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Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of EssexEnglish statesman(c. 1485 - 1540)

THOMAS CROMWELL, or CRUMWELL, earl of Essex. Of the life of Thomas Cromwell before he entered the service of Henry VIII., crowded with stirring incident as we know it was,

, the accounts that we possess are meagre and far from authentic. Even the year of his birth is unknown, but 1490 has been fixed upon as a probable approximate date. His childhood was passed near Londonperhaps, as Eoxe says, close by Putneywhere his father, according to Foxe, and also according to the stronger evidence of Chappuys, the ambassador from Charles V., carried on the trade of a blacksmith. During his boyhood he lost his father, and his mother then married a fuller, whence Pole's assertion, " pater ejus pannisverrendis victum quseritabat." It has been conjectured that, as a boy, Cromwell entered the household of Cecily, marchioness of Dorset, and that therefore his family must have possessed some influence ; but the letter referred to by Sir Henry Ellis as the only evidence of connection with the house of Dorset belongs in all probability to the period when he was engaged in the cloth trade.
While still in his teens Cromwell made his way to Italy, where he was to read Machiavelli, and acquire those views of conduct and statesmanship which determined his career. He first passed over to Flanders, and obtained a situation as clerk in the English factory at Antwerp. He then took service, there is good reason to believe, as a soldier in Italy; but


the story narrated hy Foxe, that he was one of the duke of Bourbon's followers at the siege of Borne in May 1527, is extremely doubtful. The inaccuracy of Foxe is notorious, and there is evidence in letters of his own that Cromwell was in England in January 1527, and again in 1528. It nevertheless remains possible that during the interval he was at Borne on some diplomatic mission. Some time also he spent in the office of a merchant at Venice, with whom Pole claims to have had personal acquaintance; and Foxe asserts that, subsequently to his return to England, he paid another visit to Italy, being engaged by the leading merchants of Boston in Lincoln-shire to procure certain privileges from the Pope. The well-known story ofthe kindly help which he received while in distress from the Florentine banker Fresco-baldi, and the noble gratitude which he displayed in his prosperity, rests apparently on no more certain authority than a novel of Bandello and the statement of Foxe, though it is an interesting illustration of the fame which he acquired as a man who never failed to remember a kindness.
From his signature on the title-deed of a manor in Buckinghamshire, dated 1512, it appears that Cromwell was then practising, as we know he afterwards practised, as a scrivenera combination of attorney and money-lender. He also for a time followed his step-father's trade of cloth-merchant. In 1523 he obtained a seat in Barliament; and he had most likely already entered the service of Cardinal Wolsey. That


he had done so within two or three years after there is positive evidence to prove. His

principal employment was to collect the confiscated property of the monasteries granted by the Pope to Wolsey for the endowment of his colleges at Ipswich and Oxford; and the manner in which he performed this task, while it added very considerably to his purse, aroused numerous and vehement complaints. Indeed, many expected to see him mount the scaffold when his master's protection ceased 'to be of avail.
treasurer of Wolsey's household, to John Higden, dean of Cardinal College, and dated the 29th October of the seventeenth year of Henry VIII. i.e. 1525. (See Brewer, Calendar, <bc. vol. iv. part 1, p. 768). And there are extant two letters written in 1526, and addressedto Cromwell as " one of my Lord Cardinal's Council," and "counsellor ito my Lord's Cardinal's grace" (Brewer, Calendar, vol. iv. parti, pp. 1018-9). Sir Henry Ellis (Original Letters, 2nd ser. 2nd vol. p. 117) expresses the opinion that "he must have been in Wolsey's service at least as early as 1521."
Among the followers of Wolsey, however, he had made himself of the first importance ; and when ruin overtook the cardinal, it was on Cromwell that he leant. There are letters extant in Wolsey's handwriting, addressing Cromwell as a familiar friend, and earnestly begging his presence and advice ; and there is one in the handwriting of Cromwell, containing such counsel as might have been given by an equal, and, with an air that savours somewhat of


hypocrisy, congratulating the fallen minister on being now " at liberty to serve God," and " banish and exile the vain desires of this unstable world." For his fidelity, and especially for his defence of Wolsey in the House of Commons, Cromwell received from his contemporaries the highest praise. His conduct appears to have been simply that of a man who, not forgetful of his own interests, wa3 honourably desirous of serving a patron to whom he was deeply indebted. At first he remained with the cardinal, whom he accompanied to his uncomfortable exile at Esher. But he was not long content to serve in unprofitable obscurity, and he was besides in some alarm for his personal safety. New and aspiring projects began to fill his mind. Cavendish,Wolsey's gentleman-usher and biographer, tells how on All-Hallows day he found him gazing out of a window at Esher, with his primer in his hand, employed, unlike his wont, in 8ayinghis matins. He complained with tears to Cavendish that, while he had received no promotion from the cardinal, he was like to share his fall, and announced his intention of riding to the court that very afternoon to stake his for-tunes on an interview with the king. An account of that interview has been given by Pole, who asserts that he re-ceived his information from some of the courtiers present. Trusting in Henry's love of power and his bitter irritation oagainst the Pope, Cromwell ventured to reveal the daring policy which he had conceived. The authority of the


| Papacy in England was to be altogether abolished ; and thus, not only was the painful question of the divorce to be oeasily settled, but the allegiance of the clergy, then divided, as Cromwell proved by reference to the bishops' oaths, between their sovereign and their spiritual head, was all to be claimed by the former. And, besides, Cromwell appealed to the king's cupidity by showing that all the wealth of the clergy was at the disposal of the king, since they (in common, indeed, with the whole nation) had, by receiving Wolsey as Papal legate, fallen under the penalties of prasmunire. The boldness and originality of this advice, and the reputation for ability, address, and fidelity which he had gained, pointed Cromwell out to Henry aslikely to prove a minister of no ordinary value; and he was at once taken into favour. The way, however, had been previously prepared. The duke of Bedford, whose life Cromwell had saved in Italy, spoke in his behalf; and he had recently laid several of thj other courtiers under obligations. He had advised the cardinal to advance his interest at court by conferring handsome presents on those who had the greatest influence with the king, and had himself undertaken to fix the amounts, and choose the recipients, of these gifts.
Thus Cromwell gained entrance into the king's service. His rise was rapid, for he possessed qualities which admir-ably fitted him for success as a minister of Henry VIII. He was capable of carrying on a strong and arbitrary


government with a hand that shrank from no measure that seemed necessary, and an eye that never failed in its vigilance; and, whenever the king chose to act indepen-dently, he was supple enough to bend, and to bend grace-fully, to the inevitable. In him also the king found a servant who did not scorn to offer the flattery which he expected, who performed with zeal and care any service, however trivial, and who was ever ready to join heartily in the hunting, gambling, and other pastimes in which he delighted. That, with these qualities, he was of obscure birth was a circumstance in his favour; for the policy of humbling the nobility, which had been steadily pursued by Henry VII., had not been reversed by his son. Immediately,or almost immediately, after his interview with the king, Cromwell was appointed privy councillor. One more service he rendered to Wolsey, as the bearer of the king's gift of a thousand pounds; but his fortunes were no longer linked with those of the cardinal. By 1532 he had obtained the posts of master of the jewels and clerk of the hanaper ; in 1533 he was raised to the office of chan-cellor of the exchequer for life. By 1535 he had become master of the rolls, secretary of state, and, most important of all, had been appointed to the highest office in the church as vicar-general in ecclesiastical affairs,a title which was afterwards changed (with what change of power, if any, is now unknown) for that of vicegerent.


