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This weekend marks the last days of the Da Vinci inventions exhibition at the Docklands. It features 64 interactive models of the inventor's machines based on his codices. The usual operating hours of 10 AM to 6 PM would also be extended till 9 PM this Saturday and Sunday with a free screening of the Dall Itallia Australia (From Italy to Australia) at 7 PM in the main piazza. Last chance to see this exhibit so better hurry if you're interested!
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Krispy Kreme opens at CBD
For those of you who're curious to try Krispy Kreme donuts to see if it really lives up to the hype but find the Narre Warren store a long distance to go, Krispy Kreme just opened its new store at Melbourne's CBD a couple of days ago. The new shop is located at Collins corner Spencer streets in the city.
Rebel Sport Centrepoint (along Bourke Street) is having a 20% off storewide sale, today only.
Best of the independent games festival 2006
The Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) is holding a free exhibit of the best indie games from 2 August (Wednesday) till 19 November (Sunday). Participating games could be viewed and played at the site, although some may not be finished yet. A listing of participants could be viewed at this link. Clicking on the game's icon would direct you a short description of the game plus the official URL for the game. Each game's site differs and some might have a playable demo while others only have brief information about the games.
At Doujicon 2006
I haven't been to a comics convention before so I was really excited when I learned about Doujicon – a convention for comics creators held at the Monash University's Caulfield Campus last Saturday. Of course, I went just to see what a comics convention in Melbourne would be like.
Well, it wasn't that big an event, in my opinion. To be fair, though, it was meant to be a convention mainly for comics creators and not a general comics convention. So, most of the people there are comics creators (artists, writers, publishers), would-be comics creators (such as myself) and their friends. And, if I may add, not everybody seemed to have decided to take a bath that day.
I almost got lost getting there but I soon found my way to the registration table. Thankfully, the entrance fee was only $5. Although my main reason for going there was to attend the "classes" and "talks" held during the event, I visited the area where the comics creators were selling their books and merchandise. I wanted to find out what's out here in terms of potential competition, I guess. What sells, what doesn't. What's the skill level of the people producing independent comic books? How much are they selling the books for?
Most of the books were in the $4 to $10 range. I was impressed by the quality of art by some of them while the others, well, not so. And of those with the good art, the story in a few were a bit so-so. Still, I'm glad to see a number of quality comic books there. It has inspired me to delve more into printed comic books, actually.
After a couple of minutes of browsing the stuff at the tables, I hit the area where the "classes" and "talks" were being held. I went in the "Please Tell Me Why My Comic Sucks…" talk just as it was wrapping up (I was late). Ah, well. The next talk was called "Webcomics: The Future or Just Cheaper?" so I was particularly interested being a webcomic creator myself.
Unfortunately, I didn't really learn a lot of new things in that talk. I guess I was expecting too much. I ended up talking about my own experiences while I was at the talk. The person giving the talk, Daniel Elliot aka Gerkinvision was supposed to be this popular webcomic artist but I haven't really heard of him before then. And now I know why. Although I've seen his art before around the Web, I've ignored it because I'm not really a fan of weird art, animation or comics.
Anyway, he has his idea of what a webcomic should be and I had mine. And they weren't the same thing. He was advising us to be very original. Avoid cliches. Okay, in some ways, I agree with these statements. But by original, he meant create a fantastic creature with a lobster claw in one hand, a tentacle in the other and has a chicken foot at the back of its head holding an orb that can tell the future! I guess that would work if the comic was meant to be a weird comedy. But for comics with serious stories, I don't think that kind of creature would fit in naturally. But then, he's more popular than I am in the webcomics realm so he must be doing things right (and I'm not).
Still, I believe in doing things I like to do. And doing weird comics or adult-themed comics just so I could have a popular comic doesn't appeal to me too much. However, right then, I wish that I had a more original story for a webcomic than about five adventurers in a quest to save a fantasy land from evil. Sure, I've thought about this lack of originality in my part for years now but the die has been cast. I want to see this story through.
Another thing he was advocating was to write more Australian stories. He was tired of people who write stories whose lead characters have Japanese names but they themselves know little about Japanese culture apart from what they've seen in Anime and Manga. I kinda agree with him on the whole Japan culture thing. I also would have agreed on doing Australian stories if I was born here. The problem is that although I now live here, I didn't grow up here. So, I couldn't convincingly write about Australians (the way they know themselves). I can probably write about Americans more as I grew up in that kind of culture, even if I did grow up in the Philippines.
Soon, that talk was over and I took the opportunity to pass around those Lovarian Adventures bookmarks I made. I figured some of these starting webcomic creators might want some help getting their webcomics off the ground. They can always reach me through the website address I've written in the bookmarks.
The next talk was called "Pitching to a Publisher" by Kevin Patrick, editor and publisher of The Panther. We started the talk by Kevin asking each one of us there what our experiences were in doing comics. I went in still having that whole "be original" mantra in mind. So, when I told him about Lovarian Adventures, I quickly said that it wasn't the most original story around but people who read it loyally seem to love it for the characters. He told me that I didn't need to be self-deprecating. In fact, if I was aiming to be published, publishers would more likely go for a tried-and-true story premise than something weird and original. He said that I could appeal to a certain niche market. And that was what I thought when I originally started my webcomic. I wanted to appeal to the fantasy RPG gamers out there.
He asked me for samples of my work, so I gave him one of my bookmarks. He seemed to have liked it enough that he asked for the whole bunch and passed it on to everybody in the talk. Whew. At least, I didn't have to hand the bookmarks to any more people myself.
From all the talks I've heard that day, Kevin's was the most I learned from. He gave us tips to get a potential publisher's attention. For any story, one has to give it a very short summary. Something catchy and gives the publisher a quick idea of what to expect. As an example, Steven Segal's movie Under Siege could be described as "Die Hard on a train." Simple. And it gets the point across. That is, if the publisher has seen Die Hard. Anyway, you get the point.
He also told us not to just approach comic book publishers. If we want to get printed (for the purpose of having something added to your art portfolio), we could seek out other published media like magazines and posters. Anything to get our name out there. This increases the chance of getting the attention of a comic book publisher in the future.
So, yeah. I enjoyed that one talk. I went to about three more classes at the event but most of the things being taught there, I already know. I basically wasted my time staying there after the Publishing talk.
Still, I'm glad I went. At least, I now know what kind of stuff is being printed out there locally. It's a learning experience, definitely. I heard there was going to be another Doujicon next year. I might go again, but this time, I hope I have something to sell myself.
20% off at Dymocks Melbourne
Starting today till the 6th of August (Sunday), Dymocks Melbourne (at 234 Collins Street) would be holding a sale. 20% of all full priced books, excluding CDs, DVDs, videos or anything that's already on specials.
Night of Laughter
The 20th Melbourne International Comedy Festival ended just yesterday. The Comedy Festival held annually for a month during autumn here in Melbourne is one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world, according to its website. This year, they started a bit late because they waited for the recent Melbourne Commonwealth Games to finish first.
Every year since I moved to Australia all those years ago, I tuned in on the TV around autumn time to watch The Comedy Gala show which was basically a sampler of the best comedians who had shows during the Comedy Festival month. Before moving to Melbourne though, I thought that the comedians at the Gala were in Melbourne just for that one show.
I only first heard about the actual Comedy Festival when I was applying for a job in Melbourne back in 2004. I missed it though because I only moved from Canberra to Melbourne around July. The following year, I missed it again. That time, I was just too lazy to go see any of the shows. You know how it is. "The Festival is held here. And since we live here, we can always go in the future." To tell you the truth, I really didn't even bother to look up any information regarding the event. I didn't know what shows were there or how long the festival was on.
This year, we almost gave it a miss again. However, when we went to the Lion King musical last Wednesday night, we noticed the well lit Melbourne Town Hall with a lot of people gathered around it. It was only after seeing that did I want to be a part of the festival.
The unfortunate part of it was that by the time I wanted to actually buy tickets to see some shows, there were only a few days ago till the Comedy Festival ends. That meant that gigs were getting fully booked quicker.
