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Indefinitely postponing his agitation against cow slaughter, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue, KN Govindacharya, said that Muslims are being unfairly blamed for an issue which had become overly politicised.
Rating agency Moody's Investors Service revised its outlook on India's banking system to "stable" from "negative" on Monday. This comes after a separate report by another of its divisions warned PM Modi that he ought to keep his party members "in check or risk losing domestic and global credibility."
Nazreen Fazal says that as a 'hijab-wearing, beef-eating, five-times-praying, Malayalam/Tamil/Hindi/English-speaking Muslim woman,' she refuses to kowtow to strictures that paint Muslims as outsiders.
Looks like only Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Narendra Modi, is fit to be the cultural centre of India.
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Mumbai underworld don Chhota Rajan may be brought to India today or tomorrow, and will likely be questioned in New Delhi, according to reports. In fact, Rajan will be quizzed by Delhi Police instead of their Mumbai counterparts, reported The Times of India.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is the latest to join a growing line-up of public personalities who have recently spoken out against "growing intolerance" in India. "There is growing intolerance," the actor told India Today. "It is stupid."
The Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a significant blow at the Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls, losing dismally in Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency.
The killing of an Indian teenager in Nepal during police firing has triggered a bitter fight between the two countries, adding to the recent chain of events that has already soured their relationship.
The Supreme Court of India will today hear suggestions on improving the selection criteria for judges. The apex court had struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act (NJAC) last month, allowing the collegium system of appointment of judges to continue.
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ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar has claimed that fewer women study MBA courses because the entrance exams are "so quantitative-oriented" (read: focussed on mathematics), and that more women will join the management sector if the focus in these courses became more "general".
A mosque in Kerala celebrates an 18th century Hindu martyr who was buried there about 290 years ago. Special prayers are offered at his grave, and his descendants are invited too, reported TOI.
An al-Qaeda recruitment video offers the "holiday of a lifetime", promising adventure-seeking youngsters that they can "eat, drink and hunt for free".
Now your Uber driver could be a retired soldier from the Indian Army. The US-based taxi-hailing operator has signed an agreement to enlist ex-servicemen as drivers, and the initiative will be called "UberFAUJI".
Google is working with the Indian government to provide internet connectivity using giant balloons. 'Project Loon' will use giant balloons floating 20 kilometres above the earth surface to provide internet transmission.
The Narendra Modi government has failed its promise to switch from the social justice model to development justice, writes NV Krishnakumar in The Times of India. "The Modi government must realise that both populism and command and control are anathema to development justice. And it will not be long before voters turn against this shell game."
Peter Ronald deSouza has likened the "Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (BJP-RSS) regime" to the British colonial mode of governance: "Its methodology is the same. First, they attack the class of intellectuals, writers, filmmakers, scientists, as persons who are "anti-national" and "anti-Hindu"... attack the reputation of individuals... (then) drum up nationalist fervour to portray the protest as diminishing the nation in the eyes of the world."
Shailesh Gandhi analysed data from 2009 to 2013 to find that if all positions for judges are filled in India, the judicial system would be able to clear all cases in the country within a reasonable time. "[T]he number of sanctioned judges is adequate and if all the sanctioned judges were appointed mounting pendency would be history."
India's tax policy needs a complete reform, with changes in its legal drafting and organisational structures, according to Ajay Shah. "Legal risk associated with taxation and arbitrary actions of the tax authorities have created a climate of fear," he said in his column for The Indian Express. "Reforms must be more ambitious, and the policy work needs to be adequately resourced."
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A friend and I have started a new supper club in Baltimore called Temporary Table and this is our inaugural event! Having spent time in Kerala, India learning how to make their cuisine, Asya Ollis and myself, your resident Sri Lankan rice & curry fiend, decided it was time to make Baltimore a little more gastronomically progressive. Since there are no Sri Lankan or South Indian restaurants in town, we decided to start our own, but for one night only. Thus was born the Temporary Table, a roving supper club, in which we hope to feature new, original, and exciting menus for every event. Our first dinner will be held Thursday, February 24th 2011, and vegetarians and carnivores alike are both welcome as there will be plenty of good food for all to share. Ticket info is available at the end of the post, so if you happen to be in Baltimore on that night, please join us!
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@ The Abell Room of The Womans Industrial Exchange
333 N. Charles St. (betw. Saratoga & Mulberry)
Baltimore, MD
Thursday, February 24th 2011 @ 7:00 P.M.
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Chicken Curry (kukulmas)
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A traditional Sri Lankan preparation using roasted coconut and spices to achieve its dark hue.
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A 'dry' (gravy-less) curry accented by the tart taste of gamboge (goraka), a sour fruit.
Sauteed greens (mallun)
Finely chopped greens quickly stir fried with onions, shredded coconut and spices.
Coconut sambol (pol sambal)
A popular Sri Lankan condiment made with shredded coconut, lime, ground chilies, and salt.
Sri Lankan Salad
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Prepared by Asya Ollis
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As you might already know I am a huge fan of Cfengine (2/3). But I do realize that there are also other configuration management systems, such as Puppet or Chef and they might have their advantages over Cfengine 3.
I have published a few Cfengine 3 snippets and am planning to re-write those snippets in Puppet. Afterwards I will be able to compare both configuration management systems and form an opinion.
For better results I will clone my virtual machine (which hosts the Cfengine 3 snippets).
Installing Puppet on Linux Mint 12 (Ubuntu)
apt-get install libopenssl-ruby rdoc libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ruby1.8 augeas-lenses augeas-tools augeas-ruby1.8 libaugeas-ruby apt-get install puppet puppet-common puppetmaster puppetmaster-common puppet-testsuite vim-puppet
Note: The last command is installing Puppet 2.7.1. I noticed that Puppet 3 is already released and maybe I will switch later.
The official puppet website advices you to install Puppet from source; however, I do like the Ubuntu packages more.
The next step would be to create the first manifest, a Puppet code snippet. Please note that I will not try to explain the Puppet model to you (e.g. RAL, molecules/resources, manifests, providers, client/server model..) since I am still new to them. I will only write the code snippet for best comparison to Cfengine 3:
Writing the Puppet manifest for creating a file with a single text line
cd /etc/puppet/manifests touch xenuser_org-001-simple_editing_files.pp
Now edit the file with your favorite editor:
file {'example2-puppet': path => '/etc/example2-puppet', ensure => present, mode => 0640, content => "Hi there, this is Puppet.", }
Afterwards make sure that the new manifest is applied to the system:
puppet apply xenuser_org-001-simple_editing_files.pp warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn notice: /Stage[main]//File[example2-puppet]/ensure: created notice: Finished catalog run in 0.04 seconds
Let's have a look at the freshly created text file:
cat /etc/example2-puppet Hi there, this is Puppet.
Unfortunately the line is missing a line break (note: the file /etc/example2, created with Cfengine 3, is containing one).
Now for real – how to edit files?
The sample above showed how to create a file from scratch. However, in my first Cfengine 3 example I showed how to edit a file if it already exists.
As far as I know, Puppet does not contain a function for editing existing lines in a file. Instead you have to use exec calls and run grep/sed/perl and so on.