In 1536 he was made lord privy seal. In 1537 he received the Order of the Garter. And, besides these dignities and offices, he held those of great chamberlain, dean of Wells, chancellor of the university of Cambridge, justice of the forests north of the Trent, and Baron Cromwell of Oke-ham. On the 17th April 1540 he was created earl of Essex.
To narrate the details and trace out the effects of Cromwell's policy belongs to history. In this biography it is sufficient to consider the general character of the measures for which he was responsible, to estimate his aims and motives, and discuss the means which he employed.
A great scheme, consistently carried out, is manifest throughout the whole of his political career. All power was to be centralizedin the hands of the king, or in those of the ministers whom he appointed; for the present, that is, in the hands of Cromwell himself. In secular affairs this centralization was already almost complete. Parlia-ment voted, and the judges decided, as the king wished; and juries could be readily frightened into abject submis-sion. The power of the nobles, which of old had been the

national safeguard against despotism, had been laid in the dust by the Wars of the Roses and the successful policy of Henry VII. The church alone retained a species of independence. That independence it was therefore Cromwell's first aim to destroy. The momentous contemporary events which suggested his scheme gave him the opportunity of effecting its accomplishment. It was the support of the Papacy


which alone enabled the English clergy to make any stand against their sovereign ; and on the Continent that authority had been repudiated by several states. In England the king's mind was ripe for a breach with Rome ; and the new learning had spread a general desire for ecclesiastical reform. Henry was soon persuaded to sever every bond that united England with Rome. Parliament complied with its usual facility. The clergy were forced, as the price of escape from the penalties of praemunire, to acknowledge the king's headship of the church. And all Cromwell's foreign policy was directed to support this great revolution; England was to be placed at the head of a Protestant league which should defy the emperor and the Pope.
Such being Cromwell's policy, itwas natural that he should make himself the recognized protector of Pro-testant heretics. He was unable to offer the slightest resistance to the passing of the Six Articles, by which Henry sought to fix the faith of England and terrify all parties into order, but he allowed no Lutheran to pay the penalties which the Articles enacted. He was the patron of Coverdale; and to him was due that, version of the English Bible known as the Great Bible, the first edition of which has taken his name. In 1539 he obtained the office of licenser of Bibles; and he distributed copies all over England, commanding that in every parish church whoever desired to read should have free opportunity. Whether he had any sympathy with doctrinal Protestantism is


very doubtful. Foxe is a most insufficient authority for the statement that he abjured the errors of Rome on the perusal, while in Italy, of the Latin New Testament of Erasmus; it may, nevertheless, be true that he did read the New Testament, not without after results. But his stay in Italy, while it would tend to make him the enemy of the Papacy, would equally tend to make him altogether anti-theological in his habits of thought. Distress, however, seems to have driven him to the consolations afforded by the doctrines of the old religion. In his perplexity at Esher, he is said to have betaken himself to the repetition of prayers to the Virgin ; and his will, dated 1529, also goes to show that he wasdoctrinally no heretic. In it he orders the appointment of a priest at a salary of £6, 13s. 4d. per annum, to sing masses for his soul; for the same object he saddles a bequest to his brother-in-law and sister with £8 a year, and leaves 20s. to each of the five orders of friars in London; and he directs ¿£20 to be divided among poor householders that they may act as his beadsmen. It is possible, however, that this may merely have been a politic deference to custom. Both the last speech of Cromwell, which announces his return to Catho-licism, and his last prayer, which is Protestant in its tone, are of very doubtful authenticity.
The work for which Cromwell is popularly re-membered, that which earned him his


distinctive title of " malleus monachorum," was the abolition of the monasteries. The means he employed to accomplish this measure were characteristic. Commissioners were sent to visit the monks and nuns, and give reports of whatever irregularities could be discovered in their conduct. The juggleries of pretended miracles were exposed; rough farces in ridicule of the priests, and even of the sacraments, were allowed to be acted in place of the mysteries or miracle-plays. Every shrine was destroyed, all its costly gifts being seized by the king. The bones of St Thomas a Becket, the hero of a signal triumph of the Papacy over the Crown, were dug up and burnt as those of a traitor; his name was removed from the service-book; his festival ordered to beneglected; every window erected to his memory ruthlessly destroyed; Cromwell even thought it worth while to publish a proclamation giving an official account of his treasons. A grant of the monastic property to the king was obtained from the Commons, who expected that the pressure of taxation would thus be relieved. And the nobles and wealthier commoners were conciliated by the chances that offered of cheap purchases 'of land.
For seven years Cromwell was supreme in the royal council, and supreme in all the departments of the administration. He was not altogether independent; every measure of importance had to be approved, and many were modified, by the king, who, moreover, often chose to act for himself in matters of the greatest moment, with-out even seeking his minister's advice. Yet


during the period of his ministry Cromwell was certainly responsible for the general character of the government. The servant of a master who spared no life that endangered his authority or even disturbed his tranquillity, living in an age when to allow any to escape whose acts or avowed opinions were inconsistent with the policy of the Government would have been considered mere weak-minded lenity, he carried out the principles of his master, he followed the practice of his age, with stern and unvarying regularity. A position of unparalleled danger, both from traitors at home and from foreign attacks, had been assumed by the Government. The greatest promptitude and vigour were essential to safety. But during Cromwell's ministry vigour and promp-titude were carried to an extreme. Laws neverequalled for severity in the history of England were enacted. No opposition was allowed to endure for a moment. It is true that the blood of More and Fisher, of the marquis of Exeter, Lord Montague, and the countess of Salisbury (the last of whom, indeed, was executed ten months after the death of Cromwell) was shed in no private quarrel. Cromwell's policy had been adopted by the king; and in some cases he was no more than the king's official agent. Yet that he fully sympathized with these severities is past a doubt. The condemnation of Exeter, Montague, and the-countess of Salisbury by attainder without trial was due to his suggestion. It was he, as numerous memoranda of his remain to prove, who enforced the execution of


the laws of treason upon minor offenders. It was he who doomed " the Abbott Redyng to be sent down to be tryed and executed at Redyng with his complycys,"" the Abbott of Glaston to be tryed at Glaston and also to be executed there with his complycys," and who ordered " that the evydens be well sortyd and the indytmentts well drawn against the said abbotts and their complycys," and " to send Gendon to the Towre to be rakkyd." He alsoall attempts at persuasion proving futilesuperintended the trial of the seven noble Carthusians of the Charterhouse, whom, breaking through the hitherto unbroken custom, he hanged in their clerical garb, that it might be vividly

impressed upon the imagination of the .people that there was no longer anylaw in England higher than loyalty. And that he had not visited Italy in vain is proved by a very characteristic letter written in August 1537 to Michael Throgmorton, once a spy of his own, now a follower of Cardinal Pole's, in which, after hinting that both master and servant may yet obtain mercy by submission, he breaks into a threat" There may be found ways enough in Italy to rid a traitorous subject. Surely let him not think but, when justice can take no place by process of law at home, sometimes she may be enforced to take new means abroad." In private matters Cromwell's temper was equally arbitrary. Stowe's father, for instance, as the chronicler himself narrates, had his house removed upon rollers, without his consent


or even knowledge, to make room for Cromwell's buildings in Throgmorton Street, London; and Foxe, partisan as he was, gives other instances.
Such a career could not fail to surround Cromwell with numerous and implacable enemies, and to afford many real grounds of accusation. His private expenditure had been splendid; he was fond of adding house to house ; and two hundred poor persons were daily fed at his door. The cost of the system by which he supported his power had been enormous. Presents had been freely lavished upon men of influence, and an army of spies and agents had been maintained and generously rewarded. Such expenses his private fortune and the grants he had received from the king were quite inadequate to support; and it was easyto prove, not only that he had been in the regular habit of receiving gifts from suitors and others who desired his favour, but that much of the public money had been used by him without passing through the public treasury. He was the patron of heretics. His promises of a full treasury and relieved taxation had not been fulfilled; taxation, indeed, had been increased; and, for that and many other reasons, his government was now extremely un-popular. The nobles, almost to a man, and most of the clergy, were his foes; but perhaps his deadliest enemy was his old companion in the service of Wolsey, Stephen Gardyner, bishop of Winchester, whom he had in vain attempted to crush under the Act of Supremacy. That part of his


policy of which the accomplishment was desired by Henry was completely achieved, and Henry had no longer any interest in supporting him. He had, besides, committed a fatal mistake. His enemies had potent means in their possession for kindling against him all the fury of which Henry's nature was capable. It could be proved, beyond the possibility of doubt, that he bad been long engaged in negotiations with the German Protestant princes without the knowledge of the king, whom, besides, to further his plans, he had involved in the hateful marriage with Anne of Cleves. His danger had not been unforeseen; and two years before his fall he is said to have arranged his affairs, so that his family, and his servants, to whom he was always athoughtful and generous master, should not be left unprovided for. But the blow fell unexpectedly. On the 10th of June 1540 at the council table, the duke of Norfolk rose and accused him of high treason. Witnesses were present to swear that he had declared that he would fight in support of his opinions, " sword in hand, against the king and all others," and that in a year or two he would have so far carried out his policy that the king should no longer be able to resist it. In vain he passionately exclaimed against the absurdity of charging him with treason. His enemies had attained their revenge. In rude triumph the duke of Suffolk stripped him of his George; the earl of Southampton tore the