It was also very difficult to choose between the shows. Some of those shows I wanted to go to were on very late (10pm onward). And some are going to be shown at the same time as another show I wanted to go to.
Originally, I just wanted to go to the popular acts like Arj Barker's. I know he's funny because I've seen him multiple times in various Comedy Gala shows. And on this year's Gala, I found Stephen K Amos and Charlie Pickering very hilarious so I wanted to see their shows, too.
I was also thinking of going to the popular Aussie comedians like Dave Hughes, Judith Lucy and Wil Anderson. The problem however was that their shows were some of the more expensive in the festival. I reasoned to myself that I could still hear Dave Hughes on Nova FM every morning and watch Wil Anderson and Dave on The Glass House show on TV. That leaves Judith but I figured she'd always be around so I could always catch her later.
In the end though, I just wanted to see Arj Barker's show and one or two cheap shows by lesser known comedians. I heard John Safran interview comedian Michael Chamberlin on his Sunday Night Safran radio show on Triple J so I got a good idea as to the type of comedy Michael will be performing.
Come Friday night, we were set to watch Arj and Michael but when I got to the ticket office, they told me Arj was sold out! At the end of the day, we just got to see Michael's show. Well, at least we got to save some money.
After buying the ticket, we still had some time to spare before the 8pm showing at the Regent Room in the Melbourne Town Hall. We went upstairs into the mezzanine to look for the room. We found that the mezzanine was filled with advertisement cards of the Comedy Festival shows as well as four Macs on display.
Since we didn't have a real camera along (apart from the camera built-in on my mobile phone), I was pleased to see that the Macs came equipped with web-cams. At least we could have a better souvenir photo of our night at the festival. It's also good that I figured out how to send the web-cam photos we took with the Mac.
Anyway, I digressed. We soon found our way to the Regent Room where there was a queue to get in. The corridor where we waited stank of cigarette smoke so I was itching to get in the room. Thankfully, the room was smoke-free.
It was actually a small room, only good enough to fit about 40 or so people at a time. Well, at least even if we sat way out back, the performer would still be quite near.
Michael's show was titled Michael Chamberlin and the Ten Commandments. I knew beforehand that it would make jabs at the Catholics and Catholicism somewhat because of his interview with Safran. I admit that most of it was very funny except for the parts where he was being extra irreverent. I thought I'd be able to take it but I was just too uncomfortable with such jokes, I found out.
All in all, it was still great. We only ended up watching that one show. My only regret was that I didn't get into the whole Comedy Festival spirit earlier. Next year, I'll look at their show line-up as soon as it is available at their website and plan which shows to watch and when. I definitely won't miss it next year.
Commonwealth games start tomorrow
The 2006 Commonwealth games would be starting tomorrow night at the MCG.
On the way home tonight, we had the opportunity to see the Queen's baton relay with media personality Eddie McGuire holding the baton.
Too bad the photo was a bit blurry. Ah, well.
Werribee Racecourse Market
Check out the craft markets at the Werribee Racecourse in Ballan Rd (Melways map: 205 F8) tomorrow. Trading hours would be from 8 in the morning till 1 PM so go early. A parking fee of $3 applies.
Awards for Writing
The 56th Palanca Awards is now open to entries. For the longest time, I wanted to submit something — anything — to this prestigious Philippine literary competition but I always fail to send over a submission.
During my years in university, I entered a phase where I wanted to be a writer, even though I was actually there studying to be an engineer. And so, I joined the Writers' Guild and wrote for Ang Pahayagang Plaridel, the university's Filipino-language newspaper. I also befriended the staff of the university's Malate literary folio whom we, the Plaridel staff, shared our office space with. It was through my association with these organisations that I learned about the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature or simply known as the Palanca Awards.
Winning an award in that competition will not only make the writer a few thousand pesos richer, but it will also gain the writer the much sought after recognition of being part of the Philippine literary elite. However, before I could ever hope to win such an award, I first needed to work on my writing.
Since I'm not really a Liberal Arts major in university, I had to read various books on writing just to get a better handle on this whole writing business. But I can only learn so much from reading. I had to actually write.
Back then, I was more comfortable writing in American English than in Tagalog. I saw it as a tremendous challenge to write in my own native language. So I was very pleased when I won an Efren Abueg Award for my Tagalog news writing for Ang Pahayagang Plaridel, and an award for third best short story in Filipino in the De La Salle University Annual Awards for Literature.
The awards should have encouraged me to ultimately write something — a poem, a short story, a children's story, or an essay — to the Palanca Awards competition, but twelve years later, I have yet to write anything in English or Tagalog worthy of a submission. The biggest problem was that by the time I remember submitting something for the Palanca Awards, there's only a month left. Not a lot of time to produce quality work in my opinion.
So now, like then, I remembered about the awards with only over a month left to write something to submit to the competition. Should I even try?
Then Raquel reminded me of something. Back in university, she also won something like a total of four awards in the DLSU Annual Awards for Literature for two years running. Her achievement was awesome, I thought then. But she told me that the only reason she probably won was because she had at least submitted something and not a lot of others did. "Half of it is writing and passing the work," she said.
Or to put it another way, I couldn't win a game if I never was in the game. Maybe I should just write what first comes to mind and submit that. Who knows? I might win something without even trying too hard. And if not, then there's another whole year to prepare for the next annual Palanca Awards.
And in between that, maybe I could also write something for the writing competitions right here in Australia. I remembered missing out on last year's The Age Short Story Competition mainly because I found out about it too late. I also thought that I couldn't convincingly write a short story that has an Australian feel to it. In retrospect, maybe I didn't have to. Maybe I could've written something in a way most natural to me and then afterwards I should've just replaced the Z's with S's in words like realize and authorize, and added a U in words color and favor.
And if I submitted something to The Age competition, I should probably also try writing something for the annual national The Australian / Vogel Literary Award.
Of course, to be able to submit something for any competition, I should actually be writing. We'll see. Maybe I could squeeze that activity in between my household chores, my guitar practice and my other artistic pursuits.


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Hall's Barn is an unusual looking structure in Rathfarnham. Francis Jukes the 1795 painter of the first picture stated: "This is a very curious building, the singularity of which much attracted my notice. The stairs, by which you ascend it, are on the outside; and having a parapet wall, the ascent is rendered easy and safe. At the top the prospect is very beautiful, commanding a view of Lord Ely's and Mt Palliser's park's and of the country, as far as the mountains. It is two and a half miles from Dublin".
It was built in 1772 or 1743 and here it is throughout the ages. It's of a similar style to and seemingly inspired directly by the Wonderful Barn. The first image is Jukes' painting from 1795, the second image is from 1900 and the final image is a more recent photograph. From googling it seems that parts of it at least were a dwelling place at one time.

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Hello! I am excited about this year. I have been employed at MSD since 2008. I have had the opportunity to teach 2nd-12th grade. I am currently teaching 6th-12th grade math. You will see my classes listed below. I graduated from USM with a bachelor degree in Deaf Education and have an endorsement for 6-12th math. I recently earned my master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Math Education.
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Math Supplies:
Here is a list of supplies for our classroom.
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I will be in my seat when the bell rings.
I will come to class prepared with all needed materials.
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I will work hard and do my best on every assignment.
I will turn my work in on time.
I will only use a pencil.
There will be no 2nd chances on tests, quizzes, classwork, OR homework.
- If a student does not turn in an assignment on time, then he/she will sign a paper stating the assignment was not completed and he/she is earning a 0.


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Congratulations to Arizona JOAD archers, Alexis Ruiz and Andrew Park. They both shot excellent this past week and are coming home with medals from the Youth World Championships. Below are pictures taken by Coach Gary Yamaguchi, and a story from USA archery.
Here is a USA archery article about the final day of the Youth World Championships.
"….. ROSARIO, Argentina – The World Archery Youth Championships came to a close today with the individual compound finals and all recurve finals. In addition to yesterday's compound cadet men's team gold, and the cadet women's team and junior mixed team silvers, Team USA had four shots at three gold medals in the compound individual finals, and the recurve cadet men's team was the sole recurve contingent to make the medal matches.
