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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 30, 2010) -- Glad to be home for the first time in over a month, the ETSU men's basketball team will return to Atlantic Sun Conference action on Thursday night when the Buccaneers take on Campbell inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
The Bucs, who enter the game at 5-7 overall, 0-1 in league play, are hoping to break through in the A-Sun win column. Meanwhile, Campbell is 7-3 on the year, 1-0 in league play.
For more on Thursday's game, click on the game notes link above or read the notes located below. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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The ETSU men's basketball team only added to its rich history of success during the 2009-10 season, capturing its second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and earning the program's ninth trip all-time to the NCAA Tournament ... Posting the program's fourth 20-win season in the past seven years, the Bucs overcame multiple challenges during the season before dropping Mercer in the A-Sun finals ... The Bucs were led by a team of "role" players that included forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston), guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.), guard Micah Williams (Manchester), guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa, Fla.), post Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.), and post J.C. Ward (Marietta, Ga.) ... Hubbard finished the year as a second team All ASun player after leading the Bucs in both scoring (13.9 ppg) and rebounding (8.2 rpg), and was named to the league's All-Tournament squad ... Meanwhile, Williams finished the year on a tear, scoring in double figures in 11 straight games, including a 32-point effort against Campbell en route to being named the A-Sun Tournament MVP ... Only losing senior guard Jocolby Davis off the roster from 2009-10, the Bucs will add Smith back to the mix after receiving a medical redshirt a year ago, and a trio of incoming recruits will also add to the talent pool.
The series versus Campbell
The Bucs and Camels have met 13 times, with most of those games coming since ETSU joined the Atlantic Sun Conference for the 2005-06 season ... The Bucs hold an 11-2 edge in the series and had not lost to the Camels until dropping their last two games in Buies Creek, N.C., in 2009 and 2010 ... ETSU won the last meeting between the two, a 72-64 victory in the first round of last season's Atlantic Sun Tournament.
Last time out
CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 24, 2010) - Wishing for some early Christmas cheer in the form of a solid performance on the court, the ETSU men's basketball team made it happen Friday in the third round of the Cancun Governor's Cup at the Poliforum Benito Juarez. ... Powered by a double-double performance from senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) that included a game-high 20 points and career-high 16 rebounds, the Buccaneers also utilized an effective man-to-man defense and a 16-point first half offensive run to drop former Southern Conference rival Appalachian State decisively in a 79-51 blowout. ... Smith was certainly not alone on the offensive end, as junior forward Isiah Brown (Miami) scored 16, junior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) netted 14, and senior guard Micah Williams (Manchester) had 13. The Bucs also shot 57 percent from the floor, 43 percent from 3-point range, and 74 percent from the foul line for the game. ... Meanwhile, they held Appalachian to just 32 percent shooting from the floor and 29 percent from beyond the arc. More impressively, the Bucs outrebounded the Mountaineers 39-26 for the game. ... Appalachian State did take advantage of the zone in the early going and led 5-0 with 18:43 left in the first half. However, Bartow took timeout at that point and did make the defensive switch, while also allowing the Bucs to use their fullcourt press defense. ... The combination worked in tandem with an efficient offense, as the Bucs responded with a 16-0 run over the next three minutes of play. Appalachian would get back to within six points at 25-19 but that would be as close as they would get the rest of the game, as ETSU manufactured another 9-0 run later in the half to build a 45-26 advantage. ... In the second half, ETSU never let up and the Mountaineers got no closer than 14 at 51-37 with 14:53 remaining. ... The Bucs, who finished 1-2 in the Cancun event, will return home on Christmas day and plan to enjoy a few days off for the holiday break. They will return to work later in the week to prepare for the return of Atlantic Sun Conference action, as the Bucs return to the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center to take on league foe Campbell.
Bucs' Smith earns A-Sun Player of the Week honors
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 28, 2010) - ETSU's Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) seemed to thrive in the warm weather of Cancun, Mexico, and the senior guard's play during the Cancun Governor's Cup has earned him the program's first Atlantic Sun Player of the Week honor for 2010-11, as announced by the league office on Tuesday. ... Smith, who was named to the event's all-tournament team, averaged a near double-double during the three games in three days, posting 14.3 points and nine rebounds per contest. He also shot 60 percent from the floor for the tournament. ... The most impressive performance for Smith came in the Bucs' 79-51 win over former Southern Conference rival Appalachian State. Against the Mountaineers, Smith netted 20 points and a career high 16 rebounds. ... He was joined on the all-tournament team by Colorado State's Travis Franklin, Ole Miss' Zach Graham, St. Louis' Brian Conklin, and Southern Miss' Gary Flowers.
ETSU duo chasing 1,000-point mark
While senior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) is already a member of the 1,000-point club, fellow senior Micah Williams has a shot at making it to the group:
Name Current Points
Micah Williams 841
With those point totals, Williams would need to average 8.4 points a game for the Bucs' final 19 regular season games to reach 1,000.
"Big 3" hitting on all cylinders key to Bucs' success
Coming into this season, the Bucs were counting on quality offensive production from their "Big 3" senior guards in Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) ... All three have had double-figure scoring seasons in the past, and expectations were for much of the same in 2010-11 ... However, so far this season, six of the Bucs' seven losses have coincided with poor output from the trio ... In fact, when all three score in double figures, the Bucs have won each of those games (Tennessee Tech, Milligan and Dayton) ... But when one or two is having an off night, the Bucs have issues winning. Here is a breakdown:
Game Smith Williams Tubbs
Kentucky 15 7 2
Murray State 10 8 2
Tennessee Tech 26 10 13
Milligan 13 17 11
Dayton 17 16 26
USC Upstate 15 11 3
Charleston 9 16 2
Mississippi State 20 18 8
Mississippi 18 2 9
Southern Miss 13 16 14
Northeastern 10 22 9
Appalachian State 20 13 7
Plans, trains and automobiles await Bucs
The Bucs find themselves having just completed of a month-long road trip that saw them play a total of eight games away from the ETSU/MSHA Atheltic Center ... Trips to Dayton, Ohio, Charleston, S.C., Starkville, Miss., Oxford, Miss., and Cancun, Mexico were completed ... In all, the Bucs traveled 3,776 miles by bus and 1,906 miles by plane during this time ... In total, it amounted to 5,682 miles and 67 hours/33 minutes of travel time.
Bartow among best in the country over last
five years
When looking at coaches across the country, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow stands among a select group ... Of those coaches that have been at their current school for at least five years, only 24 have averaged better than 20 wins a season ... That list includes coaches such as Dayton's Brian Gregory, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, UConn's Jim Calhoun, Florida's Billy Donovan, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Duke's Mike Kryzewski, Louisville's Rick Pitino, Kansas' Bill Self, Maryland's Gary Williams and North Carolina's Roy Williams ... The list also includes Bartow, who is average 20.2 wins a year since 2005-06.
Bucs help bolster A-Sun to strong RPI standings
With a pair of signature wins already this season, the ETSU men's basketball team - along with other members of the Atlantic Sun Conference - is doing its part to put the league in some impressive company on the national hoops stage. ... With wins over Atlantic 10 Conference stalwart Dayton and Southeastern Conference West Division favorite Mississippi State, the Buccaneers have helped the A-Sun generate plenty of waves across the board in the national RPI rankings. As a result, one month into the 2010-11 NCAA men's basketball season, the Atlantic Sun Conference is ranked ahead of other mid-major leagues including the Southern, Ohio Valley, Big South, West Coast, Mid-American, WAC and Sun Belt. ... The A-Sun remains among the top half of the conferences in the country. CollegeRPI.com ranks the A-Sun 14th, immediately behind the Horizon, Conference USA and Missouri Valley, and ahead of the conferences mentioned above. Against the Southern, Big South, Sun Belt and Ohio Valley conferences, the A-Sun owns a 15-8 mark. ... The conference has more than held its own against the BCS conferences. With ETSU's win at Mississippi State, the conference grabbed its fifth win against the "Power-6" leagues. No conference eligible for consideration for the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll owns as many BCS wins as the A-Sun. The five wins represent the most for the league since they also picked up five wins in 2007-08.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 141-45 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 77 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the championship of the A-Sun Tourney... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center ... In 2008-09, the Bucs were again 11-2 at home, and last year the team was 9-5 at the Dome.
