Gunpowder Plot:The Fall Guy

Guy Fawkes got lucky the day he and his fellow conspirators were executed. As history’s most notorious terrorist was led to the scaffold he fell and broke his neck, avoiding the agonising castration and disembowelment that was the punishment for traitors in Jacobean England.

The lifeless Fawkes was still hung, drawn and quartered and the pieces of his body put on public display as a warning to others. But had he met his terrible end the fall guy for a sinister government plot?

Fawkes’ last minute capture had made him the the most famous of thirteen Catholic plotters who had, the previous year, tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to kill the protestant King James and his government in protest against theiroppressive policies against Catholics in England.

Their failed conspiracy had the exact opposite effect to that intended, and anti-Catholic sentiment and persecution in Britain only worsened in the aftermath of their capture.

More than 400 years later, it remains one of the most famous events in British history, celebrated every November the 5th with firework displays and bonfires topped by effigies of Fawkes. Despite having become a cornerstone of British culture, just weeks after Fawkes’ arrest conspiracy theories had begun to circulate that questioned the official story of the gunpowder plot.

One Italian diplomat wrote in 1605 - “Some hold it as certain that there has been foul play and that some of the government secretly spun a web to entangle these poor gentlemen.”

Did the British government, then operating the most


extensive and sophisticated intelligence service in Europe, really have no idea a group of plotters were literally working beneath their noses to kill the King?

Suspicion has long centred around the Robert Cecil, King James’ chief advisor and supposed government ‘spymaster’ and his actions before and after the plot. Had he set the men up so he could portray Catholics as a dangerous threat to British security, and further justify state attacks on their rights?

The story begins in the early hours on November the 5th 1605, when Parliamentary guards discovered the groups explosives expert Guy Fawkes preparing the fuses on 36 barrels of gunpowder deep in the cellars of the House, enough to destroy the entire building and everyone in it.

Fawkes refused to talk, only admitting to the falsename John Johnston, but under fierce torture, including an interrogation by the King himself, he eventually broke and confessed to the plot and the names of his fellow conspirators.

The authorities had been on alert for a potential assault on the King ever since House of Lords peer Lord Monteagle received a mysterious letter the previous week hinting that he should steer clear of Parliament on the 5th as it was about to receive a ‘terrible blow’.

It is this anonymous letter to Monteagle, himself the brother-in-law of conspirator Francis Tresham, that is the source of much of the suspicion about the Gunpowder plot. If one of the plotters, presumably Tresham, had tipped him off, why had they done so in a way that was likely to expose their conspiracy?

Monteagle


immediately informed Cecil about the letter, who ordered the search on the night of the 4th that resulted in the discovery of Fawkes red handed with the gunpowder. Cecil was virulently anti-Catholic and gleefully exploited the incident to ramp up the King’s paranoia about a Catholic threat on his life.

Many historians believe Machiavellian government minister Robert Cecil had a hand in the plot

Historians have long pondered the question of whether it was Cecil himself behind the anonymous Monteagle letter. Following the principle of Cui Bono - ‘Who Benefits’, he certainly gained the most from the whole affair, using it as leverage to enact a series of ever more repressive measures against the country’s Catholic minority. The previously unpopular King James also saw a surge in his popularity afterthe failed attempt on his life.

Had Cecil, schooled in the art of statecraft by his notoriously devious father - Elizabeth the I’s chief advisor William Cecil and the legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, actually set the whole plot up himself and ensured its discovery, as part of his propaganda war against Catholicism?

Evidence For

An explosive letter

Late on the evening of October 26th a mysterious man called at the residence of William Parker, who sat in the House of Lords as Lord Monteagle. Whilst Monteagle himself was a Catholic, he was loyal to the protestant government of King James. Nevertheless, it seems a fellow Catholic was attempting to give him warning that his life was in danger.

The Lord had his servant read the letter out aloud, an unusual move that


scam concocted by Cecil, possibly with the complicity of Monteagle.

Whilst Monteagle pledged allegiance to the King, he was a Catholic was had written about how he found James ‘odious’. Yet despite this, and Cecil’s vitriolic hatred of Catholics, Cecil was scrupulous after the plot in both protecting Monteagle and rewarding him handsomely with a generous pension.

The anonymous letter to Lord Monteagle which led to the plot’s discovery

Was Monteagle on of Robert Cecil’s many spies? Had he already informed the Lord of the plot against the King, and was the letter merely a convenient way of ‘discovering’ the plot just in time to reap the maximum propaganda benefits?

It’s clear in the aftermath that Cecil attempted to erase any suspicion that might have pointed to Monteagle, his name is removedMonteagle. A servant of one of the other key conspirators, Robert Catesby, claimed on his deathbed to have seen him with Cecil before November the 5th. It has also been speculated it was Cecil who arranged for a vault beneath the House to become vacant, to allow plotters to rent it.

Real evidence is, however scant. Perhaps the most tantalising suggestion of Cecil’s complicity in the plot comes from his own words. A few weeks before the Guy Fawkes was discovered, Cecil wrote to the King - “I spend my time in sowing so much seed as my poor wretched fingers can scatter, in such a season as may bring forth a plentiful harvest. I dare boldly say no shower or storm shall mar our harvest except it should


come from beyond the middle region”.

The Midlands was were the majority of the plotters came from. It’s a perhaps deliberately vague statement from Cecil, but certainly seems to suggest he had some idea of the momentous events that would soon unfold.

Gunpowder, treason and plot

One issue often brought up by sceptics of the official story is the amount of gunpowder the conspirators had obtained. In 1601 gunpowder was made a government monopoly and became tightly regulated by the authorities, only to stored at secure government locations such as the Tower of London.

Somehow Fawkes and the other plotters had obtained a staggering 36 barrels of gunpowder, around 10,000 pounds worth. Although there was a glut of gunpowder at this time and it was obtainable on the black market, this isstill a remarkable amount accounting for around a quarter of the entire stock of British gunpowder at the time.

The old Houses of Parliament before it burnt down in 1834

That the fiendish Robert Cecil, with spies throughout London, would be unaware that the men had been stockpiling such huge sums of gunpowder, and had been transporting it across the Thames to a cellar under the House of Lords in broad daylight, seems highly improbable. Was Cecil, as many historians believe, allowing the plot to ‘mature’ so he could thwart it just before it reached its conclusion?

The fortuitous way that the plotters ended up with a stash of 36 barrels of gunpowder in this cellar is also worthy of note. Anticipating that Parliament would open in February 1605, the men


attempted to dig a tunnel under the House, but were thwarted by it continually flooding from the Thames above them.

However this did not put an end to the plan, as their setback coincided with a delay in the opening of that years parliament from February to October. During this intervening time, a cellar directly under the House also became available to rent and the extra time allowed the men to stockpile enough gunpowder there to blow Parliament sky high.

The way the pieces conveniently fell for the 13 men has led many to speculate that Robert Cecil was pulling the strings from the shadows. It also seems the government were already well prepared to capture the men after the plots discovery.

When Fawkes was discovered on the 5th, several ofhis compatriots retreated back to Holbech House in the Midlands, some 130 miles northwest of London. On November 7th and 8th most of the men were killed or captured in an armed standoff with the Sheriff of Worcestershire and a posse of 200 men.

Fawkes’ signature before and after his torture

What is so suspicious about this is it came just hours after Fawkes’ confession under heavy torture on November the 7th. In an era before fast transport and instant communications, the speed of their capture was truly impressive and perhaps indicative that the authorities had prior knowledge of the plotters identities.

The Ashes of a Conspiracy

Much of the evidence that might shed light on the true facts about what happened on November the 5th 1605 is missing, fabricated or of


dubious provenance.

With many of the plotters killed in the siege at Holbech House, and the others subjected to vicious torture, very little of the plotters own testimony survives, and what does is of questionable value in establishing the facts.

Fawkes own confession famously contains a barely legible signature, after he had endured hours of torture. If this confession is genuine and not concocted by Cecil himself, something he was known to do, it still remains unknown whether Fawkes told the truth as he knew it or just what his torturers wanted to hear.

Another conspirator named Thomas Wintour confessed to having been involving in the digging of the tunnel under the House, but no physical evidence of any tunnel was ever found in subsequent excavations in the 19th century, andCecil had learnt of their plot quite early in its fermentation and decided to allow it to unravel so he could step in and foil before it reached its conclusion?

This sounds credible if not for how late in the day Guy Fawkes was rumbled. To allow the men to stockpile 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath Parliament and to be just hours away from blowing up the King and the entire British establishment would have been extraordinarily reckless.

Indeed despite the political mileage they were able to extract from it, it was a major embarrassment to the King and his advisors that they had come so close to been destroyed by one giant Catholic fireball, exposing to all how soft and vulnerable the underbelly of the British Crown actually was.

If


Robert Cecil had really manipulated the plot for his own ends, it would have made more sense for it to have been discovered earlier, late enough in its advancement that it could be portrayed as a genuine threat but not so late that it made the King and his administration look so weak.

The image of Guy Fawkes has been reclaimed by a new generation in their fight against government tyranny.

Ultimately it was probably happenstance that the gunpowder plot turned out to be so advantageous to those it was meant to destroy. As for Guy Fawkes, the man who is cursed to burn atop thousands of bonfires around Britain every year on November the 5th, perhaps history has been unkind to him.

