Please note: The title of this book has changed to The Memory of After.
Think of this place as a waiting room. Earth, what we call Level One, is about creating and forming memories. And this waiting room, Level Two, is about processing those memories, sifting through them to find the meaning of your time on earth. To come to terms with it so you can move on.
Felicia Ward lived a tormented life on earth. Before she died, she had many shameful secrets she'd rather not relive. So when she ends up in Level Two -- a strange, white place full of hive-like structures that allow its inhabitants to plug in and relive memories of their life back on earth -- Felicia of course, chooses only to relive the happy times. But soon Julian, a boy she knew on earth, with secrets of his own, appears in her chamber, calling for her to join the rebellion against the Morati -- the angels responsible for imprisoning souls in Level Two and preventing them from moving on to the next level.
Remembering how consorting with Julian back on earth led to the disgrace of her family, Felicia doesn't know whether she can trust him here in Level Two. But his promise to reunite her with her earthly boyfriend Neil has left her with no other choice than to join his fight. Told in a present-tense, first-person narrative as well as looking back at her past life through the memories Felicia watches in Level Two, Appelhans creates an engaging and highly original narrative that will leave you wondering: Will Julian and Felicia defeat the Morati? Will he fulfill his promise to Felicia? Or will he find another way to burn her the way he did back on earth?
OK, I'm just going to get this technicality out of the way right now so you can make your own judgement about the reliability of this review: the author is a personal friend of mine. Many of you already know that before Lenore received her book deal through Simon & Schuster that she was a book blogger. I have been following her blog for a few years now and even visited her last summer when I vacationed in Europe (it's a tad bit serendipitous that I'm posting this review today since it was almost this exact time last year that I visited her). Perhaps many of you will feel as if this will cloud my judgement in writing this review since I consider her a friend, and perhaps unconsciously it does. But everything I am writing in this review is my true opinion. There is no sugarcoating here in order to spare the feelings of a friend. Everything I write is how I truly feel.
Having said that, let me just amp this review right up with the superlatives: this is one of the most amazing novels I have ever read! Lenore has not only crafted an incredibly unique story in envisioning this white, Matrix-like place of Level Two, but she has also rooted it in theology and mythology. People have been categorizing this book as a dystopia, but that's a bit of a misnomer since the world Appelhans created isn't really a society in the human sense of the word. There are dystopian elements to it, yes, but I honestly see it more as a fantasy than sci-fi/dystopia. Even Lenore addresses this dystopia issue in a recent blog post.
Lenore did an amazing job creating believable, complex, and interesting relationships among characters. Felicia's encounters with Julian leave you constantly wondering if he's the good guy or bad guy, her relationship with her father is endearing and helps the reader to see a softer side of her so we can get behind her, and her feelings for Neil genuinely evolve over to course of the novel (in her memories) rather than the irritating "insta-love" phenomenon that seems to be running rampant through YA these days.
2. The ending stands on its own yet still leaves room for the next installment.
It is extremely irksome to me that so many YA trilogies are being written now as one continuous story rather than letting each book stand on its own. It's fine to read cliffhangers every once in a while, but to have that be "the thing" that all YA series writers seem to be doing gets tiresome. Level 2 not only stands on its own, but the ending has a perfect cadence. Yes, I want to read Level 3 (like RIGHT NOW!) but I appreciate that Level 2 is a complete story in and of itself, which defies the trends (I'm someone who prefers originality to trendiness if you hadn't noticed).
Julia Child once said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "People who love food are the best kind of people." I agree with said statement since I am a foodie after all, but I could also replace the word "food" for "words." I love people who love words, who relish in finding just the right word to make their sentences sing. People like John Green and Laini Taylor are writers I admire and whom I feel have mastered wordsmithing, who don't dumb down their writing for the sake of their teenage audience. And now I would put Lenore Appelhans into that category as well. Wordsmithing aside, however, the book also appeals to people who love action-packed plots with lots of vivid detail. The entire time I was reading all I kept thinking was what a mind-blowing movie it would make (sort of like the afterlife version of The Matrix).
