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text: Personalities Shawn Michaels In 2010, Shawn Michaels retired from WWE after a successful run of over twenty-five years in the ring. A San Antonio, Texas native, Shawn officially became a part of WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) in 1988. A ten-time winner of Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Match of the Year Award, Michaels has been blessed to be the WWE World Champion, World Heavyweight Champion, two time Royal Rumble winner, Intercontinental Champion and World Tag Team Champion, along with many other noteworthy accolades. He also has compiled a list of memorable nicknames that fans across the globe associate with his career in WWE including: The Heartbreak Kid, The Showstopper and Mr. Wrestlemania to name a few. Michaels recently added Mr. Hall of Fame to the list of nicknames after being inducted into WWE's most exclusive club less than a year after his retirement. The only thing that rivals Michaels' passion for performing is the love of his Family, Faith and the Great Outdoors. In 1999, Michaels met his wife of twelve years Rebecca, and the two, along with their children Cameron and Cheyenne, began a spiritual journey that continues today. Michaels has often told people that his first encounter with all mighty God took place in a deer blind. It was this encounter that would transform his life and the life of his family forever. Though the WWE schedule would keep Michaels busy, he always made it a point to "get in the field" when the opportunity arose. With the decision to homeschool their children, the love of God, family and country would be the hallmark of the outdoor lifestyle Shawn and Rebecca would adopt for their family. Though Michaels still appears occasionally on WWE programming, in 2010 he stepped away to, "be home and help raise my children." Shawn and Rebecca met Keith Mark and his wife Jeanne at the 2010 SHOT Show and the two quickly realized it was more than just "coincidence." Two families with the same "core" value system, not just in talk, but in practice, quickly formed a friendship that they firmly believe will stand the test of time. It was this bond that led Shawn and Keith to bring MacMillan River Adventures back to Outdoor Channel. The two outdoorsmen make no bones about their agenda, they are going to promote their love of God...their family...and the great outdoors - each one in their own riches and glory. And in the words of Hank Williams Jr, "we say grace and we say Ma'am, and if you ain't into that, we don't give a damn!" Related Shows Shawn Michaels' MacMillan River Adventures

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In the shadows of the nation's capital, Ford set a new standard for future cars.
Monday night, Ford's hybrid, the 2010 Fusion, managed to go more than 1,300 miles on a single tank of gas. That means you could drive a Fusion straight from New York to Miami without stopping to fill up.
A team including Ford hybrid engineers, a fuel efficiency expert, and NASCAR star Carl Edwards started the "1,000 Mile Challenge" on Saturday morning in Mount Vernon, Virginia. They were still going along the George Washington Parkway by late Monday night, getting an average of 81.6 miles per gallon.
The team of experts had some strategies (what they call "Eco-Driving" techniques) to maximize mileage on the hybrid's journey, including:
- Gradually accelerating and smoothly braking
- Coasting up to red lights and stop signs to avoid fuel waste and brake wear
- Avoiding bumps and potholes that can reduce momentum
Besides giving us another reason to drive hybrid cars, the 1,000 Mile Challenge also raised funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Terrorism, whether practiced in the U.S. or overseas, can be defined as a deliberate act of violence to instill fear in a target audience. We fight terrorism when we stay calm but resolute; we abet terrorists when our response is to panic or try to foment panic in others.
This past weekend, the CEO of the National Rifle Association stood up on a stage in Houston and chose to follow the latter route, linking the recent bombings in Boston with gun ownership — or a lack thereof. "How many Bostonians," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre asked, "wish they had a gun two weeks ago?"
He then painted a portrait of Boston as a city quivering in fear during the marathon bombings and the manhunt that followed. Many of those innocent families living in a big city where firearm ownership is discouraged, Mr. LaPierre insisted, lacked the means to defend themselves from "whatever may come crashing through the door."
Surely, alleged Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could not have hoped for a better accomplice after the fact. We don't know what Massachusetts community Mr. LaPierre was observing, but what we saw were people standing up to terrorism, following directions to stay indoors when necessary, and providing investigators with vital information where possible.
As for firearm ownership, we don't recall armed private citizens repelling the suspects. Had the brothers' carjacking victim had a gun in his vehicle, for instance, would that have made a difference? The driver was text messaging at the moment they arrived and hardly in a position to do much more than comply with their wishes. If anything, it might have put him at greater risk.
What we did see were law enforcement agents — as legally armed in Massachusetts as they are anywhere else — respond with impressive courage and overwhelming force. If there was a piece of technology that deserves a nod, it wasn't any firearm but a more benign example of modern ingenuity called "the video surveillance camera" that appeared to do much of the heavy lifting in this particular criminal investigation.
How many Bostonians wished they'd owned a gun two weeks ago? No doubt some. But it's difficult to believe a single one of these private gun-owners would have made a difference. Or that this sudden desire to have a gun at hand was anything close to the majority view. Many of us recognize the hidden cost of gun ownership — accidental shootings and deliberate suicides, or the risk that it will be used in a domestic dispute or be stolen and ultimately fall into the hands of criminals.
Yet there was Mr. LaPierre in Texas once again painting the nation's circumstances as extraordinarily dire with the only hope being the proliferation of firearms in every apartment, home, college dorm and coffee shop. This may be the message of gun manufacturers and sellers, it is not what the United States of America is all about.
Responsible people — aside from criminals and the seriously mentally ill, for instance — have a right to own a gun. And anyone, Mr. LaPierre included, has a right to speak their minds. But the rest of us also have a right to observe the consequences of free speech and seek reasonable limits on ownership of certain types of weapons, like requiring background checks.
Wasn't it just a few months ago that this same man was scolding those who favor restrictions on gun ownership for "taking advantage" of Newtown shooting victims? Clearly, it's only "exploiting" tragedy when it's done in the name of gun control.
When London was facing a bombing blitz, Winston Churchill didn't advise its citizens to panic and buy more guns. President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't suggest the answer to "fear itself" was to keep a gun by the door. And after 9/11, even George W. Bush wasn't looking for a civilian militia but for justice. "We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail," he said.
When 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans favor background checks for gun ownership and the NRA uses its considerable influence to thwart the public's will, and when that same organization is quick to suggest a terrorist attack is a lesson of fear and victimhood, one has to ask: What is the agenda here? Whose side are they on?


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Pitting little girls against each other in a competition based on lookism: Keep US child beauty pageants out!
