study as pigmies like myself in intellect and acquirement are able to prosecute; the perusal and comparison of Scripture and the works of pious and judicious men on the subject. I wonder if you have read Mr. Williams�s account of his missionary enterprises in the South Seas. It is deeply interesting; truly the �isles are submitting to the Lord� and literally �wailing for His law� for in many islands the parting request of the inhabitants was �Do send us a teacher.�

There is a similarity, if I may compare myself with such a man, between his temptations or rather besetments and my own that makes his experience very interesting to me. O that I might be made as useful in my lowly and obscure station as he was inHer thoughts expose a teenager�s touching combination of self-doubt and self-aggrandizement:

Then the change came. Mary Ann�s religious reading eventually led her to works that were critical of Evangelical doctrine and of general Christian assumptions, such as Charles Hennell�s Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity. At around the same time, she also became friends with Cara Bray and her husband Charles Bray, and with Cara�s sister, Sara Hennell. Cara and Sara, as if to make the ring of Brays and Hennells as confusingly intertwined as possible, were also the sisters of the same Charles Hennell whose book played such a strong role in clarifying Mary Ann�s rejection of Evangelicalism. Intellectually, the Brays and the Hennells were more daring and skeptical than any group Mary Ann had ever entered. It


appears, though, that her new friends merely brought into the open the doubts she�d already started to entertain on her own.

The decisive break came in January 1842: she told her father she would no longer go to church. This infuriated him, yet her decision turned out to be striking less for its boldness than for the values of tolerance and evenhandedness it opened up for her future. Far from announcing a new rigidity, a reactionary atheism similar but opposite to Dostoevsky�s reactionary piety, Eliot�s shift took her away from her childhood severity and started moving her toward the open-mindedness of her novels.

The move was greatly strengthened by her first major literary achievement, when she translated into English the infamous Strauss criticism of the Gospels, The Life of Jesus.Mary Ann started the translation in 1844, and it was published in 1846. �

Strauss was the most influential of the contemporary German scholars who questioned the historical basis for traditional interpretations of Christianity. Mary Ann admired his writing, but over the two years of her consuming research and translation work, she became a bit weary of his text. In addition, she couldn�t help noticing the mistakes, repetitions and dubious conclusions he made along the way. The experience, as Ashton notes, seems to have confirmed Mary Ann in her resistance to most forms of extremism. Her immersion in the book�s atmosphere of unrelieved lecturing heightened her refusal to surrender to oversimplification, perhaps especially when she tended to agree with a position. She was suspicious of both reflexive approval and


reflexive condemnation, of any judgment incapable of accommodating the conflicting pressures and tricky undertows of personal experience.

It�s part of her intellectual honesty that she never became an atheist. She settled on agnosticism because she didn�t believe the existence of God had been definitely disproved any more than it had been definitely proved. She also declined to presume that the influence of Christianity was automatically bad. This struck her as no closer to the truth than the presumption that the influence of Christianity was automatically good.

Yet in the novels, she seldom comes across as dithering or indecisive. Her Evangelical phase was an early and crude expression of that ardent and sophisticated certainty we sense throughout her work. She is, from start to finish, a passionate and committed writer. Theparadox is that she is passionate about being dispassionate, fervently committed to not being fervently committed. Aware that total fairness is impossible, mindful that bias always exists despite our best efforts, she still believes the attempt at fairness is worth making, and worth making with the same strength that fanatics bring to their zealotry. Aesthetically, it�s quite an achievement to dig up layer upon layer of social and psychological analysis as moderately yet forcefully as her novels do. If Dostoevsky�s work is notable for its volatility, Eliot�s is notable for its solidity and balance, the same qualities that can be seen in her handling of her lost faith and in her attitude toward Strauss.

3 � Love Abroad

Eliot and Dostoevsky were lucky in their long-term relationships. Dostoevsky met his


second wife, Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, when he was in his mid-forties.� She rescued him from financial disaster, clearing the way for his final masterpieces.�Eliot, of course, lived with George Henry Lewes for twenty-four years, from 1854 to 1878.�Though technically never married, they thought of each other as husband and wife, and Lewes played a strong practical role in assisting her throughout her career.

By the time she was introduced to Lewes, the former Mary Ann Evans had fine-tuned her name a bit further: she�d started calling herself Marian after becoming a boarder at the Chapman house in London in January 1851.�With remarkable speed, a tribute to the knowledge and skill she brought to her assignments, Marian had worked her way to the position of uncredited editor of the Westminsterforeign plays to the English stage.� The grandson of a well-known theatrical comedian, Lewes was a lively, often funny writer. He also excelled at private anecdotes, which Marian particularly enjoyed hearing. His mind, independent and restless, was less probing than hers, but he was still able to keep up with her range of interests.

Known as a philanderer, Lewes supported free love and open marriage. All of London had heard that his wife was carrying on an affair with one of his closest associates, Thornton Hunt, and that she�d given birth to Hunt�s children in addition to her children with Lewes. (Thornton Hunt was the son of the poet Leigh Hunt, the friend of Byron and Shelley.) Lewes accepted his wife�s relationship with Hunt, and had registered two of


that relationship�s children as his legal offspring. Consequently he had no realistic ability, under the Victorian marriage system, to obtain a divorce. Marian could never become his wife.

In 1854 Marian started living with Lewes openly. They inaugurated the decision by taking a trip to Germany. They went to Weimar and Berlin. Lewes carried out research for his Goethe biography. Marian had a wonderful time. The gossip in London was ferocious.

Their journey has its counterpart in Dostoevsky�s equally significant travels around Europe with Anna Grigoryevna. But Dostoevsky�s Europe wasn�t Eliot�s Europe. Eliot loved German culture. Dostoevsky hated it. Eliot felt liberated by European artists. Dostoevsky felt oppressed by them. Eliot thrived when she was abroad. Dostoevsky sulked and complained.

Dostoevsky�s experiences outside Russia had never been good, even before hemarried Anna Grigoryevna. He made his first visit to Europe in 1862. Paris bored him. So did Geneva. In Italy he spent most of his time reading Les Mis�rables. He had little interest in sightseeing or talking with foreigners. The next summer he traveled to Paris again. He planned to meet up there with his tormented and tormenting lover, Polina Suslova. En route he lost 5,000 francs by gambling at Weisbaden. Then in Paris, Suslova told him she was in love with someone else. The conversation from her diary, as reported in E. H. Carr�s Dostoevsky, was a travesty of soul-baring and flashily paradoxical emotions: ���������

When we got into a room, he fell at my feet and, clasping and pressing my knees, burst out sobbing: �I have lost


and burst into tears.

Suslova�s entire relationship with Dostoevsky ran on this hilarious hamster-wheel of hysteria, though the other man dumped her while she was still in France. Dostoevsky, convinced he had worked out a system for winning at the gambling tables, then took her to Baden and lost another 3,000 francs.

The formula of going to Europe for a combination of romantic turmoil and massive gambling losses was so addictive for Dostoevsky that he repeated it in 1865. This time, though, he raised his initial gambling money through the contract that would threaten to destroy his career. His literary reputation had declined in the years since his release from Siberia. He was working, the Carr biography says, more often as a second-rate journalist than as a novelist, and hisreactionary politics had alienated his old radical friends. Worse, he had developed a reputation for not meeting deadlines and not delivering the books he agreed to write. The publisher Stellovsky now contracted for a new Dostoevsky novel, to be issued along with a collected edition of the earlier work. But because of Dostoevsky�s past failures to fulfill his obligations, Stellovsky insisted on an extreme penalty clause. If the new novel wasn�t finished on time, Stellovsky could demand liquidated damages, and the right to all of Dostoevsky�s past and future writings.

Dostoevsky took the advance from Stellovsky so he could return to Weisbaden for another round of gambling. Suslova was again his companion. He played roulette. He lost all of his money. He lost all of Suslova�s money. Broke, he


begged Turgenev and others for cash to go home. His relationship with Suslova was effectively over. It had been less a great passion than a great Dostoevskyan whirl, a clash of competing narcissisms and tragicomic obsessions.

This second gambling trip and the Stellovsky contract set the stage for Anna Grigoryevna�s arrival. The first installment of Crime and Punishment appeared in January 1866. Dostoevsky worked steadily on the novel throughout the year. Creditors harassed him. Despite his own large debts, he was also giving financial help to many of his relatives, including the legitimate and illegitimate families of his dead brother. At the same time, the deadlines for the Stellovsky contract were approaching. Dostoevsky was supposed to have his other, entirely new novel delivered by the start of November. Hehad outlined The Gambler but had written nothing. He was in serious danger of violating the contract and losing the rights to all his past and future work. A friend suggested that he hire a stenographer so he could dictate The Gambler at high speed.

