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LANSING - If were around the Capitol or downtown Lansing Friday morning, you may have seen several people carrying firearms. About 50 gun owners help a rally at the Capitol today starting at around 10 o'clock. Phillip Hofmeister, President of Michigan Open Carry, says he attended the rally, but his group did not organize the event. He says this was a nationwide campaign, communicated via social media, calling on 2nd Amendment rights advocates to go to their state capital buildings today. The event was peaceful, and ended around noon.
Hofmeister says that a much larger rally is planned for March 20th at the Capitol.
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Amid Budget Debate, Some Members of Congress Own Bits of U.S. Debt
August 1, 2011 | In 2010, at least 14 veteran members of Congress personally owned a portion of the U.S. debt, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of congressional personal financial disclosure reports.
Watchdog Accuses White House of Violating Disclosure Laws, Byrd's Death Endangers Democratic Agenda and More in Capitol Eye Opener: June 29
June 29, 2010 | But Byrd's views on climate change altered late in life and he looked liked to be a potential ally of legislation capping carbon emissions. There are doubts whether a freshman Democratic senator from West Virginia could withstand pressure from the coal industry to vote against such legislation.
Supporters of Moderate Republican in NY-23 Special Election Weigh Where to Place Their Loyalties After Candidate Quits
November 2, 2009 | With Republican Diedre Scozzafava ending her bid in for Congress and endorsing her Democratic opponent Bill Owens, Owens and Conservative Party nominee Doug are now vying to win over Scozzafava's supporters, including those who lent financial support to her campaign.
Embattled Lobbying Firm PMA Targeted Members of Defense Committees
February 12, 2009 | The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Congress who have collected money from the firm, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. In total, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee have given current members of Congress $3.4 million since 1989.
Money and Votes Aligned in Congress's Last Debate Over Bank Regulation
September 23, 2008 | The last time Congress seriously debated how to regulate the financial industry, the result was legislation that allowed the nation's largest banks to get even larger and take risks that had been prohibited since the Great Depression. A look back at that debate, which was over the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act, reveals that campaign contributions may have influenced the votes of politicians who, a decade later, are now grappling with the implosion of the giant banks they helped to foster.
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Some Rocky River residents advised to evacuate
(Rocky River) -- People living near the mouth of the Rocky River are being urged by police in the city named for the river to evacuate due to the potential for flooding.
Lt. Larry Stalter of the Rocky River Police tells WTAM 1100 that the warmer weather and rain has caused ice from the river to break up. That ice is now jammed under the Detroit Road bridge, and is starting to back up onto the parking lot of the Emerald Necklace Marina, which is in the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Stalter says they fear that the ice could break free any time, causing flooding in the river basin near the mouth of the river.
Stalter says people in that area -- about 25-35 homeowners -- are being told to either watch the river, or even consider evacuation right now. Two Rocky River police officers are on duty, monitoring water levels.
According to Stalter, this ice jam has the potential to be worse than the one in January, as that was a simple breakup of ice, whereas this time, this is the equivilent of a spring thaw.
Those who need a place to go can go to the Rocky River Memorial Hall in the city complex at Hilliard and Wagar Roads.
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Crewe picked him up at Monte Carlo, when he was on his beam-ends.
The vessel had encountered bad weather; her ballast had shifted, and she lay on her beam-ends about eight miles west of St Kilda.
Hove so completely over the beam-ends that the keel is above the water.
They could see that the wreck was a small vessel on her beam-ends.
Two other vessels had been driven higher on shore, but lay on their beam-ends.
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PARADE DAY: By now, even the holdouts who insist that holidays should be celebrated in the order in which they appear on the calendar have to come to terms with the fact that Christmas is here.
And nothing drives that fact home any harder in our little part of the world than the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade, which takes over Second Street Saturday night, starting at 6 p.m.
Technically, the parade, which draws 60,000 people to the Shore, takes over Second Street at 5 p.m., when it's closed to traffic.
In the olden days of the Shore, people would reserve curbside spots by hauling out folding chairs and coolers early in the afternoon. Lately, John Law has been cracking down on the practice, and people aren't allowed to set up before 5 p.m. If you do, the police will haul your stuff off to the Bayshore Library at the east end of Second Street, across from the bay. You can pick it up after the parade. And if it happens again, we'll call your parents and maybe you can explain to them the difficulty you have obeying the rules.
The parade will be held regardless of the whims of weather, so you might want to bring someone along to hold an umbrella over your head.
The parade heads east from Livingston Avenue to Bayshore Avenue and returns back west on the other side of the street.
You're on your own for parking (we say helpfully). Side streets off Second will be closed from Second to the alleys. But if you're not afraid to walk a few blocks, parking meters are free after 3 p.m. in the Ocean Boulevard lot near the Belmont Plaza pool.
CHOW WITH CLAUS: The most important meal of the holiday season is breakfast with Santa. Parkers' Lighthouse is hosting Santa, who, if you've ever seen him, is no stranger to the breakfast table, on Saturday morning, with food being served from 8 until 11 a.m.
The "Breakfast With Santa & Toy Drive" breakfast benefits Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach, and some of the children from the hospital will be enjoying breakfast and watching Miller's whale mascot Millie greet Santa as he docks in front of the restaurant in Shoreline Village.
Breakfast is $8.95 for adults; $6.95 for children under 12. Walk-ins are cool, but reservations are highly recommended. Call 562-432-6500, or check www.parkerslighthouse.com.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!: Another seasonal kickoff event comes this evening at 6 with the Pike at Rainbow Harbor Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony on South Pine Avenue.
The bash includes the lighting of the official Downtown Long Beach tree by Santa, carols sung by the Lakewood High School Madrigal Choir and, to help explain to Fox News commentators why the season is sometimes called "the holidays," the unveiling of the menorah and Kwanzaa displays.
