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Boran, a question....why is it a rarity ? There is some deal among the top fighters to not kick the legs too much ? I heard that somewhere....
Good choice of avy Vic.
In the west a stoppage via low kick has become a very common occurrence that people have got used to and associate very heavily with MT. When Thais started to get flown to West to fight in the 80s & 90s they used the low kick to full effect to negate the heavily hand orientated westerners of the era who relied a lot on boxing techniques and tended to bounce around like boxers, easy pickings for a Thai with a semi decent low kick. The way these "quality"westerners were routniely getting brutally demolished by basically one weapon kinda set up the western mythology of the "brutal MT low kick". This captured the western imagination, was focused on in every MT and kickboxing gym from Amsterdam to Moscow and has since become a mainstay stoppage of not just the international MT fight scene, but K1 & now MMA. I'd say the main reasons for it's continued and regular success in the west is the lack of depth in the MT scene which can produce chronic mismatches, insufficient conditioning as well as the lack of technical experience of knowing how to deal with such an attack and how to comfortably take the fight into another realm or range.
The difference is in Thailand it's never been a particular specialty against Thais, it wouldn't work to focus on it, although some fighters have become famous for their low kick like the above mentioned Pornsaneh Sitmonchai, who mixes good hands with powerful low low kicks to devastating effect (you'll find that is very often the case, a good low kicker will usually have good hands, and is a master of mixing the two).Pornsaneh's one of thses guys where you know exactly what he's gonna do but he still manages to land it,every time! He just has the has this knack of being able to land it at will, a true low kick master, but he's an unusual throw back fighter, not the norm these days. You know exactly what he's gonna do but he still manages to land it,every time!
The Thai scene is also super competitive and very well matched with rank upon rank deep in each weight of highly technical fighters with almost superhuman levels of conditioning who as we all know have built up their conditioning and general ring smarts form a very young age. Due to their technical superiority being technical masters from pre teens Thais unlike most of their western counterparts are comfortable and super relaxed fighting in each of the many ranges MT offers you. Due to MT having 8 offensive weapons that can be deployed over such differing distances from long range kicks to up front and very personal elbows and inside knees it also offers you multiple escapes and spoiling techniques that offer you the chance to avoid getting dominated form one weapon alone, that's why stoppages in Thai MT are a relative rarity compared to say boxing or MMA. A stoppage via low kick is even rarer although does happen as it can be seen coming and is "relatively easy" to avoid in comparison to other weapons by just stepping out of range, limply lifting your leg to check, pulling your lead leg back and countering or walking into the fighter to engage in the clinch. There are of course are other foils to the low kick but those are just some simple examples. On the whole a well conditioned and well matched Thai fighter should have the skills and know how to avoid getting stopped in such a simple and dare I say it "novice" like fashion. When it does happen it tends to be inside 3 rounds with the kicker coming out unusually hard form the off catching the opponent "unprepared" for such an intense opening few rounds or when there is an equally unusual mismatch.
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Reason for that one though is that it was a squash match to open the show. Different levels.
Although next night at Lumpini saw a Thai championship belt, I think at 105lbs and there was brutal leg kicks there, and one ended the fight I think. The reigning champ' was stopped (going on memory here) Boran might remember.
Yeah, that's right Flea the Champ lost and it was a Thailand belt not a Lumpinee belt. Not In BKK right now so can't look at the card to find the fighters name to post a clip. But it'll be on Live Muay Thai guy channel, Friday the 8th Feb at Lumpinee. There was also another nice stoppage via elbow.
By the way lads, sorry I haven't been posting much in this or the other thread recently, lot's of travel as well as bandwidth have been a prob. Burma has basically zero internet speed. I've got some great photos and footage from the Somluck night I'll eventually post as well as some other stuff for the Burma thread and the ATG thread.
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Its ok. Theres quite a few international students, but the diversity comes in with different states represented.
Very diverse as far as international students go. Otherwise everyone is dutch.
There is no real diversity here on campus. A lot of Dutch people on campus.
Calvin college prides itself in making all aspects of education accommodating for anyone who desires to be a part of it. There is not set number of how many people from a certain group or place should be attending here or accepted for that matter. The bounds for diversity is pleasing to Calvin College and everyone here is pleasant. God tells us to love our neighbor as our self, He does not say we should do so only if we are just like our neighbor. If it were so we would not love anyone because we are all different.
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The Wrong Place (2010), page 72. Brecht Evens.
The printed comics page is rarely allowed to exist as a whole. In comics as they're traditionally done, the page is basically a vehicle for strings of panels, connected to one another by narrative and the flow of action but usually nothing more. Panels are typically conceived as isolated moments, with poses and camera angles and color schemes unique unto themselves. When one follows the next it almost always tracks the same dialogue streams, the same characters, the same forward thrust of time; but rarely if ever does it expand on the actual space set out in the box before it. Comics cut and cut and cut again, like a film helmed by a hyperactive editor. This is most often a searching medium, forever sliding into new angles and new compositions, looking for a newer and more immediate way into the spaces being set out by the story.