Garter from his knee. He was immediately removed to the Tower. That night in the city the bells of the churches rang out peals of joy, bonfires blazed, and many of the citizens held exultant revel. His friend Cranmer alone uttered a word in his favour. A bill of attainder, accusing him of pecula-tion, extortion, bribery, contempt for the nobility, heresy, and treason, was passed with acclamation. Twice in vain he appealed to the king for mercy in terms of the most pitiful entreaty. Having drawn up a statement concerning Henry's relations with Anne of Cleves, adapted to facilitate her divorce, he took the opportunity to protest against the in-justice and illegality of condemning him unheard, and con-cluded with a pitiful cry for " Mercy ! mercy !mercy !" And again, in a letter which he contrived to convey to the king by the hands of his old servant, Sir Balph Sadler, he attempted to defend himself, especially against the charge which he well knew would be one of the most fatal brought against himof having divulged certain of the royal secrets, and once more, in humble but passionate language, besought pardon. Henry was moved, but remained inexor-able ; and, on the 28th July 1540, Thomas Cromwell was beheaded.
Original information concerning the career of Thomas Crom-
well is to be found in Brewer, Calendar of State Papers of the Reign
of Henry VIII.; Sir Henry Ellis, Original Letters; 1-ieginald Pole,
Apologia ad Carolum V. ; and Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, and
Memorials of Abp. Cranmer. Foxe and Burnet, on one


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‘Hotlines’ have been created to ensure the quick exchange of information between the Russian ceasefire coordinating center in Khmeimim, Syria and the US one in Amman, Jordan.

“To provide help in ensuring peace in Syria, the ceasefire center was set up at the Khmeimim air base. Sixty-one Russian officers work there, and its main goals are to help seal the special ceasefire deals, and to sustain ceasefire with the armed groups’ leaders, and to deliver humanitarian aid to the population,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Kuralenko, the head of Russia’s ceasefire headquarters in Khmeimim, told the briefing.

The Russian Defense Ministry has also provided the US military with its current situationdeath an accident…or was it murder most foul?Goodreads

Twenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days.

But Ivy’s life-long gift—or curse—remains. For she sees the uninvited ones—ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death. On that October evening in 1918 she sees the spirit of her grandmother, rocking in her mother’s chair. An hour later, she learns her younger brother and father have killed a young German out of retaliation for the death of Ivy’s older brother Billy in the Great War.

Horrified, she leaves home, to discover the flu has caused utter panic and the rules governing society have broken


down. Ivy is drawn into this new world of jazz, passion, and freedom, where people live for the day, because they could be stricken by nightfall. But as her ‘uninvited guests’ begin to appear to her more often, she knows her life will be torn apart once more, but Ivy has no inkling of the other-worldly revelations about to unfold. Goodreads

Rachel Walker is devoted to God.

She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy.

But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from, and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool education has the answers she craves.who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries.

When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn’t right on the prairie. She’s heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie. But


Peter—but the other part isn't sure she's brave enough to let herself fall.

'I still dream about Anna London's house. In my dreams it's as if the house itself has sinister intentions. But in real life it wasn't the house that was responsible for what happened. It was the people who did the damage ...'

When Tim Ellison finds a cheap room to rent in the perfect location in Sydney it looks like a huge stroke of luck. In fact the room comes with a condition, and the owner of the house, the mysterious Anna London, is unfriendly and withdrawn. When strange and terrifying things start happening in the house at night, Tim wonders if taking the room is a mistake. But then his feelings for Anna start to change,and when her past comes back with a vengeance, Tim is caught right in the middle of it.

Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She’s grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn’t know that it’s magic her parents are running from.

When Sarah’s mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn’t even know were still alive.

Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of


a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.

After her little sister mysteriously vanishes, seventeen-year-old Claire Graham has a choice to make: stay snug in her little corner of Manhattan with her dropout boyfriend, or go back to Ohio to face the hometown tragedy she's been dying to leave behind.

But the memories of that night still haunt her in the city, and as hard as she tries to forget what her psychiatrist calls her "delusions," Claire can't seem to escapethe wolf's eyes or the blood-speckled snow. Delusion or reality, Claire knows she has to hold true to the most important promise she's ever made: to keep Ella safe. She must return to her sleepy hometown in order to find Ella and keep her hallucinations at bay before they strike again. But time is quickly running out, and as Ella's trail grows fainter, the wolves are becoming startlingly real.

Now Claire must deal with her attraction to Grant, the soft-spoken boy from her past that may hold the secret to solving her sister's disappearance, while following the clues that Ella left for only her to find. Through a series of cryptic diary entries, Claire must unlock the keys to Ella's past—and her own—in order to stop another tragedy in


Dustin Misener started using drugs in his early teens growing up in rural Oklahoma. By his 30s, he was battling an addiction to methamphetamine and had racked up multiple drug-related convictions in Oklahoma.

“I was just getting out there pretty bad,” Misener said.

Misener, 32, is a U.S. Army veteran. Now he works cutting grass and setting up stage equipment for concerts. His hands are lined and calloused from a life of hard work.

When a nonprofit program in Oklahoma City called Firstep promised Misener help with sobriety in exchange for working on a demolition crew, it seemed like a good deal— until he got injured on the job.

At Firstep, Misener attended 12-step meetings, ate food that primarily came from a local food bank, and slept in one of the rowsher family.

“With this behind me, it’s put me right where I need to be,” she said.

Recovery program kept part of clients’ disability pay

Former Firstep client Shawn Staats, 42, was injured while working on a demolition crew at the program in March. After the accident, he says program leaders told him he was required to turn over part of his disability pay.

Staats signed up for the program after he was arrested and charged with methamphetamine possession in Carter County. He entered Firstep at his attorney’s suggestion in order to avoid being held in jail while his case worked its way through the court system.

Firstep assigned Staats to work on a demolition crew where he made minimum wage tearing out old sheetrock at an upscale apartment complex in Oklahoma City’s


met a client at a bank to cash a disability check in one instance, the staff member said.

After The Frontier and StateImpact Oklahoma asked Firstep about its practice of taking workers’ compensation benefits from clients, the program issued Misener and Staats refund checks.

Close ties to company and city

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating the Firstep program for how it compensates people recovering from addiction for their work while in the program.

Some of the Oklahoma employers who use workers from the Firstep program settled claims with the Department of Labor last year over unpaid overtime wages.

The Department of Labor confirmed it still has an active, ongoing investigation into the Firstep program, but would not disclose additional details.

After the Department of Labor began investigating the Firstep in 2017, thesaid.

After Firstep kicked her out of the program, a Grady County judge sentenced her to 15 years in prison for possession of methamphetamine.

Porter is now serving her sentence at Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft, where she said she’s doing well and taking college classes.

The city has since stopped contracting with Firstep to clean the Civic Center Music Hall. The cleaning contract is now handled by a private foundation, Simpson said.

Oklahoma City now requires Firstep workers to fill out a city time card to keep track of the number of hours worked.

But Jeromy Storment, 41, was court-ordered to attend Firstep from drug court in Haskell County in October 2017 and said the program instructed him not to report any overtime from the city on his timecard.

Storment graduated


sits on rural land owned by the city’s Water Utility Trust. The nonprofit that runs Firstep, OKC Metro Alliance Inc., also holds a contract to operate the city’s detox center — Firstep clients do not work at the facility.

Retired Oklahoma City Councilman Pete White was instrumental in the founding of the Firstep program in the mid-1990s and helped arrange for the program to move onto an isolated piece of city land when residents in other parts of the protested a rehab program moving into the neighborhood.

