Demarcus Powell, Wendy Curran Meyer, Mohammad Sheikh
Plano West Classic
Quarters
Greenhill NT
Wyatt Hatfield, Scarlett Liu, John Anderson
Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire
1
Greenhill JW
Stephanie Pulley
Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire
4
Carnegie Vanguard LH
Collin Goemmer
Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire
Octas
Strake Jesuit VC
Sriya Subramanian, Lyndsey Toce, Jane Galian
The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier
6
Cypress Woods AP
Ralph Anderson
The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier
1
Strake Jesuit CB
Blake Ochoa
The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier
3
Strake Jesuit VM
River Cook
University of Houston Cougar Classic
1
Woodlands AH
Gabby Lea
University of Houston Cougar Classic
4
Little Rock Central XJ
Arun Mehra
University of Houston Cougar Classic
5
Memorial BD
Collin Goemmer
Tournament
Round
Report
ArmaanDrills
Finals
Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself
pp hb vs
Barkley Forum for High Schools
1
Opponent: Milburn ST | Judge: Aashril Shazar
this was a trad round disclosed on wiki
Barkley Forum for High Schools
4
Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Ari Davidson
1ac - usa 1nc - setcol k case 1ar - all 2nr - util setcol 2ar - setcol
Barkley Forum for High Schools
5
Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Maxine Adams
1ac - racial cap 1nc - extra T setcol case 1ar - all 2nr - case setcol 2ar - case setcol
Berkner TFA
2
Opponent: Westwood SS | Judge: Demarcus Powell
1ac - climate strikes democracy 1nc - T-a T-workers police pic case 1ar - T-a T-workers RVI on both 2nr - T-a T-workers 2ar - T-a T-workers RVI
Berkner TFA
4
Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Maddie Aguilar
1ac - Germany 1nc - T-a police pic case 1ar - all 2nr - police pic T-a 2ar - case T-a
Berkner TFA
Quarters
Opponent: Shady Side NP | Judge: Isa Barrera, Ali Ghaza, Aisha Bawany
1ac - rawls 1nc - util stocks da police pic case 1ar - 2nr - util pic 2ar - definitions
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
1
Opponent: Plano East PG | Judge: Joseph Wofford
1ac - collisions 1nc - new affs bad setcol case 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
4
Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Dhruv Mambapoor
1ac - collisions 1nc - t spec appropriation osource case 1ar - all 2nr - osource case 2ar - all
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
5
Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo
1ac - ptd 1nc - setcol case 1ar - all 2nr - setcol 2ar - case setcol
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
Octas
Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Chris Randall
1ac - racial cap 1nc - method pic case 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Grapevine Classic
1
Opponent: Kenston EJ | Judge: Emily Jackson
1ac - trad evergreening poverty public health emergency util 1nc - util fw bioweapons da case 1ar - util fw bioweapons case 2nr - case bioweapons 2ar - weighing rfd was staked on aff ev ethics
Grapevine Classic
3
Opponent: Garland LY | Judge: Amanda Ciocca
1ac - Antiblackness aff 1nc - T-fw case 1ar - case t-fw 2nr - case t-fw 2ar - case t-fw
1ac - koorsgaard pandemic 1nc - util bioweapons case 1ar - all 1ar theory afc spec status 2nr - afc 1ar theory bioweapons 2ar - spec status 1ar theory case
Loyola Invitational
3
Opponent: Dulles RZ | Judge: Jonah Gentlemen
1AC - Drug Prices Innovation Evergreening 1NC - Health Security Midterms 1AR - Case Midterms Health Security 2NR - Case Health Security -Midterms 2AR - Condo Case
Loyola Invitational
5
Opponent: Syosset AH | Judge: Jorman Antigua
1AC - Omnilateral will FW IPR aff 1NC - Util FW Disclosure Bioweapons 1AR - "Eval only theory" "no competing interps and no 1ar theory" (idk either what this was ab still) Disclosure 2NR - "no competing interps and no 1ar theory" Disclosure 2AR - "no competing interps and no 1ar theory" Disclosure
Loyola Invitational
2
Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Scott Brown
1ac - genomic medicine (wto cred innovation) 1nc - spec rights health security K 1ar - case spec rights condo piks bad health security 2nr - spec rights health security K 2ar - condo bad case