But the page itself is a space too — a single, uninterrupted space, one surface, even when it's been sectioned up by gutter lines. The artists of comics worth paying attention to are usually aware of this to some extent or another, composing passages of panel-to-panel cutting that also work as a single visual unit, treating the page as a venue for both incremental storytelling and immediate fine art. There's something to be said for pages that can be taken in all at once, that pull all the space the surface has to give into the accomplishment of a single visual effect.
What's so wonderful about this Brecht Evens page is the way it joins the two approaches — single-composition and panel-by-panel, incremental and immediate — into a perfectly unified whole. Evens has an instinctive understanding of something many cartoonists never comprehend: the page, no matter how many panels it's made to hold, is one picture. And so there is only one picture drawn on it here, a vast and multi-tiered environment for the characters' actions to play out on. (Of course, that last half-sentence of description could be applied to "the page" as an abstract idea too. There are no potentials of more traditional page composition that Evens' painterly "single canvas" approach blocks off.) However, this particular full-page drawing is divided up by thick, loud gutter spaces whose pure white pops out at the eyes before the fact that this is a single picture does. There's nothing jarring here, nothing to immediately interrupt the familiar mode of comics reading.
The reader's journey through this page, then, becomes a gradual process of discovery, an environmental exploration that parallels the path its subject takes through it. And though on the first look there's nothing here that differs from the same six-panel grid that every comics reader's seen countless times before, following that path draws the eye into a different pattern than just about any other comic requires. It's so easy to follow the light, bright shape of the girl in the red dress against the dark-blurry background that one might not even notice this page reads in an uninterrupted stream, an "S" shape that avoids the visual interrupts imposed by back-and-forth, tier-to-tier page compositions. She moves down the page, and so do we. The reason such an unconventional layout works so smoothly here is Evens' use of a single background: the dislocation it might cause otherwise is neatly avoided by placing everything in a continuous single space, a larger meta-panel that guarantees a slickness to the motion of the subdivided boxes within it.
Perhaps most interesting of all is the way Evens uses his layout to develop character. The very fact of our eyes' tracking with the girl, moving through the same space she moves through at the same pace in the same direction, creates an automatic empathy. We understand this environment at the same rate as her, along with her. And by reducing the mass of other human forms on the page to ghostly silhouettes, Evens ensures that she is the one holding our attention, that the others are as inaccessible and mysterious to us as they are to her. The uncertainty in her body language, tightening up right before the slide from panel two into what would usually be panel four but here acts as panel three, is a perfect mirror to the eye's slight unwillingness to give itself to the strange new path that's been laid out for it. But she goes, and so do we. It's a beautiful bit of comics, no doubt, but its beauty is just the first of the many tools being used here to pull readers in.
This is a great book, highly recommended.
This is beautiful stuff indeed, but, I don't like the gutters.
They don't help me to read the piece.
Also, seeing as the girl appears twice in panel 5, they don't serve to separate distinct moments.
If they were absent, it would be a nice demonstration of sequentiality within one frame, because of the way the red figure stands out as an obvious rhythmic element.
As it is, the gutters are so obtrusive (by being so wide) that they actually distract from the pictorial unity "behind" them.
The different panels also have different colours dominating them, increasing the effect of separation.
I quite enjoyed the way this caused me to do a double-take, but if the author is trying to make a point about what order we tend to read comics panels in, it seem a bit weak.
Not that I mind too much, the visual qualities and atmosphere of the sequence more than make up for any rhetorical pretensiousness I may be squirming from.
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Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti believes Tuesday's Champions League Group B opener at home to Basel will be a good chance for the holders to put a poor start to their domestic campaign behind them.
UEFA have opened a disciplinary case against Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets over alleged racist abuse against Real Madrid's Marcelo.
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12-Year-Old Stuns Pro-Choice Teacher and School with Pro-Life Presentation
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TORONTO, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - 12-year-old "Lia" of Toronto has become a star at her school and on Youtube with her five-minute pro-life speech, crafted for a school competition. Despite discouragement and outright opposition, Lia's presentation was so well done that she reportedly won the contest she was told she would be disqualified from, due to the "controversial" message of her speech.
Lia's mother broke the story of her daughter's win in an e-mail to the Moral Outcry blog. LifeSiteNews.com attempts to contact Lia and her parents for comment were unreturned by press time. The speech, however, is available in its entirety on Youtube, where it has been viewed over 100,000 times and sparked a heated discussion. (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOR1wUqvJS4&feature=channel_page)
"What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were gonna live or die?" begins the charismatic seventh-grader in a practice recording of the speech posted on Youtube. "What if I told you that this choice wasn't based on what you could or couldn't do, what you'd done in the past, or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you, you could do nothing about it?
"Fellow students and teachers, thousands of children are right now in that very situation. Someone is choosing without even knowing them whether they are going to live or die. That someone is their mother. And that choice is abortion."
Lia, speaking easily and with sunny enthusiasm, fires off answers to several common objections in the brief speech.
"Why do we think that just because a fetus can't talk or do what we do, it isn't a human being yet?" She asks. "Some babies are born after only five months. Is this baby not human?
"We would never say that. Yet abortions are performed on 5-month-old fetuses all the time. Or do we only call them humans if they're wanted?
"Think about the child's rights, that were never given to it. No matter what rights the mother has, it doesn't mean we can deny the rights of the fetus," she said. "We must remember that with our rights and our choices come responsibilities, and we can't take someone else's rights away to avoid our responsibilities."