White still hires men from the Firstep program to do chores on his acreage in southeast Oklahoma City on the weekends — jobs like feeding his horses and cutting grass. He pays the men for their work and also feeds them lunch, heon scraps of blank paper smuggled into the jail by his visitors, and instructed that the result be reassembled and typed for distribution to the world. The result is a seminal document of the civil rights movement and perhaps the most eloquent defense of direct action in the face of injustice ever written.

The locale of the protests was what King called “the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States,” with an “ugly record of police brutality… known in every section of this country.” Birmingham’s black community had met with local businesses and obtained promises of nondiscrimination in return for halting demonstrations, and seen those promises broken. They staged their protests and sit-ins for Easter week, knowing that it was the heaviest shopping period of the year outside


Tristan Scott Wix, James Patrick Reardon and Brandon Wagshol are seen in photos released by local law enforcement agencies.

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Authorities across three different states arrested three men in their 20s who all allegedly made separate mass shooting threats.

In Florida, a 25-year-old man was arrested Friday for threatening to open fire at a “large crowd,” local authorities said. In Ohio, a 20-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at a Jewish community center. In Connecticut, a 22-year-old who owned several weapons and tactical gear was arrested Thursday after making a threat on social media, officialsCounty Branch Jail. It could not be immediately determined Sunday whether he has retained an attorney.

Ohio: Man Arrested After Threatening Shooting at Jewish Center

A 20-year-old man who allegedly threatened to carry out a shooting at a Jewish community center in Youngstown, Ohio, has been arrested, according to police.

James Patrick Reardon was booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Saturday on one count of telecommunications harassment and one count of aggravated menacing, according to online jail records.

New Middletown Police Chief Vincent D’Egidio said an Instagram account belonging to Reardon shared a video that showed a man firing a gun. The post, which was shown to an officer who was on an unrelated call, tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, D’Egidio told CNN in an interview. Youngstown is about


been set at $250,000, and D’Egidio said he will be arraigned Monday morning.

It was unclear whether Reardon was represented by an attorney.

Connecticut: Man With Weapons, Tactical Gear Arrested After Facebook Threats

Connecticut authorities arrested a man who they said was interested in committing a mass shooting, had weapons and tactical gear, and made his intentions known on Facebook.

Brandon Wagshol, 22, was detained Thursday after a tip from a citizen that he was trying to buy large capacity rifle magazines from out of state, the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department said.

Wagshol has been charged with four counts of illegal possession of large capacity magazines, and is being held on a $250,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court September 6.

CNN has reached out to the prosecutor and defenseas conservator of the estate of June Susser in a prior appeal by respondent Ronald Susser, who is June's son. In re Susser Estate, unpublished opinion per curiam of the Court of Appeals, issued July 10, 2001, 2001 WL 773193 (Docket No. 222270). While that appeal was pending, petitioner brought an action claiming that Ronald breached his fiduciary duty to his mother by using a durable power of attorney to gift himself a substantial portion of June's financial portfolio. Petitioner also claimed that Ronald wrongly recorded a quitclaim deed to June's house, though he knew that June did not intend for him to take the deed until her death. The jury found that Ronald had wrongfully converted these assets and the trial court entered judgment for petitioner. Respondents


has three branches: sensory posterior cutaneous nerve of the arm and motor branch to the long and medial head of the triceps. It passes anterior to the subscapularis, latissimus dorsi and teres major. This is the first possible site of compression. An anomalous muscle, the accessory subscapularis-teres-latissimus is reported in literature to be another cause of compression of the radial nerve at this level \[[@CR8]\]. Another potential cause of compression, as described by Spinner \[[@CR9]\] is penetration of the nerve directly by the subscapular artery more distally in the axilla, forming a neural loop.

It enters the posterior compartment of the arm by travelling through the triangular interval bounded by the teres major superiorly, the long head of the triceps medially and the lateral head of the triceps laterally.distal edge of the superficial supinator where the PIN is formed. Radial tunnel syndrome can be caused by the arcade of Frohse, fibrous fascial bands coursing superficial to the nerve or the vascular leash of Henry \[[@CR16]\] which is formed by the recurrent radial vessels. The PIN supplies the abductor pollicis longus, the extensor pollicis brevis, the extensor indicis proprius and the extensor pollicis longus.

The superficial branch courses medially, deep to the brachioradialis, lateral to the radial artery into the wrist. It pierces the lateral fascia to enter the anatomical snuffbox and gives sensory innervation to the dorsal surface of three and a half digits on the radial aspect. It also innervates the extensor digitorum, the extensor digiti minimi and the extensor carpi ulnaris muscles.

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at a Division I university,

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It reminded one historian, Stacy Cordery, a political historian at Iowa State University, the only House speaker who. in Scotland in 1840 and was the first.

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The storm threatened millions of people across the Deep South, prompting tornado warnings Monday in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. The area around Jacksonville State University in Alabama. to people who were in bedwhen.

The first time his father made the trip for a spring football game, Mississippi State. for Florida was Dan Mullen.. Anyway, [Mullen’s] from New Hampshire. And he says, ‘The guy who really knows this stuff is Chip Kelly up at the.

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(AP) — Authorities say a man who was shot by police last week in Mississippi has died. said narcotics agents investigating possible drug activity near Jackson State University encountered two men who immediately ran to an.

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In the best circumstances, residents with limited resources must arrange rushed.

Anita Mukherjee, an assistant professor of actuarial science, risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin. prison operators to save money and expand bed capacity. In Mississippi, state law requires private.

Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a prison farm, the oldest prison, and the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi.

Figs are one of the most interesting fruits you can grow. LSU has played a critical role in the breeding and development of many cultivars that you can find at.

When I suggest a $50 hole, I mean itshould be much wider than the root ball, which gives the roots a better chance to grow into the surrounding landscape bed. I like to add. of horticulture at the Mississippi State University Coastal.

In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) established the Act Early Ambassador program, a network of state. The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies, has been selected to serve as Mississippi’s Act.

Check any reputable published map of rivers in Minnesota and you will see that the Mississippi originates at Lake Itasca, in the northern part of that state. town of Veblen is a candidate for the headwaters of the Mississippi. Look out,

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"Every night, I get into bed, read about an hour. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a license to the University of Mississippi to.

After a week-long search, Onyeaghala’s body was found Tuesday in the Mississippi River near. according to a release the university issued Tuesday afternoon. “I ask all members of the Winona State University community to keep.

“Negroes grab the Defender like a hungry mule grabs fodder,” he was told in.

a hot bed for talent. McCray was present at the press conference on Tuesday and is expected to be announced by the University at any time.Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's intelligence agency has detained several people who gave information to the United States before the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden, officials in Pakistan said Wednesday.

The agency detained several people who cooperated with the CIA, a Pakistani official said; the official did not know the precise number. One rented a safe house to the CIA in Abbottabad, the Pakistani city where U.S. special forces killed bin Laden early May 2, a Pakistani source familiar with the arrests said Wednesday.

Some of the CIA sources in Pakistani custody were low-level and not considered crucial, a senior administration official told CNN. The official said the sources were not spying on Pakistan, and therefore should be dealt with leniently.

News of the arrests, first reported by The New York


Times, is likely to further strain an already rocky relationship between the two countries.

The United States has complained that Pakistan has not done enough to fight al Qaeda and other militants. Senior U.S. officials also suspect that some in Pakistan helped bin Laden live there. CIA Director Leon Panetta reportedly has told legislators that Pakistan was either involved in helping the world's most wanted fugitive avoid detection or was incompetent for not knowing he was living on Pakistani soil.

Pakistan, meanwhile, has protested unilateral action by the United States in Pakistan, such as the raid that killed bin Laden: The United States did not tell Pakistan about it until the raid was over. It also has complained about civilian casualties caused by suspected U.S. drone strikes that have targetedIslamic militants in northwestern Pakistan.

Now comes news that Pakistan has detained some of the very people who helped the United States find and kill bin Laden.

Panetta discussed the arrests Friday with Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani and Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Pakistan's head of military intelligence, the official said. A U.S. official confirmed that the discussion had taken place but would not give details about the arrests.

The first Pakistani official did not say whether the owner of the safe house was suspected of being a CIA informant. He asked not to be identified because he was discussing sensitive internal matters. The second Pakistani official asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the news media.