ETSU "only" A-Sun team picked among nation's
best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors � The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, 10 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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The $1 million project will take about three months to complete. A detour will be in place that will direct Mill Road traffic to Zion Road.
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Minority and Non-Traditional Law Students / Re: QUESTION FOR AMERICANS ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION« on: October 25, 2008, 09:44:31 PM »
Don't be a dummy.
You need that advice more than I do. By the way, that's a very silly and immature statement to make. I'm assuming you're young and just don't know any better.
Nevertheless, as I said earlier, white women are the primary beneficiaries of Affirmative Action policy (look it up if you need to; I'm assuming you know this already). We are also STILL included in current university AA procedures. The earlier comment about us now outnumbering men (if not equal in number) is very true. Nevertheless...
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars gender discrimination in all education programs at institutions receiving federal funds (all but a handful of colleges). But Title IX has an important exemption: On admissions decisions, the statute covers all vocational, graduate and professional programs, but for undergraduate admissions, it applies only to public institutions.
That's in regard to affirmative action in universities, since you spoke of that specifically. I can also address it in the workplace if you'd like, but in my initial post, I was speaking of AA overall (professional and academic).
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During April 2014, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography measured an average of 401.33 ppm CO2 concentration at their Mauna Loa, Hawai'i Observatory.
This value is important because 401.33 ppm is the largest CO2 concentration value for any April in recorded history. This year's April value is approximately 2.97 ppm higher than April 2013′s. Month-to-month differences typically range between 1 and 2 ppm. This particular year-to-year jump is outside of that range, but not extreme. For example, February 2012's year-over-year change was +3.37 ppm and May 2012's change was +3.02 ppm. Of course, the unending long-term trend toward higher concentrations with time, no matter the month or specific year-over-year value, as seen in the graphs below, is more significant.
April 2014's mean value of 401.33 ppm also represents the first time in contemporary history that a monthly mean exceed 400 ppm. The last time CO2 concentrations were this high was at least 800,000 years ago, and likely even longer – on the order of millions of years ago. The implications of this measurement are in some ways subtle and in some ways overt, as I discuss below.
The yearly maximum monthly value normally occurs during May. 2013 was no different: the 399.89ppm mean concentration in May 2013 was the highest recorded value (neglecting proxy data) in 2013. May 2013′s record held until April of this year when the annual cycle pushed a monthly value above this record. Just like in years past, May 2014 is likely to set another new all-time monthly record (until February or March 2015 … you get the idea.) April 2014 is the first calendar month with mean CO2 concentrations above 400 ppm, but it won't be the last. May 2014 will be the second. September 2015 will likely be one of the last months with mean concentrations below 400 ppm. After that, we probably won't witness <400 ppm again.
Figure 1 – Time series of CO2 concentrations measured at Scripp's Mauna Loa Observatory in February from 1958 through 2014.
How do concentration measurements change in calendar years? Let's take a look at two charts that set that context up for us:
Figure 2 – Monthly CO2 concentration values (red) from 2010 through 2014 (NOAA). Monthly CO2 concentration values with seasonal cycle removed (black). Note the yearly minimum observation occurred seven months ago (red curve) and the yearly maximum value occurred eleven months ago. CO2 concentrations will increase through May 2014, as they do every year, before falling again towards this year's minimum value.
The data in this graph doesn't look that threatening. What's the big deal about CO2 concentrations rising a couple of parts per million per year anyway? The problem is the long-term rise in those concentrations and the increased heating they impart on our climate system. Let's take a longer view – say 50 years:
Figure 3 – 50 year time series of CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory (NOAA). The red curve represents the seasonal cycle based on monthly average values. The black curve represents the data with the seasonal cycle removed to show the long-term trend (as in Figure 2). This graph shows the relatively recent and ongoing increase in CO2 concentrations.
The big deal is, as a greenhouse gas, CO2 increases radiative forcing toward the Earth, which over time increases the amount of energy in our climate system as heat. This excess and increasing heat has to go somewhere or do something within the climate system because the Earth can only emit so much long wave radiation every year. The extra heat added to the climate system during the past 150 years has almost exclusively gone into the ocean; during the past 15 years into the deep ocean (>700m). The latter is the result of low-frequency climate oscillations' recent states (e.g., negative IPO phase). That process cannot and will not last forever. Within the next 5-15 years, those oscillations will switch phase and the excess energy will once again be more apparent near the Earth's surface (where measurements are numerous and accurate). Meanwhile, the extra oceanic heat will continue to expand the ocean's volume, which will further increase global mean sea level. That heat will also one day transfer to the atmosphere, causing further changes for land-based systems.
CO2 concentrations are increasing at an increasing rate – not a good trend with respect to minimizing future warming. Natural systems are not equipped to remove CO2 emissions quickly from the atmosphere. Indeed, natural systems will take tens of thousands of years to remove the CO2 we emitted in the course of a couple short centuries. Moreover, human technologies do not yet exist that remove CO2 from any medium (air or water). They are not likely to exist at a large-scale for some time. Therefore, the general CO2 concentration rise in the figures above will continue for many years, with effects lasting tens of thousands of years.
Climate change as a result of increasing GHGs is affected cumulatively – that is, climate change effects we witness today are mostly a result of previous decades' GHG concentrations, not today's. Today's concentrations will exert climate influence in future decades, not tomorrow. This lagged effect is one significant problem with climate action. Theoretically, if we could reduce CO2 emissions to zero today, today's concentrations would cause further climate change for decades. All that said, the most obvious way to reduce additional future climate change is to reduce emissions. That requires either economic contraction or decarbonization (reducing the amount of carbon emitted per unit of economic output).
Since we don't want the former to happen, we have to focus on the latter. What does that entail? That entails directing public money to widespread science and technology research, development, and deployment. That entails innovators trying thousands of ideas so that we implement a few successes that are really efficient. Not every attempt will succeed – indeed, most will fail. We have to find out what doesn't work as part of the process to find out what does work. That entails a sustained commitment to such efforts. This won't happen with three years' funding. It will happen with thirty and three hundred years funding. The California-related reports I mentioned yesterday (and will write about) demonstrate just how challenging the task is. Those challenges relate to opportunities, which is exactly how we have to frame them in order to get people to support them. As I often write, CO2 emissions and later concentrations will decline when we as a society want them to.


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Red Wings top Blues in goalie's debut
Petr Mrazek made 26 saves in his NHL debut, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night.
Detroit halted a two-game skid with its second win in three tries against St. Louis this season.
The Blues, who beat Detroit 6-0 on Jan. 19, dropped their third in a row. They have lost three successive games in regulation for the first time since Feb. 27 to March 5, 2011.
Daniel Cleary and Jakub Kindl scored first-period goals for the Red Wings, who beat St. Louis 5-3 in Detroit on Friday. Cory Emmerton and Damien Brunner added second-period goals 91 seconds apart.
Mrazek, recalled from Grand Rapids on Monday, stopped the first 14 shots he faced. Jimmy Howard, the team's No. 1 goalie, was given the night off after starting the first nine games of the season.