Now edit the file "xenuser_org-001-simple_editing_files.pp" until it looks like this:
# This file has two versions; the commented version below only # creates the file with one line in it. #file {'example2-puppet': # path => '/etc/example2-puppet', # ensure => present, # mode => 0640, # content => "Hi there, this is Puppet.", # } #This version only edits a file and does not make sure if it exists or not. define replace($file, $pattern, $replacement) { exec { "/usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/$pattern/$replacement/' '$file'": onlyif => "/usr/bin/perl -ne 'BEGIN { \$ret = 1; } \$ret = 0 if /$pattern/ && ! /$replacement/ ; END { exit \$ret; }' '$file'", } } replace { 'example2-puppet': file => '/etc/example2-puppet', pattern => "Hi there, this is Puppet.", replacement => "Hi there, this is Puppet again.", }
Afterwards apply and verify the changes:
puppet apply xenuser_org-001-simple_editing_files.pp warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn notice: /Stage[main]//Replace[example2-puppet]/Exec[/usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/Hi there, this is Puppet./Hi there, this is Puppet again./' '/etc/example2-puppet']/returns: executed successfully notice: Finished catalog run in 0.20 seconds
cat /etc/example2-puppet Hi there, this is Puppet again.
As you can see our method works – however, I find it quite disturbing that there is no direct way of editing an existing file. An huge disadvantage of the way used above is that you have to know what you want to replace.
I find the concepts of Puppet very interesting and believe that it could be at least as good as Cfengine 3. But still I do not understand why there is no direct text editing function – please feel free to comment if you know more details.
Another aspect is that there is no automated line break after text was added to a file.
The next blog post about Puppet will show how to check for running services and restart them if necessary.
As usual, you can download the Puppet code snippet here.
Update 5th January 2012 #1: Nick pointed me to Augeas, a tool-framework which can be used for editing files. However, I did not find out how to edit files which only contain text lines (but no variables, e.g. var = val1).
Update 5th January 2012 #2: As Nick pointed out, it is a different thing to define a file content or add new lines (like I did in Cfengine 3). Indeed adding "\n" to the end of the text content did the job.


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World / Text
Thursday, 16 February, 2012 - 22:18
One objection to world-as-narrative (even before we get to what we mean by narrative exactly) is that it leads us to the world-as-text, and that the world clearly cannot be a text, since a text is nothing and the world is not nothing. We dismiss the idea of world-as-text, or there being nothing outside the text, because textuality, like other appearances constructed from amorphous things such as sociality or the imagination, doesn't account for the irreducible heterogeneity and difference of real things in the world. The text is somehow unreal because manufactured, or too finite in its human contingency.
But look, there it is: the text is there, see it with all its words, its syntax and its endlessly concatenating generative grammar. The words are there in your mouth, and though the action of the muscles slip around it, and the phosphorescent images that glitter in its wake seem to disappear, nevertheless there is something under and behind it - in fact it is the very split nature of the word, with its surface shape and graspability, always divorced from its object which we nevertheless feel resisting us, hunted and vague, that allows us to see in its surface the evidence of what withdraws behind it. Moving behind a veil, yet giving the veil its very form and movement, like the wind through the opening pushing at the hangings which present a shimmering masque of surging and crashing forms.
Much as they may be arbitrary and conventional signs divorced from their referents, nevertheless there is something indexical in the relation of words the objects they symbolise. Bachelard talks about the beautiful and disturbing moments when a native of a gender-inflected language encounters, as it were, cross-gender transformations in other gendered tongues, as in the French speaker whose masculine sun (le soleil) becomes feminine in German (die Sonne), or the reverse gender-bending switch of the moon (la lune and der Mond). The shock or uncanniness, the delight and conquest, in such encounters points at the allusive and affective pairings - alluding to the same suns and moons with their many faces and adumbrations, affecting us as the world of things remind us of their irreducibility, repaying the transferred emotions we invest in them, turning us around. For all that language can be a buffer or a space between us and the world, nevertheless it is not supernatural, and cannot always keep reality from insisting on its way.
Monday, 13 February, 2012 - 14:13
Every world is a sort of disclosing, a way of rendering itself intelligible. What is intelligibility but something that can be read into, read between, picked out and gathered together, what can be thought and made into word, spoken and accounted for. Any world, being finite and contingent, is the condition of our thinking and being thinkable, speaking and being spoken, gathering and being gathered.
The disclosure of this or that world is what emerges out of the background into the light, what things become intelligible in such light. The lightening itself, the clearing in which the world emerges from its ground, the earth, is the mystery. What storyteller is shedding this light on the world that has appeared? In what story have I become intelligible myself, such that I too am here, in this clearing of the world?
World / Nowhere
Wednesday, 08 February, 2012 - 21:46
The world is a whole one, continuous if uneven. This wholeness can't very well be broken into parts without the kind of effort that pushes the parts out of joint, like cracking a rock to expose the fossil: what wonder to see the shell that has lurked for a million years bound up in the bonds of the rock! But also something is now over and done in that hammer blow, a deliberate stroke, over and above the everyday effort that allows us to pick our way through the rock-strewn shore. The petrified shape exposed in the rock is now left in the open, to be worn away by the familiarity created by its accessibility. No longer a constant furrow buried in a stone, silently ploughing its line in the thick of the world, it is now here, expressed from its bed, worn under light and water and foot, under a gaze, which is nowhere.
Tuesday, 07 February, 2012 - 22:13
The world I mean is the one which allows me to say of myself or others, that we are worldly, or that we are men of the world, or that we know something of the way of the world. It is a world that has mood and colour, it has a certain underlying sort of flavour - a complexity below the many notes which is nevertheless its own. It is the sort of world that one could imagine being otherwise, if one wanted, in a daydream or moment of wishing.
I know too that the world has been otherwise, or at least that it evolves, and unevenly: I suspect it has always been a world in which dark air has brooded over rivers as the cities of civilisations have come and gone from their shores; but the world in which genetic structures are unlocked is a different one from the world in which humours are put into a different balance, or the world in which burnt entrails appease the angry gods. There are even worlds within worlds - the specific worlds of peoples, cultures, crafts, enterprises, knowledge, language, projects - each is an opening, intervening in the wider unfolding world.
We see the world and its long slow changeability when we put our minds to it. When we do not, though, it disappears - in fact it is always disappearing, or at least sublimating somehow so that it becomes transparent. Its invisibility and concealment is what allows me to rely on it silently. There is something imperturbable about the inaccessible depths that constantly burgeon in the world. The flavour and ethos recede into that background, but nevertheless continue to give their tones to my absorption in living a life.
The life I'm living is also a world - my world - but it comes after the outer world. That larger world is a shared one, and the commons of that wider world are the heritage that nurture my own. Far from being alone and locked in a single lonely realm, never to join or merge with the spaces of others, my own world is a borrowed one which pays its debt in kind. Only in the effort of putting the mind to the task, do I find myself in my own individual cosmos: soon enough, as I reabsorb myself into the business of being alive, the worlds of my self, and those around me, the worlds of commerce and pleasure, the world encompassing them all, merge back within one seamless horizon - changed somehow.
Wednesday, 24 November, 2010 - 23:51
- on the excess in the image-world.
