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Hamlet and the Grief Counselors
Larry Allums, Ph.D.
As Dr. Glenn Arbery pointed out last week during the first lecture of this Fall's City of Imagination eries, one of the readiest associations in the popular mind today is between violence and the school, in which psychological specialists have come to play a primary role. It is not my intention tonight to disparage the grief counselors or their counterparts prior to a violent event, the school guidance counselors. In truth, I know no more about their work than does the average person who reads the newspapers and the journals, which means that I have had occasion to read quite a lot about them recently because of the increased demand for their particular work during what is frequently called the "crisis in violence" that we are now experiencing. I could cite examples of the quirky ideas of some "social transformers" for effect, but that would be implicitly to deny the worthy work that the majority of counselors are called on to perform in the tense environment of our schools today. Rather, I would like briefly to comment on the function of this kind of counseling as a way into a broader exploration of violence itself. It is my sense that the focus of such counseling has to do with the causes and effects of physical violence but not with the phenomenon of violence itself, the understanding of which is essentially metaphysical. But this metaphysical understanding must, in order to be perduring, come not directly but by indirection, through the artistic medium of the image. And, as I hope to show, this knowing by the indirection of art is of enormous consequence both to individuals and to the city as a whole.
The goal of both the guidance counselor and the grief counselor is catharsis, the elimination of powerful passions that may, if blocked and kept inside, explode and do violent harm to the victim of the passions and perhaps others as well. The guidance counselor with his "anger thermometer" drawn on the familiar poster paper, ranging from "annoyed" at the bottom through "mad" and "angry" to "furious" at the explosive top, wants students—geeks, athletes, members of cliques—to say aloud such things as "I feel angry when you take my belongings without asking" (Gutloff 8). Similarly, students who have survived incidents of violence are encouraged for a variety of reasons to let out their feelings, not hold them back but get them out in the open and deal with them: in order to prevent the impulse to revenge, withdrawal, abnormal social adjustments, and so on. Statistics indicate that these strategies work, that violence and its aftermath decline in the presence of pre- or post-event catharsis brought about through counseling. The school is calmer, and learning can proceed. As one guidance counselor puts it, "To teach academics, we have to make sure the kids are with us emotionally" (Gutloff 8). The desire of course is that all school counseling become pre-event counseling.
It may be, however, that such strategies have their limits in being situational or occasional: in their attempts to reach catharsis, nothing necessarily occurs to orient the soul lastingly toward the irrefragible reality of violence. Elementary schools nationwide are increasingly instituting programs designed to detect and defuse potentially violent behavior at an early age. The intent is good, but there are also indications that since young students are aware of the adopted strategy, they are thus "in on" the plan and, wishing to please, tend to react in a certain way so that the announced goals will be achieved. The danger is that although results may be strikingly positive, they may be illusory in the long run, since children in such programs are part of a presentation, or a "show," in much the same sense that survivors and mourners of school shootings are unable to escape the "showtime" atmosphere, including the inevitable appearance of grief counselors on the scene, created by the media. At this stage in our crisis of violence, everyone involved in or associated with a violent event knows what to expect.
Thomas de Zengotita makes this point in an interesting way in a July '99 Harper's essay entitled "The Gunfire Dialogues":
Sally Satel, a Yale psychiatrist, had an op-ed piece about the busloads of "grief counselors" who are as much a feature of such scenes as are SWAT teams and flower shrines. She focused on the "commodification of grief," the "unholy therapeutic alliance" between the talk-through-your-feelings-and-get-to-closure counselor and the empathic servants of the twenty-four-hour news cycle. And can anyone doubt that stricken mourners, no matter how authentic their feelings, respond at some level to implicit expectations when the cameras roll? Especially since they have seen this show on TV before; now, suddenly, they are in it. (55-6)
Zengotita goes on dryly to suggest that "senseless school shooting" is now a genre, as is "coverage of senseless school shootings," in which the "correspondents are in moved-to-the-breaking-point-but-professional mode. The anchors are in grave-demeanor-reserved-for-inexplicable-evil mode. The expert guests and other commentators are also grave, but inexplicability is not their provenance, and I-told-you-so and now-maybe-you'll-listen drives their spin toward gun control or family values or psychological-intervention programs" (56).
Such contemporary "shows," Zengotita maintains, indicate just what a "reflexive entity" they are, and he points out that our massive reflexivity in the face of such violence indicates how much of a piece these shows are with "all things postmodern." All involved are acutely conscious of possible motives of exploitation: "correspondents asking interviewees about their grief now also ask how they feel about being interviewed about their grief" (56).
One of the letters to the editor in response to Zengotita's article reads as follows:
As a teenager, I resent Thomas de Zengotita's essay on the murders at Columbine High School and youth violence generally for the self-assurance with which he claims to know me, the same kind of smug self-assurance exhibited by those who dominate our media, the psychiatrists, politicos, and reporters Zengotita resembles but so harshly criticizes. None of them knows what is wrong (or right) with today's youth because they are not a part of today's youth, and they have allowed their age and experience to limit their worldview instead of expand it. They are certainly not qualified to tell me why I play violent video games, or to label me either "the shooter" or a politically "apathetic" teen. (7)
Finally, the writer asks the predictable questions:
Also, how is the content of video games worse than the content of some great literary works? Lolita, of course, is about pedophilia, and Crime and Punishment is a study of murder, as is, in part, To Kill a Mockingbird. Are we corrupted by these texts? Is it evil to become so engrossed in the story that one imagines seeing Boo Radley's knife plunge into the back of Scout's kidnapper? (7)
All of this, from the strategies of school counselors to Zengotita's emphasis on the reflexivity of our age and the teenager's response to it, reveals among other things how central the self has become for us at the expense of a communal life, not only in dealing with violence but in virtually all matters of individual and social consequence. In our postmodern age, the "I"—the self—is devastatingly, cripplingly present, so much so that its overwhelming presence is the greatest hindrance to understanding—coming to know a thing and therefore possessing a power of control and restraint in relation to it.
My comments from here on assume that an understanding of violence is a valuable possession, and that to understand it in a certain way is to be protected from its excesses. That "certain way," I suggest, is through art, and more specifically through poetry or literature, the proper study of which effaces the self from the center of things and invites it to witness and participate in something that simultaneously doesn't involve it directly and has everything to do with its existence in the world—of its having life, and having it more abundantly.
To begin with, the artist finds it an essential part of his work to be honest about violence as he is honest with all things, by which I mean to acknowledge its fundamental existence in the scheme of things, the natural order. The artist doesn't feel the need to deny violence, to condemn it, or alter its aspect by pretending it is something other than itself. At the inmost heart of the artist's work is honesty, the representation of truth as he discovers it to be. The artist's method for this representation is, to use the Greek term, mimesis, which we normally translate imitation, but which is vastly different from "reproduction" as in the camera's ability to reproduce faithfully a landscape or a street scene. Rather,mimesis involves a kind of imitation of an action in such a manner that its interior contours and valuations are "captured" even more faithfully than its exterior surface. This principle is most starkly grasped, perhaps, in modern art, something by Picasso, say, where the surface may be all but unrecognizable to the representation-loving eye but tremendously alive with meaning beneath that surface.