The stenographer was Anna Grigoryevna. On October 4, 1866, less than a month before the manuscript of The Gambler was due, she started taking Dostoevsky�s dictation. She was as organized and efficient as Dostoevsky was scattered and wasteful. The entire novel was done on October 30. On November 8, Dostoevsky asked her to marry him. He then wrote the final two parts of Crime and Punishment. His ability to own and finish this first of his large-scale masterpieces, and all of his novels to


come, stemmed directly from Anna Grigoryevna�s decisive and intelligent intervention. ��

Anna Grigoryevna�s memoirs have much to say on Dostoevsky�s attitudes toward women. She was twenty when they met, a quarter-century younger than he was, and his favorable opinion of her depended in part on what he perceived as her difference from most young women:

Apparently I never smiled even once while I was speaking with Fyodor Mikhailovich, and my seriousness pleased him very much. He confessed to me later that he had been pleasantly surprised by my knowledge of correct behavior. He was used to meeting Nihilist women socially and observing their behavior, which roused him to indignation. He was all the more pleased, therefore, to find in me the complete antithesis of the prevailing type of young womantrue, but I am a woman, and I don�t like to hear a woman being disparaged.�

Later, in the seventies, he held an entirely different attitude towards this matter [of Nihilist women], when from their number evolved many intelligent, well-educated women who viewed life with seriousness. It was then that my husband stated in Diary of a Writer that he had great expectations of Russian women.

By permitting, sincerely and completely, higher education for women along with all the rights that this bestows, Russia would once more take an enormous and original step ahead of all Europe in the great cause of the regeneration of humanity.

Once they were married, Anna Grigoryevna began to challenge him on this view of �Nihilist women,� who in his mind were connected to the entire


Nihilist atmosphere that influences Raskolnikov:With some updates in terms, I overheard this same argument at a Croatian caf� just last month. Anyway, Anna Grigoryevna notes that her influence changed Dostoevsky�s opinion of women�s rights in general and of Nihilist women in particular:And indeed when we turn to the Diary, some of the few breaks from Dostoevsky�s reactionary tirades come with his surprisingly strong support for women�s education. He�s still Dostoevsky, though, and sees the issue mainly as a chance for Russia to outdo the West:

Considering how much Dostoevsky despised Europe, it�s ironic that his most productive period of sustained great writing occurred during the years Anna Grigoryevna took him abroad. She correctly believed his relatives were exploiting him financially and making it impossible for him to clear uphis debts. In money matters, Dostoevsky was generous by nature. He was incapable of saying no to any claim on his help that he could possibly satisfy. Sensing Anna Grigoryevna�s determination to change this, his relatives did their best to fight against her influence over him. So she pawned all her possessions and demanded that Dostoevsky and she use the money to flee Petersburg. In April 1867 they left Russia together.

They spent the next four years on the Continent. Longer exposure to Europe merely heightened Dostoevky�s contempt for it. Away from Russia, he became trapped in the closed loop of his fixations. Every fresh encounter with European culture confirmed his prejudices: he allowed his biases to warp his impressions in a way that�s about as far removed from


Eliot�s tolerant curiosity as possible. Yet under Anna Grigoryevna�s influence, he gradually lost interest in gambling and took up his fiction with fresh energy. If Dostoevsky brought an irrational fervor to his hatred of Europe, this mania was inseparable from the ardor that revitalized his novels from 1867 onward.

4 � Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Marian Evans finally adopted the pen-name George Eliot in 1857, when she was publishing the stories that would make up her first book, Scenes of Clerical Life. Lewes had enjoyed a triumph with his Life and Works of Goethe, but he was always eager for more money, and Redinger suggests he originally encouraged Eliot to write fiction because it might prove lucrative.

Her success was immediate. Scenes of Clerical Life established her as awriter to watch, and Adam Bede was an exceptionally well-received bestseller. ��

The Mill on the Floss appeared in 1860. The hub of the story is Maggie Tulliver�s difficult attachment to Tom, her older brother. Their close, tension-battered relationship replays, with large and small variations, the relationship between their father and his own sister. The novel has a couple of courtship crises for Maggie to deal with, but these become absorbed in the larger pattern of Maggie�s bonds with Tom, and in the complicated emotional and practical legacies left to both of them by their father�s financial downfall. All the Tullivers, in turn, move through a dense, fully imagined environment: the family mill and the people connected to it by many strands, from many directions. ����

Mr. Tulliver, the father,


intends to pass the mill down to Tom just as it was passed down to him. The constant slight puzzlement of Mr. Tulliver�s mind allows him to feel remarkably good about himself. He simply ignores the dangers to his position, a blur of precariousness he chooses not to bring into focus:��He had always been used to hear pleasant jokes about his advantages as a man who worked his own mill and owned a pretty bit of land, and these jokes naturally kept up his sense that he was a man of considerable substance.� �������

He visits his poverty-ravaged sister at her small farm: in the past he has loaned funds to her so she can continue running the farm with her husband. Mr. Tulliver has now made up hismind to be tough with her. He has never approved of her marriage, and it somewhat gratifies him that the farm has failed just as he�d predicted it would. He plans not only to refuse giving his sister any further loans but to demand the payment past due on the earlier amounts. On money questions, The Mill on the Floss is forthright and unblinking. Eliot is, however, less interested in moralizing about money than in considering the complex and multiple impacts of money in each separate situation.

Mr. Tulliver�s sister, when he sees her, mentions his children, Maggie and Tom. Mr. Tulliver �had not a rapid imagination,� Eliot writes, �but the thought of Maggie was very near to him, and he was not long in seeing his relation to


his own sister side by side with Tom�s relation to Maggie. Would the little wench ever be poorly off, and Tom rather hard upon her?�

Mr. Tulliver then meets with his sister�s husband and demands repayment of the loan. Immediately after this, though, he changes his mind. He tells his sister he won�t be calling in the money, says he will always be a good brother to her. As he leaves the farm, his puzzlement returns. It�s characteristic of Eliot that this fogginess in Mr. Tulliver is simultaneously part of his kindness and part of his cruelty, a strength and a weakness: �

And so the respectable miller returned along the Basset lanes rather more puzzled than before as to ways and means, but still with the sense of adanger escaped. It had come across his mind that if he were hard upon his sister, it might somehow tend to make Tom hard upon Maggie at some distant day when her father was no longer there to take her part; for simple people like our friend Mr Tulliver are apt to clothe unimpeachable feelings in erroneous ideas, and this was his confused way of explaining to himself that his love and anxiety for "the little wench" had given him a new sensibility towards his sister.

Mr. Tulliver�s feelings of �love and anxiety� for his daughter embrace Maggie�s passionate intelligence and energetic stubbornness. He adores Maggie in part because he knows that her cleverness and determination are always going to cause problems for her with others. He sees her


virtues as handicaps that demand a father�s special approval and unspoken pity. Yet there are many times when his admiration for her is sincere, or half-sincere, or simultaneously disapproving and impressed. Eliot likes to take advantage of the sheer diversity and subtlety of feelings that the length of a novel can convey. She seldom settles for a fixed, hammered-down attitude, either toward Mr. Tulliver or anyone else. The outlines of her characters are offset by constant variations, repeated probes into the unexpected nooks and caverns of even the most rigid personalities.

Maggie�s early years with Tom occupy most of the novel�s first two-hundred pages. Maggie is the smarter, more talented and more emotional of the pair, but Tom is older and has some narrow forms of integrity and levelheadednesswere to be lifted. Maggie thought this sort of knowledge was very wonderful -- much more difficult than remembering what was in books; and she was rather in awe of Tom�s superiority, for he was the only person who called her knowledge "stuff" and did not feel surprised at her cleverness� Still, he was very fond of his sister and meant always to take care of her, make her his housekeeper, and punish her when she did wrong.

"When I�m a man, I shall make a boat with a wooden house on the top of it, like Noah�s ark, and keep plenty to eat in it -- rabbits and things -- all ready. And then if the flood came, you know, Bob, I shouldn�t mind� And I�d take you


in if I saw you swimming," he added in the tone of a benevolent patron.