Did you even know Australia had a Federal Children's Commissioner? We don't hear that much from her – so thought we would try to get her attention and involvement on this. Let her know you want her to act by signing the petition today!
Condemn & Take Action to Stop Exploitative Universal Royalty Child Beauty Pageant from coming to Australia
Universal Royalty's Child Beauty Pageant is coming to Melbourne, Australia, despite clear evidence from experts that the practise is detrimental to the normal and healthy development of children.
Child beauty pageants are exploitation. Little girls are made to undergo unnecessary and painful beauty treatments such as waxing, tanning and even botox. They are adorned with make up, high heels, false eyelashes, acrylic nails, flippers (false teeth) and hairpieces. They are primped and styled to look and act like mini-adults, to flirt with the judges and to be sexy and alluring.
The pageants teach girls from a very early age that their worth is based on their appearance. Research shows that reinforcing an emphasis on looks and attractiveness leads to negative body image, disordered eating, depression, anxiety and low self-esteem. There are now over a hundred global reports on the issue of sexualisation of children. This research has shown that sexualisation is harmful to children's cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, sexuality and beliefs.
A parliamentary report recently released in Western Australia by WA's Joint Standing Committee on the Commissioner for Children and Young People called for child beauty pageants to be scrutinised as one of several ways to tackle the sexualisation of children.
Last year France outlawed child beauty pageants for children under 16 to protect them from being prematurely sexualised. Pageant organisers face jail time and substantial fines for harming children in this way.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry said: "Direct participation and competition for a beauty prize where infants and girls are objectified and judged against sexualised ideals can have significant mental health and developmental consequences that impact detrimentally on identity, self-esteem, and body perception."
A 2005 study in The Journal of Treatment and Prevention reported "a significant association between childhood beauty pageant participation and increased body dissatisfaction, difficulty trusting interpersonal relationships, and greater impulsive behaviours".
Teaching little girls to preen and to strut, to look sexy for the judges, to emphasise sexualised behaviours is totally inappropriate for children. We want better for our girls and call on Megan Mitchell, the National Children's Commissioner, to publicly condemn and take action to stop the Universal Royalty pageant from coming to Melbourne on August 2nd 2014.
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A 10-year-old tradition will soon come to an end: The last "Harry Potter" movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," will open next Thursday night, just after midnight.
Night-owl screenings are scheduled at theaters throughout the country, including every major cinema in the Hartford area.
"Deathly Hallows: Part 2" also will mark a first for a "Harry Potter" film: It will be shown both in 2-D and in 3-D.
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Harry Medved, a spokesman for online ticket seller fandango.com, wrote in an e-mail that the film is the fastest-selling title of the year so far, with 2,000 screenings of "Deathly Hallows" already sold out nationwide.
The film accounts for "62 percent of daily ticket sales on Fandango, followed by 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon,' accounting for 14 percent of sales," Medved wrote, adding that this film is selling twice as many tickets on Fandango than the last Potter summer release, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," in 2009.
Local Events
A few local events will mark the opening of the film. Unless otherwise noted, all are free.
Tonight at 6, Wallingford Public Library, at 200 N. Main St., will show "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I." On Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m., Wallingford will host a Potter trivia contest for kids 8 to 12, and the website promises "there will be very cool props used to keep score." Details: http://www.wallingford.lioninc.org/.
On Saturday, a Harry Potter Party will be held, with costumes encouraged, at 10:30 a.m. at the Mary Cheney Library, 586 Main St. in Manchester. For details, call 860-643-2471.
The Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, 234 Kensington Road in Berlin, is holding a Harry Potter Trivia Contest for Grades 6 to 12. Every day until Wednesday, there will be a trivia question. Kids can come to the library, fill out a form and answer that day's question. Each correct response will be put into a drawing for two tickets to a midnight showing of the new film. The more frequently a child plays, the greater the chances of winning. Also, on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., Berlin-Peck will host a free screening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I." Pizza, soda and cookies will be served. Registration is necessary. No one younger than 13 will be admitted without a parent.
Next Thursday, the Children's Museum, at 950 Trout Brook Drive in West Hartford, will hold a "Wizard Day," which is free with museum admission of $11. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. For details, visit http://www.thechildrensmuseumct.org, or call 860-231-2824.
Also on Thursday, at 3 p.m., Windsor Public Library, 323 Broad, St., will hold a "Harry's Last Hurrah!" party, for Grades 5 and older. Details: 860-285-1910.
Canton Public Library, 40 Dyer Ave., is holding a free screening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I" at 8 p.m. on Thursday for kids 10 and older, but ages 10 to 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Also, on Thursday, July 28, the library will hold a birthday party for Harry Potter, at which kids will be sorted into Hogwarts houses by the sorting hat and participate in about a dozen events, including a viewing of a display of Harry Potter items and a performance of J.K. Rowling-related material by local youths in a performing troupe.
"Harry Potter's birthday is the 31st, but that's a Sunday, and we're not open on Sunday, so we moved it. It's also J.K. Rowling's birthday," said Heather Baker, head of children's services at Canton. "There are likely to be more than 150 people there. It should be fun, but crazy." Registration: 860-693-5800.
Lucy Robbins Welles Library, 95 Cedar St. in Newington, at noon on Friday, July 15, will screen the movie that started it all, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Kids can bring lunch, and free dessert will be provided.
On Wednesday, July 20, at 2 p.m., South Windsor Public Library, at 1550 Sullivan Ave., will have a "Harry Potter Trivia Game Show." Any child in Grade 6 or higher is welcome to compete, and prizes will be awarded for the most knowledgable Potter fan. Registration: 860-644-5404
A few weeks later, on Aug. 4 from 2 to 3, the Farmington Library, 6 Monteith Drive, will hold a "Hogwarts Cuisine" party for kids 8 and older at which they will eat "snacks and potions from the books," according to the library website. Registration: 860-673-6791.
Canton's youth performing troupe also will perform a Harry Potter-themed show on Aug. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Local Screenings
Following is a listing of midnight screenings in the Hartford area next Thursday night (Friday morning, technically). Check movietickets.com and fandango.com, or visit the box offices, to make sure the showings are not sold out. Also, be sure to arrive early to get a good seat.
>> Rave Buckland, 99 Red Stone Road in Manchester has five 12:01 a.m. screenings in 2-D, screening at 12:01 a.m. and 12:15 a.m. in 3-D, and at 12:01 a.m. and 3:15 a.m. in IMAX 3D.
