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I landed on Quebec's Îles de la Madeleine (sometimes called the Magdalen Islands) with an empty stomach eager to hit the Circuit des saveurs (flavor trail), a consortium of nine agricultural producers working to improve the island's economy.
Driving along the narrow highway 199 (and short, at only 100 km long) pastel-clapboard homes dotted grassy fields and white sand beaches ringed the coastline in every direction. There were five islands connected by causeways and bridges, and another by ferry, all waiting to explore. Was it possible they were also connected by food?
For decades the islands 12,000 residents made a living from fishing and hunting seals. With the decline in fish and public disapproval of the seal hunt, the focus on tourism has increased. "It (the flavor trail) has been many years we have had the idea. It's a way to work together, to build something stronger than individual businesses," explained Tourism Îles de la Madeleine's Marie-Christine Leblanc.
I warmed up my taste buds with a stop at Fromagerie du Pied-de-Vent – a cheese factory and store. Across the road I watched over thirty cows of various shades of brown grazing. They were Canadian cows – the oldest breed of dairy cow in North America – and the first cows to come to the archipelago.
I stepped into the shop where a man dressed from the top of his head to his feet in white studied a piece of cheese behind a plate-glass window. Being a Quebec économusée® as well they showcase their knowledge and craftsmanship as well as selling food. I took a sample of Brie cheese, its creamy texture oozing across my tongue. I bought a bag of cheese curds for snacks later but discovered a lack of food is not a problem in this community of three traffic lights and few chain restaurants.
My next stop on the trail was the only remaining smokehouse, Fumoir d'Antan. When herring populations were healthy there were 43 smokehouses. Now there is one and its staff worry about dwindling fish population. To diversify they smoke cheese (from the cheese factory), lobster, mussels and beef. "If we don't have herring next year, we need to have something else," said general manager Sébastien Cyr of his need to innovate to keep 15 staff employed. I nibble at some smoked herring while gazing at the smokehouse floor where small fires are started when it's time to smoke.
It seems insane to stop for lunch after nibbling all morning but the salt air and a short walk along the white-sand beaches has revived my appetite. I head for Domaine du Vieux Couvent (the Convent Inn); the nuns left when it was converted to a hotel and restaurant so it's now okay to indulge in earthly sins.
The chef has created a Caesar salad with garlic strong enough to taste, a chunky fish chowder, and local beer is on offer. The tables are crowded with cruise ship passengers chattering about their morning's adventures. Most people get to the island by air or on a five-hour ferry ride from Prince Edward Island.
I don't drink beer but want to see the island brew so I head to another flavor trail stop, the Á l'abri de la Tempête brewery. Co-owners Anne-Marie Lachance and Elise Cornellier Bernier are "outsiders" but have been here many years, embracing the island's cooperative spirit. The smokehouse smokes the barley used in the beer and the brassieres sends leftover barley to the cheese factory for feed for the cows.
At the Fromagerie Les Biquettes À L'Air, 32 toggenburg goats on the payroll ate grass while co-owner Éric Longpré confirmed flavors on the trail blend together, "our cheese is used to top nachos at the brewery and pizza at the pizzeria." I snap a picture of the goats before scampering to the car for one final stop.
Tucked along a narrow country road, I find the small wooden shop of Le Verger Poméloi. The shopkeeper is speaking excitedly about the bottle of golden liquor in his hands to several customers, a large apple nestled below the narrow neck, sales apparently brisk.
How did the apple get into the bottle? I wander to the orchard nearby. Looking closer I see glass bottles strapped to the trees over tiny apples. Mystery solved! The apples grow larger in the bottle and the apple liquor is added after harvest. It seemed island residents were good at solving problems. I left believing this flavor partnership was indeed picking up the economy.
This article first appeared in the Red Deer Advocate August 25, 2017
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Sex industry survivors to address Prostitution Narratives book launch S.A July 31
Come and be part of this special event
Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade (Spinifex Press) has been launched at packed-out events in Melbourne, Gold Coast and Toowoomba. Next up: Adelaide July 31. My co-editor Caroline Norma and I will address the event along with four sex industry survivors. We hope Adelaide friends can join us for this special event – especially to support the brave women who are speaking out about the realities of life in the industry they've now left.
Tickets are free (and disappearing fast!): register here at Eventbrite.
*Advance notice: Stay tuned for details of our next launch event set for Perth, W.A, August 12 and Townsville, QLD, Sunday August 21.
See also:
'Anyone reading the accounts of brutal violence suffered by our contributors should hesitate to ever associate true feminism with the sex industry again' – MTR interviewed for Revolution Feministe.
'Prostitution Narratives exposes the suffering, torture and degradation of women in ways most don't want to think about' – MTR and Caroline Norma interviewed for ANZ Lit Blog.
'I had nearly 20 men brought to me that first night. After the first few I just became a robot: Sex industry survivor speakers out in powerful video'. MTR.
'An ex prostitute shares scathing open letter to former clients'.
'I clutched the cash while he used me: former prostitutes on why they want the industry banned'.