Nano Nagle Classic
1
Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1ac - covid vaccines uv 1nc - disclosure new aff bads util heg 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Nano Nagle Classic
4
Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Gerard Grigsby
1ac - pandemic emergency 1nc - heg midterms case 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Nano Nagle Classic
6
Opponent: Summit MR | Judge: Kwodo Moore
1ac - HIV Pandemic Struct vio fw 1nc - util midterms v2 case 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Palm Classic
1
Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Harrison Hall
1ac - commons 1nc - setcol case 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Palm Classic
4
Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: John Boals
1ac - mars 1nc - t ospace case 1ar - all and rvi on t ospace 2nr - all 2ar - case
Plano West Classic
2
Opponent: Strake Jesuit DO | Judge: Mohammad Sheikh
1ac - megaconstellations 1nc - innovation da mining pic colonization da right of way cp case 1ar - all 2nr - case colonization da right of way cp 2ar - case colonization da
please make an attempt to contact me on messenger first since i'm checking my phone and get notifications instantly through messenger.
if i don't respond via email that's on you, i'm human, not a debate robot. (poop)
2/1/22
0 - Novices and other non-wiki Midlothian competitors
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself If you encounter a Midlothian competitor that's not on the Midlothian wiki,
please contact this email: a.christ.2022@gmail.com and put in the subject line:
"DISCLOSURE Round {number/elim name} - Midlothian short code - Tournament" and I'll be sure to get them in contact with you. (Example: DISCLOSURE Round 5 - Midlothian VS - Example Invitational)
They'll most likely be reading Lay/Stock positions, so don't run disclosure on them as a way to run the ballot, that's sad. This is terminal defense to your interps.
2/1/22
0 - Safety, accommodations, and other miscellaneous notes
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself To ensure safety in every round I partake, I am more than willing to commit to keeping the debate space a safe place as much as I can accommodate.
Please contact me at any point before round so I can accommodate accordingly.
With that being declared, I do have some request(s) below for accommodations to address personal/structural inequalities:
- I have a hard time reading text that is clustered together that makes it even harder with stigmatism, so having all analytics/cards/tags spaced out and delineated is necessary (if analytics aren't in the doc, I ask that you go 60 percent slower than if it were in the doc)
Here's an example of what not to do: Aff gets 1AR theory 1. DTD to deter abuse 2. Competing interps is key to norm setting 3. No rvis for meeting the burden of winning 4. fairness is a voter k2 accessibility 5. education is a voter as it is the only thing we get out of the round
Here's what I mean by delineating: Aff gets 1AR theory
DTD to deter abuse 2. Competing interps is key to norm setting 3. No rvis for meeting the burden of winning 4. fairness is a voter k2 accessibility 5. education is a voter as it is the only thing we get out of the round As long as any spikes and/or subpoints are delineated with an enter break that is sufficient
Sometimes my response time may be slow, so if I do not respond within 5-10 mins, please make sure you make an attempt to contact me on multiple platforms (Messenger is best place for contact)
otherwise I automeet all disclosure interps based on contact.
2/1/22
0 - Sitemap
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself 0 - General Information SO - September/October Cites ND - November/December Cites JF - January/February Cites T - Theory Interps FW - Framework
2/1/22
JF - Capitalism vs Antiblackness
Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Little Rock Central XJ | Judge: Arun Mehra
The aff's ontological commitments are disconnected from political economy – that locks in pathologizing attitudes toward black workers and can't redress specific causes of structural inequality.
