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		<title>Solving the problem of existence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book ‘Across Trackless Labrador’ (1913) the English explorer J. Hesketh Prichard, practically unknown in North American, wrote, ‘The problem of existence is solved by successful destruction.’ This prophetic statement has been the condition of mankind through the ages. Wolves kill a deer and solve the problem of their existence. Man tears at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweights taking on heavyweights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), who wrote ‘God is not great’, had a no contest public debate with former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair, who came like a lamb to the slaughter. There was some was sympathy for the poor fellow, but not much. To his credit, though, he tried hard and at least earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, the gall of it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty visited the Middle East this week &#8211; or what is left of it. They assure the Israelis that Israel has no greater friend than Canada (Bit cheeky this. What will the U.S. think?) Baird then chastises Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Maliki and says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Could you let me have twenty dollars?’ she asks. ‘Certainly not. You earn more as a server in a week than I get for pocket money in a month,’ is his prompt reply. ‘That’s the trouble with us. We don’t know how to communicate anymore,’ says she. ‘Communicate? Communicate? What the hell are you talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A child’s introduction to Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘What’s the meaning of the hunter of the east?’ he asks. ‘It means the sun, what is called in English a metaphor, which is saying one thing but meaning another,’ I say. ‘If you lived in Sanaa, in the shadow of mountains lying east that rise to three thousand feet you’ll be in shadow from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Percy Sillitoe&#8217;s African descendents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Percy Sillitoe (1898-1962), former head of MI5, spent his early years as a guardian of society in the Northern Rhodesian Police (Northern Rhodesia was renamed Zambia after independence from British rule). There Sillitoe met Mary Museba of the Bemba tribe in the Abercorn District. Mary, born about 1900, became Sillitoe’s consort and gave birth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the use of moaning and groaning?</title>
		<link>http://achart.ca/blog/archives/558</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a furtive mailing. At least, we’re always taken aback at its coming. We wiped away our tears with this pendulous scimitar swinging above our heads. What is this? Up again? First installment $1,500 and two more to go? That’s $4,500 for the year. The town managers are quick off the mark with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound counsel for engineers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (1900-1971), an Englishman with close ties to Ireland and having a home in the Emerald Isle, was a prominent theatrical director in his day. He helped launch the Stratford Theatre Festival in Stratford, Ontario, and journeyed back and forth to Ireland the old-fashioned way, by ocean liner, on the Queen Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving the man who has everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 300 feet dry canyon in Labrador the mechanical shovels exposed a 30 feet wide sliver of ice-age ice. As clear and lucent as cut glass, the sliver receded 50 feet deep into the rock face, a marvel to behold, and the ice, geologists assured us, was a good 10,000 years old. Then Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is guilty, but not charged?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Cockerill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One cannot but agree with the jury that found Mr Mohammed Shafia, his second wife Ms Tooba Yaha and their son Hamed guilty of first degree murder of Shafia’s three daughters and his first wife. As is now known, the guilty three pushed the car carrying the four women (one a child of 13) off [...]]]></description>
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