He was by all accounts a devout andearnest man who was fighting a repressive and deeply tyrannical government engaged in what amounted to ethnic cleansing. Many Catholics like Fawkes felt they had no choice but to attempt something so foolhardy with their very existence under threat.

In recent years the image of Guy Fawkes has been somewhat reclaimed from the flames by anti-capitalist anarchist groups like Anonymous. Inspired by the use of a Fawkes mask by the character of V in Alan Moores graphic novel ‘V for Vendetta’, thousands of people now wear it during demonstrations around the world against government tyranny.

If Guy did die the victim of the machinations of a sinister and repressive government, he is perhaps now, hundreds of years later, gaining some small portion of revenge.

Was Guy Fawkes a patsy in a


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He has 351 long balls in the past decade, highlited by a 54 homerun season in 2006. Ortiz is not just one of the best hitters in the past ten years, but in the history of the game.

4. Ichiro- Miami Marlins

Ichiro was never a power hitter, but no chance that would keep him off my list. Earlier this year, he broke Pete Rose's career hits record, counting his hits from Japan. He is also on the doorstep of history being just a few hits shy of 3,000 in the majors.

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Convicted 17-November terrorist Chr. Xeros escapes while in furlough

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Convicted terrorist and member of “17th November” organization Christodoulos Xeros was at large on Tuesday after failing to check in with the local police station in Halkidiki, northern Greece. Xeros was granted a nine-day furlough on January 1st and he was ordered to report to local police station in Nea Kallikrateia in Halkidiki on a daily basis. According to Greke media, last time Xeros checked in the police station was on Sunday.

The 54-year-old musical instrument maker has been serving six consecutive life sentences plus an additional 25 years in prison for his role in six assassinations as well as other terrorist activities.

He had declared theon prisoners on furlough. But apparently the security measure has not been applied yet.

It is the second member of Xeros family that keeps busy the media today. His brother Savvas, also a convicted 17. November member is to be transferred from prison to a public hospital in Larissa to undergo medical checks. According to media, Savvas Xeros, 51, is allegedly suffering from multiple sclerosis. He was convicted for five consecutive life sentence and additional 25 years in prison for his role in 5 assassinations and other terrorist activities.


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Why the Wild West? Yet, I’m not so indignant on finding an answer. The frontier represented opportunity for millions of Americans between the time of the Civil War and the turn of the 20thcentury. But for the rest of us, it’s a delusion played out on silver screens and cigarette cartons. We may have a distorted image of the Wild West. But that image excites us and it gets us to believe in lofty goals – like building a community of friends. Or shooting a Western in China.

Isa Flores-Jones ’19 is a sometime citizen of Sacramento, California. She lives in the Dudley Co-op and writes for the features board of the Harvard Advocate. She studies History and Literature, with a focus on the intersection of American environmental andOn Andy Uba`s Latest Supreme Court Challenge

After the Supreme Court had onJune 14th, 2007
delivered its judgment on the tenure of Governor Peter Obi ofAnambra

State

, we believe that the state would now be left alone to develop and received its democracy dividends. However, the enemies of the state would not leave us alone. The sponsor of the election rigging in favor of PDP in April 2003, the kidnap of the Governor of the state in July 2003; the mayhem in November 2003; the chasing a chief executive of the state out of the road with retinue of mean-looking mobile policemen; the unlawful impeachment of a governor of the state et cetera is not yet done with his intentions to rule the state will nilly.

In his desperation to rule the


state at all costs and by all means, Andy Uba and his camp will stop at nothing to destabilize the state and make it ungovernable and at the same time come to be governor of the state through the back door. Having used the federal government machinery called INEC, to disqualify and run out all opposition, he contested against himself and was crowned by INEC despite the fact that there was no election!

Alas, he found out that he has contested and ‘won' election to an office that was not vacant! That is the kernel of the Supreme Court judgment. Now for some reason, Andy Uba is out to contest the judgment. He wants the Supreme Court to re-consider its judgment. In other words, he wants the apex courtSupreme Court and after many months of the ruling, the Uba camp is heading to apex court for the court to over-rule itself. It is important to note that while Peter Obi's appeal was pending in the Supreme Court, Andy Uba was sworn in as the governor with a caveat that if Obi finally wins the appeal, that Uba would be asked to leave. Uba was sworn in as governor and 2 weeks later, the Supreme Court delivered its historic judgment that gave Obi back his mandate.

But Andy Uba's camp argues that the Supreme Court removed him without following the process of removing a governor. According to his press secretary, Chuks Okunna:

"I also seized this opportunity to inform that legal experts have done extensive research and believe that


offering him an opportunity to be heard on it. This honorable court is further urged to restore justice to the applicant on the ground that this application has sufficient merit by setting aside the judgment and orders delivered on14th June, 2007
, reasons for which were given on13th July, 2007
."

For people that are fair in their assessment of events in the state, it is not difficult to understand what is going on. But for outsiders, it is important that they know that technically, Andy Uba was never a Governor of Anambra state. The kernel of the Supreme Court judgment was that INEC conducted an election to an office that was never vacant! The governor of the state (Peter Obi) according to section 180 was yet to complete his tenureas he was sworn in onMarch 17th 2006
after a protracted legal battle against Dr Chris Ngige. Obi's term would end onthe 27th March 2010
.

The Supreme Court chastised INEC for not following due process and for knowing that there was a case whose outcome was likely to affect the election, but went ahead to conduct an election anyway. The court came down heavily on INEC for its recklessness in putting the contestants through a rigorous campaign when there was nothing to contest for. That is the main issue. It is not arguable who was governor, but Uba erroneously thought that Obi's term would end inMay 17 2007
. Andy Uba was never the governor of Anambra state judging from the ruling of the Supreme Court. Since he was never a


referred to above. Any person harboring the illusion that it is going to happen is either deceiving himself or trying to cause confusion.

One Ifeanyi Okonkwo, a party to the suit, has also filed a similar application before the Supreme Court. In the latter's case, he alleged that his name was struck out of the suit "fraudulently" after the governor offered him N10m bribe.

Also one Chukwujindu Okafor in Pointblank News on October 9, 2007 in arguing that Andy Uba has a strong case, stated that there was an emerging information which:

, CBN and his lawyer, Barrister Onyechi Ikpeazu have been holding series of meetings at which they have been mapping out strategies to blackmail and intimidate the Supreme Court Justices from considering the application filed by Dr. Uba…..Then, again,unlawful disqualification of Ngige and Ukachukwu by INEC would have stood the scrutiny of the court? Even if Obi's tenure was ruled by the Supreme Court to have expired onthe 27th May, 2007
; and Andy Uba's inauguration to stand, the Election tribunal would still boot him out since INEC should not lawfully disqualify the best candidates for the post.

The Supreme Court could not be said to have removed Uba from becoming the governor because he was not the governor in the first place. He was an impostor to the government house. The court was not the cause of his political woes but the INEC's incompetence or miscalculations. But like a proverbial chicken that left the knife that killed it but took its grouse with the pot, Andy Uba


to execute the 2004 Agreement on behalf of Storm, and, therefore, that the agreement is arbitrable.
The judgment of the district court is therefore affirmed.

BACKGROUND

Events Prior to 2004
In 2002, a shareholders agreement dated March 26, 1998, (the "1998 Agreement") set forth the terms of the ownership of Kyivstar's shares. The 1998 Agreement contemplated the existence of five stakeholders, including Telenor and Storm. At some point in early 2002, however, Telenor and Storm agreed to attempt to buy out the other three stakeholders. By August of that year, they had nearly succeeded: only Omega JSC ("Omega") remained. In light of Kyivstar's newly altered ownership structure and in anticipation of Omega's eventual capitulation, Storm and Telenor negotiated an interim voting agreement between themselves (the "Voting Agreement"), which supplemented and altered theirto it. We are ready to sign it tomorrow."
The following day, Nilov and representatives from Telenor and Kyivstar signed the 2004 Agreement. Storm sent Telenor two documents, each entitled "Certificate of Incumbency and Authority of Storm," which were signed by the chairman of Storm and another Storm official, respectively. The documents each certified that Nilov was "duly authorized to sign, on behalf of Storm[,] ... the Shareholders Agreement dated January 30, 2004 between and among Telenor, Storm, Omega and Kyivstar." Unlike the 2002 "Certificate of Senior Officer of Purchaser," however, the "Certificate[s] of Incumbency and Authority of Storm" did not attach or incorporate by reference copies of documentation of the shareholder authorization.
The 2004 Agreement contains an arbitration provision stating that "[a]ny and all disputes and controversies arising under,