Reed '18 Touré F Reed (teaches twentieth-century US and Afro-American history at Illinois State University). "Between Obama and Coates," Catalyst vol. 1, issue 4, Winter 2018. https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates rc/Pat The details of these two cases make clear that they fail as precedents for African AND has contributed to liberals' and conservatives' failure to redress structural sources of inequality.
The 1AC turns debate into an infoshop and posits insurrection as political strategy – neither can replace the hard work of movement building – only collective organization can create the conditions for revolution.
Olson '12 ~Joel, political theory at Northern Arizona University. 03/31/2012. "Between Infoshops and Insurrection: U.S. Anarchism, Movement Building, and the Racial Order." https://libcom.org/library/between-infoshops-insurrection-us-anarchism-movement-building-racial-order~~ Pat An infoshop is a space where people can learn about radical ideas, where radicals AND of building movements falls through the cracks between sabotage and the autonomous zone.
Neoliberal policies disproportionately harm black people – any method which separates race from labor obscures causes and solutions to anti-blackness.
Reed '18 Touré F Reed (teaches twentieth-century US and Afro-American history at Illinois State University). "Between Obama and Coates," Catalyst vol. 1, issue 4, Winter 2018. https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates rc/Pat The parameters and function of even targeted programs are necessarily shaped by their broader political AND that exists independently of capitalism has, ironically, earned him this accolade.
Wilderson fails to account for the intersection of white supremacy and capital and historical shifts in racial violence – vote negative to forefront political economy in understandings of anti-blackness – that's the only way to create global linkages and meaningful struggle for black liberation.
Dawson '16 ~Michael, political science at University of Chicago. Spring 2016. "Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order." http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/685540~~ Pat We can better understand the relationship between the attacks on black bodies and continued systemic AND justice, even though the abode of race is hidden in plain sight.
1/15/22
JF - India Soft Power
Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Collin Goemmer os
1/16/22
JF - Innovation
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 4 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard LH | Judge: Collin Goemmer os
1/22/22
JF - Lay
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 1 | Opponent: Greenhill JW | Judge: Stephanie Pulley os
1/21/22
JF - Method PIC vs Undercommons
Tournament: Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Chris Randall os
2/6/22
JF - Mining
Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Collin Goemmer os
1/16/22
JF - Right Of Way
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 4 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard LH | Judge: Collin Goemmer os
1/22/22
JF - Settler Colonialism
Tournament: Churchill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CB | Judge: Blake Ochoa os because wifi is trash n slow
1/8/22
JF - Settler Colonialism v2
Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: 4 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Ari Davidson os
1/29/22
JF - Settler Colonialism v3
Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Maxine Adams os
1/29/22
JF - Settler Colonialism v4
Tournament: Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Rodrigo Paramo os
2/5/22
JF - Settler Colonialism v5
Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough HL | Judge: Harrison Hall os
2/12/22
JF - Space Colonization
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 4 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard LH | Judge: Collin Goemmer os
Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: John Boals os
2/13/22
ND - Police
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood SS | Judge: Demarcus Powell Open sourced
12/11/21
ND - Stocks
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Shady Side NP | Judge: Isa Barrera, Ali Ghaza, Aisha Bawany Open sourced
12/11/21
ND - T-A
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood SS | Judge: Demarcus Powell Open sourced
12/11/21
ND - T-Workers
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood SS | Judge: Demarcus Powell Open sourced
12/11/21
SO - Bioweapons
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Syosset AH | Judge: Jorman Antigua The COVID epidemic has exposed massive flaws in biosecurity, lack of public health compliance, anti-vaxxers, and PPE shortages have shown unique vulnerabilities – the US is specifically exposed Lyon 21 (Regan Lyon; 7/1/21; Military Medicine, Volume 186, Issue7-8, July-August 2021, Pages 193-196; “The COVID-19 Response Has Uncovered and Increased Our Vulnerability to Biological Warfare”; accessed 8/13/21; https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/186/7-8/193/6135020; Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School) HB *We do not endorse the ableist language of the card* INTRODUCTION Biological warfare has been an … require further research by public health officials.