A Pakistani military spokesman confirmed that there were


"a number of people arrested in Abbottabad after the raid on the Osama bin Laden compound" but said he could not say what relationship, if any, they may have had with the CIA.

Some were seized at "a house in Abbottabad that was used to monitor the bin Laden compound activities," said Syed Azmat Ali, the military spokesman. "They could have been Pakistanis who were informants to the CIA."

Ali said those arrests were made by Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, "immediately after the raid, so this is not a new piece of information."

He and the intelligence official who asked not to be named were responding to a report in The New York Times that Pakistan had arrested five CIA informants who gave information to the United Statesbefore the raid on bin Laden's hideout.

The newspaper attributed the report to "American officials" without naming them.

It said one of those arrested was a Pakistani army major who had kept records of license plate numbers on cars that stopped at the bin Laden compound. Ali, the Pakistani military spokesman, said that assertion was "categorically" not true.

The newspaper also cited a top CIA official's damning assessment of Pakistan's cooperation with American counterterrorism efforts.

Asked last week at a private briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee to rate Pakistan's cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism operations, using a scale of one to 10, Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell gave it a three, the Times said, quoting "officials familiar with the exchange."

Asked Wednesday by CNN to rate the Pakistani spy


nominated to be secretary of defense, defended the relationship to Congress in confirmation hearings last week.

"They maintain relationships with certain terrorist groups," he said, adding: "They continue to not take aggressive action with regard to these safe havens, and ... they're concerned about the sovereignty results and criticisms of the United States when, in fact, my view is that the terrorists in their country are probably the greatest threat to their sovereignty."

During a visit last week to Pakistan, Panetta raised the issue of two raids that appear to have failed because of intelligence leaks in recent weeks, a U.S. official said.

The United States had shown the Pakistanis evidence of two bomb-making sites near the Afghan border, the official said, asking not to be named discussing intelligence and diplomaticissues.

The Americans believed the sites were being used to stage attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

When the Pakistanis raided the sites, both were empty.

"The targets appear to have been tipped off," the U.S. official said.

The relationship between the two countries has been in a downward spiral over disputes about how to pursue counterterrorism efforts.

One reason Pakistanis have supported militants in the tribal region is that the fighters are seen as a bulwark for Pakistani interests. That includes a focus against the influence of longtime rival India in Afghanistan. Despite fears that elements sympathetic to militants are working for the ISI, American officials have argued that maintaining an alliance with Pakistan is crucial to the success of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.

The United States is suspected of carrying out routine strikes


by unmanned aircraft targeting suspected terrorists in Pakistan: two suspected strikes Wednesday killed 15 suspected militants, two Pakistani officials said.

Pakistani officials have said there were more than 100 such strikes in their country last year, a record, according to CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen. They think most of the casualties were foot soldiers or civilians, not high-value terrorism targets, he said.

The New America Foundation in Washington, which maintains an independent count of reported drone strikes, says there were 118 of them in 2010, killing 600 to 1,000 people.

Polls show that nine of 10 Pakistanis view the strikes unfavorably.

Many Pakistanis were angered by the case of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who was charged with killing two Pakistani men but then released after compensation was paid to theirfamilies.

Davis described the two men as attackers and said he shot them in self-defense. Lahore Police Chief Aslam Tareen, however, said the case was "clear-cut murder."

According to Davis, the shooting occurred January 27 after two men attacked him as he drove through a busy Lahore neighborhood, the U.S. Embassy has said.

U.S. officials originally said Davis was a diplomat and tried to claim diplomatic immunity but then revealed that he was a CIA contractor.

CIA chief Panetta's unannounced visit last week was the latest in a series by U.S. officials -- including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and Sen. John Kerry -- efforts to smooth things over after bin Laden was killed in the Navy SEAL raid.

The Pakistani military said


in April that drone strikes "not only undermine our national effort against terrorism but turn public support against our efforts, which remains the key to success."

The United States has regarded Pakistan as a top ally in its fight against the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Haqqani Network and other Pakistan-based militants who have launched attacks against international and Afghan troops in Afghanistan.

Washington has argued that Pakistan has not done enough to go after al Qaeda and other extremists. U.S. officials have expressed impatience with the Pakistanis and suspicions that elements of the ISI directorate are sympathetic to militants.

CNN's Nasir Habib, Aliza Kassim and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.Like any form of motorsports , drag racing is a passion that never dies. Case in point, check out this woman, who is an admitted "60-some-odd years old," caught in this video taking her murdered-out Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG to the track for a little side-by-side action. As it turns out, drag racing is even a family affair, too, as her husband hits the strip in a second-gen Dodge Viper She says that she's been racing since she was a teenager, and she's still logging some solid times in her "not totally stock" Mercedes-Benz , which she claims is laying down around 475 horsepower from a chipped computer and cold-air induction. That's well worth of its "BADBENZ" license plate, if you ask us. The video below shows a short


Protests in Assam | Photo Credit: PTI

Dhaka: Bangladesh asked India to strengthen security for its Guwahati mission after protesters defaced two signposts near the chancery amid anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Bill protests in Assam. Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a convoy of the (Bangladesh) assistant high commissioner was also attacked in Guwahati on Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry in Dhaka in an official statement said Indian high commissioner Riva Ganguly Das met acting foreign secretary Kamrul Hasan at his office this evening.

Hasan "protested about the attack on the convoy of the (Bangladesh) assistant high commissioner and vandalisation of the signposts (of Bangladesh Chancery in Guwahati)".

"He (Ahsan) requested for the protection of personnel and property of the Mission by the host government," the statement said.

The Indian envoy assured Dhaka that the Indianauthorities were alerted of the incident and were directed to increase the security of Bangladesh chancery and the assistant high commissioner’s residence in the city.

Two persons succumbed to bullet wounds in police firing on Thursday in Assam’s capital as thousands of protesters indulged in arson and vandalism. Eight people were injured in protests and as many as 300 people were detained.

Curfew was extended for 48 hours in several districts of the state, internet services were snapped in 10 districts. Several districts of the state saw violent protests despite repeated assurance from Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi that their rights and culture will be protected despite the CAB under Clause 6 of the Assam Accord.

Former Assam CM Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,


MEXICO CITY (AP) — There it was on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear.

But police weren't making an arrest. Prosecutors say they apparently were taking orders from criminals. Just hours after the three were seized, they were found asphyxiated and beaten to death.

Mexicans have become inured to lurid tales of police collaboration with narcotics gangs during 5 ½ years of a drug war that has cost more than 47,500 lives. But seldom can they actually see it occur, and the video broadcast on national television was a shocker.

"One assumes that in some cities ... the municipal police work for the drug cartels," said Jorge Chabat an expert on security and drugtrafficking at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching. "But what is different here is that there is a video. It's not the same thing to imagine that this going on, and to see it."

The Jan. 20 video released by prosecutors late Wednesday shows a police truck pulling up to the hotel in the city of Lagos de Moreno, quickly followed by a pickup carrying four armed men in civilian clothing. A city policeman carrying an assault rifle runs over to their truck and is given what appears to be a list. Then he and his fellow officers trot into the hotel and present the list at the reception desk, apparently asking what rooms the men are staying in.

In the next segment of the video, the victims are


trotted out of the hotel in their underwear with their hands cuffed behind their backs. One is being hustled along by a man in civilian dress, who stuffs him into a patrol car. The gunmen — police are investigating whether they belong to the Jalisco New Generation drug gang — appear to be calling the shots throughout, with the police officers serving as gofers.

The police then watch and wait in front of the hotel while the men's luggage and vehicle are stolen. Finally, the police truck carrying the victims follows the gunmen as they drive away in the own pickup and the stolen vehicle.

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While the kidnapping and murder occurred in January, and the faces of several officers were clearly seen on the videos, the officers were notdetained until June 6, when soldiers and state police raided a local police station. And they still have not been formally charged with any crime.

"It took time to obtain the video tapes, to do the investigation, and to get the arrest warrants," said Jalisco state prosecutor's spokesman Lino Gonzalez said Thursday. "We didn't have the information."