one other company engaged in the mobile telecommunications business in Ukraine"; and (3) violating the arbitration provision therein by "prosecut[ing] a series of court actions throughout Ukraine, attacking provisions of the Shareholders Agreement and Kyivstar's charter." Telenor among other relief, a declaration that Storm had breached the 2004 Agreement, an injunction requiring Storm to participate in the governance and management of Kyivstar, an anti-suit injunction, and damages.
On April 14, 2006the day of the first conference of the arbitration panelAlpren Limited ("Alpren"), a Cyprusbased subsidiary of Altimo Holdings & Investment Limited ("Altimo"), brought suit in a Ukrainian court against Storm. Alpren and Altimo are the owners of Storm, and Alpren, Altimo, and Storm all belong to the same Russian corporate group, the Alfa Group Consortium. Alpren applied to theUkrainian court for a declaration that the 2004 Agreement was invalid because Nilov lacked the authority to execute it on Storm's behalf. Apparently, neither Telenor nor the arbitration panel were notified of the Alpren lawsuit.
Storm retained no counsel and submitted no written defense to the Alpren suit. Instead, Vadim Klymenko, an Altimo officer responsible for that company's "litigation" *403 and "arbitration" but who is not an attorney-at-law, appeared for Storm and registered an oral opposition on the ground that the arbitration panel had jurisdiction over Alpren's claim. The proceeding lasted approximately 20 minutes.
On April 25, 2006, the Ukrainian court concluded that Nilov lacked the authority to execute the 2004 Agreement on behalf of Storm. The court's decision "rendered" that agreement "null and void in full, including the arbitration


clause, from the time of [Nilov's] execution [of the document]." Storm appealed. On May 25, 2006, the Ukrainian appeals court affirmed.
Five days later, Storm filed a statement of defense in the arbitration panel arguing, among other things, that Telenor's claims were not arbitrable in light of the Ukrainian judgment. Storm also moved before the panel to dismiss the arbitration. On October 22, 2006, the panel issued a partial final award and denied the motion. The panel concluded that it had jurisdiction to determine the 2004 Agreement's arbitrability. It also concluded that the dispute was arbitrable, notwithstanding the Ukrainian decision in the Alpren suit, because it found that Storm and Telenor "had a clear intent to have their disputes resolved through arbitration," and that the arbitration provision of the2004 Agreement was severable and thus not subject to the Ukrainian judgment. Partial Final Award 11-13. The panel noted that the Ukranian court did not address the severability question, because Alpren and Storm did not present the question to the court and because Telenor was never even notified of the proceeding. Id. at 14.
Shortly thereafter, Storm asked the Ukrainian court of appeals to clarify whether, in the court's opinion, the arbitration provision of the 2004 Agreement and the agreement as a whole were invalid in light of the potential severability of the arbitration clause. On November 8, 2006, the court concluded, by now unsurprisingly, that the arbitration agreement was invalid and that any arbitration pursuant to it was in violation of the court's prior order.
On November 13, 2006,


Storm applied in New York State Supreme Court for an injunction terminating the arbitration proceedings and vacating the partial final award in light of the Ukrainian decisions. Telenor removed the New York lawsuit to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Storm then made a motion in that forum seeking a preliminary injunction. The district court denied the motion on the grounds that the panel's order was interlocutory and therefore not ordinarily subject to appeal, and that Storm was unlikely to prevail on the merits.
A Ukrainian court then, upon Alpren's application, enjoined Telenor, Storm, and Klymenko from participating in the arbitration. Telenor received no notice of the injunction and was not a party to this new Alpren lawsuit. Storm twice applied to theF.3d 85, 90 (2d Cir.2005) (citation, internal quotation marks, and ellipsis omitted). Storm's arguments on appeal implicate three types of such limited review.
1. Defenses to Enforcement of the Arbitral Award. Pursuant to the New York Convention as incorporated by the FAA, a district court, upon petition by a party to a qualifying arbitral award, "shall confirm the award unless it finds one of the grounds for refusal or deferral of recognition or enforcement of the award specified in the ... Convention." 9 U.S.C. § 207. The Convention sets forth seven grounds for denial of confirmation, including, of relevance to this appeal, if "recognition or enforcement of the award would be contrary to the public policy of [the] country [in which that relief is sought]," New York Convention, art.


LLC, Certificate of Incumbency and Authority of Storm, Jan. 30, 2004.
Storm does not challenge the validity of these representations to Telenor of Nilov's apparent authority to execute the agreement. Rather, Storm argues that Telenor should have deduced from the Storm charter and from having not received documentation of any shareholder meeting specifically authorizing Nilov to sign the 2004 Agreement, despite Storm's repeated statements that he was so authorized, that Nilov's execution required a shareholder meeting for authorization. This fails to raise a genuine issue of material fact. For one thing, Storm cites nothing in the record (including in the charter) to support the proposition that Nilov required shareholder approval to execute the 2004 Agreement on his company's behalf. For another, there is no evidence from which a rationalOlney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia

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might have taken place was not a problem at these meetings'-- although it had been Armco's threat to undercut and disrupt the general price levels if there was not adherence by the three other suppliers to its list prices which had initially cemented the conspiracy.

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The evidence of damages as to each County consisted in showing the bid prices which it had had to pay for culverts during the conspiracy years as compared with the bid prices paid by it during the three-year period preceding and the three-year period following the existence of the conspiracy.  The percentage of the difference which existed in these prices as to each County was brought out-- it varied among the Counties from 17.3 to 20.3 percent.  If some particular County orCounties had received a substantial discount from the general list prices of the conspirators for any year, that year was eliminated as a basis of computation and request for damages.

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An economics expert, who had made a study and analysis of the cost factors involved in the production of culverts and of the market forces, both national and local, which could affect the prices thereof during the periods compared, testified that there was nothing in these aspects which was able to account for the difference in the list prices of the conspiracy over the average of the prices for the periods preceding and following.  And as to the drop of more than 20% Which occurred in the prices bid to the Counties after the exposure of the conspiracy,


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Players and coaches discuss the upcoming March Madness game of University of Wisconsin against American University. American University player Darius Gardner reveals one of the biggest keys for his team.Prime Minister Julia Gillard will fulfil a lifelong ambition when she attends the Anzac Day dawn service at Gallipoli this year.

She will join thousands of Australians and New Zealanders travelling to the peninsula to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the landing of troops at Anzac Cove.

As the government prepares to reveal details of how the centenary of Gallipoli will be marked in 2015, Ms Gillard said yesterday that Gallipoli was now a site of pilgrimage for every Australian and it was a journey ''I've wanted to make all my life''.

''We go to Gallipoli to see and to understand but mostly we go to bear witness now that the original Anzacs are gone,'' Ms Gillard said during a visit to the Australian War Memorial.

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''Most go there in spirit, others


who can travel go there in person to be present at the place and at the time when the story of courage and character which is Gallipoli began,'' she said.

Ms Gillard's visit to Gallipoli will be the first by an Australian PM since the visit by John Howard in 2005.

While funding for some Anzac centenary projects have already been unveiled, Ms Gillard said yesterday that significant announcements about the commemorations would be made soon.

As reported yesterday, the government is giving the war memorial $27 million to refurbish the First World War galleries.

The funding will allow the war memorial to have the project completed in time for the Anzac centenary in 2015.

She promised the memorial would be given adequate funding as the centenary approaches.

''We will deliver a program ofcommemoration that gives all Australians the opportunity to commemorate the centenary of Anzac in the most appropriate way possible,'' she said.

''I will be making further announcements in the coming weeks about the government's support for the centenary program but the work of commemoration begins here in this very sacred place today.''

The projects being recommended by the Anzac Centenary Advisory Board, led by Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, are shaping up as Australia's largest commemorative program since the centenary of Federation.

One project already selected for funding is an Anzac interpretative centre in Albany, the last piece of Australia the Diggers saw as they sailed for Egypt to train before landing at Gallipoli and France.

Meanwhile, as well as the Anzac Day dawn service, Ms Gillard will attend services at the


Australian memorial at Lone Pine and the New Zealand memorial at Chunuk Bair.

She will also hold talks with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two countries are partners in Afghanistan, and work closely in the G20, which Australia will host in 2014 and Turkey will host in 2015.

Ms Gillard will also visit Singapore, where she will discuss trade and defence issues with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle for Singapore, in which more than 1000 Australians were killed or were missing in action and more than 15,000 Australians became prisoners of war.

The Opposition said the government was playing catch-up to match its commitment made 14 months ago on funding for the First World War galleries, some parts of whichher goals which leave her children at risk for abuse and neglect.

There was also evidence that April had attempted to take parenting classes but may not have been able to complete them due to her being moved to different detention facilities and that she had been unable to complete other portions of her service plan due to her incarceration.  Additionally, the record showed that she had facilitated the placement of the child, and she planned to live with her mother and get vocational training or obtain a job through the Workforce Center upon her release from prison.  However, due to evidence showing a lack of parenting by April to any of her children, the lack of a bond between April and the child, April’s convictions, April’s drug


some shoes.) Right now he is crawling and walking with his walker toys pretty quickly. He wants to walk so badly. I've been talking to the daycare about these big "1 year old" changes. He doesn't do very well yet from a cup. He can only handle the straw so he fights the other babies for the one sippy cup with a straw. :) We decided to make the change this week to milk this week and then work on the cup next week. Baby steps - literally. I gave him milk last night and at first it went well. Then he realized what it was and stopped. Even after I added formula to it, he refused because he thought it was still milk. After a few minutes,Richard COULTER

1788-1852

COULTER, Richard, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Westmoreland County, Pa., in March 1788; attended Jefferson College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced the practice of his profession in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa.; member of the State house of representatives 1816-1820; elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania and served from 1846 until his death on April 21, 1852, in Greensburg, Pa.; interment in St. Clair Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


Many famous comets originally formed in
other solar systems

For immediate release

Boulder, Colo. - June 10, 2010 - Many of
the most well known comets, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and, most recently,
McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars, according to a new
theory by an international team of astronomers led by a scientist from the Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®)
in Boulder, Colo.

