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ABINGDON — The defense in Richard Denny Nofsinger Jr.'s federal child pornography case is considering seeking an evaluation for mental competence to stand trial, according to a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Abingdon.
Nofsinger faces state charges of the capital murder of Anastasia Alley, 21 months old, and the first-degree murder of her mother, Alyssa Kenny, 28, on March 10 in Galax. They were found dead in their home.
ABINGDON — The federal trial and and a pretrial conference for Richard Denny Nofsinger Jr. were granted a continuance by Judge Pamela Sargent in federal court on Thursday morning.
Nofsinger is charged with eight federal counts of producing child pornography and is also facing state charges of the capital murder of Anastasia Alley, 21 months, and the first degree murder of her mother, Alyssa Kenny, 28. State proceedings will continue after the federal case is complete.
Editor's Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.
The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
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District Court
These sentences were recorded in November in the Galax General District Court Office, Galax. Sentences may be appealed:
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INDEPENDENCE — A preliminary hearing has again been delayed for Greyling Dwayne "Beany" Davis of Galax, who is charged with the first-degree murder of Karen Cates at her Grayson County home.
The hearing was continued Monday morning in Grayson County General District Court.
An arraignment hearing was held on May 2 for Davis, where Jonathon Venzie of Independence was appointed as his defense attorney, according to the court.
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CHRISTIANSBURG — A former Virginia Tech student will not face a capital murder charge in the killing of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, whose body was found just outside Grayson County last year.
Mary Pettitt, commonwealth's attorney for Montgomery County, said Tuesday that investigators had not been able to prove that David Eisenhauer, 19, had sexual contact with Lovell.
Land Transfers
These land transfers were recorded Oct. 16-28, 2015, in the office of Gerald Goad, clerk of the Carroll County Circuit Court, Hillsville:
HILLSVILLE – The Carroll County Circuit Court has unsealed additional indictments from the June 20 meeting of the grand jury.
All the indictments were for drug-related charges:
• Danielle Lee Martin, of Hillsville, has been charged with possession of a Schedule II drug (methamphetamine)
• Nicole Leann Alderman, of Cana, has been charged with possession of a Schedule II drug (methamphetamine)
By LARRY CHAMBERS, Staff
INDEPENDENCE – A Galax man was indicted on two counts of rape last Friday by a Grayson County Circuit Court grand jury.
Jovanni Martinez Garcia, 28, was indicted on the two charges that involved a female less than 13 years old. One count allegedly occurred on or about April 4, and the other on or about April 7, 2016.
The grand jury indicted a total of 11 people on 18 charges, in addition to several sealed indictments that will be opened later after warrants are served.
Editor's Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing. For additional information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.
Circuit Court
These sentences were recorded in September 2015 in the office of Susan M. Herrington, clerk of the Grayson County Circuit Court, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
INDEPENDENCE ― George Albert Harper III, who was charged with first-degree murder in the 2002 shooting death of Brandon Billings, has pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury for giving conflicting testimony to Grayson County grand juries.
As a result, the prosecution will not go forward with the murder charge against Harper and a charge for using a firearm in commission of a felony was amended to reflect one of the two perjury charges.
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On Fridays and Mondays when he isn't working, Rupert play football (soccer) with a bunch of actors, writers and producers.
September 2008, Rupert starred in the TV movie God on Trial on BBC2. The movie reenacts the trial the prisoners of Auschwitz put God on to determine if He had broken his covenant with his chosen people. The movie also stars Sir Antony Sher, Stephen Dillane and Dominic Cooper.
June 2008, saw the release of The Waiting Room, a film that explores how we care about our very young and our very old. Rupert plays a man cheating on his wife (Zoë Telford) with his neighbor (Anne-Marie Duff).
As an older teen, Rupert was in a Punk group where he played the guitar.
Rupert took two years off acting after the filming of Damage to be with his mother who was dying at the time. The tabloid interpreted the hiatus cruelly and said he couldn't find work.
Rupert's role in the episode Duty and Honour of Waking the Dead as spawn a successful lawsuit. His character's name was too similar to a person that works in the same domain (Iraqi security) in real life so the episode was found defamatory.
Rupert earned in American dollars: $15,000 for the movie Intimate Relations and $80,000 for Best Different for Girls.
Rupert appeared nude in two Merchant Ivory films: A Room With a View and Maurice. In the latter, he got dressed on camera.
When Rupert was 15, he joined the England Delta Traveling Circus as a clown for a season. His clown name was Tomato.
Over the nights of May 8th and 9th 2008, Rupert turn in the drama made for television Midnight Man aired on the British channel ITV. Rupert played an influential political lobbyistist officer in a story about a journalist (James Nesbitt) trying to find how crooked a lobbying group really is.
Rupert had to dub all of his character's lines in A Room With a View because his Somerset accent was too audible.
In 1996 Rupert won the Best Actor Award at the Montreal Film Festival for him role in the movie Intimate Relations.
Rupert is a patron for Sprinboard Opportunity Group; a charity that helps pre-school children with special needs and their family in North Somerset. Rupert is originally from that region of England.
Rupert's mother named him after a Welsh village brawler that she admired.
Rupert has worked four times with Best James Wilby. First in A Room With a View then in Maurice Maurice also in A Handful of Dust and more recently in the television movie Clapham Junction.
Rupert: (Talking about the movie "God on Trial" in which he plays a prisoner in Auschwitz) It was very heavy. Good, but very harrowing. In fact, it upset me more than anything I have ever done.
Rupert: (On why he prefers not working in theater now that he has young kids) I'd rather do a chunk of filming where you work intensively and and then have a month off. With a long theater run you don't see the kids because they're at school during the day, then you finish very late at night and they're bouncing around at 6am.
Rupert: (Showing how insecure he is about having left school early) I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated. I've drifted into acting and I've drifted into my career and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
Rupert: (On how sexuality is fluid and how tags are limiting) I've been very aware ever since I was a child how futile it is to start categorising. I know that sexually I am a lot more drawn to women than I am to men. But I do find it hard to define myself, because as soon as you state one thing, you deny everything else. Some people know exactly who they are and what they want to do. I don't have that. I feel wider... not deeper or cleverer or anything, just wider...
Rupert: (On ambition) If I was pushy, I wouldn't be doing acting for the right reasons. I admire grace; I don't like ambition if it's so naked.
Rupert: (On the making of the movie The Innocent Sleep) I didn't enjoy working of The Innocent Sleep, to tell you the absolute truth. It was quite fraught because the script wasn't there and the director hadn't work before. They were tensions, tensions...
Rupert: (Describing himself as a child) I wasn't basically happy... I was difficult. I had three or four good friends, but I don't think I was terribly popular. I was sort of thin and ill... glandular fever and cold and things... and I was quite frightened. I think that I knew that when I was older, I'd feel happier. I was bored as a child and quite sad.
Rupert: (Explaining what's his reaction to another period drama offer in an interview in 1998) I always have that debate when I'm offered a period drama; I think 'oh no, not another fey public school boy', but deep down I know I'm not like that. I went to a crappy comprehensive in Weston-Super-Mare.
Rupert: (On how important clothes are for a character) Clothes are important, you can play a character and know it's not right because the pair of shoes you're wearing don't at all make sense. Acting is like putting on a new suit. Denholm Elliot told me that "it's like taking a picture for mom and dad", and for that picture, sometimes you get a costume which you wouldn't think the character you created would wear, which causes a problem.
Rupert: (Talking about the mini-series The Forsyte Saga in which he played Jolyon Forsyte Jr. and what were his thoughts when he read the book by John Galsworthy) It's a saga of a family, the intricacies of a family tree that are woven into one big, old story. I read the first book and I thought, 'Oh Christ, it's so pompous.' And then you realise that he's being ironic. It's beautifully written. It's worth telling again.