I've already mentioned this point, but it bears mentioning again. Never in a million years would I have pictured the afterlife to look like Level Two, and I'm sure most people wouldn't either, which is why, despite the initial doubt in believing that Level Two is a place where you could actually end up after you die, Lenore grounds her story in theological and mythological concepts (limbo, purgatory, fallen angels, the five rivers of Hades, etc.) to make it more believable. Quite ingenious.
Since I know Lenore, I feel like this caused me to read with a more critical eye and I was hyper-aware of when things weren't adding up. Which is why I was amazed that every single time I would think to myself, "Well wait, how is that possible?" the question would always be answered later in the novel, sometimes even a few sentences later.
I know this book has been hugely buzzed around the blogosphere because Lenore is a blogger herself, but after reading it and witnessing her brilliant creativity and originality, I can imagine WAY more people than bloggers will know her name come January. I'd be willing to bet on it.
I am SO pumped for this novel! Great post!
Fantastic review for what I'm sure is a wonderful book! I adore Lenore and am so excited to hear that her novel is so good. She deserves the best!


Bravo's interactive Evite for their 2010 Upfront Party. Worked closely with creative team at Bravo to bring their look to life in this interactive Flash piece.
These Evites were successful enough for Bravo to request similar pieces for both 2011 and 2012, until the iOS mobile market drove the production of Flash pieces to a near halt.


These Thanksgiving Stuffing Waffles take everyone's favorite holiday side dish and bring it to a whole new crispy, delicious level—by cooking it in a waffle iron. Perfect for the big holiday, or just for using leftovers!
You know how Facebook has that "On This Day" thing, where your old posts pop up in your notifications? It's fun to see photos of my son through the years, as well as status updates I totally forgot about. Well, apparently, I shared this Serious Eats post about Stuffing Waffles on my timeline over two years ago! Yet somehow, I never made them. Until now.
I made some stuffing waffles for brunch today and served them with fried eggs; it was a wonderful savory meal that would be great way to use leftover stuffing after the holidays!
Of course, you could make a platter of these Stuffing Waffles to serve at Thanksgiving using your favorite recipe; it would be a great way to free up some oven space. Or just make them for a regular ol' weeknight meal using a good boxed stuffing.
These Stuffing Waffles are super easy. Just whip up a batch of your usual stuffing and, instead of cooking it inside the turkey or in a casserole dish, spoon it into your waffle iron. Make sure your stuffing is pretty moist and has some fat in it (like a beaten egg, milk, melted butter, and/or oil) so it cooks well and crisps up nicely. If you're using leftover cooked stuffing, try adding some broth and egg to moisten it a bit before waffling.
Crispy and golden, with yummy bits of herbs. Mmm.
I used my 2-Square Belgian Waffle Maker and set it at medium heat. Once it was preheated per manufacturer's instructions, I scooped in my prepared, uncooked stuffing mixture, filling the waffle cavities. Cook a few minutes longer than you would a regular batter waffle; my stuffing waffles were ready in about 7 minutes. Each waffle iron is different, though, so keep an eye on them till you get the timing right. If you're using leftover stuffing, it will probably cook even more quickly.
A little peek while the waffles cook. This was before they got really golden and crispy!
What's nice is that you can use whatever stuffing works best for you and your family. Vegetarian? Gluten-free? Meat-lovers? Go for it!
Serve these Thanksgiving Stuffing Waffles at your holiday table or on your breakfast table the day after. Or use them to make my Ultimate Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich (check back tomorrow for this insane deliciousness). No matter how you eat them, they are sure to rock your world.
Now for the most important question of the season: do you call it stuffing or dressing?
This post contains affiliate links, so I make a small commission if you purchase through my links—that support helps to keep this blog running.
This looks like a dreamy breakfast for me! I will pin it straight away to keep it for later. I really need to give this recipe a try!
Awesome! Looks fabulous! And thanks for the link love. I seriously need to try this! Yum!
Awesome, let us know if you do!
This looks delicious Justine!! :) Great idea to use up leftover stuffing!