Dr. Hal Levison (SwRI), Dr. Martin
Duncan (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada), Dr. Ramon Brasser (Observatoire
de la Côte d'Azur, France) and Dr. David Kaufmann (SwRI) used computer
simulations to show that the Sun may have captured small icy bodies from its
sibling stars while it was in its birth star cluster, thereby creating a
reservoir for observed comets.

While the Sun currently has no companion
stars, it is believed to have formed in a cluster containing hundredsof closely
packed stars that were embedded in a dense cloud of gas. During this time, each
star formed a large number of small icy bodies (comets) in a disk from which
planets formed. Most of these comets were gravitationally slung out of these
prenatal planetary systems by the newly forming giant planets, becoming tiny,
free-floating members of the cluster.

The Sun's cluster came to a violent end,
however, when its gas was blown out by the hottest young stars. These new models
show that the Sun then gravitationally captured a large cloud of comets as the
cluster dispersed.

"When it was young, the Sun shared a lot
of spit with its siblings, and we can see that stuff today," says lead author
Levison.

"The process of capture is surprisingly
efficient and leads to the exciting possibility that the cloud contains a
potpourri


long-standing
problem," says Brasser.

The article, "Capture of the Sun's Oort
Cloud from Stars in its Birth Cluster," by Levison, Duncan, Brasser and
Kaufmann, was published in the June 10 issue of Science Express.

Funding for this research was provided
by NASA's Astrobiology Institute, Outer Planets Research and Origins of Solar
Systems programs, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of
Canada, and Germany's Helmholtz Alliance.Saturday, March 28, 2009

There's an episode of the early '60s tv show The Twilight Zone that is permanently etched in my brain. I don't actually recall most of the details, but the story concerned a man who loved reading and for some reason never had time, or access to books, or something, to read. The story line set up his annoyance at whatever issues stood between him and his pleasure in reading.

At the end of the program, some awful thing, maybe a nuclear bomb, occurred, leaving him the sole human survivor. Miraculously, the books in the library had emerged unscathed as well. Nirvana!! Nobody to put demands on him, all the books and time to read them he could wish for!!

But then his glasses fell off his face


The Image staff muses on the culture of keeping up appearances

As the post-tsunami news out of Japan gets increasingly dire, more and more folks seem to be hopping on the charity bullet train.

On Monday we mentioned that Lady Gaga was selling a bracelet to raise relief funds, and on Tuesday we got word that designer Tadashi Shoji plans to donate 10% of all sales for the next 30 days from his freestanding stores at South Coast Plaza and the Forum Shops in Las Vegas to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

And Wednesday, while researching an upcoming story about Temecula shepherdess and high-end yarn-spinner Natalie Redding and the world of wonderment that is Namaste Farms, I came across a charity auction that's certain to be of interest to the "fibermore than their brow in the aftermath of the disaster.

Alexis Bittar will donate all sales on his website next week to Catholic Relief Services for Japan. On March 24th all proceeds from sales at Bittar's boutiques will also be donated.

TEMPTU, the airbrush makeup maker with donate $100 of all online sales until March 31 to relief efforts in Japan.

Assouline will donate 50 percent of the proceeds from sales of the book "The Light of Tokyo," a collection of urban architecture, to the American Red Cross.

Travel clothing retailer Scottevest/SeV will donate 10 percent of online sales on March 17 to relief efforts in Japan.

[Updated: More relief effort links are being added daily.]

Photo: A charity yarn auction, which includes four skeins of Noro Retro yarn, background, and a skein of


Image copyright ICE/Reuters Image caption The Trump administration has been boosting enforcement of existing laws on immigration

The US state of Connecticut has created an online resource for undocumented parents who are worried about President Donald Trump's threats of mass deportations.

Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy unveiled the Connecticut Family Preparedness Plan on Wednesday.

He has already clashed with the White House over immigration policy.

The plan is a "step by step" toolkit, in English and Spanish, for parents in case they are detained or deported.

Titled "Family Preparedness Plan: Preparing Your Family for Immigration Enforcement", it contains advice on legal rights and emergency child guardianship forms.

Image copyright Connecticut State Official Website Image caption Governor Malloy was previously told off by the White House over immigration advice

State officials have created the resource in responseReporter files charges against Trump's campaign manager

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Corey Lewandowski had listed himself among Trump's 11 New Hampshire delegates

(CNN)Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will be among the Republican front-runner's delegates at the party's national convention this summer in Cleveland.

A New Hampshire resident, Lewandowski confirmed to CNN Wednesday that he will maintain both roles at the convention. The New York Times first reported that he had listed himself among Trump's 11 New Hampshire delegates and alternates in a signed letter to the secretary of state.

Trump enjoys a comfortable lead in the GOP delegate race, but with a complicated road to a nominating majority and the potential for a contested convention ahead, Lewandowski could find himself on the frontlines of a bitter floor fight.


Kristen Barker Depicts Worker-Cooperatives as Part of the Solution in Part IV of a Series of Community Forums

Downtown Cincinnati from Devou Park, seen from across the Ohio River in Covington, Kentucky.

Factors that continually arise in deliberations about reducing poverty are the loss of traditional industrial jobs and the large number of employees now working at jobs that do not pay a living wage. Innovative efforts are emerging in communities across the country to create alternative employment in an economy now dominated by large corporations and global markets. Part IV of the Community Issues Forum series on reducing poverty in Greater Cincinnati focused on one promising initiative that is currently underway locally.

Kristen Barker, Executive Director of the Cincinnati Union Coop Initiative, discussed progress to date in launching worker-owned coopsin this region. She began by explaining that cooperatives of various kinds have been part of our national development, and that approximately 29,000 coops exist in the U.S. today. One of the big success stories for cooperatives came when people banded together to bring electrification to many isolated rural areas of our country.

Worker-owned coops, however, are a different story. Barker estimated that only about 350 worker-owned businesses now operate in the U.S., and they provide work for approximately 7,000 people. However, despite Mark Twain’s joke about the backwardness of Cincinnati, quipped Barker, this area is currently considered to be a leader in worker-owned enterprises.

Although worker-ownership had interested Barker for a number of years, it was not until her visit to Mondragon, Spain that she became committed to developing


this work model in Cincinnati. Located in the Basque region of Spain, the Mondragon area was in dire economic depression when the coop movement took hold in the mid-1950s. Coops soon developed into Mondragon’s economic base, and produced a thriving economy and workforce in the region. Currently, the Mondragon Corporation, a collection of 257 companies, employs 74,117 workers and represents assets of 24,726-million Euros. It is the tenth largest Spanish company in terms of asset turnover and the leading corporation in the Basque Country.

Barker described developments to date in Greater Cincinnati. “Our Harvest” represents an initial successful initiative. It constitutes several worker-owned farms in the Cincinnati area that produce and sell fresh natural produce. Bahr Farm is a thirty acre farm in the neighborhood of College Hill, whileWhite Oak Farm is located on the periphery of Morrow Ohio.

The goal, declared, Barker, is to create family sustaining jobs that are open to anyone who agrees to the coop employment practices. Our Harvest currently employs a workforce of eighteen that includes women, men, new immigrants, and workers who were formerly incarcerated. Educating people to think as owners as well as workers, she noted, is necessary as well as challenging. A workbook entitled, “The Great Game of Business,” has proved to be an effective educational tool.

Our Harvest Coop experienced a break-even year in 2015, and took in approximately $500,000 in revenue. Meanwhile, Barker said that at least thirteen different groups are interested in establishing worker-coops in Greater Cincinnati. Already underway is the Apple Street Market, a worker and


Hilma’s story

Hilma’s history until late March 2013. Starting from now you will be able now and then to read blog posts from Hilma’s human.

Hilma is american akita from Finland and she was born 13th of May 2009.

From the beginning she has had recurring inflammations; urethritis, intestines inflammations and dermatities. Still mainly her condition was good, we had antibiotics and she was cured.

On age of two she was diagnosed with mould and dust mite allergies with HESKA allergy test (blood sample). She has also food allergies (cattle, poultry, eggs and wheat for as far as I know). Hilma has been eating salmon/other fishes, potatoes and vegetables after these food allergies were diagnosed on elimination diet during winter 2011-2012. Her thyreoid has been tested twice now and it has alwaysbeen fine. Also her blood counts have always been in normal range.

Before these diagnosed allergies in autumn 2011 Hilma had really greasy coat, some bold spots on her trunk and pyoderma occured on her nozzle.

SA and pemphigus biopsies were taken in autumn 2011 and these came out negative. Hilma had antibiotics and mild cortisone treatment and she was fine again.

On summer 2012 Hilma had mild problems with her coat, bold spot on her head. She also went to blood donation on that spring and shaved spot on her neck didn’t start to develop new hair. I started giving her Megaderm oil product and all was again fine until this winter (2013).

Hilma started loosing her coat on February and biopsies were again taken in case of SA. Results came


In 13 short days, the Buffalo Bills roster has seen massive changes, particularly at wide receiver. The team signed Anquan Boldin. It traded Sammy Watkins and a 2018 sixth-rounder to the Los Angeles Rams for a 2018 second-round draft pick and cornerback E.J. Gaines. It also traded CB Ronald Darby to the Philadelphia Eagles, while acquiring Jordan Matthews and a third-round selection in 2018.