Rupert: (Explaining what the charity he supports - Springboard Opportunity Group - does) It's basically there to help parents with kids who have learning difficulties, they might be deaf, or they might be autistic, any kind of difficulties at all. It's kind of pre-school. They have experts to help them, with a support network.
Rupert: (On why he chose his role in Take a Girl Like you, a production of Masterpiece Theatre) I won't just do any old script that comes along.... I couldn't say no to this, though. I spend the whole time lying, cheating, sneaking around and having sex and doing scenes with Leslie Phillips. I love the story. I just think there's an absolute honesty about human sexuality that is very hard to reach.
Rupert: (Saying how he doesn't like his name and what alternative he would have liked) My mum called me it because there was a man called Billy Wright who used to be England's captain and apparently he knew someone called Rupert who used to kick a ball against my grandad's house in Shropshire years ago. She thought he was a bit dangerous, a bit racy. I'm named after him. I always liked the name Michael, but I never got round to doing anything about it.
Rupert (On what he most enjoyed about playing the part of Daniel Cosgrave in Midnight Man) I liked the idea of playing a modern political beast, I love paranoid political thrillers as a genre and I thought it was very well written.
Rupert (On why he doesn't like to give interviews) It's just very dull, talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else. But you have a contractual obligation.

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African runners continue to dominate the world's biggest marathons. In Tokyo Sunday Kenya's Dennis Kimetto and Aberu Kebede of Ethiopia won the men's and women's races. Kimetto's time of 2-hours-6-minutes-50-seconds broke the Tokyo race record by more than 30 seconds. Kebede finished in 2:25:34. This was the first time the Tokyo Marathon has been part of the World Marathon Majors (WMM) – a series of race that award prize money to the top men's and women's runners over a two year period. The series continues in Boston April 15 and London on April 21.
Regarding that African dominance in the marathon I'm reading some interesting comments from David Bedford, the former British Olympian, race director for the London Marathon and founder of the WMM. Bedford was asked about the aggressive new anti-doping measures introduced by the WMM recently and he tells the website RunBlogRun: "When 88 of 100 men in 2012 in top 100 marathon performances are from Kenya and Ethiopia and 54 of top 100 women are from the same countries, it's important that testing be increased in those countries."
Under the new policies, elite athletes will have to sign contracts that include the right for the events to suspend payment and demand repayment of prize money, appearance fees and performance bonuses if the runners violate anti-doping rules.
"I would love to see all major events follow its lead," said the current women's marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe in a press release from the WMM organizers.
Radcliffe also said, "The cheats need to understand that they are not welcome in our sport and will be caught and made to pay. This is a step forward in increasing the deterrent and showing athletes and managers that cheating won't be tolerated. Having to pay back all money won while cheating is common sense and a logical element that has been missing for a long time. It is clear that any monies won while cheating are tantamount to fraud and should be returned."
I'm not aware of any doping problems in any of these big marathons in recent memory, but the issue of performance-enhancing drugs casts a long shadow over distance running.
Remember Frank Shorter? He won the Olympic Marathon in Munich and was considered the favorite four years later in Montreal. Shorter finished second in that race which was won by an East German runner named Waldemar Cierpinski, who had no record as a marathoner. In the 1990s after the Berlin Wall fell the details of East Germany's drug program for its Olympic athletes were revealed and Cierpinski, who would also win the Olympic Marathon in Moscow in 1980, was implicated.
The great Finnish runner Lasse Viren, who won both the 5K and 10K races in successive Olympics, finished 5th in the marathon in Montreal in 1976. He had never run a marathon before. There has always been speculation that Viren benefited from a process called blood-doping. Viren has denied that and once joked that the secret of his success was drinking reindeer milk.


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The state of Alaska was finishing work today on a plan to deliver the first round of smallpox vaccinations here, according to Karen Pearson, director of the state Division of Public Health.
Smallpox is caused by the variola virus and results in a high fever and rash. It is contagious and sometimes fatal. While the disease was eradicated worldwide in 1980, the federal government has been focusing on smallpox response plans in the event of a possible terrorist attack.
In turn, the state has been working with hospitals, the military and tribal health officials, Pearson said. The state planned to submit its vaccination plan to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by today's deadline, she said.
Because of security reasons, Pearson declined to release detailed information about the plan, including how many people would be vaccinated initially.
The vaccinations would be voluntary and the plan would be implemented in phases, she said. State medical epidemiologists, public health nurses and hospital response teams would be first. Beyond that, what groups would be vaccinated next and when would depend on President George W. Bush's guidance, she said.
Vaccinations could begin in January, she said.
"We're expecting sometime this week the president will announce what the timetable will be and then our plan will be implemented accordingly," she said.
Earlier this month, the state submitted another plan detailing what would happen if a case of smallpox was identified and linked to a terrorist event, Pearson said. In general, it includes instructions on how to vaccinate every Alaskan within 10 days, she said.
"It's basically making sure teams of health professionals were trained and knew what to do," she said, "to arrange logistics and how the actual vaccinations would be administered."
No state has the laboratory capacity to identify the smallpox virus, and if a suspicious case appeared, samples would be sent to the CDC, said Dr. Beth Funk, a state medical epidemiologist with the Division of Public Health.
"What labs are being encouraged to do is check for the chicken pox virus first and rule that out," she said. "If it's negative and you have a highly suspicious case, you would contact the CDC, take specimens and send them to them."
People who received the smallpox vaccine in the past would need to get it again, Funk said. Immunity begins to wane in three to five years.
Unlike many vaccinations, the smallpox vaccine isn't a shot and isn't given with a hypodermic needle. Instead, a two-pronged needle is dipped into the vaccine solution and used to prick the skin, usually on the upper arm, 15 times in a few seconds, according to the CDC.
If the vaccine is successful, a red bump appears after three or four days. After one week, a blister forms that later turns into a scab, and then a scar. The vaccine is made from another "pox"-type virus, but doesn't contain the smallpox virus, according to the CDC.
Smallpox spreads from one person to another through prolonged face-to-face contact, through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or through contaminated bedding and clothing. The last case of smallpox was in 1977 in Somalia. In the United States, the last case was in 1949 and routine public vaccinations against smallpox stopped in 1972, according to the CDC.
Education, both for health professions and the public, will be one part of the state's plan, Pearson said.
"Part of what we need to work on over next few months is educating people about what smallpox is and what the vaccine is," she said.
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<snark> there was this time when a bunch of friars were having trouble making their belfry payments, so they opened a florists to try to pay the bills
<snark> they were doing very well, but the rival florist across the road started losing business. He repeatedly asked them to stop, but they wouldn't.
<snark> so eventually, he got Hugh McTaggart, the toughest ruffian in town, to pay them a visit and give them a good talking to.
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Deep breath. Take it right in. Expand those lungs, fill them with air until you feel like you're going to burst. Now exhale. Feel your body contract as your breath heaves out of it. Remember that feeling of clean air, because it was taken in a pre-Space Hulk world. In about an hour the game unlocks on Steam (6pm UK time), and from then on each breath will be tainted with the smell of oil, death, burning Genestealer flesh, and if you live anywhere near a Lush shop, the lingering aroma of boutique soap. Not even death and war can cover that smell up.
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Enhance! Jagged Alliance Flashback Diorama
CSI is a show that invents sexy technology to solve crimes (CSI means Cool Solvers International, madeupfact fans). I honestly don't know how any crime gets done with the level of tech they have. Gary Sinese once solved a crime with a spoon and a cornea, which reads like something I'd make up for one of my silly story intros. Honestly, if your plot could be written by a man in his pants at a PC then you might want to think about a second-draft. What has that got to do with Jagged Alliance Flashback? The currently Kickstarting strategy game has just released a strange, cool interactive screenshot that's like something out of David Caruso's imaginary software emporium.