The recurve cadet men's team, led by Jack Williams (Irvine, California) and teammates Andrew Park (Marana, Arizona) and Adam Heidt (Springfield, Georgia), overcame a 4th place seed to earn the U.S. a shot at a recurve world title. Going head to head with the 3rd ranked team from Chinese Taipei, a strong 54 gave the fist-bumping U.S. team a 2-0 advantage over Taipei's opening 50. Holding steady, a perfect 30 in the front half and a 29 in the next three arrows gave the U.S. a decisive 4-0 lead as Taipei managed just 54 points in response. The Chinese Taipei team made a comeback, opening the third set with a perfect 30 and then put the set win out of U.S. reach with a 58 to USA's 55 to bring the score to 4-2.
To open the fourth set, Taipei posted a 27, which USA countered with a 24. As Taipei finished the set with another 27 points, the pressure was on, and the U.S. team needed a perfect score to tie. Unable to keep all three in the 10 ring, the match went to a 4-4 tie for a shoot off. Both opened with 9s, then USA posted a 10 to Taipei's 9. Another 10 clinched the USA win and the world title!
In an individual rematch of the women who shot for mixed team gold yesterday, USA's Alexis Ruiz (Glendale, Arizona) faced Great Britain's Sarah Moon for the compound junior women's title. As wind continued to play a factor, both archers managed to find gold and scored 28s, and Ruiz held strong with a 29 to follow, while Moon scored a 27 to give Ruiz the advantage by 2. Smiling between ends, Ruiz remained calm and composed on the line, putting another 28 points down range to pick up another two points to her lead, 85-81.
A perfect 30 for Ruiz grew her lead again, and then after keeping all 15 arrows in the gold, Ruiz took a strong win 144-139 to take the World Champion title!
Then in an all USA final, Jesse Clayton (Powell Butte, Orgeon) and teammate Curtis Broadnax (Social Circle, Georgia) went head to head for the compound junior men's world title. Keeping it exciting for the crowd, both opened with 29s. Broadnax then threw a perfect 30 to take the lead as the top seeded archer scored a 27. Still clean over the next three arrows, Broadnax increased his lead to 89-84 with six arrows to go. To close the match, Broadnax picked up another four points for a 146-137 total to take the gold and World Champion title while Clayton added a silver to his mixed team silver from yesterday and his and Broadnax's team bronze earlier in the week.
Compound cadet Ethan Merrill (Manchester, New Hampshire), ranked 3rd in qualification, took strong wins throughout the individual competition and with a gold win on this stage in yesterday's team rounds, he opened today's final against Puerto Rico's Alvarado Fernandez confident. The two split the first end with 26s, but in the second end, Alvarado Fernandez opened the door with a 7, and Merrill took the lead 54-52.
With a perfect 30 in the next three arrows, Merrill increased his lead another two points to 84-80. Then, a few arrows went high, but Merrill retained the advantage by a point and with three arrows to go, both shot 9s, followed by a 10 for Alvarado Fernandez and a 9 for Merrill. With the score now tied, both shot 9s again to force a shoot off at 137-all.
Both shot solid 10s down range and the judges had to pull out calipers to determine which was closest to the center. Alvarado Fernandez was declared the winner by millimeters and Merrill was awarded the silver to complete his full medal set – team gold, individual silver and mixed team bronze in his World Championship debut.
Results are available at www.worldarchery.org. For more, follow USA Archery onFacebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Photo: Gary Yamaguchi…"


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Synergence invites you to its first APERO CHIC of the year! In the extraordinary setting of MERIDIEN, on their outdoor deck.
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Dr. Larry Arnn's Hillsdale Dialogue on Churchill, Tax Reform, and C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength
HH: It is the last radio hour of the week on the Hugh Hewitt Show. That means it is the Hillsdale Dialogue. Every week at this time, I sit down with either Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, or one of his wonderful colleagues from the Kirby Center, Dr. Matt Spalding, or one of his wonderful faculty in Hillsdale, Michigan, which is actually part of the United States, not part of Canada. People often forget that. And we talk about great issues, great books, great debates. Dr. Larry Arnn is in fact in the Hillsdale studio with me today, and Dr. Arnn, good to see you in person.
LA: Good to see you, too.
HH: I want to begin by playing for you an interview that Gary Oldman, you may be aware of him. He is an actor.
LA: Yes, he is. I know about him.
HH: He plays Winston Churchill in a new movie.
LA: Coming to Hillsdale, Michigan December 16th.
HH: Gary Oldman is?
LA: Yes.
HH: Really?
LA: Yes, because you may be aware, or not away, o ignorant host…
HH: (laughing)
LA: …that I visited the set while they were making that thing. And there's a special screening of it in December with him there in Hillsdale, and everybody's invited.
HH: We learned about that. We learned about that. In fact, I want to play for you some audio of Gary Oldman talking about the making of the movie…
LA: Yeah.
HH: …what is it, Never Surrender?
LA: It's called Darkest Hour.
HH: Darkest Hour. I saw a trailer for it yesterday, and we'll talk about that in a second. Here is the actor. Here is the actor, Gary Oldman.
GO: I needed to see Churchill looking back at me in the mirror to really, for me, to have the chutzpah, you know, to get up there and do him justice. And we found a lovely, there's a lot of Churchill, there's some of me. You know, we found a good, we found a good balance. So that was the first step. And then, of course, as you say, there's over 500 books written about this man. Where do you start? So I located a historian, a Churchill expert, Larry Arnn, and he guided me to very specific things to read. And you slowly start to build the character, because you have, I had an idea in my head of it being British, too, and who Churchill was. But some of that is influenced by people who have played him. And I, so I pushed that all to one side and found, surprisingly enough, a great deal of footage, archival footage of him. And from that, I then built, you know, you build, you start to sort of build.
HH: I found this historian, Larry Arnn…
LA: (laughing)
HH: (laughing) What does that mean?
LA: Well, you know, he, I saw this curious man, and he was walking around turning rocks up, and I thought what are you looking for? First of all, that was a brilliant setup. I didn't know he had said that.
HH: That's why I do this show.
LA: Yeah…
HH: (laughing) And Matthew was involved. And so we did set you up.
LA: You know, I'm hard to trick, but it took you and Duane, and that scoundrel, Duane…
HH: And Matt Spalding.
LA: Yeah, and Matt Spalding, these guys, it's three disreputable guys, I want the audience to know, Machiavelli himself would be embarrassed by what they just did. So I've known Gary Oldman for quite a long time, and I know well, and for a long time, his sort of partner and producer, Doug Urbanski. And I just thing Gary Oldman is a great guy. He's a modest guy. I think he's a tremendous actor. And I heard about this movie, and they said if you're coming over, come watch us film it. And you know, my wife is English, so we went and we visited. Anyway, I think we talked about that, but I think people will like the movie. And the first thing I noticed about it was you know, Winston Churchill was quick and lively. And you know, until he was old, he was very athletic. He was a tremendous polo player. He was the top fencer in school.
HH: At Sandhurst?
LA: Well, no, at Harrow.
HH: Okay.
LA: We have a kid coming to Hillsdale from Harrow next year. Isn't that interesting? So he plays him, the first clip I saw, he was moving, and his eyes were sparkling. And so he wasn't this guy talking with his chin down on his chest growling at everybody. And I just went wow, at last, you know?
HH: Someone gets him. Well, it was said about Spielberg's Lincoln that the greatest grace of the film, of which there were many, is that it got you close to being in a room with Abraham Lincoln for two hours.
LA: Yeah.
HH: Do you think Oldman allows people like me who, I've seen newsreels galore, but you know, you don't really experience the war via newsreel, to be in the room with Churchill?
LA: Oh, yeah. And it's, there's only, yeah, it does, as a matter of fact. And first of all, these are extremely tense days, right? These are not typical days in Churchill's life. These are among the greatest days in human history.
HH: Darkest Hour being 19…
LA: The Germans are coming, right?
HH: The Germans are coming.