For the artist, then, violence is in its inevitability; to repeat myself, it is an irrefragible reality. This is true for the most benign-seeming of pastoral poets insofar as even the pastoral poet will not deny that the wolf lurks about the sheepfold as a potential violator of the provisional peace within. Mythically, violence is presented in Genesis as the defining act in the Garden of Eden: violence is an act of violation, and man's violation of God's sole command results in his expulsion from the Garden and his subsequent entrance into history—into the fallen world, which is the world we know. This reminds us that violence extends far beyond physical violations and may be even more devastating: violations of the law, of privacy, of civil rights, and so on.
In the Genesis account, the act of violence that begins in disobedience culminates in nothing less than death, not at all the original promise of God's first covenant with man but the promised consequence of the prime violation, which is literally iterated outside the Garden not with the eventual death of Adam and Eve—from natural causes, we would say—but with the violent death of Abel at the hands of his brother Cain.
In Milton's great poem Paradise Lost, just before his expulsion from the Garden Adam is treated by the Archangel Michael to a panoramic view of the future up to the time of Christ, which is of course history for us as readers. What he will see, Michael tells him, is what follows from his disobedience—his initial violation—and it turns out to be a prolonged presentation of violence throughout the ages—war, vice, disease, betrayal—with the ultimate violence being done to Christ, the Son of God, from whose violent death, paradoxically, comes man's eventual deliverance from violence and death, which rouses Adam from his guilt and despair and causes him to exclaim, from his position at the fountainhead of all time and human history:
"Full of doubt I stand,
Whether I should repent me now of sin
By me done and occasioned, or rejoice
Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring,
To God more glory, more good will to men
From God, and over wrath grace shall abound." (12.473-8)
Because the poet confronts violence as a reality in the fallen world that has as legitimate an existence as birth or love or death, he presents it as he finds it in his subject, which means that it is sometimes overwhelming, as in Odysseus' indiscriminate slaying of the more-than-one-hundred suitors of Penelope, which Dr. Arbery talked about last week, some of whom are much more deserving of the violence than others. In Homer's earlier epic, the Iliad, the violence is even more pronounced, insofar as his subject is war, an activity that mankind has not found a way to eliminate and that is hardly more graphic in contemporary films than in Homer's austere and beautiful representation of it outside the walls of Troy. In this respect, it would be worthwhile to compare the first thirty minutes of Saving Private Ryan with the intense battle scenes between the Greeks and the Trojans. The intensely realistic, unrelievedly violent opening of Saving Private Ryan lacks the strange beauty of Homer's violence, because, like contemporary film in general, Saving Private Ryan takes realism as its primary goal and shock as its primary effect, whereas Homer's language provides the aesthetic distance necessary for us to be able to keep back and be "saved" from the savage proximity of the violence portrayed. Actually, the most powerful scene in Saving Private Ryan in terms of this aesthetic distancing comes later, after the initial assault of the Normandy beach-head, when we come upon the young man with the invisible chest wound, apparently from a razor-sharp piece of shrapnel: we see the alarmingly rapid flow of the blood but not the rent place from which it flows, and in comparison with the exploding bodies and torn-away limbs of the opening sequence, the utterly silent violation of this young man's body is much more poignant as his comrades wipe away the blood again and again, only to have it reappear, as if directly through his skin, again and again.
Homer's gift for investing violence with the strange beauty of its irresistible being is my first point in what I mean by art's capacity to teach us by means of effacing the self in the presence of the image—what Donald Cowan has called the introduction of the "third thing," which relieves us of our self-appointed, self-deluding role as the central actor in the world's drama (the world being whatever is happening to me here and now). In his book Unbinding Prometheus, Dr. Cowan says that in order for the education of "a person of significance" to be full and complete, he must "experience a submergence of the self, a loss of ego," which occurs only in the presence of some reality larger than the self (146). The act of learning involves not an assertion of or a focusing upon but a submission of the ego to a reality it has not encountered before. It is an acknowledgement that the ego doesn't define but is enlarged by the reality it encounters. This essential point is memorably made by the Southern writer and critic John Crowe Ransom in his essay "Forms and Citizens," in which he says that the submission of the self in all profound matters of life to a larger, containing form ultimately protects the self from the tyranny of "the direct approach" (32).
Art offers us such a reality, but only according to its own demanding strictures, by which I mean that all art is not good art, although one might just as well say that only good art is art. But more specifically I am thinking now of poetry's property of form, or of the poet's capacity to impose, through language, form on a formless mass of material such that it appears to us as a new creation, an addition to the already created order. We might think of form as the property of the poem responsible for the fact that the whole of the poem exceeds the sum of its individual parts—far exceeds them in such a way that we keep coming back again and again to the same works, without completely knowing why. Form is finally mysterious in the way it works on the imagination; it is that quality in a work that resists final formulation but leaves one with a sense of the work's coherence and fullness and of its intimate contact with the truth about something important to us.
The philosopher Jacques Maritain speaks of this quality as the "radiance of form," which he says must be understood as
. . . an ontological splendor which is in one way or another revealed to our mind, not a conceptualclarity. We must avoid all misunderstanding here: the words clarity, intelligibility, light, which we use to characterize the role of "form" at the heart of things, do not necessarily designate something clear and intelligible for us, but rather something clear and luminous in itself, intelligible in itself, and which often remains obscure to our eyes, either because of the matter in which the form in question is buried, or because of the transcendence of the form itself in the things of the spirit. The more substantial and the more profound this secret sense is, the more hidden it is for us; so that, in truth, to say with the Schoolmen that the form is in things the proper principle of intelligibility, is to say at the same time that it is the proper principle of mystery. (There is in fact no mystery where there is nothing to know: mystery exists where there is more to be known than is given to our comprehension. (28)
This "radiance of form" in the poetic image thus reveals the things of the world truly, but in such a way that we are stopped by their manifest appearance and made to contemplate them, to ponder both their inexhaustible reality and their unfathomable mystery. If violence is one of these realities and mysteries, then it is to be expected that it is most fully revealed in the poetic image, yet without our attempting to seize upon any knowledge of it for practical purposes; that is, the knowledge of poetry, while as real as scientific, rational knowledge, is not of the sort that can be put immediately into service as a preventive measure. For this reason, it seems rather useless for directly ameliorating conditions in a time of crisis, as in our present "crisis of violence." We are not likely to see busloads of poets, or even busloads of poetry or novels, hurried to the scene of one of our violent catastrophes.