>> Bow Tie Palace 17 and Odyssey Theater, 330 New Park Ave., Hartford: 12:01 a.m. in 2-D, and 12:01 a.m. in 3-D.
>> Criterion Cinemas at Blue Back Square, 42 S. Main St., West Hartford: 9 p.m. showing of "Deathly Hallows Part 1," with "Part 2" in same theater immediately afterward in 3-D (separate admissions).
>> Rave Enfield, 90 Elm St.: 12:05 p.m. in 2-D, 12:01 a.m. in 3-D.
>> Rave Berlin, 19 Frontage Road: 12:01 a.m. in 2-D, 12:01 a.m. in 3-D.
>> Rave Southington, 1821 Meriden Waterbury Turnpike: 12:01 a.m. in 2-D.
>> Loews Plainville, 220 New Britain Ave.: 12:01 a.m. in 2-D, 12:01 a.m. in 3-D, 3 a.m. in IMAX 3-D. There also will be 9 p.m. showing of "Deathly Hallows Part 1," with "Part 2" in same theater immediately afterward, as a double feature.
>> Bloomfield 8, 863 Park Ave.: 12:01 a.m. in 3-D.
>> Simsbury Commons, 530 Bushy Hill Road: two 12:01 a.m. screenings in 2-D.
>> Destinta Metro Square, 200 Main St., Middletown: two 12:01 a.m. screenings in 2-D and a 12:01 a.m. show in 3-D.
A 10-year-old tradition will soon come to an end: The last "Harry Potter" movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2," will open next Thursday night, just after midnight.


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This energy segment includes firms that are involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. And throughout this segment, there are a wide variety of interesting, challenging, and good paying jobs and careers.
Electric utility companies operate power plants that use highly pressurized steam, or other forces - such as falling water - to spin the blades of a turbine that is attached to an electric generator. High voltage transmission lines then transport this electricity to regional and local distribution centers, where the voltage is reduced and then transmitted to homes, schools, factories and businesses.
Coal is the dominant fuel used to generate steam in electric power plants, followed by natural gas, petroleum, nuclear power, and other energy sources including renewable sources (geothermal, wind, wave, and solar energy).
Electric power industry pulls together, uses, and integrates each of the other major energy sectors within the U.S. economy - mining, nuclear, oil & natural gas, and renewable sources.
As the electric power needs of the Nation continue to grow, this industry is going to require hundreds of thousands of new and replacement workers. Engineers, utility technicians, lineworkers as well as managers, office staff and truck drivers - all will be needed.1
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"We Are Family": Football Coach Mike Welch '73
Longtime football coach Mike Welch '73 carries on a proud tradition of IC coaching. by Michael Warwick with Mbeti Hyess
"Ithaca College [athletics] is a family; once you are in it, you are in it forever," says Mike Welch '73, who joined the Bombers family in 1969 as a freshman football and lacrosse player. "There's a unique bond that can be shared with all alumni."
Although he was in that "family" himself as a student and then as an alumnus, Welch never imagined that he'd return to his alma mater and join the football coaching staff, let alone go on to become a member of the select group of successful and influential longtime IC alumni coaches. "I thought I was going to be a high school teacher and coach," Welch says.
He did fulfill that dream. For three years after graduation he worked as an assistant football coach at Rush-Henrietta High School in Rochester, New York. "I did not have any thoughts of coaching at the college level," he insists. "It wasn't until I returned to college for my master's degree and coached football as a graduate assistant at Albany State that I changed career goals."
He then became offensive back coach at the University at Albany, SUNY, which reached the NCAA semifinals in 1977, and later defensive line coach, before moving on to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as offensive coordinator until 1980. However, he never felt too far away from South Hill.
"Coming back to Ithaca College as a coach became a goal of mine once I started coaching at the college level," Welch says. "This was and continues to be one of the best small college coaching jobs in the country. For Division III, it does not get much better than Ithaca College."
Now, with more than two-and-a-half decades of experience on the IC coaching staff, he knows the program inside and out, he knows most of the football alumni, and they certainly know him. Under his leadership the program has posted a 180-49 (.786) record. His teams have made ECAC playoffs five times (1984, 1987, 1996, 1998, and 1999), NCAA playoffs seven times (1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2001, and 2003), and twice won national championships (1988 and 1991).
But with Welch it always comes back to relationships — with those fellow members of the Ithaca College athletics family. Having had such a similar student-athlete experience to that of his players makes it much easier to relate to them. He has mentored hundreds of young men over the years, and understands their disappointments and dreams. "There is definitely a closer relationship that you feel as an alumnus of the College. You can relate to each alumnus on a personal level because we shared similar experiences as undergraduates. Ithaca College is truly like a family."
He's keenly aware of that family's genealogy. He's proud of its culture and traditions and of those who paved the way for current student-athletes and coaches. "Playing and coaching at Ithaca College is a unique experience," he says. "The values learned here can be traced back to Bucky Freeman, Carp Wood '39, Jim Butterfield, and Iris Carnell '42* — all wonderful people, classy people, who loved teaching and coaching, who pursued excellence, yet always kept life in proper perspective.
"I will be forever indebted," he says, "to Jim Butterfield, Bill Ware**, and assistant coach Gary Fallon***, all hall of fame coaches, who had a tremendous influence on me and my coaching—and on how I live my life and coach my players. I know there is a long line of people [who] will say the same thing. I feel very fortunate."
Welch is glad to pass along his coaching knowledge and share the family atmosphere with the student-athletes of today. "The young men and women who play athletics here and earn an Ithaca College degree," he says, "will all look back and say, 'This was something special. I am proud to be a Bomber.' "
They will be in excellent company.
* James "Bucky" Freeman (football coach 1931–43; baseball coach 1932–65; professor; and honorary alumnus), Carlton "Carp" Wood '39 (men's basketball, 1952–64; j.v. baseball 1954–64, varsity baseball 1966–78, and soccer 1963–69), Jim Butterfield (football 1967–80), Iris Carnell '42 (women's basketball 1966–68, women's tennis 1972–84; also IC's assistant athletic director and coach of bowling, field hockey, and golf)
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After three hours broiling in the hot Pennsic sun, Paul Spearman (East) emerged as the overall winner (and best rat-killer) in the 13th Known World Thrown Weapons Championship held Tuesday afternoon on the Thrown Weapons range.