Cleary scored on the rebound of a shot by Tomas Tatar at 5:14 of the first period. Kindl snapped a wrist shot past Brian Elliott at 11:50.
Elliott, who fell to 3-4-0, was pulled from Tuesday's 6-1 loss to Nashville after giving up four goals on 11 shots.
St. Louis defenseman Alex Pietrangelo cut the deficit to 2-1 with a power-play goal in the second period. It was the Blues' seventh power-play goal against Detroit this season.
Detroit answered 1:48 later on a goal by Emmerton. Brunner then pushed the lead to 4-1 with his fifth goal of the season.
Valtteri Filppula added an unassisted goal in the third.
Drew Miller had two assists for the Red Wings.
NOTES: St. Louis D Wade Redden appeared in his 1,000th NHL game. … Detroit LW Henrik Zetterberg extended his point streak to seven games with an assist on Brunner's goal. Zetterberg has 12 points in his last seven contests. … Detroit has scored in the first period in just three of 10 games. … The teams played three times in the first 10 games and will meet two more times this season. … St. Louis has scored at least one power-play goal in its last four games. … Mrazek complied a 16-7-3 record in the minors.


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With the beginning of spring and the arrival of the warm temperatures, the local Utah ski resorts are starting to end their seasons. Although there is still plenty of snow on the hills and the weather is nothing short of beautiful, resorts like Brighton, who have land use leases with the US Forest Service, are required to stop operating. What better way to celebrate a record snowfall season than with a day of riding, barbecuing and pond skimming?
This year closing day was Sunday, April 23 and the Ogio crew was on the scene with our giant new BBQ grill (thanks Jennifer!) cooking bratwursts and burgers for anyone that was hungry. Everyone who came by was really excited to see us there and no one went away hungry. Special thanks to Andy Bell, Andy Donahue, Jared Winkler and the Brighton Park Crew and all the Ogio snow team riders (Mark Edlund, Aaron Biittner, Justin Bennee, Forrest Shearer, Drew Fuller and Laura Hadar) that showed up for the event. It was a great success and look out for another BBQ event coming up at Snowbird for their closing day festivities—with all the snow they still have, it might be a while!


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Crash Bandicoot Returns is a sequel to the trilogy developed by the studio Naughty Dog. The project will be developed with the Unreal Engine 4 and will be offered in demo in 2017. For the official release, no date is yet planned.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A Tale of Two Pepper Sprays
The difference? The cop at UC Davis is White, and the woman who pepper sprayed her fellow shoppers is Mexican.
The Wal-Mart pepper sprayer bragged to fellow shoppers that she would pepper spray other shoppers to get to the X-boxes on sale. She did in fact do so, and grabbed an X-box, paid for it, and left. She was caught on cellphone video with the pepper spray, and was clearly identified. A number of shoppers had to be transported to local hospitals with difficulty breathing and seeing.
America has now, two distinct and separate politicized justice systems, matching that of the political breakdown. One for connected, famous, and rich White elites, non-Whites, and such. And another for ordinary White guys and gals. Shades of "the police acted stupidly" by Obama, we have preferential, specialized treatment for one pepper spayer (because she is Mexican) and a virtual jihad for another, arguably in pursuit of his duties, and operational procedures as he understood them, because the latter is White. Certainly a Black or Hispanic officer at UC Davis would never have been suspended, in fact the whole thing would never have been an issue.
Is this sustainable? Very likely not. It is one more aspect of the eternal spoils struggle between Democrats, party of the anti-White folks (rich White elites, professional White women, non-Whites), and Republicans (against their will morphing into the White party). As memories of the Civil Rights era fade (NY Magazine had an article detailing Jessie Jackson meeting with the Occupy Wall Street goofs, Jackson asked them what LBJ meant to them and they answered Vietnam, he responded with Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, and more) and with it whatever residual White guilt among middle and working class Whites, this spoils system for justice becomes less tenable. Certainly as Whites fade into a minority, suddenly, in their own country, by being forced to accede to Mexican Mass Immigration (because the Mexicans doing the mass immigrating are given special, race-based preferences) and White second-class citizenship, while paying for everything, and getting essentially nothing, well that is nothing more than a pre-Revolutionary condition.
How and when this will explode is uncertain. But explode it will.
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Whiskey, the new Twilight film has grossed almost $500 million in just two weeks of release.
Make of that what you will.
There's still one more to go before it's all over.
- November 29, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Maybe is because she is a woman;that is why she got off easy? What if a man pepper-spray another person(White or Not).
- November 29, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- ray said...
this is a no-brainer, it's about gender, not race
females rarely get arrested, esp for violent acts, in the United Sisterhood of America
heck they kill the kids or hubby, they go on probation and are called 'victims'
- November 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM
And speaking the Occupoids.......
I am surprised that you, Whiskey, have not written a post about the role of female hypergamy in these protests. I saw this video from the Boston one with a young female dressed with all the expensive marker clothing interacting with the bad boys in a way that was right out of your writings.
Your insights?
- November 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM
The article doesn't say she is Mexican. Just that she has a Hispanic name.
- December 1, 2011 at 2:37 PM
Like others I'm not convinced of the racial angle although it may play a marginal role. The reaction to the Davis incident has other roots. Ray explained it from the gender perspective but I'll propose another explanation; class. It's one thing to spray some nobodies but UC Davis students are the kids of the Sac town gentry. No way is that gonna fly.
- December 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Commander Shepard said...
Like others I'm not convinced of the racial angle
But, of course, you wouldn't. The main difference IS that magical PC combo of race and sex that you consistently refuse to grasp and admit.
A white cop sprays white kids = outrage!
A Mexican cop spray white kids = meh.
A white Wal-Marter sprays Mexican shoplifters =
30 weeks on MSNBC with Chris Matthews...
This really needs constant, repetitive explanation for you?
- December 20, 2011 at 6:03 PM
From what data do you draw the conclusion that a mexican cop pepper spraying white kids would not be charged?
- December 23, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Making a "race" case out of this seems a bit of a stretch.The cops at UC Davis got shafted because they treated affluent white liberal kids as they would ghetto kids. That was their crime- they applied a little "equal opportunity" against white liberals and the affluent little dears became upset.
In the Walmart case, you have a case of disruptive dangerous shoppers, and one bystander pulled out some pepper spray to defend herself. The two cases are not at all comparable. Some of the victims were themselves Hispanic. The LATimes article for example quotes one Mexican victim who was there, Alejandra Seminario, 24 who suffered. And the pepper sprayer was not acting in any official capacity, like the cops at UC. She was another shopper caught in a stampede and she freaked.
Trying to play up the race angle on this one is a real stretch. I will say though that it was good to see the little liberal darlings squirm.
- December 30, 2011 at 8:47 PM
@ Sugar and EightRouteArmy; Well said but FaggotPower can't grasp the obvious. He also thinks Anne Coulter is hot so take what he says with a large grain of salt. He's already been laughed off In Mala Fide (he never stops obsessing over that) so he keeps his Ann Coulter fetish on the down low when posts at Roissy's blog and elsewhere.
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|2008-07-21, 15:41
|Link #7501
The Dang-meister
*runs for the nearest shelter*
|2008-07-21, 16:19
|Link #7502
Inactive Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
|2008-07-21, 17:14
|Link #7503
NERV Personnel
"Sir, we're approaching the probe's last known location," spoke Ensign Perim from her position at the ship's conn.
From his center seat of position, the older Jean Luc-Picard nodded his acknowledgment of the information. "Thank you, Ensign. Bring us out of warp, one-half impulse."
"Aye sir, one-half impulse."
Streaking stellar bodies on the main viewing screen shifted from streaks of light to various sized circles around the darkness of space. "Data, give me a full sensor sweep of the surrounding space."