For the next few minutes I want to explore how all this might work in some actual poetic instances with regard to violence; that is, I want to see what kinds of things—what kinds of truth—about violence poetry might be able to reveal to us.
To return to the Iliad: in that poem there is the violence of war, which I have already mentioned, and then there is another kind of violence, a different kind entirely—the violence that rises up in Achilleus after his friend Patroklos has been killed by the greatest of the Trojan warriors, Hektor. When Patroklos is killed, Achilleus is not on the field; in fact, he has given Patroklos his armor to wear so that the Trojans will believe that he, Achilleus, has returned to the battle and will retreat back into the city. The plan has a disastrous consequence and Patroklos falls, whereupon the most immediate concern of the Greeks is to find someone willing to take the sad news to Achilleus.
Antilochus is chosen, and he actually turns out to be the first "grief counselor." After delivering his message, Homer writes, "Antilochus mourned with him, letting the tears fall, and held the hands of Achilleus as he grieved in his proud heart, fearing Achilleus might cut his throat with the iron" (18.32-4).
When Achilleus rejoins the battle, clad in new armor provided by the gods, it is with an unimaginable violence, a deep and intimate desire for revenge that cuts a swath through the Trojan army and single-mindedly zeroes in on Hektor. And when his hated enemy is finally dead, Achilleus enacts a further violence that commands the attention even of the gods, tying Hektor to the axle of his chariot and dragging his body before the walls of Troy, an atrocity witnessed by Hektor's father, mother, and wife. By the time Priam goes to Achilleus' shelter to ask for his son's body, the violence is still within Achilleus, hovering just below the surface, like an entity in and of itself over which Achilleus himself doesn't seem have control, so that when Priam pushes a little too forcefully for the return of Hektor, Achilleus warns him: "You must not further make my spirit move in my sorrows, for fear, old sir, I might not let you alone in my shelter, suppliant as you are; and be guilty before the god's orders" (24.568-70).
Achilleus' violence in the last books of the Iliad, then, is so pure, absolute and unmeasurable—unquantifiable—that one is forced to regard it as a "thing unto itself," more than human, as a god-like wrath that moves toward some purpose of its own and is unknown fully even by its agent, like the divine anger of Jehovah in the Old Testament when he is stirred through Elijah or Moses against a faithless people. To study the Iliad is in one sense to attempt to see into the mystery of this kind of violence, which is respected by the gods, feared by mortals, and the cause of the war's end, the emptying out of violence into the calm that is still only provisional in the encounter between Achilleus and Priam that I have just mentioned.
Could such a violent wrath actually exist? Through the "radiance of form," Homer portrays this Achillean violence in the Iliad in such a way that we must submit to it as an undeniable reality, though we are not likely ever to see anything like it in the actual world. The point here is that the image of Achilleus' violence, if we surrender to its portrayal within the context of the poem's entire movement, strikes to the center of ourselves as a knowing, an understanding. As Ransom has written, such an image "cannot be used, it can only be known" (196-7).
One might object that Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme has gone on equally devastating rampages on the big screen, but then one must ask whether that violence operates poetically; that is, is it situated within a larger action that reveals to us something metaphysically true about the phenomenon of violence—its unfolding presence in the world? The nature of Achillean violence is discoverable only within a rich, complex milieu that includes the omniscient will of divinity and the absolute limits of mortality contained within the half-mortal, half-divine figure of the hero Achilleus.
Taken together and considered in this way, the great works of our culture may present a kind of panoply of violence as it emerges over the centuries within the context of what might be called a Divine Intention, which is another way of saying that poetic violence is not only never gratuitous but always is connected to some purpose outside our immediate selves. According to this formulation, there is no such thing as "senseless violence." As the Greek playwright Aeschylus has the chorus say in his play Agamemnon, "from the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench there comes a violent love" (183-4). Or from the New Testament: "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin." (In this context we might remember Dr. Arbery's discussion last week of Flannery O'Connor's saying that her characters were so intractable that the grace they desperately required was necessarily attended by violence.) In the Aeneid, to move forward in time from the ancient Greeks, there appears a kind of violence apparently unknown to Homer in either the Iliad or the Odyssey: a violentia, to use the Latin term, motivated by the invasion, the encroachment, of one people by another, a violence attended by hatred and resentment, which suspends the warrior's code of conduct according to which violence maintains a kind of sanctity. And in Melville'sMoby-Dick, Captain Ahab abstracts the single instance of inscrutable violence he suffers personally—the loss of his leg to the whale, but why?—into a violent quest for the truth of being itself.
But the literary classics haven't registered violence in its multiple masks once and for all. Violence itself is archetypal, which means it appears in its various guises at all times and in all artistic media. A late instance of an Achillean kind of violence, for instance, is vividly present in Clint Eastwood's film Unforgiven, in which Eastwood's character Will Munny, a former alcoholic gunfighter but presently a pig farmer, cleans out the town of Big Whiskey, Montana, after the brutal sheriff, Gene Hackman's character Little Bill, beats Munny's friend Ned (played by Morgan Freeman) to death with a bullwhip. In this circumstance, though Will Munny acts for revenge, his violent killing of the sheriff and his deputies evokes the stark image of the biblical Angel of Death, enacting the cleansing of a town that has become hardened and rigid under the tyranny of Little Bill. Even in this contemporary film, the violent act is seen to reside within a larger constellation of meaning, connected ultimately to something outside the act itself, its victims, and its perpetrators. The violence is very personally suffered, but its existence in the world, its reason for being, doesn't begin and end with the self. At the end of the movie, when Little Bill lies helpless and wounded, he says, "I don't deserve to die like this." Will Munny, standing over him with a rifle barrel inches away from his throat, responds, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
In all these instances, the portrayal of violence as a "good" insofar as it is subsumed within a larger field of action and meaning, while losing none of its harsh particularity as image, must be accepted if the poetic work in question is to be taken seriously. The poet does not turn away from what he discerns as one of the properties of violence, but it is his creative gift—his capacity for imposing form on his subject matter—that guides his poetic eye and hand. This is precisely what the teenager who described Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as a "study in murder" does not understand: that Raskolnikov's brutal axe murder of two women has its poetic meaning within the context of his interior anguish at having performed the deed, imagined beforehand as a liberating act of courage, and the eventual salvation of his soul precisely as a result of his violent act: violence as the violation without which he would not have come to God. And simply to say that that does not balance the scales is to miss the point.
In the contemplation of the poetic image, we ultimately come to a place of judgement about such realities as violence, which the Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden says fascinates us so compellingly precisely because it does occupy a fixed and ineradicable place among the ontological certainties that surround us. We gaze on the real thing, the actual event in the world—the dead or wounded body—because we know intuitively that every instance of violence somehow bespeaks our own destiny and therefore our own participation in it. In terms of coming to a knowing, however, our poetic experience is superior to the actual event in the poet's offering it up as it were in a contained and therefore a ponderable form. Never a moralist and never interested in morality, the poet in his form-making role nevertheless situates us so that our moral judgement—which is necessary for the living of life—is continually being developed, our imaginations matured toward a habitus, a spiritual habit of the soul without which our capacity to negotiate violence in the actual world is greatly diminshed.