... there is an absolute gulf between Heidegger's readiness-to-hand and presence-at-hand. No real passage between them is possible, since the tool as a brutal subterranean energy and as a shining, tangible surface are utterly incommensurable ... it should be clear that every entity is ready-to-hand ... in the primary sense of "in the act of being", of unleashing itself upon the environment ... All of reality ... lies in a state of "metabolism" between the unchecked fury of tool-beings and the alluring facades through which we alone encounter them. (The Theory of Objects in Heidegger and Whitehead)
I always find myself deployed amidst a specific geography of objects, each of them withdrawing from view into a dark primal integrity that neither our theories nor our practices can ever exhaust. (A Fresh Look at Zuhandenheit)
If an object is always a vast surplus beyond its relations of the moment, it has to be asked how those as-yet unexpressed qualities are stored up for the future ... I am convinced that objects far exceed their interactions with other objects, and the question is what this excess is, and where it is. (The Revival of Metaphysics in Continental Philosophy)
Towards Speculative Realism by Graham Harman
I'm not attempting (or competent, not being a philosopher) to address the what and where of the excess of Harman's objects. I'm initially interested in Harman's way of characterising the presence of objects, and how different it is to Heidegger's attitude to Vorhandenheit. Where the latter denigrates the coming-to-presence of things in the world (as Harman notes, through the insistent epithet, 'mere'), the latter is always keen to celebrate it. Surfaces shine, sparkle and glitter; they are volatile, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant, resonant, dazzling; with faces, haloes, auras. This is not to say that he is less complimentary towards the withdrawing, strife-filled unleashing of the ready-to-hand, volcanic, turbulent, violent, primal tool-beings as they surge and thrust into the world.
Indeed this rich and exuberant world-surface constantly coming into action and awareness - the sensuous menagerie of the equally-footed animate and inanimate entities that jostle and strew the ground of the universe - seems to me to be just as excess-bearing as the long withdrawing surplus borne by the irreducible and unreachable inner core of real objects. That image world is right there, burning incessantly, coming about its business, hurtling out of the future rather than left over from the inertia of the past.
So I wonder then, what if we took the same steps with Harman's take on the "Heideggerian drama of revealed and concealed" as we took with Goffman's front and back personae: what the revealed hides is not a concealed substance, but its absence. Can we remove the 'effects' part of 'surface-effects', since there is now no causal agent hidden from view? Can the performance of the image be what facilitates the existence of the executant reality?
I realise of course that I'm veering away from Harman's specific arguments here, toward either Husserl's magical intentional objects which bleed sensual qualities without decohering, or toward re-instating a Kantian a priori apparatus which provides the form for the world's inhabitants to take up. But I'm not equipped to argue these points. Rather I just want to dispel hidden realities which betray their appearances, or illusory facades which belie some more authentic realm. Perhaps it is the same impulse which makes me recoil from the psychoanalytical requirement of a furniture of the mind - an unconscious which structures the conscious without permitting access to it. I don't want to bridge the abyss: I want to obviate the need for the bridge by unconjuring the abyss - closing the gap.
Thus I'm willing to concede I'm master of nothing, just as long as I can also say that friends who may turn out to be backstabbing machinators and sophists made themselves so not out of an inevitable and inscrutable essence, but because of the actions and interactions that they and I perform and enact - hence leaving the door open for such outcomes to be inverted: should we present alternative images, then we should unfold alternative executions in the world.
Image - World - Image
Friday, 06 November, 2009 - 20:39
The pinned stars in the sky are the reflections. The genuine stellar light shines and glints on the water.
The immaterial face in the mirror is the true identity. The flesh and blood before the glass is the hallucination.
The imaginary world is the only authentic experience. The material facts of existence are merely the simulacrum.
Being and Knowing: World as Diegesis
Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 - 22:52
Another conversation, this time with Shaun, and more thinking through, thinking aloud, thinking thought. Shaun attended all the first year media theory lectures over the last academic year, including the six part series I delivered on narrative. So, he got to hear me rework and reiterate impressionistically over the same endless themes of diegesis and artifice, story and plot, world and representation which I surreptitiously pretended was an overview of narrative theory.
So I was attempting to explain how that period of intense focus on ideas about narrative and, in particular, the phenomenon of diegesis, had since inflected my thought. The diegesis is the storyscape - the integrity of the imaginary theatre we accept when we give over to a narrator the suspension of our disbelief. The diegesis is the internally coherent world of the story - and 'world' is the key word here, since the idea of a 'world' is one of the ways in which I'm trying to muscle into an understanding of Heidegger which I think is going to be central to my PhD thesis. If you are going to read on here, put your Kafkaesque reading hat on and read it all as subjunctive: "I would, God-willing, understand in this way..."
Using a combination of Graham Harman's lucid writing on Heidegger, Timothy Clark's valiant exposition of Heidegger's thought, Hubert Dreyfus' concordance and commentary on 'Being and Time', and the dense source text itself, I've been trying to work towards an understanding Heidegger's concepts of Zuhandenheit and Vorhandenheit, theoria and praxis, not to mention Dasein, being there, and being a 'thing that things'. The concept of 'world' in this realm of thought seems helpful to me. Clark says that Heidegger's use of the term 'world',
"is close to the common meaning of the term when we talk about the 'world' of the Bible, or the 'world' of the modern Chinese or modern English - i.e.the fundamental understanding within which individual things, people, history, texts, buildings, projects cohere together within a shared horizon of significances, purposes and connotations. [...] the more fundamental shared disclosure of things within which [we] find [ourselves] in all [our] thoughts, practices and beliefs, providing the basis even of [our] self-conceptions and suppositions."
- all of which seems to be a perfect definition of diegesis if understood as pertaining not only to the fictional worlds we muster, but also the fields of meaning we conjure in every aspect of what we still call 'real life'. In the tool analysis, Heidegger's hammer [makes sense | obtains | is grasped] as part of the world of equipment, which [makes sense | obtains | is grasped] as part of the world of human action. These realms cohere diegetically - they belong to, define and co-constitute each other. In action, we grasp the hammer as a tool, we extend our limbs and 'be' our intentional 'being' in the praxis of carpentry, and by extension, the praxis of existence. We act, and as we do, we are attuned to the world of action and meaning we inhabit: we experience the world holistically - we cease to be figures, and recede into the ground of the diegesis. Praxis is the means whereby we live and dwell - believe - in the diegesis.
The hammer when it breaks, shatters the diegesis: we are no longer engaged in praxis, but in the comprehension of material objects divorced from their diegetic meaning: an extreme Brechtian 'Verfremdung', or alienation from the essence of the hammer. A broken hammer is no hammer: it is a residue, a fragment, a memory, a concept, an idea, an object, a construct, a prop, revealed and separated from its function in the diegesis: a corpse in the theatrical sense - a moment in which the illusion is shattered, the figure of artifice processes and emerges from the ground of the theatre, and we are appalled enough by the shattering of the illusion to be compelled to laugh uncontrollably in the face of the futility of pretence. The broken hammer is an object of our reflective thought, which we diagnose in its symptomatic failure; it is seen as though from above, outside, from nowhere, divorced as it is from the field of praxis. Our consciousness of the broken hammer is the kind of consciousness we simply relinquish in the midst of being. It is empty, shell-like, valueless, objective. It is the transcendental knowledge to which the academy, science, Western materialist thought aspires - and as in the perennial cliche, it pins the butterfly to a board in order to comprehend it even as it dies.