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Keeping the fireside looking a lot more attractive than if she weren't there is dark-eyed JEAN BELVIN.
The usual fireside adornment, apart from the tongs and the toasting fork, is a fat cat or a plump Pekinese. While we're not prepared to make an issue of this with animal-lovers, the preference most people would have would favour Jean, and the cat would have to make do inside the coal-scuttle.
Removal of the plump Pekinese might be a little more difficult. You might even get bitten. But if you want to make room for an adornment as pretty as Jean muzzle the pup before you grab him.
In case you didn't know, Jean is a receptionist who looks extremely chic in frilly black nylon. We know there's no connection, but we just thought we'd mention it. Ambition is to be a model pin-up!
Jean figures that her measurements of 36"-24"-36" keep her looking slick—and they don't give her any worry about what not to eat.


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Steve King on criticism: I reject that ideology
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) issues a statement following accusations of supporting white supremacy.
Posted: Jan 12, 2019 4:53 PM
Updated: Jan 12, 2019 5:03 PM
The Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday condemned Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and called on King's fellow Republicans to remove him from his committee assignments.
"If Republicans really believe these racist statements have no place in our government, then their party must offer more than shallow temporary statements of condemnation," said CBC Chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass, D-California, in a statement. "Instead, they must actually condemn Mr. King by removing him from his committee assignments so that he can no longer affect policies that impact the very people he has made it clear he disdains."
King, who has been frequently criticized for comments he has made regarding race and immigration, was under fire for comments he made that appeared to defend white nationalism.
"White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?" King told The New York Times in a story published Thursday. "Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"
King has not apologized for his remarks though in a floor speech Friday, he rejected the label that he's a white nationalist and said he regretted "the heartburn that has poured forth upon this Congress and this country and especially in my state and in my congressional district."
When asked by reporters following the speech if he was worried about losing committee positions, he appeared to dismiss the idea.
"I've had no discussion about that. I haven't given it any thought," King said. "But the more you guys write about that stuff, then it becomes an issue."
Bass in her statement condemning King said that "Republicans should make clear Mr. King is no longer welcomed in their party or Congress."
"Anything less than these substantive actions is another tacit acceptance of racism from the Republican Party," her statement continued.
And the Congressional Black Caucus was not the only entity to come out against King on Saturday.
Fellow Iowa Republican and Sen. Joni Ernst tweeted a statement condemning King.
"I condemn Rep. Steve King's comments on white supremacy; they are offensive and racist - and not representative of our state of Iowa. We are a great nation and this divisiveness is hurting everyone. We cannot continue down this path if we want to continue to be a great nation," she wrote Saturday morning.
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Foster may drop back to a part-time role after the Bills reached agreements to sign fellow wide receivers John Brown and Cole Beasley, Joe Buscaglia of WKBW reports.
Foster was one of the league's more impactful undrafted rookies in 2018, catching 27 of 44 targets for 541 yards and three touchdowns, with nearly all his production occurring in November and December. The decision to sign another deep threat (Brown) suggests the Bills aren't entirely sold on their unexpected gem, perhaps viewing Foster as a one-dimensional player. It's also possible the team believes there's a cap on his development, as he'll celebrate his 25th birthday before the start of his second pro season. Of course, it could also be argued that Beasley and Brown will ultimately threaten Zay Jones more so than Foster, considering Jones was far less efficient with his targets in 2019. The division of playing time will be something to watch during training camp and the preseason.
Foster finished his rookie season with 27 catches (44 targets) for 541 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games.
That's quite a feat considering Foster was undrafted and even got cut by the team in October, then had to bide his time on the practice squad for three weeks. He returned with something to prove, and quickly became the team's best deep threat and a good match for strong-armed quarterback Josh Allen. Kelvin Benjamin and Andre Holmes have been given the heave-ho by the Bills, so Foster will have a a fair chance to carry his success into next season. While he's a starter on paper now, the Bills have an insane amount of cap room and the job won't simply be handed to him. That said, he's got the speed to make game-breaking plays and proved it on a few occasions this season, finishing with an eye-popping 20.0 yards per reception.