I had better get to Shakespeare's Hamlet or my title will have been a deception. Prince Hamlet is a fertile figure for a consideration of violence because he is so unlike any of the other figures I have so far mentioned. In fact, he seems to have more in common with the Columbine shooters than with Achilleus or Will Munny.
The play Hamlet is remarkable for depicting an atmosphere in which the signs of violence are everywhere—"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (1.4.90)—threatening to erupt into a kind of apocalyptic plenitude at any moment. There are violent deaths interspersed in the action: the fool Polonius' "accidental" murder, Ophelia's death by drowning, Rosencrantz and Guidenstern' ignominious end. But all of this seems to point us toward the climactic eruption of the finale, when Queen Gertrude is poisoned, Ophelia's brother Laertes and Hamlet himself are mortally wounded by a poison-tipped sword, and King Claudius is rather decisively cut down by Hamlet just before he dies beside or in the arms of his friend Horatio, who famously pronounces, "Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" (5.2.344-5)
The play is also remarkable for having as its tragic protagonist a man who is notably non-violent. A lot of thought and time have been given to analysis of Hamlet's character, much of it by psychologists. Here is a sampling of estimates from the 18th and 19th centuries (all taken from the Norton Critical Edition of the play):
- Henry MacKenzie: "The basis of Hamlet's character seems to be an extreme sensibility of mind . . . . We perceive gentleness in his demeanour, wit in his conversation, taste in his amusements, and wisdom in his reflections" (148-9).
- John Wolfgang von Goethe: "To me it is clear that Shakespeare meant to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the performance of it . . . . A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away" (153).
- Augustus William Schlegel: "But in the resolutions which he so often embraces and always leaves unexecuted, his weakness is too apparent. . . . Hamlet has no firm belief either in himself or anything else" (155)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: in Hamlet one sees "great, enormous intellectual activity, and a consequent proportionate aversion to real action, with all its symptoms and accompanying qualities" (163).
- William Hazlitt: Hamlet's "is not a character marked by strength of will or even of passion, but by refinement of thought and sentiment. Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be . . . . He is the prince of philosophical speculators . . . . His ruling passion is to think, not to act: and any vague pretext that flatters this propensity instantly diverts him from his previous purpose" (165, 167).
These estimates make it clear why Hamlet is widely regarded as the first "modern hero." He is not disposed to violence yet ends up being as bloody as any of Shakespeare's other major tragic figures, and while the nature of his violent acts remains to a large degree inscrutable, his motivation toward those acts seems fairly clear and also revealing about the nature of violence itself.
The play begins with his grief over the death of his beloved father, and even before he learns the nature of that death—"murder most foul" (1.5.27)—he is moved by it and his mother's "o'erhasty" marriage to his uncle Claudius to the point that life has lost its meaning; all ontological certainties have vanished for him, and he sinks deep into a melancholy, from which he delivers his first of several famous soliloquies: "oh that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter" (1.2.9-12). Hamlet has his own team of counselors, though they work surreptitiously and not from pure motives. The unknown murderer Claudius, fearful of being found out, first puts Rosencrantz and Guilderstern, Hamlet's childhood friends, to work to cheer him up and find him out if possible, and the two obsequious young men, rather harmless sponges (as Hamlet calls them later), accept the duty. Then Claudius puts Polonius, the father of Hamlet's sweetheart Ophelia, on the case at the busybody's own urging.
But by this time something decisive has happened: Hamlet has seen the ghost of his father, who reveals the circumstance of his death and charges him to exact revenge in his father's cause. Nothing could seem simpler, yet Hamlet's delay—the focus of critical speculation about the play—extends from the moment of his receiving the command of the ghost to the final scene during which the stage is littered with corpses. It is clear that Hamlet does not want to take up the sword, but not because of cowardice. The very intellectual nature of his disposition—which reveals itself in both his melancholy and his unparalleled wit—leads him almost immediately from the ghost's simple command to a much larger, momentous insight: that this is not to be a simple matter of revenge but a world-changing event of which he has been designated the agent and which can be effected only by great violence. He sees more, and more clearly than, the ghost, which appears simultaneously with its own agenda (to lie quiet in the earth) and with a message from a realm of greater scope and significance. "The time is out of joint," he says when the ghost has disappeared. "O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right" (1.5.7-8).
From this point onward, Hamlet leaves the region of ordinary mortals to ponder the cosmic choice before him. He would rather die—"to be or not to be"—but that doesn't seem to be one of his options. He would rather discover that the ghost was a false fire, a sign from some demonic agency that he is supposed to reject; but he can't bring himself to that conclusion either. He wants to blame his mother, or, more generally, woman, including Ophelia, but he comes to see that his obligation now has little to do with the conventions of family or romantic love. In the end, finally, he seems simply to surrender to the overwhelming summons from beyond himself, from beyond grief and mourning. We can ponder the ineffable, try to divine the meaning of mortality and death, yet at some point, when we are given a great work to do, we must submit to the command. "Let us know," he says to the stoic Horatio just before going to the fatal swordfight, "Our indiscretion sometime serves us well, / When our deep plots do pall; and that should learn us / There's a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will" (5.2.7-11) Since "we defy augury," then "the readiness is all" (5.2.199-202).
In finally submitting to that which is squarely against his nature, he fulfills the summons that he himself has articulated: his violent cleansing of the palace of Denmark, to which he is a sacrifice, marks the setting right of the time that has been thrown out of joint by Claudius. Within the context of the connection between heaven and earth—in which there are more things than are dreamt of in Horatio's philosophy—Hamlet's embracing of violence is seen to constitute much more than revenge, much more than a self-involved struggle of a modern, ego-enclosed self; in fact it is only when Hamlet can get outside the self that he can enact the violence that turns out to be nothing less than the necessary agency of the reassertion of right order in the world.
If we are in the midst of a "crisis of violence," we could do far worse than instituting Hamlet and Shakespeare's other tragedies as standard resources for understanding the nature of violent behavior. There is no doubt the objection that attending to Hamlet's story might be a dangerous dignifying of a young man who responds to strange voices from beyond the "real world." How is Hamlet different from Terry Nichols who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, the boys from Columbine, Barton in Atlanta? Isn't Hamlet simply insane, at least temporarily, as is anyone who would openly resort to violence? My answer would be that in each of those instances, we can learn nothing valuable about the nature of violence—but that in each of them there perhaps resides a potential poem, which, once given the "radiance of form," will reveal something else of the truth about the phenomenon that so troubles us today. Until then, however, it remains simply a catastrophe, inexplicable and maddening, which summons forth the counselors to do their noble work of effecting an immediate catharsis by focusing on the self as victim or perpetrator—which is not at all the catharsis of poetry about which I have been speaking.