LA: But then, there's moments that show you know, Churchill was fun and friendly and big-hearted. And so that occurs in there, so yeah, you do get to be with him.
HH: In the trailer that I saw yesterday, Kenneth Branagh has a movie out, Murder on the Orient Express, which is delightful, but it's not, it's puffy. It's pastry. It's not meaty. But it had a trailer attached to it for Darkest Hour. Mrs. Churchill is completely wonderfully portrayed as I hope she actually was, though perhaps a little less robustly built than Mrs. Churchill actually was. Did you see her film as well? And what did you make of her take?
LA: Well, I've seen the whole thing in New York after it was made, and I saw that in September, I think. But yeah, she's great, and she, especially in this time, you know, by the time 1940 comes along, Churchill is 65, and he's been married since 1908. So they're in their 33rd year of marriage. And they're an old married couple, right? They're like…
HH: They anticipate each other's words.
LA: Yeah, you and I have learned obedience…
HH: Yes.
LA: And it's been so good for us, right?
HH: Yes.
LA: And so it's, so she is stable. And you know, sometimes, she had a lot of trouble in her own life, too, but in these months, she was tremendous.
HH: A rock.
LA: And she wrote him a letter in the middle of this time, just a little, short note, you know, with a picture of the cat drawn at the bottom. She was the cat, and he was the pig, and they could both draw very well, right, so you've got the kind of artful looking little things at the bottom of their letters between each other. And she says you know, you're sour, and you bark at people. And you've got to stop that, because they only want to help you, and they look up to you, and you dispirit them. You've got to stop. And he did.
HH: Did he really stop dispiriting people? It is a problem with great leaders through history that they are often indifferent to their scribes.
LA: Well, no, the, so the people who worked around Churchill were deeply loyal to him as a rule, almost always. So there's a woman named Kathleen Hill. And she went with him, you know, all these secretaries are like this, Mrs. Pearman, and you know, they worked for him to exhaustion. And they record that watching him dictate his speeches and taking them down, it was like going to the greatest performance you could go to, and that they learned that he did not like to be interrupted. You were not to make a noise. But also, he liked to have you there. Once, he barked at one of his secretaries. You know, he, I mean, just think what he did. Remember, Winston Churchill wrote 50 books, and they're good, right? And he did everything else he did, too, wrote all his own speeches. The correspondence is massive. He wrote that, right? So he was an incredibly productive human being. And he didn't like, and he hurried himself all day long. So he barked at the secretary, and she got a tear in her eye, and he noticed it. And he reached over and touched her on the arm, and he said don't mind me. We're all toads under the Harrow. (laughing)
HH: So he's aware of his impatience, which is itself a saving grace about him. And it, I am looking so forward to this movie, and I hope it receives the Oscar. There are a lot of fine movies this year.
LA: Yeah.
HH: There are a lot of superb acting performances out there. Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project is amazing. There are a few others that are escaping me right now. But it will be hard on critics to credit Oldman, I think, because they're not going to like the idea of liking Churchill.
LA: Yeah, you know, it just so happens that I talked to some people who are, you know, promoting the movie, whose job is to do that. And I said look, who are you worried about offending, the Nazis? (laughing)
HH: (laughing)
LA: I mean, the bad guys in this movie are the Nazis.
HH: Yeah, but they're not going to like the idea of liking Churchill, because he stands for a conservatism that is not on our spectrum today. It's a character conservatism.
LA: Well, I hope that there's, and see, I encourage people away from that. And the reason was, first of all, Churchill was not a naturally partisan man. Churchill was always trying to build a party of the center. Second, Churchill brought the socialists into the government, and treated them with great respect and worked with them very closely all through the war. And so in his understanding, a war against Nazism is the thing against which we can all unite.
HH: When we come back from break, we're going to talk about that. Churchill was not that much of a partisan. He was a partisan. He was a party man. But he was not crazed by it. And it's an important lesson, especially in the times in which we live right now as we are on the precipice of watching the Republican Party throw itself off of a 50 story building. I'll talk about that with Dr. Larry Arnn when we come back. Don't go anywhere, America.
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HH: Dr. Arnn, when we went to break, I was about to tell you about yesterday. On Thursday's Hugh Hewitt Show, I had Senator Pat Toomey, he's a very good man, on. And I expressed to him my growing dismay with the Senate of the United States, and that four senators, Senators Collins, McCain, Murkowski and Rand Paul, had destroyed the promise of the Republican Party to repeal and replace Obamacare, and that on Thursday morning, Ron Johnson announced he wasn't going to vote for the tax bill, which endangers the tax bill. And I'm basically distraught that a party cannot act as a party. And what is, and that the Senate is completely, it's not McConnell. McConnell's a fine leader. It's that individuals arrive in this town, and they begin to believe that they are the only people with the keys to the kingdom, that they don't in any way owe the party anything.
LA: Yeah, so first of all, Mitch McConnell is a very intelligent man, and I'll bet he's a reader of C.S. Lewis. And I'll bet, then, that he knows that C.S. Lewis makes the argument that it's always hard at any given moment to tell whether or not we're in purgatory.
HH: (laughing)
LA: (laughing)
HH: I've never heard that.
LA: He must be thinking, you know, what's going on here. So think of the logic of the situation. The Congressional Budget Office is a very bureaucratic agency, right? And it's, it might be made up of accountants, but they lack a sense of humor. And so they, so they score these things according to rules that are simply crazy and extremely unfavorable to any conception of human freedom.
HH: Yes.
LA: Now they scored this thing to reduce the tax burden on the American people by $1.4 trillion dollars in round numbers over ten years, which of course, any such estimate is laughable.
HH: It is absurd.
LA: You know, what's your budget over the next ten years, right?
HH: It's absurd.
LA: You can't even calculate your own, right? But never mind, they score it that way. And what that means, and they count nothing, nothing for the fact that that $1.4 trillion dollars would be left in private hands where all the wealth in human history has been produced…
HH: Yeah.
LA: …and is produced every day in America. And so first of all, if you have even an important objection to this, if you believe in limited government, why would you not vote for this thing? And the particular objection that's named by Senator Johnson is it treats corporations better than it treats individuals, and the individual businesses, privately-held businesses, personally-held, I guess you'd say, and the point is fix that next. Why not? So I don't, I am amazed and chagrined and am keeping my fingers crossed and my prayers said that Leader McConnell will put it back together.
HH: Let me pose to you not in the context of any individual senator, but generally, what I have diagnosed the problem to be. I've been back in Washington a year now, and it is an incredible ego inflator to live here. And people talk to each other, and there are only about 500 people that they talk to. There's maybe 1,000 people that they talk to. And they reinforce each other's opinions of each other, and nothing gets in. They are indifferent to the arguments from outside of the sphere of genius that is Washington, D.C. And therefore, they get, their egos get bigger and bigger and bigger. And I don't know the problem, the solution to this. It's like an island governing the country.
LA: Yeah, think of the advantage you've lost, which I still retain. I'm from out of town. I'm an expert.
HH: I used to be out of town. But I still talk to out of town.
LA: Yeah, that's right. You know, but it is, it's not a one-horse town. It's a one conversation town.
HH: Well put.
LA: And there's a set of opinions about the conversation, and they divide left and right, and innovative opinions are rare. And so if you're from out of town and you haven't heard all the talk for a month, and you say whatever you think about it, it's bound to sound different, and people are kind of amazed.
HH: And more often than not, they dismiss it, because it's not from the hive. And if it's not from the hive, it can't be good for the hive if it's not from the hive. When we come back from break, I want to ask you about C.S. Lewis and That Hideous Strength, because if NICE ever existed, it's here in the city of Washington, D.C., NICE being the National Institute…
LA: Continuing Experiments.
HH: Continuing Experiments from That Hideous Strength. Don't go anywhere, America.
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HH: And my great sponsor, Hillsdale Sponsor, sends forth Dr. Larry Arnn to do battle with me each week and to slay me again, the eternal dragon that is all beat down at the end of the hour.
