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Jamie Vardy: 'Turning down Arsenal doesn't mean I wouldn't look at another offer'
It may be the most remarkable story in Premier League history, but Jamie Vardy has insisted that one winners' medal is not enough and has not ruled out a move away from Leicester City if another big offer comes his way. Vardy has spent the summer trying to launch the careers of 42 non-League hopefuls, who dream of following in his footsteps, through his V9 Academy. Despite the fact he has been trying to find the 'next Jamie Vardy', the man himself is not ready to accept that his own journey is complete and is desperate to win more silverware – at Leicester or elsewhere. Vardy insists he will never regret turning down Arsenal, even though the Gunners won the FA Cup last season, and could be open to adding another chapter to his story by making a high-profile move either in England or overseas. "I want to win as much as possible, I don't want to only have one Premier League medal in my drawer at home – it would be an empty glass cabinet," said Vardy. "I want to win as much as possible. I'm contracted to Leicester and we will see how high we can go. In the future, who knows? "It was my choice to turn Arsenal down. But if another offer came in, it would be the same in that I would look at it and work out the pros and cons. But, no, turning down Arsenal doesn't mean I wouldn't look at another offer. Vardy played for England against Malta Credit: AFP "Down the road, there might be an opportunity to go to America or China. It would be something I would like to experience. I've seen other players do it. I know it will involve moving the family again, but it will give them a different experience to see different cultures." When it was put to Vardy that he would also have an FA Cup winners' medal if he had joined Arsenal, the 30-year-old replied: "But it weren't the Premier League was it? So I'm all right with that I think. I'll never regret anything I've chosen to do." Asked what his reasons were for rejecting the Gunners, Vardy added: "It was just coming up with the positives and negatives, and I came up with a decision and I'm pleased with the decision I made. "They had qualified for the Champions League for the last 20 years or something, until last year. That was something to think about. But Leicester were also in the Champions League and on a different night at home against Atletico Madrid we could have gone even further." Vardy during the Champions League Quarter Final first leg match against Atletico Madrid Credit: GETTY IMAGES Wherever he is, Vardy will be keeping a close eye on the careers of Danny Newton, Blair Turgott, Alex Penny and Lamar Reynolds, who all graduated from Vardy's Academy and were signed by professional clubs. The first episode of The Next Jamie Vardy will be shown on Sky One on September 16 and former Hinckley United and Tamworth striker Newton, who had never previously played for a professional club, has started with three goals in five League Two games for Stevenage. "Straight away, as soon as our game finishes, I'm having a look to see if they have scored at each of their clubs," said Vardy, who played for Stocksbridge Park Steels, Halifax Town and Fleetwood Town before joining Leicester five years ago. "If not, seeing if they've started. "Danny has started off well. I've spoken to him and he said it was quite hard for him in pre-season. He was saying that he bets the manager was thinking 'what have we signed here', then it just clicked for him and he's been on fire." Vardy believes 90 per cent of English clubs, even in the lower leagues, would rather sign a player from overseas than looking in non-League for bargains. "Within the non-League base, my scouts were probably better (than scouts at professional clubs)," said Vardy, who put more than £100,000 of his own money into the V9 project. "A lot of scouts wouldn't even think about looking in non-League. Jamie and wife Rebekah Vardy oversee training at the first day of their V9 Academy "They are probably told to look at a specific position and specific type of player they want and it will either be someone from the league below they look at or nine times out of 10 nowadays they go abroad." Having seen youngsters at professional clubs seek the trappings of a top footballer before making an impression on the first team, Vardy believes non-League players can be hungrier to prove themselves. "I think so, yes," he said. "It was definitely the case for me. As soon as I signed for Leicester and knuckled down and things started going right, and I started scoring goals, I wanted to be as good as I possibly can. A lot of the academies now everything is done for you, but how long's that going to last for?" As part of his fly-on-the-wall documentary, Vardy returned to the carbon fibre factory where he used to work while playing non-League football. He believes youngsters who have spent their lives in professional academies would benefit from being sent on placements and getting a taste of the real world. "I think it would definitely wake a few of them up," said Vardy. "I can't see many players wanting to get up at six in the morning to go and do a nine-hour shift. It would definitely open their eyes and make them realise that it's not something they want to even have a chance of doing." The graduates Danny Newton and Blair Turgott were both signed by Stevenage after impressing in the V9 Academy, but the pair have experienced very different career paths until now. Striker Newton has been likened to Jamie Vardy, as he was never signed by a professional academy or youth set up and has combined a non-League career with working in a factory. Danny Newton has been likened to Jamie Vardy The 26-year-old played up front for Hinckley United with Andre Gray, who this summer joined Watford from Burnley for a fee worth £18.5million. "I was a maintenance engineer," said Newton, who has scored three goals in five games at Stevenage. "I did a four-year apprenticeship when I was 16 and carried it on. That paid the bills. I got a house with my girlfriend and I was comfortable. But it can't compare to playing football every day. "I've never had an agent, I've never had trials. I've just played non-League. I was at Hinckley United in the Conference North when I was 17. I broke into the first team and was playing every week for three years and they went bust. "I played with Andre Gray for two years. He's gone and done it. We played up front together at the time. Luton took him and he's progressed after getting that chance. I've just left it a bit late, but I'm grateful now the V9 academy has given me this chance." Blair Turgott has played for West Ham, Coventry and Leyton Orient among others Winger Turgott joined West Ham United aged just eight and played in England youth teams with Raheem Sterling and Nathaniel Chalobah, both of whom he is still in touch with. The 23-year-old was loaned out to Bradford City, Colchester United, Rotherham United and Dagenham and Redbridge before being released by the Hammers two years ago. "My first loan was at Bradford when I was 17 and I was lonely," said Turgott. "I had never been away from home and I was literally just going to training and coming back to a hotel in Bradford city centre. It was difficult at first. "I played for the England youth teams with Raheem Sterling, Nathan Redmond and Nathaniel Chalobah, and it shows that the cream will rise to the top. It's good to see those boys doing so well, and they tell me to keep my head up. Just because one person says 'no', it doesn't mean you aren't good enough to make it as a footballer." 20 best players in the Premier League: August 2017
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It began, as all marriages must, with trust and hope, and ended, as all too many do, in resentment and suspicion. Their story begins in 1983, when Ron and Anne met through a mutual friend in college and agreed to go out on a date.
"We didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things," Ron recalls. "We weren't compatible at the time. She was very stubborn, very opinionated." They both seemed to sense it. The date didn't amount to anything, and the two went their separate ways. Anne married the following year; Ron continued to play the field, dating a number of women, though none seriously.
Four years later, tragedy brought Ron and Anne together again at a small Catholic church in east Denver, where they were both attending the funeral of their college matchmaker.
The couple talked, catching each other up on the gap in time since they'd parted. Anne's marriage hadn't lasted. Her husband had had a relationship with drugs that she couldn't compete with, and so they'd divorced after only a couple of years. Yet Ron noticed that the marriage -- or something -- had provoked a change in her. "She seemed to be a different person," he says. "We didn't clash like before. She was very cordial and nice, not as bullheaded as before."
After the reunion, Ron remembers, "she called me on a number of occasions, and about two weeks later we started dating. I allowed myself to get caught." They attended movies, concerts, plays. "At the time, I wanted to be married, and she wanted to be married, too. With the change in attitude, I thought it might work," he says. The ceremony was held in June 1988.