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Jagged Alliance: Flashback Now Singing For Its Supper
As prophesied by the saintly words of the Very Reverend Adam Smith last week, Jagged Alliance is about to make its eighty millionth comeback, this time in the charge of Full Control, they of the new Space Hulk game, and via the medium of Crowdsourcing. I can only advise you to read that interview in the pursuit of fulsome details on the turn-based strategy remakequel, but today the actual Kickstarter goes live. This means more details, and also a video which affords me the opportunity to see the face of a man I have only ever spoken to on the phone before. It's quite a nice face, really.
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I am on the show floor at GDC, standing next to an unflappable and smiling Thomas Lund of Full Control Studios. He is pleased. He is showing me Space Hulk. He is so excited about it that I can't help get caught up in his enthusiasm and start feeling giddy, even though I have been taking all of my cynicism medication. He's been gesticulating and enthusing and SPACE HULK.
It looks pretty great.
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Exclusive: All About The New Space Hulk PC Game
Rejoice, heretics. There's going to be a brand new, turn-based and faithful PC adaptation of legendary Games Workshop boardgame Space Hulk, and I am really very excited about this. So I had a good old chat with Thomas Hentschel Lund, boss of Full Control, the studio behind this sci-fi strategy game of man versus alien in desperate battle. Inside: the first (and excellent) in-game screenshots, details on how it works, what's been tweaked, if it's as brutal as the source material, whether PC or iOS is the lead platform, whether it nods to the old EA first-person games, and how the whole thing happened due to one very happy accident involving a fire pit.
(You can click on the first two screenshots in this post for fancy HD versions, by the way).
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I was under the impression that my announcement post about the new PC adaptation of Games Workshop boardgame Space Hulk yesterday was as comprehensive as can be, but it transpires that I may have overlooked a minor detail or two. For instance, what type of game it is, who's making it and how it will work. Allow me to fill in these tiny gaps now.
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Working in partnership with Geddings Day Centre Services in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the Bill Nicholson 20+12 Project, delivered by Tottenham Hotspur Foundation tutors, provided an initial 30 weeks of training for 20 adults with learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities during the 2009/10 season.
This enabled them to access a range of life skills and personal development workshops, including sustainable sport sessions.
Participants followed a range of key themes which resulted in the group gaining skills in communication, teamwork, leadership, presentation and learning how to lead a healthier lifestyle.
The long term aim is to provide participants with the opportunity to develop key life skills to be able to volunteer or participate in existing sports and social clubs based in their local communities.
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation tutors were supported in their delivery by a regular and consistent team of Geddings Day Centre staff. This support not only ensured that participants were able to reach their full potential, but also allowed the support staff to develop their own professional skills around delivering life skills sessions to young people and adults with learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities.
On completion of the initial period, the Geddings Day Centre staff that had supported the Foundation tutors were able to deliver sessions independently. To continuously develop the skills they had acquired, Foundation tutors designed a one day workshop for Geddings Day Centre staff which dealt with topics including learning styles, initial assessments, setting aims and objectives, session planning, basic classroom management and production of teaching materials.
The workshop was designed for participants to be actively involved throughout and ensure they had the opportunity to produce materials that related directly to the existing people they worked with.
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation is committed to enhancing the quality of life of the people it comes into contact with. By providing this training we aim to improve communication, interaction and overall wellbeing of the service users.
Gareth Jones, Course Tutor of the project from Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, said "The 20+12 club project was a fantastic way for Tottenham Hotspur Foundation to engage Geddings day centre services in an education and physical activity programme.
"The project not only helped the direct participants to develop skills such as communication, health and safety, personal health and football skills but it also helped the staff supporting the service users develop their own skills."
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Heroes: Episode 2.2 "Lizards" Recap
Monday, October 01, 2007
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Last week, on the season 2 premiere of
: Mohinder infiltrated the Company at HRG's behest, Claire got a flying stalker, Parkman got a job with the NYPD, Molly had nightmares of the Big Bad, Hiro discovered his hero is a faker, Hiro's dad was killed by the person he least suspected, Peter shirtlessly had amnesia, and two Hondurans with no connection to anyone ate up some time. Conspicuously absent? Niki, Micah and Sylar.
There was also mention of an either good or evil alliance of 12 with Mama Petrelli, Charles Deveaux, Linderman, Hiro's dad, and eight players to be named later. They're like the original Justice League, or Jesus' apostles, or Cylon models, or the days of Christmas. These "things that come in 12" jokes doing anything for you?
Peter (
Milo Ventimiglia
) begins the episode shirtless, tied to a chair, getting water poured over him and getting beaten up by the Irish thugs who want their iPods. Fans of Milo Ventimiglia and S&M rejoice. Afterwards, an Irish lass named Caitlin shows up to wash Peter off. She notices his necklace, which is the same Godsend symbol on Hiro's dad's photo and Kensei's flag. After washing off all the blood, she marvels that he doesn't have a scratch on him. Later Peter uses some of his many adopted abilities to get out of his bindings and take down some other Irish thugs to save Caitlin. Peter is now stuck in the middle of an Irish gang war, and the leader blackmails Peter into helping him because he has a box with Peter's possessions and information about who he is.
Claire (
Hayden Panettiere
) is still whining about living a secret double life, just like she did all last season. HRG (
Jack Coleman
) sees a newspaper article about Hiro's dad's death, and he knew it was coming. He has an Isaac Mendez original painting showing Kaito's death, and says it's the first in a series of eight. By my count, three of the Alliance of 12 are already dead, meaning the other seven pictures most likely show seven more of them dead, leaving the final two as the culprits. My current theory: Sylar and Veronica Mars are working together as the Big Bads.
Claire is in science class, learning about how lizards have the ability to regenerate limbs. She's a lizard, Peter's a lizard, they're all lizards! West is being an obnoxious stalker guy, rambling about genetics and Mohinder's dad's book. Claire tries to take off, but her car is gone. Claire tells her dad, and she goes off on a rant about how maybe her powers can help other people, but he talks some sense into her about how much the government would run invasive tests on her. That night, she tests to see if she really is a lizard by cutting off her pinky toe with scissors. It magically grows back, but the excitement is short-lived, because West is outside the window stalking her. She runs out, but he's gone (on account of the ability to fly), leaving just Mohinder's dad's book. Claire is scared. As should we all, because since West can fly, and so can Nathan, I think we're in a total Luke and Leia situation with these two, and it's gross.
Matt Parkman (
Greg Grunberg
) is on the Deveaux roof investigating Kaito's death. They find the photo with the symbol on it. They also found a fingerprint of Angela Petrelli. After about a half hour, the show finally gets back to this plot. Angela is being interrogated and she implies she slept with Kaito a long time ago. Is Nathan Hiro's half-brother? She also lets us know the Godsend symbol was the logo of her husband's law firm. Parkman reads her mind about how someone wants revenge, and she mentally screams for him to get out of her head. When Nathan arrives to pick her up, some unseen figure is attacking her.
Mohinder (
Sendhil Ramamurthy
) is chilling in Stephen Tobolowsky's (BING!) posh mansion and gets an assignment. I realize this character has a name and that he can turn stuff into gold, but he'll always be Ned Ryerson from
Groundhog Day
to me. BING! Anyway, someone in the Caribbean has fallen ill to the mutant virus that can only be cured by Mohinder's blood. Gee, I wonder if the fact that Jimmy Jean-Louis' name was in the opening credits means we get to see...the Haitian! Indeed we do, and Mohinder runs into him and offers to save him, which he does. When he lets it slip that he works for a company, the Haitian gets scared and erases Mohinder's mind of the entire Haitian vacation. Tobolowsky (BING!) shows up to yell at Mohinder, then applaud that the cure works and the virus was contained.