"Mr Stelling," she said that same evening when they were in the drawing-room, "couldn�t I do Euclid, and all Tom�s lessons, if you were to teach me instead of him?" "No; you couldn�t," said Tom indignantly. "Girls can�t do Euclid, can they, sir?" "They can pick up a little of everything, I dare say," said Mr Stelling. "They�ve a good deal of superficial cleverness, but they couldn�t go far into anything. They�re quick and shallow." Tom, delighted with this verdict, telegraphed his triumph by wagging his head at Maggie behind Mr Stelling�s chair. As for Maggie, she had hardly ever been so mortified. She had been so proud to be called "quick" all herlittle life, and now it appeared that this quickness was the brand of inferiority. It would have been better to be slow, like Tom.

Like his father, Tom assumes he possesses all the talents he needs to survive life�s dangers. Because of this, he thinks everyone should always follow his decisions. In one of the first chapters, Eliot plants clues about the flood that will come at the novel�s end: she immediately links the flood to Tom�s certainty of being one of the world�s deserving winners. Tom tells his friend Bob that the Floss has flooded in the past. Yet Tom believes he has a way to handle any future deluge and keep himself and his loved ones safe:Tom�s conviction that his security is in his control, a matter


of individual willpower and choice, finds its echo in many of the novel�s other prosperous characters. One of Eliot�s themes is our willingness to hold people wholly responsible for their own successes and failures, and to blame the disadvantaged for our mistreatment of them. From an early age, Maggie is forced to see the inadequacy of group judgments, self-servingly blind or hostile to any possibility that violates the group�s presumptions. When Tom starts learning geometry, Maggie approaches his teacher with the possibility that she might study the subject as well:

A similar reflex is at work in the group reactions to the fall of Mr. Tulliver, the event that sets up the second half of the novel. Mr. Tulliver makes some bad decisions, and pursues a lawsuit he shouldnever have brought. He also continues to avoid demanding the payment of the money he has loaned his sister, even though this might help prevent his financial collapse. Yet his largest miscalculation is his lasting faith that he�ll always be able to push his way out of his troubles through determination and hard work. He has borrowed five-hundred pounds from a client of the lawyer Wakem, precisely the worst and most dangerous decision in the circumstances. He has made this choice, Eliot says, �not because [his] will was feeble, but because external fact was stronger� as nobody else could provide the money. External fact is stronger: the novel deals in the tragedy of facing forces beyond our control, and facing them partly because of mistakes we�ve made along


a form of inhumanity, comic yet obscene. As Mr. Tulliver sinks into his financial troubles, his wife�s well-to-do brothers and sisters are quick to revel in his predicament:

�both uncles and aunts saw that the ruin of [the wife] and her family was as complete as they had ever foreboded it, and there was a general family sense that a judgement had fallen on Mr Tulliver, which it would be an impiety to counteract by too much kindness.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed all her life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers. ����������������

Maggie, with her childhood understanding of what it�s like to have others diminishyou to protect their prejudices, discovers an increased devotion to her father. She wants to shield him from the scorn of her aunts and uncles:

The aunts and uncles take satisfaction in seeing Mr. Tulliver broken, and they want to see Maggie and Tom a bit broken too. Aunt Glegg tells Tom that he must �bear the fruits of his father�s misconduct and bring his mind to fare hard and to work hard.� She adds that he must also �be humble and grateful to his aunts and uncles for what they�re doing for his mother and father, as must be turned out into the streets and go to the work-house if they didn�t help �em.�

The imposition of the father�s mistakes on Maggie and Tom is, in Eliot�s view, another


preserve someone else�s sense of a just world, Mr. Tulliver will be sacrificed to Wakem�s casual vanity:But Eliot, as usual, isn�t content with making Wakem a one-note villain. His revenge takes piquancy from being mingled with altruism, the charity of buying the mill but paying Mr. Tulliver to run it under Wakem�s command:

While Tom is sent off to work, Maggie is left to take care of her devastated father and her ineffectual mother. Mr. Tulliver is defeated yet furious, lethargic yet sporadically enraged. In another bit of foreshadowing, he says: �There�s a story as when the mill changes hands, the river�s angry,� though when the flood finally comes, it won�t act in his favor but will instead kill the two children he loves. Before this, though, Mr. Tulliverpetted by her. She loved Tom very dearly, but she often wished that he cared more about her loving him.

"Perhaps not," Maggie said simply; "but then, you know, the first thing I ever remember in my life is standing with Tom by the side of the Floss while he held my hand; everything else is dark to me�"

Maggie feels herself changing in her isolated and debilitating position as caretaker of a fading home:Maggie only begins to see her way out of this barren existence when Wakem�s son, Philip, starts visiting her. She has known Philip from the past: he used to be Tom�s schoolmate. Back then, she had pitied him for the hump on his back, the result of an accident when he was a baby. Originally, Maggie


had found herself drawn to Philip�s deformity. Her sympathy was a deliberate reproach to Tom, a reaction against her brother�s failure to appreciate her fully:Now, years later, Philip is in love with Maggie. He says, however, that he knows she will never love him as much as she loves her brother. Her response is revealing:

Not surprisingly, the relationship can�t survive Tom�s interference. Philip tells her about his love for her. She admits that, at some level, she loves him too (though it seems to be a love based mainly on his role as an emblem of life beyond her parents� suffering). Yet Tom, mindful of his father�s request, has taken revenge on Wakem by demanding that Maggie have nothing to do with Philip. Once Tom discovers they�ve beenseeing each other in secret, he insists that Maggie remove Philip from her life. Then Mr. Tulliver dies. Tom, who has succeeded in his initial business labors, becomes the head of the family.

The final section of the novel brings about the great rupture with Tom towards which Maggie has been moving all along, despite her constant efforts to please him. She falls in love with Stephen Guest, who�s engaged to one of her friends. Maggie believes any relationship with Stephen would violate her declared love for Philip and Stephen�s declared love for his fianc�e. Still, Stephen admits his feelings to Maggie, and she half-deliberately, half-passively drifts away with him on a boat trip when he proposes they run away together. She sleeps. When she wakes up, she finally


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At Conservative Political Action Conference, Republican Governors Association meetings, Governor Calling for Washington to Get Out of the Way

Gov. Scott Walker is making the case for Republicans in Washington to return authority to the states, showing the potential for bold conservative reform in Wisconsin and nationwide at Republican Governors Association meetings and the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The time spent with policy makers and grassroots activists has made statewide and national news as Governor Walker has highlighted Wisconsin’s experiences with bold reform – even in the face of protest. Check out what they’re saying:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., Walker said his fights with unions — and GOP success at the ballot box in the years afterward — showed conservatives win whenIn 2005, Peguero allegedly experienced a work-related injury while working at the

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located in the room next to the bailer. According to him, the broken equipment emitted

chemical fumes that caused damage to his eyes. After he was transferred to USP

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as well as treatment and medication for the rest of his life. After events that are not

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without prejudice. Peguero then filed this appeal.


years there has been no war or potential war that he has opposed. In 2008 he wanted to confront nuclear-armed Russia over its neighbor Georgia, which started their short and sharp conflict. It would have been ironic had the Cold War ended peacefully, only to see Washington trigger a nuclear crisis in order to back Georgia as it attempted to prevent the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from doing what Kosovo did with U.S. military aid: achieve self-determination (by seceding from Georgia).

Now Senator McCain is banging the war drums in Libya. But he seems to have trouble remembering who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

Although now crusading against Moammar Qaddafi, two years ago he joined Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham in TripoliChina has apparently been secretly selling oil to North Korea in violation of UN sanctions and its own promises to drastically curb trade with the country.

A report from South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo on Tuesday said that US spy satellite images show that Chinese ships have transferred oil to North Korean ships in the West Sea around 30 times since October, citing unnamed government sources in the South Korean government. A report from the Financial Times on Wednesday confirmed the story with other diplomatic officials in the region.

In response to the news, President Trump on Thursday tweeted that China had been “caught RED HANDED” selling oil to Pyongyang. “There will never be a friendly solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!” Trump added.

Trump has


accountable by rolling out sanctions targeting Chinese businesses and individuals suspected of trading illegally with North Korea — an act that would certainly anger Beijing.

That wouldn’t be unprecedented — Trump sanctioned a Chinese bank, a Chinese company, and two individuals for their illicit financial ties to North Korea in June.

China and the US have diverging interests when it comes to applying pressure on North Korea. China isn’t as worried about North Korea’s nuclear program as it is the potential collapse of the country itself, which would create a refugee crisis on the Korean Peninsula and likely send millions of North Koreans pouring across the Chinese–North Korean border.