From his position to the front-left of the captain, Lieutenant Command Data's fingers swept across his control console. Readings from the ship's various scientific instruments poured onto his screen at a rapid pace. For a normal humanoid, it would all seem like a blur. But it was an easy task for Data's positronic brain to process the information.
"Ship's sensors show no vessels or known habited worlds in the area. There is also no signs of weapon fire or the probe's remains"
Picard leaned back in his chair and stared out into the vast space on the viewing screen. "What do you think, Number One?"
To his right, the ship's XO Commander William Riker glanced back at his long-time captain. "Maybe a system failure on the probe? With no wreckage it doesn't seem like it was attacked."
"Perhaps." Picard rubbed his chin, "Or someone stole the probe. But there's no traces of recent fuel-based or warp-based travel in this area."
"Sir," chimed in the android Data, "the report from Starfleet had several documents included about a possible spacial anomaly in this area before the probe disappeared."
Riker shrugged, "It's a possibility. We have encountered such things before."
"Agreed. Picard to engineering."
"Engineering. This is La Forge," came over the bridge's speakers.
"Prepare a probe to check for any...spacial anomalies. "
"Aye, sir."
When the communication line was closed, Picard looked over at his XO, "With all our luck, it'll end up being Q trying to lure us into another one of his 'games.'"
"I sure hope not. I'd rather face off against Species 8472 than deal with him again."
As the probe was being prepared, the Enterprise maintained its distance from the supposed spacial anomaly. Within a half-hour, the probe was declared ready. The simple looking device was launched from the ship and steadily closed in on its destination...before vanishing from their sensors.
|2008-07-21, 22:35
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Imaginary World no. 856
|2008-07-21, 23:03
|Link #7507
Vividly Vivio
In hopes that JC will release another installment of Landscaper!Fate, I wrote up another Richgirl!Nanoha short.
For the new people here, "Richgirl!Nanoha" is a small dedication short series to JunkedCat's "Landscaper!Fate". You should read it, it's great. You can find the link on the second post, first page here.
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|2008-07-22, 01:51
|Link #7508
Lightning Devil
nice one Satashi, the last part made me laugh, specail the when Fate opened the door and hit him right on the face, lolz.
keep going.
|2008-07-22, 03:34
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I vote B of course.
And for all the others: I have read your stories but it's soooo many stories to reply on so I'll just say. "YAY GOOD STORIES!" Just hope I'll never have to go through a backlog again >.<
Oh and a big welcome to all the new ones *waves* hope you'll enjoy your stay here ^^
Last edited by nictory; 2008-07-22 at 07:33. Reason: Forgot to welcome the new people >.<
|2008-07-22, 03:35
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Rockband Drummer
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: the world
alrights so i gotta apologize yet again for my lack of commenting and contribution.
*begs for forgiveness*
okay gotta comment on all the great fics thats been cranking out *cheers* <(^0^)>
and yet again i will pay my crimes with another pic - which is again inspired by Satashi's fanfic of Vegas Stakes. The pic shows how Nanoha always sleeps during the car rides and Fate is her pillow, i couldnt help but found it all so very cute. I was hoping to emphasize the *ring* better but couldnt really get how...... --__--ll
so you can be the judge of that. The positioning is kinda awkward, because this is the first time i've drawn somethin like this....so ENJOY
Spoiler for pillow Fate-chan:
ps. i know i should post my pics on the image thread....but i dont like the idea of mass eye's looking at my pics......compared to other awesome MSLN pictures...
pss. i saw how Satashi was having a bad day, i hope this'll cheer you up alittle.
|2008-07-22, 05:30
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Returning home is not the right way to describe it, but as you stand on the bridge of the Star Destroyer, a wave of nostalgia does hit you. The same view of a planet viewed from outer space, the same bridge with its lowered areas, where people are still buzzing around wildly handling the large ship. As you look up from the crew area, you are greeted by a familiar face.
"Yo!" Keroko greets you. "Welcome back, it has been a while hasn't it? I know I promised I'd continue this before, but between school, work, and graduation it kinda got lost. For the new readers, welcome on board! You are now on my special spot on the bridge of my own little dimensional ship, I like to call this place 'Keroko's corner.' In here, I will be giving you hints on how to progress in this story called 'Raising Heart' a dating sim staring the one and only Takamachi Nanoha. In the case of a Bad End, I will be here to tell you where you went wrong, and send you back to do it again.
Now, how about we do a little re-capturing of the events before we continue on?
When we left of, Nanoha had just transferred to a new school, and had made a few friends around class. However, the next day she was struck with realization that her family had now moved away to a different country while she had remained, and was struck with homesickness. Fate was willing to help, but Nanoha being Nanoha, she wormed her way around, not wanting to worry her friend too much. Later on she remembered she had recieved an invite from Hayate to come over and eat when she wanted to, the choices represented were as followed:
A.) I'll go buy ingredients and cook myself a nice meal.
B.) … Hayate practically invited me over tonight; I... don't know if I want to, but I can't really decline, can I?
C.) A meal at Hayate's place sounds nice, she did invite me.
D.) I'm going to take a nice stroll through town, and order some takeout at the end of the day.
The winning option last time was B, but since we have a lot of new readers, I'm initiating a re-vote. Remember, in Raising Heart every single character that ever appeared in Nanoha is a possible pairing. You just have to find them. Make your choices bold, size 5, and red for easy counting." Keroko grins and salutes before turning around. After a few paces though, she stops and turns around.
"Oh, before I forget, for the new readers, Fate is the only exception to the 'all characters' rule. I wanted to write a Dating Sim story in which there truly was a diversity of choices, if Fate was an option, I think the result would have been clear from the start, and writing a story like this knowing that it will end up as NanoFate would be boring. So apart from Fate, go wild! If you want a Nanoha/Carim, or even a Nanoha/Jail, go hunt for them. The only limits to the pairings is your imagination."
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|2008-07-22, 07:22
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Vividly Vivio
|2008-07-22, 07:23
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Join Date: Nov 2007
And a B for Raising Heart.
|2008-07-22, 07:58
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Vividly Vivio
"Why not?" Another asked curiously.
A girl sitting next to them blinked and looked over at them. "Erio-chan is a girl."
Caro giggled. "I know she is. we're dating."
"He's a boy!"
"Totally a girl."
The two men looked at each other and sighed. " We're never going to get girlfriends are we?"
The other groaned. "Never..."
|2008-07-22, 08:03
|Link #7518
~ I Do ~
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In the XV-8A Spartan "00"
Age: 32
|2008-07-22, 08:27
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: lost
and *pokes JC* ^^
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CRESTVIEW � After the success of last year's lipdub, the Crestview High School leadership class was hard-pressed to top the YouTube video, which has surpassed 200,000 views. This year, they jumped on the popularity of "Harlem Shake" videos.
CRESTVIEW � After the success of last year's lipdub, the Crestview High School leadership class was hard-pressed to top the YouTube video, which has surpassed 200,000 views.
The current "Harlem Shake" rage inspired students to produce a 35-second version. In the viral Internet dance videos, a person or two "spontaneously" start dancing to the song "Harlem Shake" by dance music composer Baauer. Fifteen seconds later, the scene cuts to a group of people, many costumed, performing a wild dance.
The first of this meme, or Internet fad, originated last month and resulted in thousands of homemade videos uploaded to YouTube. The videos typically last about 30 seconds.
The Crestview High version concludes with an impromptu pep rally, though on a smaller scale than last year's lipdub.
"We were trying to do something like the lipdub but a little bit different," senior Alex Andrews said.
To produce the video, leadership students under teacher Stephanie Sanders's guidance asked alumnus Ben White, who created the lipdub, to return to his alma mater. White shot the production in two segments on March 7. The first 15 seconds were shot during second period; the balance was produced that afternoon, Alex said.