Patents are the key to preventing bioweapon development – they prevent technology from being accessible to hostile state and non-state actors Finlay 10 (Brian Finlay; Summer 2010; The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, “The Bioterror Pipeline: Big Pharma, Patent Expirations, and New Challenges to Global Security”; accessed 8/13/21; Brian Finlay is a senior associate at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, where he directs the Managing Across Boundaries Program. He has worked at the Brookings Institution, the Century Foundation, and Canadas Laboratory Center for Disease Control/Health Canada; pages 54-58; ask me for the pdf) HB NEW CHALLENGES: THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION AND … to develop a bioweapon.
Bioweapons destroy biodiversity – targeting, interspecies spread, and fungal adaptation Abboud 18 (Nura Abboud; 9/22/18; EcoMENA; “Catastrophic Impacts of Biological Warfare on Biodiversity”; accessed 8/15/21; https://www.ecomena.org/impacts-of-biological-warfare-on-biodiversity/; Nura A. Abboud is an environmental activist and Founder of the Jordanian Society for Microbial Biodiversity (JMB), the only NGO in the Middle East concerning the microbial biodiversity. Nura specializes in molecular biology, biological sciences, microbial biodiversity, genetic fingerprinting and medical technologies. Her vision is to establish an eco-research center in the astonishing desert south of Jordan. She has received several scholarships and awards including honorary doctorate in Environmental leadership) HB Biological weapons are considered the most … environment will be the silent victim of this war.
Biodiversity loss causes extinction—turns and outweighs everything Torres 16 (Phil Biologist, conservationist, science advocate and educator. 2 years based in Amazon rainforest, now exploring science around the world. “Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change” http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/) The repercussions of biodiversity loss … to human prosperity and survival.
11/7/21
SO - Health Security
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Scott Brown should be osourced
The Dollar is dominant now without a rival – but without policy reevaluation that may change
Hopkins '20 Chris Hopkins is a former Adjunct Professor of Finance at the University of Tennesee at Chattanooga and a weekly finance columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Hopkins, Chris. "Personal Finance: Is the U.S. Dollar's Dominance at Risk?" Timesfreepress.com, 3 June 2020, www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2020/jun/02/us-dollar-dominance-risk/524378/. Phoenix For the past 75 years, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed a AND restoration of American leadership, the direction of the trend is not promising.
IPR is key for U.S Dollar Centrality – it allows US firms near if not complete monopolies pushing dollars into international markets and stabilizing US financial influence
Schwartz '19 Schwartz, Herman Mark (2019). American hegemony: intellectual property rights, dollar centrality, and infrastructural power. Review of International Political Economy, (), 1–30. doi:10.1080/09692290.2019.1597754 Phoenix Mechanism one relates to Strange's (1989) financial power: US current account deficits AND IMS? Why IPRs? The conclusion considers critical endogenous sources of decay.
Dollar centrality caps global conflict - prevents great power war
The perception of decline causes immediate lash-out - goes nuclear
Ken Jorgustin 14, MA in Political Science, History, and Economics from the University of West Florida, Retired Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force, Graduated Number One at the Academic Instructor School Air War College, Maxwell AFB, "The Coming Collapse Of The Dollar, And AND phase 1 and 2 right now. Phase 3 will not end well.
Nuke war causes extinction
Edwards 17 ~Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky. How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate. September 8, 2017. earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~ Note, we are only reading parts of the interview that are directly from Paul Edwards — MMG In the nuclear conversation, what are we not talking about that we should be AND two nuclear powers would stay limited to these smaller, less destructive bombs.
10/8/21
SO - Insurance
Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dulles NJ | Judge: Dylan Liu
Text – States ought to individually domestically establish single-payer national health insurance.
Solves evergreening and drug prices while avoiding our innovation turns.