Analysts say China also fears that the US would dramatically increase its military presence in the region to deal with the falloutShare on

Železný shows age is no barrier to javelin joy

Javelin legend Jan Železný came to Sydney looking for a third Olympic gold.
At his first Games in 1988, aged 22 and representing Czechoslovakia, he had just missed out on victory, and had to settle for silver. His first gold came four years later in Barcelona when, by now competing under the Czech Republic flag, Železný swept aside the challenge of Finland’s Seppo Räty and Great Britain's Steve Backley. By Atlanta 1996, Backley had emerged as his main rival, but again the Czech prevailed, bagging his second Olympic gold.

However, going into Sydney 2000, Železný was 34. No javelin thrower of that age had ever taken the Olympic title. And he also had to face the challenge of his good friend


Backley once more. The Briton came to the Games having won the previous three European titles.

The distances set in the qualifying round didn't affect the final, but still Železný signalled his intent as he recorded a massive throw of 89.39m. Backley's best throw was nearly six metres short of that mark, but both men qualified for the final.

Železný's first throw was sensational. If there were any doubts about his ability to cope with the passage of time, he answered them in emphatic style. His first attempt soared into the air and landed at the 89.41m mark, further even than his mighty qualifying attempt.

It looked as if it might even be long enough to win the competition, but Backley had been waiting years to avenge his defeat in Atlantaand he was not about to give up so easily. His response was magnificent – a second-round throw of 89.85m, breaking the Olympic record. It was the British athlete's longest throw for eight years and the Sydney crowd now knew they were watching something very special as they waited for Železný's response.

It came in the fourth round. The Czech produced one of the greatest throws of his career to hurl the javelin beyond the elusive 90m line, setting a target of 90.17m and snatching away the Olympic record that Backley had held for a matter of minutes. This time, Backley had no response.

It was the first time that a javelin thrower had won three gold medals and confirmed Železný's place as one of the great, if not the


greatest, javelin athletes of all time. He went on to win another world championship title in 2001, while Backley took a fourth European title in 2002. Both men competed in the 2004 Games in Athens, but finished outside the medals.20 firearms and 12 ounces of narcotics last year.

Despite a 13% increase in population since 2007, violent crime cases are down 4% over that same time. There were nine homicides in 2017, one less than the previous year and three less than 2007. Assaults are down 12% from the prior year and 25% from a decade ago. Burglaries saw a similar decrease of 16% from 2017 and 24% from 2007.

Community members may have played a role in preventing violence crimes as the Violent Crimes Unit received 341 anonymous tips, a 74% increase from the year before. The unit was also proactive by tracking nearly 300 registered sex offenders to make sure they were in compliance.

But not all violent crimes were down. Rapes and robberies both significantly increased by


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Gabrielle Zevin is the bestselling author of Elsewhere. As well as writing fiction for adults and teenagers she is also a screenwriter. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages. Gabrielle lives in New York. Because It Is My Blood is the second part of an eagerly anticipated trilogy.

Gabrielle Zevin is the bestselling author of Elsewhere. As well as writing fiction for adults and teenagers she is also a screenwriter. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages. Gabrielle lives in New York. Because It Is My Blood is the second part of an eagerly anticipated trilogy. See less

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Zevin has created memorable characters and a plot that takes some unexpected turns. Most of these storiedHe helped UND win the Penrose Cup as National Collegiate Hockey Conference champions. He helped Canada win the gold medal at the World Junior Championship. He improved his numbers in nearly every category: goals (7), assists (18), points (25) and plus-minus (plus-21).

But the first-round pick of the Ottawa Senators knows there's more on the table.

That's why Bernard-Docker picked up the phone Friday, called the Senators and informed them that he's going to return to UND for his junior season.

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"I just think the way the season ended didn't sit well with most of us," said Bernard-Docker, who is currently in his native province of Alberta. "For me, personally, I think I have more to accomplish in college. With the guys we have coming back, it's pretty


Squeaky, Fromme actually escaped from the prison for a few days in 1987.
Martha Stewart must report to prison by October 8th.
A source says Alderson was picked because of its remote location-- amid fears the prisons that Stewart wanted were too media-accessible.
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All the gameplay improvements and features from the acclaimed sequel ‘Metro: Last Light’ have been transferred to Metro 2033 Redux – supMetro 2033 Redux is the definitive version of the cult classic ‘Metro 2033’, rebuilt in the latest and greatest iteration of the 4A Engine for Next Gen. Fans of the original


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All the gameplay improvements and features from the acclaimed sequel ‘Metro: Last Light’ have been transferred to Metro 2033 Redux – superior AI, controls, animation, weapon handling and many more – to create a thrilling experience for newcomers and veterans alike. With two unique play-styles, and the legendary Ranger Mode included, Metro 2033 Redux offers hours of AAA gameplay for an incredible price.... (more)(less)Last March, my daughter turned down a place at Oxford University, and at the end of September she will begin her degree at the University of Leeds. After months of research, advice, interviews and stays with friends at both places, Rose* decided that while she would no doubt be happy reading History of Art at Oxford, she’d be even happier studying the same subject at Leeds. Her decision was not easy and caused her far more anxiety than A-levels did – whichever way she jumped, there would be regrets – but, ultimately, she followed her instincts.

Beyond close friends and family who have listened to and understood her reasons, Rose’s rejection of one of life’s great prizes has caused dismay, even outrage. Responses have ranged from the most frequent,


boarding prep school and Eton; mum wanted him at home, at local schools. As a girl, my education was not the point. Aged 14 when the court case ended, I stopped working. In spite of myself, I scraped some A-levels and got a degree, but underachievement is pernicious. Rose would grow up knowing she is valued. If she went to Oxford, she would be the fourth generation of my paternal family to do so, but the first woman, and the first to be state educated.

At open day, Rose enjoyed the tours and the talks and I could easily imagine her living in those beautiful, reassuringly shabby rooms, being served three meals a day in the Harry Potter dining hall, and flourishing under the tutorial system. She agreed, likingBattle over public lands shifts to D.C. as Flake, Gosar push for sale in La Paz County

Less than two weeks after state lawmakers attacked federal ownership of public land in Arizona, members of the state's congressional delegation turned their attention to the issue in Washington, D.C.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., testified Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources about a bill he sponsored aimed at turning federal land in rural La Paz County over to local officials, potentially opening it to energy exploration.

Lawmakers from Western states often square off over how much land the federal government should control in their own states. In January, representatives in the Arizona Legislature introduced a bill that could authorize the state to join a Utah lawsuit over federal ownership of


8,000 acres of land in La Paz County, which borders California.

"Jeff Flake is no fan of public lands," said Randi Spivak, public lands director for the Center for Biological Diversity.

Conservation groups have taken issue with Flake's track record on environmental policy.

In November, he criticized a Mexican gray wolf recovery plan as a "federal regulatory nightmare" and in October, he voted "yes" on a budget resolution with a provision to open the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Elizabeth Jones, press secretary for Flake, said in a statement the La Paz County legislation is a "common sense bill that provides the county with the potential for a larger non-federal land base without touching more valuable conservation lands."

Gosar sponsored a companion bill that cleared the House Committee on NaturalResources with unanimous support.

Gosar's press secretary, Faith Vander Voort, said in an emailed statement that Gosar's bill could bring solar energy that "is great for the environment and for the local economy in La Paz County."

Controversy over 'solar chimney'

Speculation arose that the La Paz County land would be used for energy exploration, though neither bill made any specific reference.

The Center for Biological Diversity released a statement Tuesday that seemed to imply a 2,400-foot "solar chimney" would be built on the 8,000 acres in question.

The release cited a 2010 article from the website inhabitat.com, which reported the Australia-based energy technology company EnviroMission was behind such a tower.

Vander Voort called the release "not only intentionally inflammatory but deliberately factually bankrupt" and accused the center of "claiming the legislation will be


used to build a science fiction-style solar skyscraper."

Although most solar technology doesn't come in a tower twice the size of the Empire State Building, it has been on the table for years.

The Arizona Republic in 2013 reported that EnviroMission was seeking to build a 2,400-foot solar tower in the county for $750 million. It would have been one of the tallest human-made structures on the planet.

Solar towers draw hot air up through a set of turbines into cooler air at the top of the tower, like a chimney, according to EnviroMission. The wind from the chimney effect creates the energy needed for electricity.

