#Mark Rigney

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Jaden Whitmarsh, UCLA Bruins.

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In Sword & Sorcery the classics tend to get much more discussion than contemporary stories, and I love discussing stores, so welcome to the monthly contemporary Short Story Chat! In our latest episode we cover Mark Rigney's story from Tales from the Magician's Skull #7, "Dara's Tale". It struck me as a possible "YA S&S" tale, and was a great springboard for our panel to discuss the idea of MG/YA Sword & Sorcery, "timeless moral or ham-fisted topicality?", rubbing slugs on your face, and more! Check out past episodes on the New Edge Sword & Sorcery Youtube Channel.

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Oh oh... I want to see... Mary McDonnell in it!!

Official stills from THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Coming to Netflix 12th October 2023!

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A Ilha do Dr. Moreau

A Ilha do Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau) SINOPSE: Em um futuro próximo um homem (David Thewlis) em missão militar sofre um acidente no seu avião e, depois de vários dias, é resgatado por um cientista que o leva a uma remota ilha, onde um famoso geneticista (Marlon Brando) vencedor do prêmio Nobel faz experiências com o DNA e tenta criar uma raça perfeita, transformando animais selvagens em…

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Stats for the period of 22.01.2014-22.01.2025

And here they are, the stats of the blog after 11 years of sharing my WOT love with you. 

Thank you for your support and still visiting the blog and enjoying its content.

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Heron-Marked Warder Sword made by Brendan Olszowy by Fableblades

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Rand, Mat, Perrin, Nyneave and Egwene by Ariel Burgess

Bobby and banana for scale

Don’t share your secrets Randlanders! (Graph of conflict in WOT)

Rand alThor by reddera

Share a coke with Nyneave

Dance with Jak o’ the Shadows - Mat Cauthon by endave

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could i perhaps get some fc suggestions for sam winchester?? i was thinking of playing him somewhere in his twenties but i can’t seem to find anyone i love for him. thank u sm!!

we would love to see sam winchester, we see the following fitting him perfectly. marcus scribner, jonah hauer-king, david iacono, jordan gonzalez. damson idris, kazuma mitchell, spence moore, igby rigney, dylan arnold, rhenzy feliz, brandon larracuente, zach barack, giullian yao gioiello, mark mckenna, anthony keyvan

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I've been reading The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It could be my obsession, or listening to an array of "Spooky Classical" music, but I've pictured this entire thing as a @flanaganfilm limited series.

Here's my cast - I'm page 260/480

Aiden: Zach Gilford

Anna: Samantha Sloyen

Jon Derby: Igby Rigney (sorry kid, I think you'd do a smashing job.)

Evelyn Hardcastle: Willa Fitzgerald

Michael Hardcastle: Oliver Jackson Cohen

Edward Dance: Mark Hamill

Peter Hardcastle: Bruce Greenwood

Helena Hardcastle: Carla Gugino? Kate Seigal?

Daniel Coleridge: Henry Thomas

Sebastian Bell: Rahul Koli

Ted Stanwin: Michael Trucco

The Butler: Robert Longstreet?

I think Ruth Codd absolutely has a place in here too, maybe as Madeline

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Xi, San Diego State University.

Albuquerque, Feb. 2024.

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AVP League: Nitro top the standings at 7-1 after third week

VolleyballMag photographer Mark Rigney was in San Diego and his best shots follow in a gallery. The fans in Viejas Arena and those watching on the Bally Live stream expected chirping and barking from Trevor Crabb and Chase Budinger, but settled for crickets. Crabb, the AVP’s resident “bad boy,” was on his best behavior Sunday afternoon, as was Budinger, who had given Trevor “The Shove,” which…

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"Odd Story Is Told At Trial," Kingston Whig-Standard. September 7, 1943. Page 2. ---- Judging defence evidence as a "preposterous lie" in a bigamy case this morning in city police court, Magistrate James B. Garvin sentenced William Stanley Martin of Vancouver and Kingston to three years in Kingston Penitentiary. Two women both gave evidence they were married to the accused, one the mother of two children, but Martin gave an almost fiction-like story in his defence of impersonating a soldier in the army for a fixed fee, of having duplicate tattoo marks and he denied that he was the man in a picture with two children which was produced by wife No. 1 as evidence.