LA: (laughing)
HH: And we have fun, but sometimes, I give way to my inner distraught, actually, with the way things are in Washington, D.C. And Dr. Arnn talks me off the ledge, and so we're doing that today. The framers did not intend this to be easy. They intended it to be hard to pass a law. But it does make me crazy that the rules of the Senate allow for 30 hours of debate on a person for whom they will be voting anyway, that the opposition, the minority has been allowed to gum it up. The framers did not intend that. They intended the Senate to be a check by virtue of its six-year term, not by virtue of is arcane and absurd rules. When did we lose sight of that?
LA: Yeah, well, the Senate process is, I'll tell you why it's critical right now. It's critical, first of all, you're right. It was supposed to be hard. In the Senate, senators were elected for a different term of years, and by a different constituency than the House, not quite so true anymore as it used to be, because they used to be elected by state legislatures, which was a good idea, by the way.
HH: Yes, it was.
LA: Kept the authority of the states represented in Washington, D.C, which was the plan. But now, you see, the government has become so misshapen that to get the Constitution back, there requires to be some radical steps of restoration or change, which are synonyms, and that means the Congress would have to resume the legislative power. And I'll tell you what that means. In the last Congress, two year Congress, they passed 300 bills. That's 150 a year, and that's about the average since the middle of the 19th Century. But last year in a single year of the Obama administration, 87,000 pages were added to the federal register. And that means the Congress passes a tiny percentage of the actual laws. And the complicated laws that they're trying to pass now would restore elements of the legislative authority back to the people who are elected for it. And it's a danger if it's not there, because you don't, we don't know where all these things come from. And they are so numerous, so legion, that we have to hire experts to keep up with them. And even then, if you're accused of anything, you're, there's millions of words to know and nobody knows them. So the point is this not functioning of the Senate is critical right now, because here is an opportunity to take significant steps back toward limited government. And when they thwart that, then, and you know, by the way, they are thwarting their own station. And remember, the reason I think that there's hope here, I do think it very much, I think first of all this president would sign bills that, would advocate bills that would restore the legislative power to the Congress, which means take it away from these agencies that are ostensibly in the executive branch, although nobody controls them. He would do that, right? And they are doing revolutionary things about controlling the bureaucracy in the White House Counsel's office and the Office of Management and Budget, extremely well-led places in the White House. And then you see, Madison says the reason the separation of powers will continue is because the ambition of the people who hold the offices will keep it. And it took 80 years of trying, but in the 60s, the Congress gave away the legislative power, and they did it for ambition. They did it, they thought we can erect a vast system to control and manage and guide much more, and we can be at the heart of it. That was a sophistry to which they succumbed.
HH: And they've been eaten alive by the people that they created.
LA: Yeah, but that, but that makes the opportunity, because they are actually openly held in contempt by the bureaucracy.
HH: Yes, they are.
LA: …which doesn't answer their letters, doesn't respond to their subpoenas. And so if they would just wake up, they could see that they could be the great, one of the greatest congresses.
HH: You know, the person who is most despised in the Trump administration not named Trump is Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, because he is most rigorous in returning the agency to its actual delegation of authority, not its presumption of power, which is what the Obama era did with the Clean Power Plan and their Waters of the United States. And Scott Pruitt is an originalist. He's actually a Constitutional lawyer, and he's carving it back to what it is supposed to be, clean water, clean air, particulates at a certain level, what they told it to do, what the Congress actually delegated, but not what it imagined it might want to do. And so he's held, he's one of the nicest men in the world, and he's very, very smart, but the left hates him as a result of that. And so the left understands what's at stake here. Why don't Republican senators, Larry Arnn, understand what is at stake here? Or are they, and this is really the question, are they really Republicans?
LA: Let me just say that I'm against remedial education, but I'm shaking on the question now. I mean, I can't, I will just tell you that I am astonished. I mean, first of all, you know, to put the argument together about what the government used to be like and what it's like today, takes some thought and some historical knowledge. And those are in short supply. And to focus on fundamental things takes both, right? And you described the city earlier. Isn't everybody just distracted by this endless swirl? Isn't it true that if you try to follow the policy issues that unfold in this city, you know, we're talking about taxes this morning, and C.S. Lewis, which would be better, and, but there's a million things we could talk about this morning, because they're all going on all over this city right now.
HH: Let me play for you Senator Tom Cotton, a friend of ours. He took to the floor of the Senate on Wednesday this week, and gave forth this little oration which I like a lot.
TC: So Mr. President, I'm glad that you're here to replace me as the presiding officer of the Senate. I just spent the last hour of the Senate presiding myself. For those of you here in the gallery who don't know these things, I'll pull back the curtain a little bit. They call it presiding officer duty, not presiding officer privilege or honor, because it's reserved for the young senators who are new to the Senate, like Senator Sullivan and I. But it also means that you actually have to listen to your colleagues' speeches, which doesn't happen very often around here anymore. So this morning, I had the privilege of listening to the Democratic leader's speech about our tax bill, and the fact that we are going to repeal the hated mandate of Obamacare as part of this tax bill. And I just can't let stand what he said without correcting the record. First off, the senator from New York said that we're injecting health care into the tax bill, injecting health care into the tax bill. I would remind him, and all the other Democrats who have been denouncing this decision on the Senate Finance Committee that the individual mandate is a tax according not to me, not to Republicans, but to the Obama administration. That is what they argued in 2012 at the Supreme Court, even though he contended throughout the debate on Obamacare in 2009 and 2010 that it wasn't a tax. In 2012, they argued at the Supreme Court that the Obamacare mandate is a tax, and the Supreme Court in 2012 upheld it as a tax. And I'm willing to bet, I'm willing to bet that the Democratic leader issued a statement in the summer of 2012 applauding that decision which held that the individual mandate is a tax. After all, it's collected on your 1040. It's collected by the IRS. It doesn't get much more taxy than that.
HH: All right, stop. Of course, it goes on, taxy not being a word, and you might want to remind your friend, Senator Cotton, that it is not in fact a word. But what he's doing here is making an argument. And no one ever does that anymore.
LA: If you believe, so first of all, I, we're going to become persuaded by the modern understanding of equality, which means you have to have equal outcomes. And that means we're going to have to regulate Tom Cotton arguing with Chuck Schumer.
HH: (laughing)
LA: (laughing) That's not fair.
HH: You know, Chuck Schumer did not rush to the floor. In the old days, they used to rush to the floor when you were being called out.
LA: Yeah, that's right. That's right.
HH: And he did not rush to the floor. That would have been taking a knife to a gunfight.
LA: Mark how brilliant that was, though, see, because it was not a tax when they were getting it passed, and that was right up there with keep your doctor, right?
HH: Yeah.
LA: And then it goes before the Supreme Court, and John Roberts, and there are stories of John Roberts being in some kind of personal trial over this thing. He cast the deciding vote to call it a tax. And as a tax, it's Constitutional, he said. And they all saluted that. And now, isn't it wonderful?
HH: Yeah.
LA: It's like Brave New World, right?
HH: Yeah.
LA: It's like 1984…
HH: Now it's being injected into the tax debate.
LA: Yeah, that's right.
HH: And so Cotton, now I happen to believe the Chief Justice acted under the old adage that if a law is passed, you must find a way to uphold it if there's any way to uphold it. So I've always defended his decision in Sebelius. That's the Obamacare decision. But that does not excuse Chuck Schumer attempting to say you're injecting health care into the tax debate when it's in fact a tax. But what is, here's what gave me some hope this week. Tom Cotton came up with this idea two weeks ago, and it was such a good idea that the Senate actually adopted it. And so that wasn't on the table two weeks ago. And two weeks ago, Kevin Brady, the chairman, very smart guy, very nice guy, told me that's not going to happen. And two weeks later, it is going to happen in the House. And so people do listen if they pay any attention. The problem is nobody ever pays any attention.
LA: Well, but see, you're right. That's so hopeful, right, because a good idea, where is it born from? It's not born from creativity. It's born from understanding first, right? Tom Cotton knows a lot about the Constitution. And he's an interesting senator, because he doesn't get attention through stunts. He gets attention through things that senators would do. And he seems to know what that is.