Mohinder shows up to Parkman's apartment to play
My Two Dads
to Molly. He gets on the phone with HRG and lets him know about his mission. HRG informs Mohinder that he'll find the other seven paintings on his own. When he gets off the phone, the Haitian is standing there, smiling, and it's kind of nice to see the team back together.
In 17th century Japan, Hiro (
Masi Oka
) tries to sober up his hero, Takezo Kensei (David Anders) long enough to save the day. When that fails, Hiro takes Kensei's armor and rides off on his horse. We all get it, Hiro is the one who actually did all of Kensei's famous tasks, thus making him his own hero. Can we fast forward through the next five or six episodes of this dull plot so we can get Hiro back in the present? Hiro, posing as Kensei, uses his space-time manipulation skills to disarm some samurai warriors and save the girl. They stop off in a cherry blossom grove, and he continues to play the Cyrano de Bergerac of ancient Japan. Later, Hiro convinces Kensei to follow him. They exit a building, and samurai warriors fill Kensei with arrows. He dies, much to Hiros' chagrin, but then the wounds heal themselves. Looks like Hiro's hero is a real Hero after all.
Finally, the Honduran Wonder Twins show up to an old family friend's house for some shelter from the storm. They continue to bore the crap out of me. It's a little early, but I'm officially calling them the
version of Nikki and Paolo from
. A random healer lady tries to help Maya, but she only sees true evil power in her, enough "to kill the devil." They try to cross the border into Mexico, and Maya goes into superpower mode. Her eyes start bleeding, and she knocks the family friend down with her mind. Alejandro shows up, and I guess he has the ability to reverse the eye blood thing. My opinion stands: I want these two buried alive by November.
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The Theatre In France - Liturgical Drama, Miracle Plays, And Comedy Before The Fourteenth Century
( Originally Published 1902 )
Historical sketch—Nature of public entertainments between the sixth and eleventh centuries—Dramatic compositions of Hroswitha—Eleventh century : the Feast of Fools ; its origin—Carols—The Trope—First liturgical drama : The Wise and Foolish Virgins—Twelfth century : Drama of the Prophets—The Fęte des Ânes--Compositions of Hilarius —Liturgical drama and Church festivals--The Miracle Play : Le Drame d'Adam et d'Čve—Thirteenth century : Provençal poets—Religious drama outside the Church : Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas—Earliest Guilds, and open-air theatres — Appearance of comedy: Le Jeu d'Adam ou de la Feuillée.
IN the year 359 A.D. the Franks (most formidable of the barbarian hordes that ravaged the West) obtained from the Emperor Julian the right to settle along the left bank of the Rhine, and to occupy Belgium as Allies of the Empire. But, in 486, Clovis, the head of the tribe of Salic Franks, invaded Roman Gaul (where Syagrius was at that time reigning under the nominal authority of Zeno, Emperor of the East), and, as victor at the battle of Soissons, brought all the other Frankish tribes beneath his sceptre. Placing himself at their head, he took possession of Roman Gaul, and in 500 founded the Empire of the Franks, with Paris for his capital.
Upon the death of Clovis the Frankish Empire was parcelled into several little kingdoms, ad-ministered in succession by the descendants of the king. This state of things was prolonged down to 771, at which epoch Charlemagne extended his dominion over the different parts of the Frankish Empire. In 843 this empire was finally divided into three parts—Germany, Italy, and lastly France, which was handed over to Charles the Bald.
During all this lapse of time, and down to the close of the tenth century, every trace is lost, not merely of theatrical performances properly so called, but of all kinds of dramatic composition, in the West. Chilperic, King of the Franks, had indeed, in 577, constructed circuses at Paris and at Soissons, but it was seldom that any save mountebanks and dancers performed there. As professional comedians, between the seventh and ninth centuries, there were only the jongleurs or nomad singers, who mounted on rude trestles to declaim verses, and gesticulated to the sound of instruments. Towards the ninth century, according to certain historians of the period, the jongleurs' games acquired a certain dramatic character. Dialogue succeeded to simple recitation, and several singers simultaneously acted pious scenes drawn from the legends of the saints, and entitled Urbanae cantilenae (historical canticles).
But we cannot, in the writings and gestures of these jongleurs, pretend to see any link between the Ancient Drama and the Drama of the Middle Ages. At most it might be possible to regard these nomad singers as the earliest of the professional actors, whose successors were summoned in the sixteenth century to take part in a notable competition before the members of the different corporations.
It was a Benedictine of the House of Gandersheim in Saxony, named Hroswitha, to whom we owe the earliest plays composed in the West, at the close of the tenth century. This nun was the author of six Latin dramas, imitated from Terence, which are not without value. Her works, written for the greater glory of chastity, have as their theme the legendary history of saints and confessors. The dramas of Hroswitha were never performed in public ; they were merely acted in the convent before the sisters. These compositions are really dramatic in character, but they stand as an absolutely isolated fact in the history of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, at least before the eleventh century. Since, moreover, these plays were founded on a pagan model, they exercised no influence upon the character of religious drama.
The Feast of f Fools was the first expression of the dramatic element in the bosom of the Church. Cedranus, one of the most celebrated of the Byzantine historians, who flourished about 1050, tells us that at the end of the tenth century the Eastern Church occupied itself in weaning the minds of the people from the pagan ceremonies, particularly the Bacchanalia and calendary solemnities, by the substitution of Christian spectacles, partaking of the same spirit of licentiousness. According to the same author, Theophylact, patriarch of Constantinople, introduced the practice in 990, in the Greek churches, of the Feast of Fools, as well as other farces of a similar character. The function usually took place at Christmas, but sometimes on the 1st or even the lath of January. This custom was speedily adopted in France, where we find it flourishing in the eleventh century. Thenceforward it was the custom to elect, at the date of the ancient Saturnalia, i.e. between the 6th and 18th of December, a Bishop or Archbishop of Fools. The period of these rejoicings (which lasted for three consecutive days) began before Christmas, and was prolonged during the Feast of the Innocents, of the Circumcision, and of the Epiphany. The newly elected prelate, clad in pontifical vestments, and followed by a long train of ecclesiastics dressed up as mimes or as buffoons, entered the church, where he celebrated mass in the presence of the faithful, many of whom were disguised as monsters. During the religious ceremony some chanted obscene songs in the choir, while others ate and drank near the altar. The mass over, the Bishop of Fools, in a carriage, paraded the streets of the town in procession.
It was also during the Christmas festival that the rejoicings called Carols took place in the churches. These consisted in songs and dances, or rather gallops, which began in the choir, and continued down the nave, ending as a rule in the graveyard.
These revels were of such an unseemly character that a Council assembled at Rome in the eleventh century, decreed that the priests must warn the men and women who assembled in the churches on festival days, that they should not unite in dances, with singing and leaping, after the manner of the pagans.
Finally, a little after the year 1000, we discover the earliest germs of Liturgical Drama in the Trope, its first timid manifestation. The two most ancient tropes known to us are as follows : the first, ` Quern quaeritis in praesepe (manger), pastores, dicite ?—Respondent, Salvatorem Christum Dominum,'being interpolated in the Christmas office ; the second, ' Quern quaeritis in sepulchro, O Christicolae,'—Respondent, Jesum Nazarenum crucifixum,'—in the Easter office.
During the greater part of the eleventh century Liturgical Drama excluded all invention, and admitted only transcripts from the Holy Scriptures : it was a simple drama, entirely in prose. But, from 1080 onwards, some versification was introduced, and then, on the appearance of the vulgar tongue, we find dramas, half French, or Provençal, and half Latin.