"We met around the Bulldog at 2:30 and by 2:45 we were out of there," he said. "It was a lot of fun. I think it was a good way to get out word about how much fun Crestview High is without doing the lipdub. And it didn't take near as much prep as the lipdub."
The cast of more than 100 people included students, faculty, and two football coaches who "kept head-butting with their football helmets,� Alex said.
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YouTube artist "The Kid President" put the Crestview High production in the background of one his most recent videos, Alex said.
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Please post pictures of things you've made, not of your sewing machine!
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Feb 17, 2010, 05.54 PMby lindsayd
I just feel that this post would be more appropriate under the 'discussions' portion of the website, as opposed to 'projects,' since two pictures of a sewing machine are neither completed projects nor works in progress. I wasn't trying to be mean, I just was hoping to see something unique that she made instead of a sewing machine that I could look at anywhere!
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Miners selected No. 2; defending champ UIndy unanimous No. 1.
Missouri S&T is sandwiched between the new (Indianapolis) and the old (Truman State) of its football rivalry history in the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) 2013 Preseason Football Coaches Poll.
Indianapolis, S&T and Truman were selected 1-2-3 in the coaches preseason poll, which was announced Wednesday during the GLVC Football Kickoff event, held on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Meanwhile, GLVC newcomer Truman State was picked to finish third.
Indianapolis, which went unbeaten in league play to win the inaugural GLVC football crown in 2012, was the unanimous selection to repeat in this year's coaches poll.
UIndy received seven first-place votes and 49 total points. The S&T Miners received the other first-place vote (coaches couldn't vote for their own team) and was a unanimous selection for the runner-up spot with 43 points.
S&T will play UIndy Oct. 5 at Indianapolis, Ind. in the league opener for both squads.
Miner first-year head coach Tyler Fenwick is pleased with the recognition of being selected high in the preseason poll, but says it means nothing once the Miners open their preseason camp on Aug. 11.
"It's kind of what I figured," Fenwick said of UIndy's No. 1 preseason selection. "As far as us being No. 2 it's nice to have some respect from some people. But really, that's all it means."
The Truman State Bulldogs were third in the poll with 37 points followed by Saint Joseph's fourth with 28, McKendree fifth with 25, Quincy sixth with 18, William Jewell seventh with 17 and Kentucky Wesleyan eighth with seven.
Fenwick saw plenty of Truman State while he was offensive coordinator at MIAA-power Missouri Western. And he says the addition of the Kirksville, Mo. school is a positive for the GLVC.
"I kind of thought (Truman) would be thought of highly," Fenwick said. "They are used to playing MIAA teams and my experience has been they have always been a tough team to play.
"It's good for this conference that they're coming in."
S&T had its finest season in decades last fall, finishing 10-1 overall and was ranked 24th in the final American Football Coaches Association's (AFCA) 2012 rankings.
Fenwick is considered an offensive coach and with the Miners losing their top passer, receivers and rusher, he will be busy reshaping the personnel on that side of the ball.
"We're excited to get started," he said. "Everybody's anxious to get back on the field.
"There are always going to be challenges. Offensively we've got some holes, but we've got some talent and we've got to get them familiar with a new system. Defensively I've said it all summer; they're fun to watch. It should be exciting."
This year there are eight teams in the GLVC football race. While Truman State was added, both Urbana and Central State left the league. Unlike last year, when Urbana and Central State were football-only members, the eight schools in the GLVC football race are now full-fledged members of the league.
Here is a look at each GLVC team in their predicted order of finish (last season's overall and conference record in parenthesis):
1. Indianapolis (10-3, 8-0): The Greyhounds are coming off another outstanding campaign, which included a first-round victory in the NCAA Division II playoffs. UIndy ranked 15th in the AFCA Division's final poll.
Although UIndy lost the GLVC Offensive Player of the Year in graduating WR Mar'Quone Edmonds (99 receptions, 1,335 yards, 17 TDs), the team should still be potent on offense, led by senior QB Chris Mills (3,013 passing yards, 27 TDs) and senior RB Klay Flechter (1,475 rushing yards, 19 TDs), a preseason All-American selection. Also back is GLVC Special Teams Player of the Year Scott Miller as place-kicker.
2. S&T (10-1, 7-1): Fenwick will build around a veteran defense. The Miners have eight starters back from a defensive unit that ranked among the best in NCAA Division II, leading the nation in turnover margin, placing 10th in total defense and 17th in scoring defense. All-America Eddie Rascon (13 QB sacks) is back at tackle. In all five S&T defenders were named to the USA College Football Preseason All-America team, including Rascon, LBs Chris Horn and Chris Emesih and DEs Jimmy Barnhart and Freddy Dugard.
Offensively the Miners have some replacing to do, as RB Curterris Golden (836 rushing yards, 14 TDs), QB Josh Firm (2,451 passing yards, 27 TDs) and WRs Thomas Smook (92 receptions for 861 yards) and Joseph Hyman (41 receptions for 632 yards, 15 TDs) are all gone. Isaiah Culver (26 receptions, 240 yards) and Leon Moody (16 receptions, 154 yards) will be keys in the receiving game and the top runner back is sophomore Scott Hendricks (657 rushing yards, five TDs). Big Forrestal Hickman (6-8, 305) returns to anchor the offensive line. Returners Evan Merz and Reed Brown figure to be the leading candidates at QB.
The strength of schedule has increased greatly for S&T. The Miners open the season Sept. 5 at home against Chadron State (6:30 p.m.) and follow that by playing Fenwick's former team, Missouri Western, on the road Sept. 14.
3. Truman State (4-7): The Bulldogs won't find the going as tough in the GLVC as it did in the murderous Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA). They finished 11th in the MIAA race last season but figure to be a factor in the GLVC this fall. TSU spent 100 years in the MIAA and will again be a league rival of S&T, which also came from the MIAA. All-MIAA senior WR Dallas Grier, who caught 81 passes for 1,026 yards, is back to pace the Bulldog attack along with senior QB Conrad Schottel (2,103 passing yards, 12 TDs).
4. Saint Joseph's (6-5, 5-3): The Pumas return 26 players with starting experience, including preseason All-America senior WR Julian Walker (94 receptions, 1,082 yards, 11 TDs) and senior QB Billy VandeMerkt (2,417 yards, 25 TDs passing, 443 yards, four TDs rushing). Saint Joseph's builds on one of the most potent offenses in the conference. In all the Pumas averaged more than 27 points and 390 yards per game in 2012.
5. McKendree (3-7, 3-5): First-year head coach Mike Babcock has 13 starters back from last season's squad. He hopes to bring some of the offensive spark he had as an assistant coach at Colorado State-Pueblo, which set 13 team and 15 individual offensive records last season and are currently the No. 1-ranked Division II team in national preseason polls. The Bearcats' top offensive producers last year were youngsters in freshman RB Cameron James (537 rushing yards), freshman QB Isaac Fisher (1,033 passing yards) and sophomore WR Pat Doty (39 receptions, 477 yards).
6. Quincy (3-8, 3-5): The Hawks, under second-year head coach Tom Pajic, has eight offensive and seven defensive starters back. Key players returning are senior RB LaDarion Shelby (793 rushing yards, seven TDs), senior WR Justin Dickens (43 receptions, 568 yards, 12 TDs), junior WR Jarrod Sergent (33 receptions, 471 yards) and QBs Nick Lonergan (977 passing yards, 12 TDs) and James Chmelik (504 passing yards).
7. William Jewell (2-9, 1-7): The Cardinals are still trying to restore their NAIA success at the NCAA Division II level. Head coach Jerod Kruse can build around a talented senior QB on offense, as Sean Shelton threw for 2,131 yards and 18 TDs and rushed for 332 yards in 2012. Returning for his sophomore season is RB Thomas Cook, who rushed for 572 yards and five TDs as a freshman. Seniors Jake Hartley and Billy Queisert are both three-year starters on the OL.