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Gossip Girl Fashion Credits: Season 6, Episode 9
It's the beginning of the end for Gossip Girl. The second-to-last episode aired last night, and with just one more to go before the series finale, the only thing for certain is that they're going out in style. Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) looked chic at Bart Bass's Real Estate Man of the Year party in a blue and black Andrew Gn dress, while fellow attendee Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) was on-trend in oxblood, the color of the season. Be sure to catch the two-hour series finale on Monday, December 17th at 8 p.m. EST on The CW, then check back here to see what they wore on the final episode!
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In this vein, Stifel Nicolaus noted that Barnes & Noble's "seat at the e-book table" is likely to prove valuable for the company as negotiations regarding Borders turmoil continue, and the market opens for competitors to fill the space. Amazon, comparatively, retains a similar embrace of the digital book market.
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Shares of Borders were around $0.39 at the time of posting, down 17.94% from Tuesday's market close.
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This essay is several weeks old now. I wrote it in late November. It still feels relevant to me, a week into the Trump presidency.
10 Responses to a Traumatic Election
#1 Devastation
For days after the election, I am gutted. I feel small and weak and ignorant.
I don't know where the pressure points are in "the system." I don't know how to help make things better. I don't know if there's any realistic hope for human existence on planet Earth, my country's democracy, the economy, civil society, anything.
Hell, I don't even know if I can take care of myself.
#2 Spooky Fatigue
Reading a piece in the New Yorker magazine that featured 16 esteemed writers' commentary on the election, I was suddenly overwhelmed with fatigue and went back to bed.
Waking again an hour or so later. I flashed on an eidetic image of a rat's eye, or maybe a squirrel's eye, or maybe a brown rabbit's eye, twitching, taut with tension, every nerve on maximum alert.
A friend had recently said that Brexit, Marine LaPen, and various emerging strains of nativism and fascism in Europe have been strengthened immeasurably by Trump's ascendance in the U.S. I'm sure he's right, but it's not just the human realm at the effect of this Dark Wave. Even the animal kingdom feels it, this bedrock-level tremor we're currently calling "Trump."
#3 Buddha-like Equanimity
I can't tell if people who are calmer than me are wiser or just less informed. Maybe both.
I was musing with a friend about how, throughout history, when humans have worried about large-scale catastrophes, they might have feared war, or drought, or famine. Today we not only worry about those things, but also about the extinction of the human species from anthropogenic climate change or even nuclear war (see: General Michael Flynn, national security advisor).
I speculated that perhaps, after our species evolves into a more refined and intelligent life form, they'll encounter ever-bigger threats, like maybe a rupture in the very fabric of space-time.
My friend, whose wife is about to give birth to their second child in a week or two, nodded thoughtfully. "And that will be okay too," he said.
#4 Stark Horrified Amazement
I don't know if we will survive this.
Two days before Thanksgiving, President-elect Trump sat down with the New York Times editorial board and said he was "having an open mind" about the Paris climate accords.
The next day I read that Trump intends to curtail funding to NASA's climate change research division because he deems it "politicized." (And just to add a little icing to Wednesday's cake, he's appointing a school-privatization hardliner as his Secretary of Education.)
It really is incredible how abruptly EVERYTHING most people I know (including myself) care about is threatened. Here is an incomplete, rambling list:
- public schools
- the world economy
- Medicare
- the existence of NATO (never dreamed I'd worry about THAT!)
- the Geneva Conventions
- immigrants' rights
- abortion rights
- organized labor
- affordable health insurance
- a U.S. Supreme Court that isn't dominated by hardline right-wingers
- gun control
- freedom of the press
- the natural environment
- the livability of the planet
In the immediate aftermath of the election, Portland Oregon's Willamette Weekly rated, on a scale of 1 to 5, over two dozen things we have to worry about in the face of a Trump administration, with a 5 signifying the highest likelihood that our worries will come true. For example, the fear that the U.S. Department of Justice will try to re-criminalize pot in Oregon only got a 1. The concern that Trump will reverse efforts to combat climate change got a 5.
I know it's a mark of privilege to worry about the end of the world, when so many people are facing so much more immediate pain. Still, I am just gobsmack stunned that everything "we" – people like me – were dreaming of is on the chopping block.
What is the "other side" dreaming of, I wonder?
(I recently asked a cousin of mine why he voted for Trump and he replied, "Because change is good, I like surprises, and I'm not crazy about all the abortions." But somehow that doesn't enlighten me much.)
#5 Bitter Fury
Protesters in Portland broke local business windows.
At a meeting of Portland climate change activists, a woman proclaimed, "Y'all are too nice. That won't do diddly squat. This is a right-wing coup! We have to take to the streets!"
A friend fumed on the phone, "I will NOT normalize the American Hitler!"
A stranger on the street asked me for directions. We wound up walking a little together, and discussing the election. She said that Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie were like mafia dons, and she was sure it was Giuliani who had leaked the information about Hillary's emails on Anthony Weiner's computer to the FBI, which resulted in Comey's last-minute letter to Congress, which may have swung the election.
I said that sounded unlikely, and that more logically the leak would have gone the other way, from the FBI to Giuliani.
She said, "Well, I think Giuliani leaked it. Of course Russia was involved too."
We parted ways.
I believe Russia hacked the emails that were released via wikileaks. I think it's unlikely that Russia hacked the actual voting machines or somehow instigated the kerfuffle with Weiner's computer. What I know for certain is that sputtering rage and complex paranoid speculations fill me with toxic dread.