Lia's mother says that the topic was of her own choosing, and that she was determined not to back down, even after teachers told her it was "too mature" and "too controversial."
"She was also told that if she went ahead with that topic, she would not be allowed to continue on in the speech competition," Lia's mother wrote in the email to the Moral Outcry blog. "Initially, I tried helping her find other topics to speak on, but, in the end, she was adamant. She just felt she wanted to continue with the topic of abortion. So she forfeited her chance to compete in order to speak on something she was passionate about."
But according to updates posted on the blog (http://bound4life.com/blog/2009/02/06/y-o-p-p#updates), Lia's pro-choice teacher was so moved by the speech that she decided to allow her to participate in the competition after all. Lia won for her class.
The speech then sparked a controversy at the school wide competition last Thursday, where the school principal and teachers reportedly all agreed that Lia's speech was the obvious winner - but the judges had decided to disqualify her because of the topic.
By the end of the day, one judge who was offended by the pro-life speech agreed to step down, leaving the remaining judges to reverse the decision and declare Lia the school wide winner, advancing Lia to represent her school at a regional competition.
Lia's mother said the girl's determination to present her message stemmed from her family's participation in the pro-life movement.
"We were invited to participate in a 'Life Tape Siege,'" she wrote. "Once my kids heard of this invitation, they all agreed: 'We have to do that!' Since then, Lia's passion for seeing abortion end has continued."
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How well said... better than anything I've ever come up with.
If they confirm this it would be really awesome
Wow! She is amazing!
Pro life BTTT!
And YouTube turned off the comments because:
"We apologize for turning off the commenting functionality. This was not to stop genuine discussion or debate on the issue but was, rather, a response to the cowardly who used it as an opportunity to throw insults and threats at a young girl that they hated without reason. Thank-you to everyone who, whether in agreement or not, has responded in a respectful manner."
Ah, yes, those diverse, inclusive, tolerant and multicultural liberals at their keyboards.
Bookmark for later! Thanks!
That's all right, that girl is the future!
Pro-life ping!
I wouldn't want to have to debate that little lady on any subject....she's way too good.
Excellent Job, Lia!
I am optimistically hopeful that is true -- that a large percentage of our youth can see the irrationality of the left for what it is, know it's wrong and want change.
That little girt is amazing! Thanks for posting this.
There's a shocker. Usually pro-aborts don't have this much integrity.
This one must have been one of those "pro-aborts" instead of a "had-abort". A "had-abort" would have not conceded their "right" in any way.
By the end of the day, one judge who was offended by the pro-life speech agreed to step down, ________________________________
Now isn't this teaching our kids the right attitude. Agree with me or I will go sit in a corner and suck my thumb. Real maturity!! I suspect she was to be judged by the actual presentation - not the topic.
Read my 14.
I think it was commendable for the "pro-choicer" to step down instead of adamantly stifling the girl's message.
And a little child shall lead them.
Praise God who blesses us all with His mercy.
So you're attacking the person who turned off the comments?
Agreed, her delivery is excellent (though the content is misleading in places).
People against pro-life are a dime a dozen, but people offended by a speech in favor of it --- you'd think they'd be ashamed to admit that. Libs are supposed to be such champions of free speech...
Our 11 y/o grandson had to select a well known person for his "hero" essay project. He picked Ronald Regan and the last sentence stated Ronald Regan was an American hero because he fixed the mess Jimmie Carter created. HA! Now if we can keep these kids from being brainwashed in the local universities!!
Amazing. That young girl has far more maturity than the liberals who go around screaming like a bunch of knuckle-dragging primates whenever the abortion issue comes up.
Good for her, and great job - I wish her all the best!
You know, I almost didn't log on this afternoon because I dreaded hearing about more of the onslaught of socialist Orwellian crap that we're drowning in. Boy, am I glad I did. This girl has lifted my spirit and given me inspiration. I've got a lot to write down and to pass along.
Life is good.
Choose it.
(Loud buzzer) No.
I was commenting on "the cowardly who used it as an opportunity to throw insults and threats at a young girl that they hated without reason."
God Blessed her.
Actually, a good percentage of "had-abort"s become pro-life, including the woman who was the subject of Roe vs. Wade, as well as others I've heard.
We should all emulate the clarity, simplicity, and common sense of her words.
It's so sad that those people's minds are clouded by such hate. Must everyone fall in lock step behind what they believe or else be maligned and threatened?
An impressive young lady.
From the mouth of babes......who knows how many lives her message may save
"Had-abort"s will take one of two paths -
perpetual justification of their "right" to do what they did,
or repentance and attempting to make it right by using their testimony to convince others.
Yes, and that's what's so dangerous about our political majority now: they'll use power against those that disagree. And it does, indeed, stem from hate, from a simple core hate of Godly righteousness.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: If they make a mistake, I dont want them punished with a baby.
Amazing—thanks for posting! Next time right-to-life Sunday rolls around, I am asking her to fill my pulpit. She said more in 5 minutes than I can say in 30, plus people will pay attention!
Thank you for another in a long line of great posts. God Bless!
I love it! God bless her!
And I love the way she ended it - with the quote from the Dr Seuss book, and the sweet smile!