FRIDAY PLAYLIST: The worst part of the holiday season is the fact that you start hearing "The Little Drummer Boy" being played again in malls, grocery stores and wherever ambient music is thrown at you. There may be some disagreement, by people who are wrong, about whether that song is the worst of all yuletide carols. OK, we will entertain the nomination of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
As for the best songs, that's more of a horse race. You've got your secular standards, which are among the most beautiful of all songs, and then there are the nice wistfully romantic ballads and your pop, rock and blues classics. For playlists to take us out of the year, send us your favorite and least favorite songs, and, please, no novelty tunes. Most of those are too lousy to even rise to the worst-carols chart. Send your picks by email to the address at the tail of our column. And here's a random collection to get you in the mood:
1. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," Darlene Love
2. "Silent Night," Sufjan Stevens
3. "Hallelujah Chorus," Opera Company of Philadelphia
4. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire,)" the Polyphonic Spree
5. "Blue Christmas," Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Pretenders
7. "O Holy Night," Charlotte Church & Placido Domingo
8. "River," Joni Mitchell
9. "Christmas Must Be Tonight," The Band
10. "Fairytale of New York," The Pogues.
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Fox's Dobbs Uses Debunked Right-Wing Myth To Attack DOJ
Even after the attack was debunked, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has repeatedly claimed that the Department of Justice helped pay for anti-Zimmerman protests.
On the July 17 edition of his show, Dobbs criticized civil rights leader Al Sharpton for organizing 100 protests around the country in the wake of the George Zimmerman's acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin. Guest Michael Goodwin alleged that "I wouldn't doubt that somewhere the Justice Department's going to be helping him with the tour." Dobbs responded by claiming that you know that "the Justice Department paid to help demonstrations against George Zimmerman last year":
The attack is based on the release of documents by the right-wing website Judicial Watch, which used the documents to falsely accuse [1] the DOJ of supporting anti-Zimmerman protests. The documents released by Judicial Watch do not show that the DOJ was "organizing anti-Zimmerman rallies" -- only that a unit within the DOJ, the Community Relations Service, was providing [2] support [3] and technical [4] assistance for the protests to prevent violence, not organize protests.
The Miami Herald pointed out that the unit dispatched to Sanford, Florida, worked [5] to "defuse community anger hardening along the fault lines of race, color and national origin":
[I]n the weeks after the Feb. 26, 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a city representative picked up the phone and called Thomas Battles, a quiet force who has worked almost three decades mending racially damaged communities.
The federal mediator works for the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS), a stealth federal operation that works to defuse community anger hardening along the fault lines of race, color and national origin. The mediators are called the peacemakers.
The CRS corroborates this claim, according to the site, their services performed in Sanford are only deployed "when requested or accepted by the parties":
The Community Relations Service is the Department's "peacemaker" for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, CRS is the only Federal agency dedicated to assist State and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.
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(NEWSER) – Around 40 people are still missing after the derailment and explosion of a runaway train in Quebec, and the blast was so intense that authorities fear there may be nothing left of some victims. The hospital in Lac Megantic, which had been braced for huge numbers of casualties, is "eerily quiet," the Toronto Star finds. "You have to understand: there are no wounded. They're all dead," a Red Cross volunteer says. All but one of the train's 72 cars were carrying crude oil when it exploded in the heart of the small town early Saturday morning, when the bars were still packed with people, the AP reports.
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SHERIDAN COLLEGE BASKETBALL - The 2012-13 local basketball season opens this weekend with the Sheridan college teams in action.
Both the Generals and Lady Generals have gone over an overhaul with several new members to each roster.
Lady Generals Head coach Frank McCarthy says his new freshmen have made the adjustment to playing the college game.
And he says the team make up has a good mix of players that bring different strengths to the team.
STATE SWIMMING / DIVING - At the 4-A state swimming and diving championships the Sheridan Lady Broncs finished 6th, Gretchen Dougherty all-stated in the 100 butterfly finishing 3rd.
STATE VOLLEYBALL - The Big Horn Lady Rams finished 2nd at the state volleyball tournament they lost in the title match to Thermopolis in three matches.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles were eliminated from the tournament Saturday morning in the consolation bracket., their season ended with a loss against Wright in the consolation semi final.
STATE SWIMMING / DIVING - The 4-A state swimming and diving championships concluded Friday the Sheridan Lady Broncs finished 6th, Gretchen Dougherty All-stated in the 100 butterfly finishing 3rd.
STATE VOLLEYBALL - The Big Horn Lady Rams will play Lovell Saturday afternoon for the 2-A state championship. The Lady Rams beat Thermopolis in thee games in the semi finals Friday night.
The Tongue River Lady Eagles staved off elimination beating Kemmerer Friday, they face Wright today for the right to move on and play for 3rd / 4th place.
The Big Horn Rams defeated Kemmerer by a score of 45 to 6 to win their first play-off game of the season!
Sheridan won a great game against Kelly Walsh 35 to 14 and are in the state semi-finals!! Stand by for all the details from Sheridan Media!
The Big Horn Lady Rams won easily over Kemmerer in their first round of tournament action last night in Casper at the 2A State Tournament, (25-14), (25-10), (25-21).
The Lady Rams advance into the semi-finals tonight at 6 pm and take on Thermopolis.
Pictured front row from left: Amelia Ponce, Alex Eisele, Ashley Fox and Cassidy Enloe. Back row from left: Coach Leigh McLaughlin, Asssist Coach Tina Melin, Hanna Caiola, Morgan Nance, McKinzie Taylor, Jadyn Mirich Gracie Goldhammer, Taylor Von Krosigk, Bailey Bard, Hanneah Puckett, Shelby Mann, Kayla Crouse and Becca Gilbert
STATE SWIMMING AND DIVING - The 4-A state swimming and diving championships conclude today in Gillette as the finals begin today when teams begin to accumulate points.
STATE VOLLEYBALL - The Big Horn Lady Rams the Tongue River Lady Eagles opened the state volleyball tournament last night in Casper.
The Lady Rams advanced to the semi finals while Tongue River lost, the Lady Eagles face an elimination match this afternoon.
They lost a five set match against Thermopolis while Big Horn took their match with Kemmerer in three games.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS - The Sheridan Broncs host Casper Kelly Walsh tomorrow night in the first round of the 4-A playoffs.
We will have the game for you live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio. The First Federal pregame show will start at 6:30 with kickoff at 7:00
The Broncs and Trojans played two weeks ago in Casper with the Broncs coming out on top 20-10 in a hard fought battle now they meet again tomorrow night Broncs Head coach Don Julian says it's just the way life is in 4-A football.
The fall high school sports seasons are nearing their end with playoffs and state competitions this weekend.
This afternoon the Kaycee Lady Bucs will begin their state tournament with a first round match against Little Snake River. That match is set for 6pm.