In conclusion, in our age poetry cannot speak convincingly for itself, but then poetry has never considered itself a product or a program answerable to market demands. The poet is not interested in convincing by rhetoric; rather, he is interested in getting the image right, by which I mean in finding words for something true he has perceived about the world. The task of enabling poetry to do its work and poetic form to exert its perduring influence on the soul falls not to the counselor but to the teacher in the classroom and the critic in the city. It is through these two figures, themselves in service to art, that we will be led to the threshold of poetry from which we may have insight into not only violence but all other true things in the cosmos.
Works Cited
Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1977.
Cowan, Donald A. "College Education and Leadership." In Unbinding Prometheus: Education for the Coming Age. Dallas: The Dallas Institute, 1988.
de Zengotita, Thomas. "The Gunfire Dialogues." Harper's (July 1999): 55-8.
Gutloff, Karen. "Anger in the Halls." NEA Today (October 1999): 8-9.
Homer. Iliad. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1961.
"Letters." Harper's (October 1999): 4-8.
Maritain, Jacques. Art and Scholasticism and The Frontiers of Poetry. Trans. Joseph W. Evans. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1974.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Ed. Scott Elledge. New York: Norton, 1975.
Ransom, John Crowe. "Forms and Citizens." In The World's Body. Louisiana State UP, 1968: 29-54.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. New York: Norton, 1963.
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KELOWNA - Do you have something at home that's broken and needs fixing or repair? Really wish you could give it a new life, but you just don't know how to go about it? Don't put it off any longer! Bring it to the Repair Café this weekend at Okanagan College, and get it fixed at last, for free
Hosted by the Regional Waste Reduction Office, the Repair Café runs Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Center for Learning Atrium at Okanagan College on KLO Road. Fueled entirely by volunteer fixers, the event is free to the public, as is parking on site for the day.
Waste Reduction Facilitator Rae Stewart with the Regional District says this is a great way for people to get more use out of their items, and save them from landfilling." It's a revival of the whole culture of repair, reuse and re-purpose. Given the traffic we see coming through these events, it seems to be something many of us have a real appetite for these days!"
Stewart adds volunteers are the backbone of these Repair Cafés. "It's a simple concept. We bring together those with the knowhow to fix everyday items such as small appliances, bikes, clothing and more, with people who have items that need to be fixed. With over 20 volunteers attending this weekends' event alone, there's a massive array of expertise available. It goes without saying, we couldn't possibly host these Café's without the dedication of these many talented craftspeople, and we're hugely appreciative of all those who generously share their time and skills!'
One such volunteer who has participated in two previous Repair Café events, and will be at this weekend's event as well is retired electrical engineer Al Stewart. "I like to come out to these Repair Cafes because I enjoy giving back to my community. I feel I have a useful skill that I can share with others, sometimes teach them something new, share an ah-ha moment, or just make them happy by giving their broken down item a whole new life. I get a real kick out of fixing things, have fun meeting new people and hanging out with likeminded volunteer fixers. It's all very rewarding."
Rae Stewart explains for anyone who visits a Repair Café, you should be ready to be part of the process as the learning approach is key. "We're not looking for you to just drop your stuff off and come back later when it's all fixed up again. We're encouraging you to sit with the person fixing, you can either do the whole thing yourself or assist with the repair, or just observe. A big part of it is showing people they can actually repair things themselves, so empowerment is a big piece of the puzzle."
Repair Café is still somewhat new for our area, but not a new concept says Stewart. "Repair Café or Fix-it type events are very popular in Europe. They started in the Netherlands in 2009, and now the idea is spreading with regular repair events in Vernon, Calgary, Nanaimo, Edmonton and several cities across the United States."
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The energy scenario in the state was bound to improve soon with a number of power projects being at various stages of construction from which over 5000 MW will come to the state''s way by 2015, Yadav said while replying to a debate on the Energy department's budget of Rs 2916 crore for the financial year 2011-12.
Bihar will also get additional power from a number of ultra power projects being constructed across the country, Yadav said.
Besides generation of surplus power, the state government was also laying transmission infrastructure for which about Rs 4000 crore have been spent till date and 90 per cent work completed, he said, adding that the remaining work will be done soon.
Yadav attacked the UPA government at Centre for "creating obstacles" in the state government's plans to set up hydel power projects, including that on the river Ganga, besides denying the state''s share of 50 per cent power from those projects being constructed in the state on technical ground.
He claimed that the Centre was not giving coal linkages to the state for use in the proposed thermal power projects in Bihar and was instead offering coal blocks for the purpose which would require massive capital expenditure.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Covered California's new ad campaign begins airing statewide today, in a variety of languages, to promote the open-enrollment period that started Sunday. The ads promote the value of health insurance and aim to motivate uninsured Californians to enroll in health insurance through Covered California.
The ads are part of a $29 million campaign and will air in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Vietnamese. The campaign also includes radio, print, out-of-home, direct mail, digital and social ads for English-speaking Californians, as well as targeted efforts for the African-American; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender; Spanish-speaking; and Asian-speaking communities.
"Reaching California's diverse population is critical," said Covered California Executive Director Peter V. Lee. "This year we are spending more than we ever have on a monthly basis to promote coverage and enrollment."
The campaign features new messages with the tag line "It's not just health care — it's life care."
"Life is unpredictable, and getting covered is more than just health care — it is life care. Covered California will be there for you through all of life's ups and downs," Lee said. "What's predictable is that millions of Californians now have financial help to bring health care within reach."
The first ad, "Moments," uses a high-speed camera that sweeps through a scene in three seconds to capture moments within the lives of everyday Californians. Additional ads will highlight the fact that four out of five who enrolled through Covered California received financial assistance to help pay for their health insurance and that dental coverage is now available for adults through Covered California.
In addition to the English and Spanish ads that were first unveiled on Friday, Covered California released new Mandarin and Cantonese ads today. All of the ads can be found online at https://vimeo.com/coveredcalifornia.
The ad campaign also coincides with Covered California's "Spotlight on Coverage" tour that is currently underway to promote open enrollment. Details of the tour can be found at http://news.coveredca.com/2015/10/covered-california-kicks-off-statewide.html.
Covered California's third open-enrollment period is aimed at reducing the number of uninsured in California. An estimated 2.2 million uninsured Californians are eligible to get financial help to make their insurance affordable by enrolling in Covered California or Medi-Cal.
Those who need insurance can go to CoveredCA.com to learn about their options and to find locations in their community where they can get free, confidential help to enroll, or they can get help enrolling over the phone. Open enrollment runs through Jan. 31.