Hehe! This 12 year old girl articulates the point against abortion better tha 40 year old Ashley Judd tries to articlulate the point for abortion.
I'm surprised the leftist teacher didn't give this girl an "F".
I wonde how long it will be until obamawama's shock troops and kneepad groupies start to belittle her, try to dig up dirt on her and hound her into silance,
In the meantime the POTUS, empty suit obamawama, will continue to use the tax payers money to suupport his favorite charity, the murder of the most innocent.
"Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings..."
I guess sometimes God chooses unlikely messangers to carry His messages. What a wee angel!
Bookmarked and thanks for posting this thread!
THAT gives me hope!
This is wonderful! Thank you for posting her speech.
God bless her and her family!
May her words have some kind of positive life impact on the unholy deadness of liberalism.
Yes, there is a God. He made that child! Marvelous post!!!
Excellent speech, let alone by a 12 year old. I favorited the video.
She presented a very coherent, well organized, thoughtful and compelling defense of the unborn. She also touched on the emotional damage that those, who choose abortion, live with for the rest of their lives.
I liked how she quoted from the Dr. Zuess story about Whoville. I am curious, though; she mentioned Sharon Osborn. Is that Ozzy's Sharon Osborn?
Including me and several of my friends.
From the mouths of children we will be taught. God bless this girl, and let her words be heard.
First, Rush always say he doesn't allow anybody to have power over him by allowing them to offend him and second if the prospect of a woman choosing to bring her pregancy to term isn't a pro-choice position (choice implies more than one option) then this judge does not truly believe in pro-choice but really believes in pro-death and thus regard abortion as a Hobson's choice rather than a choice of which apples one should buy: red or green.
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Skip to comments.Judge makes stand against illegal immigration (Texas)
Posted on 06/03/2005 8:13:09 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Recio: Undocumented immigrants will not be set free in Brownsville
Jorge Enrique Vasquez Carrasco didnt expect jail time or to be deported when he got caught illegally entering the United States.
The 18-year-old Honduran man expected the same treatment as thousands of other undocumented immigrants who have been set free after receiving a notice to appear in court.
According to federal figures, almost 88 percent of immigrants who receive those notices never appear in court and stay illegally in the United States.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio made a statement Thursday to Vasquez and six other Central Americans who were caught this week crossing the Rio Grande near Brownsville.
I want you to tell all your friends in Honduras that if they come through Brownsville, Texas, they will not be paroled into the system and they will be put in jail and deported, Recio told Vasquez in open court as he handed him a jail sentence that could keep him here until space opens at an immigration facility and he could be deported.
Vasquez and six others in his group pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor illegal entry charge.
Recio declined an interview, but federal officials said the immigrants will be held in a Cameron County jail until bed space could be found for them at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center near Bayview.
Although the federal facility is reported to be near its 850-bed capacity, ICE spokeswoman Letty Zamarripa said her agency is bound to carry out the federal judges sentence and relies on contracts with county jails to do so.
There is not a limit on how long a federal prisoner can stay in a county facility, she said.
According to the latest figures, there are at least 325 federal prisoners in Cameron County jails, including undocumented immigrants waiting to be transferred or deported.
Zamarripa said criminals and detainees from nations of interest such as those that support terrorism are give priority when moved from county jails to federal facilities.
We are removing detainees everyday, Zamarripa said of immigrants being deported from the Bayview facility. We have two flights a week with room for 120 on each flight in addition to two buses leaving each week.
Although there are no plans to expand the Bayview facility, Zamarripa said a 1,020-bed contract facility is expected to open in June near Pearsall, which could receive undocumented Central American and Brazilian immigrants caught in the Rio Grande Valley.
Nathan Selzer with the Valley Movement for Human Rights said undocumented immigrants are being put in danger while committing a non-violent and victimless crime and then being put in the same jails as real criminals.
Selzer said the situation would be most easily addressed through reform of the United States immigration policy.
But thats in the hands of President Bush and Congress and they refuse to do so, Selzer said.
OTMs will now be put in jail or deported!
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Hooray! That Judge is a hero!
Vasquez and six others in his group pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor illegal entry charge.
Nice to see we take violation of the sovereignty of our nation's borders so seriously.Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Illegal immigrants are committing a victimless crime?
No true.
In California alone they are costing taxpayers $9 billion a year. They are stealing $9 billion a year. That means some single mom will have to work 3 more hours a day and see her child 3 less hours a day. Is that a victimless crime?
And when they run out of room, I hope they will copy Sheriff Joe in Phoenix and open a "Tent City" jail. There's lots of space in Texas for tents. And Joe's got their meal costs down to cents per meal.
Save your airline miles to deport illegals.
wow, at least one judge knows what's up.
"18-year-old Honduran man expected the same treatment as thousands of other undocumented immigrants who have been set free after receiving a notice to appear in court"
What an attitude and who do we blame? Also, Judge Recio receives a great big salute. A federal judge with guts--will wonders never cease.
Hooray for common sense and intelligence. This judge knows the nonsense of letting illegals go with a further court date...and he knows how badly we're being hurt by loose illegals...lock 'em up, then send 'em home...that works for me!
Isn't illegal entry into the U.S. a felony?