They didn't discuss children, although it was implied that the family would grow. Anne already had a daughter from her first marriage. Ron came from a large family, fifth out of eight children. "I never wanted a big family," he says. "But some kids, sure." He felt strongly that his job as the manager of a convenience store was not stable enough to support a brood just yet. On good nights, they would discuss names of their future children. He wanted a boy to call Ronald; she joked that it sounded too old-fashioned.
It wasn't long, though, before the good nights became fewer and farther apart. Ron says the tension started when Anne began going out to clubs and bars without him and staying out later than was appropriate for a married woman. He says that when he complained, she grew defensive. "You're not my dad," she'd say. "You can't tell me what to do." Sometimes she wouldn't return until four or five in the morning. (Anne declined to be interviewed for this story. Her name and her husband's name were changed to protect their family's privacy. Last week, at the request of Anne's attorney, Edra Pollin, the couple's court file was sealed. )
They had mutual friends, particularly at their church, and people talked. Ron knew that his wife seemed to run into a particular acquaintance at the clubs an awful lot, and he heard the rumors that the friendship between Anne and the other man was more than casual.
Finally, Ron says, one night in November 1990, he confronted Anne after she'd defended the man a little too vehemently in an argument. "I said, 'Baby, I need to talk to this guy myself.'" He went to the man's house and waited, and when the man finally came home, Ron asked him straight up: Are you sleeping with my wife? The man denied it, and the two never saw each other again.
Anne became pregnant in the summer of 1990, and the following March, a daughter was born. Throughout the pregnancy, Ron says, "she was telling me that the child was mine, and so I eventually decided she was telling the truth."
At the birth, he held the baby, still wet from the womb, and when the doctor asked him to cut the umbilicus, he grasped the child's legs with one hand and cut the cord with the other. "It was truly amazing," he says. "Life itself."
The Analytical Genetic Testing Center sits in the far back corner of a difficult-to-find southeast Denver business park, one of those featureless commercial strips that seem to be actively seeking anonymity. It is surrounded by generic-sounding businesses with names such as Client Systems. "We don't necessarily like to advertise where we are," says Nancy Schanfield, the center's administrator.
A plaque in the office's tiny waiting area, awarded by the Crime Laboratory Proficiency Testing Program, indicates that the Analytical Genetic Testing Center is "Dedicated to Accuracy, Precision and Specificity." A posted list of the center's clients shows a handful of Colorado counties, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the San Francisco Crime Lab and the Dubai police.
Inside, beyond a couple of small offices and a conference room, the lab opens up into a single white room that seems somehow both too small and too uncluttered for the emotionally vast work that goes on there. One section of the space is devoted to forensic testing -- the evaluation of genetic samples from crime scenes. The rest of the space is devoted to figuring out who a child's parents are.
Ever since the center began doing paternity testing, in 1985, business has increased steadily. In 1990, the Analytical Genetic Testing Center performed ninety tests. Last year it did 1,020. The biggest increase came in 1993, when the center won the business of the City and County of Denver's Department of Social Services. Because every effort is made to find a father in the thousands of child support cases it handles each year, Denver's business alone would keep the testing center hopping.
Such government work makes up the bulk of the center's non-forensic business. However, parents and children bring in blood samples for all sorts of reasons. Some parents want to know if they've passed on a medical condition to their kids. "One father brought in his little baby for testing because he said she was so cute he couldn't actually believe she was his," Schanfield says. "He was happy to learn she was." The oldest child the center has tested was a 57-year-old man. His father had died recently, and he wanted to know if the man was really his parent.
In the past ten years, the exclusion percentage -- the number of tests showing that the presumed father actually was not -- has stayed about the same, somewhere between 27 and 33 percent. This parallels national statistics: Affiliated members of the American Association of Blood Banks performed 280,000 paternity tests in 1999, the last year for which figures are available; in about 28 percent of those, the man being tested was shown not to be the father. While the sample population is skewed -- most parents who ask for testing have at least a private suspicion -- it is nonetheless an astounding number.
The technology used to read parents' and children's shared genetic roadmaps has improved tremendously in the past decade. In 1985, a paternity test could guarantee a 90 percent rate of probability. Today, most tests are somewhere around 99.9 percent conclusive -- a margin of error so slim as to be practically nonexistent.
Blood is the preferable agent for testing, although a cheek swab will work in a pinch. (Hair strands don't work because the cells in them are passed down only from mother to child, thus leaving no evidence of paternity.) First the blood is separated into its basic components of plasma, red blood cells and white blood cells. The pure DNA is extracted from the white cells when they are placed in a reagent that dissolves the coating around the genetic code -- like removing the candy outside to get to the inside of a Tootsie Pop.
Next, the DNA is placed in a machine that essentially photocopies its unique patterns. The multiple copies of the genetic code allow the testers to focus on the exact locations they need to study in order to determine a child's and parents' common biological landmarks.
Each strand of genetic coding carries more than 30,000 genes, far too many to sort out which came from a particular parent. Also, many genes are common to everyone -- for example, the gene that determines how a person's heart develops. So testers hoping to prove a family connection focus on about a dozen known as "nonsense genes," those that have no visible genetic expression in a person -- blond hair, say, or straight teeth -- but that nevertheless carry biological clues to a person's individuality.
From there the process is relatively low-tech, despite the modern science that goes into it. A snapshot of the child's, mother's and alleged father's genetic codes are lined up next to each other in vertical columns, with the child's in the middle column. Since the child inherits from both mother and father, the mother and child's shared markers -- which show up as small horizontal lines -- are crossed out.
That leaves the child and the alleged father. If the child and the man have no markers in common, he is eliminated as a possible father. If the two share a marker, the testers next go to a database that shows how common the marker is in each ethnic or racial group. The rarer the marker, the greater the probability that the child and father are related. The more common it is, the greater the need for additional tests at different genetic sites. The testing center keeps two statisticians on staff to do the math.
For testers who do it every day, the ordinary, inventory-style nature of the business can obscure the all-too-human stories behind the tests. Some of the tests performed at the lab are sweeping social policy writ small. Analytical Genetic Testing, for example, does substantial work for the Immigration and Naturalization Service as part of that agency's attempts to limit the number of people moving into the country.
An immigrant trying to help a relative relocate permanently to the United States has a better shot at succeeding if that relative is a mother or father versus, say, a brother or sister. (There are different standards for different countries; the INS requires a DNA test for Ethiopians merely flying here for a visit.) Many desperate -- or simply less-than-honest -- sponsors are willing to lie about their family ties, and the INS wants to know for sure before it issues another green card.
Domestic policy shows up in the center's tests, too. In its quest to nudge public behavior, the federal government provides plenty of business for labs such as Schanfield's. For example, the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- more commonly known as welfare reform -- requires states to offer fathers of children born out of wedlock a chance to acknowledge paternity of the new infant while the baby is still in the hospital. This was an effort mainly to bolster child-support payments. Later challenges to such signed paternity agreements are common, and they keep DNA testing labs humming.
Similarly, says Pauline Burton, director of Colorado's division of child-support enforcement, in an effort to better collect support payments, the federal government keeps track of how well each state establishes the paternity in its child-support enforcement cases. But the counting is not done merely out of curiosity. If a particular state does not finger the father in better than 90 percent of its cases, Washington begins cutting off funds as a punishment. Such a harsh approach inspires still more paternity tests.
Yet many tests performed at the lab are merely small, private stories that hint of personal tragedy or fantastic familial complexity. The ten-year-old girl whose aborted fetus was tested so that prosecutors could prove a case of incest. The family of seven children whose mother, on her deathbed, revealed that not all of the siblings shared the same father. Now in their forties and older, they came to the lab thinking one of them had a stranger for a dad. Instead, testing revealed three different fathers.