#6 Nonviolent Activism
My friend Adam thinks it's a "coin flip" as to whether we now become a fascist country.
Nonetheless, he points out that "the more chaos and fear there is, the easier it is to move people to the darkness. Nonviolence and positivity are an invitation back to the light."
He acknowledges that seriously nonviolent resistance is not easy. It requires discipline, maybe even training. And it's hard to get millions of people to buy into it. But it's the only kind of activism that does not increase Trump's power. Engaging with hatred and blame won't help anything. Like Michelle Obama said, "When they go low, we go high."
I mentioned to Adam something I'd read about on facebook. A woman was jogging the day after the election and some guys shouted at her, "Who owns your pussy now?"
Adam responded wearily, "There's a lot of angry, broken people in this world. People who would say such things, who would taunt … it's just brokenness."
#7 Retrospective Reflections on My Candidate
I like Hillary Clinton a lot. Maybe I'm just a sucker for an agile mind and a precise vocabulary. I'm also in awe of her resilience.
But there is a price to be paid for being so tough. Toughness makes your nerve endings a bit brittle. You lose some sensitivity.
Barack Obama, I have long felt, brought wisdom as well as intelligence to the presidency. I never quite felt that Hillary had that quality. While infinitely preferable to Trump, she is probably not an inspired leader for our times either, though the platform she ran on was terrific.
She didn't do much campaigning in the late weeks of summer. Rather, she attended many small fundraisers, and reportedly told donors, probably with a smile, "I'm all that's standing between you and the apocalypse." Now that may have been true (we'll find out) but let's face it, that was a message of fear if ever there was one. An invocation of raw fear, worthy of a dictator. Employing terror to get people to open their wallets. It takes a special kind of person to do that.
Then when she described half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables," I never bought the story that it was an offhand mistake. She knew the press was there; she is way too savvy to have imagined it wouldn't make waves. I believe her calculation was that it would reify certain cultural divisions in our country which would ultimately redound to her electoral benefit. It was an unwise move.
She also blew what was probably the most important moment of the second debate with Trump, the town hall debate where he followed her around the stage, the debate that took place shortly after the infamous "Hollywood Access tape" became public. Hillary won it hands down of course by every rational measure: she was far more cogent, informed, poised.
But this is the era of the extremely-low-information voter, the voter to whom civil discourse and policy positions are mere background noise, the voter who just decides "from the gut." So when the final questioner asked both Clinton and Trump to say something nice about each other, that may have been the critical moment.
Hillary could not answer authentically. She insincerely praised Trump's children. Trump could answer authentically; he expressed genuine admiration for Hillary's toughness and resilience. Never mind that this contradicted his repeated charge that she "lacked stamina" – it was an honest moment, and I believe that many millions of low-information voters perceived it as such, and in their "guts" it may have even won the debate for him.
But what else could Hillary have said? What could she possibly respect about Trump? He's a walking caricature of all things vile. Maybe she could have dug deep though – if she were wise – and come up with something true. Maybe something like: "I admire how powerfully Donald connects in an emotional way with his supporters. I connect well too when I talk to people one on one, but as everyone knows, I struggle a bit on the stump. Donald has tremendous ability to move large crowds; it's a great talent. He is very charismatic."
Could she have gotten away with such frankness, such vulnerability? I think so. It might have been a remarkable moment of grace. It could have won her tons of votes. Who knows? It certainly would have garnered a lot of attention in the modern media environment.
Then again, speaking of graceful moments, her concession speech, in which she dignifiedly reassured the nation of the peaceful transfer of power and the sustaining order of things in our democracy, was poignantly brave and patriotic.
But a few days later, she publicly blamed FBI Director James Comey for her election loss. I submit that this was not high-minded leadership. Identifying a scapegoat did nothing to ease the crushed hearts of her supporters. I believe it merely reinforced feelings of rage and helplessness and victimhood. If Hillary were a wise leader, she might have said something along the lines of: "We are at an historic crossroads … there are many reasons why we lost this election … the onus is on me … this is a painful moment for us all … but now it is up to you not to lose heart, to keep sight of our values …" and so on. She could have spoken with the interests of the people foremost in her mind, rather than focusing blame on an individual.
#8 Reflections on Trump
Let's admit it. There would have been a nationwide Trump ridicule-fest had he lost. We would have danced on his grave. We would have gorged on gloating. Personally, I couldn't wait to see the son of a bitch humiliated.
It would not have been wise or mature, but I would have "given in to it."
Instead, as it is, I'm praying for him every day, praying that he should find his heart, that he should awaken to peace and compassion. At first I had some resistance to making that prayer, because after all, why does Trump, of all people, deserve peace of heart, the most precious thing there is? (More on that later.)
I speculated to a friend, the one who called Trump the American Hitler, that he's a wounded person.
She snapped: "He's not wounded! He's disconnected from his soul!"
"So that's not a wound?" I replied.
She said, "There are people who take pleasure in killing others. He is one of them."
That I don't know, though Trump does have a long, storied record of cheating, hurting, and demeaning people, apparently without remorse.
Yet, post-election, even his arch-foe Bill Maher had to give him credit. Maher said something like, "Trump certainly did it his way. If anyone has the right to sing the song 'My Way,' Trump does."