8. Kentucky Wesleyan (2-9, 0-8): Panther head coach Brent Holsclaw, the longest-tenured among GLVC football head coaches, saved a man from choking while on vacation with his family at Disney World this summer. It's unknown whether he can resuscitate his offensively-challenged squad this fall. Wesleyan rushed for just 424 net yards (1.9 average) in 2012 and has to replace the starting QB in 2013. The top offensive player back is Jeff Ward, who rushed for 214 yards and caught 38 passes for 426 yards, producing seven total TDs.
Here is the 2013 GLVC Preseason Coaches Poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):
1. Indianapolis (7), 49 pts
2. Missouri S&T (1), 43 pts
3. Truman State, 37 pts
4. Saint Joseph's, 28 pts
5. McKendree, 25 pts
6. Quincy, 18 pts
7. William Jewell, 17 pts
8. Kentucky Wesleyan, 7 pts


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The Fight
Jason Quintana has only been knocked out once. At 30, the Albuquerque native has fought his way through karate tournaments, city parks, streets, bars, prisons and kickboxing rings.
Nobody K.O.'d him, he says, until T.J. Trujillo landed a high kick and left hook to his head at a smoker held in the Rosales Kickboxing and Karate gym on Saturday, Nov. 8.
"Smoker" is an old boxing term. In the early to mid-1900s, illegal amateur boxing matches were held in bars, where spectators filled the air with their cigarette exhalations. Now the term refers to amateur fighting competitions held at kickboxing and karate gyms.
There are no cash prizes. The only accolades awarded are respect, experience and amateur belts.
On the night of Nov. 8, shortly after Trujillo knocks him to the mat, Quintana weaves through a sweating and shouting sold-out crowd in the Rosales gym. Slightly dazed, yet unbloodied, he approaches a friend and asks, "What'd he catch me with?"
"A kick to the head," his friend replies.
"Oh well, can't cry over spilled milk," Quintana says before walking away.
Jason Quintana has always been a fighter. While his childhood peers were playing T-ball, he was learning to punch. Instead of soccer games, karate tournaments filled his weekends.
At age 12, Quintana earned a children's black belt and helped instruct classes at the American Kenpo Karate Academy (A.K.K.A. Karate USA). By 15, he was an adult black belt. He dominated karate tournaments, remaining undefeated for nearly eight years. As a young adult, he decided to take a break from formal martial arts. Now, having lost six years to prison, Jason has resumed training at his old gym, aiming to become a 30-year-old professional kickboxer.
Although he left the gym, Quintana never quit fighting. He fought outside the walls of A.K.K.A. as often as inside them.
This was partly the result of growing up in a rough neighborhood, he says. The Quintana family's home was located in the heart of Albuquerque's War Zone, a block away from Trumball Park. Police dubbed this area north of the Fairgrounds the War Zone during the late '80s when homicide rates skyrocketed. The community has improved in recent years, yet it continues to rack up some of the highest crime rates in the city.
"It was pretty bad. People were getting shot, stabbed and beat up almost every day," Quintana recalls. "To us, it was nothing. We had to know how to fight."
"My brother and I were constantly fighting just to live at our house," he says. "I have never been involved in a gang. But we knew karate and ended up getting in a lot of fights with gangsters because we were living in their hood."
As a youth, karate training five days a week gave Quintana an edge in street fights and left little time for getting in trouble. But when he stopped training, he started exchanging blows with the law.
"My record is so clean as a juvenile because I never did anything but karate and compete," he says.
With age, things changed.
"Then I turned 18, stopped going to practice and began hanging out with my buddies more. That's when the trouble started. I lost focus on what I was supposed to be doing."
He began bombing walls as part of a tag crew in high school. He beat up a classmate and caught an aggravated battery charge. He was busted for graffiti, which, when coupled with his previous charge, placed him under probation. Quintana used his fists instead of tournament trophies to gain respect for his graffiti crew.
"Very rarely did I go and start fights. The main thing for taggers to do is get known. Naturally enemies came our way, so we'd set up dates and fight these guys. I was never going to back down from a fight," says Quintana, claiming he also never lost any of those fights.
In 2001, a probation violation for changing residences without informing his probation officer landed him a yearlong stint behind bars.
He wasn't reformed by 365 days of lockup. After being released he continued doing "stupid shit": drinking, fighting and becoming involved with drug dealing.
The climax of his criminal activity came on Feb. 27, 2003. The crime would cost him the next four and half years of his life.
A big party was thrown for his friend's birthday. The booze flowed, and everyone got drunk. Quintana's friend was a weed dealer. Another dealer owed his friend money. They decided to pay the debtor a visit.
Quintana and three others drove to the guy's home.
"We went to the house and kicked in the door. It was a drug dealer's house, so we were going to grab the weed and some money or whatever they had," he says.
A neighbor called the police before the door came down. Quintana was charged with aggravated battery, armed robbery and kidnapping. In New Mexico, restraining somebody through verbal intimidation constitutes kidnapping; Quintana says he picked up the charge by telling the debtor not to move.
He was sentenced to 18 years. The judge suspended 13, reducing the time to five years. He was released in June 2007. Quintana is on parole; if he violates it, he must automatically serve the suspended 13 years.
"Those 13 years are basically a rope to hang myself with if I get in trouble," he says.
Prison offers ample opportunity for contemplation. Quintana reconsidered the life he was leading. He had gone from karate prodigy to repeat offender.
"Being locked up was an eye-opener. I realized you have to surround yourself with positivity, or you're not going to be positive," Quintana says.
He decided to do the time instead of letting the time do him. He chose not to worry about the outside world. He adopted a routine of working out and knocked months off his sentence for good behavior.
"The time made me mentally stronger. I had to step back and say, 'This is your life right now. This has to be your home now.' It's just like fighting: It's 90 percent mental," says Quintana. "Whether you're locked up, on the streets or in the ring, the majority of what's going on is in your mind."
After his release, Quintana surrounded himself with positivity: He returned to martial arts and began training as a kickboxer.
Quintana knew he'd never stop fighting. It's who he is.
"I decided if I'm going to fight, then to do it in the ring where it means something instead of getting in trouble and losing more years."
The amateur kickboxer's alarm buzzes at 5 a.m. He lifts weights for an hour before starting work at 7 a.m. His day is spent erecting scaffolding, mixing mud and unloading pallet after pallet of brick block as a mason for Beaty Construction.
After work, Quintana jogs laps at UNM's Johnson Field before kickboxing class at 7 p.m.
"I train five or six days a week, but I'm really training 24/7 in my head," he says. "At work I'm fighting in my head, shadow boxing in the corner. I'm at it all day long. It's always on my mind."
Three nights before the Rosales smoker, the 166-pound, 6-foot Quintana is jumping rope with his classmates. The rope blurs between skimming his shaved head and whipping a white floor splattered with red paint.
Trainer Fernando "Fernie" Calleros, a four-time kickboxing world champion in his 30s, paces the floor, scanning his fighters.
"It smells like feet and ass in here!" he shouts before fiercely snap-kicking a heavy bag almost as an afterthought.
Valerie Quintana, Quintana's very pregnant second wife, smiles at the trainer's declaration from her seat against the wall. His first son, who's 11, lives with his first wife in Arizona.
After an hour of endurance, kicking and punching drills, Fernie addresses the class.
One of his female fighters backed out of a fight, and he's outwardly pissed.
"If you have a fight, you don't have a broken nose. You're not sick. You don't have family problems. You show up! If you don't show up, it's not because of any of these reasons, it's because you're scared," he says, eyeing the students, who will fight at the upcoming smoker.