La Paz County Supervisor D.L. Wilson said the tower was proposed for 5,500 acres near Quartzsite — a different location than the 8,000 acres sought byFlake and Gosar. EnviroMission is still trying to go forward with the tower near Quartzsite, he said.

The 8,000 acres in question are closer to Salome and the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.

Spivak, from the Center for Biological Diversity, said in an interview that the Center's "intention was not to be misleading" and that the release's wording "was an error on our part."

Would it be used for solar power?

Although no solar tower is planned for the land, Wilson said solar power is still the end goal.

He said the county wants to implement horizontal solar panels close to the ground.

The Bureau of Land Management has a solar program in the Southwest that allows some utility-scale projects on certain BLM sites.

One of the sites, Brenda, is in La Paz County.

If Flake and


Gosar's bills were to go forward, the county could contract a private company to install the solar panels on non-BLM land.

"We're hoping it goes forward," Wilson said. "It would be a good project for us."

Nothing new for Western states

The public-land debate is nothing out of the ordinary for Western states.

It was most recently, and dramatically, exemplified in December when President Donald Trump — at the behest of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and others — drastically reduced the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.

Nevada, too, has recently been the center of public-land lawsuits ranging from oil leases on federal lands, to the Bundy family's standoff with federal agents during a roundup of cattle they kept on public land.

But the debate doesn't always have its moment inthe national limelight.

Western-state legislatures on a nearly yearly basis tackle the issue, as well.

The bill in Arizona's Legislature, which looks at the constitutionality of a Utah lawsuit, passed the House Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee in late January.

Could La Paz County get the land?

Purchasing public land isn't new, but it's usually done for a specific goal.

In the 1950s and 1960s, public land was purchased for the Maricopa County Parks system, according to Arizona State University.

The land can be purchased using the decades-old Recreation and Public Purposes Act, which states the land in question is "required for recreational and public purposes."

Although solar energy is the end game, Flake and Gosar's bills don't explicitly say so — and that might prove to be a roadblock.

Don Steuter, conservation chair for


A Valentine's Day Date

I was in 10th grade when I had my first date. There was this beautiful girl called Liza, studying in 9th grade.

Luckily for me, her classroom was just opposite to mine. I had a huge crush oh her ever since I met her, but unfortunately I never had the courage to express my feelings to her.

And then comes the valentine's day. I made up my mind to propose to her before I lose her to someone else.

During the break, I found her chatting with her girlfriends outside the classroom. I slowly walked towards her with a red rose hidden behind my back, which I had bought for her.

I was feeling very nervous and anxious as well. My legs started shivering and shaking. As I slowlySpartans upheld their end of the bargain, snapping an eight-game losing streak in Happy Valley, but so did Wisconsin, which annihilated Northwestern 70-23, and Ohio State, which drubbed Michigan 37-7.

That means a three-way title for the Big Ten title. The Rose Bowl bid will go to the team ranked highest in the Bowl Championship Series standings. On Sunday, the BCS standings had Wisconsin was ranked fifth, Ohio State sixth and Michigan State eighth.

"I think right now we're one of the top 8-9 teams in the nation," said Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio. "I know only two teams can come from the Big Ten (for the BCS Bowls), but you certainly have to throw our hat in the ring. We're the only football team that's beaten Wisconsin, and I


natural resources. The myth is that the West has nobly done all this in the name of progress and the pursuit of knowledge. But the impetus has been and continues to be profit, Empire and global domination. To legitimize it all in the eyes of its citizens, throw in God, Country and King. Voilà, the annals of history as told by the Princes of Power.

The second thing that happened these last few days was an exchange of emails with another writer friend of mine. This time, it was to congratulate them for having an article published in a heavyweight American newspaper. In their article, they forcefully condemned a Communist country’s use of censorship to control its version of history. To get published in this newspaper is a quitesupposed Boston bomber brothers Tsarnaev and on and on, were clearly and convincingly identified by the authorities within hours of the false flags. Surely, Nero loudly accused the Christians, as soon as his arsonists were setting fire to Rome, while sending out crisis actors to dramatize these followers’ perfidy. He not only got his grand palace, for which the Roman Senators were refusing to give the (now) burned neighborhoods’ land to build it, but Nero also got to kill thousands of Christians in the process. The hallmarks of a truly successful false flag.

A few hours of research on Charlie Hebdo makes it glaringly apparent that the deep state was involved. The film footage of the police officer supposedly shot in the head at point blank, while lying on


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Story highlights The 8-year-old girl lost her family in a fire two years ago

Social media has rallied around her request for Christmas cards

(CNN) Support continues to pour in for one little girl with a simple Christmas wish.

Eight-year-old Sa'fyre Terry of Schenectady, New York, lost her family two years ago in a fire police say was intentionally set. She survived with severe burns to her face, and lost her right hand and foot as a result of her injuries.

What she really wanted this holiday season is Christmas cards from around the world , a family friend said in a recent Facebook post.

On Monday, Terry was told she was going to a party for her cousins, but it turned out to be a surprise for her: she was getting aOn Jan. 22, Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy shutout the Chicago Blackhawks, putting a cap on one of the most dominant months of play in his young career. This was his fourth shutout since Dec. 23 and seventh of the season, putting him into a tie with Nikolai Khabibulin for the single-season shutout record for the Lightning. With his strong play and overall dominance in the month prior, Vasilevksiy seemed destined to break this record in short notice.

Over the next two months, though, he stood with seven shutouts, unable to find that final perfect game. As the year dragged on, Vasilevskiy’s play started to falter, as he allowed in more goals each game. Fatigue seemed to be a big factor, as this still was his first full


season in the NHL, and the workload of starting 60 plus games really started to show by late February. While he was still finding ways to win games at the start of the month, by the end of March, nothing was going right for him.

March Roadblock for Vasilevskiy’s Perfect Year

Entering March, Vasilevskiy was at the top of many lists for Vezina consideration after his all-star caliber start to the season. By the end of the month, though, he had slid out of the discussion as the top goaltender in the league.

March was a particularly rough month for the young goaltender, who went from covering up the biggest Lightning mistakes to letting in a constant stream of goals that he normally would have stopped earlier in the year. Forexample, he gave up six goals three times in March, after only giving up six once the rest of the season.

It wasn’t just his fault, as the Lightning’s defense and special teams were both faltering during the month as well. The penalty kill was particularly brutal in March, giving up 15 goals in 14 games, with Vasilevskiy taking the brunt of the team’s struggles. In general, the Lighting have been far below average on the penalty kill this year, with Vasilvekiy giving up a league-worst 42 goals while down a man.

With this downturn in play, it seemed that a season once destined for greatness by the young goaltender would become mired in mediocrity before the playoffs. Goaltending is one of those positions where confidence is as important as


anything else, and Vasilevskiy seemed to have lost the confidence in himself to make the right play when the team needed it most.

Boston Shutout Is What Vasilevskiy Needed

Sometimes what a player needs more than anything else is to conquer one great foe to get things back on track. When the Boston Bruins were coming to play Tampa Bay one last time in the regular season, it appeared to many that this would either be the final nail in the Lightning’s coffin or the chance to reset after an extended stretch of bad play that tumbled the team out of first in the Atlantic.

The Lightning responded as a team, putting together a complete game on the back of Vasilevskiy’s perfect night in net. After it seemed like he wouldbe stuck at seven shutouts for the rest of the season, he finally broke that tie and set one final goaltending record in the waning games of the Lightning’s season.

For Vasilevskiy, this game was more than just a win. It was a near perfect performance against one of his greatest foes throughout his young career. Winning this one game will not fix the struggles he faced in March or suddenly remove the fatigue of playing 60 games this season, but it will remind him to have confidence in himself because he knows what it takes to be a great goaltender.

As the playoffs approach, he has to be a leading presence on the ice, since all games ultimately come down the play of your goaltender. The Lightning know to


icon’s sister and vice president and chief designer of the Versace Group, made a complimentary gesture towards series star Penelope Cruz, who portrays her in the show and has long been acquainted with her.

“Donatella Versace sent Penelope Cruz a very large arrangement of flowers yesterday when she was representing the show at the Golden Globes,” Murphy said. “I don’t know if she is going to watch the show, but if she did I think that she would see that we treat her and her family with respect and kindness. She really is a feminist role model in my book, because she had to step into an impossible situation, which she did with grace and understanding. I think that she really loved Penelope and knows that Penelope would neverOn Our Radar

Goldman to Embark on Hiring Spree in Singapore

As Goldman Sachs (GS) plans major job cuts in the United States, the firm is planning to expand overseas with a major hiring spree in Singapore and taking the unusual step of alerting Congress before even it's widely known to its own shareholders, the FOX Business Network has learned.