I give Trump credit too. He really sparked a movement. He did it largely by appealing to people's basest instincts, elevating ignorance, lying incessantly, inciting fear, and fomenting violent resentment. He demonstrated a certain feral astuteness: He did not overestimate the American people like the liberals did.
(For the record, I do not have a grand explanation for What Happened. Michael Moore's analysis of working class people throughout the Rust Belt feeling forgotten and aggrieved makes sense to me. So does a friend's observation about how all Hillary's celebrity surrogates were hip and beautiful, and how economically marginalized people with low self-esteem might have felt alienated and "left out" by that. I know people generally act –and vote — from their needs and hurts. I'm sure bigotry and racism were in the mix too.)
But for all his pettiness and meanness, Trump does not seem to possess the smug sadism of a Stalin, the maniacal vendetta of a Hitler, or even the steely hatefulness of a Mobutu or Pinochet.
After Trump's pre-Thanksgiving sit-down with the New York Times, columnist Frank Bruni wrote an op-ed entitled "Donald Trump's Demand for Love." Bruni described how, before the meeting, Trump touched his arm, looked him in the eye, and stated, "I'm going to get you to write some good stuff about me." Bruni, openly gay and very liberal, had been nothing but excoriating of Trump for over a year.
Bruni went on to write: "It's entirely possible. I keep an open mind. But I'm decided on this much: Winning the most powerful office in the world did nothing to diminish [Trump's] epic ache for adoration or outsize need to tell everyone how much he deserves it."
I trust Bruni's insight. It's consistent with what we've all seen. Clearly, Trump has a conspicuous and insatiable desire to be loved and adored.
And what if we fed that desire? What if, instead of hating Trump, we tried to love him?
Does the very thought make you want to throw up?
Me too.
But I think that's part of the problem.
I think Trump is kind of a sponge. He absorbs what gets thrown at him and then secretes it back out.
I don't expect to be able to conjure love for the man simply by virtue of deciding that it may a good thing to do. But I will recognize that it's probably the sanest response, and maybe, ultimately, the only hopeful one.
(Thinking of Hillary again: Was she harder to love than Trump?! Even her supporters, at times, seemed to imagine that she was so tough she didn't need love. Talk about a fatally flawed candidate!)
#9 Thoughts on What to Do, Where to Stand
Hard times are coming.
We have not hit bottom yet, not even close. Who knows what "bottom" will even look like? It's going to require us to step up and be bigger in ways we can hardly imagine, especially those of us who've lived a life of relative stability and comfort for decades.
Maybe if millions of us commit to doing at least just a little bit more than we've been doing thus far to create and sustain the world we want – whether "a little bit more" looks like political activism, or civic involvement, or volunteerism, or civil disobedience, or simply remembering to speak from our deepest hearts more often – maybe this will, cumulatively, provide some counterbalance to the forces of "Trumpism." Maybe it will even be enough to save our country, our planet, ourselves, and each other.
Of course, it may not be enough. The challenges ahead are overwhelming. But as Mahatma Gandhi stated, "Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
Attending a community meeting may seem downright quaint in the face of a political juggernaut that stacks the federal judiciary, undoes every environmental regulation in effect since the 1960s, disenfranchises millions of voters, slashes social services, and generates chaos. It may feel like shooting peas against a fortress wall. (Or barely even that.) But I think we have to be humble. Our only hope is each other. And we have to be realistic about what each of us can practically do, or is willing to do.
At the very least, it soothes the soul to join together with other bewildered, devastated people and make some consistent effort.
For starters, I will work with my local climate change group, 350PDX, and volunteer as an overnight host at a local homeless shelter at least a few times a year.
And I will at least remember – even if I don't always live – my deepest values. This means remembering that blaming is useless. It means remembering that – as the principles of nonviolent communication state – everything everyone does or says is in service of their needs (one way or another) and we all have the same needs. Even those bastards coming into power. Oh – and I'll quit name calling too. Really.
I'll also try not to be so reactive any time I feel slighted or insulted, which isn't easy. I'm sure I'll fail often. But I'll do my best.
I'll keep my heart as open as I can. I'll speak the truth as I see it. I'll be honest with myself.
I seriously think that these coming times will require us all to be spiritual warriors.
Then again, if being a warrior means – as I heard or read somewhere – being impeccable, I won't qualify. But I don't like the sound of "spiritual soldier" so … maybe spiritual striver. I can strive every day to act and speak consistently with my heart's best wisdom. That much I can do.
#10 Message of Peace
I got the message while I was out walking one night recently:
Despite my weaknesses, my preoccupation with myself, and all the ways I've let myself and others down – and despite the state of the world, and the gathering darkness ahead — I deserve pure shining peace in my heart.
And so do you. So does everyone. Even Donald Trump.
We're all broken into pieces. We're all reaching out from a fractured place. To the extent we find peace, we behave sanely.
I'm thinking of the person who left the climate change meeting, because it wasn't angry enough for her. I'm thinking of all the people who feel that their activism requires anger.
I'm not going to argue against anger that arises naturally. I think it's a fundamental emotion.
But don't feel you should be angry even when you're not. Don't feel you have to be militant and oppositional in a blaming way. It may just be your delusional mind's way of telling you that you don't deserve peace.