In any case, the release of the dramatic images comes less than three weeks before national and state elections in which security is a major issue. Critics accuse President Felipe Calderon of setting off a bloodbath with his strategy against gangs, while his party's presidential candidate, Josefina Vazquez, has suggested her opponents are ready to compromise with the cartels.

Jalisco is governed by Calderon's party. The man who was mayor of Lagos de Moreno


(recorded by Elvis on May 16, 1971), however it was computer processed to make it run longer; the story has it, the producers were offered this 'remix' as the real deal and released it not knowing the track had been faked;

very nicely done design and artwork featuring an 8-page booklet, informative liner notes and several in-concert photographs, with the only drawback being the fact that all of the pictures used were not taken in Las Vegas but during the June '73 tour (most likely in Atlanta, GA on June 30).

a complete soundboard recording of very good audio quality (and quite an improvement over the 2000 release of the same show);

features a total of 19 tracks , with "Can't Help Falling In Love" and "Closing Vamp" presented as aMy First Time (play)

My First Time is an off-Broadway play that opened on July 12, 2007 at New World Stages and ran until January 22, 2010. The show is based on a website that grew in popularity in 1998 "that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times" and "features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people ... just like you." Experiences submitted by the audience before the performance are featured during the show, and My First Time received press from CNN.com, TMZ and Forbes when it featured a promotion during which virgins could attend the play for free.

Production history

The show is produced by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome


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Decades before the first electronic data networking experiments, communication and printing technologies have already created a world where false news can wire itself around the Earth much faster than the sober truth. In 1915, one erroneous report can already be translated into hundreds tongues, repeated by thousands of outlets, being seen by millions of readers in a day. We flatter ourselves in the 21st Century by imagining this is a newer phenomenon; we just carry it around in our pockets now.

While British history involves many episodes of oppressed speech (see above), and cultural censorship is still taking place in Britain as much as anywhere else in the world a century ago, British society had been characterized by a liberalization of thought and word by the time the war


move out of “a full sense of responsibility” for the gloomy state of the war — a situation the Globe blames on unnamed civilians, an implied attack on Prime Minister Asquith’s coalition government.

No man who is honestly out for king and country could be expected to tolerate indefinitely the intrigues of the politicians.

Lord Kitchener, acting with a single eye to the interests of his King and country, has tolerated manoeuvers and machinations which none but the patriotic soldier would have endured for a day.

but even with a man so strong and independent as Lord Kitchener, there comes a breaking point. It is for the King and the people to decide whether that point has been reached.

Lord Kitchener has tendered his resignation to His Majesty. The fact that hestatement that Lord Kitchener had an audience of the King on Thursday and tendered his resignation, which was not accepted.

The publication of this information excited the greatest interest in all quarters. It had the desired effect; it prevented an entire change in the responsibility for the direction of the war being carried out behind the backs of the nation.

[…] Lord Kitchener does not visit the Sovereign in his sick room merely to make a pleasant au revoir…

Just after 10:30 this evening, a company of police descends on the Globe building at the Strand to stop the linotype presses. In fact, before they leave, the molds and plates of the entire evening’s edition has been stripped from the machines and removed, all copies seized, the motors unplugged, the lights


extinguished. The Globe is being punished for broadcasting false and dispiriting rumors in wartime, and the constables are acting under the orders of the British Home Secretary John Simon, who knows as well as anyone that the precarious war situation is not being accurately portrayed in the British press.

Editor Charles Palmer immediately turns to his fellow newsmen, many of whom have chafed at the restrictions on their various agendas and stories, to comment. “I cannot say in what ‘The Globe’ has offended, because no definite allegation has yet been made, but the action of the Government is clearly a challenge to the freedom of the Press and the right of public criticism,” he says. Secretary Simon is a Liberal, and the Globe is undoubtedly aligned with the Conservativecensor all the mail, with consequences

Fenner Brockway (see above) has been a journalist longer than he has been a pacifist. Born in India, Brockway is a vegetarian and avowed socialist who came to his convictions through his family's missionary background. Now a member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP),…

After months of relentless advances, today the Central Powers come to a standstill along almost the entire line from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border. The Russian Army is still falling back a bit around Lutsk and the Pripet Marshes, but resistance is stiffening at Dvinsk and…

In the wee hours of the morning today, the German radio transmitter at Nauen is fighting to get a message through the static-filled sky to the Kaiser's embassy in the United States. In


the chief executive and founder of the Lancashire based charity organisation Support and Education for Eating Disorders (Seed).

Seed offers drop-in sessions and an advice service for sufferers, their families and carers. The charity also operates the not-for-profit private treatment service Breathe, for which she serves as director.

Shelley who has a long-established background in mental health care, had an eating disorder that developed in her teenage years through until her early-20s.

The 45-year-old used her own experiences and road to recovery as a template in setting up the much needed service that relies on donations.

She said: “Even when people become aware (that someone may have an eating disorder) there’s a tendency for there still to be an enormous stigma and fear around it and rather than be helpful people avoidinto Mars orbit this week.

The differential definitely hints at a new paradigm for space exploration — one that's taking hold not only in Bangalore, but around the world. At the same time, it hints at the dramatically different objectives for MOM and Maven, and the dramatically different environments in which those missions took shape.

Science vs. technology

MOM is primarily a technology demonstration mission, and secondarily a scientific endeavor. Just as the first Space Age served to demonstrate U.S. vs. Soviet technology on a world stage, MOM serves as an advertisement for India's satellite launch industry. The Mars mission builds upon India's first moon mission, Chandrayaan 1, which went into lunar orbit in 2008.

The MOM orbiter's 33-pound (15-kilogram) scientific payload comprises five instruments that will monitor Mars' atmosphere and weather,


take color pictures of the surface and map the planet's mineralogy over the course of six months. In contrast, Maven's 143-pound (65-kilogram) payload includes nine instruments to study Mars' upper atmosphere as part of a yearlong mission and a decades-long scientific campaign. It can also serve as a relay for communications with NASA probes on the Martian surface.

"MOM is essentially a first-time test of technology and capability, whereas Maven is primarily a scientific mission utilizing the development of now well-proven U.S. technology," engineer and technology manager Krishna Pillai wrote in his KTwoP blog last November when both probes were launched. "Technology development on the one hand, and a scientific investigation on the other."

Because MOM's scientific payload is so small, it could use a low-cost, made-in-India PSLV launcher —and even at that, the probe had to go through an orbit-stretching series of maneuvers to travel from Earth to Mars. Maven blasted off for Mars atop a much more powerful Atlas 5 rocket — but the launch services alone cost $187 million, which is more than twice MOM's total mission cost.

"As missions go, Maven represents a Mercedes 'S' class to the Volkswagen that is MOM," Pillai wrote.

An Indian man dances with a poster featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a message reading "Congratulations on the Success of Mangalyaan" at the state headquarters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Bhopal. Mangalyaan is the Hindi name for India's Mars Orbiter Mission, which has just entered Martian orbit. Sanjeev Gupta / EPA

How risks and costs are weighed

MOM's simpler


spacecraft, simpler payload and lower launch costs explain some of the disparity in the price tags, but other factors play just as big a part, said Bruce Betts, director of science and technology for the Planetary Society, a California-based nonprofit space advocacy group.

"Where NASA gets into a lot of money is in trying to ensure success," Betts said. "NASA takes a lot less risk than other space efforts."

Two of NASA's big failures at Mars missions served as cautionary tales: In September 1999, the $193 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed into the Red Planet's surface upon arrival, due in large part to a measurement conversion error. Three months later, the $120 million Mars Polar Lander crashed as well, probably because of a sensor software glitch.