For the lab employees, such news is like headlines from the National Enquirer -- startling, even lurid, yet without the substance and context that fleshes out the lives behind the muddled genes. And despite the high-probability numbers and sound scientific principals that form the bedrock of the business, the human details of the stories themselves almost always remain mysteries.
What, for example, to make of the man whose genes keep popping up in paternity cases in one rural Colorado county? Or the woman who needed seven brothers tested because any one of them could have been the father of her child? Or the father who knew for certain that the first and second children of his marriage were his, but wondered about the third and so arranged for genetic screening? (Testing proved that only the second was his.)
The answer, say testers, is that science is only one fractional measure of a family. "Families are far more complicated than anyone thinks," says Schanfield. "We simply provide the difference between belief and knowledge."
"DNA doesn't lie," adds Carla Wirtz, director of The Laboratories at Bonfils/Parentage Testing Laboratory, Colorado's only other accredited paternity-testing facility. "I tell my clients, we can prove you're the father." "But," she continues, "that is all. DNA says nothing about who is a parent -- who is raising the child, taking him to school, changing his diapers, teaching him morals. That has nothing to do with genetics."
As Ron and Anne's daughter grew, their life became a familiar mixture of pleasure and problems, satisfaction and strife. "We were like a normal family," Ron explains. Both he and Anne had settled into good, lucrative jobs, each earning close to $40,000 a year. They bought a nice house in Aurora.
They also seemed willing to let personal bygones be bygones. Anne had finally admitted to sleeping with her acquaintance, but she'd also assured Ron that the affair was over. Ron promised that he'd forgiven her. As far as their daughter was concerned, he says, "The tension that had been there wasn't anymore because I had resigned myself that she was my child."
Nevertheless, the partnership was also growing unsettled. Six months after their daughter was born, Ron says, the couple ceased being intimate. "She didn't love me like a wife loves a husband," he says. "Eventually, I stopped trying to have sex."
Ron himself was not blameless. In early 1991, while Anne was pregnant, he had let his doubts about her fidelity consume him until he'd secretly started seeing another woman. "In my mind, I'd said, 'What's good for you is good for me,'" he recalls. Six months after Anne gave birth to their daughter, Ron's girlfriend gave birth to a baby boy.
By the end of 1991, Ron says, he had called off the relationship, telling the woman he wanted to try to make his marriage work. However, the damage had already been done. The woman telephoned Anne and told her about Ron's son.
In spite of their shattered trust, Ron and Anne decided to follow the advice of their minister and remain married. "We stayed together through the help of a lot of prayer," Ron explains. "And by overlooking a lot of obvious problems."
From all outward appearances, they were an intact, traditional family: Ron and Anne and their two daughters. They vacationed together, taking a cruise to the Bahamas as well as trips to Disney World and to Texas to visit relatives.
And despite the currents of dissatisfaction between husband and wife, Ron and his younger daughter seemed able to separate themselves from the stress. They were extremely close. He bought her clothes; she helped him around the house. "She was daddy's baby," he says. "A real daddy's girl."
It is old news by now that American families today bear little resemblance to what they once were -- or, perhaps more accurately, to what people once thought they were. The 2000 Census showed a 72 percent jump in the number of unmarried couples over just a decade ago. Today, barely half of all households are headed by married couples. The traditional Ozzie and Harriet configuration -- a married couple with children -- makes up less than one-quarter of all households, down from about 40 percent a mere generation ago.
With the number of married couples dropping and the number of unmarried couples rising, it is no shock that the number of children born outside of marriage is up. In 1999, 1.3 million infants were born out of wedlock. Almost a fifth of all white children in the U.S. are born into unmarried households; among blacks, the number is closer to two-thirds.
Not that marriage guarantees the identity of a child's parents -- although the law generally presumes that a child born into a marriage is living with his real parents. Yet the reconfiguration of the family has, at the least, reformed the traditional definitions of its participants. Just as "family" now has multiple meanings, many of which probably could not have been envisioned several generations ago, so, too, does the word "father."
Start with the thirty-year-old Colorado law, filed under "Presumption of Paternity." Following centuries of law and tradition, it leans strongly toward married couples and tries to define what it calls the "natural" parents. "A man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if he and the child's natural mother are or have been married to each other and the child is born during the marriage," it begins.
However, with the shape of families ever shifting, the exceptions and permutations have begun to pile up. What, for instance, about cases in which the real parent isn't a parent at all?
In one ten-year-old divorce case out of Denver, judges had to decide whether a step-parent should be granted visitation of a child after a divorce. In saying 'yes,' the state Court of Appeals noted that the step-parent had, in effect, become the child's "psychological" parent -- not related to the child, but important enough in her life to continue acting as a parent. (Such a designation has become important in separation cases involving gay couples raising a child, as only one of the parents can by definition be biologically related to the child.)
Another Colorado case that has further defined "father" grew out of a recent Fort Collins-area probate filing. The biological father died, leaving his estate to his wife and son. When the wife began misusing the inheritance, the trustee of the young boy brought the case to court. After listening to arguments on both sides, the judge finally turned over the estate to a neighbor who had become extremely close to the boy. The man, the court decided, had become a "father figure."
The definitions can be parsed almost infinitely. One section of Colorado's law attempts to describe under what circumstances a "psychological parent" -- a non-biological parent -- can ask a judge for custody of a child.
Until a couple of years ago, the law gave a person standing if the child had been under his "physical custody" for at least six months. In recent years, local courts have had to decide what is actually meant by the words "physical custody." For example, how much of the six months was actually "quality time"? The law now reads that the child must be in the adult's "physical care" for half a year for the person to be eligible for custody -- a subtle but crucial distinction.
By the end of 1998, Ron and Anne's marriage was a partnership in name only. He says they hardly ever had sex. Once in a while, he says, he'd suggest counseling. She refused to consider it.
The end came in January 1999, when, Ron says, Anne asked him to move out of their shared bedroom and into a downstairs room. The following month, he left the house altogether. Not long after that, the couple filed for divorce.
In June 2000, Ron and Anne reached a temporary arrangement for custody and support of their children. The girls were to remain with Anne at the couple's old house; Ron was to have "reasonable and liberal parenting time." He also agreed to pay $777 per month, in two equal installments, to help Anne cover the girls' expenses.
Despite the agreement, however, with what little marriage they'd had now broken, old doubts about his daughter's lineage began replaying in Ron's mind. "I'd asked Anne on numerous occasions: 'Is there something you should be telling me?' And she'd always say no," he says.
Their daughter's increasingly grown-up features didn't help matters. At first friends had remarked how much she looked like Ron. As time went on, more and more people began talking about how she looked more like Anne's acquaintance than Ron.
Last June, as part of the divorce proceedings, Ron finally requested a paternity test. Anne resisted, arguing that there was no reason for the test. "The parentage of the parties' younger daughter is not at issue in this case," she argued in a court filing. In support of the argument, Anne's lawyer cited the basic Colorado paternity law that says a child born into a marriage is presumed to be the issue of that husband and wife.
Arapahoe County District Court Judge Juanita Rice agonized over what to do. Rice noted that "there are many reasons not to" do the test. For example, she wrote, "The impact on [the daughter] in learning that [Ron] is not her father could be very traumatic."
But, she added, "The Court notes that the law does not allow it to always do what is right. If the Court were only looking at [the daughter's] best interest, it might be that the pain of knowing who her father is would be greater than having her live in deceit."