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NHTSA — Engine And Engine Cooling Problems
2006 Nissan Altima (Page 5 of 7)
CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2006 Nissan Altima has a trend of engine problems, both in our data & definitely in the NHTSA's complaint data as well.
Excessive oil consumption is the main problem reported by owners. Nissan did a recall back in 2006 for oil consumption due to bad piston rings, but many owners report to us that the recall didn't fix the problem.
The dealer only had to check the oil consumption rate. Typically 1 qt per 1,000 miles is "acceptable" per OEM standards ... that's a lot of oil!
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This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
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MILLBURN, N.J. (Stockpickr) -- There are many indications -- anecdotal and factual -- that the housing market is in the midst of a renaissance after a crushing multiyear depression.
Here are some of those indicators:
Housing starts have been on a steady rise since February 2011 and have registered 700,000 or more since November 2011 (with a minor blip to 697,000 in December 2011).
Building permits have to the most part followed the trend in housing starts.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index has surged since September 2011to levels not seen since June 2007. The index gauges builder perception of single-family-home sales and sales expectations for the next six months.
>>5 M&A Stocks to Buy at a Bargain
New-single-family-home sales bottomed in February 2011 and have risen to a level not seen since April 2010. However, the 2009-2010 single-family-home sales were bolstered by Federal tax credits, which no longer exist.
The S&P/Case-Shiller Composite 20 City YOY Index of Home Prices, while still negative, has improved since April 2011
Mortgage rates remain at historic low levels and should remain so for several years.
So how can we take advantage of these trends? Here are seven stocks for the housing rebound.
USG (USG), known to stock market veterans as US Gypsum, manufacturers building materials for residential and commercial construction, including drywall, panels, roofing and flooring.
The company suffered greatly as a result of the housing crash, but the turnaround has begun. Revenue bottomed in 2010 at $2.9 billion and is expected to rise to $3.4 billion this year and $3.7 billion next year.
The company posted earnings losses consistently since the housing market fell apart, losing as much as $3.32 in 2010. In 2012 the company is expected to lose 68 cents and then turn to profitability, estimated at 25 cents in 2013. That estimate could be low if the construction market continues its rebound.
As of the most recently reported period, USG was one of Warren Buffett's holdings.
Ingersoll-Rand (IR) specializes in air conditioning, climate control systems, industrial technologies and off-road vehicles. Its well-known brands include American Standard, Ingersoll Rand, Club Car, Schlage, Trane and Steelcraft.
Since seeing its earnings plunge nearly 50% year over year in 2009 to $1.65, Ingersoll-Rand is beginning to experience a rebound. Earnings growth is expected in 2012 of 7.5% and in 2013 in of nearly 20%.
The stock sells at 13 times current-year earnings and 9 times forward earnings. During the last period of housing growth, Ingersoll-Rand sold for mid-teens times earnings.
Whirlpool (WHR) is a worldwide manufacturer of home appliances such as washers, dryers, refrigerators, stoves and ovens. The company's brands are literally household names, including Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air and Amana.
Whether due to new-home construction or home upgrades after years of neglect, Whirlpool is poised to see a pickup in its business as the housing market reenergizes itself. Sales are expected to be flat in 2012 and rise 4% in 2013. Earnings are expected to rise from $6.47 in 2012 to $8.00 in 2013. The company has recently upped its stake in German kitchen manufacturer Alno.
The stock has had a wild year so far rising well over 60% by the middle of March only to decline by about 31% by the middle of June and is more recently rebounding such that it is still higher by about 30% on the year. If you catch Whirlpool just right, you could get a nice housing-related trade.
Lennar and Toll Brothers
These are two of the largest homebuilders in the U.S. They not only survived the housing crisis but may be better coming out of it.
Lennar (LEN), a nationwide builder of moderately priced homes, earned 21 cents in its most recent quarter, better than analysts' expectations of 20 cents. According to CEO Stuart Miller, "Evidence from the field suggests that the 'for sale' housing market has, in fact, bottomed and that we have commenced a slow and steady recovery process."
Toll Brothers (TOL) is one of the best-managed homebuilders in the country. It is also a high-end manufacturer of new single-family and multifamily dwellings, such as condos. The company is ahead of its peers, turning a profit last year. Those profits are expected to nearly double in 2012 and then double again in 2013 to 94 cents per share. Revenue growth of 19% is expected in 2012 and 27% in 2013.
Plum Creek Timber
Plum Creek Timber (PCL) grows, harvests and sells timber and manufactures forest products such as lumber and plywood. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust, or REIT. As such, it acts as a pass-through vehicle for tax purposes and pays an above-market distribution of about 4.2% of its market price. This payout has remained stable since 2007 despite the fall-off in demand for timber products when the housing market went into decline.
As the construction market for housing picks up, so should the demand for lumber. This will result in increased cash flow, earnings and payouts for Plum Creek Timber shareholders.
Valspar (VSR) is a specialty chemical company that produces paints and coatings. Valspar paints are featured at Lowe's (LOW) home improvement stores as well as other independent dealers throughout the country.
Here is a fact that most people don't know about newly constructed homes: They tend to get painted twice. Typically the homebuilder will paint the new walls a basic white or off-white. Then once the homeowner moves in and begins to decorate, another coat of paint is then applied in custom colors. Thus, new-home building can be very beneficial to the paint manufacturers.
One of Valspar's main competitors is Sherwin-Williams (SHW), which would make a suitable addition to this housing rebound portfolio, but I decided to select the smaller Valspar (market cap $4.7 billion) over Sherwin-Williams (market cap $13.1 billion) solely on a valuation basis.
Earnings for Valspar are expected to increase 23% in 2012 and 12% in 2013. The stock sells at a price/earnings multiple of 16, vs. 20 for Sherwin-Williams.
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Big Story attack on Pelosi: "THE WAR ON ENGLISH!"
On The Big Story, a full-screen graphic appeared showing a picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the phrases "THE WAR ON ENGLISH!" "Just 'Say No' to America's Language" and "Why?" Throughout most of the segment, a graphic appeared in the lower right corner of the screen showing an image of Pelosi's face alternating with the phrase "SPEAK SPANISH."