"And it's all right if you're scared, just don't be a kickboxer," Fernie continues. "Go do something else. Play soccer."
Facing a mirror spanning the entire wall, Quintana, front and center, nods to his reflection in agreement.
After class, Fernie walks across his office above the gym and lifts a frame off the wall. A 10-year-old Jason Quintana is featured on the cover of Fighter magazine.
Fernie is trying to build a kickboxing scene in Albuquerque, aspiring to hold at least two large-venue professional bouts a year. He sees promise in Quintana, who will go pro in April 2009. He hopes Quintana will raise A.K.K.A.'s notoriety. As a pro, Quintana may take fights out of state and will limit entering the ring to four times a year; he'll also fight for cash prizes.
Fernie spent the past four months transforming Quintana from a experienced streetfighter with a formal karate background into a kickboxer. Quintana's already 30, which leaves him a small window to launch a professional fighting career, so Fernie has pitted him against experienced fighters.
Fernie says his greatest attribute is toughness.
"There's a lot of great talent out there, but most them do not have the mental or physical ability to absorb punishment, so they end up folding," says Fernie. "Jason can take punishment and give it."
On Nov. 8, Rosales Karate and Kickboxing is filled beyond capacity. A piece of paper taped to the door reads "sold out." More than 200 spectators, fighters and families fill the dim, muggy room. Flourescent bulbs above the ring provide the only light. Fighters pace through the crowd or stretch outside the front door with taped hands in anticipation of their bouts.
Going into the smoker, Quintana is 2-1, both wins by knockout. He had been lined up for a rematch against Eduardo Rios, a fighter out of Rosales gym whom he had previously knocked out.
But Rios backed out two days before the fight. T.J. Trujillo, a stocky and experienced fighter out of Chavez Martial Arts Academy, stepped in as a replacement fighter.
The first three rounds are mediocre for Quintana. Trujillo attacks his legs with kicks, then retreats to the ropes and covers up, protecting his head with his arms. This strategy prevents Quintana from landing any clean punches.
In the fourth round, he rocks Quintana with a high kick to the head. With his opponent dazed, Trujillo delivers a left hook to his right cheek, knocking him out.
After the smoker, Quintana and crew go for dinner at a nearby Applebee's. Fernie buys Quintana a Corona at the bar, and the fighter cringes as lime juice sears a cut lip. He seems unfazed and has a positive attitude despite being punched unconscious an hour earlier.
"He was setting me up with the leg kicks for a high kick, and he got me. Boom! Next thing I know, I'm looking at the ceiling," he says.
"I was on the ground thinking, That one hurt. Should I try to get up? Uh oh, my leg ain't moving," he recalls, smiling.
Seated at a long table next to his wife Valerie, Quintana picks at a bowl of chips.
He shrugs off the night's disappointment and eases into his second beer (he only drinks right after a fight).
"If I get beat up, I get beat up. That's what I'm in there for. I'll be back in the gym on Monday."


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Sydney is the main port on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia.
Get in
By plane
Sydney is served by the nearby Sydney Airport which is served year round by Air Canada with prop service to Halifax and seasonal CRJ service to Montreal.
During the summer the airport is served by Air Saint-Pierre (with flights from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon) and Sunwing Airlines (with flights from Toronto). Prince Edward Air also provides charter flights.
By car
Driving to Sydney can be done by crossing the Canso Causeway which links the island to the Nova Scotia mainland at Canso. From there you have two options: the slightly longer but straighter Highways 105 and 125 or the shorter but twistier Route 4.
By boat
North Sydney is the site of the Marine Atlantic terminal which serves as the main connection to Newfoundland. From the ferry terminal it is about a 20 minute drive on Highway 125 to Sydney.
Get around
Most sights within the downtown are within walking distance, however most major tourist sights are well outside of the city and require a car or pre-arranged tour bus.
Although Sydney is the center of Cape Breton, it lacks major tourist sites itself. A couple of things to see are:
The Sydney marine terminal as well as Charlotte Steet have an abundance of arts and crafts stores selling traditional Cape Breton souvenirs.
Sydney has many well established restaurants, most with menu's full of classic seafood favorites.
Sydney is home to a handful of places to rest your head ranging from small motels to larger hotels.
For travelers seeking something with a little more character try one of the many bed and breakfasts in the area a selection of which can be found here[2]
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CANANDAIGUA � A new beer station will be opening this weekend in Canandaigua.
Twisted Rail Brewing Company � located at a former train depot � will open at 1 p.m. Sunday at 20 Pleasant St., just off of Main Street. The owners are ready to bring the public aboard the brew train.
�Bring it on,� said co-owner John McMullen, of Naples. He added that he�s feeling a mixture of excitement and nervousness for the opening of Canandaigua�s newest brewery.
The brewing company will be located in the same building as The Beehive Brew Pub, which opened this summer. Nathan Sirvent, of Mendon, will also own the brewery with John and his brother Mike McMullen, of Caledonia.
The trio fully embrace the railroad theme. The owners skipped over traditional taps for ones made with railroad spikes, and an actual rail is located below the bar as a footrest.
As for the product, Twisted Rail will start with a more traditional batch of beers, such as an India Pale Ale (IPA), John McMullen said. They are hoping to have a brew session next week where a few holiday-themed beverages are created, he added.
Twisted Rail does not have a menu; however, the facility is connected to the Beehive area.
The original plan was to open the brewery in October, but problems with the brewing equipment set that timeline back, John said. He explained that the vendor was experiencing some internal problems, and as a result only shipped half the equipment needed to make the beer. The Twisted Rail trio scrambled to get the equipment into a usable state, he said.
The Rail will be open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. After the opening, the brewery will have operating hours from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Eventually, the hours will be extended to 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, John said. He added they�re hoping to have the extended hours set by January.
�We�ve started off slow in terms of hours,��he said. �We�ll increase them as we get settled in.�
More about Twisted Rail
Find the brewery on Facebook by searching "Twisted Rail Brewing Company," or call (585) 797-7437.


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Fun with Type: Alphabet Cushions by Elsie Dodds
Pillows and illustration and type…oh my! Not only do these cushions easily combine three of my favorite ways to decorate my home, they do it in a fun and witty way. Notice that the " A"pillow features illustrations of an airplane, an ambulance, an arrow and an apple. The "R" pillow has a rabbit, a railroad, a rainbow and a rooster. And so it goes.
Found over at Better Living Through Design, these cushions are by Elsie Dodds, a soft furnishing and homeware accessory design label by Edinburgh based designer Catherine Rozdoba-Hallows for "children and adults to share and enjoy, to encourage curious natures and stimulate imaginations."
So while these pillows are great learning tools for you parents out there, they will also look great on the couches of the childless due to their use of hip colors and even hipper illustration.
These Alphabet Cushions are currently only sold in the UK, but can be shipped to the US (and around the world) via Moletamunro.
Images: Elsie Dodds


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Despite being a virtual unknown outside her homeland of Switzerland, the third studio album by Sophie Hunger - full name Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti Hunger - comes with a credit roll of relatively storied backing players from across the pond, most notably Dangermouse drummer Steven Nistor and Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.
However, I think perhaps the most intriguing curiosity on her CV is public approval from none other than (King) Eric Cantona. Apologies for the digression into enigmatic French footballing legends-cum-actors, but given that the video for new single 'LikeLikeLike' features Hunger practicing her own flicks'n'tricks on the streets of Paris she looks quite the playmaker herself. In fact Hunger's silkiest moves (in heels no less) set to the jazzy swing and ascending "la-la-laa" chorus refrain is incredibly joyous. However, take the song on its own and you're left with something vaguely catchy and, depending on your tastes, either coyingly chipper or just blandly MOR.