Following Harman, I understand the fate of the broken hammer not to be merely an event in the life of a lone doomed tool, but to be caught up in the being of all things that do their 'being' - the 'thinging' of things, people, starfish and coconuts - the dichotomy between Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand) and Zuhandenheit (readiness-to-hand). All things which are capable of submitting to the gaze of other things and being translated into the intentional objects of contemplation are uncovered - as are figures processing and emerging from the ground of their diegetic existence - as lifted out of their being, their dwelling in the multiplicities of the interlacing diegeses to which they belong. The object of my reflection is a shadow of its being - the prehensile presence-at-hand of a thing, behind which all its indestructible being - the inexhaustibly rich readiness-to-hand of a thing - withdraws.
In this way, anything we care to articulate or speak of, any 'thing' to which we care to give edges through the process of signification, and by which we mediate a representation of that 'thing' to another, is reduced to a presence-at-hand - a mere one amongst its infinite resource of arbitrarily graspable facets - a reduction; a theory. Thus all representation, articulation and signification is work in the realm of artifice, mimesis - or presence-at-hand; a reductive distinguishing of a facet of an object from the ground of its diegesis - the world of its Romantic potential, its being, its participation in praxis. The insertion of the stethoscope between the healer and patient is no less than a conversion of the human subject into an object of instrumentation, a reduction of the being to one amongst its many facets: a mediated, rythmic, booming pulse stands in for the beating heart of a living being. The sound is a metonymic reduction of the living being of the beating heart.
A short recap then: praxis is the unification of human action and knowing - holistic. Theoria (and hence conceptual, reflective, objective knowledge) is the distantiation of the world from the experience of that world. This distanced, alienated knowledge, extracted from the diegesis of its being, is a projection, a paper-thin shell, a shadow - a presence-at-hand, available to our consciousness as no more than a facet of the fullness of being. Being itself never emerges from the ground of diegesis - the integral, coherent, self-consistent, co-constitutive storyscape of the world in which we un-self-consciously dwell.
From these thoughts flow other problematisations, to be dealt with another time, of impartial academic enterprises, traditional doctoral theses, and the very nature of the attempt to document the research process.
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So we were talking about how you were in the hotel and the hostess asked what you did for a living...
"I work at the university"
"yes I'm a teacher there"
"what do you teach?
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"What's that?"
"Um, the internet and computers and stuff".
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Weekend Eating Reading briefly discusses at least one good book that's somehow related to 'joyful eating.'
This week I'm delighted to introduce the books of Robert Farrar Capon, the Episcopalian priest, cook, and writer best known for his modern culinary classic, The Supper of the Lamb, published in 1969.
Father Capon's writing is witty, wise, and very funny. He aims to get you cooking well, but also to get you thinking well about cooking, food, and God. He's opinionated and quirky, but few writers can match his theologically deep reflections on food. While many reviewers are quick to extol his famous "encounter with an onion" chapter, my favorite bit from The Supper of the Lamb is the part where Capon writes of calories as "invisible little spooks" and "nothing but idols to be destroyed":
"Every time [a person] diagrams something instead of looking at it, every time he regards not what a thing is but what it can be made to mean to him, reality slips away from him and he is left with nothing but the oldest monstrosity in the world—an idol."
Here Father Capon is making a case for celebrating the creation in all its wonderful particularity–letting the onions be onions, the heavy cream be heavy cream, and so forth. And the foundation for this celebration, for Father Capon, is God's own delight in God's creation–which includes the mysterious and interesting alchemy that happens in the kitchen.
You can read a 2004 interview with Father Capon here (it actually says very little about cooking and food, but is nonetheless interesting).
I'd start with The Supper of the Lamb. It's one of the few books I decided I needed to own (rather than simply borrow from the library, as I usually do) because I return to it again and again. If you enjoy that, you'll enjoy Capon on Cooking and Food for Thought—if you can find them (they're out of print.) Always, always, his passion is to celebrate the grace of God–a wonderful thing, indeed!
I'll leave you with a few of my favorite Capon quotes:
"Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it."
"The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the Lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home."
"Man invented cooking before he thought of nutrition. To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste."
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Voice of Real Australia: It's not just the Rocket Man touching down in regional Oz
Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from Australian Community Media, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or here to forward it to a friend. Today's newsletter is written by Western NSW regional journalist Nadine Morton.
When it comes to big music acts, you don't get much bigger than Sir Elton John.
Overnight the man himself played the biggest concert Bathurst has ever seen - a staggering 20,000 fans packed into the city's rugby league oval to catch the spectacle.
The music legend is known for being on time and he did not disappoint - he walked onto the stage at 7.59pm waved, bowed and then sat down at his Yamaha grand piano to start playing at precisely 8pm.
His first words to the crowd: 'I never thought I'd say this, but good evening Bathurst!'
From there he opened the show with Bennie and the Jets from his 1973 album Yellow Brick Road.
The crowd stood and roared.
The legend was dressed in a white shirt, black suit and tails with the jacket featuring more glistening diamantes than you'd see a school dance recital. See all the photos here.
Fans had come from as far away as the Northern Territory, Sydney and right across the Central West and they ranged in age from grandmothers to kids who finally grew tired during the three-hour show and rested their heads on their parent's shoulder.
Not only does Elton have decades of memorable hits, costumes and crazy glasses - but the 72-year-old still has the power to get thousands of people up dancing and numerous standing ovations.
But Bathurst is by no means the only regional destination attracting some massive names in the music biz.
The Tamworth Country Music Festival is well underway with 700 performers entertaining the crowds at 2800 events held across 10 days.
Among them is Amber Lawrence who recently shared her experiences on dating app Tinder and Lee Kernaghan who spoke of his heartbreak following the recent bushfire crisis.
While the man behind much of INXS' music, Andrew Farriss, kicked off his first solo project in regional Australia as well.
Love good Aussie rock? There's absolutely no need to head to the cities, just take a look at another NSW Central West centre - Orange.
Coming up next week is Cold Chisel's sold out Blood Moon Tour at a Day on the Green at Heifer Station Wines.
The well-known concert series was moved from Mudgee to Orange this year.
Coming full circle back to Bathurst, it's not only Elton John who is keen to entertain, with the annual Inland Sea of Sound music festival coming up at Mount Panorama on February 28 and 29.
The massive festival will be headlined this year by Missy Higgins and will also feature Killing Heidi, Mama Kin Spender, Thando, Timberwolf, Owen Campbell and a host of other acts.
When asked what fans can expect at the show, Killing Heidi's Ella Hooper told the Western Advocate.
"Expect a sh*t hot band providing a show full of fun, energy and familiarity," she said.
Exhausted? Me too. And this is just a glimpse of the amazing music acts in one little corner of regional Australia.
So if you want to know how you can help support drought-affected farmers and communities and bring money into bushfire affected regions - check out regional Australia for some damn good music.
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Chapter 6
While I was baking at Staff of Life, one of my male colleagues would constantly bug me to find him a girlfriend. A few years after I quit Staff, I ran into him downtown. It was almost my birthday and I was having a party. There was a friend of mine who I thought he might like, so without mentioning that, I invited him. As it turned out, they made the connection naturally, without any direct influence on my part. They started dating, fell in love, and got engaged. Since I was the matchmaker, they wanted me to officiate at their ceremony. I had never done anything like that before, nor had I ever had interest in performing weddings, but I was game. I got a Universal Life Church certificate online. The happy couple wrote the entire ceremony, and on a beautiful afternoon in a meadow overlooking the bay from the UC Santa Cruz campus, I performed my first wedding.