On the November 19 edition of The Big Story, co-host John Gibson stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is "trying to force The Salvation Army to hire people who don't speak English." Gibson was referring to Pelosi's reported pledge [1] not to enact a provision that would prevent the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from pursuing a national-origin discrimination lawsuit against The Salvation Army for allegedly firing two Spanish-speaking workers after the organization began enforcing an English-language policy. During the ensuing segment, which featured an interview with Republican presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo (CO) by co-host Heather Nauert, a full-screen graphic appeared, showing a picture of Nancy Pelosi and the phrases "THE WAR ON ENGLISH!" "Just 'Say No' to America's Language" and "Why?"
Additionally, throughout most of the segment, a graphic appeared in the lower right corner of the screen showing an image of Pelosi's face alternating with the phrase "SPEAK SPANISH."
Nauert and Tancredo discussed an amendment by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) included in the version of the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill [2] passed by the Senate. The amendment states: "None of the funds made available in this Act shall be used to initiate or participate in a civil action by or on the behalf of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against an entity on the grounds that the entity requires an employee to speak English while engaged in work." According to an Associated Press article [3], "The EEOC has come under assault from lawmakers such as Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) after the agency filed suit earlier this year against a Salvation Army thrift store in Massachusetts that had fired two employees for speaking Spanish while sorting clothes." From the article:
Alexander successfully attached the English-in-the-workplace provision to the EEOC budget bill on an Appropriations Committee vote in June with the support of three Democrats -- including powerful panel Chairman Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.
In the House, [Rep. Charlie] Gonzalez [D-TX] and other Latino members narrowly won a vote in July to reject a move to prevent the EEOC from pursuing English-only discrimination cases. But the result was reversed last week on a nonbinding 218-186 vote urging negotiators on the underlying budget bill to accept Alexander's language.
Outraged Latinos said Democratic leaders didn't adequately prepare members for the vote and they got a promise from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) that Alexander's English-only provision would be killed.
As Media Matters for America has noted [4], Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended in 1991, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of national origin -- the provision of law on which the EEOC suit is based -- specifically includes an exception [5] for "those certain instances where ... national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise." And indeed, the lawsuit specifically alleged that the ability to speak English "was unrelated to the job they had been performing since 1999."
From the November 19 edition of The Big Story with John Gibson & Heather Nauert:
GIBSON: New tonight, another big outrage, this one ignited by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. What did the San Francisco Democrat do now? She's trying to force The Salvation Army to hire people who don't speak English. Huh? Yo no comprende.
NAUERT: Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from getting sued for requiring that their workers speak English. The Salvation Army is one of those employers targeted in such a lawsuit. Why doesn't the speaker of the United States think that workers in this country should all speak English?
Here now to talk about this is Republican Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. He's a former chair of the Immigration Reform Caucus. OK, so, seems here that we have a war on English. "Just say no to America's language." Why?
TANCREDO: Well, because, first of all, we are becoming a bilingual country. It's unfortunate, but it is true. It's happening everywhere. I was -- as you know, I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, the -- in Ottumwa, Iowa -- this is the heartland -- the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is a bilingual newspaper. You could go on and on, of course, with cities along the south-- the border in Texas, which I happen -- where I happen to be right now, that have changed to Spanish as the official language.
NAUERT: OK, but --
TANCREDO: Bilingualism for individuals is one thing --
NAUERT: -- one sec.
TANCREDO: -- for countries, it's lousy.
NAUERT: OK, so if an employer has a company where employees are required to interface with customers and it's primarily an English-language-speaking area, should an employer not have the right to require that its employees speak English?
TANCREDO: Of course they should, and of course that's exactly what -- I mean, it's almost bizarre that we have to have something like this at the congressional level and that has to be an amendment, and it's not bizarre or it's not strange that Nancy Pelosi would kill it. But you know what? The Democrats are in this horrendous bind right now. It's fascinating to watch. It's great to see from my side, because they see the immigration issue kind of welling up to the top and becoming a very hot topic for them, and yet they've got to satisfy a significant portion of their base. And they're trying to walk this tightrope. In this case, she's trying to satisfy that part of the base which is, of course, pro-illegal immigration and pro-bilingualization of the country.
GIBSON: But Tom --
TANCREDO: She's trying to do it, and it's unfortunate.
GIBSON: But Tom, bilingualism means you can speak two. What this deal is, is saying you can get away with a job speaking only one language, and that language is not English. I mean, I think The Salvation Army wanted them to be bilingual, gave them a year to learn English.
TANCREDO: I remember.
GIBSON: And still, it's -- this is a Spanish-only question.
TANCREDO: That's true. You're absolutely right. And there is no defense for it. I mean, certainly, I can come up with absolutely none, except to say that this is an attempt to satisfy that particular wing of their party. And, you know, they're -- look, they've got a Democrat freshman that's going to introduce a bill soon. It's a tough, enforcement-only piece of legislation, and they're trying to do that to balance it off the other way because they're in, as I say, a quandary. But this whole thing, this idea of a country that's -- where two languages are spoken. Well, what I mean to say is some part of the country speaks one language --
GIBSON: Yeah.
TANCREDO: -- some part of the country speaks the other. That's what I mean by a bilingual country. Not a country where everybody speaks two languages. And that is what has happened to us.
GIBSON: You mean bifurcated-language country?
TANCREDO: Bifurcated, that's a better way to put it.
GIBSON: Tom Tancredo.
TANCREDO: That's a better way to put it. But it's really a very, very serious problem for a nation. We better start to deal with this, or we won't have a nation to talk about it.
GIBSON: Tom Tancredo, Colorado congressman. Tom, thanks very much. Good to see you.
NAUERT: Thanks.
TANCREDO: Thanks.
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Rock Hill, S.C. - Josh Roper was selected to the 2010 South Atlantic Preseason All-Conference team, while the Tornados were picked 10th overall in the SAC Coaches' preseason poll, as announced by the conference office on Friday.
Roper, who was named to the All-Conference and All-Tournament team last year, was third in the SAC last year, averaging 20.6 points per game and second in assists at 4.13 per game, and is expected to lead the Tornados once again as Brevard looks to defend their 2010 Food Lion SAC Tournament title.
The Lincoln Memorial University Railsplitters, who return four starters from last year's 20-9 team, is the preseason favorite to win the 2010-11 South Atlantic Conference regular season men's basketball crown, the conference office announced Friday.
The Railsplitters received seven first-place votes and 94 total points from the league's 10 head coaches.