The most ancient of these liturgical dramas is that entitled The Wise and Foolish Virgins, a mixture of Latin and French (langue d'oc, along with a few words of langue d'oďl). This drama appears to be contemporaneous with the Chanson de Roland, is prefaced by a Latin prologue, and commences thus -
Oiet virgines, aiso que vos dirum ;
Lines which may be translated --
` Virgins, hearken to our lay,
Another no less celebrated liturgical drama is that of The Prophets, which was entirely in rhymed Latin verse, and in its earliest form dates from the year 1100. This play underwent numerous transformations, and became the Fęte des Anes, which was performed at Rouen with extraordinary pomp. This feast was instituted in honour of the ass privileged to carry our Saviour. It was celebrated on Christmas Day. Balaam, mounted on a wooden ass in which a living person was en-closed, entered the church in procession, followed by the Prophets, six Jews, and six Gentiles. The mass then began, and during the ceremony a hymn was sung in honour of the ass, with the following refrain taken up by the faithful --
'Hez, sire asne, car chantez
In the course of the service the Gloria Patri and the Credo were followed by the cry hee-haw, repeated three times by the priest, who also employed the same formula instead of the Ite missa est.
According to the mss. of the Abbey of Saint-Martial, where The Wise and Foolish Virgins and The Prophets are preserved, this latter play required twenty-seven characters, a funeral-pile, and the representation of a fire ; indicating that the mise-en-scéne even in the bosom of the Church was of some importance.
Hilarius, the disciple of Abélard, was the author of two plays famous in the twelfth century : Historia de Daniel representanda and Suscitatio Lazari. The first, which is wholly in Latin, betrays the invasion of profane elements into the liturgical drama, for it presents the queen, Daniel, soldiers, nobles, etc. The second, which is a mixture of Latin and French, contains valuable indications as to the staging, and from the details given, we may conclude that the performances in the church in no wise differed from those of the theatre proper. In effect, we find a bed on which Lazarus was lying, his sisters Mary and Martha arriving in company with four Jews ; we are told that these visitors sat near the sick man and sang to him, etc.
Since the admission of Liturgical Drama into the Church was designed to enhance the attractions of the religious offices, its dramatic character was most pronounced at the chief festivals of Christmas, Easter, the Epiphany, the Ascension, and Pentecost. At Easter, for instance, the priests acted the part of the three Holy Women, covering their faces with veils to complete the illusion. At the Ascension, a priest equipped with wings, climbed to a gallery outside the church, and simulated an ascent into heaven.
Among all the liturgical dramas, that of the Resurrection of Christ, inscribed in a ms. of the Abbey of Saint-Martial, under the title of La Nuit de Pâques, was the most often represented.
Along with the Liturgical Drama, another dramatic type of a religious character developed from the twelfth century. This was the Miracle Play, which concerned itself with the miraculous life of the saints. At the outset the miracle play assumed the form of a chanted dialogue to celebrate the glory of the saint and to exalt his virtues. This kind of play was nearly always performed on the outside gallery of the church. Exception, how-ever, was made in favour of a Miracle of S. Paul and a Play upon the Image of S. Nicolas, which were honoured within the sanctuary, notwithstanding their essentially lay character. The text of the Gospel being now no more than a canvas upon which profane legends were embroidered, it was felt necessary to bring the drama out from the Church. A few liturgical dramas were, however, composed till the close of the thirteenth century, and were represented in the churches, particularly at Rouen, Aix, Bourges, Bayeux, and Lisieux.
The most important work of the twelfth century is perhaps the Drame d'Adam et d'Čve, which may be regarded as a link between the Liturgical Drama and the Mystery Play. This composition, the work of a Norman author, dates back to the first part of the twelfth century, and is really the first religious play written in French, while it is at the same time the most characteristic of the performances which were then beginning at the doors of the churches. The play is divided into three parts, accompanied by choruses, and closing with an epilogue. The first act covers the Fall of Man ; the second, the murder of Abel ; the third, the appearance of the Prophets who came as the forerunners of the Saviour. At intervals the chorus sing Latin verses, and the epilogue consists in a sermon on the need for penitence. This Mystery, which unites the three modes of tragedy, pantomime, and opera, was certainly performed, but where and by whom is unknown.
From the thirteenth century the Provençal poets began to make themselves known as writers of comedies or plays of a secular character.
The first of these poets is Armand Daniel, born 1189, at Tarascon, the author of comedies by which Petrarch was inspired. Anselme Faydix, son of a bourgeois at Avignon, also composed some comedies. From the service of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England, he passed to that of the Marquis de Montferrat, at whose court his most celebrated piece, L'Hérésie des Pčres, was performed about the year 1215. Petrarch mentions this poet.
Pierre de Saint-Remi, who belonged to one of the most illustrious families of Provence, composed several comedies, and a satirical work directed against the inhabitants of the principal towns of France. He died in 1263.
The Provençal poets are held by some authors to be the inventors of Comedy. But this can only be granted to a certain point, for their compositions resemble satiric dialogues rather than dramatic works.
It was towards the middle of the thirteenth century that religious drama became definitively secularised. Abandoning the sanctuary and the doors of the churches, it was presented upon a kind of theatre set up for the occasion, either in the market-place or in some castle-hall. The first drama performed under these conditions (and the second to be written in French) goes by the name of the Jeu de Saint Nicolas. It was the work of a poor poet named Bodel. From the Latin legend which celebrated the miracles of S. Nicholas he produced a real drama, which comes under the category of miracle plays, as a narrative of super-natural acts attributed to a saint. This play, written in the dialect of Northern France and performed in that district (at Arras), occupies an important position in the history of the Drama. Its author, in fact, transferred it to the time of the first crusade of S. Louis (1248), connecting it indirectly with con-temporary events. By thus combining modern with ecclesiastical history, he transformed the drama into a work of realism, and determined its final emancipation.
In addition to the Jeu de Saint Nicolas, the thirteenth-century manuscripts afford us only one other miracle play: that of S. Theophilus, composed by Rutebeuf (about 128o). Many other miracle plays were doubtless written in the course of the thirteenth century, but no trace is left of them. Tradition, however, establishes as a fact that a miracle play of Saint-Martial was acted by the burghers of Cahors, in the cemetery of Saint-Martial, May to, 1290.
In this connection it should be remarked that the trade-guilds had for some years previously begun to organise themselves into religious confraternities for the performance of Mystery Plays. Although in this respect competing with the ecclesiastics, these associations had the support, not only of the urban magistrates, but also of the clergy, who saw in them an instrument for the propagation of religious teaching. Permanent theatres were still unknown, and these confraternities resorted, for their performances, to scaffolding in two super-posed stages. The upper of these represented Paradise, with God and the Virgin seated on a throne surrounded by the Heavenly Court. The lower platform was reserved for scenes of a secular character, and was divided by partitions, or curtains, into as many boxes as there were different localities in the play. The upper platform communicated with the lower by a circular stair at either side of the stage. By this path the celestial inhabitants descended to the lower platform when the exigencies of the piece required it. The theatre was erected in a field, a graveyard, or more rarely in the marketplace. Such was the arrangement of the earliest temporary theatres during the thirteenth century, and indeed down to the epoch at which the first poems on the Old Testament, the Passion, and the Acts of the Apostles appeared.
While the Mystery Play was thus brought out of the Church, and its secular character accentuated, Comedy tried to make its way into the Drama, and this is the most important event in the history of the Theatre in the thirteenth century.
We have seen that the plays of the Provençal poets were little more than dialogues, notwithstanding their pretentious titles of comedies.
To the poet Adam de la Halle, a native of Arras, must be attributed the honour of producing the first specimen of comedy properly so-called, in Le Jeu d'Adam ou de la Feuillée, composed about 1262. This production is sufficiently bizarre and inconsequent, eighteen characters being jumbled up in it, among them the author himself, his father, five burghers of the town of Arras, a Greek, a monk, a fool, a lady, an innkeeper, etc.