Here comes the ACLU!
Always thought chain gangs and prison farms were a good deterrent!
No, it isn't.
Conspiracy to commit the crime is a felony, that's where they nail the coyotes.
For the invaders, though, just a misdemeanor.
Agreed. Put him on the Supreme Court!
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio...... RIGHT ON JUDGE!!!!
May other judges join this rebellion against our in_bleeping_sane immigration policies!
God Bless that man!!
Arrogance, and an almost militant sense of entitlement seems one quality they have an over abundance of. Humility and remorse are particularly lacking.
The most sociopathic ones seem to be coming our way, with a whole litany of mental illnesses thrown in.
Just...my observations of them both in and out of our prisons.
This righteous judge is willing to play wack-a-mole until the moles get the message to stay the hell out of America unless you come legally. I'm sick and tired of America being the flop house for every damn nation to the south of us. It's not our responsibility to take care of all the pobrecitos south of the border.
This judge has taken a big first step plus he's Hispanic so the liberals can't bludgeon him. I hope Hillary shakes hands with him to put the fear of God in the worthless Republican party.
? OUTSTANDING! we need more Judges like Recio. Now, let's send all of his friends in Mexico doing the exact same, the same message!
Soooo, if I've got this right, if the US would just stop being mean and having laws about entering into our country, everyone could just get along????
Seems we aren't playing mean enough. If the choice was cross and be shot or don't cross and live and apply to enter the country legally perhaps more would learn to fill out the dang forms and stop stealing wages and opprotunities from those who did follow the legal route.
Somehow I don't think that's the reform he is wanting.
I like your meter.
It's been used here before...
Awesome !
If Uncle Sugar doesn't handle it at the border then Auntie Winchester will handle it at the porch........
ROTFL! That's good. We could do one of those all day telethons where you people could call in and pledge miles to get the ILLEGAL aliens back home. LOL!
The dirty little secret of illegal border jumping is that the United States doesn't have it's act together enough to charter busses, airplanes, ships to send these Central Americans home. Mexico is an easy bus ride for the INS, an easy deportation. Beyond Mexico the INS/Border Patrol is an abject failure at sending people back to where they came from.
I would gladly give up ALL my miles!
ANOTHER real man not afraid to enforce the law. Bush, are you paying attention?
Bumpus Maximus!
Here's where the bill for the storage and deportation of these illegals ought to be sent.
There and the Mex government. The only way we're going to stop this is by increasing the pain for the mex govt that encourages it.
Blood-sucking parasites, thats all they are. And as long as they're sucking the life-blood out of the US economy and sending billions back to Mexico, there's no reason in the world for them to work to improve their own economy.
PTL and pass the ammunition!
Can anyone find an e-mail or postal address for him?
Rumor has it Rheinquist is leaving in 4-5 weeks. Can we PLEASE nominate this judge for his spot, since apparently Clarance Thomas and Antonin Scalia don't seem to want it?
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
The illegal invasion of the U.S.A. should be a felony
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A U.S. INS inspector stands accused of smudging the reputation of the institution he served for more than 20 years, jailed for allegedly heading up what federal officials are calling a "major" immigrant smuggling ring.
"I don't know if you're guilty or not," U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio told the officer Thursday, "but this is certainly a black mark on the INS." After more than a year of investigation, authorities cracked down on a band of alleged smugglers they believe was led by Jose F. Lopez, a Brownsville immigration official. Lopez is accused of masterminding the operation and aiding hundreds of undocumented immigrants, allowing them entry through Brownsville.
United States Magistrate Judge Felix Recio.
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Got seven of 'em eh??? Mexico needs to watch that southern border a little better...And those Central Americans need to start calling themselves Mexicans if they want to get a free pass...
Nope, something wrong with this statement -
Nathan Selzer with the Valley Movement for Human Rights said undocumented immigrants are
being put in putting themselves in danger while committing a non-violent and victimless crime and then being put in the same jails as real criminals.
That's better...
The judge is asking for an attempt on his life either from the political left in this country or most likely from the "coyotes" . If a Federal judge gets hurt or killed by alien smugglers what is the concensus of opinion of those of us on FR to the question : What will be the Bush administration reaction be?
That original statement was so laden with Papa Charlie Bravo Sierra that it almost slid off my screen.
The country is waking up--and the politicians are beginning to fear their wrath at the election polls.
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This marks the end of the first year with the Southwest Initiative Foundation operating as the Montevideo Foundation's fiscal agent, investing donations and turning the sustained interest gained from them into yearly awards for the Montevideo area.
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Carola Zertuche was born in Torreon, Mexico. She began her dance career in Mexico City's Tablao Meson de Triana, where she shared the stage with renowned artists such as Domingo Ortega, Juan de Angelica, Antonio Rey, El Kiki, and Luisa de Cadiz; and where she studied with Manolo Vargas, and Pilar Rioja. Thereafter, she moved to Spain to study with renowned artists including Ciro, Belen Maya, Andrés Marín, Israel Galvan and jota master Pedro Azorin, and while in Spain she also performed with the company Los Tarantos. Carola moved to the Bay Area to continue her dance career as a performer, choreographer and teacher.