Rice also acknowledged that "if this issue is not raised in [the daughter's] childhood, her paternity may be raised in her adulthood in an unloving way." So, this past August, the judge ordered Anne and the daughter to submit to DNA testing. "The Court believes the Uniform Parentage Act has as one of its goals that children know who their parents are and parents know who their children are," the judge wrote in her decision. "This knowledge is necessary for an orderly society."
In the event that another man was found to be the girl's father, Rice added, she would appoint a special representative to "deal with the issues of when [the daughter] is told, how she is told and how she will be supported by therapy during the process."
Ron paid for the test. Two weeks later, he had the results: There was literally no statistical chance that he could be his daughter's biological father. "There were no tears," he says. "Just a lot of hurt and disbelief." Further tests confirmed that Anne's acquaintance was in fact the father of Ron and Anne's youngest child.
Despite that knowledge, Anne has continued to insist that Ron pay child support to the girl he thought was his daughter. (Meanwhile, the real father -- Anne's acquaintance -- has said he wants nothing to do with his newfound daughter.)
Ron, who says he has no qualms about paying child support for Anne's older daughter, whom he legally adopted early in the marriage, has fought back. The girl's father, he argues, should start supporting his daughter. And he points out that he, too, is in "the other man's" shoes.
"I see my son only a couple times a year, but I'm paying support for him," he says. "Why shouldn't the father here pay, too?"
Although there are many small, specific reasons a man might argue over whether he is a child's parent, the issues generally boil down to two things: Time and money. The former, often described in terms of "custody" and "visitation," usually is associated with a father's rights -- the privileges one enjoys as a parent. The latter, known as "support," is more usually described in terms of a man's responsibilities -- those things that he accepts.
Traditionally, the father's rights and responsibilities have been lumped together: Part of being a decent parent, the old argument goes, is paying the bills. Another legal given, strengthened by the government's resolve to shrink the country's welfare roles by getting fathers to pay child support, has been that the biological father always pays for his child. Finally, most judges have agreed that once a father legally acknowledges a child is his -- regardless of any new DNA evidence that may crop up -- he is, in the eyes of the court, the father forever.
Yet in a growing number of cases across the country, these age-old principles have clashed. In a well-known Texas case, for instance, a man named Morgan Wise recently discovered that only one of four children born during his marriage was biologically his. The couple divorced five years ago. Yet, despite the new genetic evidence, a district court judge ordered Wise to continue paying child support to all of the children -- and then prevented him from seeing them.
In Colorado, two new cases are poised to redefine traditional paternity laws. One of them started in Pueblo nearly five years ago. After many years of marriage and three children, Donald and Loretta Smith filed for divorce. When custody and parenting time became an issue, Donald asked for genetic testing. The results shocked him: None of the three children were his.
Later, the father of the kids was identified as Charles Ames, a man with whom Loretta had carried on a long-term affair. In 1997, Donald Smith demanded to be reimbursed by Ames for all the money he'd spent raising three children whom Ames had fathered. In October 1999, the state Court of Appeals agreed that Ames owed Smith the money and ordered him to pay. The amount -- about $20,000 in all -- was nowhere near the cost of raising three children. But a precedent had been set.
Not everyone was pleased. In a dissenting opinion, one of the judges worried that too much emphasis was being placed on biology. "Smith maintains that once Charles Ames' paternity was established by scientific testing and that Ames was declared to be the biological father by the court, Smith's previous status as the presumed father--with all of its attendant rights and obligations -- vanished retroactively," the judge wrote. "This issue has major ramifications for Colorado's children."
Even more recently, another case has been shaking up the state's long-established paternity principles -- but with a different message. In June 1994, a girl known only by her initials, S.R.H., was born to a husband and wife, N.A.H. and A.H. of Fort Collins. The husband watched the girl be born and was listed on her birth certificate as her father.
N.A.H. and A.H. had endured a shaky twenty-year marriage. On occasion, the wife had moved out. In fact, unknown to the husband, it was during one of the separations that the girl had been conceived. Later -- also unknown to the husband -- the mother had maintained contact with the biological father, known as S.L.S. On some Fridays, she dropped their daughter off at his house for up to ten hours at a time while she worked. Once, S.L.S. took the girl out of Colorado to visit his relatives.
Following marriage counseling, N.A.H. and A.H. reconciled in early 1996. S.L.S.'s contact with his daughter was cut off entirely. Soon after, he filed a case with the local court arguing that since he was the girl's biological father, he had a right to see her. (According to Mark Workman, the lawyer who represented S.L.S., the husband found out the girl was not his only after stumbling on S.L.S.'s case while in the courthouse on an unrelated matter.)
In 1997, a local magistrate, citing biology, declared S.L.S. to be the legal father of the girl. "The Court acknowledges that [the husband] is and will continue to be an excellent and committed parent," the magistrate wrote. "However, this is not a case in which the Court is to select which male will do a better job of being the father of the child. [The biological father, S.L.S.] is not just a sperm donor. He has shown that he wishes to be actively involved in the child's life."
After several appeals by the husband and wife, the case made its way to the Colorado Supreme Court. There, this past September, the judges disagreed with the local magistrate. The justices noted that while there were various competing definitions of "father" contained in numerous state laws, none was necessarily better than another. Thus, they wrote, "the best interests of the child must be considered as part of the policy and logic analysis used to decide legal fatherhood."
While the formula sounds reasonable -- everyone agrees that the best interests of the child are of the highest importance in any custody case -- Workman says the result of the Fort Collins case was the worst possible mixture of biology and psychology and rights and responsibilities. The girl is back with the husband and wife. Meanwhile, the biological father continues to pay support for her but has no visitation rights.
"The system is well tuned to collect child support," Workman says, "but not to preserve the relationships between children and their biological parents."
Ron's lawyer, Ted Mazurek, agrees that the new intrepretation of Colorado's paternity law is trouble, though for different reasons.
"There's no way in hell the law was ever intended to make non-fathers fathers," he says. "What they're saying is that the DNA test means nothing. Let's just line them up and choose the best one. Do we really want a hundred different judges out there picking daddies?"
Perhaps with such changeable standards and the constantly moving definitions of rights, responsibilities and parenting -- all overlaid with the issue of morality -- it was inevitable that the best any court could come up with in increasingly complicated paternity cases is that each one should be decided as it comes along. "At the end of the day, you can really do what you want with Colorado's paternity laws," says Kim Willoughby, a Denver family lawyer. And finding the high ground in any custody matter -- in which rage and retribution are often mingled with what might be best for the child -- is always tricky, none more so than in Ron and Anne's case.
Ron points out that doing the right thing means paying for your actions. He is paying $350 a month for his son, after all, and expects no different of Anne's lover. Yet there is no shortage of people who are certain that Ron would be a better person if he ignored the DNA tests.
"I don't know where the law will come down, but I would define Ron as a jerk," says one family lawyer familiar with the case.
Kenneth Ward, head of the Denver-based Fathers for Equal Rights, agrees. Ron has played father to a girl for nearly eight years, he points out; but for a single genetic test last summer, nothing has changed. "He should continue to be a father to his daughter," he says. "When I was growing up without a dad around, it wasn't the fact that my mother wasn't getting a check every month that I hated. It was that I didn't have a father."
Mazurek points out that the two facets of being a legal dad -- being a meaningful parent and paying the bills -- are not necessarily linked. Moreover, he contends that with the formulas commonly used to calculate child-support payments, Anne could probably get more money from her daughter's biological father than from Ron. So why not dun him for the money and let Ron continue on as a psychological parent?