Those embarrassments led NASA tojust damn good and excellent value!
I found myself in Kilburn for the first time (I'm more an SE type of guy) and with a touch of trepidation made my way to Ariana II. This was the first stop on the "Alphabetical Round the World Eating Tour" that my friend Sharon S and I have decided to embark upon. The rules are simple: each month, we find a place that serves ethnic food from a country with the relevant letter. As this was the first month, we needed an "A" country and, since neither of us had ever had it, decided on Afghan cuisine.
The restaurant is comfortably decorated with old Persian-style rugs and appears to be family owned. This was further reinforced by our waitress telling me it was


a good thing her uncle wasn't there when I managed to spill my appetiser all over the rug. Apparently he's quite fond of his rugs and would have been very upset had he seen it covered in meat. Oops...I swear that plate flew off the table on its own!
Anyways, more to the point, they were incredibly gracious despite my faux pas and brought another dish to replace the one I scattered to the four winds.
I would need the menu in front of me to accurately spell the names of the dishes, so I'll settle for describing the food.
Our appetisers comprised of a flat bread folded in half and fried with a meaty filling, some vegetable samosas, and a very large plate of hummus. The flat bread was deliciousOne of the people I admire most in my life is my grandmother Saralee, who became a fine pianist at a very young age, which earned her a scholarship to Julliard in the early 1940s. This is a woman who was devoted to her husband and two children, but was also so driven to plan her life around the piano. She's almost 90 and she still practices almost every day, running those arthritic fingers up and down the keys as if the very sound of music could feed the hungry, as if the perfect sonata or the most elegant concerto could achieve as much or more as the CEO of a corporation or a doctor in an emergency room. When she plays, the stakes are always that high.


couldn’t hear the street outside. The soap dripped down in even lines and the world was momentarily white. The car was my cocoon. The bird shit and seeds and yellow pollen that had stuck so goddamn tight to the windshield began to flake and peel off. The car was shedding. I was dry inside but really I was molting, little cells of memory stripping off my arms and legs with every shot of water. The last time I saw her, and that gap between her clavicle and her shoulder, and the time I laughed so hard at a wedding that she had to kick me to keep herself from laughing too, and the day so many years ago when she defended me in front of her friend, sayingshe got up on waterskis the summer she turned 80. You should know that she routinely pulled in 140-pound halibut off the back of a fishing boat in Alaska. You should know that she completed a ropes course in Costa Rica in her 60s. You should know that she can play a mean game of pinochle, and that she has the purest poker face in the world. You should know that her pies are so good that my brother and his wife used her recipe for their wedding desserts.

You should know that, when I was a kid and terribly shy, she was one of the few adults in the world who really understood what that meant.

You should know that when I was little, she was the soft grandma,


TRE TORRI 2004

Having reached the twentieth edition, the TRE TORRI may be considered an institution. We are all proud of it, and I want to underline my great satisfaction for the latest edition, once again successful, thanks to the large number of countries that have taken part in it and the technical value at an Olympic level.

TRE TORRI 2004 is a beautiful reality, which, on its twentieth anniversary, has been praised by the world leading judo countries.

ITALIAN ATHLETES AT THE TRE TORRI 2004

It’s a real pity that the Italian Olympic national Team did not take part in the competition because of prior engagements. The team was in Korea training for the Olympic Games Athens 2004. Another missed chance for the Blues. We wish them all the best fororganization of the tournament, the friendly atmosphere which S.Elpidio welcomed the guests with. He complimented us on this account. The promise by Shota Khabareli that the Georgian team will participate in the TRE TORRI in the future is a heartwarming prospect for the future prestige of the TRE TORRI.

THE COME BACK OF A GEORGIA WISE GREEK TEAM

We welcome the return of the Olympic Greek team to the TRE TORRI 2004. The Hellenic team, of “Georgian origin”, is lead by Nikolaos Iliadis, Head Coach, father of the neo-European champion at Bucarest ’04, Ilias Iliadis. Their taking part in our tournament increases our prestige, also in view of the fact that the next Olympic Games ‘04 will be held in Athens in August. Greece has recently been quite successful on


the international scene. The best results belong to this year: the young Ilias Iliadis came third both at the Paris ‘04 tournament in February and in Hamburg in March. Finally, he obtained his best results in the first semester of the year by becoming European Champion in Bucarest, in May 2004. Ilias Iliadis “The ice on the cake”, 90 kg. category, beat the powerful Yosyany Despaygne. A spectacular match, during which the two athletes openly and bravely fought and the neo European champion managed to overcome his opponent against all the odds , after a number of continuously changing situations concerning the score, thanks to his great willingness to win and fighting spirit.

ASTONISHING VENEZUELA

A last minute’s surprise, the Venezuelan Olympic team, which was one day late in joiningin the 66 kg. One has represented his Country six times in a row at the World Champioship, from 1993 to 2001.

Yukimasa Nakamura's World Championships:

1993 - Hamilton (Canada)

1995 - Makuhari (Japan)

1997 - Parigi (France)

1999 - Birmingham (England)

2001 - Monaco (Germany)

FEMALE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITIONS WON BY THE CUBAN TEAM

Ronaldo Veitia’s girls have once again been the main protagonists in the competition. They have won 6 golden medals and a bronze one in the 48 kg. with the very young Yamila Zambrano. The Cuban team, made up of important athletes, undoubtfully has a very high technical and competitive value.

In the 66 Kg. category Donato Erra, CS. Carabinieri, came fifth and Alessandro Bruyere, Akiyama, came seventh. Because of a strange coincidence, our two athletes ended up in two different rounds and were


defeated by the Uzbek Murat Kalikulov (an athlete already qualified for the Olimpyc Games in Athens ’04): Alessandro Bruyere, winner of the latest adition of the tournament, in the quarter-final while Donato Erra in the final for the third place.

In the –73 kg. Category Marco Maddaloni came 5th. He put up a good performance in the most numerous category, 46 athletes, fighting at a very high technical level. In the first round, quite unluckily, Marco fought the Japanese Yugi Sonoda, winner in the category. Our boy put all his stamina and technical skill in the fight, but was defeated by an athlete who would show all his value in the course of the competition.If on one side Marco Maddaloni starts the competition facing a very strong opponent, onthe other he will have the chance of making up for it in the repechage. Carefully coached by his brother Pino Maddaloni (Olimpyc Champion Sidney ’00) and advised by Masami Matsushita. He starts his way to the much longed for medal.

Marco Maddaloni's repechage

In the repechage Marco Maddaloni defeated respectively Marko Petric (Judo Klub Olimpija), the Russian Kostantin Zaretskiy, the Algerian Omar Meridja, Orazio D'Allura from G.S. Fiamme Gialle - Roma. In the final for the third place, he fought the Belgian Dirk Van Tichelt, who turned out to be a worthy Judo fighter. A long and exciting day for the athlete and his brother, who had to settle for the fifth place. We want to compliment the young man on his good performance, and tell him that soon


his efforts will be rewarded.

Another Italian athlete who stando out in this category: Francesco Bruyere. The Piemontese athlete from Akiyama came seventh after getting through two rounds, beating the German Norbert Wessinger in the first and the Carabiniere Antonio Vastarella in the second and finally being defeated by the Uzbeko Egamnazar Akbarov. Akbarov has trodden the international boards for some time, we have seen him at the international tournament in Paris. The Uzbek fights at a good technical and tactical level, he is physically well-built and, furthermore he will take part in the Olympic Games at Athens ’04.

Unlucky day! Francesco Bruyere, who in last year’s edition of the TRE TORRI faced Jimmy Pedro (USA) in the final, has been as good this year. We wish the athlete ofthe Italian National Team, coached by Pierangelo Toniolo, better luck in the next TRE TORRI tournaments.

In the –81 kg. Category Silver for Antonio Ciano - Among the Italian athletes, Antonio Ciano, from the Star Judo Club of Naples coached by Gianni Maddaloni, stood out. The Neapolitan athlete stepped on the podium this year, in this very special edition. Ciano surprisingly beat the very strong Georgian Grigol Shinjikasvhili, but was beaten in the final by the Polish Robert Krawczyk (Seoi Nage’s Ippon), an opponent too strong for our champion. In the same category (-81 kg.) stood out Emidio Centracchio, following his father’s footsteps, who put up good performances and reached the semi-finals. He was beaten by the Polish Robert Krawczyk and by the Russian Salamu Mezhidov for the third


and fifth place. It is really a pity, because we could have had a final all Italian.