Boldin retired just 13 days after signing with the team. The Bills have more questions than answers at wide receiver after that and Matthews suffering a sternum fracture during his first practice in Buffalo.

The crop of unrestricted free agent wide receivers isn’t inspiring. While the team could grab one on Sept. 2 when teams cut their rosters from 90 to 53, Buffalo could make anotherthe Liberal Democrats alliance works and that tips 6 more seats.

One seat from Plaid Cymru seems headed to the Tories.

The net result of those subtractions is 270. Thus the Tories need to pick up 52 seats just to have a bare majority. How likely is that?

Battle for the Soul of Great Britain

In Battle for the Soul of Great Britain I discussed London and Wales.

Today, YouGov released polls for every region. Let's go over them all.

Regional Voting Intention Wales

Wales is divided into forty Parliamentary constituencies. After the General Election of June 2017 and a by-election in August 2019, 28 are represented by Labour MPs, 7 by Conservative MPs, 4 by Plaid Cymru MPs, and one by a Liberal Democrat MP.

On a 49-34 percentage lead in votes, Labour held a


a pickup of about 6-9 seats for the Tory Party. Call it 6.

North West - You Gov

Look at these Tory poll ratings in Brexit heartlands from @YouGov - leading in North West and Yorkshire, after decades lagging behind Labour. And neck and neck in Wales. I’m treating all polling with a pinch of salt, but this is a pretty clear vindication of Tory tactics. #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/bPlwi052Ey — Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) November 8, 2019

Regional Voting Intention North West

The region of North West England is divided into 75 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 39 Borough Constituencies and 36 County Constituencies. Since the General Election of June 2017, 20 are represented by Conservative MPs, 54 by Labour MPs, and 1 by Liberal Democrat MPs.

With a 55-33 margin in favora 49-43 lead over Labour in 2017, Labour held 20 seats with the Tories 8.

With a 43-23 lead, expect a reversal. Tories +12.

Regional Voting Intention East of England

The region of East of England is divided into 58 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 16 Borough Constituencies and 42 County Constituencies. Since the General Election of June 2017, 50 are represented by Conservative MPs, 7 by Labour MPs, and 1 by Liberal Democrat MPs.

On a 55-33 vote in 2017, the Tories held 50 MPs with Labour only 7.

Assume a modest gain of 2 but with Labour losing a handful more to the Liberal Democrats.

Regional Voting Intention South East

The region of South East is divided into 84 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 23 Borough Constituencies and 61


a 55-33 voting lead (22 points) over the Tories, Labour held an edge in seats of 46-19.

The lead is now down to 10 points. Expect a Tory pickup 8 seats.

Regional Voting Intention South West

The region of South West England has, since the 2010 general election, 55 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 15 Borough Constituencies and 40 County Constituencies. In the 2017 general election, the Conservatives remained, by far, the largest party with 47 seats, though losing three to Labour, who won 7, and one to the Liberal Democrats, who won 1.

On a 51-29 lead in votes (22 points) the Tories held a seat advantage over Labour by a 47-7 margin. The lead is now down to 20 not over Labour, but over the Liberal Democrats.

This isAvelgood

Avelgood Apps is mobile phone applications development company based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Operations
Avelgood App's focuses on developing Mobile phone apps for Nokia Asha, Nokia S40 and Windows Phone platforms.

Notable Work
The company's most successful product is the flashlight app called Lumina Flashlight Torch. According to the company the app had by November 2013 been downloaded over 5.4 million times since its release in August 2012

In 2012 Avelgood Apps developed the first mobile phone application that provided real time updates of Africa Cup of Nations matches. The Java ME app provided real time commentary for AFCON 2012 matches in addition to providing group tables, match results, statistics and team profiles. The app was later updated to provide coverage for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nation tournament

Noting a huge gap in the


Åsgård psychiatric hospital in Tromsø, Norway is a rather tired-looking facility, its squat buildings mindful of institutional architecture from the Cold War era, and in terms of its geographic location, it could hardly be located further from the centers of western psychiatry. Tromsø lies 215 miles north of the Arctic Circle, with tourists coming during the winter months to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights. Yet it is in this remote outpost, on a hospital floor that had been closed but was recently refurbished, that one can find a startling sign on the door to the ward: medikamentfritt behandlingstilbud. The translation to English: medication free treatment. And this is an initiative that the Norwegian Ministry of Health ordered its four regional health authorities to create.

The title—medication freeof a medical profession and listen instead to a group of people that usually have little political standing in society.

When I asked the leaders of the user groups about this, they spoke—with some pride—of a political culture in Norway that strives to be inclusive of all groups. This practice has been evolving for decades, and several referred to a change in abortion law as a bellwether moment in this transformation of their society.

Prior to 1978, a woman seeking an abortion had to apply to a commission of two physicians for permission to end her pregnancy, with the application made by her physician. If married, the woman’s husband had to consent. However, with a strong feminist movement pushing for change, that year Norway passed an Abortion on Demand law,


Einar Plyhn and Inge Brorson, one of the board members of Stiftelsen Humania , to Lier Hospital, 25 miles southwest of Oslo, to meet with the group at Vestre Viken Trust developing medicine-free treatment for the Southern and Eastern Regional Health Authority. Brorson used to work at the trust, which operates several psychiatric hospitals and provides services to a region with about 500,000 residents (about 1/10th of the Norwegian population), and he had helped stir up interest in the initiative by encouraging the psychiatrists and clinical staff there to investigate the medical literature regarding the long-term effects of psychiatric drugs.

Psychologist Geir Nyvoll, who led the meeting, began by referring to this body of scientific research. He had taken a four-month leave from work to closely study the researchof terrors that come visiting in the night. Three of the four were willing to sit with me and tell their stories.

*****

Merete Hammari Haddad, who is part Sami (the indigenous people of northern Norway), has lived with a diagnosis of “bipolar” for nearly a decade.

For the first part of her adult life, all had gone fairly well. She worked as a teacher and for a time as a school principal, and had earned a master’s degree, her research focusing on how people achieved their highest potential. She got involved in coaching others, residing for a time in Dublin and then Oslo. “I was succeeding,” she said.

Her husband is also part Sami, and some time ago, they moved back to Alta, a Sami community on Norway’s northern coast. Like


I thought it told of a sense of freedom that she had found from being on the ward. She could speak her mind here.

She had been first diagnosed with bipolar in 2005, when she was 40 years old and overwhelmed with work and—as a mother of three—family obligations. “I had no time for myself,” she explained. “I couldn’t do what people wanted me to do.”

She found lithium helpful, as it calmed her down. After a time on sick leave, she went back to work in a grocery store, and her life remained fairly stable for years. But then, in 2015, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and after she had surgery, she spent several months struggling to sleep. In December of that year, she “got crazy again,” whichexcruciating with strenuous exercise. Needless to say, this hardly bodes well for siring progeny. But the very sight of Gabby leaves Quill breathless. One forbidden kiss and Quill vows to have her, headaches--and Peter--be damned! But it will take a clever man--and a cleverer woman--to turn the tables on propriety and find their way to true love....

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Eloisa James's Paris in Love.

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A true romantic and a consummate storyteller, Gabby fancies herself in love with Peter even though they've never met, and she's dismayed that Peter's imposing older brother, Quill, is the one to greet her upon her arrival in England.

All About Romance

Gabby and Quill go back and forth like that for the entire rest of the book  Gabby expresses concern and a willingness to help, and Quill responds by making accusations and staging passive-aggressive scenes.


of Detective Richard L. Horn of that department.  The affiant stated in pertinent part:

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[W]ithin 72 hours immediately preceding the issuance of this warrant, affiant received information from a confidential informant who has in the past provided information that proved to be true and correct.  Confidential informant stated that while he was at the Joe H. Bennett residence, he did observe several bags of green plant material known to him as marihuana.  He also observed drug paraphernalia which is used in the sale of marihuana.  Confidential informant also saw green plant material known to him as marihuana in the barn beside said house.

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Other information received by Lt. Rhoades of the Williamson County Sheriff's Department on April 1, 1988, from a citizen informant, that said citizenbecause material statements in the affidavit are false, we need not decide this issue.

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In addition to his motion, Bennett provided his affidavit, which stated that he was in Las Vegas on April 1, 1988, that he had no knowledge of any shipment of marihuana to his residence on that date, and that no marihuana or drug paraphernalia had ever been in his house or barn.

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The district court conducted a hearing on Bennett's motion to suppress.  Both Bennett and Detective Horn testified.  Bennett testified consistently with his affidavit.  Detective Horn testified that he first encountered the informant when he arrested him for possession of marihuana, which the informant told Horn he had obtained from Bennett.  Subsequently, after the informant had made a controlled buy from


someone other than Bennett, he allegedly purchased marihuana from Bennett a second time, at the suggestion of the sheriff's officers, and it was this latter occasion that formed the basis for the statements in Horn's affidavit concerning what the informant had seen in Bennett's house and barn.

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With respect to the statements in his affidavit, Detective Horn testified that the informant had told him that there were guns and drug paraphernalia in the house.  However, as to the informant's having seen marihuana in the house and barn, Horn testified as follows:

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[Concerning the house]

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Q. After he made this buy, from your request, from Joe Bennett, did he give you additional details that indicated he actually made a buy from Joe Bennett at his residence?