Lincoln Memorial returns senior forward D'Mario Curry, a two-time All-SAC selection, who was named to the preseason All-Conference first team, which was also announced. Curry led the Railsplitters in scoring (16.9 points per game, sixth-best in the SAC), and led the SAC in rebounding (11.1 per game) and blocks (3.43 per game) last season.
Lincoln Memorial also placed forward Desmond Johnson on the preseason second team. Johnson was 13th in the league in scoring last season, averaging 12.4 points per game.
First-year conference member Anderson University is picked to finish second. The Trojans received two first-place votes and 79 total points. Anderson returns three starters from last year's team which went 24-8 and advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Southeast Region tournament.
The top returnee for the Trojans is guard Brandon Young, who was named to the preseason All-Conference first team. Young was named to the NABC All-Region team after last season, when he led the team in scoring (15.5 points per game) and assists (3.7 per game). He ranked 57th in the nation in steals per game and closed the regular season out with a streak of 18 consecutive double-figure scoring games. Anderson's Kevis Cornwell was named to the preseason All-Conference second team. He averaged 12.4 points per game last season and was named to the NCAA All-Southeast Regional Tournament team.
Wingate University is picked to finish third in the coach's poll with 73 points. The Bulldogs also placed two on the preseason All-Conference team. Junior guard Jamie Vaughn was named to the first team, while sophomore forward Odell Turner, the 2010 SAC Freshman of the Year, was named to the second team. Turner averaged 12.1 points per game last season, while Vaughn averaged 11.7.
Catawba College, last year's conference champion, received one first-place vote and 53 total points. Senior guard Dominick Reid was named to the preseason All-Conference second tem. Reid averaged 8.9 points per game last season and ranked sixth in the league in assists (3.47 per game) and second in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.42).
Newberry College is picked to finish fifth with 50 points. The Wolves, under the direction of first-year coach Dave Davis, bring back a pair of starters, including forward Ray Robinson, who was named to the preseason All-Conference second team.
Robinson averaged 11.4 points per game last season and ranked ninth in the SAC in field goal percentage (.537), 12th in free-throw percentage (.750) and 12th in steals per game (1.37).
Tusculum College is picked to finish sixth. The Pioneers received 48 points. Senior forward Rob Troutman was named to the preseason All-Conference second team. Troutman averaged 9.4 points and 4.5 rebounds per game last season and was among the league leaders in free-throw shooting.
Mars Hill College was close behind with 47 points for seventh place. A key returnee for the Lions is forward Dion Malachi, who was named to the preseason All-Conference first team. Last season, Malachi ranked 11th in the league in scoring, averaging 14.1 points per game, second in blocked shots at 2.48 per game, was third in rebounding at 7.2 per game, and led the SAC in field goal percentage, shooting 63.6 percent.
Lenoir-Rhyne University is picked to finish eighth with 39 points. The Bears return three starters from last year's squad, including forward/center D.J. Blackmon. Blackmon, an All-Conference and All-Region selection last season, averaged 20.5 points per game, fourth in the SAC, and was seventh in the league in rebounding at 6.8 per game. He was also third in the league in steals per game and ranked among the league leaders in field goal percentage, assists, free-throw percentage, 3-point field goal percentage and blocked shots.
Carson-Newman is picked to finish ninth with 34 points. The Eagles, under the direction of first-year head coach Chuck Benson, return one starter and four letterwinners from last year's team.
Brevard College rounds out the poll with 33 points. The Tornados finished second in the league last year and won the 2010 Food Lion SAC Tournament. Brevard returns guard Josh Roper is the lone returning starter from last year's championship team and was named to the preseason All-Conference first team.
The 2010-11 season opens Friday, November 12, with three games. Six more games take place on Saturday, November 13.
The 2011 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference tournament will begin on Wednesday, March 2 with quarterfinal games on campus sites. Winners advance to the tournament semifinals on Saturday, March 5 at the Catawba Valley Community College Multipurpose Facility in Hickory, N.C. The championship game will be Sunday, March 6 at 4 p.m.
2010-11 Men's Coaches Preseason Poll
Poll (1st) Points
1. Lincoln Memorial (7) 94
2. Anderson (2) 79
3. Wingate 73
4. Catawba (1) 53
5. Newberry 50
6. Tusculum 48
7. Mars Hill 47
8. Lenoir-Rhyne 39
9. Carson-Newman 34
10. Brevard 33
Men's Preseason All-Conference
Brandon Young, Anderson
Josh Roper, Brevard
D.J. Blackmon, Lenoir-Rhyne
D'Mario Curry, Lincoln Memorial
Dion Malachi, Mars Hill
Jamie Vaughn, Wingate
Kevis Cornwell, Anderson
Dominick Reid, Catawba
Desmond Johnson, Lincoln Memorial
Ray Robinson, Newberry
Rob Troutman, Tusculum
Odell Turner, Wingate


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo volleyball team saved two match points against them, but ultimately could not gain the upper hand as they lost an exciting five-set match to visiting Lynn University 25-23, 25-21, 25-23, 24-26, 15-13 in Sunshine State Conference action on Friday night.
It was a match that saw the Lions show some serious resiliency in set four as Saint Leo was down to their final point at 24-22. Saint Leo (6-7, 2-3 SSC) staved off the visitors from Boca Raton and ran the table, using two Jordan Sisson kills to push for the set four win.
The Lions led set five 7-5 before going cold, allowing Lynn (9-5, 3-2 SSC) to rack up the next six points to take a commanding 11-7 lead in the short deciding game. Again, the resiliency shined as the Lions pushed back to 14-13 and held possessions multiple times on what proved to be the deciding rally. The comeback would remain unfinished as Lynn setter Abby Brokop finished things off with a kill in the middle of the court that was well-placed as she put a period on the thriller.
Four Lions were in double figures as the team hit .204 overall. Jordan Sisson slammed down 15 kills and only had one error to hit .519, while Danielle Blesto hit .379 with 16 kills for the Green and Gold. Emily Calderon-Reyes added 14 kills and 13 digs as she saved points for the Lions on multiple occasions.
Bletso also blocked six total attacks and the Lions outblocked Lynn 13-to-8.
Lynn was led by a dominant performance from 6'4" Brittany Brown who posted a game-high 18 kills. Shannon Dugan added 16 successful attacks in the Fighting Knight victory.