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Covered California is the state's marketplace for the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Covered California, in partnership with the California Department of Health Care Services, was charged with creating a new health insurance marketplace in which individuals and small businesses can get access to affordable health insurance plans. Covered California helps individuals determine whether they are eligible for premium assistance that is available on a sliding-scale basis to reduce insurance costs or whether they are eligible for low-cost or no-cost Medi-Cal. Consumers can then compare health insurance plans and choose the plan that works best for their health needs and budget. Small businesses can purchase competitively priced health insurance plans and offer their employees the ability to choose from an array of plans and may qualify for federal tax credits.
Covered California is an independent part of the state government whose job is to make the new market work for California's consumers. It is overseen by a five-member board appointed by the Governor and the Legislature. For more information about Covered California, please visit www.CoveredCA.com.


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The professional dog plays a key role, Mouse Dog hunting operations in Vietnam belongs to the breed of grass but have trained for months, the newly formed mouse hunting skills. To train a dog to catch rats matured it took two years. Dogs are tasked to survey the situation in, sniffing the mouse from the mouth of the cave of the field abound. Target discovery, we sniffed or barked to call home to. Their front legs strong dig into the cave rats. If the mouse ran out immediately, to chase away dogs and summed.
New York City has the landfill, dark alley, where more than two million residents of the mouse, the piles of garbage left in the city is an ideal habitat for species of rodents, such as rats and bring the epidemic ganglion in humans. Mouse hunting team R.A.T.S (Ryders Alley Trencher Fed Society) founded in 1995. The members of the team are R.A.T.S hounds are trained to specialize in catching mice in the city. People often choose from rat terriers popular breeds such as Border, Norfolk, Foxhound and breed ferrets. Experts will train many skills tracking, chasing, pressed and kill prey.
Squad rat terriers are performing tasks catch mice weighing 0.5 kg Norway, the first small dogs sniffing tasks and scare the rats out of their holes, then larger dogs will catch rats, dogs barely injured while hunting mice although they hunt mice, which weighs up to 0.5kg. After the dogs hunt and kill rats success in the trash, they will bring the spoils of the owner, once the hunting instinct of the dog emerge, we will never stop, hounds can kill a mouse in just over a second, while if people use the mouse pad, the time can be up to several days, the dogs hunt the dogs are rarely infected, except the ability to hunt rats infested. When they catch their prey was hit baits, they can be poisoned from which more mice.


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I'm not very good at math,
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I never get why people go on and on about wearing double denim.
Is it a do or a don't?
For the most part,
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it's not that complicated.
In this outfit I paired a denim blazer with jeans.
The blazer is just a skosh darker than the jeans
and the white t just keeps the look simple.
Double Denim should always be kept simple.
I added my Adidas mostly because
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Biggest creative influences on me this year were Tig Notaro, Chance the Rapper, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun, and Roz Chast. It's very hard to make optimism funny or profound–something I admire so much in these people. Study their ways and feel yourself become better for it!
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was full of so much content, it was easy to miss or forget a lot of content. I completely forgot about the depth of Lex Luthor's God complex and Lois's research into the mysterious bullet after the first time I saw the movie. It's not that I missed it, but the rest of the movie was so full that it was hard to remember it all.
Even the smallest of elements in Batman v. Superman may end up playing major roles later in the franchise. This could include things like the Omega symbol during Batman's dream, symbolizing Darkseid, and the videos of the other metahumans, foreshadowing the Justice League. But there was one major part we all may have mentally skipped over.
One Crucial Detail
Near the beginning of the film, Bruce Wayne witnesses a Wayne Enterprise building collapsing during the fight between Superman and General Zod. After it collapses, Wayne helps a man whose legs are crushed, and then rescues a girl who is also about to be crushed.
After rescuing this girl, he asks her where her Mom is. The girl, dramatically, points to the top of the destroyed building. Wayne hugs the girl, and looks to the sky, mentally vowing to fix all that went wrong that day. The question is, did he only want to kill Superman, or did he want to do more?
As we saw later in the film, Bruce continued to pay Wallace Keefe (the man whose legs were crushed) his salary, even though he no longer worked. Clearly, Bruce intended to go above and beyond just fixing the damages and killing the man seemingly responsible - Bruce wanted to help the lives of those who were changed.
So what did he do for the girl? Based on the circumstances of the battle, there's actually a good chance that this child was orphaned. Feeling responsible for this, Wayne has likely paid for her to be taken care of properly. But is that enough? Or is Bruce using this child as an investment?
Enter Robin
Based on his track record, whenever Bruce Wayne takes care of an orphan, he later turns them into Robin to be his trusty sidekick! Perhaps Wayne, seeing the same pain in this girl's life that was in his early life, knows that one day, she too will seek justice.
One must note that this particular scene was placed right after the scene showing the death of Bruce's parents. Was this a coincidence, or were they intentionally placed together? Knowing Zack Snyder, it was probably the latter.
Did We Just See Carrie Kelley in the DCEU?
To some, the concept of a female Robin may be a radical change, but those who know the comics well enough know that it's not really that radical. Batman has had multiple female Robins over the year, the most prominent being Carrie Kelley.
Carrie started as Robin when she was 13, but if she ever appears in a movie, she will most likely be a bit older. The girl in the scene above looked to be around 10. The main events of Batman v. Superman took place about 2 years after this scene. If she does appear as Robin, she will most likely appear in the untitled Batman reboot Ben Affleck is directing, which has no release date, but will probably be released around 2020 - 4 years from now. This would mean the girl above would most likely be around 16 by the time we ever see her become Robin.
Seeing a female Robin would be quite interesting, seeing as the previous live-action Robins have all been male. Perhaps Carrie Kelley could even team up with Barbra Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, who fans hope will appear in the DCEU soon as well.
Whether or not they keep the same actress for the girl is up to the filmmakers, but keeping the character around until the Batman movie could be a very worthwhile investment. Not only would it be interesting to see how the events of Man of Steel impacted the rest of her life, but it would also be realistic for Bruce Wayne's character to take her under his wing after everything that happened.
See also...
- From Controversial Casting To Overwhelming Approval: Ben Affleck's Journey As Batman
- Batman Day 2016 Is Coming On September 17! Here Are 4 Great Ways To Celebrate The Caped Crusader
- Has DC Lied To Us? Why The Robin Suit In 'Batman V Superman' Isn't Jason Todd's
Is this an absolute guarantee that this girl is Carrie Kelley? Absolutely not. But is it a possibility? You can bet your ass it is. It is in Batman's nature to adopt orphans with painful histories, so it would make total sense for him to take care of this girl. If he can continue to pay the salary of a man who lost his legs, he can surely also take care of a girl who lost her parents.
I hope that this girl ends up being Carrie Kelley. A female Robin would be awesome to see on-screen. If she is anything like Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass, then I am sold.
What do you think, though? Let me know in the comments, and thanks for reading!