Carola has toured throughout Mexico, the United States and the Middle East with renowned flamenco companies and in famous venues such as: Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco at the Joyce Theatre (New York), The Lensic (Santa Fe), and the Fox Theatre (Atlanta); La Tania (as Guest Artist with Domingo Ortega Flamenco Company in Los Angeles); Andrés Marín Company (in the "First Flamenco Festival San Francisco"), and as a special guest artist for the Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company at the Royal Daphna Hall in Doha, Qatar.
Her dancing has been showcased in the following festivals: the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival from 2002 to 2009, the Santa Barbara Ethnic Dance Festival in 2001, and Flamenco Festivals in Monterrey and Mexico City, Mexico.
Her productions have met with much critical acclaim and include: Verde, 2005, with the participation of Pastora Galvan and Jose Anillo; El Color del Flamenco, 2003; and in Mexico with the Sentido Flamenco show starring Alegría Suarez, Cano, Mercedes Amaya and Santiago Aguilar 2002; Al Compas del Tiempo, 2007; El Camino Perfecto, 2008; and Ser y Estar, 2009.
Carola has received numerous nominations and awards for her talents and contributions to flamenco in the Bay Area. Nominated in 2002 for the Isadora Duncan Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Performance: Soloist," she has since been recognized for: "Best Classic Flamenco Show", San Francisco Magazine, 2007 and "Best Flamenco Show," San Francisco Weekly, 2008. In 2009 she received her second nomination for the Isadora Duncan Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Performance: Ensemble."
Along with her role as Artistic Director for Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, Carola continues teaching flamenco dance classes at her dance studio "La Solea" in San Francisco, as well as local and international flamenco dance workshops.
Miguel Santos
President of the Board of Directors
Miguel Santos has been with Theatre Flamenco since its inception, serving as principal dancer, choreographer, and since 1987, artistic director. He began his studies in classical ballet with Carmelita Maracci. His Spanish dance training began in Los Angeles in 1954, and soon thereafter he traveled to Spain where he studied with all the major flamenco teachers. Mr. Santos has performed with Teatro la Zarzuela of Madrid and both José Greco's and Lola Montes' companies. While Mr. Santos was performing with the José Greco company, he appeared in the film Around the World in 80 Days. He has performed in La Traviata for the San Francisco Opera and for the Seattle Opera with Beverly Sills. Mr. Santos continues to refine his flamenco skills by taking master classes with José Galván, La Quica, Javier La Torre, El Guito, Merche Esmeralda, and José Antonio. A three-time NEA Choreography Fellowship recipient, Mr. Santos' major works include Misa Flamenco, Concerto No. 2, and Regionalismos, among many others. Mr. Santos has served as a panelist for the California Arts Council. Miguel Santos was also recognized for his substantial contributions to the Bay Area and to the art of flamenco by the Isadora Duncan Dance Award (IZZIE) and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival for 2008. He currently teaches flamenco at the San Francisco Dance Center and is artist-in-residence at Fair Oaks Elementary School in Redwood City, California.


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Itĺs been 10 years since the Pistons had a group come off the bench that was nicknamed ôThe Alternatorsö a play off the Pistons team name.
The group was able to change or alternate the dynamic of the game and more times than not increased a lead or cut into a deficit. The group was a huge hit with the fans and even had their own Alternators t-shirt.
It might be time for the Pistons to dust off those old t-shirts and bring back The Alternators nickname.
Detroitĺs current second unit has played a huge role in the team winning six of its last eight games.
In the last eight games, Detroitĺs bench has outscored its opponents 409-220 or an average of 51.1 to 27.5.
Also in the span, the Pistons bench scored a franchise record 85 points in a double overtime loss at Atlanta.
ôI think weĺre doing a good job collectively,ö Austin Daye said. ôThe second unit has done a good job of trying to stay consistent, trying to move the ball, trying to get good shots. Whenever weĺre getting good shots itĺs to our advantage.
ôWhen weĺre pressing and trying to make plays individually itĺs not going to work that way. When we can work together as a group and get good shots, weĺre being very productive on the offensive end.ö
The Pistons bench has been so effective because the pieces fit well together. Will Bynum and Andre Drummond both excel in the pick-and-roll and are able to play off each other. Whether itĺs Bynum finishing or Bynum finding Drummond for an easy dunk, the two play well together.
The shooting of Daye and Charlie Villanueva helps open up things for Bynum and Drummond or if teams want to clog the lane to stop Bynum and Drummond, Daye and Villanueva make them pay from the outside.
ôWith Austin and Charlie out there, itĺs a perfect balance of players out there,ö Bynum said. ôWith (Austin) and Charlie out there and Andre rolling to the basket, itĺs kind of like pick your poison. Austinĺs a guy who can score 20 in a quarter when he gets hot and Charlieĺs the same way. Itĺs tough for teams to deal with.ö
Daye and Villanueva are both known for being quality outside shooters, but have been shooting the ball even more efficient than their career averages.
Daye is a career 41.2 percent 3-point shooter, but has shot 56.5 percent (13 for 23) since entering the rotation this season.
Villanueva is a career 35 percent 3-point shooter and since entering the rotation has shot 41.3 percent (43 for 104).
When Villanueva and Daye are shooting the ball at that high of a percentage, it really makes the second unit tough to defend.