The Lions will have less than 24 hours to regroup as they host Barry on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. For the latest news, information, and updates on Lions Volleyball, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Downdraft Kiln Backfiring
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Posted 21 September 2010 - 08:58 AM
I've just begun firing a small downdraft kiln I bought used. The flames go direct into the kiln fine when the air intake vents attached to them are closed. If opened more than 1/4 inch they start backfiring and I'm concerned about the flame being active outside the kiln. The initial solution is to not open the air intake valves more than 1/4", but then there is not enough heat combustion entering the kiln to fire it off in a reasonable length of time. I've tried lowering the gas while introducing more air, but this didn't help. Any suggestions?
What kind of burners are you running?
It sounds like the flame retention nozzles are maybe shot or at least deteriorated. The first step is an inspection of the nozzles and then likely a good cleaning with a soft wire brush.
That is assuming that the burners you have actually have flame retention nozzles. Some really cheapie burners have pretty poor integrated nozzles and are prone to this with any decent level of primary aeration. So you end up "stuck" with using secondary air to solve the issue..... not a great way to have to fire. Sometimes home-made pipe burners do not even have flame retention nozzles at all... and then you have to "play games" on every firng to keep the burner from backburning and/or fluffing out.
The front surface plane of the flame retention nozzle should be about 3/4" to 1" away from the plane of the outer surface of the kiln's exterior structure at the burner port. This allows a good flow of cooling air to keep the metal at a temperature at which it will not deteriorate too fast. Any closer and the radiant heat energy of the kiln starts to heat up the nozzle area excessively. In addition to "rusting" the nozzle out, this position reduces the flame quenching effect of the mass of (relatively) cold metal, and allows the flame to burn back toward the gas/air supply inside the burner when the flame speed of the particular gas/air mixture exceend the flow rate out of the burner tube. Higher aeration ratios heading up toward 100% primary typically increase the flamespeed.... so hence the problem you are seeing.
If the burners have (in use) been experiencing very high metal temperatures due to improper mounting and/or any backburning, then the metal of the nozzle will have deteriorated faster than "normal", and the restriction plate (slightly reduces the size of the mixing tube at the exit area) that is sized to help prevent the backburning will likely have probably eroded away somewhat. This also will make the burners tend do this. The worse the erosion there... the worse the problem.
You are right to be concerned. Heating up the mixing tube and whole burner assembly is not a good thing. That heat can conduct back into the manifold piping and get back to things like ball valves and electrical witing and such. And it will just make the backburning issue get worse and worse over time. You are getting heat energy in places that the system likely was not intended to have.
Possible solutions......... inspect and clean the retetntion nozzles for best operation............ maybe relocate the burner nozzles back more from the face of the burner ports ......... replace the retention nozzles ......... if the burners have integral retention nozzles (cheapie burners) then replace the burners ............ fire using reduced primary air to keep the flame stable at the nozzle and use secondary air to complete combustion.
John Baymore
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Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
Posted 21 September 2010 - 11:20 PM
follow John's wonderful advice and if burners need to be replaced - ward burners are great and remont at correct distance from ports.
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The Canadiens will open training camp in Brossard Sunday after the National Hockey League and the NHLPA signed off on a memorandum of understanding on the new collective bargaining agreement shortly after 10 p.m. on Saturday.
The memorandum cleared the way for the opening of camps and teams are now free to sign players and make trades. The major task for new Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin is to sign restricted free agent defenceman P.K. Subban.
The Canadiens will hit the ice at 10 a.m. Sunday in Brossard and it will be open to the public. To see the list of 27 players invited to the camp and to get practice times click here.
The NHL also released the 2013 schedule Saturday night and the Canadiens, as expected, will open the season next Saturday with a home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Canadiens will play 48 games between Jan. 19 and April 27, when they conclude the regular season in Toronto. They will play six games in January and 14 games in each of the next three months. The Canadiens will play seven sets of back-to-back games, including the traditional Super Bowl weekend matinees Feb. 2 against Buffalo and Feb. 3 against Ottawa.
All the games will be against Eastern Conference teams and the only time the Canadiens will leave the Eastern time zone is April 25 when they play in Winnipeg.
See the complete Canadiens schedule by clicking here. See the complete NHL schedule by clicking here.
For more on the official end of the lockout, click here.
Tickets for the first two Canadiens home games: Jan. 19 against the Leafs and Jan. 22 against Florida, go on sale at noon Sunday. Tickets for the remaining games will go on sale the following Sunday at noon. For more details, click here.
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The problem of explaining individual action (agency) within an account sensitive to social structure, culture and history is not a problem particular to theorising CSA. Arguably, the late sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) constructed a conceptual framework for social practice that is able to overcome the structure-agency dichotomy (McNay, 1999, 2000). Potentially, it offers the 'theoretical linkage' required for a socio-culturally sensitive account that avoids the charge of either biological or social determinism (Hartill, 2010).
Central to Bourdieu's social theory is the notion that when social agents act they always do so within a context, so that they both determine and are determined by that context, or social field. In this fashion, for example, 'the banker or the priest are financial capitalism or the Church made flesh' (Bourdieu, 1990b: 57). Unusually for a major social theorist, Bourdieu wrote specifically about sport (see Bourdieu, 1990a, 1993) designating it a 'relatively autonomous' cultural field that sits alongside and overlaps with other fields, such as science, the media or religion. In this way, it is possible to consider athletes, coaches, officials, etc. as sport embodied – the field made flesh. Thus, Bourdieu theorises social action from a position whereby historical social structures 'inhabit' the individual, they are embodied, and it is on this basis that individual action is generated, but not determined. Crucially, for Bourdieu 'there exists a correspondence between social structures and mental structures' (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992:12) so that 'property appropriates its owner, embodying itself … generating practices perfectly conforming with its logic and its demands' (Bourdieu, 1990b: 57).
There is insufficient space here to comprehensively set out this perspective, however, in this chapter I will consider this notion of embodiment in relation to the 'elite' male child and the sexual subjection of boys within sport. I will draw upon interviews with 'survivors' of CSA in sport to illustrate my perspective. These men were between ten and twelve years old when the abuse began; it continued for a period of not less than one year.