You don't have to hit back in anger against injustice before you can have peace in your heart.
You may feel like you have no right to peace, given what's coming, given the crimes being committed, and all the people who are hurting. Given your own shortcomings and "sins."
But you do deserve it, now. You really do. We all do. Do you really doubt that?


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I've just returned from an amazing holiday in the capital of The Czech Republic – Prague. Here are some highlights which might inspire your next trip. I do not work for any travel agents so all these are based purely on my own experience.
1. Place to stay – Penzion Attractive
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2. Around Prague
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3. Trips outside of Prague
There are plenty of companies offering guided tours however do some research before you go, there might be cheaper options and you won't feel tied down by the strict schedule.
I went to Cesky Krumlov on the bus, using Student agency. It's easy to book online, great service. Buses run frequently from Na Knizeci, Prague 5.
I have used Premiant City Tour for a trip to Karlstejn castle. The castle is amazing and worth visiting. There are several guided tours but bear in mind that some of them must be booked well in advance. I guess this is the reason why Premiant City Tour offers only Tour 1 – The Imperial palace and lower floor of The Marian tower – this tour lasts 1 h.
!!! The Czech Republic is a very popular filming location, particularly castles, chateaus and other historical buildings and streets. The filming dates are usually announced well in advanced so check websites before you set off to avoid disappointment!!!
Hope you've enjoyed it
March 2018


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You may have taken notice during the past year of the addition to the Orchestra's cello section of a very young man, namely Ernest (Ernie) W. Carbajal.
The San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra sponsors a "Youth Outreach Program" to foster and aid exceptionally talented instrumentalists whose excellence is brought to the attention of Maestro James Domine by their teachers. Such a young man, and student of Daniel Grab, is 13 year old Ernie who has been studying and playing the cello since the age of five.
In the past year Ernie has won four competitions, including the Glendale City's "Best Musician Award," having been chosen from among the entire Glendale School District. In addition to the grand prize, he received a cash award and the opportunity to play the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in front of an audience of 1,000 people.
In 2011 and 2012, Ernie was awarded two-week scholarships to "Stage Strings Summer Camp." This summer he was selected from a group of eight equally talented students to perform the Haydn Cello Concerto at the final Recital of the season.
This September he will enter the prestigious and renowned Crossroads School under a four year fully paid scholarship. Crossroads is a small private high school in Santa Monica that boasts an 18 piece chamber orchestra that is consistently one of, if not the finest in the country.
Keep your eyes and ears open for rising young star Ernie Carbajal.


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Cyclone Idai batters Mozambique - 19 dead, flooding, widespread damage, power and communication loss
Deutsche Welle
Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:30 UTC
After making landfall late Thursday, Idai felled pylons, destroyed houses and blew the roofs off seven schools. The airport was shut down after suffering damage to its control tower and runways. Flooding also swamped Beira's roads, and the hospital suspended surgeries due to the storm.
"There has been a lot of damage. Many homes have been left without roofs," said Alberto Mondlane, the provincial governor.
The power and communication outages left Beira's roughly 530,000 residents cut off.
Power outages also affected the provinces of Manica and parts of Inhambane.
Death toll in Sofala
State broadcaster Radio Mocambique said "preliminary information points to 19 deaths and more than 70 injured in Sofala province as a result of Cyclone Idai." Most of the deaths were located in Beira, the capital of Sofala.
Idai comes on the heels of recent flooding that has already caused death and destruction across parts of southeastern Africa. In Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa, flooding has killed 126.
Prior to Idai, the death toll in Mozambique alone due to flooding had already reached 66 people, with 111 injured and 17,000 displaced.
Major storm surge
The low lying city of Beira was the worst hit by Friday's cyclone, with Chinde to the north also taking a beating and communications with other villages along the coast severed by a 2-meter (6.5-foot) storm surge.
The World Food Program said it would deliver 20 tons of emergency food aid to stranded communities by boat and helicopter.
1 million affected
Heavy rains have inundated the region over the past week, affecting more than 1 million people, according to officials.
Authorities in Malawi have opened emergency relief camps after President Peter Mutharika declared a national emergency.
Cyclone Eline smashed Mozambique in February 2000, compounding further floods, killing 350 and leaving 650,000 homeless.
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By Saul Bellow
Edited by Benjamin Taylor. Illustrated. 571 pages. Viking. $35.
Herzog, the title character of Saul Bellow's 1964 novel, is famously a writer of letters he never sends, letters to friends, rivals, relatives and strangers; letters that satisfy his craving "to explain, to have it out, to justify, to put in perspective, to clarify, to make amends." The letters are, by turns, cranky, coruscating, clever and cerebral: the outpourings of a man overflowing with ideas and grievances, and reeling from the complications of his life and the stubborn mystifications of the world around him.
The real-life letters of Herzog's creator turn out to be just as arresting, seizing the reader by the lapels and refusing to let go. Although Bellow (1915-2005) repeatedly apologizes in this collection for being a lousy correspondent — suffering from some sort of "disagreeable reticence" — he is a gifted and emotionally voluble letter writer, convinced that sharing his experiences and thoughts with friends provides an escape hatch from the "miserliness" of "private consciousness."