Mrs. Madeline Martin (nee Madeline McHale), 354 Rideau Street, testified that she was married to the accused by Rev. E. Teskey in St. Paul's rectory, Kingston. She said she understood Martin to be a single man. Mrs. Madeline Martin, a tall well built young woman of about 23 years of age, wore a dark red-trimmed dress, without hat, in the witness box. She wore a diamond ring and wedding ring.

Mrs. Margaret Martin (nee Margaret Clement of Cornwall), who laughed most of the time when her claimed husband gave evidence, swore that she married Martin near Cornwall on August 14, 1935 and was the mother of his two children. She said she did not know that her husband had married again until notified by the alleged second wife. She produced letters between them which she identified as from her husband, a picture of her husband with two children, and marriage certificates. She said she received assigned army pay from him until June of this year. Miss R. Martin, Cornwall, said she was the sister of the accused, identified him and said she knew the witness who claimed to be wife No. 1.

Confusion Claimed Martin, tall, neatly dressed, with a sallow complexion and deep set eyes, created a shock in court when he swore he was not the man who was the husband of wife No. 1. He said there was a confusion of names and that his proper name was Stanley Martin and not William Stanley Martin, but that he adopted the latter name when he impersonated a man in the army. He said he met a William Stanley Martin in Kingston a year ago who looked exactly like him and he agreed to serve in the army for him at Vimy for $50 a week. He said the soldier who he impersonated tattooed him on the arms to improve the likeness. Wife No. 1 identified Martin by the tattoo marks of crossed hearts and the name Margaret.

Martin admitted knowledge of letters received by wife No. 1 but said that the soldier he impersonated wrote them.

Crown Attorney T. J. Rigney after cross-questioning the accused and hearing the judgment, recommended that a whipping be included in the penalty. Magistrate Garvin was interrupted several times by the accused when the judgment was being given. "No one will believe me," the prisoner shouted.

Martin held a brief conversation with wife No. 2 in the police station after the trial. [AL: Martin was inmate #7420 at Kingston Penitentiary, and worked in the kitchen until transfer to the lower security Collins Bay Penitentiary, where he was paroled in late 1944.]

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Stats for the period of 22.01.2014-22.01.2024

And here they are, the stats of the blog after 10 years of sharing my WOT love with you. 

10 years!

Anniversary that it usually requires attention. So I did try to recollect my thoughts going through the memory lane and it grew up out of proportions for just one post. What a surprise. Not for me.

So in the following days I will post parts of this big Anniversary Project. Now I am leaving you this post to the bare bones of the traditional statistics.

Thank you for clicking on this piece of the Internet, fellow WoT nerds!

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And now the numbers

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Here are TOP 10 of WOT art and photos posted by my blog.

Heron-Marked Warder Sword made by Brendan Olszowy by Fableblades

Various awesome art pieces by Gal Or (lightwaved)

Rand, Mat, Perrin, Nyneave and Egwene by Ariel Burgess

Bobby and banana for scale

Don’t share your secrets Randlanders! (Graph of conflict in WOT)

Rand alThor by reddera

Share a coke with Nyneave

Dance with Jak o’ the Shadows - Mat Cauthon by endave

Bela’s Garden

If you needed one more reason to love Brandon Sanderson

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AVP Manhattan Beach photo gallery: Best shots from Atwood, Chu, Gordon, Rigney, Szto

The AVP Manhattan Beach Open last week provided, as usual, great action and colorful scenes. Our super-hard-working, ultra-talented photographers, Rick Atwood, Will Chu, Andy J. Gordon, Mark Rigney and Allen Szto, often shoot from the same location on the court but come up with all sorts of different photos. Many of their shots appeared in our previous daily recaps. These are their “best of”…

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"CONVICT IS FOUND GUILTY," Kingston Whig-Standard. May 11, 1933. Page 1 & 3. ----- Indictments Not Legal, W. F. Nickle Contends --- Says That There Could Be No Riot Unless It Is Prov- ed That at Least Three Men Participated Together.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON "Your honor, I want to thank you for the very fair trial you have given me. You certainly have done a great deal for the boys."

