School
Damiyr Davis – Miguel Feliciano Beacon High School
Christian Steckler – Katie DiTullio Bishop Guertin HS
Andrew Markoff – Zack Elias Bronx Science
Zane Waxman – Michael Maerowitz Brophy College Prep
Anna Dimitrijevic – Helen Gomez Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart
Colin McElhinny – Kevin Ward Cathedral Prep
Tracey Cook – Sharon Kann Cedar Rapids Washignton HS
Jonathan Kowarski – Dan Li Centennial High School
Zac Karabatak – Poornima Oruganti Centerville High School
Megan Cambre – Kaavya Ramesh Chattahoochee High School
Pablo Gannon – Reid Ehrlich-Quinn Damien High School
Eilidh Geddes – Robert Galerstein Dunwoody High School
Benjamin Chang – Nikhil Jayawickrama Edgemont HS
Trevor Aufderheide – Nick Khatri Edina High School
Melvin Washington – Vanova Robles-Navas Ft. Lauderdale HS
Flynn Makuch – Alex Pappas Glenbrook North
Will Thibeau – Richard Day Glenbrook South High School
Elisabeth McClure – Daniel Zhao Glenelg High School
Jacob Quinn – Amy Schade Grapevine High School
Arnav Kejriwal – Kush Patel Greenhill School
Myra Milam – Gray Malkmus Greenwood Lab
Sarah Smaga – Keshav Prasad Groves High School
Jorge Toledo – Greg Adler Gulliver Prep
Evan Bradley – Zac Belnap Highland High School
Collin Poirot – Rett Young Highland Park (Dallas)
Tamar Kaplan – Andrew Hall Highland Park Senior High School
Astead Herndon – Donald Grasse Homewood-Flossmoor HS
Alix Arungah – Abhik Pramanik Howard High School
Carson Young – Sullivan McCormick Jesuit College Prep
Samuel Ross – Adora Parker Kempsville High School
Jack Chong – Brenda Doan Lakeland District Debate
Arjun Vellayappan – Tyler Engler Lexington High School
Thomas Pacheco – Patrick McCleary Loyola Blakefield High School
Dominic Jose – Ann Peter Maine East H.S.
Nadia Hassan – Pranav Mahadevan Marist School
Rohit Gummi – Stephen Ahal Marquette High School
Alex Resar – Patrick Butler McDonogh School
Kevin Jiang – Lee Quinn Mountain Brook High School
Ira Slomski-Pritz – Dylan Carpenter New Trier Township High School
Kylah Broughton – Devane Murphy Newark Science
Morgan Titcher – Jake De Filippis Notre Dame High School
john hazinski – james hanley oak park – river forest
Linda Du – Anisha Gururaj parkway central high school
David Manella – Mark Trouville Pine Crest Preparatory School
Andrew Arsht – Mario Feola Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School
Steve Quam – Laura Johnson Saint Paul Central
katheeen schaaf – marisa xheka seaholm
Andrew Wise – Joy Goel St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
Alex Miles – Rishee Batra St. Mark’s School of Texas
Richard Min – John Ryan Fehr Stratford Academy
Alison Williams – Jonathan Gonzalez Tampa Preparatory School
layne kirshon – nikhil bontha The Kinkaid School
Jesslyn Mitchell – Spenser Silbey The Meadows School
Brad Bolman – Lewis Sharp The Pembroke Hill School
Bamm Bamm Ball – Emma LaBounty University School of Nashville
Sam Miller – Tyler Gutzman Vermillion High School
Krishnan Ramanujan – Dru Svoboda Wayzata
David Huang – Jeffrey Ding West High School
Daniel Taylor – Ellis Allen Westminster Schools
Kevin Hirn – Misael Gonzalez Whitney Young Magnet High School
Max Plithidies – Matthew Pesce Woodward Academy