Some of his letters are yesterday's equivalents of e-mail, catching his recipients up on the daily stuff of life, annoyances large and small, "toil, tears, sweat and business-wriggling." Others are philosophical meditations on literature, politics, literary politics and the state of the modern world, musings that remind us of Bellow's love of the Old Testament, Shakespeare and the great 19th-century Russian novels, and his belief that fiction ought to address the great moral questions of human existence and "account for the mysterious circumstance of being," as he once observed in The New York Times. Taken together, the letters form a sort of discursive autobiography and intellectual cri de coeur.
They amplify Bellow's argument that all American books, including his own, "pant" after meaning. They underscore his simultaneous craving for intellectual conversation and his impatience with the literary establishment and what he called "fashionable extremism" — "the hysterical, shallow and ignorant academic 'counterculture.' " And they point up the highly personal sources of much of his fiction: "You damn near killed me," he writes his ex-wife Sondra in one especially vituperative letter. "I've put that behind me, but I haven't forgotten the smallest detail. Nothing, I assure you. I made something [in 'Herzog'] of the abuses I suffered at your hands."
As in his novels, Bellow is as comfortable here discussing the "daily monkeyshines" of people he knows in the cacophonous city of Chicago as he is at academic debate, and his inimitable voice — accommodating the slangy and the high-brow, the vernacular and the oracular — burbles through these pages. He describes his father (who was skeptical of his choice of a literary vocation) "giving me a Polonius, berating all my friends, warning me, adjuring me, doing everything short of damning me." And he writes Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, that Jewish history "is denser than the Amazon jungle, and even if I were the Paul Bunyan of the machete I could never hack my way through."Continue reading the main story
The Bellow that floats to the surface in this volume is a close spiritual relative of the heroes who populate his fiction: a seeker and searcher who also happens to be a first-class noticer; an intellectual, deep in what he once called "the profundity game," who is constantly trying to balance the equation between rumination and action, solipsism and distraction, the temptations of selfhood and the noise of the real world.
Like his heroes, he frequently commutes between the magnetic poles of depression and exuberance. He is both "a glacier and a volcano." He sometimes regards himself as a bear who bites "people's heads off when they cross" him, but also feels himself to be a creature who flies, though "too heavy to be a bird, too sinful to be any sort of angel."
Throughout this volume, animal metaphors proliferate. Bellow jokingly describes himself as an "experimental rabbit" and "a poor lost woof from the kennel of Fate looking for a dog to belong to." He discusses his slow, digestive approach to certain ideas as his "anaconda method," and tells his son Adam that the long, cold winter in Chicago has made him aware of his "lizard ancestors," connected to "the Mesozoic" and in need of a drink to "rejoin the mammalian order."
But when it comes to depicting a run of productive writing, Bellow turns to a mechanical analogy. "I live on broiled meat and salt pills and my brains and insides go around at high speed," he writes. "Have you ever visited a clothing factory, heard the sewing machines rrrrhhhahhhrrr with the loudness in the middle of the phrase? I feel like that myself, like the operator sliding in the cloth. Only the machinery is internal and the seams never end."
He "learned to organize" his daily life for the "single purpose" of writing, Bellow tells one friend; his other drive, "the sexual one," would result, like that of many of his heroes, in a woman-filled life, including, in his case, five marriages and many affairs.
The "files of Eros" found in this volume range from rhapsodic avowals of love ("Susie and I could be happy on an ice floe," he says of his third wife) to bitter denunciations. Of his first wife, he rants: "Anita still wields her wicked power. She wants money, money, money, money, or failing money, blood." An equally broad gamut of emotions animate his more literary letters. Few punches pulled, generosity rarely withheld. He tells Martin Amis that he will be "a sort of adoptive father," and tells Philip Roth that he knew his stories were "the real thing": "When I was a little kid, there were still blacksmiths around, and I've never forgotten the ring of a real hammer on a real anvil." He is even more rhapsodic to his friend John Cheever: "Will I read your book? Would I accept a free trip to Xanadu with Helen of Troy as my valet?"
Of William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch," Bellow, in a letter to a girlfriend, is archly patronizing. "It doesn't have much human content, and I think it's just the other side of all the 'niceness' and 'cleanliness' and 'goodness' in the country."
When it comes to responding to William Faulkner's request of support for Ezra Pound (who had been committed to a hospital for the insane after making anti-American and anti-Semitic broadcasts during World War II), Bellow is succinct in his moral outrage: "If sane he should be tried again as a traitor; if insane he ought not to be released merely because he is a poet. Pound advocated in his poems and in his broadcasts enmity to the Jews and preached hatred and murder. Do you mean to ask me to join you in honoring a man who called for the destruction of my kinsmen?"
As the calendar pages whip by with the years, Bellow, the struggling apprentice, who has "not clicked with editors" and has "known 169 brands of humiliation," gives way to the confident journeyman who, with "The Adventures of Augie March," has found his voice. "The writing of it gave me considerable pleasure," he says of "Augie." "It was wonderful to feel I had the gift of amusement."
In time we also see the mature craftsman — "Every once in a while I put 'Henderson' on me like a plumber's level. The bubble is usually in the wrong place, so I sigh and knock off for the day" — slowly morph into the Nobel Prize-winning public figure, who worries he's "headed for the waxworks."