Fast forward to 1999. As I mentioned in the last post, I had been practicing acupuncture for a few years, was still teaching Tai Chi at Ocean View Park, was happily married, but had a constant, nagging feeling that something was missing in my life. I was frustrated and moody. I really couldn't figure out why.
Teaching and practicing Tai Chi at Ocean View Park always made me happy. The park is located at the end of Ocean View Ave, a street with beautiful big Victorian houses. There are giant Eucalyptus trees that house families of Great Blue Herons and Monarch butterflies. The park overlooks the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a great train trestle and the Monterey Bay. It's a power spot. I was there teaching a private Tai Chi lesson on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m., when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. A giant wave rolled through the green lawn like an ocean wave. It was ecstatic for me. I had told my students for years, "feel the mass of the planet beneath your feet," and there it was, the mass of the earth pounding my feet from below. I love Ocean View Park!
I had just finished teaching an 8 am class on a Tuesday morning near the end of May, 1999, when I was approached by a woman who lived on Ocean View Avenue at the corner of the park. I had made friends with many of the neighbors over the years. She knew that I had performed a few weddings, and asked me if I would be interested in officiating at her own wedding. She and her boyfriend were getting married, in Italy, in 10 days! They both worked in Silicon Valley during the boom, so money wasn't a problem. She offered to fly Sid and I to Venice, where they would marry. Sid had just arrived at the park for his 9 am class. I told him about the offer, but he felt like couldn't drop everything and leave in 10 days because of work, and our dog Farfel. He encouraged me to go. The bride suggested I bring a girlfriend, so I invited one of my closest friends, Lorna. We drove to San Francisco the next day to get expedited passports and in 10 days we landed in Milan.
Beautiful Venice
We arrived in Milan on a Friday and took a 3 hour train ride to Venice. I had never been to Europe before and was deliriously happy (although exhausted) to sit on the train and watch the beautiful country rush by. We arrived in Venice, found our little "Hotel Iris", and collapsed. I woke up Saturday morning with my eyes swollen from the horsehair pillows! With just a couple of hours until the wedding, Lorna hustled around to find some ice to bring the swelling down. The wedding was smooth and simple. After the luncheon, the bride and groom left for their honeymoon, and Lorna and I had 6 days to explore Italy.
Every morning we woke early, had breakfast and began walking. We walked from morning to night through the six "boroughs" of Venice, visiting churches, galleries, stores, farmers markets and restaurants. The opulence of the churches with amazing architecture, Renaissance artists like Titian and Tintoretto, the incredible tiled floors, marble sculptures and painted ceilings contrasted strongly with our tour of Ghetto, the area in one of the boroughs where the Jews were allowed, but segregated in the 1500's after they left Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition. The synagogue were austere and simple, with little art, yet I was full of emotion as I stood in that historically significant building.
Lorna and I visited the small island of Murano, where Murano Glass is made, and its neighboring island Burano, the island of lace. Every day we were bombarded with art, old art, new art, and it was transforming me.
The epiphany came clear and strong. ART! That was what was missing in my life. Everything else was in place. The frustration and missing element that had been plaguing me was about to disappear! My hands and my heart woke up that week. The moment I got home I started looking for classes to get my juices flowing again. What I was about to discover was was going to be a big surprise . . . especially to me!


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I am such a Bad Blogger lately.
I am so late in showing off this adorable purchase.
Awhile back Sandy of The Olde Country Cupboard was selling some adorable blackened bees wax goodies.
I had to purchase some!
I bought these adorable little boots for me and some corn nibblets for my Mom.
These are even more adorable in person.
Great job Sandy!
Sorry no photo of the nibblets, Mom took them home already. :)
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There really is an art to being poor.
It's funny that for most of my life I had no idea that I was poor or lived in poverty. True, I was raised poor, married poor, had a slew a kids and so stayed poor. I budgeted every nickel. Now here's the thing. My parents came from good families. Working stock. My grandfathers owned their own businesses. All had been through the Depression. Money was tight. Next along came World War II and my uncles and dad went into the military. We had coupons for every shortage–shoes, fabric, sugar, butter, gas. I had my first stick of gum after the War. Juicy Fruit. One pair of buckled sandals got us through summers, otherwise we went barefoot. A six ounce Coca Cola was 6 cents and a treat.Read the rest of this entry »


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Yep, here we go again. Save the date on your calendar, here comes Art Basel Hong Kong right around the corner. Art Basel has a pretty good spread across the globe at this point, of course the annual in Basel Switzerland itself, the somewhat iconic although over rated Art Basel in Miami for all of […]
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It's been such a busy few months, I've only just read through the the 2015 Sensis Social Media Report which was released earlier this year. The report is full of great stats on how Australian people and businesses are using social media, based on interviews with 800 consumers and 1100 businesses.
Although these statistics are from Australia, there are takeaways in terms of trends for comms and social media people all over the world.
There are a lot of gems in the report for public sector communications people, here are 27 stats I've picked out and what they mean:
How often do Australians use the internet and social media?
- 79% of Aussies use the internet every day.
- 49% of Aussies use social media every day.
- Daily social media use rises to 79% for the 18-29 age group.
- 52% of respondents check social media more than 5 times a day.
What does this mean?
These figures underscore how integral social media is in our lives. If your organisation is still not using social, jump up and down and make a big noise, what is holding the decision makers back? Check out my haiku deck Setting up social media: 10 questions for your organisation.
Which social networks are we using?
- Facebook is still tops with 93% of Australians using it.
- LinkedIn was second on 28% followed by Instagram with 26%.
- Surprisingly, Google+ came in fourth on 23%.
- Pinterest and Twitter were only used by 17% of respondents.
- Being whipped by Google+ isn't the only bad news for Twitter: of the 14% of people who reported they had stopped using a social network in the last year, 39% of those named Twitter as they one they'd stopped using.
- Popular with younger demographics, Snapchat came in 6th with 15%.
- Pinterest heads up the leaderboard for the average time spent with 17.9 minutes, followed by Facebook on 16.64 minutes and Twitter on 10.14 minutes.
What does this mean?
These stats make very interesting reading as they are very different to figures listed in the Social Media Statistics Australia reports. Google+ fourth? Who would've thought it.
So what do they mean? Look for other opportunities: Twitter has been in the mix so long in government, but these figures suggest the public prefer LinkedIn and Instagram. If your organisation is using Twitter a lot but with little engagement, why not give LinkedIn or Insta a go? If you have a big youth project, why not try SnapChat? Don't understand it? Me neither as I write this, but here's a fantastic idea on how to force yourself to learn about it.
When and where do people check social media?
- Checking social media is popular first thing in the morning (45%), last thing before bed (41%) and after work / in the evening (40%).
- Somewhat disturbingly, 14% of people use social media on the toilet.
- 72% of respondents socially network in the lounge / living room, followed by the bedroom (43%) and study (35%).
- 32% of people use social media at work.
What does this mean?
Use Facebook Insights to further refine when your audience is online. Post early and post late. Post on weekends. Have strategies in place to deal with any questions or comments.
Think you can ban staff from using social at work? They're already doing it on their smartphones. If employees in your organisation can't access social media at work, put up a business case to roll it out. This will show trust in your employees, will encourage them to become more social savvy and also to look at ways to improve communication and engagement opportunities. Your staff on social media also means you have an army of in-house advocates for your posts. Check out the Barrier vaulting section on Best by WM for arguments to counter lack of social media access.