Even that is not as simple as it sounds. On some level, genetics can and do make a difference. Larry Schwartz, who helped represent Donald Smith in his efforts to seek reimbursement from Charles Ames, notes that something subtle changed after Smith learned the three children he thought were his were not. Even though he continued to love them and seek time with them, "it hit him pretty hard," Schwartz says. "He changed jobs, moved away for a while." A little over a month ago, Smith was killed in a car accident.
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And that's to say nothing of what effect the news can have on a child. Soon after the results of the genetic test came back, Ron says, Anne told her daughter that the man she thought was her father really was not. Since then, Ron says, their relationship has changed. "She doesn't call me at all," he says. "And I've told both children they can call with any questions." The last time he saw her was six months ago, at church. The last time he spent a day with her was four months before that, when they went to Red & Jerry's together.
Recently, Ron moved to Nevada to take a job promotion. He has begun dating again -- though no one seriously -- and says that someday he'd like to have a child. He adds, however, that he'd like to remain close to his ex-wife's youngest girl, as well. After all, they have a relationship.
"She's really my daughter," he explains. "I'm just not her father."

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Note to all tablet makers not named Asus: This is how you make a 7-inch tablet.
Google Nexus 7
This is the Android tablet you've been waiting for. Beautiful, detailed display. Handsome design and fantastic build quality. Jelly Bean feels like it was built for the Nexus 7. The first 7-inch quad core tablet, it has Porsche-like speed and agility.
Android still doesn't have enough tablet-optimized apps. No rear camera.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
The Nexus 7, the first tablet to wear Google's Nexus brand, sets a new standard for smaller slates, proving that just because it isn't as big as Apple's iPad doesn't mean it can't be just as useful, as fast, or as fun. If you've been on the fence about Android, or tablets in general, this is the tablet you've been waiting for.
If you've been on the fence about Android, or tablets in general, this is the tablet you've been waiting for.
While the Nexus 7 isn't a full-on iPad-killer, it far out-classes anything else offered in the 7-inch category, and most 10-inch tablets too. The Nexus 7 does this by offering smartly designed, powerful hardware and the best Android tablet experience to date (the hardware, in this case, was engineered by Asus). For those who only use their gadgets to surf the web, check e-mail, play games and update their social media feeds, the Nexus 7 might be an even better choice than an iPad, given how much easier it is to carry around.
But the feature that will probably be the most enticing to consumers is the price. The Nexus 7 sells for $200 with 16GB of storage. That's the same price as the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet at the same storage capacity. If you want a bit more room to download HD movies, music, games and apps, you can get the 32GB version for $250. Want always-on connectivity? There's a 32GB version with HSPA+ added for $300. At these prices, the Nexus 7 is frankly a steal when you compare it to what else is out there at the same cost.
The 1280×800 IPS touchscreen is beautiful. It's the best display I've seen on a 7-inch tablet, and almost as good as the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity and the third-generation iPad. It's not quite Retina display quality, but with a pixel density of 216ppi, it's very close. Colors are balanced without being over-saturated, a common issue on many mobile devices nowadays, particularly those from Samsung.
Also absent are any software performance problems. Where the Fire and Nook suffer from unresponsiveness, slow animations and stuttering screens, the Nexus 7 screams. In fact, Google's tablet responds as quickly and scrolls as smoothly as just about any tablet I've seen, no matter the size. It feels as fast as Asus' larger Transformer tablets, and it performs as smoothly as the iPad, even when playing high definition games such as ShadowGun or playing back HD movies.
Basically, the Nexus 7 is a beast. Navigating around Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (yes, this is the first Jelly Bean tablet) is super clean. There's no hesitation on the part of the Nexus 7 when loading magazines, books, apps, video, games, music or web pages. [UPDATE: We expect the Nexus 7 to receive Android 4.2 as an over-the-air update before the end of 2012]
This can be attributed to Nvidia's 1.2GHz Tegra 3 quad-core processor — yep, this is the first quad-core 7-inch tablet, too. Alongside that is a 12-core Nvidia GPU and 1GB of RAM. The only noticeable delay comes when you first turn on the Nexus 7. There's a lag of a few seconds while your content loads into the interactive home screen widgets pre-installed by Google.
The widgets show you what content — books, music, magazines, movies and TV shows — is available in the Google Play store for you to consume, via either streaming or downloading.
These widgets make extensive use of cover art, so they are colorful and attractive. They're easy to use, expanding and contracting as you cycle through the various options. Most importantly, they reduce a lot of the friction around finding stuff in Google Play, both for content you've already purchased, as well as enticing new options. The widgets are very much "in your face," and they clearly suggest that Google intends to be your go-to destination for buying, renting and streaming digital media.
The Fire and the Nook — the Nexus 7's primary competitors, which also follow the "device as content portal" philosophy — also offer an array of entertainment options on their home screens, but Google's arrangement is far prettier to look and less intrusive. Amazon Fire's shows a cludgy carousel of content, and even that's better than the random assortment of book covers found on the Nook's home screen.
These Google Play widgets come installed by default on every Nexus 7, but you can easily remove them and use a fully customized Android home screen of your own design. If you're not into buying content from Google, you can download Amazon's apps and get your stuff there. You can still get Netflix, or Hulu for video. Rdio, Mog, Spotify, Pandora and other music streaming services are there, too. This isn't a user experience that forces you to buy all your content from one storefront.
The Nexus 7 is a device tailored to consuming digital entertainment. The operating system is confined to a portrait landscape, and there's an app tray persistent across the bottom of the homescreen. The only time the Nexus 7 shifts into landscape mode is when the content you're consuming calls for it, such as watching a movie or playing a widescreen game.
The smaller form factor makes the Nexus 7 ideal for reading books.
The smaller form factor makes the Nexus 7 ideal for reading books, and magazines are a joy to read here as well, thanks in part to a "text view" mode that pulls the text from an article out of its magazine layout and into a more easily consumable e-book-style view.
As good as it is for running apps, the Nexus 7 did leave me with one complaint that persists across all Android tablets — there still aren't as many tablet-optimized apps for Android as there are for the iPad. A 7-inch screen makes this deficiency much less of a problem than it is on 10-inch tablets. But for key apps like Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Fandango and Foursquare (just to name a few), you're stuck using a stretched phone app. The experience isn't horrible, but when compared to what's available on the iPad, it's obvious things could be better. It's a shame too, because when it comes to entertainment, you can use the Nexus 7 to do nearly everything you can do on an iPad, but the smaller number of tablet-specific apps leaves the device feeling less capable.
I would also like the Nexus 7 to have included a rear camera, but there is a front-facing 1.2-megapixel camera that's good for video chat and passable for photos. Bluetooth and NFC (two features common in phones but not lower-priced tablets) are included here, as well as a gyroscope and accelerometer.
The build quality on the Nexus 7 is excellent. The display looks fantastic, and the rest of the device is best-in-class. It's thin (0.41-inches) and lightweight (about 12 ounces). At 4.7 inches wide and 7.81 inches tall, it's small enough to fit in the back pocket of a pair of jeans. The back is covered in a black rubberized plastic that's dimpled — it feels sort of like a pair of leather driving gloves. The design really works. The Nexus 7 looks classy, and it's comfortable to hold with one hand or two. Throwing it into a purse, messenger bag, backpack or coat pocket is no problem at all.
Since it's a smaller tablet, battery life is about the same as a large smartphone: 7 or 8 hours under normal use. Watching HD movies or playing games non-stop will blow through that in half the time or less. But overall, battery life is about what one would expect.