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Inward investment and technical progress in the United Kingdom manufacturing sector
This paper investigates the impact of inward investment by foreign-owned companies on technical progress, and hence labour productivity, in the UK manufacturing sector. Using an industry-level panel data set we find that foreign-owned firms have a significant positive effect on the level of technical efficiency in domestic firms. There is evidence of significant intra-industry and inter-industry spilovers from inward investment. These findings remain robust even when other factors such as imports and domestic R&D expenditures are allowed for. Inward investment appears much more important source of technical progress than foreign trade. We also find that the impact of inward investment varies according to the nationality of the investing firm.
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Manchester, New Hampshire (PressExposure) September 16, 2009 -- This book is about "A Fish Named Ed" who loses his mother. It goes into the process of grief in a very simple language allowing a child to comprehend where a pet goes when it dies. This is an introspective look at the death of a pet, and how, the pet will enter into the heart and soul of a child and find ways to remember with love the loss of thier pet. Children will be able to see through the eyes of a young fish the journey into an eternal relationship that will never die. There are exercises as well to help a child cope with their grief.
Who is Sam Oliver?
Sam has cared for the needs of the dying in palliative care for over 17 years. During that time, he has served as the Chair and Co-Chair of Hospice Ethics Committees in Indiana and Ohio. He has served several years as a State Continuing Education Chairperson for the Association of Professional Chaplains in Indiana.
For well over a decade, Sam has been an active editorial review board member and contributing writer for Healing Ministry Journal, The Journal of Terminal Oncology, and The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. He began his speaking about spiritual care over 15 years ago and continues to speak at public engagements on the local, national, and international levels. He has spoken at several college campuses and keynoted at several Hospice Conferences.
His first book of five, What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living, is a Doubleday Book Club, One Spirit, and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization selection. Sam's undergraduate study was at Georgetown College with a B.A. in Psychology. He received his Master of Divinity at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky with an emphasis in the Pastor/Teacher track. In 2003, Sam Oliver finished his post-graduate certificate in Healthcare Ethics through Rush University in Chicago, IL. Presently, Rev. Sam Oliver is the Chaplain and Bereavement Counselor at a local Hospice Care Center, and he continues to write and speak on spiritual care issues related to death and dying, motivational, and inspirational topics of interest.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With producers of Germany, this movie of 2013 has been brilliantly directed by Carsten Fiebeler. You can watch Die goldene Gans online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in German at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2013.
Rating: 5 by 13 users./
Runtime: 85 minutes
Till Florian Beyerbach, Anna Böttcher, Hilmar Eichhorn, Jella Haase, Edin Hasanovic, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Thorsten Merten, Jeremy Mockridge, Ingo Naujoks, Roland Schreglmann, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey and Teresa Weißbach.
85-minute film (full movie) directed by Carsten Fiebeler.
The original audio of Die goldene Gans has dialogues in or German, it was produced in Germany.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2013.
Screenplay written by Anja Kömmerling and Thomas Brinx.
Ingelore König and Paul Markurt.
This film was produced and / or financed by Kinderfilm.
Composed by Christopher Bremus.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Die goldene Gans has a duration of 85 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or German in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A man in San Francisco, who had an "I'm with her" magnet on his car in support of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, received an unexpected response.
The Instagram user ryryguad, whose name is Ryan Guaderrama, said when he walked out to his car, he found on his windshield a post-it note from a stranger that said, "Hang in there. We are with you. #pantsuitnation."
"We are powerful, and we are going to fight the powers of hate," Guaderrama said on Instagram.
Guaderrama said he has kept the magnet on his car since primary season.
Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to billionaire businessman Donald Trump.


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Both artists are included in an exhibition about the criminal mind at Het Dolhuys, museum of psychiatry.
From October 8th 2014 until March 29th 2015, museum Het Dolhuys in Haarlem is showing work of both David Haines and Ronald Ophuis at the exhibition 'Levenslang. Het criminele brein ontleed' about the criminal mind.
From David Haines, the video 'The Boy Next Door' and the drawing 'Poison Myth' are on show. Ronald Ophuis shows a portrait of a Dutchbatter and 'Voetballers I'.
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JURORS in the Daniel Morcombe murder trial have been warned to stay off Facebook and not to privately investigate the case themselves.
Jurors were yesterday chosen for the six-week trial of Brett Peter Cowan, who is accused of murdering the Sunshine Coast schoolboy in 2003.
Rolling coverage of yesterday's trial opening
The fate of Cowan, who now calls himself Shaddo N-Unyah Hunter, 44, will be determined by a jury in the Supreme Court in Brisbane following a highly anticipated six-week trial.
Cowan, 44, yesterday pleaded not guilty to Daniel's murder, to indecently dealing with a child and interfering with his corpse at the Glass House Mountains on December 7, 2003.
Bruce and Denise Morcombe sat just metres away from Cowan in the public gallery as he was arraigned.
They later said they were relieved the "long grind" to trial was over.
"(After) 10 years, two months and three days we find ourselves here, so it's been a long grind," Mr Morcombe said.
The Morcombes were allowed to sit in the crowded courtroom with sons Bradley and Dean and supporters as Cowan entered a plea. But they had to leave soon after because they are witnesses.
Jurors were warned to stay off Facebook and not to privately investigate the man accused of murdering Daniel.
It took more than two hours to empanel the jury of 12 and three reserves after 10 prospective jurors asked to be excused because they doubted whether they could be impartial.
Supreme Court Justice Roslyn Atkinson discharged six panel members but told four to remain.
It came after Crown prosecutor Glen Cash read the names of 158 potential witnesses who would likely be called to give evidence during the trial.
Cowan, who wore a light grey suit and striped business shirt, remained motionless in the prisoner's dock.
Justice Atkinson reminded the jury of its duty to decide a verdict based only on the evidence heard in court.
"It is absolutely necessary that you pay careful attention to the evidence and ignore anything you've read, or anything you hear about this case outside court," she said.
"Only you are the judges of the facts."
She urged them to approach the trial ``fairly, calmly, without prejudice and solely on the evidence''.
``Don't take any risk of any external influence on your mind and don't speak to anyone who is not a member of the jury on this case,'' she said.
Finally, she thanked them for their service.
``I will do whatever I can to assist you in this trial while you perform a very important task for the people of Queensland,'' she said.
The opening address from Crown prosecutor Michael Byrne, QC, will commence today, followed by an opening from barrister Angus Edwards on behalf of Cowan.
Daniel was 13 when he disappeared from a bus stop under the Kiel Mountain Overpass at Woombye on December 7, 2003. His remains were found in 2011.
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Ballad Town Billiards (aka Katz) is a great dart venue.
If you love 501 this is the tournament for you.
Friday night we'll have the Bind Draw event which is always a crow favorite.