HH: And the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin wrote a profile of him that was grudging in its admiration. I loved the tone of the whole thing. He couldn't believe he was on a hog farm in Arkansas, and that Senator Cotton's, a cattle farm, and that Senator Cotton's father couldn't shake hands with him, because he just birthed a calf. He couldn't actually believe that that was happening to him. And I would recommend that to everyone. When we come back, we're going to talk about NICE and C.S. Lewis and what has happened to the Senate, and what the stakes are in this tax debate.
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HH: Dr. Larry Arnn and I are back at C.S. Lewis here, because in his last book, his science fiction trilogy, That Hideous Strength, he posits a giant bureaucracy in which everybody talks, but nobody answers, and nobody listens, and nothing is accomplished, and there is no plan. And it seems to me he had the Senate in mind, Larry Arnn.
LA: Yeah.
HH: And it is becoming that quicksand like to try and advance any idea through the Senate. And that will not last.
LA: And the reason we're concerned about this is that the NICE is actually the National Institute for Continuing Experiments, which has taken over the whole of Great Britain in this novel. And just think. There's 150 or so agencies. And they pass nearly all of our laws, and we don't know what they are. And the courts respect them way too much, although the very great Neil Gorsuch might have some adjustment in that coming. And so we notice that the dysfunctionality of the Senate, the dysfunction, excuse me, of the Senate, because there's something great for them to do, and to do it right now. And I happen to know, because I asked him. The Leader would like to see that stuff done. Well, they've got to get these things out of the way, right? And then they could go on about the business. And see, you could, if you make the regulatory agencies responsible to the representatives of the people, that makes the people more powerful. And if they can't get that through their thick skulls and vote that way, then gosh, we need to get others.
HH: Well, Patrick Leahy, I hope Duane has this tape available, Patrick Leahy, who I call Senator Mumbles from Vermont, represents, I don't know, 80 people, took on Don Willett, justice of the Texas Supreme Court who has been nominated to the 5th Circuit. And here's what he said to him.
PL: You talk about respecting the precedent. Every nominee before this panel, those that Senator Cornyn's voted for and those he's voted against, had said they respect precedent. But the Obergefell decision, you equated that Constitutional right to same sex marriage as with a Constitutional right to marry bacon. You've argued the Supreme Court Chevron decision establishes the agency…
HH: All right, stop right there. What he's referring to is that Don Willett is very funny, and that in a tweet after the Obergefell decision, he tweeted I'm for the right to marry bacon, and because he loves bacon, and it's a funny joke. And someone has handed this to Patrick Leahy, who has no more idea what he's saying than Matt knows about what I'm going to say next…
LA: Or you, for that matter.
HH: Or me. And he comes back at it, and that's what passes for discussion in the United States Senate. And I think that's a crisis, actually.
LA: Yeah, yeah, and the point about precedent is that we have two long strains of opposite precedents in American history now. And so you're going to have to pick, right? And the precedent was never anything except respect for earlier decisions that are made according to some principle. And so if they, you know, I mean, look, there was a long series of precedents that said, that said what, that the federal government does not have the right to forbid, or to fail to protect slavery in the territories not yet incorporated as states. And the Republican Party was born to change that practice. And they did it on the basis of the text of the Constitution of the United States. That is the ultimate precedent.
HH: And if we could simply come to that agreement, that the Senate gets to make its own rules, and that the Senate can change its own rules, and that it ought to change its own rules quickly, because I think that's where we're going. Pat Toomey's pretty upset with this situation. The blue slip is dead as of this week. I think there are, what do you say, fundamental things are afoot. I think they're afoot in the Senate as well. Do you share that optimism? And Ron Johnson may have brought it to a head.
LA: Yeah.
HH: People are just disgusted.
LA: And you know, there's a mess in Alabama, and so these are trying days, right? And they surely, and they must respond. And you've played some tape from the leadership. They're pretty good. You know, there's some very talented people in the Senate if people will perk up and listen. There's a way to go.
HH: If they will think, and I guess I close here. Disraeli was the great proponent of party in Great Britain. And you said at the beginning of the hour Churchill was not that great of a party man, but there are times to be a party man. And sometimes, he was.
LA: He was, like Lincoln, and like all the greatest statesmen, Churchill responded to principles that are beyond party, almost always through party.
HH: Through party. Explain on it. We've got a minute left. Explain that.
LA: Well, the thing is in America, political parties have no Constitutional standing. They're only decried during the founding. And then immediately, when the government was set up, the founders…
HH: They spring up.
LA: They set up political parties so they could coordinate action across the branches and geographically across states. That's what they're for.
HH: And so if our Republican Party, if you are listening as you drive to work today, please coordinate your actions across the branches in pursuit of the principle of tax reform, and a larger principle, which is you're all going to lose your jobs in 2018 if you don't get anything done. And thus far, Neil Gorsuch is on the scorecard, and a dozen appellate judges, and that's about it. So Dr. Larry Arnn, always a pleasure.
End of interview.


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What Everyone Ought to Know About Grief
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deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death: She was overcome with grief
There is no precisely-correct way to live life. Life has many paths that can lead your life to fulfillment, success, and happiness. Every individual on this planet usually guides themselves along these paths with the support of a mentor, a piece of writing, or some form of guidance they use to drive them. Unfortunately, there is never one that always has ALL the answers. Fortunately, with every obstacle we hurdle, knock over, or take control of then there is also an opportunity to learn from it so that we maybe keep moving forward the next time we face it. Sometimes the advice come across clicks and sometimes the information takes a minute to sink in. Eventually everything will come together as tomorrow and perhaps one year from you will have the "AHA" moment. You just need to keep on searching and never stop believing.
This past week we discovered a podcast that shared an inspirational message about dealing with grief. "The RobCast" is a weekly podcast by Rob Bell who recently interviewed David Kessler. He is an expert on healing and loss and has worked closely with Louise Hayes, a motivational author who believes Illness is an indicator of your emotional state caused by your thoughts and focus. When David first met Louise he told her it was clear they were not going to be friends because of their frequent disagreements. In the podcast he tells the listeners she responded, "clearly with this much energy we are." This dialogue is an excellent example of perception and how there will always more than one experience. David said working in a hospice made him realize that we do not live forever.
In the podcast David shares a story about a woman who went to a small village. When someone dies then that night everyone has to move something in their home and lawn. David asked her why and she said because there is an experience for the family to wake up the next morning and see everything has changed. Our whole world has been shattered and it gives permission to grieve.
When you allow yourself to grieve that pain will come up and so will old wounds. This emotion then becomes an opportunity to go back in time to heal old wounds and negative patterns. Now becomes a time of healing. Grief is a connection; Kessler says, "we grieve those we like, those we love, and those we hate." For example, you will grieve that father who abused you but you also have to go back and grieve that archetype of the ideal father that never was. In other words, the grief of the father who never was the father to you.
At the end of life what matters is love. We get to have a life review in third person. Not as flash memories. David Kessler continues on to say that judgment becomes full disclosure of who we are and who we've been. This circles back to acceptance in grief. "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." Suffering is what our mind does with the pain. The stories we make up. That we are too old or not good enough or perhaps too young. The pain of our love one dying will always be painful but what our mind does with it will cause suffering.
David Kessler believed he was a victim and his mom abandoned him although she died of cancer when he was young. This is what his mind made up. You will notice in my writing I speak about the ego. This is the ego causing suffering. We are not our thoughts and you must always remember that. Do not entertain those thought patterns. Keep on choosing everyday to continue along the path that works best for you. The one that is always positive; follow that one
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They have prepared themselves – made a plan as it were. But the people the Vigil worry most about are those who have been led to believe that Mugabe is semi-divine. And it is clear there are many of them. For them the loss will be cataclysmic.
Mugabe has gone to see his doctors in Singapore twice in the last few weeks so it is clear that he is about to take leave of us. We must be brave. Others have gone through similar trauma. We remember the mass hysteria in North Korea at the departure of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, whose people had been led to believe that he could never get ill. Scenes of public grief were broadcast around the world. Zimbabweans must show we are made of sterner stuff.