In dramatic manner, Convict Murray Kirkland, charged with rioting on October 17, at Kingston Penitentiary, concluded his, evidence in his own behalf Wednesday afternoon before Judge G. E. Deroche as the case for the defense concluded). Kirkland's appearance in the box marked the first time the former bank clerk, now serving an eighteen-year term for bank robbery, ever stood on the witness stand. Visibly nervous, Kirk- land told his story of the disturbance of October last, after which T. J. Rigney, K.C., called Instructor Dunford in rebuttal evidence, but the objection raised by W. P. Nickle, K.C., that such evidence was not relevant, was sustained by Judge Deroche. This completed the entire case, which made a local record for length of duration, and court adjourned until this morning when counsels were to address the court.

When the trial was resumed yesterday afternoon Convict Sam Cohen was again on the stand for cross-examination by Mr. Rigney. The witness was questioned regarding the events of October 17 last when the demonstration by the convicts took place in the penitentiary. He stated that he was in the tailor shop at the time the trouble started. He admitted that he had heard rumors for some time about the inmates of the Penitentiary going to have a talk with the warden over the conditions that existed. When the others walked out of the shop at the time of three o'clock, Cohen said he followed suit with the others.

Asked if he had ever made any request to see the warden, Cohen said his name was on the list to see the superintendent of Penitentiaries, General Ormond, who was there prior to October 17. Asked if he had seen the superintendent of Penitentiaries between the time he had made the request to see him and October 17, witness stated that he had not.

Cohen related the events leading up to the demonstration, giving the details of the barricading of the doors in the dome. He stated that in addition to the stones used to barricade the doors, mall bags had been brought down from the mail bag department.. About thirty men were engaged in the work of barricading the doors, while the other 250 or more just "stood around taking it easy." He denied that there was an order given as to how the men were to go to the dome and stated that they were free to go as they liked. He agreed with the Crown that the time set for the demonstration was about three o'clock in the afternoon.

Accused on Stand Convict Murray Kirkland, the accused, then took the stand in his own behalf and his counsel attempted to place Kirkland's record before him. The Crown objected on the ground that it was not the property of the defence but of the Penitentiary and could not be so placed. The objection was upheld by the Court although extracts from the file were allowed to be used by Mr. Nickle. Kirkland related that he was sentenced to Kingston Penitentiary for three bank robberies, one at King, one at Agincourt and one at Unionville. This occasion, however, he said, was only the second time that he had ever been in a court. He stated that in 1930 he was unemployed.

Kirkland described the cell to which he was allotted at the Penitentiary and told of being taken on August 5, 1931, along with several others to solitary confinement. They did not know why they were sent to solitary confinement, and they asked to see the warden, who came the next day but gave no explanation. Kirkland stated that the men were kept there for three and a half months without a bath, without tobacco and for the first month had no exercise whatever. They were practically six months without real exercise, he said. Asked by Mr. Nickle if there was any charge, witness stated that Warden Ponsford had charged them with conspiring to escape. Kirkland, in answer to Mr. Nickle, declared that no evidence had been given.

The only thing that there was against them, he said, was that Warden Ponsford had some tools which he said were to be used for a getaway.Some of them were found near the lathe on which Kirkland worked.

"You were in solitary confinement from July to January?" asked Mr. Nickle.

"Yes."

There was a sentence of fifteen lashes to Kirkland's sentence.

"Did you get the lashes?" asked Mr. Nickle.

"Yes."

"What effect did it have?"

"I was cut and bruised."

The witness described the paddle, which he said, was the same one used for the lashing. Kirkland said he got the lashes about thirty days after he was admitted to the Penitentiary.

Helped No One The witness was questioned about the events of October 17 and gave much of the detail that had already been given throughout the trial. He denied helping anyone to operate acetylene torch or moving or assisting to move the carrier of it. Witness said he saw the door of the engine room opened. He advised Deputy Warden Walsh to get the keys and have the door opened rather than have it burned. Kirkland declared he had no weapon in his hand and did not threaten anyone. The convicts were in control of the situation andwas surprised that some of the officers were not "got" out of revenge for some of the things that had been done.

Questioned regarding the "silence" rule at the Penitentiary, Kirkland declared that the rule was merely an opportunity for a guard to report a man. If a guard had anything against a convict it was an easy matter for him to report a convict on that rule.