Being a Nexus device, the Nexus 7 runs an unaltered version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. To put it plainly, Jelly Bean is the best version of Android Google has ever released, and on the Nexus 7, the OS feels tailored for this device. [UPDATE: We expect the Nexus 7 to receive Android 4.2 as an over-the-air update before the end of 2012]
Two major new Jelly Bean features, the Google Now info cards and a voice-activated search system, work expertly on the Nexus 7. Google Now presents the pieces of information you frequently search for in a series of "cards." You can access these cards at any time by swiping upwards from the bottom of the screen, even while running different apps. For me, Google Now guessed I wanted to see local weather and directions from home to work (or from work to home, depending on the time of day). These two cards show up in Google Now automatically. It's helpful, and it gives me what I'm looking for before I even request it, which is the point of Google Now. Eventually, the system will learn my frequent searches, and those cards will show up, too. You can delete cards you don't want to see, or prioritize the most important ones.
The Nexus 7 delivers the best Android tablet experience we've seen so far.
Voice Search allows you to run basic web queries by asking a question rather than typing one in. It's an extension of what's already offered in Google's mobile search apps, but it's been refined for Jelly Bean. Answers come quickly — whether in the form of links, Google Now cards or a sweetly spoken response — but Google still doesn't understand a lot of natural language or slang. You have to be pretty obvious in your requests. "Best wine shop nearby," works better than, "Where can I get the best bottle of wine around here?"
Google Now and the speech-enabled search features are only found in Jelly Bean, and the Nexus 7 is the only way to get it for now, though it's weeks away from arriving on Galaxy Nexus phones.
The the Nexus 7 boasts some other firsts. It's the first production tablet built on Nvidia's Kai program, which essentially lays out a recipe for building a quad-core tablet at a $200 price point. Before the end of the year, we'll likely see similarly performing slates from other Android hardware partners. Undoubtedly, Amazon and Barnes & Noble will participate, though likely while running Android version who-knows-what forked into something unrecognizable and free of Google's influence.
But make no mistake. The Nexus 7 delivers the best Android tablet experience we've seen so far. There simply hasn't been a Google-powered device this compelling ever before. With a mix of top-notch hardware, a convenient and portable size, and easy access to entertainment from Google or anybody else outside of Apple and Microsoft, there isn't much more you could want from a tablet, other than more tablet-tailored apps.
Overall, the Nexus 7 provides the best tablet experience outside of Apple's iPad, though the Nexus 7 is far easier to carry around. This is the first Android tablet I'd go so far as to say I love using.
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'"You know what? I think the mood is completely different," Briere said before the Flyers boarded a plane for Pittsburgh for today's crucial Game 5 against the Penguins. "Last year, it felt like we just kind of squeaked by (in Game 4) and we kind of got lucky. We had lost (Dainius) Zubrus and we had a couple more guys (who) got injured really bad. They didn't even know if they were going to play. Last year, the mood was going the other way, where this year we've played extremely well for two and a half periods (in Game 4). You know, we let them back in late in the game. But for two and a half periods, we played a solid game."'
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Besides Granger, Rush, Hibbert who do you think will be a pacer for the 2011/2012 season?
Name only current players.
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Besides Granger, Rush, Hibbert who do you think will be a pacer for the 2011/2012 season?
Name only current players.
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Foster-he will finish his career as a pacer
Dunleavy-- if healthy
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I would initially say Dunleavy. I think Murphy's legs won't last and he won't be as effective as he gets older.
OT....but in my NBA2k9 Association Game that I'm playing with the Pacers lineup, I was forced to trade Dunleavy after the 2009-2010 season ( the 2nd season with me as GM ) after he got p*ssed off at me. I played him Starter minutes for the majority of the season but had to cut his minutes here and there cuz he needed to rest....but for some reason, he demanded a trade. So I moved him for some Expiring Contracts and started clean in the 3rd season.
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Danny is the absolute shiznit in 2k9. His shot is very easy to time well, he can blow past defenders, his FT shot is also very easy, and can he effin finish at the rim.
His cyberface though... they need a better one for him next year.
"A man with no belly has no appetite for life."
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I can only see Dunleavy, Rush, Hibbert, Jack and possibly Dunleavy depending on how well his knee responds. Murphy, Tinsley and Ford are all goners.
I cant wait till the 2011 summer
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
In my 3rd season as GM, I essentially tore down the entire team with Granger, Nash, BRush, Murphy, Hibbert and Gooden as my vets and the rest of the rotation filled out with Rookie and Sophomore Players and I'm 9 mil under the Cap. I maybe losing....but I get to rebuild my Team from scratch.
That's what I love about Association Mode....I can be the George Steinbrenner of the NBA and no one cares.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I try to stay away from the Purdue guys....
Hedley - You said "Dunleavy" twice.
Outlaw - I like Dunleavy.
Also I think we are going to see most of this movement long before we get to 11/12. I think next summer will feature plenty of changes, or certainly into 10/11. By summer 2011 I think this question will already be something of a moot point.
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STOURBRIDGE FC have announced ambitious plans to develop the club's youth policy.
The Glassboys are set to expand the grass roots side of the club through their Development Centre.
They already run junior sides ranging from Under-11s up to Under-18s together with a highly successful youth side.
That existing set-up will now be increased further as Stourbridge look to add lower age groups to their ranks going right down to Under-7 sides.
A host of UEFA qualified A and B coaches, many of whom have been former professional players, have already been recruited.
Club director and youth development officer, Andy Bullingham, said: "We really mean business. We want to be able to take youngsters from our lowest levels right through to the first team.
"Each team, at every level, will have qualified coaches available to them - all of which will be preaching the same philosophy.
"Every player will have his own development plan. We want to educate all our youngsters both technically and tactically.
"We will be following the FA Four Corner Model which combines technical, physical, psychological and social attributes".
The Glassboys believe a strong junior set-up will form the bedrock of the club for years to come.
They insist a strong junior set up is vital as they look to take the Glassboys into Conference level football.
As a result, John Kearney has been appointed as head of the Development Centre leading to Grass root academy links with Birmingham City.
Bullingham added: "We are deadly serious about developing this side of the club and everyone involved with Stourbridge FC has bought into this.
"So now we're calling on parents of talented children to get involved."
Youngsters in the area are now being given the chance to be taken on by the club. Anyone who wants a trial must complete an online application at stourbridgefc.com by May 13.
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POLICE in Winchester and East Hampshire have moved on a group of travellers who set up at two unsuitable locations.
For the first time in Winchester they used section 61 powers to twice evict the group.
The travellers moved on to the park and ride at Hockley Link, on Thursday, November 1.
This led to 100 parking spaces being unavailable and Winchester City Council took legal action.
Officers received complaints regarding mess, nuisance and damage which led to Chief Inspector James Fulton authorising a section 61 Dispersal Notice requiring the group to leave by a given time on Tuesday, November 6.
The travellers left the site by the required time and relocated to a lay-by alongside the A32 in West Meon.
Hampshire County Council Highways team were concerned for the safety of the travellers and also the impact to other road users. A further Section 61 order was issued ordering them off by Thursday, November 8.
Under section 61 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 powers can be considered by police in the following circumstances:
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• Unacceptable levels of damage to land or property to gain entry or remain;
• Danger to travellers from the chosen site, such as environmental health factors.
Chief Insp James Fulton said: "This is the first time that a Section 61 Dispersal Notice has been issued in Winchester. Although the travellers left the site without incident, they have left behind rubbish and litter and have caused damage to a number of parking machines. The cost to clear the site and repair the damage is estimated to be in the region of £4,500.