In the -90 kg. category Stefano Sorelli won the bronze medal - The athlete of Neapolitan origins was beaten in the semifinals by Ilias Iliadis, European champion at Bucarest ’04. This category, full of illustrious names, has been a particularly difficult one. In spite of this, our athlete, from F.F.O.O. Polizia di Stato - Roma and the Italian national team, did not panic. Stefano Sorelli, Silver in the last editino of our tournament behind the Japanese Yuta Yazaki, confirmed his talents and came third before the German Marcel Jamet. During the preliminary heats, Sorelli won athletes such as the Algerian Khaled Meddah, silver medal at the African Championships ’04 and, in theJapanese Yohei Takai. Again our athletes Paolo Isabella and Brandolini Nicola (Dojo Equipe Bologna) were beaten in the quarter finals by the Uzbeck Abdullo Tangriev. In the repechage the Carabiniere Paolo Isabella will beat Fausto Gobbi, the Greek Vasilis Iliadis, will be overcome by the formidable Georgian Lasha Guejejiani, while the Bolognese Nicola Brandolini will be beaten by the German Nils Kopke.

MALE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

In the -60 kg. Category, the Japanese Takeshi Ogawa won the gold medal - The forecasts about the winner came true and the Japanese Takeshi Ogawa, presently n°2 in Japan and winner of the Jigoro Kano Cup 2002, won two Waza ari in the final. We want to underline the Morote Seoi nage of the Japanese, in which the right arm, according to us, must


make a big effortto throw. Still, Ogawa manages to do it when facing the formidable Vakhtan Khositashvili, a very high level athlete, with a style typical of the Georgian school. The Georgian’s “palmarès” is highly respectable: he came 2nd at the world University Games in China 2002, National Champion Georgia ’04. The curricula of the two finalists explain the technical and agonistic levels of this category at the TRE TORRI ’04. The second place of the Georgian Vakhtan Khositashvili will be a disillusionment for his technical manager Shota Khabareli (Olimpyc Champion at Moscow ’80) a very well known character among the members of the jet set of the World and Olympic Judo.

The Belgian Fabrice Flamand stand out for his value in the -60 Kg. category. He beats respectivelythe tough Neapolitan Francesco Cozzo from Star Judo Club Napoli and the Algerian Omar Rebahi. The Belgian Fabrice Flamand will give in to the Georgian Vakhtan Khositashvili in the semifinal and will come third after beating the Slovenian Simon Mohorovic. A great satisfaction for the Belgian athlete coached by Didier SAUBLEN. Among the Italians stood out Marco Caudana, who came fifth. The Piedmontese, performing for the regional selection of Piedmont, went through the first heat beating the Slovenian Simon Mohorovic, and the second heat beating Marco D’Auria of F.F.O.O. - Roma. In an impossibile semifinal he gave in for “ippon” to the Japanese Takeshi Ogawa, after putting up a good fight. The Algerian Omar Rebahi, eliminated in the quarter finals by the good Belgian athlete Fabrice Flamand, thanks


to a repechage will come third after beating Marco Caudana. Algeria, always present with its Olympic team, has shown an excellent technical level, both among its male and female athletes.

In the -66 kg. category the Cuban Yordanis Arencibia won the gold medal. It was Arencibia Yordanis’ day. He excelled everybody, proving his talents and technical-tactical abilities, by now at an Olympic level. The Cuban, in spite of his young age, 24, has on his credit side a very respectful career.

Arencibia will try to win the gold medal in Athens next August, after failing to win it in Sidney. In our opinion, after seeing his performance at this year’s TRE TORRI, he may well succed.

On the “half-board”- A, the opponents who theoretically were more dangerous to him were SanjarZokirov - UZB, the Georgian, a naturalized Greek, Zindiridis Revar - GRE, who has already taken part in the Paris tournament ’04, and finally the Japanese Hiroyuki Akimoto. The final was highly spectacular thanks to the Ippon, made up of a kind of Sode tsuri komi goshi invented on the spot and adapted to the defensive reaction of the Japanese, who failed his aspiration for victory after facing a real champion. Hiroyuki Akimoto fought very well in the final and was highly appreciated by the audience. This very young Japanese boy was Japanese Champion in 2003 in a no-weight category at “High School” level.

In the –73 kg. Took part athletes like the French-Tunisian Ferrid Kheder, who already took part in the TRE TORRI 2002. The Tunisian Athlete, training


for the Olympic Games Athens ’04, qualified in his category -66 Kg., a good result, in order to reach the ideal weight, but there is no arguing with the imperative “Le Jeux sont les Jeux”. Very interesting was the performance of the Spanish Ivan Ovied, who, after going through four heats, was beaten in the semi-final by the winner in the category. The Spanish will be third, bronze medal, after beating an illustrious athlete, winner of TRE TORRI ’01, the Algerian Nourredine Yagoubi. On the other side, the Belgian Dirk Van Tichelt wins his bronze medal after beating our Marco Maddaloni. An interesting athlete this young man, who performed very well and had his way to the final barred only by the Georgian David Margosvhili.

In the - 81kg. Category - Robert Krawczyk won the gold medal. This athlete, by now ready to obtain important results in international competitions and a candidate for Athens, has finally reached his first success at the TRE TORRI ’04. He also won the bronze medal in the 2001 tournament. The Polish athlete successively won over our veteran Fernando Marverti, the Algerian Amar Benikhlef, the latter qualified for Athens too, the Japanese Eigo Nose, the Italian Emidio Centracchio in the semi-final and Antonio Ciano by Seoi Nage Ippon in the final. A superlative performance by the Polish, who is ready to play a relevant part at Athens. In this category, we can single out athletes such as the Russian Salamu Mezhidov, already qualified for Athens ’04, and the Georgian Grigol Shinjikasvhili,


respectively come third at the TRE TORRI’04.

In the - 90 category the Georgian, naturalized as a Greek, Ilias Iliadis won the gold medal. Grecee has for some time taken the initiative of naturalizing athletes from Georgia, which has already allowed them to create a competitive team, as we have seen it at the Paris tournament last February. Such a choice, not agreed upon by everybody in Greece, is giving the first positive results in international competitions, with the young Ilias Iliadis who won the bronze medal at the Paris and Humburg ’04 tournaments, and recently became European Champion, -81Kg. He has taken part at TRE TORRI 2004 - 90 kg. Beating the Cuban Yosvany Despaygne in the final. It is a highly spectacular final, in which the strengthalready won medals in international tournaments (super in Moscow) already qualified for Athens, the Italian champion Renato Vinassa and the Italian champion ‘04 Mauro Pasta. In the final, the Cuban Oreidis Despaygne has fought the Georgian George Kizilashvili. In this category there are such athletes as the Vice-World Champion at Sydney 2000, the Canadian Nicolas Gill, and the Algerian, qualified for Athens, Sami Belgroun, both bronze medal winners at THE TRE TORRI ’04.

In the +100 kg. category the Uzbekistani Abdullo Tangriev won the gold medal. 15 athletes have competed in this category and, as expected, the Uzbekistani Abdullo Tangriev (bronze medal at Osaka ’03 World Championship) won the gold medal. The Uzbekistani athlete, well ahead of all the others, has won all his matches by Ippon. Thanks to


his favoured technique, a kind of Seoi nage with a grip on the sleeves, several times used in international tournaments, Tangriev defeats the Italian athletes Fausto Gobbi, Paolo Isabella, Nicola Brandolini.
Really impressive it is the way he won the match with the Japanese Yohei Takai, beating him by Ippon. The Uzbekistani athlete applies a technique which is as usual half way through between Seoi nage and Sode tsuri komi goshi, followed by an Osae komi after the knock down, in order to get full marks. During the mach one got the impression that the two athletes belonged to two different categories. As usual, the Japanese school stands out. Yohei Takai, a nice, playful young athlete, has shown his favourite techniques, among them O uchi gari - Uchi mata.In his leg, the Japanese Yohei Takai seems to have no rivals: he beats respectively the Chinese Wang Fei, the German Nico Kanning and finally the most competitive Georgian Lasha Guejejiani. Along his way to the final, the Japanese has proved to be worth the gold medal in a competition that turns out to be an excellent one. Worth mentioning is the Georgian Lasha Guejejiani, who is taking part in the Olympic Games in Athens, and shared the bronze medal with the German Nils Kopke at the TRE TORRI.

THE FEMALE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION

In the - 48 category The Algerian ‘04 African Champion Haddad Soraya won the gold medal. 13 athletes, representing 6 of the most important nations, have taken part in this competition: The German Julia Mattijass from the