The Illusio and Sport
For Bourdieu, the struggles that take place within social fields are analogous to game-playing, and sport is frequently drawn upon as a metaphor for 'social games.' The notion of illusio is central to Bourdieu's theoretical formulation:
Illusio is the fact of being caught up in and by the game, of believing the game is 'worth the candle,' or, more simply, that playing is worth the effort ... If your mind is structured according to the structures of the world in which you play, everything will seem obvious and the question of knowing if the game is 'worth the candle' will not even be asked ... the illusio is the enchanted relation to a game that is the product of a relation of ontological complicity between mental structures and the objective structures of social space. That is what I meant in speaking of interest: games which matter to you are important and interesting because they have been imposed and introduced in your mind, in your body, in a form called the feel for the game (Bourdieu, 1998: 77).
The field of sport is very clearly imposed upon boys; indeed, it is introduced as being fundamentally related to their male, masculine identity – their boyhood – itself (Connell, 1995; Messner, 1990). Thus, Coakley (2006: 157) states 'youth sports [is] a context that has been organized and controlled by men in ways that reaffirm traditional gender ideology.' Therefore, boys in western societies are raised in an environment which encourages them to feel, from a very early age, that the game was definitely 'worth the candle':
Will: Coaching - sport - was very serious, very serious … you wanted to be the best, because what you wanted was praise from this man. We were all slaves to praise, you know. We were willing to do all sorts of things because we wanted praise from this man because it meant so much.
Early in their boyhood, these 'survivors' all had a trenchant belief in 'sport':
Illusio is thus ... the fact of being invested, of investing in the stakes existing in a certain game, through the effect of competition, and which only exist for people who, being caught up in that game and possessing the dispositions to recognize the stakes at play, are ready to die for the stakes ... (Bourdieu, 1998: 77).
Sheldon Kennedy was an outstanding young athlete who was sexually abused by his highly respected coach whilst on 'camp' (see Kennedy, 2006). However, when offered the 'opportunity' of joining him again, to develop his ice-hockey career, despite his trauma about what had already happened, he simply didn't have the vocabulary to say 'no':
Sheldon: I was supposed to be the next David Beckham right, and so how does a guy quit, how do I just up and quit sport?'
Boys abused in sport have been drilled, not only in the technical aspects of their sport, but also to recognise the stakes of the game in which they are invested. To speak out, or act, against the game would be to 'crack the game asunder,' to disregard the stakes of the game. Such is the manner in which the game has been introduced to him, the sports-boy cannot feasibly entertain such an act. Thus, the elite child athlete, is subjected to sex, not by a 'sick' individual but by a 'man who held the keys to the world that I had wanted to be part of since I was a little kid.' (Sheldon).
'Why didn't I say something?' is perhaps a perpetual question of the adult survivor; they knew they could have, yet when they say, 'I just couldn't,' this is in fact exactly the point – 'saying something' was theoretically possible, yet literally impossible. For this reason, boys sexually abused in sport are only able to speak of their experiences, if at all, many years after the abuse[1] – that is, once they are able to recognise that the game is (and was) not 'worth the candle.' Therefore, once they are no longer overwhelmingly characterised by an enchanted relation to the game (the sport illusio), critical reflection becomes more possible. Yet no doubt for many, this never occurs.
Action, Resistance and Symbolic Violence
According to Bourdieu (1998) 'knowledge' presents a potential source for social agents to resist the force of 'social games' but he argues that this is far from a simple process: 'one does not free oneself through a simple conversion of consciousness' (Bourdieu, 1998: 79). Where children are concerned this is surely an even more complex process and where the child is constructed or labelled as (and aspires to be) an 'elite athlete' it is clear that their (new) identity demands that they be 'an athlete' and little else. That is, it is not simply the case that the child desires to be an athlete, rather, they have been explicitly depicted, often from a very young age, as 'an athlete' and this imposed identity (and status symbol) requires considerable maintenance. This is made abundantly clear from recent 'evidence,' influential within UK sport at least, that claims 10,000 hours of practice are required to reach professional/elite status (Balyi and Hamilton, 2004). Thus, according to Malcolm Gladwell 'the tennis prodigy who starts playing at six is playing in Wimbledon at 16 or 17' (Daily Mail, 2008).
This is the symbolic violence of which Bourdieu speaks; the symbolic violence that, of course, permits very real violence and abuse (not least sexual) on generation after generation of children. According to Bourdieu (1998: 103):
Symbolic violence is the violence which extorts submission, which is not perceived as such ... achieved when the mental structures of the one to whom the injunction is addressed are in accordance with the structures inscribed in the injunction addressed to him. In this case, one says that it went without saying, that there was nothing else to do.
In such a fashion we may be better able to understand the position of children faced with a sexual encounter with an adult in sport. The young, elite, male athlete, successful and ambitious, is perhaps a perfect exemplar of accord between subjective and objective structures. Indeed, it might be argued that the purpose of governing bodies is singular: to turn the child into an athlete/player; and that this single, coherent, totalising objective has the effect of rendering the child in a dominated state by providing him with the cognitive capacity to do little else other than apply the categories of the dominant.
Boyhood-sport extorts the submission, complicity and silence of young males to their own exploitation:
MH: Were you told not to say anything?
Will: No, never! Never, never. That was never, ever suggested. He knew perfectly well I wasn't going to say anything.
Of course, sexually victimized boys could say something. That is, if we considered that social agents (including children) operate from the basis of unshackled, autonomous rationality. This is not the argument here. According to Bourdieu (2001: 39):
It is quite illusory to believe that symbolic violence can be overcome with the weapons of consciousness and will alone ... because the effect and conditions of its efficacy are durably and deeply embedded in the body in the form of dispositions. This is seen, in particular, in the case of relations of kinship and all relations built on that model, in which these durable inclinations of the socialized body are expressed and experienced in the logic of feeling (filial love, fraternal love, etc.) or duty, which are often merged in the experience of respect and devotion ...
Brackenridge (2001) then likens sport-abuse to 'virtual incest' due to the familial role that sport often plays in the lives of 'promising' athletes. Therefore, 'symbolic violence acts ... to maintain a relation of domination … [and] it works when subjective structures … and objective structures are in accord with each other' (Krais, 1993: 172). Do sexually victimized child-athletes freely choose not to speak out? No, yet neither were they, nor should they be, (theoretically) reduced to inertia, somehow non-cognisant of the events engulfing them. Undoubtedly, they acted in myriad ways: to 'manage' their abuse and their abuser – to calm them, to appease them, to resist and challenge them, to please them, to reduce the impact on others (especially parents), to maintain the status quo through silence. Indeed, the scale of the challenges they faced forced them to bring all their powers of ingenuity, creativity and thought to bear on their action.