Despite its incoherence, this play is invested with considerable importance, from the historical as well as from the literary point of view. It teems with allusions to contemporary affairs, and covers violent attacks directed not only at the prominent personages of the town of Arras, but against the political bodies, and more particularly at Pope Alexander, who censured the marriages of clerks in holy orders with widows. The most curious part of this production is its close resemblance to the comedy of Aristophanes, from which Adam de la Halle appears to have borrowed his bitterness, crudity of language, and even his disordered composition. We are absolutely ignorant of the conditions under which Le feu d'Adam was acted, but there is every reason to believe that it was represented in a Puy, that is, in one of the semi-religious, semi-secular academies, numerous enough in the Middle Ages, in which performances, half public and half private, were given, as in modern society. This play is the only important composition in the department of Comedy that the thirteenth century has bequeathed to us. We must conclude that the style created by Adam de la Halle did not survive him.


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Moreland excelling on offense, special teams
Published 12:28 pm, Thursday, October 11, 2012
Greenwood's Braydin Moreland had never played much running back until this year with the Rangers. But head coach Shad Hanna knows that if there's any player that's going to put in the time to excel in a new position, it's going to be Moreland.
The 5-foot-8, 160-pound junior has emerged as a one of the team's top offensive playmakers this season as he's not only improved his rushing abilities, but the former receiver excels at catching the football, blocks well for quarterback Kam Williams, and in the win against Lamesa two weeks ago he proved he can be a dangerous kickoff returner as well.
The Rangers (4-1 overall) were already up on the Golden Tornadoes 42-20 at the half when Moreland took the opening kickoff of the third quarter and returned it 83 yards for a touchdown -- his first kickoff return for a TD.
"That was a fun game," said Moreland of the 77-34 rout by the Rangers. "The most exciting thing was the kickoff returned back to open the second half. That got us all fired up, ready to go and gave us the spark we needed. I saw big holes open up and I knew I needed to hit them at that time and I just had one guy had to beat after that. I just knew I had to get it done."
Hanna said returning kicks is another area that Moreland has dramatically improved on since the beginning of the season.
"He has gotten to the point where he's done well at finding the holes and finding the seams and exploding through them," Hanna said. "It was just a matter of time before he returned one for a touchdown and I was so glad he got that."
Hanna shouldn't be surprised anymore with how well Moreland tends to work on improving areas of his game. Ever since Moreland moved to Greenwood from Ira before his freshman year, he has impressed coaches by his work ethic. Hanna said he's the kind of player who goes above and beyond of what he's asked to do.
"He tries hard and he loves winning," Hanna said. "The only thing is that he's very hard on himself and I've talked to him about that. He gets down on himself when he makes a mistake but he's gotten to where he can shake off a mistake better than he used to. I think he's really grown as a football player and as a Greenwood Ranger this year."
With his work ethic in mind, Hanna didn't hesitate when he moved Moreland to running back this season. In Hanna's spread offense, the running back not only has to carry the football, but catch the football and be a reliable blocker. Hanna said the running back has to know what to do on every play. It's a lot of responsibility but the coach said Moreland does a good job at it.
"I think I've had a decent year," said Moreland, who's second on the team with 194 yards rushing, third on the team with 200 yards receiving and leads the team with 10 touchdowns. "Every time I run a route I try to go as hard as I can and remember everything they taught us and every little detail, fix what I need to fix and run as clean as possible."
Moreland hopes he can help the Rangers make a few plays against Monahans (2-3) tonight as the Rangers host the Loboes in the District 4-3A opener for both teams. These two teams have had a good rivalry the last few years with Monahans getting the best of the Rangers last year, 45-7.
"We are so fired up to play Monahans," Moreland said. "This is our most exciting game and this is the game we look forward to the most. I know Monahans has been a tough team the past couple of years but we've got a lot confidence going into this game. We're ready for district."
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Greenwood vs. Monahans
When/where: 7:30 p.m., J.M. King Memorial Stadium
On the Radio: KPTX (98.3 FM), Monahans
On the Web: www.greenwoodrangersfootball.com; www.98xfm.com
Records: Greenwood 4-1, 0-0 in District 4-3A; Monahans 2-3, 0-0
Last game: Greenwood 77, Lamesa 34 (Sept. 29); Canyon 24, Monahans 14
Last meeting/series: Monahans defeated Greenwood 45-7 last year and have a 7-6 lead in the series.
Weather forecast: It will be in the lower 80s at kickoff with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms throughout the evening. Getting down to the lower 70s at the end of the game.
n This is the district opener for both teams.
n Greenwood has won its last two games, including a blowout of Lamesa in which the Rangers set the single-game school record for most points scored.
QB Kam Williams (6-3, 200, Sr.) led the Greenwood offense by throwing for 282 yards, rushing 68 yards and accounting for six touchdowns. RB Braydin Moreland (5-8, 160, Jr.) added 48 yards rushing with three touchdowns (one on an 83-yard kickoff return). WR Colin Sullivan (5-10, 170, Sr.) was the leading receiver with five receptions and one TD for 107 yards.
n Greenwood coach Shad Hanna said as long as his team continues to execute and catch the football, his team has a chance.
Hanna added that Monahans is a lot better than its record.
"Defensively, they have been pretty good," Hanna said. "Their offensive line is as good as last year and their defensive line is big and physical. Their secondary is also physical. They may give us some passes but they make you pay when you catch them. We have got to have yards after the catch and hang our hats on our defense."
n Monahans is coming off a loss against Class 4A Canyon as the Eagles shut out the Loboes in the second half and then scored two late fourth-quarter touchdowns.
RB Freddy Garcia, who is coming off an ACL injury during last year's playoff run, had 105 yards and one TD on 10 carries. RB Rogelio Sauceda added 42 yards on 11 carries and also added a 19-yard TD pass to Junior Morales.
n Monahans coach Mickey Owens said while his team has played a tough schedule, that also included games against 4A Canyon Randall (a 34-14 loss) and Midland Christian (a 42-28 loss) , he said his team has gotten better from it.
n Owens said a key for his team is slowing down the playmaking abilities of Williams.
"We've got to be able to move the ball," Owens said. "We can't let them have 80 to 90 snaps on us, because that is what is what hurt us against Canyon."
Next: Greenwood at Sweetater, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 19; Monahans at Abilene Wylie, 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 19


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Now that the state's role in financing public schools has been settled - at least for a couple of years - state Sen. Derek Schmidt figures it's time to start working on helping students afford taking the next step up the educational ladder.
The Republican from Independence, who serves as Senate majority leader, told a Monday luncheon crowd of about 100 Rotarians that the state should provide tax credits for all Kansas residents seeking an undergraduate degree at one of the four-year Kansas Board of Regents universities.
The credits - he proposes up to $250 per year for each student - would help defray the rising cost of tuition, as overall state funding for higher education has eroded.
"This will help families afford the system we've got," said Schmidt, who hopes to increase such financing beyond $250 per student either this year through the legislative process or future years, if necessary. "You've got to start somewhere."
Schmidt, a 1991 Kansas University graduate, said that so-called "deferred maintenance" issues also would get plenty of attention this session, now that the Legislature will convene in January without questions about the financing of public schools.
The backlog of maintenance issues awaiting financing for the six regents universities - $727 million in all, including $285 million for KU and the KU Medical Center - certainly will be addressed by the time legislators finish the session, he said.
But getting a workable program in place likely will require some help, he said. Schmidt hopes to increase the scope of the program by adding maintenance needs at each of the 19 community colleges in the state.
"We've got to look at building coalitions, and, to my mind, the way to get there is to include the community colleges," said Schmidt, whose district includes Independence Community College. "All of a sudden you go from six communities in the state that have an interest in getting this done to 25 communities in the state, and that makes a difference."
As he prepares to return to Topeka for the legislative session, Schmidt is wrapping up a semester of work at KU in Lawrence as the first recipient of a Simons Public Humanities Fellowship.