"I hope this swift action to move the travellers on from locations that were unsuitable will convey to all sections of the community that a robust approach will be taken against encampments within legal parameters."


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Widener head coach Isaac Collins went so far to say that Mount Union resembles the University of Oregon in every way possible -- minus the infinite number of uniform combinations.
The Purple Raiders lead Division III in scoring (53.7 points per game) and are on pace to break the NCAA record for points scored in a season -- set by the 2007 Mount Union team -- heading into the quarterfinal matchup against the Pride at Mount Union Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
"They are running the spread. Very similar to what you see Oregon run. And they've got the skill guys, just like Oregon does, that they try to get up and down the field on you," said Collins. "They've got a quarterback that's like a point guard on a basketball team. He does a tremendous job of spreading the ball around and if you start to gang up on his skill guys, he can pull it down and hurt you as well."
The quarterback is sophomore Kevin Burke, who has completed 180-of-260 passes for 2,902 yards with 32 touchdowns against just five interceptions through 12 games. Burke's primary receiving targets are seniors Jasper Collins, Chris Denton, Julius Moore and tight end Shannon Stewart, although Stewart is not expected to dress for the second straight game.
Collins, who is Isaac Collins' nephew, leads the team with 67 catches for 1,272 yards and 18 touchdowns. He's been red-hot in the postseason with 372 yards and eight touchdowns in two blowout wins against Christopher Newport (72-14) and Johns Hopkins (55-13).
"I think his totals you are seeing in games are a reflection of playoff time, and he's playing a little bit more," said Mount Union head coach Larry Kehres. "But (Junior) has been able to play like this forever."
The biggest difference is the experience and improvement of Denton, Moore and Stewart, which give Mount Union what Kehres called an "explosive passing game." Denton has 53 catches for 804 yards and five touchdowns, while Moore has 29 receptions for 449 yards and five touchdowns and Stewart has 25 catches for 352 yards and four touchdowns, respectively.
But Widener (11-0) isn't too shabby on offense either with its 48.5 points per game average, including wins where they scored 56, 63, 67 and 90 points, respectively, in the regular season. The coach Collins has a big-time threat that resembles his nephew. Anthony Davis has 58 catches for 1,130 yards and 16 touchdowns after an impressive 201 receiving yards in a 28-7 win versus Salisbury last Saturday.
The Pride averages 483.7 yards per game on the season with 335.5 coming through the air.
"They are a very good football team that has been very solid in every aspect of the game," said Kehres. "Anytime you play a team that has won their conference and had the success they have had, we know we are getting a football team."
Widener has won a pair of national championships (1977 and 1981) in the playoff format and are back in the quarterfinal for the first time since the 2001 season. The year the Pride saw its season end with a 57-32 loss to Bridgewater (Va.). The previous season was the furthest Widener has ventured in the postseason since they won the national championship in 1981. The Pride visited Mount Union Stadium in the national semifinal and suffered a 70-30 loss.
Mount Union is 4-0 all-time against teams from the Middle Atlantic Conference with wins --all in the playoffs --against Lycoming (61-12 in 1997), Widener, Albright (55-9 in 2009) and Delaware Valley (31-3 in 2010). The Purple Raiders have outscored its opponents 644-72 on the season, including 127-27 in the playoffs.
"They are very well coached. They have a physical offensive line and running backs by committee but they all get yards," said Collins. "They have the best defense we've seen on film. They fly around to the ball and don't give up big plays and that makes for a very difficult challenge. Oh and on special teams, they make plays and pin people deep. They are the complete package."
With all that being said, Collins doesn't expect the Pride to get intimated by the surroundings and Mount Union's 66-game home winning streak.
"Part of it is we are so young that we have been focused on our own program so I don't think the kids have followed them," said Collins. "I told the players that Mount Union has played for the national title the last seven years and it surprised them. This is really the first year they've noticed those types of things (the aura of teams) and we know that we better be at our best when you go on the road."


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The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously in favor of two Scientology religious groups in Russia, finding that they have the right to be registered as religious organizations under Russian law. This decision determines that members of the Church of Scientology of Surgut and the Church of Scientology of Nizhnekamsk have the right to religious freedom and freedom of association pursuant to Articles 9 and 11 of the European Human Rights Convention1 [2].
In 1997, the Russian government passed laws preventing religious organizations from forming legally unless they could prove they had been in existence in their respective state(s) for 15 years. Such a law obviously discriminates against religions not established in a state for 15 years and has now been ruled as unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights.
In reaching this decision, the Court "established that the applicants were unable to obtain recognition and effective enjoyment of their rights to freedom of religion and association in any organisational form. The first applicant could not obtain registration of the Scientology group as a non-religious legal entity because it was considered to be a religious community by the Russian authorities. The applications for registration as a religious organisation submitted by the first and second applicants as founders of their respective groups… were denied by reference to the insufficient period of the groups' existence. Finally, the restricted status of a religious group for which they qualified… conveyed no practical or effective benefits to them as such a group was deprived of legal personality, property rights and the legal capacity to protect the interests of its members and was also severely hampered in the fundamental aspects of its religious functions.¨ Accordingly, the Court finds that there has been an interference with the applicants' rights under Article 9 interpreted in the light of Article 11."
Along with the recent decision of the Court in favor of the right of the Moscow Church of Scientology to be registered as a religious organization under the Religion law, these cases represent precedent-setting rulings that guarantee the freedom of religion and right of association for Scientologists and people of all faiths throughout the 47 nations that comprise the Council of Europe.
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The Russian Scientology Church in St. Petersburg also has cases pending in the European Court of Human Rights for similar discriminatory harassment concerning their registration.
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Last week we took an in-depth look at the upcoming Batman HeroClix Fast Forces pack, bringing you six members of the Batman Family in their fight for justice in Gotham City (check it out HERE). Also debuting on November 14th is the full booster set of more than 50 figures, featuring plenty of Batman allies and villains, Outsiders, WildC.A.T.s, new prime figures, and much more. The Batman set is also the first component in the new No Mans Land tournament series storyline starting later this year. Batman boosters will be available everywhere, but theres a great reason to play at your local venues: the Batman Organized Play Prize Kit. Lets take a look at whats included in this very special promotion.
Intended to promote HeroClix through in-store tournaments and giveaways, the Batman OP kit is only available to venues and includes multiple copies of four figures, three objects, and a new double-sided map (you cant get any of these anywhere else). Since its a Batman set, it should come as no surprise that the prize figures are made up of Bruce Wayne identities as well as some of his allies. Coming to stores next month are Dick Grayson as Deathstrokes sidekick Renegade, Bruce Wayne in his undercover disguise as Matches Malone, Bruce Wayne as The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, and Michael Lanes Azrael! A very interesting mix, this kit gives players the first ever HeroClix versions of Zur-En-Arrh Batman, this Azrael, and Renegade, while updating Matches for the current tournament scene.
As varied as the characters are, their looks are even more interesting. Working for Deathstroke, Grayson adopted a red and orange version of his Nightwing costume, complete with dark gray gloves and boots and equipped with his familiar Eskrima sticks. WizKids brings back the Nightwing sculpt from the DC 10th Anniversary set for this figure, but swaps out his head for a new one outfitted with a mask and long, flowing hair. The dynamic roof-leaping sculpt looks just as good in this color palette. Matches Malone, the identity Wayne uses to infiltrate the criminal element, is for all intents and purposes just a shady looking character. His figure is a repaint of the Hired Goon (previewed as part of the Batman primer gravity feed), a typical tough wearing heavy clothing with his arms crossed menacingly. Malone switches up the outfit with black pants, a green jacket, and white shirt, while the vigilante stands out with his distinctive moustache - perfect for blending in with Gothams worst!