They did act, they were agents (as opposed to objects) in this encounter; they could have acted differently. Yet theoretical accounts frequently deprive them of this capacity in the misguided assumption that this would be tantamount to giving credibility to erroneous claims that children somehow freely consented to the encounter.
Initiation and Training: 'A Faustian Pact'
The complicity of abused boys is coerced – but not simply through the persuasive efforts of an individual adult-male, but through their initiation and training in the field of athleticism - it was virtually preordained:
Simon: ... there was kind of a - what could be better than being a rugby hero? It's literally a Faustian Pact. But you have to sign you know, it's not a choice, you have to sign ...
Ordination is both an entry requirement, and a condition, of the boy's sustained engagement in the symbolic economy (the brotherhood) of organised male-sport. All the participants, whilst articulating a notion that they were likely candidates for abuse because of parental relations or family background, refer to the fact (or strong likelihood) that their abusers subjected many other boys to the same experience. That is, they were, in fact, not distinct, except that they occupied a deeply enchanted relation to the field. According to Bourdieu (1998: 111):
Soft relations of exploitation only work if they are soft. They are relations of symbolic violence which can only be established with the complicity of those who suffer from it, like intradomestic relations. The dominated collaborate in their own exploitation through affection or admiration.
The notion of collaboration may be difficult here, nevertheless, I feel that 'survivors' of CSA may well recognise the appropriateness of this formulation for their childhood situation. However, it is through these necessarily 'soft relations of exploitation' – perhaps epitomised in the 'it's all for the kids' narrative (Messner, 2009) - that belies a highly organised economy driven to 'develop' (exploit) 'talent' (the child's body), underpinned by a seemingly insatiable desire for elite success, regardless of costs to health or well-being. Thus, boys are persistently urged not only to enter sport, to play sport, but to become sports-like – to become sportsmen, athletes; to embody sport, to believe in it, to be it.
Through the sexual abuse of a child we can see very clearly the embodied nature of this complicity. Indeed, in organised sport it is perhaps more evident than any other field how children are trained to succumb physically to adult (male) authority – the sportsboy is trained rigorously and relentlessly, 'day-in day-out,' to submit his body utterly to the will of adult men. Bourdieu (1990b: 73) argues 'the body believes in what it plays at ... what is 'learned by body' is not something that one has, like knowledge that can be brandished, but something that one is.' This is no doubt especially true for the elite child.
Boyhood in sport is about learning to push one's body beyond its normal limits, learning to cope with physical discomfort and pain, learning to see one's body as a tool to be exploited for ends that may principally serve others, to sacrifice oneself without complaint at the behest of adult men and to learn the strategies of domination. This is the 'game' introduced to the boy and this is what his body believes in.
Furthermore, in the hyper-masculine, ultra-instrumentalist world of elite youth sport, where children's bodies are valued hierarchically according to their execution of arbitrary physical skills, all things sexual are utterly denied whilst simultaneously constituting a 'rite oriented towards virilisation' (Bourdieu, 2001: 25). Thus, male-sport is an often erotic, sexualised, homophobic environment that denies itself as such, and thus denies de facto the sexual objectification/fetishisation of children's bodies – it couldn't happen here (Brackenridge, 2001).
Organised sport is engaged in a determined endeavour to structure children's minds in accord with an instrumentalist logic fundamentally geared towards conquest and domination. As Pronger (1999) puts it, 'the logic of adding to oneself by subtracting from others.' It does this whilst persistently engaging in acts of euphemism, constructing itself through a sustained discourse of healthy and wholesome activity, simultaneously denying any relation to sex. Such an endeavour presents a considerable risk for the elite male-child athlete who is trained from a very young age to believe, 'body and soul', in the game and the agents who epitomise it.
Therefore, the contemporary call to 'listen to children' and 'give children a voice' in sport (e.g. 'Child Power – Your Voice' Amateur Swimming Association, 2009) must be weighed against the field-forces and strategies that seek to homogenise the sportsboy/girl and limit his/her capacity for critical thought. In the objectification, commodification and exploitation of children's bodies, and the demand that they embody the field of sport, children are taught to intuitively understand that their bodies are objects to be used according to the demands of the agents of the field (men).
Therefore, in light of CSA in sport, it is incumbent upon adults to ask what capacity for autonomous and critical thought can the highly (relentlessly) trained child reasonably be expected to have developed towards the field they are instructed to resemble? If there is no space between subjective (cognitive) structures and objective structures – if the child is in fact 'the field made flesh' – there can be little hope that such children will feel able to speak up about the trauma they are faced with.
For the boy (if not also his mature self) to speak out about the violation, an act that would risk revealing the true nature of the logic of the universe that has structured his cognitive structures, would be tantamount to further violating himself, this time by his own hand. In revealing the 'truth' about himself, the revelation would place him at odds with the (masculinist) symbolic economy that is so fundamental to his being. Such an act, for the young male, characterised by the sport illusio, enchanted by the game, is virtually unthinkable. Thus, the command of silence that masks and enables abuse is a fundamental feature of the 'game' of elite sport and the current enchantment with these masculinist rites and practices, generally, does not serve our children well.
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San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Alex Collins, wounded in a shootout with ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, has been named grand marshal of the Big Bear Heritage Parade June 15.
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After Dorner's burned-out truck was found later in day near Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Big Bear Lake, the manhunt closed in on Dorner, who had been holed up for six days in the nearby vacation home of James and Karen Reynolds. The couple had happened upon Dorner when they arrived at their condominium and he reportedly tied them up at gunpoint.
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Three words to describe Queen's set tonight? BRIAN MAY SHREDS!
The highly anticipated performance by Queen featuring Adam Lambert was nothing short of legendary at the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The group kicked off their set with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and followed with classics like "Another One Bites The Dust" and "We Are The Champions." Adam Lambert put his unique twist on our favorite songs all while paying a proper tribute to the late lead singer, Freddie Mercury. Do you think Adam's mustache was a part of his tribute to Mercury? COMMENT BELOW!
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