What devices do people own and use?
- Laptops are the most owned device in Australia (75%) followed by smartphone (70%), iPad / tablet (55%) and desktop (52%).
What does this mean?
Whether it's on your own site or not, make sure anything you link to is responsive, that is, able to be viewed across a range of device sizes.
Why people use social media
- Sharing photographs or videos has slumped from 64% last year to 45% this year.
- 40% get information on news and current events.
- Researching holiday destinations is at 20%.
- Engaging with a government rep or department has fallen from 9% to 8% in the last year, however…
- In the over 65 age group, this figure is 20%.
What does this mean?
We still have great success at Redland City with crowdsourcing photos from Instagram: over 3500 photos have been tagged with #RedlandsAnyDay in less than 18 months. It's a great idea for a segment if you haven't tried it.
Residents value news and current events: make your channels a vital source of information and events for the community.
Do you have your own social channel focused on tourism? There are many fantastic regional Instagram accounts popping up across Australia, many run by councils.
People want to engage with government via social, so allow the public to post on your wall and set up procedures to provide good, timely, helpful customer service.
Advertising on social
- Opinion is split on advertising on social networks with 38% happy to see ads and 39% not happy to see them.
- Similarly, 42% click on ads while 46% don't.
- 55% of people take no notice of ads on social.
- 72% of people ignore sponsored posts from businesses they don't follow.
What does this mean?
As with anything, you need to play and learn with promoted posts on social media. What works? What doesn't? Talk to colleagues from other government agencies, try it out yourself. Look for opportunities to measure what you are doing. Selling tickets for a performance or a workshop? Tell people to ring up and say they saw it on Facebook. Do you really need to promote a post or would handing out flyers in the local park target your audience better?
Have a read of Will's excellent post Why I don't pay for Facebook boosts… yet.
Review sites
- 24% of people provide online ratings on social media networks.
- 55% of Aussies read online reviews and blogs.
What does this mean?
Are your facilities, festivals and tourist destinations on Yelp and Trip Advisor? Are you checking the ratings? Better get in there quick and check!


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St Asaph (/sənt ˈæsəf/;[1] Welsh: Llanelwy [ɬanˈɛlʊɨ̯]) is a city[2] and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 3,355[3] making it the second-smallest city in Britain.
Historically part of Flintshire, the city of St Asaph is surrounded by countryside and views of the Vale of Clwyd. It is situated close to a number of busy coastal towns such as Rhyl, Prestatyn, Abergele, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. The historic castles of Denbigh and Rhuddlan are also nearby.
The earliest inhabitants of the vale of Elwy lived at the nearby Paleolithic site of Pontnewydd (Bontnewydd), which was excavated from 1978 by a team from the University of Wales, led by Dr Stephen Aldhouse Green. Teeth and part of a jawbone excavated in 1981 were dated to 225,000 years ago. This site is the most north-western site in Eurasia for remains of early hominids and is considered of international importance. Based on the morphology and age of the teeth, particularly the evidence of taurodontism, the teeth are believed to belong to a group of Neanderthals who hunted game in the vale of Elwy in an interglacial period.
Later some historians postulate that the Roman fort of Varae sat on the site of the Cathedral. However, the city is believed to have developed around a 6th-century Celtic monastery founded by Saint Kentigern, and is now home to the small 14th century St Asaph Cathedral. This is dedicated to Saint Asaph (also spelt in Welsh as Asaff), its second bishop.
The Cathedral has had a chequered history. In the 13th century, the troops of Edward I of England burnt the cathedral almost to the ground, and in 1402 Owain Glyndŵr's troops went on the rampage, causing severe damage to the furnishings and fittings. Two hundred and fifty years later, during the Commonwealth, the building was used to house farm animals: pigs, cattle and horses.[4]
The Laws in Wales Act 1535 placed St Asaph in Denbighshire. However, in 1542 St Asaph was placed in Flintshire for voting purposes. Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996 it was part of non-metropolitan Clwyd.
As the seat of an ancient cathedral and diocese, St Asaph was historically regarded as a city, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica refers to it as a city on that basis; by the end of the 20th century the relationship between possessing a cathedral and automatic entitlement to city status had been broken, and the town was no longer regarded as a city. The town applied for restoration of city status in competitions held by the British government in 2000 (for the Millennium) and 2002 (Queen's Golden Jubilee) but was unsuccessful. In 2012 it again competed for city status during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It was announced on 14 March 2012 that the application was successful, and city status was to be bestowed upon St Asaph alongside Chelmsford and Perth.[5][6] The status was formally granted by letters patent dated 1 June 2012.[7]
Despite the previous lack of official city status, the community council had referred to itself as the City of St Asaph Town Council. The local community is passionate about St Asaph's historic claim to be known as a city like its Welsh cousin St David's, which has led to a number of local businesses using 'City' as part of their business name. The city is promoted locally as the "City of Music".
The past few decades have seen the local economy in St Asaph thrive, first with the opening of the A55 road in 1970, which took east/west traffic away from the city, and, more recently, with a business park being built, attracting investment from home and overseas.
The crowded roads in St Asaph have been a hot political issue for many years. In recent years, increasing volumes of traffic on the A525, St Asaph High Street, which links A55 with the Clwyd Valley, Denbigh and Ruthin, have led to severe congestion in the city. This congestion is having a detrimental effect on the city, and residents have repeatedly called for a bypass to take this north/south road and its traffic away from the city, but the National Assembly for Wales rejected these calls in 2004, presenting a further setback for residents campaigning on the issue.
St Asaph is now home to Ysgol Glan Clwyd, a Welsh medium secondary school that opened in Rhyl in 1956 and moved to St Asaph in 1969. It was the first Welsh medium secondary school in Wales.
St Asaph is twinned with the town of Bégard in Brittany, France. Both organise annual trips to the other for their residents.
Every year the city hosts the North Wales International Music Festival, which takes place at several venues in the city and attracts musicians and music lovers from all over Wales and beyond. In past years, the main event in September at the cathedral has been covered on television by the BBC.
Other annual events in the city include the increasingly popular Woodfest Wales crafts festival in June, the Beat the Bounds charity walk in July and the Gala Day in August.
In addition to the Cathedral, there are five other churches in St Asaph covering all the major Christian denominations. The Parish Church of St Asaph and St Kentigern (Church in Wales) is placed prominently at the bottom of the High Street, across the river in Lower Denbigh Road is Penniel Chapel (Welsh Methodist) and halfway up the High Street there is Llanelwy Community Church (Baptist). At the top of the city, in Chester Street is St Winifride's (Roman Catholic) and Bethlehem Chapel (Welsh Presbyterian) in Bronwylfa Square.