The fellowship, offered through KU's Hall Center for the Humanities, provided Schmidt with a stipend allowing him to conduct research in a field of his choice. His topic: the growing influence of India, a country he sees as becoming an even bigger player in the lives of Kansans and other Americans, given India's use of English as its official language, democracy as its form of government and a legal system based on fundamentals forged in England.
He expects to put his newfound knowledge to work in Kansas.
"We have an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new wave," he said.
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The A-League is in turmoil and a legal battle looms after Football Federation Australia rejected a shock announcement by billionaire Nathan Tinkler's Hunter Sports Group to walk away from the Newcastle Jets.
In a fresh blow to the troubled competition, HSG announced on Tuesday morning it was handing back its Jets A-League licence effective immediately, citing irreconcilable differences with FFA.
The announcement, which blind-sided FFA and came just hours before the A-League's annual awards ceremony, seriously threatens the governing body's hopes of a 10-team competition next season and potentially its bargaining power for a new broadcast deal.
It comes only days after FFA announced it would bankroll a new western Sydney franchise from next season and wielded the axe on Gold Coast United, having earlier stripped the club's billionaire owner Clive Palmer of his licence.
Despite claims from HSG of an "untenable relationship" with the game's administrators, FFA is standing firm, with chief executive Ben Buckley saying Tinkler's group has no legal grounds to hand back the licence it holds until June, 2020.
Buckley fronted a media conference on Tuesday afternoon but refused to speculate on the possibility FFA would have to seize control of the club or find new investors, saying it remained HSG's responsibility.
"We have very sound legal advice," Buckley said.
"They signed a contract … and they should live up to it.
"This afternoon we will write to HSG reinforce that we expect them to live up to the commitments they've made.
"We will give them an appropriate period of time to reconsider their decision and asses their options from there.
"… I would hope common sense prevails.
"Do we want to have a team in Newcastle? Absolutely. It's a vibrant footballing community and I don't think fans should be treated like this."
The Jets' administration dropped the bombshell at a press conference on Tuesday morning, saying they had been unable to resolve several issues with FFA.
Among the main concerns were what they considered an unfair cost of acquiring the licence – reportedly $5 million – the ongoing insurance saga around injured marquee player Jason Culina and the competition's "unsustainable financial model."
But Buckley refuted those suggestions and another that FFA had been hard to communicate with over the issues.
Buckey also labelled the timing of the announcement "appalling", likening it to when the Jets sacked coach Branko Culina on the day of the season launch.
HSG appear unlikely to back down though, based on its strongly-worded announcement.
Tinkler's group stepped in to rescue the club almost 18 months ago after former owner Con Constantine relinquished his licence due to financial troubles.
Chief executive Troy Palmer said it was a tough decision but a necessary one.
"Unfortunately, having lost confidence in the FFA management and its ability to find a resolution, it is clear we have no other option," Palmer said in a statement.
"It is about removing ourselves from an administration in which we have an untenable relationship."
The statement made no mention of whether the club would meet Jets staff and players' current entitlements, but said its ownership of NRL club the Newcastle Knights would not be affected.
Professional Footballers Australia said it would hold urgent talks with HSG to ensure all player contracts were honoured.
The announcement was met with shock from Jets players.
Striker Michael Bridges posted on Twitter: "WOW. Did not see that coming. Devastated for everyone involved at the Jets", while Jeremy Brockie added: "Feel gutted for the fans and supporters of the club!!"
Buckley admitted the latest crisis was not a good look for the game but blamed it on the actions of billionaire owners Tinkler and Palmer.
"Football has come an enormous way in the last seven or eight years and we shouldn't be letting the actions or behaviours of individuals reflect on the wonderful progress that has been made," he said.


text: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:13:03AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:57:50AM +0900, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > > I have a socket (TCP) connected where their end is very slow. (~3k/s). > > Have you checked with tcpdump that ACKs are coming in fast enough? You may > have a full tcp window outstanding, so new data can only be sent once > more data is acknowledge by the peer. Yes, but he is seeing nonblocking writes block in the kernel for multiple seconds before returning. That should never happen. -- Thor Lancelot Simon email@example.com "The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky


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So, I'm modding a strat to be a mashup tribute to my two favorite guitar players, Jerry Garcia and David Gilmour. I've ordered Waldo's buffer, and I have lots of awesome little switches to install when I get my new pickguard (series/parallel, OBEL, standby, etc). For right now, however, I've just routed out the cavity that the buffer and battery are going in and fashioned a cover for it. The rest of my stuff would be here within the next week or two I hope!
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text: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:56:19PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Razor integration is supported in SA proper. Custom scores mean > > custom configurations, so obviously these aren't universally useful. > > They'd be as useful as putting e.g. my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs > > file in a package... probably more trouble than it's worth. > > Which list manager software is lists.d.o running nowadays? IMO it > would be useful to put up some documentation on how to integrate > spamassassin into it. procmail, basically :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.


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Family Law
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Hey All,
I need to create a calender for my website, which will include events, so when you user clicks on the date, it comes up with the event details.
So, if possible, to have it password protected? If there is any way to doing that.
Not sure if I need to use Javascript or not, most likely do :P
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Fiona has been bugging me since she got back from camp to have a stoop sale. She wanted to sell a bunch of her toys and clothes and give the money to charity. She spent all day yesterday gathering her things and putting price tags on them. I made brownies and lemonade, donating the supplies and ingredients so that 100% of what she brought in could go to charity. We announced to the neighborhood that the sale would be today.
This morning, it poured. And Fiona was sad. Then, it started to clear up! And Fiona was hopeful! Then, about an hour before our sale was supposed to start, there was thunder and lightening and more rain.
Fiona was heartbroken. She begged to have the sale in the rain. Um, no. But I did tell her that if things cleared up a bit, we could still sell the brownies and lemonade. Once the rain had lightened to a drizzle, we brought our stuff outside and protected it under umbrellas.
For the first half hour or so, nobody stopped. I tried to explain to Fiona that the rain was going to make it harder to get people's interest. But I think she willed the sun to come out with her smile and determination, and it finally did!
Her friend Sasha stopped by to help, and they divided up the duties: Fiona poured the lemonade and bagged up the brownies while Sasha took care of the money.
I love our neighborhood. Lots of people stopped by and bought something, looking at Fiona's sign ("All food and drink sales go to charity") and quizzing her on the charities she was supporting. Several people gave her $5 and told her to keep the change, and several more donated a dollar or two without wanting anything in return.
Only one lady disappointed us, exclaiming "$1 for lemonade?" and rolling her eyes as she walked away. I sincerely hope she didn't see the charity sign.
But everyone else was wonderful. One man even showed up looking for "the brownie girls," sent by his wife who had gotten one earlier (word of mouth sale!!!).
We closed up shop fifteen minutes early, out of brownies and lemonade – Fiona bought the last brownie because she wanted to go inside and play with her friend. :-) $42 was raised for two charities that Fiona helped me pick out: Give Kids The World, and The Door. One sends sick kids and their families to Disney World, and the other supports kids in NYC (especially LGBT and homeless kids) with counseling, classes, health services, and more.
We're not done: we'll be having our real stoop sale the next chance we get, with more baked goods and lemonade and toys and clothes and housewares, so that we can add to that $42.
I wish I could say that I raised Fiona to be this generous and sweet, but she just came out that way. I do try to set a good example for her, running races for charity and volunteering. But honestly, she's way ahead of me. I can't wait to see what she does when she grows up. Whatever it is, I know it will be a help to the world.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) — the official group that represents the Catholic Church in America — is in the middle of a two-day annual meeting and has decided to declare war on gay marriage, at the expense of all else. Despite a recent poll titled, "Catholics in America," that found American Catholics see opposition to same-sex marriage equality as low on their list of what the Church should be focusing on, the USCCB has spent a good portion of the day on its anti-gay agenda, which included the introduction of a new anti-gay website, "Marriage: Unique For A Reason."