Saturday, the Mixed Doubles give you a chance to warm up your darts before going into your singles. And if you are out early, we have plenty of side shoot action to keep you at the Oche. The Singles Double Elimination format keep you there so one bad set does not end your chance for ADO point. And don't forget the Doubles
Come Joint us at one of the best Steel Tip Dart events in the Northwest!
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The McMenamins Grand Lodge is right down the street.
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Forest Grove Inn is the no frills option with mostly good reviews


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One of the most common questions I am asked is, "do you give yourself psychic readings?" Yes. I do. The next question that comes is, "Well, how do you do it?" The answer is, I just close my eyes and listen to what I "know" in my gut. We have all heard all the cliche statements about "still, small voices" and "gut instinct", etc. We all are psychic. Just most people don't believe in it or trust themselves enough. We all have heard of "Mother's instinct" or "Cop's intuition". THAT is another way of saying "psychic ability". People accept those terms more easily however as it's LOGICAL that mothers and cops "just know" stuff. Where does that "knowing" come from?
I have learned over time to trust Spirit's guidance, whether in readings for you or for me. Now, granted, it has taken me YEARS to learn to be objective enough to hear what Spirit is really saying when I read for myself. Most of the time, when we read ourselves, we REALLY search on a subconscious level for the answer we really want. It is hard to be objective enough to hear the truth when we want the outcome we want.
A great example happened just the other day as I was seeking some guidance from Spirit and I heard, very clearly, the following statement:
I will NOT let you down.
That blew me away. I knew very clearly that it came from Spirit / God. I knew very clearly that I was being told to continue on the path I am on, and know that I have an amazing support system behind me in the form of "Spirit's Network". I found myself infused with a blast of energy and a "knowing" on an even deeper level that I am protected. What an amazing statement and promise to receive. I have gone back to that statement time and time again since I received it.
I have found that if I just get quiet and ask for my answer, I will find it. Always. We are promised that if we ask, we will receive. That applies to answers and goods alike. Seek your answers. Whether you seek them in psychic readings with me (you know I can't resist) or inside of yourself, the important part is that you are seeking and receiving guidance to help you grow. That is the purpose of psychic readings after all. Happy growing my friends !!!!


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26 April 2016 A project platform and network that makes social engagement and neighbourhood work accessible to Berlin's large non-German speaking population – winner of an intercultural innovation award at a United Nations forum in Baku today – was sparked by one woman's own migrant experience and the rise of xenophobia in Europe.
Three years after its inception, Give Something Back to Berlin – or GSBTB – is now well-known in Europe. It was declared the winner during an award ceremony as part of the Global Forum Baku 2016, held in the Azerbaijani capital and convened by the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC).
The Forum, which officially opened earlier today, is bringing together nearly 3,000 participants, including Heads of State and Government, political officials, civil society representatives, religious and youth leaders, who will share their perspectives and solutions under the main theme on 'Living Together in Inclusive Societies: A Challenge and A Goal.'
"The refugee crisis we have been seeing lately actually created a unique opportunity to build a new culture of living together," Annamaria Olsson, founder of GSBTB, said upon receiving the Intercultural Innovation Award, which was created in 2011 under the partnership between the BMW group and the UNAOC.
Faced with an estimated influx of 160,000 newcomers to Berlin in recent years, including 71,000 from outside the country, GSBTB's role as a facilitator of social integration is growing fast as many migrants and refugees face stigmatism, exclusion and discrimination.
The refugee crisis we have been seeing lately actually created a unique opportunity to build a new culture of living together
"We are bringing different kinds of migrants together and make them learn and share," she told the UN News Centre, noting that volunteers of 60 nationalities work with them.
GSBTB runs an accessible online platform to inspire and mobilize Berlin's migrant community to create social impact and foster integration, organize events for newcomers to meet actors in their neighbourhoods, and establish networks for intercultural understanding, solidarity and participation.
Once a symbol of division between East and West, Berlin may have a conscience to look for better ways to live together, not stay isolated or segregated, she said. Now, 16 per cent of Berliners are foreign citizens. Ms. Olsson moved from Sweden to Berlin in 2008 to pursue her career as a journalist.
As a recipient of the award, which comes with a funding support, she feels greater responsibility to help stabilize the refugee situation in Germany. "We have more than 1 million migrants and have a lot to do," she said, adding that other cities in and outside Germany are looking to GSBTB's model and expertise.
The finalists were selected from nearly 1,000 applicants from 120 countries. Other prize winners today included:
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Prime Minister Manuel Valls: the Socialist former 'top cop' admired by France's right
Manuel Valls has consistently topped polls as nation's favourite politician
France's new Prime Minister Manuel Valls is the most popular Socialist politician in the country, or at least he is with almost everyone except a sizeable chunk of his own party.
As approval ratings plummeted for the rest of France's Socialist government over the course of its first two years in office, the good-looking interior minister was almost alone in defying the trend.
At ease with journalists and a natural in front of the television cameras, the Barcelona-born 51-year-old won respect from voters across the political spectrum with his dynamic approach to a job often described as being "France's top cop".
His tough-talking on crime and insecurity made him every right-wing voter's favourite leftist.
That style and his politics have drawn comparisons with former British prime minister Tony Blair - which is far from being a compliment for many on the French left.
"He only hears with his right ear," quipped Pierre Laurent, the National Secretary of the French Communist Party on hearing of Valls' promotion on Monday.
Valls came under heavy fire last October following the deportation of a 15-year-old Roma girl and her family to Kosovo, after she was taken off a bus in the middle of a school trip.
Accusing police of violating her rights, critics rounded on the minister, demanding his resignation. But polls showed that the overwhelming majority of voters backed him and he retained the confidence of President Francois Hollande, with whom he is personally close.
Friends and colleagues alike describe Valls as an abrasive character. Cecile Duflot, the Green minister who has announced that she will not be part of his new government, famously could not stand him and nicknamed him Pepe after a particularly stubborn Spanish boy who features in one of the Asterix stories.
But there also appears to be a warmer and charismatic side to his personality.
"He says things with a certain honesty, a certain clearness, and yes, sometimes a certain roughness," said Alain Bauer, a prominent French criminologist and friend of Valls since their student days.
"He has vitality, dynamism, energy - and that rallies people around him.
"When I hear people saying the president should be worried, I think it is stupid. There is no one more loyal than Manuel."
Valls has consistently topped opinion polls as France's favourite politician, although the approval ratings of up to 70 per cent he enjoyed last year have slipped recently as a result of the tough stance he took in trying to ban anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala.
That hit his standing with supporters of Dieudonne and the country's influential free-speech campaigners, but he remains much admired by most voters.
A survey for Elle magazine last year revealed one in five French ladies liked the idea of a "torrid affair" with the twice-married minister - a finding that delighted his glamorous second wife, the professional violinist Anne Gravoin.
"Manuel absolutely deserves it - and a lot more besides," she said at the time. "He's a very loveable man."
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