Paul and the other 33 throwers faced a series of wicked challenges designed by Baron Gareth Thorne and THL Elayne Thorne (Mid). Our valiant throwers were trying to reduce the spread of the dreaded bubonic plague by killing infected animals such as rats and boars, while trying not to impede the evacuation of people from the infected areas. Each competitor threw a total of six weapons of each kind (knife, axe, and spear) for a possible maximum score of 18 points per weapon, and 54 points overall. Paul Spearman earned 40 of those 54 points on his way to the overall title, helped by a nearly-perfect score with spears. Trystan der Fackeltreager took the prize for knife, gaining 13 points. The spear title was claimed by Paganus Grimlove (Caid), who threw for 16 points. At the time of this writing, the knife score was tied between Charles (Æthelmearc) and Colin MacKenzie (East) who each have a score of 11 points. The knife title will be determined on Wednesday by a throw-off between the two gentles, who sadly were forced to leave before the tied score was announced.
While many and skillful were the throws and the throwers, the most unusually effective technique was shown by Her Excellency Baroness Robynne the Grey of Caid, who participated in the competition along with her husband, Lord Malcolm Alberic. This is Her Excellency's first time at the War and she has found the whole experience so exhilarating that she got a little confused on one of the spear targets. Engrossed in Pennsic conversation with the thrower in the adjacent lane, Her Excellency picked up a spear and threw it, backwards. The weapon flew straight, despite her lack of time for recent practice (Her Excellency is the Kingdom Seneschal for Caid) and stuck right in the bull's-eye of the target, with the metal point of the spear hanging in the air. In recognition of her unusual but effective method of spear throwing, and after a quick consultation with the thrown weapons rules (which state that the spear cannot touch the ground and must stick in the target, but do not specify which end of the spear must be in the target) Baron Gareth awarded the Baroness the full three points for her throw. Despite the three points, Her Excellency did not win any of the categories, but still greatly enjoyed the competition. We wish Her Excellency well and hope she enjoys the rest of her visit to Pennsic.
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Owens' family says they knew Mozick had problems. They also say they repeatedly warned Owens to get away.
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"We are filing so we can fully explore the possibility of offering a non-transparent ETF," Chuck Freadhoff, a spokesman for the Los Angeles-based company, said today in an interview. "We've made no final decision and have no timeframe."
Active ETFs combine the security selection of an actively managed fund with the intraday trading and some of the cost-saving characteristics of traditional ETFs. Companies have been discouraged from introducing such products by the SEC's requirement for daily disclosure of fund holdings, which would make it easy for competitors to copy, and traders to anticipate, a manager's portfolio changes.
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Capital Group also agreed to obtain the rights to use a formula for a nontransparent fund patented by Bedminster, New Jersey-based Precidian Investments. Precidian has previously filed for SEC approval of the product. Freadhoff said Capital Group had not made a final decision to use the Precidian patent.
Capital Group's American Funds hold about $791 billion in actively-managed stock mutual funds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Gregg Williams, the disgraced ex-New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, is pressing the re-start button on his coaching career.
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Williams spent the past year as a Tennessee Titans' defensive assistant. He replaces Tim Walton, who was let go after just one season on Wednesday.
This is a move that was first set in motion in 2012, but was quickly derailed in the wake of Bountygate. Williams and head coach Sean Payton were both suspended by the NFL for their roles in the activity.
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300m hurdles: 44.81
- Sixth place finsher in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.34 seconds at the Atlantic 10 Championships.
- Was the third-leg of the 4x100-meter relay that won gold at the Atlantic 10 Championship with a time of 45.78 seconds.
- Ran a season-best 12.39 seconds, finishing 13th in the 100-meter dash at the Vanderbilt Invitational.
- Was the third-leg in the 4x100-meter relay team that placed second at Vanderbilt with a time of 45.75 seconds.
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- Ran the third-leg of the 4x100-meter relay that place second at the Fred Hardy Invitational with a time of 46.32 seconds.
- Finished second in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.60 seconds at the Virginia Cup.
- Set a personal record and won the 100-meter hurdles at the Ram Invite with a time of 14.09 seconds.
- Tied a personal-best (school record) in the 60-meter hurdles at the New Balance Invitational with a time of 8.65 seconds.
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- Broke her own school record with a time of 8.65 in the 60m hurdles at the Penn State National Invitational.
- Broke the school record in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.67 to finish second in the Navy Quad
- Ran the then-second-best time in school history (8.79) to win 60m hurdles at the Father Diamond Invitational.
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Harry Lindsay's '32 three-window is a '60s survivor
Harry Lindsay's introduction to hot rodding included grand theft auto. No, not by him, his car was stolen by some thug who mercilessly unchained Harry's Model A and rolled off with it. The car couldn't be driven because it was a rusted-out hulk that Harry bought while he was in high school, which was also about the time that Dwight D. Eisenhower was winding down his second term in the White House. "I paid $15 for it," Harry says, "and some guy stole it from me!"
The Denver PD failed to send out an APB on the missing car, so Harry cut his losses and moved on, eventually buying a fully operable '32 Ford three-window during the winter of 1960. "It was powered by a 283 Chevy V-8 with a '39 Ford transmission and a stock rearend," Harry recalls.
The three-window became Harry's daily driver "for about a year, at which time a Corvette four-speed transmission and '56 Chevy rearend were installed for reliability, and because it was the thing to do in the '60s."
Drag racing your street-driven hot rod also was the thing to do in the '60s, approaching 20 years, he set a path to the staging lane at his local dragstrip, Continental Divide Raceway in Castle Park, Colorado. "But we also ventured to Cheyenne, Julesburg, Colorado Springs, and one trip to Amarillo, Texas," he adds. By "we," he means himself and two buddies, Nick Morstad and Phil Arendell who crewed for him. "We were just kids," Harry says of those formative and somewhat halcyon years in hot rodding, "but we're still best friends today."
Those three kids, Harry, Nick and Phil, won most of their races, too, competing mostly in B/Gas Supercharged, thanks to a Jimmy 4-71 blower stacked with a pair of AFB four-barrel carbs and Racer Brown roller cam inside the small-block Chevy. Why not use the more popular 6-71 huffer? "Back then everybody's tendency was to over-supercharge and over-carb," Harry points out. "The 4-71 was perfect for good acceleration. We didn't have the mph many of the other cars had, but we had good e.t.'s." And e.t., not mph, is what wins drag races. Always has and always will.