ôWeĺre able to spread the floor and weĺre also able to knock down shots with a high consistency,ö Daye said. ôWhen youĺre shooting a good field-goal percentage it definitely helps out.ö
The outside shooting also positively impacts Drummond. When teams canĺt collapse on him or are forced to help, thatĺs when Drummond makes them pay with his athleticism near the rim.
In his last eight games, Drummond is averaging nine points and 10 rebounds.
ôAndre has functioned very effectively with shooting around him and with a pick-and-roll point guard,ö Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said. ôNow if he doesnĺt have shooting around him then heĺs not getting those lobs.ö
Bynum has also benefited and is averaging 12.8 points and 4.9 assists in his last eight games.
ôSometimes depending on how the defense play, itĺs going to be my game,ö Bynum said. ôSometimes itĺs going to be Andreĺs game. Sometimes itĺs going to be Charlie and Austinĺs game. Itĺs just making the right decisions when put in those situations. We all understand that so itĺs not like one guy is out there trying to get the glory. Itĺs about us doing, what weĺre doing finding the open guy and making the right reads.ö
Teams have to make a decision to take away the outside shooting or take away the pick-and-roll game.
ôMainly theyĺll start off hugging us then once they give up a couple lobs and a couple layups then theyĺll sag off and be able to give up a couple 3s or a couple open jump shots which they donĺt want to do,ö Daye said. ôEither way, itĺs kind of you have to pick your poison.
ôWithin our group you never know whoĺs going to have a big night. (Against Charlotte) it wasnĺt my night, it was Charlieĺs night, (the game) before was my night, (the game) before was Dre and Will. With us, itĺs trying to find our niche on the offensive end, which I think weĺre doing and then also being able to collectively get stops together as a group.ö
To Frank, getting stops is key for the second unit. Frank knows the second unit is talented offensively, but giving up 38 points in the second quarter to Charlotte is not acceptable.
ôWhen youĺre playing pick-and-roll basketball, you have a good pick-and-roll player in Will, you have shooting around Andre and you have Andreĺs athleticism that fits from an offensive standpoint,ö Frank said. ôNow the challenge is, can you defend? That group prior to (the Charlotte game) was doing a good job defensively.
ôYou gotta play both ends. I donĺt just evaluate based on the offense. But those guys have a good chemistry and spirit. They played, with maybe one game as an exception, pretty much no agenda basketball, which thatĺs how we got to play. They place at a pace, a spirit, an energy level and thatĺs important.ö
The Pistons have had four days off leading up Fridayĺs game at Milwaukee and coach Frank hinted at some possible changes in the playing combinations. But for now the second unit has been a strength and just might be able to sell a few more ôAlternatorsö t-shirts as well.
Dave Pemberton covers the Pistons for Journal Register Newspapers. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @drpemberton.


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3. (Most importantly) Should we get married knowing that I probably will never change my view on this matter?
1. Yes, anyone can surpress their feelings and desires, but it isn't healthy. People in marriages do it all the time and end up depressed, not looking after themselves, becoming bitter and resentful, doing things that they think will make them happy but add more burden (having kids to save their marriage).. only to find that they have lost track of what the real issues were to begin with. Forgetting that they once had an idea about what might of been the right path and that they choose not to go down it.
2. You can ask her to deny herself, sure. What she decides to do is up to her. Mono asked me not to have sex with anyone but the partners I already have. Well all but one that I had not had sex with before. Its been three years and I have stuck to that agreement. There have been times I have been resentful and times I am ready to push the issue. I have chosen that though. He suffers because of that and so do I. Really, we have gotten used to being uncomfortable with the the compromises we make. We have boundaries that work great but our compromises comprise of issues that I don't know if we would ever get through... I have (until yesterday) four partners though so I am covered. I don't need more and I have done my casual/sport sex bit and don't want that right now... so I am good for now.
3. Sure, get married, but know that you likely will either reach a point where you are both miserable and a change will occur by way of divorce or you changing your mind and can negotiate some kind of boundaries and challenge yourself on this. I would think VERY carefully on bringing kids into your relationship though.
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Are the Hmong in Northern Thailand--or "tribesman" who "don't even have a word for burger," really the "burger virgins" this Burger King commercial purports them to be?
TC Daily planet has a nice writeup on a Minnesota Hmong man's campaign to call BK out on its BS. The crux of his complaint comes from this section of the ad:
"What happens if you take remote Chiang Mai villagers who have never seen a burger? Who don't even have a word for burger? And ask them to compare a Whopper versus Big Mac in the world's purest taste test. The Whopper is America's favorite. But what will these people choose? The Whopper Virgins will decide."
"Really?" Seng Vang wrote to BK execs. "Do you really expect the 350,000 Hmong Americans in the U.S., some right in Miami where your headquarters is located, as well as in Boulder, Los Angeles, and London to believe that?
This is obviously a false, as the specific people in the ads (who are our relatives) HAVE seen burgers before, lots of it. Almost every Hmong Thai villages in Thailand have a TV. Thailand has how many BK franchises? How many commercials in Thai have these franchises run in the past several decades? Even the most remote Hmong villages in Thailand, like the ones in your ad, drive Toyota Tundras, talk to their relatives in St. Paul on their cell phones, and watch CNN and BBC on their satellite TVs. Never seen a burger? Pure fiction. Hmong villagers in Thailand aren't as backward or primitive as you want Americans or the world to think. This type of stereotype needs to stop! BK eating Hmong Americans demand it.