Narayanan 19 Srivats Narayanan 8-15-2019 "Medicare for All and Evergreening" https://medium.com/@srivats.narayanan/medicare-for-all-and-evergreening-cb84c930e0ea (UMKC School of Medicine)Elmer Drug companies rake in massive profits. The pharmaceutical industry has some of the largest AND . Medicare for All would usher in a new era of medical innovation.
10/16/21
SO - Midterms
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles RZ | Judge: Jonah Gentlemen Dems win now – republican retirements, lack of true battle ground states, and the general progression of life in the pandemic sets them up to retain control Shapiro 8/16 (Walter Shapiro; 8/16/21; The News Republic; “Can Biden Defy History in 2022?”; accessed 8/17/21; https://newrepublic.com/article/163086/can-biden-defy-history-2022-midterms; Walter Shapiro is a staff writer at The New Republic. He is also a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a lecturer in political science at Yale.) HB Since 2008, Gallup has been asking ... a hell of a ticket to run on.
The plan is politically unpopular – voters are divided which means that plans passage flips the major thin margins – vaccines proves The Hill 5/4 (The Hill; 5/4/21; The Hill; “Poll: Majority oppose proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines”; accessed 8/27/21; https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/551797-poll-majority-oppose-proposal-to-temporarily-waive-intellectual) HB A majority of voters oppose the proposal ... It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.
A Republican win in 2022 shuts out climate action for decades Silverman 8/24 (Ellie Silverman; 8/24/21; The Washington Post; “Climate activists fear this is the last chance to pass meaningful legislation”; accessed 8/27/21; https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/24/climate-biden-congress-protest/; Ellie Silverman covers protest movements, activism and local news. At The Post, she has also covered local crime and courts. She has previously reported on retail, breaking news and general assignment stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer, her hometown paper. She graduated from the University of Maryland, where she reported for the Diamondback) HB There is a rising frustration among many ... by the end of the decade.
US climate action is key to world wide action Beeler 19 (Carolyn Beeler; 9/18/19; PRI; “Top US leadership is 'missing ingredient' in climate change action”; accessed 8/27/21; https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-09-18/top-us-leadership-missing-ingredient-climate-change-action; Carolyn Beeler leads environment coverage for The World. She reports and edits stories focused on the people and places most impacted by climate change, and what they're doing to address it. She has reported from all seven continents and won national and regional awards for her breaking news and in-depth feature reporting. Before joining The World, Carolyn helped pilot the weekly health and science show, The Pulse, at WHYY in Philadelphia, and reported from Berlin for a year as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow. She studied journalism at Northwestern University and got her start in radio as a Kroc fellow at NPR.) HB World leaders will meet in New York next week ... to see the full impact of the US climate policy reversal.
Climate change causes extinction – ocean acidification, water and resource wars, econ collapse, and regional conflicts. Pachauri and Meyer 15 (Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the IPCC, Leo Meyer Head, Technical Support Unit IPCC were the editors for this IPCC report, “Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report” http://epic.awi.de/37530/1/IPCC_AR5_SYR_Final.pdf IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.). IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp) SPM 2.3 Future risks and impacts caused by a changing climate ... such as poverty and economic shocks (medium confidence). {2.3.2} 2010 )
The California recall has given democrats optimal election strategy for the midterms to maximize gains – right-wing extremists winning primaries alienate moderates
Ronayne and Riccardi 9/15 (Kathleen Ronayne and Nicholas Riccardi; 9/15/21; AP News; "Democrats see a midterm map in California recall success"; accessed 9/19/21; https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-california-recall-california-campaigns-health-48a08f0362762dd53f8171c35c09f57b**; Kathleen Ronayne is a olitical reporter for The Associated Press with bylines from California to New Hampshire and swing states in between. Now covering the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom and California's influence on the national political debate; Nicholas is a political writer at the associated press) HB Few Democrats were surprised to see Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom swat down a Republican AND alternative is extreme, you represent not just your base but the middle."