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A. Describing the inside of theinformant had told the affiant that he had seen marihuana in the barn, and that another officer had received information from an anonymous informant about Bennett allegedly bringing in a shipment of marihuana on the night of April 1, 1988.  As stated earlier, Bennett requested a hearing and provided his affidavit.

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Officer Horn admitted at the hearing that the informant had not told him that he had seen marihuana in the barn and that the informant had not told him that the informant had seen several bags of marihuana in the house.  Moreover, the affidavit is silent concerning the informant's ever having bought any marihuana from Bennett.

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Because Horn, by his own testimony, admitted that the statements in his affidavit were untrue, statements that clearly are material to


Yest posadka! (We have Landing!) Welcome back home, Suni, Yuri & Aki! After almost 127 days in space (125 days on ISS), Soyuz TMA-05M/31S carrying Exp-33 crewmembers Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams & Akihiko Hoshide landed successfully last night at 8:56pm EST in Kazakhstan, about one hour before local sunrise (about 2 miles off-target, 87 km from Arkalyk). The Descent Capsule tipped over, and the crew, which was in excellent condition, was quickly extracted by SAR (Search & Rescue) personnel. Moscow time at touchdown was 4:56am, local time at landing site 7:56am, both this morning. The 127-day mission has increased Malenchenko's spaceflight experience to 641 days in 5 missions. Williams now has 322 days from her 2 orbital flights, giving her second place among women space fliers, and AkiLeague sponsors of the Performance of the Month award & and the end of
season Fair Play Awards

Bradley Jordan The Next New Cannon

The news just keeps getting better for supporters of Hythe Town FC, as the club are delighted to announce that former Charlton Athletic Under 21s captain, Bradley Jordan, has joined the Cannons
on loan from Ryman Premier side, Maidstone United.

The midfielder, who has also had loan spells at Notts County and Forest Green, signed for Maidstone as a free agent after being released by the Addicks.

At the time of his signing, Stones Manager, Jay Saunders said - “I spoke to Damien Matthew at Charlton and he had nothing but good things to say. I didn’t know this but he went on trial at
Gillingham and they were close to


Kill Bill! Ugandan human rights organizations' attempts to influence the media's coverage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of October 2009 caused an international outcry and sparked intense debate in the local and international media. Particularly contentious was its proposal to impose the death penalty for acts of 'aggravated homosexuality'. Through a quantitative content analysis of 176 items from two main daily newspapers, the government-owned New Vision and the privately-owned Daily Monitor, over the period October 2009-June 2010, combined with qualitative interviews with human rights defenders in Uganda, this study explores attempts made by local human rights advocates to influence the media's coverage of the Bill and the extent to which these attempts were successful. The study finds that while there are significant differences between the frequencyKnow someone who inspires you? Click here to nominate them as a CNN Hero.

Yes, 5,000. But it's not what you might think.

Wigal is the founder of Gamers Outreach , a nonprofit that makes sure that kids who can't leave their hospital rooms during long-term medical treatment can play video games while they recuperate.

"We noticed that a lot of the video games (at the hospitals) were getting stuck in playrooms," said Wigal, 29. "And because of that, there was a whole segment of the hospital population that was, sort of, limited to whatever it was they had access to their bedside environment."

Those 5,000 games eventually made their way out of his parents' basement and some were featured on simple, portable video game carts that Wigal's foundation helped design and


inspiration for his charity came from his love of gaming as a teen -- which took an interesting turn during his junior year of high school.

CNN Hero Zach Wigal

He registered more than 300 fellow students to participate in a Halo 2 tournament in his high school cafeteria. He rented the space with permission from the school. He spent months organizing it.

Then BAM.

"This event got shut down a couple days before it was supposed to happen by a police officer who believed that games like Halo were, in his words, corrupting the minds of America's youth," Wigal said. "Everyone who had signed up for our video game tournament was a little upset."

The cancellation sparked an idea: Wigal wanted to show authorities that gamers weren't all bad or lazy kids-- and they could do something good with their gaming skills.

So he decided to throw a new tournament. The twist: He would donate the proceeds to charity. In 2008, Wigal and his friends held an event called Gamers for Giving and raised money for the Autism Society of America.

"I thought, 'Let's illustrate the positive things that can happen when gamers get together around what they're passionate about,'" said Wigal, once named to Forbes Magazine's 30 under 30

The event continued year after year, and as it grew in popularity, Wigal's team branched out and started working with local hospitals. In 2009, Wigal began working with the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and his team designed his portable GOKarts.

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Palm Beach International Film Festival Looks To Make Stars Out Of The Audience

On the schedule for this year's Palm Beach International Film Festival are some of the usual suspects: Independent films starring Hollywood stars given the freedom to explore something outside of the typecasting norm. But the festival, which kicks off today, also includes an opportunity for South Floridians to become the star of the show while literally exploring a city's real and imagined history.

'Lost Boy Home' will screen at the Palm Beach International Film Festival.

Credit Courtesy photo / Palm Beach International Film Festival

"The Search for Linton's Treasure" is an "arts concept of an interactive movie" as dreamt up by the team at Delray Interactive Movie. Members of the public are invited to "star" in the mystery film.

ThePreview: Sharks v Bulls

The Sharks may be enjoying some home comforts after a long tour, but they're unlikely to enjoy a win on their return to Durban.

The Sharks may be enjoying some home comforts after a long tour, but they're unlikely to enjoy a win on their return to Durban.

John Plumtree's men rounded off their overseas tour with a victory over the Force last time out and while the four points will serve as some reward for a bruising tour, the Sharks were once again left counting their injured after the encounter.

JP Pietersen, who has been one of the Sharks' standout performers, was the casualty of the week, with the Springbok forced to go under the knife due to a groin injury.

The absence of Pietersen stymies the Sharks


they’ve booked since 1996 – there’s a lingering sadness with today’s email announcement that the promoters are pulling out (for the most part) of booking basement shows at center city’s First Unitarian Church.

The run of concerts through late December – including King Tuff on October 7th, Dads on October 23rd and Restorations’ album release party on November 15th – will be their last hurrah in this room, though they will continue to present unique intimate performances in the Sanctuary and Side Chapel. In addition, the basement may be used here and there for weekend shows only. Continue reading →

Morgan’s Pier has started to roll out its summer lineup of live music, including the first free shows presented by R5 Productions on Wednesday nights throughout the summer. Live showsSaturday, March 29, 2008

Roarin' Love

Last night Jordy and I dressed nicely and went to see the ballet The Roar of Love. I knew this was based on the C.S. Lewis story The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Oh, my.

First, some guy came out and talked about Focus on the Family. He thanked a lot of people. Then, another guy came out. He also talked about Focus on the Family, and thanked the same people as the first guy.

Then, an ambiguously gay man and his ambiguously lesbian wife came out, and thanked the same people as the first two people, plus addeds some plugs for their dance studio. Yay. Twenty minutes in, and the ballet hasn't started yet. Things weren't looking good, and Jordy was grinding her teeth


The 2016 PBRPRPSCLCS Regular Season came to a close on Thursday night at El Bar in Fishtown and it definitely went out with a bang. There weren’t as many close races as ther ehave been in recent years on the final night of the season, but the one that was in play truly played out in dramatic fashion. dOGluas came into the final night of the season nine points behind the Panty Bandit for Total Season Points. In order to overcome the odds he would have to defeat the Bandit in the first round and at the very least make it to the championship game at the end of the night. He managed to pull of the first step toward his goal by eliminating the Bandit, coming frombehind to win it 2 matches to 1. With Panty Bandit in his rear view mirror dOGulas would still have to defeat three more players in order to have a shot to pull off the single greatest final night steal in the history of the PBRPRPSCLCS. In thrilling fashion dOGulas did exactly that by defeating T-T-T-Today Junior, Milpool, and Tim The Destoyer to find himself exactly where he needed to be.

Having made it to the final match of the night he now found himself one point ahead of Panty Bandit for Total Points and if he could win this final match he would secure himself the Total Points title for the first time in his career. All he had to do was defeat Paper Tiger and he would


for Street Bucks game in Panty Bandit somehow managed to more than double the amount of street bucks she had in the final moments without even throwing a single rock paper or scissor, but instead with a simple handshake and a hand-off from her teammate. Some have speculated that this is the exact type of behavior that has lead to the upcoming rule changes that will be coming to the Street RPS game next season. At the very least, Panty Bandit did agree to play for the total amount in a full hustle game against The Crazy Cat Lady, where she prevailed by a score of 10 to 3. This secured her place as both the Season Total Points and Street RPS Winner. Though there were many inPaparazzi had to raise their archives and detail all the photos of a
couple. In a recent photo at the airport in New York, they were able to
observe something like a wedding ring on the hand of Diaz, however, make
any findings it was still early.

Also, the media paid attention to the hands of the actress during the
show Graham Norton: in the photo you can clearly see the gold ring
inlaid with precious stones.

It should say that it was with him Diaz can be seen more often. We'll
keep an eye out for further news from the pair, as well as new photos of
the actress.


Arnold Schwarzenegger told Fox News' Sean Hannity Monday that he believes he and estranged wife Maria Shriver are likely to reconcile one day, despite his affair with the couple's household staffer which produced a love child and sparked the pair's separation in July 2011. "I'm the forever optimist. So I do see that Maria and I get together eventually," said Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger told Hannity he was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" about his affair with household staffer Mildred Baena: "I created a huge screw-up. I had this child, and it destroyed my family. It was a situation where I couldn't even blame anybody else but myself, because my wife was a fantastic wife... my kids were fantastic. The thing that I cherished the most, you know, I destroyed by some stupidOklahoma Couple Want to Return Troubled Adopted Son to State "GMA" story prompted hundreds of viewer comments. Find out why and weigh in.