Harry considers his race at Amarillo one of the team's more memorable events. "I ended up with only one V-belt at the end of the run," he recalls. "The other two flew off." And they won the race. But aligning three blower drivebelts proved to be a handful, which eventually led to the young trio popping for a Cragar notched belt to help power their mini huffer. The car later packed a 327 Chevy engine, and in 1965 Harry installed a 350, thinking bigger is better. "It never did run as good as the 327," he says.
"By 1966 the car was behind the times for Gas Supercharged cars, and the motor was transferred to a '40 Chevy owned by myself and Art Ward," Harry continues. Then something terrible happened in Harry's life. "Art went on to Funny Car fame with the Assassination Corvair, and I went on to a career." With the dreaded "C" word in the picture, the three-window, now an ex–drag race car, was unceremoniously rolled into Harry's garage. And as Harry advanced in his career, got married, raised a family, and so on, the old Ford sat sullenly in its stall where it served as a safe haven for miscellaneous parts and other car-guy items. "I used to go in the garage and sit in the car just to remember the good old days," Harry confesses.
"The car remained parked in my garage for about 25 years until the mid-'90s when it was completely rebuilt as the ground-up project as you see it today," Harry adds. "This car is not only all steel, but it has almost all of the original parts for the car when I bought it in 1960." That's saying something as when you consider that many race cars lucky to survive have done so only after serving as parts donors to other projects, be it for street or for strip. By the way, that original parts manifest includes the rumble seat, typically an expendable commodity for a drag car. The running boards, Harry notes, are replacement items, acquired from the V-8 Shop.
Obviously the reincarnated car looks much different than it did as a stripper. Another 327 resides underhood, but it's a much toned-down small-block, one intended for longer hauls than a quarter of a mile.
Other subtleties (replacement parts) that put the three-window into the new millennium include a Ford 9-inch with long-legged 3.08 gears, Posies parallel leaf springs to lower the back, a dropped Super Bell axle to accomplish the same task up front, and front disc brakes to keep Harry and Connie, his bride of nearly 40 years, safe. Harry still likes to bang the gears, though, so a Richmond five-speed box was spliced into the drivetrain.
The chassis was restored by Jack Presse, who had his shop in Aurora, Colorado, at the time. "He's now in Stevensville, Montana," Harry explains, "but he's still a good guy and cheaper than the rest of them!"
Matt Halverson of Nice Rides Restoration in LaSalle, Colorado, revived the all-steel body and gave it that shiny bright red paintjob that consists of DuPont pigments that Frank Faliano mixed. Jim Skinner of Autoweave in Denver stitched the interior, and Bob Kennedy produced the classy wood grain dash.
The revived coupe has been on the road for quite a while now, but it's still in fantastic shape. But you gotta wonder, if given the opportunity would Harry, Nick, and Phil take it to the staging lane for another pass? If they did, my money is on them making a respectable run. See, I'm a firm believer in "once a racer, always a racer." And these three guys were racers, first and foremost.


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Let $A$ be a local CM ring, and $\omega$ a canonical module of $A$. Here are two properties of $\omega$ from Bruns & Herzog:
- $\omega_{\mathfrak{p}}$ is a canonical module of $A_{\mathfrak{p}}$ for every $\mathfrak{p}\in\operatorname{Spec}A$.
- $\mu_i(\mathfrak{p},\omega)=\delta_{i}^{\operatorname{ht}\mathfrak{p}}$ for every $\mathfrak{p}\in\operatorname{Spec}A$, where $\mu$ denotes the Bass number.
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Chinese-American Hip-Hop Icon MC Jin Announces Campaign with PledgeMusicAs the 10th anniversary of his first English album released via Ruff Ryders nears, MC Jin will release a highly anticipated collection of songs on "14:59"
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For winter color in gardens of the desert Southwest, gardeners need look no further than the ornamental native grasses. Of the many kinds available, the ones that rise to the top for their adaptability, ease of growing, and beauty belong to the genus Muhlenbergia. These perennial bunch grasses are well adapted to heat and cold (growing as well in Palm Springs, California, as in Las Vegas, Nevada), are hardy to USDA Hardiness Zone 7, can tolerate drought and flooding, aren't invasive, and once established send up a colorful flower stalk each fall. From the more than 300 species of Muhlenbergia, we've picked the top three.
Probably the most colorful is M. capillaris 'Regal Mist'. This Texas native grows 3 feet tall and wide. In October, it sends up a 1-foot-tall, pink cotton candy-like flower head. The flower head's color lasts for up to two months.
M. rigens , also known as deer grass, grows 4 feet tall and wide. Its foliage stays blue-green down to 20F, providing an attractive bushlike appearance in winter and silver swordlike flower spikes in fall.
M. lindheimer 'Autumn Glow' has the leaf and plant shape of M. rigens but a flower stalk and seed head reminiscent of M. capillaris 'Regal Mist', although not as showy. The flower stalk turns a striking golden color starting in October. 'Autumn Glow' and 'Regal Mist' look beautiful planted together.
Muhlenbergia can be grouped together in islands, planted around fountains or pools, or planted near roads or walkways. They are best planted in fall, are not finicky about their soil, and once established require little watering or fertilizing. Cut the plants to the ground in late winter, removing all the dead foliage, and they'll regrow and look beautiful again for the rest of the year. Check garden centers in the Southwest for these ornamental grasses.
Charlie Nardozzi was the senior horticulturist of the National Gardening Association.


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Colorado stylists and salon turn heads in national hairstyling awards
When I first met Matthew Morris years ago, he was working as a makeup artist at Planet Laboratories in Cherry Creek North. He was so masterful with the tweezers, I wrote about him for Allure magazine's Beauty Black Book and he was quickly regarded as Denver's top eyebrow shaper. albeit a bit of a boy wonder at the time.
Morris has come a long way since those days and seems to have mastered just about every type of beauty tool or product that has been put in his hands since, along the way getting his hair and makeup work featured in top magazines and on runways in the U.S. and Europe. Oh, and there was that stint on "Shear Genius," too.
He now runs Matthew Morris Salon and Skincare along with life-and-business partner Marvin Gutierrez, and general manager L'Erin Stortz. They've upped the beauty ante on South Broadway with the opening earlier this year of their salon at 13 S. Broadway and recently got second-runner-up props from Salon Today in their salon of the year contest.


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Bill has some useful tips on how to get back to where you were with
(C-x C-x) and
(C-x C-SPC).