"There comes a moment, with increasing frequency," he writes in 2002, "when artists feel that they are hopelessly surrounded by goats and monkeys. I am against falling into despair because of superficial observations such as the foregoing. Actually, I've never stopped looking for the real thing; and often I find the real thing. To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others."
By Saul Bellow
Edited by Benjamin Taylor. Illustrated. 571 pages. Viking. $35.


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pari/gp | mathics | excel | r | hp-11c
bc | shell | browser | emacs | postgresql | glpsol
What are the best calculators?
Install and run gp:
$ brew install pari
$ gp
? (2/7)^20
%1 = 1048576/79792266297612001
? %1 * 1.
The value for each expression evaluated is stored in a variable with a leading percent sign. Integers and rational numbers are arbitrary length. Multiply by 1. or add 0. to get a decimal approximation.
The number of digits in a decimal approximation can be set to an arbitrarily large value. To see the first 100,000 digits of π:
? \p 100000
? Pi
Use ? to get online help, and ?\ to get a description of the "keyboard shortcuts", which are commands which start with a backslash.
gp has complex numbers. The real and imaginary parts can be rationals or decimal approximations:
? real(1 + 3 * I)
%3 = 1
? imag(1 + 3 * I)
%4 = 3
? abs(1 + 3 * I)
%5 = 3.1622776601683793319988935444327185337
? arg(1 + 3 * I)
%6 = 1.2490457723982544258299170772810901231
There are matrices and vectors:
? [1,2;3,4] * [4,3;2,1]
%1 =
[ 8 5]
[20 13]
? [1,2;3,4]~
%2 =
[1 3]
[2 4]
? [1,2,3] * [3,2,1]~
%3 = 10
The same operator * is used for multiplying two scalars, multiplying a scalar by a matrix, and multiplying two matrices.
Vectors are 1×n matrices. * can be used for the dot product, but the transpose postfix operator ~ must be used on the 2nd matrix.
base conversion
number theory
ascii plots
Mathics is an implementation of the Mathematica language. The underlying engine is SymPy.
Use pip to install it. Run the command line version with mathics:
$ pip install mathics
$ mathics
Or use mathicsserver to run a webserver which supports a notebook interface.
Solving equations:
In[1]:= Solve[x^2 + 2x + 1 == 0, x]
Out[1]= {{x -> -1}}
In[2]:= Solve[{2x+3y==7, 4x-y==7}, {x, y}]
Out[2]= {{x -> 2, y -> 1}}
In[1]:= D[x^3 + x + 3, x]
Out[1]= 1 + 3 x ^ 2
In[2]:= D[x^3 + x + 3, x] /. x -> 2
Out[2]= 13
In[3]:= D[Log[x], {x, 3}]
Out[3]= 2 / x ^ 3
In[4]:= Integrate[x^3 + x + 3, x]
Out[4]= 3 x + x ^ 2 / 2 + x ^ 4 / 4
In[5]:= Integrate[x^3 + x + 3, {x, 0, 1}]
Out[5]= 15 / 4
- DSolve, RSolve
- Simplify
- Factor, Expand
- Together, Apart
- sort
- filter
- group
- graph
Best for statistics and graphing.
R installs itself on the command line on Mac OS X at r and on Ubuntu at R. Note that zsh has a built-in called r for repeating the last command. Use command r to by-pass the built-in.
Dedicated calculator hardware is obsolete. For that matter calculators which display one number at a time are obsolete.
That said, I like having an HP-11C style calculator app on my iPhone. Why waste cerebral cortex learning something else. I chose the most skeuomorphic HP-11C app that I could find. The best HP-11C apps run the original ROM on a hardware emulator.
I like reverse Polish notation calculators because there is no need for paren keys. One can do more calculations without storing values in registers.
One can install a more capable HP-15C app instead. However, the HP-11C was what I owned back in the day. The HP-15C can perform complex and matrix arithmetic, but since the screen cannot display an entire matrix or even an entire complex number, it is an exercise in frustration.
An arbitrary precision algebraic notation Unix command line calculator.
[[collapsible show="+ how to use" hide="- how to use"]]
$ bc
10 ^ 100
Calculations are done with the same precision needed to express the most precise decimal in the expression. The precision in the variable scale will be used if it is greater than the most precise decimal in the expression. By default scale is zero:
$ bc
6.1 * 7.1
scale = 3
6.1 * 7.1
.01 ^ 50
scale = 1000
.01 ^ 50
Invoke bc with the -l flag to get transcendental functions. scale will be set to 20 automatically:
$ bc -l
l(10) /* natural log */
s(3.14) /* sine */
c(3.14) /* cosine */
a(1) /* arc tangent */
bc has user defined variables, comments, and the control statements if, while, and for.