Dec. 21, 2009 -- Melissa and Tony Wescott are afraid of their son. They're so afraid of the boy they adopted that they're trying to have Oklahoma law changed so that they can return him to the state's care.

"He tried to burn our home down. The note said, 'I'm sorry you had to die,'" Melissa Wescott told "Good Morning America."

She said she and her husband have found butcher knives under his mattress and lighters hidden in his bedroom.

The Wescotts' 11-year-old son has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Tulsa, Okla., for nearly a year. But now doctors say he's not a danger to himself


or anyone else, and the boy is scheduled to be released from the hospital next month.

Despite the doctors' opinion, the Wescotts say they are so afraid of having him back home that Melissa plans to stay awake at nights while her husband sleeps.

Adopted Son Diagnosed with Several Mental Health Disorders

The trouble started shortly after the couple -- who couldn't have children of their own -- adopted the boy in 2007. His behavioral problems became so severe that he needed inpatient care.

Within a year of the adoption, the Wescotts told the Tulsa World, the child was diagnosed with reactive detachment disorder, disruptive behavior disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and fetal alcohol syndrome.

The parents said the boy became violent toward other children and nonresponsive to adults, hurt andEurope's Leading TMT Companies Honoured as 2011 Bully Award Winners

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UK, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden top the list of Europe’s leading technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies

The 2011 Bully Award winners have been recognized as a leader in their field, with a bright business proposition and meaningful market strategies, driven by a rich understanding of customer needs and technological solutions.

Barcelona (PRWEB)October 06, 2011

White Bull Summits (http://www.whitebull.com), champions of the European innovation ecosystem, today announced the 2011 Bully Award winners honouring Europe’s leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies. The United Kingdom topped the list of honoured winners each with ten companies represented, followed by The Netherlands with five companies, Germany with four companies, and Sweden with four companies represented. The remaining European countries and companies represented include:


2011 Bully Award winners include:

Adform (Denmark) – Longhorn

Aframe (United Kingdom) – Young Bull

Appear (Sweden) – Longhorn

ASYX (The Netherlands) – Young Bull

CarryQuote (Switzerland) – Young Bull

Certivox (United Kingdom) – Yearling

Criteo (United Kingdom) – Longhorn

eCommera (United Kingdom) – Longhorn

Hitlantis (Finland) – Yearling

IOVOX (United Kingdom) – Young Bull

jobandtalent (Spain) – Young Bull

Kiosked (Finland) – Yearling

Marvia (The Netherlands) – Young Bull

Moodagent (Denmark) – Young Bull

MyWidz (Sweden) – Yearling

Octoshape (Denmark) – Young Bull

Ondango (Germany) – Yearling

PrismaStar (United Kingdom) – Longhorn

Publitas.com (The Netherlands) – Young Bull

Qubulus (Sweden) – Young Bull

Rated People (United Kingdom) – Longhorn

Screenreach (United Kingdom) – Young Bull

Shutl (United Kingdom) – Young Bull

SoundCloud (Germany) – Longhorn

SponsorPay (Germany) – Longhorn

Taulia (Germany) – Longhorn

Tobii (Sweden) – Longhorn

TouchType (United Kingdom) – Young Bull

Tribe of Noise (The Netherlands) – Young Bull

Usabilla (The Netherlands) – Young Bull

ZyncroWorld Cup when it comes around every four years.

"So we're going to give it everything. We'll go out with guns blazing in terms of the effort we put in."

Striker options for the Socceroos

Andrew Nabbout - Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan), 25Caps: 4 Goals: 1

Front-runner: Andrew Nabbout.

Photo: FFA

Another start - his fourth straight under van Marwijk - against Hungary suggests it's Nabbout's place to lose, and what a story that would be. Unloved by the A-League, Nabbout resuscitated his career in the Malaysian second division before making a successful homecoming with the Newcastle Jets and then moving to Japan. Brings athleticism and intensity.

Tomi Juric - Luzern (Switzerland), 26Caps: 35 Goals: 8

Full fitness: Tomi Juric has recovered from a knee injury.

Photo: AP

Undoubtedly first-choice under Ange Postecoglou, but has the World Cup


akin to a boisterous reality-TV contestant who simply wasn't there to make friends. Norkin wasn't blowing up courts with profanity-laced tirades, however. Instead, he was faulted for his incessant yelling, nasty tone, interrupting judges, and accusing both judges and opposing council of illegal behavior.

Norkin was representing the defendant in a case involving a fallout between former business partners of the Homestead-based Floors to Doors Inc. Gary Brooks, a 30-year member of the Florida Bar with a spotless record, was representing the plaintiff and filed the original complaint with the Florida Bar. Brooks, 71 at the time, was suffering from health problems and has since died.

Brooks and the two judges in the case all agreed that when things were going his way, Norkin would act in a professional manner,but when hearings weren't going in his favor, Norkin would scream and belittle everyone else involved.

In fact, in this particularly case, Norkin believed that the judges involved were somehow in cahoots with the other attorneys. He accused one judge of being at the "beck and call" of the plaintiff and asked another point blank if she liked the other lawyer better than him.

In fact, Norkin tried to have the original judge, Ronald Dresnick, removed from the case by falsely insinuating he was in some sort of illegal conspiratorial relationship with the plaintiff.

Dresnick, however, was often fed up with Norkin's antics. Here's a selection of Dresnick's quotes, cited by the Supreme Court.

"Excuse me, sir. I've had enough with you. You only like it when it's going your way and


After months of bubbling discontent among professors over the law school’s faculty compensation practices, University of Texas School of Law Dean Larry Sager was forced to resign his position Thursday.

Sager confirmed to The Texas Tribune that he signed a letter of resignation that afternoon, effectively immediately, at the request of UT President Bill Powers.

"The fact of the matter is, and there's no two ways about this fact, that I resigned now because I was asked to by the president of the university," Sager said.

Sager announced in August that he intended to step down from his post as dean of the state's largest law school at the end of the academic year. No reason was given at the time, though Sager told the Tribune it was at Powers’ urging.

Powerstold the Tribune that there had been growing concern about Sager's management of the law school. "I was hopeful that when the faculty knew that, after a dean search, there would be new leadership that some of the concerns of the faculty would abate," he said. "That has not been the case."

His decision comes as extensive open records request relating to Sager’s handling of compensation is causing significant unrest and distraction among professors at the law school. "There are some deep divisions among the faculty," Powers acknowledged, saying it had reached a point where a change was necessary to allow the faculty to "look forward and be more productive as we went ahead."

At the center of the conflict is the law school’s practice of awarding substantial salary stipends


and “forgivable loans” to recruit and keep faculty members. The loans listed in the open records request, obtained by the Tribune, include a $500,000 payment to Sager himself.

There are also several sexual discrimination complaints filed by women at the law school in the 75-page long open records document that point to a gender pay gap. In a letter to Sager included in the documents, Professor Lynn Blais expresses concern that women are underrepresented on all the major governing committees at UT Law, including the budget committee responsible for setting faculty compensation.

In an hour-long interview, Sager said that gender equity was a cause he was “very attached to” and that he’s pushed hard to hire and retain women at the law school. He also said his efforts to attractinstallments of five or seven years, provided that the recipient of the loan remains on our faculty. Typically, these loans are aimed at the purchase of a home, and have helped to settle our new colleagues and their families in Austin. In exchange for these loans, I have asked and received from the recipients a moral commitment to remain members of our community for at least five years.

Sager emphasized that the practice had been in place long before he took over as dean, and that it was prevalent among many law schools. In his letter to faculty, he noted that he himself had raised more than $10 million for the purpose of recruiting and retaining faculty —the bulk of the funds that went toward the loans.

He said the


UT Law School Foundation made the $500,000 payment to him in recognition of his strong performance as dean — and in acknowledgment that his salary was lower than many of his counterparts at other schools.

A tenacious fundraiser, Sager has gathered just under $80 million in donations to the law school in his five-year tenure as dean. Under his watch, the school has also significantly raised its national profile: last year it entered the coveted “T-14” realm when it surpassed Vanderbilt to move into the top 14 law schools in the U.S. News and World report rankings.

Easily distinguishable by his mane of unruly gray hair, Sager is a frequent presence at student events and in the halls of the law school, where he is known to walk around withTwo distance runs set for Special Operations Warrior Foundation

Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 10:39 AM.

DESTIN — On Saturday evening some of the world’s best endurance runners will stride off onto the beach. They’ll watch the moon set, the sun rise and then set again — and they’ll still be running.

Six people will vie to break the world record for running the farthest distance in 24 hours in the sand as part of the third-annual Destin Beach Ultra Run.

About 90 more will participate in a 50-mile run on the beach Sunday.

The third-annual event is a fundraiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides full scholarships for children of Special Ops servicemen who have died in combat.

Mike Morton, the 41-year-old who holds the current American record for the


footing, but in terms of beauty, there’s no comparison.”

She’ll run at least half the miles barefoot. She loves to feel the sand beneath her feet and the water on her toes.