Nicolas Lara wrote about converting fontlocked emacs buffers to html using htmlize. As htmlize uses css classes rather than inline styles it uses a snippet from Ruslan's blog.
htmlize-region-for-paste can also convert the css classes to inline styles although it isn't an interactive function. Doesn't everyone write their blog posts using muse (with htmlize) which already does this and more?
Amongst other great posts (!), I should also point out my own posts on solving mathematical problems using calc mode and on mapping aliases to dired directories.
emacs-fu wrote a post on querying emacs itself to find out how it does stuff. Steve Yegge mentioned the help functions in his effective emacs post – Item 8: Learn the most important help functions.
Ryan McGuire wrote about using autocomplete.el with python.
(M-/) is built into emacs and provides dumb but very useful autocompletion. However, autocomplete.el looks a lot prettier.
Joseph Miklojcik wrote a macro to define functions which switch to certain buffers and back again.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College men's basketball team (8-16, 4-13 PBC) dropped its Annual Homecoming Game 66-52 to division-leading University of Montevallo (17-8, 13-5 PBC) Saturday night.
Senior Tarrence Chatman (Macon, Ga.) netted 11 points as the team's lone double-digit scorer, hitting 6-for-6 from the charity stripe. The effort marks the first time in his career that Chatman has led the Bobcats in scoring,
Classmate Scott Ferguson (Roswell, Ga.) had eight points with a game-high eight rebounds, while junior Royal Thomas (LaGrange, Ga.) added eight to the cause as well.
The Bobcats were out-shot 50 percent (25-50) to 30 percent (16-54) from the floor, and out-rebounded 42-26. The Bobcats kept the game close by committing just eight turnovers while causing 16.
Drico Hightower led the Falcons with 24 points and seven rebounds. He was flanked by 15 points from Troran Brown and 11 from Marvin Fitzgerald.
The Bobcats hit the road to Lander University (8-16, 3-14 PBC) Thursday, Feb. 28 for a 7:30 p.m. tip. The Bearcats most recently lost to the University of North Georgia today, 82-78.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Snowden Is The Kind of Guy I Used to Recruit—in Russia
As the CIA's director of operations, I knew that narcissistic under-achievers were the easiest to turn. Now he's put our whole country in danger.
In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald tells how Edward Snowden once confided to him, "with a hint of embarrassment," how much he had learned from playing video games. In the black-and-white world of video games, "the protagonist is often an ordinary person, who finds himself faced with grave injustices from powerful forces and has the choice to flee in fear or to fight for his beliefs," Greenwald writes.
But Edward Snowden's video-game world is not the real world. As a former director of operations for the CIA, I see Snowden in a very different light. My colleagues and I in the agency spent our careers looking for people like him—on the other side, that is. We worked hard to locate the kind of person who could be persuaded to give up his country's secrets: narcissistic, often delusional under-achievers whom we could hope to turn into loose-lipped sources in our enemies' camps and other hostile locations. We understood just how valuable it was to every aspect of our foreign policy to know the plans and intentions of our enemies; the best way to do this was to look for a source and exploit people like Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, to target for this purpose.
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The Russians weren't slouches either in searching for sources of classified information. They were looking for their Snowdens too. You don't have to go back too far to see their success in recruiting American spies with unique access – John Anthony Walker, Aldreich Ames, and Robert Hanssen – who did immense damage to our national security. Moreover, Ames and Hanssen's compromises led to the death of many of our top Russian sources. Walker's compromise, by contrast, allowed the Soviets to know the locations of U.S. submarines around the world. One shudders to think what more could have been done against us if they had had Snowden's access to sensitive communications and his technical know-how on how to extract it from the system. Some people think of Snowden as a latter-day Daniel Ellsberg, a noble whistle-blower. Clearly I do not.
For those who believe that the United States should step back from its engagement from the world, toning down our robust national security and dramatically shrinking our defense and intelligence community, Greenwald's rationale and Snowden's behavior might appear to vaguely honorable. And in this next round of debate, the emphasis will once again be on the domestic side of Snowden's disclosures, as opposed to the enormous international damage done to our country's self-defense by his revelations.
The picture looks different for those who believe, as I do, that the world is still a very dangerous place and that America faces grave challenges from a range of threats as it plays its essential role as guarantor of global peace: terrorism and instability across the Middle East; China's military muscle-flexing in Asia; and Putin's imperial designs in Ukraine and potentially towards other neighbors. From this perspective, Snowden's actions are deeply troubling in that they directly caused a serious loss of capability to understand the plans and intentions of current and future adversaries. Snowden single-handedly blinded us to critical targets and eliminated our ability to see what some of the key players on the international stage are up to. From first-hand experience, I can state unequivocally that the capability to do this comes at incredibly great cost in time, money and personal sacrifice.
As James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in January, Snowden's disclosures constituted "the most massive and damaging theft of intelligence in our history." He added that "we've lost critical foreign intelligence collection sources, including some shared with us by valued partners. … Terrorists and other adversaries of this country are going to school on U.S. intelligence sources, methods and tradecraft, and the insights they are gaining are making our job much, much harder."
This is a very hard subject for government officials to talk about without compromising additional capabilities (even this article had to be approved by the CIA's Publications Review Board). However, only a cursory reading of our history reveals just how important gaining access to the dispatches of our enemies has been in every war since the American Revolution. Moreover, this activity has been authorized by all of our presidents since George Washington. Protestations aside, every nation uses its technical collection capabilities to the maximum in the international arena, and will continue to do so as long as international conflicts are with us. No one should doubt that our adversaries and some of our fair-weather friends are cheering the loss caused by Snowden.
But, to give the devil his due, let's look at Snowden's domestic revelations about U.S. citizens' privacy, which have drawn most of the attention and concern from the American people. It is eminently clear that the intelligence community, Congress and the White House are struggling with the double-edged sword of privacy and national security, particularly as technology progresses at unprecedented speed. And I am reasonably optimistic that, despite the public hand-wringing, they will quickly come up with the right balance that protects our civil liberties and doesn't cripple our intelligence collection against our enemies, who do, at times, operate in and cooperate with U.S. citizens. When the news cameras stop rolling, these officials all know just how vital these collection platforms are to our defense while at the same time truly appreciating the value of the law and the importance of protection of our citizens' rights. Nevertheless, implementation won't be an easy task, and it certainly won't take place above the requisite Washington self-serving politics.