We expect Harare to come to even more of a halt when the great transition occurs. So outside help will be urgently required to minimise grief-related suicides and post-traumatic stress disorders.
To do our bit, we in the diaspora are appealing to the United Nations to prepare to send teams of bereavement counsellors who could fan out across the country. Para-psychotherapists could even be air-dropped in remote areas.
The Vigil's approach is two-pronged. We have also written to the American Ambassador in London urging the US to oppose any IMF / World Bank loans to Zimbabwe until the situation is clarified. Surely no-one wants the money to end up in the wrong hands?
Here is our letter:
Dear Ambassador Barzun
With the Mugabe regime nearing its end, Zimbabwean exiles in the UK wish to convey our reservations about the apparent readiness of the International Monetary Fund to advance new loans to Zimbabwe.
We ask what purpose this financial injection will serve when there is no clear idea of who will receive the money? We draw your attention to the latest index of economic freedom which concludes that Zimbabwe remains one of the most repressed economies in the world due to rampant corruption and government mismanagement (see: https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2016/03/26/zim-one-of-africa-s-poorest-economies?src=ilaw).
We urge the United States to take the advice of Bob Corker, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called on President Obama to prevent new lending to Zimbabwe unless there is meaningful progress to restore the rule of law and improve human rights (see: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/corker-no-new-lending-to-zimbabwe-without-meaningful-reform).
We draw your attention to the recent report by the International Crisis Group which expresses doubts that the ruling Zanu PF party can 'walk the talk' of reform.
The Vigil believes that any financial help to prop up the odious Zanu PF regime will simply prolong the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe.


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Comic Book Production - The Digital Workflow @ C3 Comic Creator Conference - Long Beach Comic Expo 2018
Comic Book Production - The Digital Workflow at the 2018 Comic Creator Conference (C3) @ Long Beach Comic Expo. Thanks to Chris Dickens, Dean Haspiel and David Baron for making the panel awesome. Also thank you to Martha Scheidegger Donato and Ivan Cohen for having us!
MAD Event Management, the organizers of Long Beach Comic Con and Expo introduce C3 (Comic Creator Conference), an event designed to connect professional comics creatives with other high-level industry professionals to empower them with exclusive and personal insight, as well as directly connecting them with decision makers, peers, publishers, and other leaders within the industry.
Comic Book Production – The Digital Workflow
Speakers: Sean Glumace, Dean Haspiel, David Baron, and Chis Dickens
Description: Come learn how the whole production puzzle comes together, and where all the pieces fit in the digital workflow of creating comics. Join Adobe Education Leader Sean Glumace, colorist David Baron, publisher/writer Chris Dickens, and artist/writer Dean Haspiel for this panel on how the Adobe Creative Cloud and other programs are used in comic book production workflow from layouts, artwork, coloring, lettering, design, production, and more. Come learn how to put the whole production puzzle together, and where all the pieces fit. Adobe will be giving away a 1 year (12 month $599 value) subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud during the panel.


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By Dustin Rowles | Film | May 12, 2006 |
After staring at my blinking cursor for the better part of the last hour and receiving a lovely missive from a reader asking, "Where the fuck is the Jarhead review?" I'm afraid I'm no closer to synthesizing what I want — or need — to say about Sam Mendes' follow up to American Beauty and The Road to Perdition than I was after I walked out of the screening. It's a difficult film to write about, mostly because it seems to say so much, without actually saying anything at all. It's intentionally anti-message, which is perhaps the loudest message it could send, leaving us to figure out what the fuck Mendes meant by shoving a nonentity into a nothing war in which so very little happened. That Operation Desert Storm was the central military conflict for an entire generation just about says it all, I suppose: There was no real cause for which to fight, no patriot zeal to stir up, and no great enemy to defeat. Its participants fought a war over oil, nobody died, and goddammit, they didn't even get to shoot their guns. It doesn't exactly make for a great story to tell the grandchildren, does it?
Nevertheless, Mendes — working off of Anthony Swofford's memoir, adapted for the screen by a former Marine, William Broyles, Jr. — manages to make us care, if not about the war, then the people involved in it. To do so, he had to create maybe the first war movie ever that didn't rely heavily on stock "war movie" characters to give meaning to something greater than the sum of its soldiers. We're talking about the first Gulf War here — there wasn't anything greater, so to succeed, Mendes necessarily had to take an All Quiet on the Western Front humanistic approach, primarily in the form of Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) a semi-serious, detached scout/sniper who "got lost on his way to college," and wound up in boot camp.
As Jarhead's central character, Swofford acts mostly as an opaque observer, filtering to us the non-events of the lives of his fellow soldiers, who stand around, drink water, urinate, masturbate, and stand around some more, which is not exactly the material that great war movies are made of. Yet, Jarhead arguably qualifies, because it is the first of its kind to capture not what it's like in the heat of battle but war's testosterone-fueled sense of urgency — the feeling of having one's shaky finger on the trigger, but with nothing to shoot at.
The movie starts out in boot camp, where Swofford is subjected to your run-of-the-mill Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant humiliations, met defiantly by Swofford's resistance to the military mindset. It doesn't take long, however, for him develop a taste for the military, its frattish camaraderie, and its inherent promise to make him a hero. As a member of the scout/sniper platoon led by Staff Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx), Swofford and his unit are soon sent off to Kuwait, where they expect to become a part of that next great cause, to die for their country, and put a stamp on the identity of their generation. Instead, they spend the next 160 days immersed in the mundane: They practice putting on their gas masks, they play football in the sand, and they await letters from wives and girlfriends back home, who — for the most part — have already found themselves new fuck buddies.
And when the conflict finally arrives, it lasts all of four days, barely enough time for the men in the unit get their gas masks on; it's a bit like hearing the Notre Dame masses cheer for Rudy Ruetigger for half an hour only to see him ride the bench as the game clock expires. Indeed, Gulf War I pulls the ultimate cock-block, leaving half a million itchy-fingered soldiers with nothing to do but go home trophy-less, carrying only a heavy set of combat-fueled blue balls. Welcome to the Suck!
Yet, what's remarkable about Jarhead is that Mendes is able to extract so much from so little, to divine meaning in a futile, purposeless exercise, and to do so without resorting to melodramatics — there are no epiphanic scenes, no waving of flags, no overwrought patriotic salutes, and — save for Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P." — no beat-you-over-the-head evocative, swelling music. It doesn't have the poetry of The Thin Red Line, the grittiness of Platoon, the gut-wrenching verisimilitude of the first half hour of Saving Private Ryan, or the controversy of Apocalypse Now, but Jarhead is a war movie to be reckoned with, because it's the first to successfully explore the psychological ramifications of a war that never was.
Dustin Rowles is the publisher of Pajiba and managing partner of its parent company, which prefers to remain anonymous for reasons pertaining to public relations. He lives in Ithaca, New York.


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Once the police have a reason to search your car or home, pretty much anything they find is going to be fair game. Recently in North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. received a call complaining of the strong smell of marijuana coming out of an apartment on the 8400 block of Riverbirch Drive, according to a police news release. The police say that they obtained a search warrant and brought drug charges after searching the property.
The police report that they've arrested three people for narcotics and several stolen firearms, one of which the FBI had reported stolen just a few weeks ago. Three of the firearms found in the apartment had been stolen. Three men, ages 18, 19, and 23 were arrested. Police inform that they seized cash, five firearms, and a small amount of marijuana and cocaine from the apartment. Two of the men were arrested for possession of stolen property and drug charges, and one of them was arrested just on the drug charges.
The first thing that defense counsel for each defendant must do is determine whether police procedures were correct, and whether they did use the proper procedure and justification for obtaining a search warrant. There are rules about possession of drugs when looking at drug offenses. Generally, a person can't be convicted just because someone else in the room or in the building may be carrying drugs. Therefore, if there were in fact drugs, counsel should determine carefully who was in possession of each drug and whether any drugs were possessed jointly.