Azrael is a name thats popped up several times throughout Batman comics, with several people taking on the mantel of the holy warrior empowered by the Sacred Order of Saint Dumas or Order of Purity. Lane was the latest Azrael, wearing the powerful Suit of Sorrows and wielding twin alchemical blades to mete out justice. The Azrael figure appears to be a unique sculpt for this OP kit (at least based on what we've seen thus far), featuring the holy warrior crouched at the ready with both Sword of Sin and Sword of Salvation pointed at his enemies. His Knight Templar-influenced uniform is pure white with a bright red cross on his chest, silver chainmail arms (with armored gauntlets), black cloak, black and red collar fringe, and white and red mask. The Sword of Salvation is painted with a light coat of white over translucent plastic, while the Sword of Sin appears as a clear blade of flames. Finally theres the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, one of the most interesting tidbits of Batman history. In 1958 he appeared as a crime-fighter on the planet Zur-En-Arrh, but in Grant Morrisons run in 2008 he was revealed to be a hidden personality in Waynes mind that would take over in case of his incapacitation. Either way, this Batman is a flamboyant character with a brightly colored version of the normal in Bat-suit in red, yellow, and purple! The sculpt used for this figure is the main set 053 Batman (but without the rocky base), Wayne stepping forward menacingly as his cape curls around him protectively. The bright colors are spot on to the Zur-En-Arrh version, accurate down to the unique crazy bat logo on his chest.
The dials and powers of these figures are as distinctive as their back stories and appearances. Matches is a 60 point Alter Ego figure (able to transform into either 001 Batman or 053A Batman) with plenty of tricks up his sleeve from Improved Movement (hindering and figures) to the Underworld team ability, and a trait granting Shape Change and Perplex against opposing figures. Malone has Outwit for three clicks, Stealth at the outset then two clicks of Mind Control, mid-dial Combat Reflexes, and the Alter Ego power on his last two clicks. Finally, Batman Family and Gotham Underworld keywords provide two very different team building options. Renegade has a lot of the usual powers and abilities youd expect from Nightwing with Indomitable, 6 range, Leap/Climb then Charge with Toughness, some mid-dial Flurry and Outwit, back half of the dial Combat Reflexes, and closing Close Combat Expert. As a villain Grayson has the Calculator team ability, but hes still an exceptional leader with two opening clicks of a special power granting Leadership and a +1 modification to a friendly characters damage as a free action. Notably, this preview of Renegade marks him as an Alter Ego figure, which theoretically means well be seeing a Dick Grayson figure in the Batman set!
The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh is a unique 153 point Batman Ally figure with not one but two traits: Spirit of Tlano lets him use Super Strength and Toughness while Emergency Backup Personality gives him Probability Control that heals him when the re-rolled result is a hit with doubles! His dial is packed with powers but pretty straightforward. He starts with two clicks of Charge, then three with Leap/Climb, and finally two clicks of Flurry. The first five clicks of his ever-rising attack have the special power The Bat-Radia Sees Through All Deception that ignores other characters Stealth and prevents his targets from using Mastermind, Shape Change, or Super Senses! For defense this Batman has a full dial of Combat Reflexes, and in the damage slot two opening clicks of Perplex and then three clicks of Outwit.
While most previous OP kits have had two different objects, the Batman version comes with three! Mr. Freezes Gun is a 5 point relic captured in 3D form as a complex silver gun with two handles. Any character that successfully picks up the Gun can use Barrier, and when it does it can follow up with Incapacitate targeting all opponents adjacent to a Barrier marker. Next up are two items that can be used on their own or in conjunction with the Utility Belt from the upcoming No Mans Land event. In regular play the Sonic Transmitter is a 7 point relic that looks like a sonar or radar scanner tucked into a yellow utility belt pouch. Any character that picks it up can be given a power action to give a move action (as a free action) to each friendly Flock of Bats with half speed. As a resource attached to the Utility Belt the Transmitter activates on a double power action and gives each Flock of Bats a move action AND a close combat action, each as a free action. Finally, Azraels Suit of Sorrows is a 5 point relic appearing as chainmail armor covered by a bat symbol-emblazoned tabard on a small clear stand. As a standalone object it can be picked up, giving a character Battle Fury and Super Strength. Placed in the Utility Belt costume slot the Suit offers the same benefits.
Last up, of course, are the OP kit maps. Youve asked for it, and WizKids has delivered: the first is the Batcave! An indoor map, the cave has a long central corridor with hindering terrain Batmobiles flanked by increasing elevations on the sides and at one end. The map is littered with vehicles and classic Batcave references including a Batboat in a corner of water terrain, Batplane, a hall of costumes, Batcomputer, medical bay, equipment room, giant penny and Joker card, T-Rex, and more! Teams start in opposite level 3 corners, one at the Batplane and the other adjacent to the computer. Flyers and figures with Leap/Climb or Improved Movement (like many members of the Batman Family) will have no trouble traversing the multiple elevation changes to get to their opponents. There are also two orange squares of special Bat-pole terrain; if youre playing with the Wayne Manor map as well a character in one of those squares can be given a power action to use the pole and relocate there.
While it may not be as iconic as the Batcave, the other map is going to be a big hit with players and Batman fans. Lazarus Pit recreates Ras al Ghuls mystical healing caverns with a very cool indoor map. The map is comprised of concentric sections of elevations; players start on either narrow end in elevation 1 where youll find rocks and statues for hindering terrain and four stairways leading up to the next section. The next ring is level 2 and features symmetrical walls, blocking terrain, and hindering terrain to break up any approach. The center of the map drops down to level 1 again and in the very middle are four squares of Lazarus Pit terrain; it functions as water terrain and any character in it can use Regeneration. But, a character that successfully heals while there possesses Battle Fury until it takes damage!
On November 14th the Batman booster set will hit comic book and game stores everywhere, and participating venues will add the Batman OP kit to their prize support. While the specific limited edition characters will obviously attract Bat-fans, theyre all fun and very useful. Same goes for the objects, especially those that you can use with your Utility Belt once No Mans Land starts. Expect the maps to go very quickly with the awesome Batcave on one side and fun Lazarus Pit on the other!
Visit HeroClix.com for even more info as well as downloads of rules and maps!
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Business partners, future business partners and community members gathered at George Jenkins High School Auditorium earlier this month for the Inaugural 2012 George Jenkins High School Academy Summit. The summit featured keynote speakers, academy presentations and panel discussions in hopes of encouraging community members to take an active role in preparing students for post-secondary education or employment.
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Betrayal is just what us women need to have for a weekly series to watch. Very surreal & of course steamy. Stuart & Hannah are the perfect actors for this series. They are both great actors & hot to say the least. They both give an outstanding performance for the viewers to watch. Too many cop shows on now days, we need steamy & drama @ the same time. Will be very sad to see cancelled along w/other women whom I'm sure share the same interest. PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL!!!!!!!!!!!
Love betryal !! Don't cancel !!!
The Michael J. Fox show is pretty good. I am the target demographic but I only watch two shows in the top 25. To be honest, one of those shows I haven't watched at all this season. I'm really tired of predictable crime drama and reality TV. Even The Modern Family is starting to become predictable. The Michael J. Fox show is campy and refreshing, they just need a better time slot. The best show on TV right now is The Good Wife and you can buy their furniture online. ;-) That's probably what The Fox show needs also.
I hope they don't cancel Betrayal and Hostage they are my favorite show…keep me happy :-)
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