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Gangsters are popular fodder in pop culture. The romanticized life of hoodlums are pretty much stock and trade for Hollywood. So it's no surprise that we see a glut of games that are supposed to simulate the gangster culture. They can range from the sublime Grand Theft Auto series to the rather simple trading game Drug Wars.
With Android fast becoming a popular platform for portable gaming, it is no surprise that we see games of this type start appearing. The major problem for any fan of the genre is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's several games that managed to catch my eye and should please the aficionado.
1. Mob Wars
Mob Wars is the great-grand daddy of them all. Starting on popular social networking site Facebook, it has managed to catch the imagination of millions. Now, it's managed to shed its Facebook roots and started to branch out as a full-fledged app. Anyone who has played a time-based Facebook game should be familiar with how the game plays: use energy to do missions which earn you experience, use the experience to level up, and wait for more energy to come in. It's a formula that's hard to beat and the original delivers, along with pitch-perfect graphics and art direction to deliver what Facebook addict wants.
2. iMobsters
iMobsters uses the same formula as Mob Wars – something that's hard to avoid. What makes this game different? The graphics are top-notch, the community is sizzling, and there are a wealth of options available. Mob Wars may have started the genre but it's iMobsters and its ilk that will perfect it.
3. Mafia Farm
Now for something a bit different. Mafia Farm is a hilarious mash-up of Farmville-esque planting and Mob Wars missions. It sounds ridiculous – and it is! That's where the fun is. The cartoonish art direction also helps a lot in setting the tone of this game. Definitely something to brighten things up after all the seriousness of the first two.
4. Pocket Mafia
Pocket Mafia is of the same breed as Mob Wars and iMobsters. The main difference is that it's probably got a whole lot more content. It looks a bit hokey though – admittedly the photoshopped opening screen contributes to that. However, it does still have something solid behind it and if you need something a bit different from your main mobster game, Pocket Mafia may scratch the same itch – in a different way.
5. Gang Wars
Gang Wars is more of the same, but in a slightly slicker package. Optimized for mobile play, this little app works better on a smartphone than your tablet. It's the best bet for any user hoping for mobile gangster MMORPG action. Game like these are better with a lot of players and considering the amount of reviews on this app's page, expect a whole lot of them.
6. The Streetz
The Streetz is more of the same. What it brings to the table is better graphics and a more manageable time investment. Some games require users to log-in constantly – becoming time sinks for players. The Streetz is a bit more forgiving and expects you to play around fifteen minutes a day. Good for anyone who wants to have a game while on the go.
7. Crime Story
Crime Story is a rather different mafia-themed game than most. It does away with minimalist mission and energy design and goes for a more action-oriented approach. Of course, it still does have a level grind, but it's less a point-and-click and more interactive in a way. Smooth graphics and animation round out the package. It is still a bit buggy though. Users will probably have to do some jury-rigging to get this baby working properly.
8. Mob Empire
Mob Empire may seem like the same old formula, but it delivers a nice little twist to the genre. It touts itself as the first location-based MMORPG and it does manage to deliver its promise – users can check in and own real-life locations, even fight over them. It also provides a way for Facebook users and Android users to interact – characters are fully carried over. It's a pretty nice little time waster for any fan of the gangster game genre.
9. 9mm
And now for something on the other side of the gangsters – 9mm is a very nice action game where players kill gangsters. Lots and lots of gangsters die in very stylish ways – the dual uzi in the screenshot above being an example. A very good 3d shooter, 9mm delivers third-person shooter action to tablets. Similar to the gaming classic Max Payne, 9mm has a decent storyline and smooth graphics. It also happens to support multiplayer with it's Free-for-all and Team Deathmatch modes. A decent buy for anyone looking for a bit of action.
10. Grand Theft Auto III
I saved the best for last – Grand Theft Auto III is the quintessential gangster game. An open-world crime epic, Rockstar's classic comes to Android via its 10th Anniversary edition. Liberty City is a hive of scum and villainy to rival Mos Eisley and this port to Android brings it to life. The game may be ten years old now but the gameplay is still fresh and nothing says "gangster" than randomly jacking a car and leading the police on a high-speed chase around the city.


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Louisiana earned a "D" score on an annual report card on childhood health, the same score it's earned every year since the report was first issued in 2008.
Louisiana earned a "D" score on an annual report card on childhood health, the same score it's earned every year since the report was first issued in 2008.
The 2012 Louisiana's Report Card on Physical Activity and Health for Children and Youth measures a wide range of factors that affect kids' health, including obesity rates, involvement in sports and diets. The report is compiled by experts at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
The news isn't good — the state scored a "D" in physical activity, a "D-" in fruit and vegetable consumption and an "F" for obesity levels, for example.
Surveys included in the report show more parents than ever are aware of health concerns — 70 percent said they know about the problems caused by poor diet and lack of exercise.
But eating and exercise habits don't seem to have improved. On each of the report card's 11 categories, ranging from aerobic exercise and participation in sports to food intake, the state fared no better than a C. On obesity rates, only 27 percent of those surveyed showed a healthy weight.
"It doesn't really look like things are improving, unfortunately," said Rebecca Smith, a dietician and instructor at Nicholls State University.
The report says many of the common, well-known problems that lead to poor health continue to plague the state.
More than 34.4 percent of children surveyed spent an hour or more a day over the recommended time in front of a computer or television screen.
"It's the same problem," Smith said. "Too many students are spending too much time watching TV and playing video games. They're not getting out and getting active."
The state's eating habits continue to be poor — only 5.9 percent of students surveyed were eating the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables every day.
This year's report brings a new factor into the health equation — "built environments," or how much a child's physical environment affects their environment.
In addition to the eating and exercise habits of students in the surveys, researchers analyzed the neighborhoods those students lived in. They found many neighborhoods didn't have adequate sidewalks, safe streets or an environment for children to safely play in.
Still, the report says parents still play the most important role in a child's health.
"While the built-environment has an enormous impact on children's ability to achieve recommended daily activity, parents, teachers and schools play a large role in shaping the health of the children in our state," said Peter T. Katzmarzyk, one of the report authors, in a news release.
Smith said the report shows Louisiana has a long way to go before getting healthy.
"We have to start slowly tipping the line a little bit at a time," Smith said.
Smith said the report should be a wake-up call to parents, who should start paying attention to how much time their children are spending in front of a screen and more closely monitor what they're eating.
"Start making those changes. Start replacing soft drinks with water," Smith said.
Finally, Smith said parents should start paying attention to their own eating habits.