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Goldman is so concerned about the potential for criticism that the firms representatives have been alerting staffers of lawmakers in Washington of the hiring spree in recent weeks as a way to mollify any concerns they may have about previously undisclosed plans to add 1,000 jobs to the firms Singapore office, according to people in Washington with direct knowledge if the matter. Goldman is concerned about criticism because it


Dodd/Frank financial reform bill sponsored by former Senate banking committee chairman Chris Dodd, and his counterpart in the House, Congressman Barney Frank, have forced banks to hold higher capital reserves to protect against losses, and also forced them to exit some lucrative businesses like proprietary trading.

The limits on trading have hit Goldman particularly hard since the firm had made fat profits from using its own capital to take risk and trade securities in various markets, even as the same types of activities led to the firms near-death experience in 2008. Shares of Goldman Sachs have fallen around 25% since the beginning of the year as investors have digested what the new rules might mean to Goldman and the rest of Wall Streets bottom lines.marked on the sheet map. The path begins to descend with good views down into the Planica valley. Occasional steeper sections are secured with cables, and the path broadens a little and becomes easier as height is lost. There are no real difficulties, in spite of how it appeared from above, but it is steep enough to tax the knees at the end of a long day! Cross an easy-angled slab that water and landslides have recently exposed, and continue on scree to reach the ascent path. Turn left and continue back down the valley to Dom v Tamarju.
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The Detroit Lions will have a new backup quarterback next season after Shaun Hill reached an agreement with the Rams, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Hill, acquired in a 2010 trade with the San Francisco 49ers, spent four seasons with the Lions. He appeared in 11 games his first year with the club, but was limited to just five appearances during the past three seasons.

The market for a veteran backup is quickly drying up. In addition to Hill, Luke McCown agreed to join the Saints on Wednesday, and it's expected former New York Jets starter Mark Sanchez will wind up in Philadelphia.

The top remaining options are Josh Freeman, Colt McCoy and Matt Flynn.

That could leave the Lions looking for a backup in the draft, somethingProof You Can Begin Traveling The World With No Money  Daniel Rintz traveled the world surviving on money he earned along the way.

Daniel Rintz rode around the world for 2.5 years on his mid-80s BMW R80GS.

Many people dream of traveling the world on a motorcycle, but the belief that you need a lot of money prevents most from ever achieving their goal. When Daniel Rintz decided he would travel the world, he didn’t wait to build up his savings account. He decided to just go and set off on his old BMW R80GS he named Marianne. He wanted to see how far he could get by making money along the way in the countries he visited.

Daniel would complete his journey riding around the world, surviving only on


money he made along the way. He would work in construction sites, rice fields, or as a Photoshop instructor at the University of Cairo. Being a media designer, he was able to get paid to build websites and create animations or infographics anywhere in the world he had an Internet connection.

Along the way he would ride through war zone areas, experience mechanical breakdowns and deal with the constant threat of running out of money. There was no support team, no film-crew, no sponsor and no money to buy his way out of tight situations. He hit a low point when his BMW finally broke down in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. Down to his last $10, Daniel finally stopped trying so hard to control his situation and that’swhen he says everything became easier.

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Daniel Rintz traveled to 27 different countries in 2 and a half years, capturing 100 hours of footage on his journey. Upon returning home, he was determined to make a documentary film of his journey. Again, he was faced with the obstacle of having no money to make a film. Of course Daniel would not let this stop him from achieving his dream and set out to get funding for his film through a website called Indiegogo. Indiegogo allows anyone to raise money for a project through Crowdfunding. You set up a webpage describing your project and if people like what you are doing they donate funds.

The Indiegogo campaign raised $26,855 and Daniel was able to produce his film titled “Somewhere Else Tomorrow.”


News review – Tuesday 24 June 2019

Tory leadership

Express
ANGRY Tory MPs last night accused a Left-wing hate mob of trying to wreck Boris Johnson’s bid to become prime minister with a campaign of intrusion and harassment. Jacob Rees-Mogg led a string of senior backbenchers in rallying around the former foreign secretary following the political storm about a row with his girlfriend that has threatened to derail his leadership campaign.

MailBoris Johnson warned Britain to ‘prepare for a No Deal Brexit’ last night in the hope of winning concessions from the EU. But as he revealed his Brexit blueprint, he was warned he faces a mutiny from Tory Remainers which could force him from office within months. In the most detailed explanation of his plans so far, Mr Johnson told thewarned that as many as a dozen Conservative MPs will back a vote of no confidence, triggering a general election, to block a no-deal Brexit. The former foreign secretary has promised to take the UK out of the Europe Union on 31 October with or without an agreement on divorce terms. And his rival for the Tory leadership, Jeremy Hunt, the current foreign secretary, has not ruled out a potentially damaging no-deal outcome, though he says he is ready to extend Brexit negotiations in the hope of avoiding it.

Morning Star
SHOCK new polling has revealed the depth of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. More than two-thirds of Tories believe there are areas of Britain “operating under sharia law,” according to a YouGov poll of party members. And almost half


thought Islamist terror attacks “reflected widespread hostility to Britain among the Muslim community”.

Labour Party

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Labour MPs have been given two weeks to decide whether they want to stand for the party at the next general election. In a surprise message to the parliamentary Labour Party yesterday Jennie Formby, the general secretary, announced that the party’s national executive committee (NEC) would begin the process of choosing candidates for the next general election.

GuardianLabour MPs have been given a fortnight to decide whether they want to stand again for parliament as the party gears up for an early general election by kicking off what some fear could turn into a wave of deselections. Those MPs who want to continue to represent their constituency in future must first navigate the trigger-ballot process. Afterbelow the shoulder at interscapular area to make the field more prominent.

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a generous contribution from Buddipole Antennas, and PART, the radio club of Westford, Massachusetts, host of the event, and also a major contributor.

Presentations from leading figures in the QRP world will be made in a comfortable, modern classroom setting from 8 AM through 5 PM on Saturday (March 13). Speakers expected to present include Allison Parent (KB1GMX), Dave Siegrist (NT1U), Bruce Beford (N1RX), Michael Rainey (AA1TJ), John Sexton (KO1H), and QRP Hall of Fame members George Heron (N2APB), Joe Everhart (N2CX), and Dave Benson (K1SWL). Attendees will receive a conference proceedings, CD, and other gifts at registration.

In addition to the Saturday seminar, a Friday evening gathering will be held on March 12, 2010 for attendees to meet the speakers, browse through vendor offerings, and do a little show-and-tell[Endoprosthesis of the trachea in the treatment of cicatricial stenosis with tracheomalacia].
The authors discuss the results of the first experience in the clinical use of nitinol spiral endoprostheses as an artificial supporting framework of the trachea in local destruction of the tracheal cartilages and loss of rigidity of the tracheal wall. Tracheal endoprosthetics was carried out in 6 patients with cicatrical stenoses and tracheomalacia. The causes of possible complications (growth of granulation tissue into the tracheal lumen and displacement of the endoprosthesis) are analysed and the means of their prevention are suggested. It was established that the nithinol spiral endoprosthesis may be covered by epithelialized tracheal mucosa and provide an adequate rigid lumen for the tracheal area devoid of the framework. The diameter of the implanted prosthesis must


Deer Isle is a spectacular island community of 24,000 acres and 112 miles of shoreline, comprising the towns of Deer Isle and Stonington and outlying islands.

Island Heritage Trust is a community-based, non-profit land trust contributing to the well-being of the island community by conserving its distinctive landscape and natural resources, maintaining public access to valued trails, shoreline and islands, and by providing educational programming for all ages.

Island Heritage Trust is excited to introduce our newest piece of land, Crystal Cove Preserve. This Oceanville property was generously donated by the Homann family, and will be open for visitors come fall of 2016.

7th Graders' Beach Grass Projectat Causeway Beach

Martha Bell, Island Heritage Trust Environmental Educator, along with Mickie Flores, DISES Middle School Science teacher, and a handful of her 7thLondon Federation of mostly working-class women and led by Sylvia Pankhurst was expelled in 1914.