The plan is politically unpopular – voters are divided which means that plans passage flips the major thin margins – vaccines proves
It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.
====A Republican win in 2022 shuts out climate action for decades==== Silverman 8/24 (Ellie Silverman; 8/24/21; The Washington Post; "Climate activists fear this is the last chance to pass meaningful legislation"; accessed 8/27/21; https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/24/climate-biden-congress-protest/**; Ellie Silverman covers protest movements, activism and local news. At The Post, she has also covered local crime and courts. She has previously reported on retail, breaking news and general assignment stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer, her hometown paper. She graduated from the University of Maryland, where she reported for the Diamondback) HB There is a rising frustration among many of those organizers, who say they helped AND energy to achieve 80 percent clean electricity by the end of the decade.
====US climate action is key to world wide action==== Beeler 19 (Carolyn Beeler; 9/18/19; PRI; "Top US leadership is 'missing ingredient' in climate change action"; accessed 8/27/21; https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-09-18/top-us-leadership-missing-ingredient-climate-change-action**; Carolyn Beeler leads environment coverage for The World. She reports and edits stories focused on the people and places most impacted by climate change, and what they're doing to address it. She has reported from all seven continents and won national and regional awards for her breaking news and in-depth feature reporting. Before joining The World, Carolyn helped pilot the weekly health and science show, The Pulse, at WHYY in Philadelphia, and reported from Berlin for a year as a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow. She studied journalism at Northwestern University and got her start in radio as a Kroc fellow at NPR.) HB World leaders will meet in New York next week for the United Nations Climate Summit AND community start to see the full impact of the US climate policy reversal.
Climate change causes extinction – ocean acidification, water and resource wars, econ collapse, and regional conflicts.
Pachauri and Meyer 15 (Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the IPCC, Leo Meyer Head, Technical Support Unit IPCC were the editors for this IPCC report, "Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report" http://epic.awi.de/37530/1/IPCC_AR5_SYR_Final.pdf IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ~Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)~. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp) SPM 2.3 Future risks and impacts caused by a changing climate Climate change AND shocks (medium confidence). ~{2.3.2~} 2010 )
10/9/21
SO - Spec Property
Tournament: Plano West Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EP | Judge: Demarcus Powell, Wendy Curran Meyer, Mohammad Sheikh
2
Interpretation: Debaters may not specify which intellectual property or group of properties they reduce in the 1AC.
There were over 100,000 medical patents in 2018
WIPO '20 WIPO (2020). World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2020.pdf Phoenix – brackets for clarity In 2018 – the latest year for which complete data are available due to the AND five fields accounted for 28.4 of all published applications globally.
Violation: they did
Standards:
1~ Limits – It would literally make a case list of over 100,000 which is obviously impossible to prep for even if we had a giant coaching squad who can cut 10 case negs a day it wouldn't even be 1 of the case list.
a) Limits outweighs – it controls the balance of prep which controls the rest of the debate since one debater could be worse than another but win on brute force of more and better cards.
2~ Ground – We lose all of our offense that links into general property rights or certain types of patents i.e if we read a DA to vaccines and you read a N95 aff we wouldn't link. It also means even if we did link it would be tiny and the 1AR would always be ahead since they could leverage the specificity of the aff.
3~ Topic Education – Authors do not write about specific patents since there is way too many – definitely not 100,000 authors writing about Intellectual property rights – and even if there were that would mean one author per every aff creating a tiny and narrow debate.
a) Topic education outweighs on Timeframe since we only get 2 months to debate about the topic
Cross apply paradigm issues from the first shell
10/24/21
SO - Spec Rights
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Scott Brown Interpretation: If the aff defends a reduction of intellectual property rights, they must specify what an intellectual property right is in the 1AC. Violation: they didn’t
There is not a universal definition for intellectual property rights and boundaries are subjective Stengel ‘4 Intellectual Property in Philosophy Author(s): Daniel Stengel Source: ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Vol. 90, No. 1 (2004), pp. 20-50 Published by: Franz Steiner Verlag Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23681627 Phoenix weird formatting is due to copy and paste from source Secondly, intellectual property … intellectual property law.