"You have to be a role model," Smith said. "They can't expect children to do anything different than what they're doing."
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at matthew.albright


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'Is it possible the DSM could become the book of appeasement, refuting questions of morality and legal culpability with regard to child abuse and exploitation?'
Last week Salon ran a comment piece by Tracy Clark-Flory which opened:
We usually hear pedophilia talked about in terms of mental illness – if not evil – but Aug. 17 a motley crew of self-identified "minor-attracted persons" and mental health professionals have gathered in Baltimore to talk about it as a sexual identity. At hand is an issue deeply important to both groups: the revision of the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia.
I asked Professor Caroline Taylor, Foundation Chair in Social Justice at Edith Cowan University, and Founder and Chair of Children of Phoenix, a charity that provides scholarships and mentoring support to children, adolescents and adults affected by childhood sexual abuse, to respond. Caroline has written for me before ('A child failed: how 120 men got away with the sexual violation of a 12-year-old girl' ) and is also a contributor to the soon-to-be-released Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global porn industry (Spinifex Press).
I have written elsewhere on the mental gymnastics employed by some of the judiciary when it comes to accepting either the vocabulary of excuses put forward by child sex offenders to exculpate them from responsibility for their offences, or minimising the harm suffered by child victims.
Of course these arguments, attitudes, utterances and opinions would not hold currency were it not for the lawyers who advance them on behalf of their clients and quarters of society that either accept them or give them tacit approval via a passive and apathetic response.
This week UK judges severely weakened legal rules that limited sex offenders' unsupervised access to their own children. Judges declared that it was a human rights violation to prevent offenders' from having this access. After all, they said, family life and unfettered access to 'family life' is their right – the rights of child victims factor in only as a secondary issue. Despite the rhetoric and declaration of a charter of human rights for children, they continue to have their status at citizens of equal worth negated. More troubling is the fact this so often occurs when children are most in need of protection from sexual predation or sexual violence.
In the same week, a US conference was held on 'pedophilia' under the rubric of men who are 'minor-attracted – in other words men who desire and seek to sexually abuse children. The conference sought to advance the rights of this particular group of men by influencing the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to better reflect a particular understanding of pedophilia as a psychiatric illness.
The DSM is the psychiatric bible and has been criticized for its development as a diagnostic manual based largely on incomplete and unscientific data – indeed psychiatrists 'vote' on additions and revisions and much research has highlighted the gendered nature of the psychiatric illnesses proclaimed in the book with some disorders being so ridiculous they beggar belief.
That fact that many have been removed or revised in response to societal and cultural awareness and changes in attitudes to gender and race is a testament to how mental illness can be socially constructed and even vanish from our vocabulary and treatment as society and psychiatry reconcile certain social and cultural beliefs and attitudes.
The psychiatric nomenclature declaring certain types of sexual offenders or men who declare they have not yet engaged in sexual activity with a child but have a predilection of sexual attraction to children, as individuals with a mental illness as opposed to criminals (or at least potential abusers) is a worry for many reasons.
Why is this 'illness' the almost exclusive problem of men and not women? It is an 'illness' that has been going on for centuries without recourse to any successful treatment.
I have a problem with the term 'pedophile' because it can be literally translated as a lover of children. Chat rooms for pedophile advocates highlight that they do not seek to 'hurt' children, but it is patently clear they have no concept – morally or otherwise – of what it is to 'hurt' a child. And believe me in my professional work I have seen first- hand the hurt suffered by children by 'pedophiles' – hurt that punctures the very soul of young lives and leads to damage across adult lives.
If we accept it is an illness then it is an illness afflicting almost exclusively men and has inflicted a tsunami of catastrophic damage to the lives of countless millions of children that amounts to an emotional genocide across time and place that appears to have no end.
Those advocating for these men are concerned that the law and society misunderstand 'pedophiles' and view them alongside 'molesters' of children. There exists a problem in the teasing out of men who are sexually attracted to children but say they have not acted on it as opposed to men who say they are sexually attracted to children and have acted on it.
As studies continue to show, men who are sexually attracted to children will generally move to act on that attraction. Those who have not as yet physically acted on that attraction may very likely seek other forms of intimacy with that attraction perhaps by way of viewing child pornography or engaging in contact that might not be sexual but may well still be harmful to a child's healthy development.
We should feel a strong discomfort about a group seeking to define the parameters of what they say is their sexual orientation and have it accepted as an illness when that particular 'illness' can and does lead to various forms of abuse and exploitation of children around the world.
There is also the problem of normalizing the idea that many men harbor sexual desires for children. At a time when we are battling the enormous and endemic problem of child pornography and child sex tourism, we need to ramp up our collective check of society's moral compass on accepting, even reluctantly, that sexual desires for children are a modern illness afflicting men around the world.
There are moral, ethical and even psychological questions as to why the sexual predation, desire and sexualisation of children is the almost exclusive domain of men. In late modern society we need to ask ourselves some strong questions – is the sexualisation of children a link to the sexual desire for children and the growing market in child pornography and child sex tourism. And again to ask why these issues have the common denominator of children and men.
I worry about the gendered nature of an illness where men harbor sexual desires for children – and which research consistently shows so many men will act upon – and want this targeted behaviour to be classified as an illness. We have become a humanity that pathologies our behaviours and actions to an extraordinary degree, thus removing notions of responsibility, decency and a solid moral compass.
The 20th century is marked by consumerism with our identity linked to what we buy. I buy therefore I am, is the credo. And just as our high consumerism causes so much destruction – professionals have helped us craft a language of illness and pathology about our buying habits. Why reflect on a problem and see ourselves as central to it when we can tell ourselves it is an illness and thus another ailment in society we can seek treatment for.
Is it possible the DSM could become the book of appeasement refuting questions of morality and legal culpability with regard to child abuse and exploitation?
It is not the redefinition in the DSM that will 'cure' this peculiar illness of men nor provide the type of moral erudition needed to tackle the world wide problem of child sexual abuse. It is the refining of humanity and our capacity to deal with an entrenched crime inflicted on children.
See also: 'Crimes cloaked in euphemisms', Goddard and Mudaly. The Australian, Aug 25, 2011


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david wrote:I suggest you consider gifting it to the SFBA.
I have no idea if we will be willing to take it, but if you first find volunteers to run it, that will help.
But, if you truly don't want it commercialized more, then I think this is the only way.
Thats a GREAT IDEA Dave!


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