During the First World War
On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Christabel Pankhurst was living in Paris, in order to run the organisation without fear of arrest. Her autocratic control enabled her, over the objections of Kitty Marion and others, to declare soon after war broke out that the WSPU should abandon its campaigns in favour of a nationalistic stance, supporting the British government in the war. The WSPU stopped publishing The Suffragette, and in April 1915 it launched a new journal, Britannia. While the majority of WSPU members supported the war, a small number formed the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union (SWSPU) and the Independent Women's Social and Political


Kasper Schmeichel is expecting the Republic of Ireland to play in Roy Keane's image as they attempt to edge past Denmark and reach the World Cup finals.

As a child, Schmeichel watched Keane lead a Manchester United team which included his father Peter sweep all before them as they dominated British and European football.

On Saturday evening, the 31-year-old will be in the Danish goal and Keane on the Irish bench as manager Martin O'Neill's assistant as the two nations battle it out in the first leg of their play-off with a trip to Russia at stake.

Asked about his memories of Keane and his influence on the Ireland squad, Schmeichel said: "My memories of Roy Keane? Most of them holding trophies, being an inspirational leader and captain for Manchester United.

"Roypreviously had no anglophones suddenly found themselves with many, according to the data. The village of Sainte-Thècle northeast of Shawinigan, for instance, changed from zero anglophones to 50. It has a population of 2,400.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Carto (Roberto Rocha/CBC)

Most of the errors are on the local level, said Marc Hamel, director of the census at Statistics Canada.

"This probably doesn't impact the results for Montreal," Hamel told CBC News. "In small communities around Quebec, where the proportion of the population speaking English is small, you should see a difference in what you would expect."

Anglophone groups spotted the anomalies

The Quebec Community Groups Network, a group that represents Quebec English-speaking communities, partnered with historian and demographer Jack Jedwab, who compared the number of anglophones to the English school enrolment rates and


a European Cup. The feeling of being the first French club to win the Champions League was unique. But waiting another eleven years to have the next opportunity to win a continental trophy is a really, really long time. So there is excitement and a lot of anticipation in Montpellier.

eurohandball.com: Has it been hard focusing on the EHF Cup after being eliminated from the EHF Champions League?

Patrice Canayer: I think we all took a blow when we lost in Plock. But very soon after, winning the EHF Cup became a real goal. There would have been no point playing the competition without wanting to go as far as possible. Montpellier have always had a winning tradition, and there are a lot of players in this squad that areLucian Freud: The Self-portraits

This exhibition of self-portraits across seven decades shows the artist at his most vulnerable

Royal Academy of Arts, London

27 October 2019 – 26 January 2020

by BETH WILLIAMSON

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is well known for his paintings of the human figure and particularly the nude. Like many artists, he also engaged in self-portraiture, although he was unusual in his repeated return to the genre throughout his long career. The 56 works in this exhibition at the Royal Academy range from the linear and graphic works of his youth to the increasingly painterly forms of his middle years and old age. The self-portraits are intense, intimate and visceral and act to chart his artistic development more broadly. While they are all recognisable as Freud, his approach to self-portraiture and


painting from life more generally certainly shifted throughout his career. As an artist, Freud was always looking to extend his exploration of painting as a method of capturing not only the likeness or appearance of himself and his sitters, but also a sense of their emotional and psychological makeup.

As someone who greatly valued his privacy, there is a curious dilemma at the heart of Freud’s self-portraits and they are not straightforward. There is a degree of fugitiveness as he appears in mirrored reflection, in fragments of unfinished works or glimpsed in the margins of paintings of other sitters. Even where his image is central to a work, his gaze often avoids ours, looking down or staring into the distance as if he has been caught deep in contemplation.painting at that time. The linear and graphic qualities of his early work can be seen in his self-portraits Man with a Feather (1943) and Startled Man: Self-portrait (1948). The former is his first major self-portrait and was exhibited in his first solo exhibition, at the Lefevre Gallery, London, in 1944. His use of line and fine brushwork reveals his interest in northern European Renaissance painting. Startled Man is well named and the intensity of the image is astonishing to behold. It demonstrates Freud’s facility as a draughtsman as well as his ability to capture and convey emotion. This highly charged self-portrait with Freud open-mouthed and eyes full of surprise has its art historical forebears in self-portraits by Rembrandt and Courbet.

Lucian Freud. Startled Man: Self-portrait, 1948. Pencil on


of his son, Freddy Standing (2000-01), Freud shows himself reflected in the window, while in Flora with Blue Toenails (2000-01), he is present only in the shadow his head makes over her.

Freud’s international reputation continued to grow. From the early 90s, he held major exhibitions almost every year until his death. He continued to paint self-portraits, sometimes showing himself at work as an artist. As his body became older and increasingly frail, his self-portraits became more and more layered and painterly, with a thick impasto finish. This sort of finish is especially evident in his nude self-portraits, especially on his neck and genitals, first undertaken at the age of 70. His particular application of Cremnitz White is important, too, in modulating and shaping the contours of his faceCarl Dix is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He is a co-issuer of the Call for the National Day of Resistance to Stop Mass Incarceration. In 1970, he was part of the largest mass refusal of U.S. soldiers to go to Vietnam . In 1996, he co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality. In 2006, he coordinated the Katrina Hearings of the Bush Crimes Commission. In 2011, he co-issued a call for a campaign of civil disobedience to STOP "Stop & Frisk." Most recently Dix participated a series of dialogues with Cornel West – "In the Age of Obama: Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs; Mis-Education... What Future for Our Youth"

Carl will join us to talk about Tim Tebow and


his outsized notoriety, which is based on a combination of promoting religious fundamentalism and overhyped football skills. Last year, with moderate success on the field, Tim Tebow created a national sensation as the poster-boy fundamentalist Christian athlete. During the off-season, the Denver Broncos traded him to the New York Jets. What kind of welcome will Tebow receive in the Big Apple?

One of the main ways in which Tim Tebow proselytizes for his religious fundamentalism is through continual and prominent citation of verses from the Bible. Carl will discuss "Tips for Tim Tebow," an article that suggests some Bible passages Tebow should cite if he really believes the biblical literalism he professes to uphold. The article highlights the actual content--the fundamental worldview, relations, values, and morals--which are promoted, andbe
acknowledged and worshipped in different relations. And is it possible, we
ask, that the weak and limited mind of man can attach itself to these with
the same power and joy, as to One Infinite Father, the only First Cause, in
whom all the blessings of nature and redemption meet as their centre and
source? Must not devotion be distracted by the equal and rival claims of
three equal persons, and must not the worship of the conscientious,
consistent Christian, be disturbed by an apprehension, lest he withhold
from one or another of these, his due proportion of homage?

We also think, that the doctrine of the Trinity injures devotion, not only
by joining to the Father other objects of worship, but by taking from the
Father the supreme affection, which is his due, and transferring it to


the New Testament perpetual care and effort to
counteract this tendency, to hold him forth as the same being with his
Father, if this doctrine were, as is pretended, the soul and centre of his
religion. We should expect to find the phraseology of Scripture cast into
the mould of this doctrine, to hear familiarly of God the Son, of our Lord
God Jesus, and to be told, that to us there is one God, even Jesus. But,
instead of this, the inferiority of Christ pervades the New Testament. It
is not only implied in the general phraseology, but repeatedly and
decidedly expressed, and unaccompanied with any admonition to prevent its
application to his whole nature. Could it, then, have been the great design
of the sacred writers to exhibit Jesus as the Supreme God?

I am aware thatby a sophism and a fiction.

We are also told, that Christ is a more interesting object, that his love
and mercy are more felt, when he is viewed as the Supreme God, who left his
glory to take humanity and to suffer for men. That Trinitarians are
strongly moved by this representation, we do not mean to deny; but we think
their emotions altogether founded on a misapprehension of their own
doctrines. They talk of the second person of the Trinity's leaving his
glory and his Father's bosom, to visit and save the world. But this second
person, being the unchangeable and infinite God, was evidently incapable of
parting with the least degree of his perfection and felicity. At the moment
of his taking flesh, he was as intimately present with his Father as
before, and equally with


his Father filled heaven, and earth, and
immensity. This Trinitarians acknowledge; and still they profess to be
touched and overwhelmed by the amazing humiliation of this immutable being!
But not only does their doctrine, when fully explained, reduce Christ's
humiliation to a fiction, it almost wholly destroys the impressions with
which his cross ought to be viewed. According to their doctrine, Christ was
comparatively no sufferer at all. It is true, his human mind suffered; but
this, they tell us, was an infinitely small part of Jesus, bearing no more
proportion to his whole nature, than a single hair of our heads to the
whole body, or than a drop to the ocean. The divine mind of Christ, that
which was most properly himself, was infinitely happy, at the very moment
of the suffering of his humanity. Whilst hangingstrongly the happiness of the guilty, but only
through their penitence. It has a regard to character as truly as his
justice. It defers punishment, and suffers long, that the sinner may return
to his duty, but leaves the impenitent and unyielding, to the fearful
retribution threatened in God's Word.