Shells can perform arithmetic. The syntax is cumbersome, but it can save a context switch:
$ echo $(( 347 * 232 ))
The zsh shell can perform floating point arithmetic but bash cannot and must resort to forking bc:
$ echo $(echo '3.14 * 5' | bc)
The fish shell has a built-in command math which takes a string as an argument:
$ math '1.1 * 2.3'
It is a wrapper to bc, so one may need to use scale to get decimal digits:
$ math '13 / 5'
$ math 'scale=3; 13 / 5'
One can perform arithmetic by searching on the arithmetic expression. The search engine will probably infer that you are trying to do a calculation and show the result. Google puts the result in the display of a working calculator implemented in JavaScript.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ implements a portion of the Mathematica language. Try searching for
Solve[3x + 2 == 9x - 17, {x}]
Both of these techniques require opening a web page in a new tab. One can calculate without leaving the current page by dropping into the debugger:
Try this:
> Math.log(10)
In Safari, one must first enable the Develop menu in Preferences...
Using Emacs to perform a calculation is another way to avoid a context switch.
One can use M-: to enter and evaluate an Lisp S-expression in the minibuffer.
One can put the current buffer into M-x lisp-interaction-mode. The *scratch* buffer starts out in Lisp interaction mode. In Lisp interaction mode one can type Lisp S-expressions in the buffer and evaluate them. C-j writes the result in the buffer and C-x C-e echos the result in the minibuffer.
Another way to invoke Lisp from Emacs is M-x ielm. This creates a buffer with a Lisp REPL. Lisp expressions are evaluated as they are entered. It has command line history, but it is implemented in the slightly disconcerting (to me) Emacs way.
Emacs has a calc mode which sounds impressive on paper. It can perform matrix calculations, symbolic algebra manipulations, and graphing. I don't use it because it has a bit of a learning curve.
Using the database can be regarded as a context switch saver:
> select 3.14 * 5;
Databases are good at statistics. count, sum, min, max, and avg are standard. PostgreSQL also has:
cor(X, Y)
cov_samp(X, Y)
cor_pop(X, Y)
regr_intercept(X, Y)
regr_slope(X, Y)
window functions
import and export
example of importing data and doing linear regression, scatterplot
Finding out what functions are available.
> select count(*) from pg_proc
> select count(*) from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.routines


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pg 29 So this is a book of stories. The things that transform us, especially us "postmoderns," are people and experiences. Political ideologies and religious doctrines just aren't very compelling, even if they're true. And stories disarm us. They make us laugh and cry. It's hard to disagree with a story, much less split a church or kill people over one. And certainly no hurts others with the passion of those who it in the name of God, and it's usually over ideologies and doctrines, not stories. Besides, people seem to loosen up after a good story. I think that's why Jesus told so many stories.–stories about ordinary first-century Mediterranean life, stories of widows and orphans, debts and wages, workers and landlords, courts and banquets.
pg 63 At the beginning of their living with the homeless in Philly:
Later that same week another group of folks brought donations by St. Ed's — the mafia. With he media jumping on the story, the mafia cam by and gave bikes to each of the kids, turkeys to each of family, and thousands of dollars to the organization. I thought to myself, I guess God can use the mafia, but I would like God to use the church.
Many younger writers share of hating the church they grew up in. Part of it is personality, but I don't like negative talk. Partially it's because it's hard to hear people demean the bride of Christ knowing that a collection of imperfect people is going to be an imperfect gathering. Shane begins there but doesn't dwell on it. In fact he says this: pg 64
At that moment we decided to stop complaining about the church we saw, and we set our hearts on becoming the church we dreamed of.
I have had the same thought in Cambodia. There are many Christians at work there but there are many more who are not motivated by the love of Christ who are just there to help. I know that God can use anyone I just wish the presence of his body was greater in a place like Cambodia where the need is so great.
pg 71
The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament. ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
One of the intriguing aspects of the book was Shane's experience with Mother Teresa. He wrote her while in college asking if he could come for a summer. He didn't receive a response so he continue to hound all the nuns he knew and that they knew until he was given her personal number and she invited him to come over. I often want to do great things. One of the quotes from Mother Teresa was,
"We can do no great things, just small things with great love. it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing it."
pg 167 "The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away."
pg 254. Whenever someone tells me they have rejected God, I say, "Tell me about the God you've rejected." And as they describe a God of condemnation, of laws and lightening bolts, of frowning grey-haired people and boring meetings, I usually confess, "I too have rejected that God."
Over all I really enjoyed the book. There were moments when I was glad I was alone in the cafe I was reading the book as I was moved to tears by the accounts of love that he got to be a part of. I was nervous reading a book with an endorsement by Rob Bell but really enjoyed it and was left with some questions to think about and dialogue with others over.
Is capitalism bad?
He often rails against capitalism to me that's kind of like railing against sex because some people rape kids. In a sinful world there are going to be people who misuse the gifts God gives us. I do want to wrestle with my thoughts on capitalism though.
Other questions:
Is there value in pursuing renewable energy on a personal level?
Does capital punishment teach that some are beyond redemption?
Should we always be against war?
Shane is a pacifist and why we all agree that war is hell on earth and is often used for evil my thought is if we were all pacifists the Axis powers would still be ruling the world and we'd all live under dictators. Still we probably should fight harder for peace then we do. Not sure what to do with this one.
Great stories, Great thoughts, Great Questions. Light on doctrine, heavy on trying to live out an authentic Christian life.


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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Increase your pet's food in the cold weather.
If you have outdoor pets, or if you have very active pets, make sure to increase their food when the temperature drops. The extra protein and fat is needed to keep them warm and healthy during the winter freeze.
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