Standards 1 Shiftiness –
That outweighs on magnitude –
2 Real world education –
That outweighs on longevity –
Spec isn’t regressive or arbitrary
Paradigm issues 1 – Drop the debater 2 - Comes before 1AR theory 3 - Use competing interps on Spec 4 - No RVIs
12/21/21
SO - T-Reduce
Tournament: Plano West Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EP | Judge: Demarcus Powell, Wendy Curran Meyer, Mohammad Sheikh
1
Interpretation: Reduce means to lower in amount or make smaller.
Cambridge English Dictionary "Meaning of reduce in English" Cambridge English Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/reduce Phoenix reduce to become or to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.:
Delays do not stop or prevent an action – Traffic may delay you but it does not stop you from getting to your destination
Cambridge English Dictionary No Date https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/delay Phoenix delay verb to make something happen at a later time than originally planned AND something to be slow or late: I was delayed by traffic.
Limits – Anything else explodes the caselist since the aff could delay IPP to any arbitrary end or change IPP in any possible way – there is no boundary to restrict them in how they change IPP. Only reduce grants the neg some predictable stasis for prep by researching about why IPP is good and so why a world without IPP is bad. Limits outweighs on depth – anything else means the neg reads generics like the Kant NC or a Security K without ever engaging the aff.
Ground – All negative ground is based on IP good. The Innovation DA, Heg DA, Politics DA, Counterfeits turn, Pharmaceutical Backlash turn, Bioterror turn, etc all link to a removal of IP protections. A lack of modification guts neg ground since none of our offense would link to the aff. Ground outweighs on necessity – we can't have a debate if one side does not have arguments to read.
Paradigm Issues
1 – Drop the debater – their abusive advocacy skewed the debate from the start and we can't come back
2 - Comes before 1AR theory — A - If we had to be abusive it's because it was impossible to engage their aff, B – Neg abuse outweighs aff abuse because we control the depth of the debate if we can't engage depth is impossible
3 - Use competing interps on T – A – T is a yes/no question, you can't be half topical or mostly topical B - reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation
4 - No RVIs – A - Forcing the 1NC to go all in on the shell kills substance education and neg strat, B - discourages checking real abuse C - Encourages baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quick
10/24/21
T - Disclosure Interps
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Syosset AH | Judge: Jorman Antigua Interpretation: Debaters must disclose frameworks and advocacy texts to their opponents through any means at least thirty minutes before round.
11/7/21
T - Extra Topicality
Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Maxine Adams os
1/29/22
T - FW
Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Garland LY | Judge: Amanda Ciocca Our interpretation is the topic should determine the division of aff and neg ground – winning that : The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines should always be sufficient condition for voting negative – hold the line, 1AC prove there’s no I-meet.
“Resolved” is a formal decision. Merriam-Webster Unlike Words and Phrases ’64, this card actually exists on the internet! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolved pat a: to declare or decide by a formal resolution and vote b: to change by resolution or formal vote the house resolved itself into a committee
The Role of the Ballot is to vote for whoever does the better debating –
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Syosset AH | Judge: Jorman Antigua The standard is maximizing expected well being – Prefer 1 Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses. Evolutionary knowledge is reliable – broad consensus and robust neuroscience prove. Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, “Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies”, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Pleasure is not only one of the three primary … including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 Actor specificity – A – Aggregation – B – Collectivism – C – Bureaucrats aren’t philosophers –
3 Extinction first – a. Wager – b. Sequencing – c. Repugnance – d. Performativity –
4 TJFs a. Weighability – b. Resolvability – c. Topic Literature –
11/7/21
U - Util v2
Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Claudia Ribera os