In shorthand, Hunger's output could be described as acoustic folk-pop with a jazzy flavour. Indeed it was at the Montreaux Jazz Festival that she made a name for herself. Unfortunately the jazz element to be found on The Danger of Light is at best toothless and at worst smug. This is particularly true of the record's more uptempo numbers such as 'LikeLikeLike' and the shuffling 'Das Neue', which might be breezy if somewhat vanilla pop, but for the intrusive faux-jazz squeals of brass and off-kilter piano chords. On the other hand 'The Perpetrator' goes for smoky jazz club seduction crossed with a hint of bluesy guitar growl, but it never succeeds at being anything other pastiche, and Hunger's Florence-style bawling on the chorus rather undermines her claim to "I move with grace and elegance".
In fairness there are more nuances at work on The Danger of Light, but it's in details that the album's virtues are too often undone by its flaws. The clumsily titled 'Souldier' goes from shadowy verses of pensive piano to a ploddingly dull chorus playing on the song title in predictable fashion ("Oh oh Soldier don't break your shoulders for nothin'"). It would be more forgivable if it wasn't so earnest. The same problem applies to 'Can You See Me?' and 'Heharun', which are both stylistic standouts, the former for its trip-hop beats and the latter for its wonky freestyling guitar, but both have choruses that are too big on 'emotion' and too short on melody or invention.
However, there's plenty to suggest that Sophie Hunger has better in her. 'Holy Hells' and 'The Fallen' see her utilise the brass section in menacing and rousingly urgent fashion respectively, quite detached from their jazz origins. On album opener 'Rererevolution' piano and woodwinds are used to haunting effect between urgent drum led passages. Meanwhile, "Z'Lied Vor Freiheitsstatue' sits immovably in the middle of the road, but is an undeniably beautiful piano torch song. However, Hunger leaves the best for last with the rustic fingerpicking of 'Take a Turn', perhaps her most conventional singer-songwriter moment and certainly the album's most affecting one. It's just a shame she spends so much time being a sort of frustrating cross between Sharon Van Etten and Norah Jones.
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At the carnival, guests may expect to find family-friendly activities, food, music, a display of memorabilia pertaining to the school's history and a silent auction to help raise funds for the school. The school is reaching out to alums and encouraging them to participate in the celebration. Crown Point School opened on Jan. 5, 1948 and was, at that time, symbolic of San Diego's growth.
Built at a cost of $200,000, enrollment at the school has ebbed and flowed during its 65-year history. In 2008, the school converted to a music academy and was renamed Crown Point Junior Music Academy and soon implemented the Suzuki Violin program, growing from 115 children to more than 280.
CPJMA is best known for its rigorous academics, increased attendance, bridging the language and cultural gaps and a music program that has cultivated students who appreciate the visual and performing arts.
For more information, call school principal Liz Duvall at (858) 273-9830, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ENGLEWOOD The Denver Broncos will have to make a deep run in the playoffs to get Willis McGahee any more carries this season.
The Broncos put their 31-year-old running back on recallable injured reserve Wednesday, meaning he can return to practice after missing the final six regular-season games and play in a game after Jan. 18.
That would bring Denver up to the AFC title game.
McGahee tore the medical collateral ligament in his right knee Sunday when he was tackled low by San Diego cornerback Quentin Jammer.
Coach John Fox said McGahee wont need surgery, but he decided to put him on IR to give the Broncos some roster flexibility.
McGahee will be replaced by rookie Ronnie Hillman, Lance Ball and former first-round pick Knowshon Moreno, who have combined for 297 yards and two touchdowns on 82 carries so far, when the AFC West-leading Broncos (7-3) visit the Kansas City Chiefs (1-9) on Sunday.
Were certainly going to miss Willis, quarterback Peyton Manning said. To say were not going to miss Willis would be not telling the truth because hes that good of a player. ... So, Knowshon and Ronnie and Lance have to step up. Everybody else has to step their game up, too, when youre missing one of your top players.
McGahee ranks fifth among AFC rushers with 731 yards and a 4.4-yard average.
He also had 26 catches for 221 yards just 10 yards shy of his career high set in 2007 in Baltimore and his 33 career 100-yard games are more than any other active running back.
Denvers offense is built around Mannings pinpoint passing, but McGahees success despite a career-high five fumbles provided the Broncos with a toughness between the tackles and kept opponents from teeing off on Manning and his receivers.
The good thing is all three guys have played plenty early in the year. So, theyre all familiar with the system, and theyve all got to pick up their game, offensive coordinator Mike McCoy said. Every back, every player, has a different style. So, theyll do their thing. We have all the confidence in the world those guys can do that.
Of the three, Hillman has had the most work 49 carries for 188 yards but hes a smaller, shiftier tailback in the mold of Darren Sproles and the Broncos will watch his workload closely.
Willis has had the most game repetitions, but Lance and Knowshon are veteran players, and Ronnies probably had as much experience as any rookie running back right now, Manning said. Those guys will step up and do a good job.
Ball and Moreno have more experience in pass protection, and thats priority No. 1 for any running back in Denver, as evidenced by Balls beautiful blitz pickup last week when he slid from the left side to the right, sparing Manning a vicious hit and allowing him to throw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Eric Decker.
That was a huge block, said Manning, who expects those kinds of plays from whoevers in the backfield with him.
Hillman said the prospect of carrying a larger load now means youve got to protect Peyton a lot longer. Ive been in there a lot, but if I do get an extended role, then its a little more pressure, being able to do everything right every play that Im there.
The Broncos could promote running back Jeremiah Johnson from their practice squad or sign a free agent.
On Tuesday, they worked out former Houston running back Steve Slaton, who rushed for 1,282 yards and caught 50 passes as a rookie in 2008 before injuries and inconsistency took hold.
Fox, however, indicated he wasnt planning on adding another running back before Sundays game.
For this week, I think we feel very comfortable with who we have, Fox said.
And that can change based on anything we might do, but I think its fair to say and pretty obvious that well pull from the guys we have that know our system.
Hillman was listed as a full participant at practice with a hamstring injury, but he told The Associated Press it wasnt an issue and that he hadnt aggravated the hamstring pull that set him back during training camp.


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Pirate Bay Founder Takes Fight To EU, Argues Swedish Censorship Violates Human Rights
from the legal-challenges dept
While I understand where he's coming from, I do worry that courts to date have been particularly bad at comprehending the fact that The Pirate Bay neither hosts nor transmits any unauthorized information. While they are seeking to make analogies, the courts seem to zero in on the way many people use the tool, rather than separating the tool from the usage.
The lawyer also notes that since the torrent file information itself wasn't illegal, the function should be covered by Article 10. He adds that he will also ask for further scrutiny as to whether it was indeed correct to hold Fredrik Neij responsible for what other people did when they used The Pirate Bay.Basically, it sounds like they're going with a typical secondary liability protection argument, which makes sense in theory. Once again, however, the courts have been pretty resistant to recognizing such an argument, especially when so much of the usage is for infringing purposes and (especially) when the operators of the site were quick to mock those who challenged how much of the usage was infringing. The courts just don't have very much sympathy there. Thus, I'm not confident this will turn out all that well -- and I actually worry that the end result may be a precedent that cuts of secondary liability protections for other sites as well.
"In our opinion, it is like being held guilty in court because someone delivered a letter with illegal content. Another, and perhaps even more relevant analogy, would be if the founders of a buying and selling site were found guilty after someone sold a stolen bicycle after it was advertised on the site," Nilsson explains.


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The crash that killed DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES and her lover DODI FAYED was caused by a laser beam being flashed into the eyes of their driver, it has been claimed.
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