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We'd planned on climbing 3 mountains in 3 days - not too tough by most standards - but unfortunately only managed to get up 2, with the weather on Saturday meaning the best we could do was a drive through a small reserve... On the way back to Lublin (and later Siedlce), we stopped at the Solina dam - also quite an awsome site, even in the mist!
Anyway, all in all we had a great time, and some very good exercise, in one of Polands most beautiful, and desolate, regions. Wild animals abound (the bears had woken up shortly before our arrival), and it's a great place to lose yourself (metaphorically)...
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The ISI's Critics -- and the Agency's Efforts to Silence Them
On April 19, unknown gunmen shot Hamid Mir, a well-known Pakistani journalist and private TV news anchor, in the port city of Karachi. By some stroke of luck, he survived. Mir's family immediately blamed the attack on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), specifically naming its director general, Lieutenant General Zaheerul Islam Abbasi, as the culprit.
Mir's employer -- Geo TV, one of Pakistan's most popular stations -- hurriedly broadcast the allegations, splashing Abbassi's picture across TV screens in Pakistan for hours, setting off a political and media maelstrom in a country where the generals consider themselves above reproach and are certainly never named and shamed for crimes. On April 22, the ISI had Pakistan's defense ministry petition PEMRA, the country's electronic media regulator, to revoke Geo TV's transmission license and initiate criminal charges against its management for defaming the state. The military's reaction stirred up a nationalist frenzy against Geo TV. In several cities, ISI-backed militant organizations, such as the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, staged angry protests, which competitor media organizations then gleefully broadcast along with talk shows segments questioning the patriotism of Mir and Geo TV. Ultimately, Geo and its affiliated newspapers were banned from military bases and units.
The more the generals crack down, the deeper the stain of their guilt sets. Before he was attacked, Mir had informed his family and close associates that the ISI was plotting to assassinate him and that the agency should be held responsible if he was harmed. The generals,
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Davis, Tracy (Tracy Lee)
Advancing social justice
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2013
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|List of Tables and Exhibits ix Foreword xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxvii About the Authors xxxi 1. Uncovering Epistemology: Frameworks Supporting a Change Agenda 1 2. A Toolkit for Understanding a Social Justice Paradigm 19 3. From Wealthy White Landowners to Affirmative Action to Proposition 209 to Grutter v. Bollinger: A Short History of Social Justice and Injustice in Higher Education 51 4. Critical Pedagogy: The Foundation of Social Justice Educational Practice 83 5. Situating the Self: Barriers to and Strategies for Effective Social Justice Education 103 6. Media Literacy 129 7. Disrupting Organizational Practices to Empower People 151 8. Strategies for Reinvigorating Social Justice in Higher Education 171 References 199 Name Index 225 Subject Index 231
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text: All The Breeds Jute Cushion by Plum & Ashby £45$80.56€54.28$60.39 In stock This item is not available for delivery to United States. quantity by Plum & Ashby Location: London, GB read seller's profile see seller's complete range more items from this seller All The Breeds Tea Towel by Plum & Ashby £10$17.90€12.06$13.42 All The Breeds Apron by Plum & Ashby £25$44.75€30.15$33.55 Bertie Cushion by Plum & Ashby £25$44.75€30.15$33.55 Bertie Jute Cushion by Plum & Ashby £38$68.03€45.83$51 Bertie Ticking Cushion by Plum & Ashby £38$68.03€45.83$51 Jute Tote Bag by Plum & Ashby £39$69.82€47.04$52.34 view all you may also like PRODUCT DETAILS DELIVERY RETURNS ask seller a question save for later Our new print 'all the breeds print' features many of our favourite canine friends! From Dachshunds to Pugs and Labradors to Scotties, all can be spotted on our 100% jute cushion which as been hand screen-printed. Tactile and versatile, this cushion would look great against a leather sofa and will become a talking point in any room. Cushion comes complete with double-layered feather fill, which prevents feathers from escaping! made from: 100% Jute dimensions: 45cm x 45cm product code: 262132 This product is dispatched to you by Plum & Ashby. MAINLAND UK order now and receive this item by price Standard Delivery Friday 29 July £4.75$8.50€5.72$6.37 Tracked Two Day Delivery Wednesday 27 July £8.70$15.57€10.49$11.67 Tracked Next Day Delivery Tuesday 26 July £9.70$17.36€11.70$13.01 NON-MAINLAND UK estimated delivery price Not currently available for this region INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY estimated delivery price Not currently available for this region You have 28 days, from receipt of cancellable goods, to notify the seller if you wish to cancel your order or exchange an item. Please note: goods that are personalised, bespoke or made-to-order to your specific requirements, perishable products and personal items sold with a hygiene seal (cosmetics, underwear) in instances where the seal is broken are non-refundable, unless faulty. Read more about our returns policy.Should you choose to return or exchange your order you will need to deliver the item(s) to the UK, where this seller is based. Plum & Ashby's return policy Please see notonthehighstreet.com's returns policy.