The City Council comprises two wards that both elect seven councillors.[8] The presiding officer and chairperson of the council is The Rt Wp The Mayor Cllr Colin Hardie.[8]
A number of famous people have strong links to St Asaph, having been born, raised, lived, worked or died in the city. These include: Richard Ian Cox, the Vancouver-based voice actor and online radio host; The Rev. William Morgan (later Lord Bishop of St Asaph), who translated the Bible into Welsh in 1588; The Most Rev. Dr Alfred George Edwards, Lord Bishop of St Asaph, who was elected the first Lord Archbishop of Wales in the Church in Wales; comedian Greg Davies; singer Lisa Scott-Lee; composer William Mathias; former Wales football captain Ian Rush; jockey David Harrison; the famous explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Dic Aberdaron, who taught himself Latin at the age of 11; Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet ("The boy stood on the burning deck"; her son, G. W. Hemans engineered the Vale of Clwyd railway line through St Asaph);[9] and LET golfer Becky Brewerton. Another well-known individual, Geoffrey of Monmouth, served as Lord Bishop of St Asaph from 1152 to 1155. However, due to war and unrest in Wales at the time, he probably never set foot in his see. The current Aston Villa left-back, Wales international and Team GB squad member Neil Taylor was also born in St Asaph.
The hospital in the city (formerly the St Asaph Union Workhouse) was named in honour of Sir Henry Morton Stanley; it closed in 2012. The city's hospice was named after Saint Kentigern. The original Welsh Bible is kept on public display in the city's cathedral.
Memorial to H. M. Stanley
|Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article St Asaph.


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted on Saturday that he would oppose funding for the United Nations until the UN Security Council reversed an anti-Israel resolution that it approved on Friday, with the acquiescence of the Obama administration.
Spoke w/ Israeli PM @netanyahu tonight to wish him Happy Chanukah & assure him of strong support in Congress. No US $ for UN until reversed.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 24, 2016
The resolution not only describes the Israeli presence across the 1949 armistice line as illegal — including in the Old City of Jerusalem — but also encourages countries to target Israeli settlements for boycotts.
The Obama administration had vetoed a similar resolution five years ago, taking the traditional U.S. position that the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians is best resolved between the two parties, and not by the UN. However, President Barack Obama and outgoing UN Ambassador Samantha Power — a genocide expert known for anti-Israel views, and notably silent on Syria for most of the past eight years — could not resist the opportunity to land a parting blow against Israel, and abstained from the resolution rather than vetoing it.
In a statement on Friday, reacting to the UN Security Council vote, Cruz said:
For eight long years, the Obama administration has worked systematically to undermine the nation of Israel. They actively worked to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu, and illegally used U.S. taxpayer funds to do so. Never has there been a more anti-Israel Administration, and today's United Nations vote is the culmination of their systemic agenda to weaken Israel and strengthen its enemies.
I also emphatically second the call of my colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham that the consequences of this disgraceful UN resolution should be severe. I look forward to working with Sen. Graham, and with the incoming Administration of President-elect Trump, to significantly reduce or even eliminate U.S. funding of the United Nations, and also to seriously reconsider financial support for the nations that supported this resolution. For those who have put your name to this despicable attack on Israel, you did so with full knowledge of the consequences of your actions.
And for those who acquiesced or facilitated the UN resolution–especially President Obama, Secretary Kerry, and Ambassador Power–history will record your abiding and shameful legacy undermining our friend and ally Israel. I am hopeful at least some Senate Democrats will choose to repudiate your anti-Israel actions, and I am grateful that the new Administration has committed to once again restoring our strong and unequivocal support for the Nation of Israel.
In a rare moment of agreement with Cruz, the Washington Post criticized Obama's move:
… settlements do not explain the administration's repeated failures to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace. The Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas proved unwilling to negotiate seriously even during the settlement freeze, and it refused to accept a framework for negotiations painstakingly drawn up by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in 2014. … Whatever the motivation, Mr. Obama's gesture is likely to do more harm than good.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the "most influential" people in news media in 2016. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can't Handle, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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Health Indicator Report of Cancer - Prostate Cancer Incidence
Prostate cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer among U.S. men (excluding basal and squamous cell skin cancers). It is estimated that in the United States in 2018, 164,690 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed and 29,430 people will die of the disease. About 1 in 9 men (11%) in the U.S. will develop prostate cancer during their lifetime.^1^ Prostate cancer occurs mostly in older men. About 6 in 10 cases occur in men over 65, and the average age at time of diagnosis is 66. Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die from it. The U.S. relative survival rate for prostate cancer after 5 years is about 99%. After 10 years the rate is about 98%, and after 15 years it is about 96%.^2^ It is not known exactly what causes prostate cancer, but some risk factors include older age, Black race, a family history of prostate cancer, and a diet high in red meats, high-fat dairy products, or calcium.^2^ Incidence rates tell us about the rate at which new cases of a condition occur. As such, the incidence rate of prostate cancer is an important indicator of the burden of this type of cancer in Alaska, allowing us to monitor how this burden changes over time and also to compare this burden among sub-populations.[[br]] [[br]] ---- {{class .SmallerFont 1. [http://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostatecancer/detailedguide/prostate-cancer-key-statistics What are the key statistics about prostate cancer?] [[br]] 2. [http://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostatecancer/detailedguide/prostate-cancer-risk-factors What are the risk factors for prostate cancer?] }}
NotesClick on the icon to the lower right of the graph to display confidence intervals. [[br]] Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. [[br]] Numerator is the number of cases.
Data Sources
- [http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Chronic/Pages/Cancer/registry.aspx Alaska Cancer Registry], Health Analytics and Vital Records Section (HAVRS), Division of Public Health, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
- North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), CiNA analytic public use file, accessed via SEER*Stat software. Includes incidence data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's SEER registries.
Data Interpretation IssuesCancer cases do not include in situ. Mortality rates may vary from source to source. This may be due to using provisional data or using different population databases. The cancer mortality rates provided by the [http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/chronic/pages/cancer/registry.aspx Alaska Cancer Registry] use population estimates provided by the [http://seer.cancer.gov/ Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER)] of the [http://www.cancer.gov/ National Cancer Institute]. In contrast, [http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/VitalStats/Pages/data/default.aspx Alaska Vital Statistics] uses [http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/index.cfm population estimates] provided by the State Demographer in the [http://laborstats.alaska.gov/ Research and Analysis Section] of the [http://labor.alaska.gov/ Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development].
DefinitionRate of newly reported cases of prostate cancer per 100,000 population.
NumeratorNumber of newly reported cases of prostate cancer for a specific time period
DenominatorMid-year resident population for a specific time period
How Are We Doing?Prostate cancer in Alaska is ranked #3 for the number of cancer incident cases over the time period 2011-2015. Rates of prostate cancer have declined over the last decade in both Alaska and the U.S. Around the state for 1996-2015, the incidence of prostate cancer ranged from a high of 155.7 per 100,000 males in Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area to a low of 30.6 per 100,000 males in Bethel Census Area, compared to the statewide rate of 128.5. There were several boroughs for which rates were not calculated because they had less than 6 cases. Prostate cancer incidence is strongly correlated with race. For 1996-2015, Blacks had the highest rate by far than any other race at 216.6 per 100,000 males, compared to 136.6 for Whites, 91.6 for Asian/Pacific Islanders, and Alaska Natives had the lowest rate by far at 68.9.
How Do We Compare With the U.S.?Alaska's prostate cancer rates weren't much different from the U.S. rates until 2005, after which they were consistently lower than the U.S. rates. Both rates are decreasing with time. In 2015, Alaska's prostate cancer rate was 61.0 per 100,000 males compared with the U.S. rate of 95.3 in 2014.
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Homer mentions in the Odyssey that "there are two cities in Syrie" which were "rich in flocks and herds, yielding plenty of wine and wheat". Historians examine whether this description is actually connected to Syros, or refers to another island. Apart from that, linguists of the 19th century provided an etymology of the word Syros from the Phoenician word "sour" or "osoura", which means "rocky". This interpretation is connected with the arrival of Phoenicians settlers in the 8th century BC on the island.