The new site says, "it is hoped that Marriage: Unique for a Reason can be of assistance to all people of good will who seek to understand the truth and beauty of marriage." We agree. Marriage is unique, and beautiful, and should therefore not be declined to same-sex couples.
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It should be noted that there is a difference between civil marriage equality, for which we are fighting, and religious marriage, which every marriage equality bill and law respects and protects. Yet, Archbishop Dolan and his USCCB ignore that basic distinction and consistently equate and conflate the two.
The National Catholic Reporter, which sponsors the above-mentioned poll, Catholics in America, and performs it every six years, found that opposition to same-sex marriage is important to only 35% of American Catholics, yet a great portion of today's USCCB meeting was focused on just that. 67% of American Catholic believe helping the poor to be second in importance, yet little if any time today was devoted to that topic or task.
In fact, in his opening remarks, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, railed against those who dare to challenge the Church or his leadership.
Zack Ford at Think Progress last month noted, "Given that the Catholic League regularly blames homosexuality for the child abuse committed by Church leaders, it makes sense that Catholics are similarly distrusting of them on LGBT and other social issues. These results suggest that the Catholic Church's political clout comes not from the authority of its vast membership, but perhaps merely from the large sums of money it wields in their campaigns."
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The English Disease
England. Jesus wept and he won't stop weeping. We're going to need another ark.
Where do we even start? Best place is where it all ended; Roy Hodgson resigning with accompanying pre-written goodbye speech post-match, avoiding questions and no doubt running off to hug the £14M in the bank he's collected from his tenure. Not too shabby for achieving nothing. In the 'day after the night before' presser he had this wonderful line to share: "I don't know why I am here. Someone said I should be". Followed later with, "I'm still a little bit unsure what I'm doing here." Incredible stuff. One bad game has caused a lot of damage Roy, because when it mattered most - not in friendlies or qualifiers - we capitulated.
Our coach, our manager...so apologetic with his mannerisms and body language that even in the build up to the match against Iceland he'd shift uncomfortably (scratching his face) when posed a question about whether we're going to win. God forbid he displays a touch of confidence with a positive response. If he can't inspire me how can he come close to inspiring the England players? He said we'd be lucky to face France in the quarter-finals. Turns out Iceland were the lucky ones, facing the abject Lions.
We were turgid. New levels of awful. No pressing, no pomp. Unfortunately that includes some of our N17 based players. Harry Kane looks a shadow of the force he is when donning the Lilywhite of Tottenham. It perfectly illustrates just how poor the entire setup is at international level. We have no naturally gifted set piece taker, so Kane has to take responsibility. One particular free kick moved more wildly than the magic bullet that killed JFK. If that wasn't bad enough, having him play in relative isolation up front with no Dele Alli sitting directly behind and two forwards in wide positions that don't quite play like the wingers we required - you're left with another dysfunctional mess. Random dots with no evident connectivity. All we have is confusing scribbles, like kids with snapped crayons.
Where was the creativity? The fluid interchanging and movement? The sharpness?
Hodgson hasn't got the basics right, incapable of grasping them. He never knew his best starting eleven. Wayne Rooney, I appreciate, is a massively experienced player but having him in the team simply to lead and then having to witness a leaderless march into the battlefield was brain numbing. It also doesn't help to see our manager fragment any chance of momentum by making changes to his team (I'm looking at the final group game). If you ever wanted to showcase redundancy and makeshift ethics, this was it. An exercise in football devolution.
The managers lack of astuteness was compounded by lacklustre individual performances. I'm not sure the players had the capacity to play any better.
Walker and Dier, excellent so far in the tournament, made avoidable mistakes. Both of them still pound for pound several levels ahead of most. Rose lacked forward impetus compared to previous games. Sturridge hugged the ball too often, never releasing it early. Sterling hasn't exactly been firing on all cylinders, and yet there he was, struggling along with the rest - just with a rather large scapegoat target on his back. Vardy offered little when he came on because unless we play direct or scramble chaotically in the box, he'll get few opportunities to pounce onto something. Wilshere, a player that was meant to provide us with some second half urgency failed to ignite as we persisted with the one dimensional football. Looks busy but does little, like a locomotive stuck in reverse. Golden reputation, the ill favoured mistress of many an England manager.
At times, attempting to create a spark was like watching two cavemen trying to make fire for the first time...in the pouring rain. It was all limp, unnecessarily awkward and too often congested. Our passing was poor and our crosses too often weighted wrong (very little pace when required, too long when short was the obvious option). Rashford, with a late cameo, the most energetic of the lot. The win against Wales was all the evidence we required (and for the most part pretended to ignore). The truth being, sheer desperation won us that game rather than any shrewd tactical prowess.
The first half against Russia (and the 80+ shots on goal in all games) leaves me baffled as to why it was all so broken. One win in four games. The players looked fatigued, physically and mentally. Conditioning issues perhaps? Are we really going to flirt with ye old 'tiredness' excuse? Why do all other nations (even the weaker ones) look certifiably content with their game-plan and purposefulness whilst we look faltered like a drunk that's lost his mates in a pub crawl.
If you're going to select five Spurs player, then at least play them in a system they've excelled in all season long. We continuously and historically look to accommodate for the sake of accommodation and show no ruthlessness in selection and the desire to unite as a collective and really push on. Evolve. Stagnation appears to be all we're consistent with. How many games have we won at knock-out stages in the past 10 years? I think it might be the one. So I guess I shouldn't be so surprised by another failure.
Tactically inept but the real crime was the lack of truly tangible togetherness. Gareth Bale was right about us and it hurts. Our players looked utterly deflated, devoid of strength and belief. How on earth do you fail to turn up to a game of this importance? Pre-game, it was billed rather arrogantly as an easy passage to the next round.
The FA, as ever, remain the most accountable of all and I can only pray that we show ambition and fearlessness in change by appointing someone that isn't anchored and influenced by the ills of the football world (mostly the media). Apparently they've called a 'review' of our failure. Yet again, they're swimming in a bubonic plague of bureaucracy. The problem with the English is that we are so bloody English.
To add to the indignity, the children of the corn are out in force in social media blaming the Spurs players and pretending that everyone else wasn't equally as disappointing. Yes, I know, it's just banter. Even the pundits on telly during the game (Lee Dixon to be specific) cited two mistakes (making a big angry deal out of them) and then ignored the one made by England's number 1, Joe Hart. The blame game, is what we're best at. Deflect it away from one place and aim it at another to create the illusion that it's easily fixed. Then make the same mistake all over again. As for Roy, his weak mentality infected all concerned.
Still, the salty attacks on our players persist, as though the burden of failure is solely on their shoulders. All of them deserve to be in the England squad. They're the best players in their positions (club wise). What they don't deserve is going from playing for a team with an identity to one without.
At least when our lads return to Hotspur Way after their summer break they'll be surrounded by intelligent footballers in a working system that maximises their potential. The same will be said for most of the England players that will go back to their respective teams and slot into the role they are best at fulfilling. All the children on Twitter mocking the likes of Harry Kane are ignoring that he probably scored against them with comparative ease last season and will do so again next. He won the Golden Boot. He's easily the best English forward and undoubtedly one of the most complete players in the Premier League. Shame on us for not being able to fashion some flair with the talent we possess, Spurs or otherwise. But this is England. It's always been this way.
Kane will be strong enough to recover. He's proved that already when smashing second season syndrome. Mauricio will see to that. Daniel Levy will need to offer additional support. Kane can not be starting 55+ games per season. He needs to rest and return refreshed. Maybe we can bag ourselves a migrant before this country builds a wall to keep out the wildlings.
So good luck to Iceland, totally deserved their win. Back to my default position I go.
Club > Country
Because even in failure, it's still glorious.
Twitter handle: @Spooky23 <- I'm tweeting more than blogging at the moment. I'm still in sabbatical mode until the pre-season starts.