To give our views of God in one word, we believe in his Parental character.
We ascribe to him, not only the name, but the dispositions and principles
of a father. We believe that he has a father's concern for his creatures, a
father's desire for their improvement, a father's equity in proportioning
his commands to their powers, a father's joy in their progress, a father's
readiness to receive the penitent, and a father's justice for the
incorrigible. We look upon this world as a place of education, in


has thrown on
the path of duty; by his own spotless example, in which the loveliness and
sublimity of virtue shine forth to warm and quicken, as well as guide us to
perfection; by his threatenings against incorrigible guilt; by his glorious
discoveries of immortality; by his sufferings and death; by that signal
event, the resurrection, which powerfully bore witness to his divine
mission, and brought down to men's senses a future life; by his continual
intercession, which obtains for us spiritual aid and blessings; and by the
power with which he is invested of raising the dead, judging the world, and
conferring the everlasting rewards promised to the faithful.

We have no desire to conceal the fact, that a difference of opinion exists
among us, in regard to an interesting part of Christ's mediation; I mean,
in regard toGod is a moral sentiment, founded on a
clear perception, and consisting in a high esteem and veneration, of his
moral perfections. Thus, it perfectly coincides, and is in fact the same
thing, with the love of virtue, rectitude, and goodness. You will easily
judge, then, what we esteem the surest and only decisive signs of piety. We
lay no stress on strong excitements. We esteem him, and him only a pious
man, who practically conforms to God's moral perfections and government;
who shows his delight in God's benevolence, by loving and serving his
neighbour; his delight in God's justice, by being resolutely upright; his
sense of God's purity, by regulating his thoughts, imagination, and
desires; and whose conversation, business, and domestic life are swayed by
a regard to God's presence and authority. In all things else men may
deceive


in giving up one another to perdition, we feel as if we
were reading the records of an infernal, rather than a heavenly kingdom. An
enemy to every religion, if asked to describe a Christian, would, with some
show of reason, depict him as an idolater of his own distinguishing
opinions, covered with badges of party, shutting his eyes on the virtues,
and his ears on the arguments, of his opponents, arrogating all excellence
to his own sect and all saving power to his own creed, sheltering under the
name of pious zeal the love of domination, the conceit of infallibility,
and the spirit of intolerance, and trampling on men's rights under the
pretence of saving their souls.

We can hardly conceive of a plainer obligation on beings of our frail and
fallible nature, who are instructed in theJason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Black Jack

by Jason Thompson, Apr 6th 2012

Episode CII: Black Jack

In a manga world where every artist tries hard to create the most memorable character with the craziest hair, Black Jack is an icon among icons. That scar. That hair (too bad it's often concealed under a surgical cap). That suit. That job. It's nothing special to have a hero that looks like a villain, but it's incredibly rare to have a hero whose power doesn't involve killing; the opposite, in fact. Black Jack, the outlaw doctor, has waded through as much blood as anybody, but he only cuts people open to make them better.

Osamu Tezuka has written more serious manga with longer, more epic plots, but IMHO, Black Jack is the


best thing he's ever done. From 1973 to 1983, Black Jack's adventures appeared in Weekly Shonen Champion, where it has the distinction of being the classiest manga ever to appear in that magazine, whose more usual fare is My-HiME and Baron Gong Battle. In the very first story, we discover that Black Jack is a creepy, mysterious doctor without a license, who performs incredibly difficult surgeries for outrageous prices. He has a bad reputation, and people fear and hate him. ("You're a doctor just for rich folks!" "He's a black-market, money-grubbing pariah!") But his skills are legendary; there's almost nothing he can't do, whether it's operating on a patient from memory in the dark, or operating on himself in the middle of the Australian outback while using hiswith him wandering the streets alone, his sacrifices unappreciated or unknown.

When he's not traveling the world, Black Jack lives in a lonely house on a cliff above the sea. Although there are many stories where he adopts some cute animal as a counterweight to his sinisterness—dogs, birds, cats, killer whales, even a suspiciously Kimba-like white lion—his only permanent companion is Pinoko, a little girl who does the housework and assists during surgeries (although she's too short to reach most things). In fact, Pinoko is technically 18 years old, but she spent the first 17 years of her life as a parasitic twin in a lump inside the body of her sister. Black Jack surgically removed her and, after a few stiff drinks, reassembled her disconnected jumble of organs


artwork. In "Wildcat Boy" (vol. 12) Black Jack rehabilitates a feral child raised by animals. But Tezuka also happily ventures into occult pseudo-science, such as the stories about "face sores," images implanted on the retina, and psychic powers (even Kinoko has psychic powers when she's a parasitic twin, but sadly, she apparently loses them after she gets her own body). In one story Black Jack meets Hari Adra, a psychic surgeon, who has the power to reach into people's bodies and pull out their tumors and sicknesses, an idea which is just too awesome to not be real in manga, although in real life it's a total hoax. This story is also notable for its gruesome ending; it's no surprise that, when it first started out, Shonen Championdonate a dime to the poor. Black Jack has to be a rebel because the world is corrupt, controlled by money; many stories focus on the corruption of doctors and the hospital system in particular. Professional doctors hate Black Jack, in Vol. 3's "Black Jack in Hospital" our hero is injured in a car crash and left at the mercy of a doctor who hates him. ("Well, isn't this an honor! I get to operate on the famous charlatan, Doctor Black Jack! How many million yen have you leeched with this arm, you scoundrel?") With just a slip of his scalpel, he could end Black Jack's career for good…

Many of the recurring characters are doctors, including Dr. Kiriko, a former military field doctor turned euthanasist. Kiriko is Black


curse us." Sometimes Black Jack loses a patient, and he broods in guilt, or shakes his fist at God, asking "What are we doctors for?"

Unlike Golgo 13, the world's greatest doctor does have a backstory. When he was young, he was in an accident and lost most of his skin. A half-African friend gave him skin grafts ("Where Art Thou, Friend?", vol. 2), and ever since, Black Jack has had a patchwork face, light and dark. The same accident that tore off half his face also made him a cripple, and he spent many years in recovery, during which he vowed to become a doctor himself. During this whole time, young Black Jack was living with his mother, since his father had abandoned the family to run offwith a woman he met in Macao ("The Mask Chosen", Vol. 10). In that chapter, Black Jack reencounters his long-lost father, and other chapters feature other people from Black Jack's past, and even old loves. The fact that Black Jack does have a past, that he was once a normal person, makes him much more three-dimensional; imagine if Batman kept running into his old middle school classmates who remembered him when he was an awkward, orphaned 12-year-old.

Osamu Tezuka's manga are hard to write about, unless you're Fred Schodt. He's just too famous. Reviews of his stories tend to either be "OMG HE'S SO GREAT HE'S THE GOD OF MANGA BLAH BLAH BLAH GUYZ DIDN'T YOU KNOW" or "OMG he's so sexist!" (And yeah, he is sexist; I'm thinking


especially of the story "Confluence" (Vol. 1), in which a woman with uterine cancer, who's had her ovaries and uterus removed, decides to live as a man because without them, "she was no longer a woman." Sorry to insert crossdressing into one of the few manga I've reviewed that doesn't have any, but tell that to the contestants in the Miss International Queen competition, Tezuka!) But Black Jack is something special. It doesn't have the ambition or the weakness of Tezuka's long novel-like stories (MW, Swallowing the Earth, The Book of Human Insects, Buddha, etc.), which tend to sound awesome in summary but sometimes veer out of control and botch the ending. It's simpler, it's just a character-based episodic manga story; but what a character! Black Jack isinterior decorators, manga reviewers, and so on.

Black Jack first appeared in English in Manga Vizion, Viz's short-lived early attempt at a manga anthology magazine, around 1996. Two volumes were translated before succumbing to the usual 1990s manga sales doldrums (the first couple of issues of something would sell OK, but then sales would sink down, down, dowwwwwn), but it wasn't until Vertical translated the series that we got all 17 volumes of the Japanese bunko edition. The bunko edition is itself a "best of" edition, so there are plenty of untranslated stories still in Japan (although by definition they are the "worst of", so don't hold your breath for them to get translated). Black Jack packs so many stories into its 17 volumes, it feels like there's no


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