Convicts' Complaints The witness cited alleged unsanitary conditions at the penitentiary and declared that laundry of convicts was all mixed up, that, is there was no segregation of that belonging to convicts suffering from running sores or disease of any sort. Those who had disease or running sores had their clothes mixed up with those who had not.

Kirkland declared that the chief complaint of the men was not cigarette papers, which was a minor matter, compared to others, but that it was the brutality of the officers, and the non-segregation from men with contagious diseases. Witness went into detail regarding the letter-writing rule and stated that while the men were allowed to write more frequently now, the number of persons to whom they could write had been cut. Outside of the family and close relatives if a convict, wanted to write to a friend, that friend had to be investigated at no expense to the Penitentiary and the convict had to pay for it.

Inmates "Framed" "Do you know of any cases where the guards have practised petty persecution?" asked Mr. Nickle.

Kirkland stated that he did and saw it. Witness went on to describe how one convict had been a mark for three guards at the Penitentiary and was beaten, kicked and generally abused by them. Kirkland said it was impossible for a man to do time under the conditions that existed. Even if a man tried to mind his own business he was framed.

"I would rather be dead than 'do time' (meaning going into the hole) that's how I feel about it," witness declared. "The conditions are terrible."

Kirkland denied doing any damage to the mail bag department or the machines and denied that he carried any weapons. He stated that he was on the landing part of the time and denied emphatically that he took any part at any time in doing any damage.

Cross-examined by Mr Rigney, Kirkland said that he was desirous of preventing the meeting of the men getting out of control. He feared that there was a danger that did exist from some of the men on account of the cruelty that had been practised by the guards.

Kirkland gave details of the gathering of the convicts in the south dome and admitted he had thought the guards would resist the actions of the convicts as the natural thing to do. He had thought something serious might happen and advised men in the mail-bag department not to use violence and to do nothing that was beyond reason. Witness went into the grievances aired by the convicts. He said he did not hear the speeches in the south dome distinctly enough to quote them.

Personal Complaints In answer to Mr. Nickle, the accused referred to March 2 of this year when bed linen he received, as well as the linen received by other convicts in the new female prison, bore such an obnoxious order that a call was made by convicts to have the windows opened. He admitted that he had had a small knife that was found in his tobacco pouch and which he used to sharpen his pencil, but said he had not tried to conceal it.

Regarding his refusal to do special work, Kirkland said that he had his own regular work and the special job= was one which required later three men. "I did not do the work." said Kirkland, "because I thought I was being overloaded. especially when there were half a dozen convicts, accepted by officers as pets, sitting around the mail-bag department doing nothing."

"Was Buck, Garceau or Behan at the school class on October 17?" asked Mr. Nickle.

"Garceau was, but Behan was not. I don't know if Buck was."

Witness said that on that afternoon, when he got to the south dome, his intention had been to go into the yard where the men were to meet.

"I stepped beside Garceau and Deputy Warden Walsh," he said, "and the latter advised us to do what we could with the other boys and to try and influence them against any foolish move."

This concluded Convict Kirkland's evidence and the accused, turning to Judge Deroche dramatically climaxed his evidence by publicly thanking His Honor.

Evidence Ruled Out Mr. Rigney then called Instructor Dunford and started to question him regarding the visit made to the machine shop by Buck and other convicts. Mr. Nickle raised instant objection, contending that such evidence was not relevant as the accused was not present at that time.

"I submit," said Mr. Nickle, "that the Crown cannot advance evidence to contradict a witness for the defence, unless it is relevant to the issue. With regard to what Buck said to Dunford, I wish to point out that Mr. Rigney cross-examined him, and I feel that the Crown is now trying to bolster up his case by contradicting what Buck said. I might point out that the Crown had Dunford in the box before and that was the time to question him."

Mr. Rigney contended that the matter was relevant to the case at issue, but Judge Deroche ruled otherwise and Mr. Rigney did not continue with the re-examination of Instructor Dunford.

"Have you closed your case?" asked Mr. Nickle of Mr. Rigney.

"Have you?" parried the Crown.

"I have."

"Then so have I."

Judge Deroche said that if counsels desired to argue the case, he would adjourn court, and accordingly the case was laid over until this morning.