The same goes for the firearms. If the evidence is too overwhelming on the drug charges or the weapons, and a trial is not advisable under North Carolina law, then counsel should work toward obtaining the strongest plea bargain available. In this situation, early cooperation with the police may be an option, especially where they have an interest in determining the circumstances surrounding the stolen firearms.
Source: WBTV 3 News, Police arrest 3 for drugs in south Charlotte apartment, recover stolen FBI firearm, No author, Sept. 5, 2013


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JOHANN CHRISTOPH SPURZHEIM [KASPARI (1776-1832), German phrenologist, was born near Treves on the 31st of December 1776. He made the acquaintance of F. J. Gall while studying medicine in Vienna, and for some years assisted him in spreading his phrenological doctrines, but in 1813 the two separated. Spurzheim lectured with considerable success in England and France, and was extending his propaganda to the United States when he died at Boston, Massachusetts, on the loth of November 1832. His works include: Anatomic et physiologic du systeme rterveux (1810–182o) ; Observations sur la phrenolegie (181o); The Physiognomical Systems of Drs Gall and Spurzheim (1815), and Essai philosophique sur la nature de 1'homme (1820). (See PHRENOLOGY.)End of Article: JOHANN CHRISTOPH SPURZHEIM
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Young blood helps repair fractured bones of ageing mice
YOUNG blood has once again shown its promise as an elixir of youth: blood from young mice helps bones of older animals heal.
In 2012, researchers reversed some of the effects of cognitive decline by pumping the blood of young mice into old mice. The results were so intriguing that a team at Stanford University began the ultimate rejuvenation trial: giving blood plasma from under 30s to people with Alzheimer's. Results are expected next year.
To see if young blood could also help ageing bones, Benjamin Alman at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, surgically joined the circulatory systems of mice of various ages. Fractured shin bones of old mice healed faster and better when the rodents were joined to young mice than to mice their own age.
Older bones have higher levels of a protein called beta-catenin. This makes bone marrow stem cells more likely to form cells that hold bone together than cells that make bone itself. Beta-catenin levels were much lower in old mice that had received young blood, suggesting that a molecule present lowers beta-catenin and promotes bone growth. "We're honing in on that molecule," says Alman (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8131).
This article appeared in print under the headline "Young blood heals old fractured bones"
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During this morning's 2013 kickoff meeting, members of the Detroit Regional Relocation Council were treated to a presentation by HR industry veteran Joseph Pernaselli. Joseph is a Senior Manager in KPMG's Global Mobility Advisory Services practice. He has a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of global relocation including programs, policies and technology. He is a frequent speaker within the International HR industry and has spoken at many events sponsored by SHRM, Worldwide ERC, NFTC and WIPA.
Our guest today was asked to provide both a relocation and economic look ahead for 2013 and offer any predictions for what might be in store for the relocation industry. In surveying his large and diverse client base, Joseph was able to determine where he thinks we're headed both on the domestic and international mobility fronts. He offered a number of predictions:
- A increase in cafeteria style relocation benefit packages. Cafeteria style policies offer more flexibility and sometimes align better with individual transferee needs.
- Due to the rapid pace of change in the global business community the "shelf life" of relocation policies will continue to get shorter and shorter. What was attractive a couple of years ago might not work today.
- The use of "cutting edge" technology to better promote global mobility within organizations. Such technology includes the use of social media, employee portals dedicated specifically to mobility and match.com type needs analysis to better determine whether a candidate is suitable for domestic or global relocation.
- Loss on sale provisions within policies will change. Given that 71% of potential transferees list housing concerns as their top impediment to moving, loss on sale caps should continue to increase however capital improvements might not be a factor in calculating future loss benefits.
- On the global mobility side, cost containment will continue to be a top goal of most organizations. He sees a small uptick in global relocation volume and "soft programs" such as cultural and language training programs being reduced or eliminated. The number one reason for international assignments will continue to be support for business objectives and talent management.
Thank you again to our distinguished guests and to the DRRC for a wonderful kickoff meeting. We see good things ahead for 2013!


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Tonight Episode 2 of Season 4 of Sherlock airs, on PBS this side of the pond. The episode is entitled "The Lying Detective," which is a clever little twist on Doyle's story "The Dying Detective." As we are too cheap to get cable, and the local PBS affiliate refuses to come in on our digital TV, I will be watching it tomorrow, and then reviewing it here on Baker Street Babble. Stay tuned for my next review!
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2007 is here and I'm working on developing a ramp-up plan for new training-team members. The project I'm currently working on will have at least two new members starting in the next few weeks to a month.
So I'm going to start by referring back to the best ramp-up plans that I've experienced and think of what they all had in common.
- One very calm and understanding team lead who was willing to spend some time with me to clearly explain the main goals of the project or tool/training project. It's really hard no matter how resourceful and resilient you are to simply dive into a project without a decent orientation. In some cases I've had to orient myself because there was no one around
- Time line – when are things due? What are our major deliverables?
- Tour of who's who in the project. It really helps to know who to go to for information and content. Also, it helps to understand the team dynamics and how I can best fit in with the team. I tend to be a dunderhead or floppy-eared Labrador puppy (though I'm mellowing with age) and just lumber in trying to help or figure things out. Sometimes it's good to know how to lumber into a project 'gracefully'
- Solid overview of project resources. Team website? Design documents? Document management? Sharepoint site? Business Process flows? All good things to know when I'm trying to be an effective team member
- Team or group practices and key meetings. Do we have a process for sharing or documenting training content? What is it? What meetings should I attend? What is the purpose of these meetings?
- Friendly team member introduction and work-style assessment. One of the best teams I worked with actually had a session in the beginning where we took time to share and understand our learning styles and Myers Briggs profiles. I know MBTI is a little overdone or tired in some circles, but I still feel that it's important to understand who you're working with and how to best work with each other. Our profiles including what made us tick and what drove us crazy about working in teams was included in a team charter. Also, this team regularly was guided by the leader to revisit the team charter when issues arose between team members. It was gentle reminder to us all: Hey, I know we all have work-style differences, but let's try to work through them nevertheless. Doing this clearly sent a message to me at least, that our leader was re-focusing us on our common goals as a team.
- Roles Responsibilities and Expectations – forgot to add this one. It was suggested by one of my peers.
I'm still working on this ramp up list and plan. Hopefully, I'll have it ready for our newest team-mate by the end of the week.
- Wikipedia resource on Meyers Briggs Type Indicator -includes links ot MBTI websites.
- My previous post of Learning Styles and Methods– includes resource links to Kolb's Learning Styles


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Use your ears
Hands up who likes freshly ironed clothes? Almost everyone. Hands up who likes ironing? Almost no one! Here's how to make it more of a boost and less of a bore.
Your eyes and hands are occupied when you iron, but your ears and brain are free. If you've ever wanted to learn another language, now's the time. Get prepared for your next holiday – pop on a CD and start dreaming about the people you're going to meet.
Or try self-improvement of another kind. Everyone from business experts to meditation gurus can whisper wisdom in your ear via MP3s and CDs. Sharpen up your sports skills, improve your work performance or overcome your phobias.
Perhaps you could let someone read to you while you iron? Audio books make literary classics less daunting, comedy novels even funnier and thrillers more compelling.
Wardrobe makeover
Doing the ironing is a great time to review what you wear. It's when you'll notice frayed collars, worn sleeves and loose hems. Decide what needs throwing out and what could be revived with some subtle restyling or new accessories. Think about different ways of putting clothes together and, if you're doing someone else's ironing, make a note of a few garments you'd like to borrow!
Mind & body workout
Believe it or not, ironing can even be part of your fitness routine! Work on your abs while you iron: hold your tummy in tight for the time it takes you to iron a garment, then relax while you pick up the next. Or practise standing on one foot – great for balance and working those leg muscles. Just be careful with the hot iron!
If you need to de-stress, try giving the ironing your absolute attention, working slowly and carefully and breathing deeply. Say "ohm" and meditate on how great you'll look in that well-ironed clothing!
Snuggle and Comfort will make your clothes soft and easier to iron, but if all else fails turn the music up loud and sing along.