Archaeological findings at Chalandriani and at the well preserved fortified settlement of Kastri indicate that the first settlers came to the island between 2800 and 2200 BC, namely during the Early Cycladic period. According to tradition, the Carians or the Leleges were the first settlers of Syros. Traces of human habitation during that time have been discovered at the areas of Talanta, San Michalis, Azolimnos, Galissas, Mallia and Manna. The Phoenicians seem to have settled on the island, followed by the Minoans and later the Mycenaeans. The Ionians, led by Hippomedon, also settled on Syros. One of the island's kings was called Ctesias and he is mentioned by Homer.


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- Pinnacles Modifies Fire Restrictions - Trails and Road to Bear Gulch Re-open
(posted: Oct 10, 2020)
Most trails and climbing routes in Pinnacles National Park and the Pinnacles Parkway to Bear Gulch will re-open today
Raptor and Closure Updates For February & March
posted: March 23, 2017
Here is an update on raptor activity at the park in February and March as the breeding season develops.
Prairie falcons (PRFA) and peregrine falcons (PEFA) have reoccupied historical breeding areas and are selecting nest sites for laying and incubating eggs. So far, 10 PRFA pairs have been confirmed. Two PEFA pairs are occupying territories at Hawkins Peak and General Balconies. For information on territory locations and rock formations, refer to Brad Young's climber's guide to Pinnacles.
These are listed below:
- Goat Rock / Resurrection Wall: PRFA pair confirmed
- Teapot Dome / Tunnel / Egg: PRFA pair confirmed
- Hawkins Peak: PEFA pair confirmed
- General Balconies / Machete: PEFA pair confirmed
- South Balconies: PRFA pair confirmed
- Crowley Towers / North Balconies: PRFA pair confirmed
- Little Pinnacles / Yaks / Yaks Wall: PRFA pair confirmed
- Gargoyle / Piedras Bonitas Cliffs: PRFA pair confirmed
- Willow Spring Slide: PRFA pair confirmed
- North Chalone Peak: PRFA pair confirmed
- South Chalone Peak: PRFA pair confirmed
- Drywall Slide: PRFA pair confirmed
The following territories are currently unoccupied, with no prairie falcons observed within them:
- Pig Canyon
- Citadel
- Scout Peak
- Western Front
- Discovery Wall
- Frog / Hand
- Pipsqueak Pinnacles
- D. Soto Canyon
- Guard Rock
- Rocks West of Chalone Housing
- NE Section 15
- Marion Canyon / Narrows
- North Wilderness Rock
- South Wilderness Rock
- Mating Rocks / Tugboat
PRFA pair occupancy is looking consistent with the 30-year average of 10 pairs for the park. A PRFA pair at the Gargoyle / Piedras Bonitas area (upstream behind the Reservoir) is particularly interesting, as the area has not been occupied or used for nesting in over ten years.
Please note that climbing and hiking advisories are in effect as of January 17th, 2017. Posters have been placed on the bulletin board fixtures near the Juniper Canyon trailhead and the Moses Spring trailhead, and advisory signs have been placed near relevant climbing / off-trail hiking areas. Advisory handouts should be available in the Visitor Center and Visitor Contact Station, and are also available on the PINN website.
In addition to PRFA and PEFA, other raptor species have also been quite active at the park. Red-shouldered and red-tailed hawks are beginning egg incubation at nest sites, and American kestrels are either choosing cavity sites for nests or already incubating eggs.
So far the 2017 breeding season has been great for our larger owl species, and we have confirmed 3 great horned owl nests, a barn owl nest, and 5 long-eared owl nests at this point. Long-eared owls are of particular interest as a California species of concern. They tend to reuse stick nests built in previous years by Cooper's or sharp-shinned hawks. Long-eared owls can be sensitive to too much disturbance, but staff and others can let me know if they'd like to see an active owl nest and I'd be happy to quietly show folks and talk about the birds at a safe distance from their nest sites. Here is a photo of a long-eared owl adult incubating eggs at one of this year's nests:
Another exciting observation involved a 3rd year bald eagle seen two days ago while I was conducting surveys along the South Wilderness Trail. I was able to get photos of the eagle in flight and it had blue wing tags, with "53" in black numerals on each tag:
I contacted Peter Sharpe with Institute For Wildlife Studies, and he confirmed that this female bald eagle was tagged on Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands on 2015 and had not been seen since then. Pretty cool to see that bird up at our park!
A big thanks to Emma Cox and Megan Gnekow for their ongoing and excellent raptor observations. Emma Cox continues to work with the raptor monitoring team for her second year at Pinnacles and will be actively conducting raptor surveys throughout the park. Megan Gnekow is also continuing her multi-year volunteering efforts to assist with raptor monitoring on weekends. Feel free to let any of us know if you have any questions or observations to report.
Thank you to all the staff who have continued to provide me with raptor observations; every detail on raptor behavior helps to provide a more complete picture of raptor breeding at the park. If anyone on staff wishes to report raptor observations, I would greatly appreciate it if you please fill out a wildlife observation card, and give it to me or deposit it in my box in the RRM Office.
If you have any observations within the park to report, or any raptor-related questions, please contact me through email or extension 276. Thanks!
GAVIN EMMONS * Raptor / Condor Biologist
5000 Highway 146, Paicines, CA 95043 * 831-389-4486 x276
Pinnacles National Park


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1. The Trump administration just announced sweeping changes to airline safety in the US. The changes include enhanced overall passenger screening, heightened screening of personal electronic devices, more thorough screening at checkpoints, along with the increased use of security technology, canines, and preclearance locations.
2. Victims of the global cyberattack have paid $US9,000 so far but can't get their files back. The cyberattack began on Tuesday, hitting the Ukrainian government and banks, then spreading to a Russian oil company, advertising firm WPP, and other companies around the world.
3. The Grenfell Tower death toll won't be known until next year. The death toll has risen to at least 80 people after the latest victim was identified as five-year-old boy Isaac Paulous. Police continue to carry out a painstaking investigation.
4. Former UK PM David Cameron and Prince William are embroiled in football World Cup bidding scandal. A FIFA ethics report, published on Tuesday, examined the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Duke of Edinburgh and Cameron both supported England's bid to host the 2018 tournament.
5. US president Donald Trump will visit Paris on Bastille day. French president Emmanuel Macron invited the US leader to attend the annual ceremonies on July 14. The two men last met in Brussels in May.
6. Canada has hit two critical warning signs for a financial crisis. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is flashing warning indicators for Canada meaning that debt has reached critical levels.
7. The Vatican's no. 3 cleric has been charged with multiple historical sex offences. Australian cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's head of finance, has been summonsed on charges relating to multiple allegations of sex abuse.
8. The Venezuelan government is hunting for rogue policemen who attacked government buildings by helicopter, but critics of president Nicolas Maduro suspected the raid may have been staged to justify repression. Others say it could be a turning point for the country.
9. Uber is under investigation in Australia. The investigation relates to whether the company's conditions for drivers comply with federal regulations.
10. Kim Jong Un has issued an order for the execution of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye. According to the North's state news agency KCNA, the order relates to a "revelation" that Park had planned to assassinate its leader in 2015.
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