W. F. Nickle As court opened this morning W.F. Nickle, K.C., said that he co-operated with his client in thanking the court for his patience and fairness. He said that the convicts stood before the court on their rights as British subjects in that they are innocent until proven guilty. "This trial has been unusual," he said, "in that the men, whether proven guilty or not, will know they had had a fair trial and their side had been adequately presented. I thank Your Honor and the Crown. for the privilege accorded those accused in allowing two of their number to sit here all through the case."

Mr. Nickle said that the picture seen in this case was not that of Grand Hotel, but rather of the grand penitentiary. Originally cells had been for penitence of the monks and this has been transposed into what should be but isn't, the penitence of the convicts. "Since Adam." said Mr.Nickle, "mankind has been struggling with reformation; one scheme after another has failed and today we are still struggling. We look back with disgust on the time of the ducking stool, the pillory and flogging. Those of us who know some law look back to the times when children were executed for trivial stealing and when depraved men were hustled to the scaffold for offences which today would only call for a remonstrance."

Mr. Nickle referred to Gen. Ormond, superintendent of penitentiaries, as a new man in the position. "I would like him to realize," he said, "that in this trial we feel we have discharged a public duty."

Counsel for the accused went backover system of prison reform in Britain and America, and dealt with conditions existing years ago and progress which has been made since.

Indictments Wrong Dealing with the charge against Kirkland, Mr. Nickle read sections of the Criminal Code, which, he said, rests broadly on the English common law system. Under the Criminal Code, a gathering of three or more persons must have an intent to do something wrong before it becomes an offense and to become a riot, this must be supplemented by action. Kirkland was charged with being riotously and tumultuously assembled and with destroying property.

"I am not concerned," said Mr.Nickle, "with the question as to whether there was a riot, but as to whether Kirkland was were as rioter. To be a party to a riot, one must by word or act help, incited or encouraged such a riot. Mere presence does not make a man a rioter. Kirkland's case is stronger in that he urged calmness and restraint, he putout a fire and did no overt and destructive act."

Mr. Nickle then said that there was a fatal mistake made in the indictment, in that only one man is charged. "You can't have a riot," he contended, "unless it is proven three men have been guilty of rioting. One man alone cannot be guilty of rioting under the code. I might point out that I cabled England for information as to how the charges were laid following the riots at Dartmouth Penitentiary and am informed that thirty-one convicts were charged together. If only three men, we will say Bailey, Kirkland and Charron, had been charged with rioting, the minute Bailey was acquitted, there could not have been any riot in the eyes of the law."

Judge Deroche asked Mr. Rigney if he had anything to say regarding Mr. Nickle's contention, but the Crown prosecutor said he was not prepared to debate the matter.

Mr. Nickle read from evidence of witnesses for the Crown concerning actions of Kirkland on the afternoon of the alleged riot.

Mr. Nickle referred to the evidence given by Convict McCrea in which he (McCrea) frankly said that he had done all the operating of the acetylene torch and Kirkland had no hand in it whatever.

"Kirkland admitted" said Mr. Nickle, "that he had heard if the scheme for a general meeting of convicts. He went there at three o'clock knowing what he was doing. He is no fool. He is not a moron. He knew he was breaking a penitentiary regulation. I won't say if the action of the men was a wise one or not, but it is a fact that Kirkland went into the south dome, as one of the men with longer sentences, to try and restrain the impetuosity of the younger convicts."

Mr. Nickle read minutely from the evidence of virtually all the witnesses and contended that with the exception of Guard Earle, none of the Crown witnesses had seen Kirkland doing anything out of the ordinary. He pointed out also that Guard Earle had said Kirkland had blue eyes and light eyes, whereas the accused has dark hair and eyes. "I believe" said Mr. Nickle, "that Earle made a mis-take. I do not think that he perjured himself, but I think that in the exuberance of the moment he made a mistake."

The council for the defence contended that there was no evidence to show that Kirkland had damaged any property in the institution and felt that the Crown's case had failed in that it had not shown the accused taking part in any riot.

At 12.30 Mr. Nickle said the he would require at least another hour before he would be completed with his presenting of the case and Judge Deroche then adjourned court until 1.45 p.m.