Once on a beach run, a group of stingrays swam along with her, tracking her for a few miles, she said. Last year during the 50-mile run, she found live starfish and even a sea horse that she stooped to toss back into the waves.

She hopes to complete this year’s race in about 12 hours.

Twenty-five relay teams also will be running the 50 miles. Two of those teams are deployed, but will start their race at the same time as the runners in Destin, Holscher said.

On Saturday, for runners not quite up for the endurance challenge, the SonOverviewBuilt around 1758, Schifferstadt Architectural Museum is the one of the oldest and most historic buildings in the City of Frederick, Maryland, and among the best examples of early Colonial German Architecture in the country. Built at the beginning of the French and Indian War as frontier settlers abandoned their western Maryland farms in fear of raids from the French and their Indian allies, Schifferstadt could have been built to provide a refuge for families west of Frederick who chose to stay on their land should they need it.

Joseph Bruner, a German immigrant and his family left their village of Klein Schifferstadt in 1729 in hopes of gaining independence, including the right to own property and build a home in the "New Land." He purchased 303 acres of


virgin timber in 1746, cleared and farmed the land, and built a modest wood structure for his family home. Joseph Bruner named his farm Schifferstadt after his hometown in the Palatinate region of South Western Germany.

Joseph's eighth and youngest son, Elias Bruner, bought the farm from his father in 1753, and built the stone farmhouse in 1758 that we know today as Schifferstadt. Although its exterior and interior have been altered over the years, Schifferstadt maintains many original architectural features.

Architectural FeaturesIts architecture and well-preserved features reflect the German traditions of its first owners. Built-in cupboards around the fireplaces, one of three five-plate stoves in its original position, a squirrel-tail bake oven, graceful arched window features, winder staircases, a vaulted cellar and decorative forged hardware provide a window onthe 250 years of Schifferstadt’s existence.

Brief History of German Settlement in FrederickThe history of early German settlement in western Maryland begins to the north in Pennsylvania. In 1671, William Penn and his emissaries traveled to the Netherlands and German states encouraging people to immigrate to the colony of Pennsylvania. Due to Penn’s efforts and England’s liberal colonization policies, massive waves of German immigrants flooded into Pennsylvania and New York. By 1730, 20,000 Germans had arrived in Pennsylvania. Rapid growth within the colony meant most new immigrants could not afford skyrocketing property prices. Many German immigrants came to Pennsylvania as manumitted servants, had little income saved to buy land, so they began venturing west and south where the prospects of securing property seemed more promising.

Settlement of the land that


was to become Frederick County Maryland was encouraged in 1730 by an offer made by Lord Baltimore of 200 acres free from quit rents for 3 years to persons establishing residency.

The site currently known as Schifferstadt is part of a large tract of land acquired in 1727 by a land speculator named Benjamin Tasker. Benjamin Tasker purchased 7,000 acres in Frederick County along the Monocacy River and Carroll Creek. He named his property ‘Taskers Chance’.

Back to Top Brunner Family HistoryIn 1728 Jacob Bruner arrived in Philadelphia from Germany aboard the Mortonhouse along with his wife, their children and his brother in law Johann Sturm. Eight months later, Jacob’s father Joseph Bruner followed his son to Philadelphia with his other children and their children’s families. Members of the Brunerfamily eventually settled in Frederick County and lived on the Taskers Chance parcel. Joseph Bruner had 303 acres near Frederick Town, present day Frederick, which he named Schifferstadt.

In 1737, the families living on Taskers Chance unsuccessfully attempted to purchase the 7,000 acres from Benjamin Tasker. The tenants of Taskers Chance felt corrupt rent takers were mistreating them. In 1740, Germans solicited businessman Daniel Dulaney to purchase Taskers Chance. In 1748, Dulaney sponsored a bill to simplify the naturalization process for German immigrants. While bill did not pass, Dulaney did succeed in purchasing Taskers Chance. Daniel Dulaney made a deal with the settlers that allowed the tenants to purchase parcels of from him.
As the county seat for the western part of Maryland, Frederick Town developed into a center for


commerce, politics and transportation. On January 17, 1753, Joseph Bruner sold his property to his youngest son Elias for 200 pounds sterling. Joseph Bruner then retired from farming and settled in a home within the city of Frederick. In 1758, Elias built the sturdy stone structure we know today as Schifferstadt.

Building of SchifferstadtIt was around 1758, during the time that Elias Bruner owned the farm, that the stone house was built. Although no evidence of a log home has been found, the stone house likely replaced one. German settlers would replace their modest homes with larger, more permanent structures as their families grew and they found financial security. The Germanic tradition of building in this country was a combination of the use of inherited building modes and availabilityof materials. In the Monocacy Valley region German settlers built several types of houses. The three common types were: a Holzbau, a simple three-room log cabin, the Fachwerkbau, a half-timber dwelling that usually replaced the smaller log cabin home, and the Steinbau, a stone cabin that was also built in place of a log home.

Finally, prosperous farmers in the region built stone farmhouses. After years of farming, most second generation Germans in America were financially secure and were able to construct larger, more permanent homes such as Schifferstadt. Stone was readily available in the Monocacy Valley region. The sandstone used to build Schifferstadt came from a local quarry near Walkersville, Maryland. A stone house reflected the family’s social and financial success and stability.

Putting the building of Schifferstadt in


its historical context provides additional reasons for building it in stone. In 1755, English General Edward Braddock, after provisioning his army in Frederick, marched his army to do battle with the French and their Indian allies near Ft. Duquesne (now Pittsburg, Pennsylvania). They lost about a third of their number, including General Braddock, and retreated through Pennsylvania to New York leaving the Maryland frontier vulnerable to raids by the French and Indians. These raids were so severe that settlers from Western Maryland were streaming through Cumberland and Frederick heading east. Although George Washington with a limited Virginia militia and their Indian allies tried to defend the English frontier, they were not very effective. The Maryland Assembly was balking at sending colonial militia to its western lands, so ita $60,000 interest-free loan toward the 1974 purchase of the property, valued at $65,000 at that time.

The 1974 restoration study by John Milner, of the National History Corporation, was the first of many studies which revealed the outstanding value and authenticity of Schifferstadt. Archaeological digs further determined the location of original farm buildings as well as providing a treasury of pottery shards and other memorabilia, some of which are on display in the museum.

Back to Top Schifferstadt as Museum and Window to the PastToday, Schifferstadt provides a window to the French and Indian War era when it was built and to the pre-revolutionary times in the Frederick County of its early existence, as well as to the lives of the early German settlers in the rich Monocacy Valley.

Visiting


Schifferstadt The museum is located at 1110 Rosemont Ave, in Frederick Maryland

It is approximately 50 minutes from Baltimore and Washington, DC and 30 minutes from Gettysburg and Hagerstown.

Directions:From the West on I-70, follow the signs to Route 15 toward Gettysburg. This is a tricky transition involving a right hand exit from I-70 to a merge onto the termination of Route 340, then a quick merge onto Route 15 toward Gettysburg. Be very careful that you don’t get on I-270 toward Washington, DC. Once on Route 15 North, exit at the Rosemont Avenue exit. Go straight through the light at the bottom of the ramp. Schifferstadt is immediately on your right.

From the North on Route 15, take the Rosemont Avenue exit. Turn Right at the light at the bottomRob Lisita, and everyone knew there would be fireworks.

Lisita wasted no time and opened the first round with a great deal of forward pressure on Kelly. The Aussie initiated the striking, dictated the pace, and controlled Kelly’s positioning with a clinch and body locks. Though constantly on the back foot, Kelly stayed competitive, and never seemed out of the match.

In round two, it appeared as if Lisita had completely spent himself with the pressure in the first, and it showed early on. After a back and forth ground battle for superior positioning, it was clear both men were worn out. Kelly dug deep into his warrior spirt, however, to find a way to take Lisita’s back. From there, he sunk in a match-ending rear naked choke.

Bruno Pucci Reigniting


His Career Against Anthony Engelen

In December 2015, Bruno Pucci proved exactly why he is a two-time BJJ No-Gi world champion at ONE: SPIRIT OF CHAMPIONS.

During the first round of their featherweight clash, Pucci slammed Anthony Engelen to the canvas and went to work on the kickboxer, who who was clearly at a disadvantage. As Engelen tried scrambling back to his feet, he committed the fatal mistake of giving up his back to the BJJ black belt. Pucci immediately hopped on, dug his hooks in, and feverishly worked to secure a submission.

Engelen may have survived the opening stanza, but would not make it out of the second. In fact, round two start much like the first, with a takedown and full control on the ground by Pucci.

The Brazilian tookEngelen’s back in a transition back to the feet, and sunk in an incredibly deep rear-naked choke, to which the Indonesia-based Dutchman was forced to tap. The victory was an emotional one for Pucci, who was returning after a year and a half on the sidelines due to injuries.

Edward Kelly’s Thrilling Comeback Over Jordan Lucas

After seeing his brother on this list, we now see Team Lakay’s Edward “The Ferocious” Kelly. He faced then-undefeated Australian Jordan “Showtime” Lucas at ONE: UNION OF WARRIORS in March 2016, and displayed a thrilling comeback victory.

Lucas immediately opened the contest with a takedown, worked the Filipino over, took his back, and looked for an early rear-naked finish of his own. The Aussie was unrelenting in his pursuit of victory.

To Kelly’s credit, he remained