Foster caught four of seven targets for 52 yards in Sunday's 24-12 loss to New England.
Foster fell well short of the 94 yards he'd reached in four of the previous five games, but things certainly could have gone worse for owners desperate enough to look his way. The undrafted Alabama product will finish out his rookie campaign against the Dolphins in Week 17.
Foster caught four of five targets for 108 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 14-13 win over the Lions.
Foster's 42-yard touchdown with 10:26 left in the fourth quarter gave his team a 14-13 lead and ended up standing as the game-winning play. The rookie out of Alabama has consistently flashed a nice rapport on deep balls with strong-armed quarterback Josh Allen, racking up 94 yards or more in four of the past five games. Foster will have some upside against the Patriots in Week 16.
Foster caught seven of eight targets for 104 yards in Sunday's 27-23 loss to the Jets.
Foster accounted for more than half of quarterback Josh Allen's 206 passing yards. Something about facing this opponent brings out the best in the rookie, as he's topped 100 yards in both meetings with the Jets while totaling 151 yards against all other competition. While Foster's probably the most fantasy relevant receiver on the Bills, Allen's struggles under center will make it tough to trust any member of Buffalo's offense against the Lions in Week 15.


One of the most important dates in the entire EU referendum campaign will be the 7th June: the deadline for registering to vote. The introduction of Individual Voter Registration in the last parliament means that every eligible adult must register to vote individually, and can no longer be registered by university halls or the head of the household. The Electoral Reform Society points out that while this is a welcome change for minimising electoral fraud, a serious downside is that many people who have the right to vote have failed to register under the new system. Some estimates suggest that as many as one million eligible voters dropped off the register prior to the 2015 general election, and more could follow. An even greater concern is highlighted by the Electoral Commission, which has shown that those at particularly high risk of not being on the electoral register are young people (especially students) living in rented accommodation. The 2015 British Election Study, for example, shows that 87% of 18-24 year olds were registered to vote before the last election, compared with 98% of the over-25s.
The implications of unequal voter registration for the EU referendum are, on one level, obvious. As this research has repeatedly demonstrated, the under-25s are by far the most pro-EU group and consequently far more likely to vote to stay in the EU on 23rd June. The Remain campaign is heavily dependent upon the votes of the under-25s to offset the advantage enjoyed by the Leave campaign among older voters (especially those over 65), meaning that Remain will have to devote considerable resources to not only making sure the (relative to their elders) vote-shy young people actually vote in the referendum, but to making sure that they are registered to vote in the first place.
There is, however, an often overlooked additional consequence to being registered to vote which is also extremely important when considering how the turnout of young people in the referendum (or any election) can be increased: the fact that people who are not registered to vote are far less likely to be contacted and mobilised by political parties and campaigners. This matters because the local campaigning efforts of political campaigners, whether in the form of leaflets, mail-drops, telephone calls or door-knocking (though the latter is by far the most influential) are important sources of information about the election and issues at hand and of the stimuli to actually engage with the contest in the first place. One of the most important drivers of turnout in elections is actually being asked by somebody to vote: the more people campaigners speak to in their constituency the higher the turnout will be. The more young people the Remain and Leave campaigns speak to and contact ahead of the referendum, therefore, the more young people will actually turn up and vote on 23rd June.
Being registered to vote is important for receiving information and encouragement to participate from campaigners because of the strategies political parties employ during election (and referenda) campaigns. They in essence employ a two stage process to their local campaigning ahead of a poll. In the year or so before, they focus on 'blanket' canvassing – delivering leaflets and letters and speaking to as many people in an area as possible to identify potential supporters. As polling day approaches, they switch to a more targeted approach, focussing their efforts on likely potential supporters i.e., those who are likely to support them in the election, and importantly, those who are likely to actually vote, of which being registered is clearly an important prerequisite. People who meet these criteria find themselves the recipients of targeted mail-shots, telephone calls and doorstep canvassing from campaigners and candidates, with all of the information and encouragement that entails. Those who are registered to vote in the EU referendum by 7th June deadline, therefore, are the most likely to receive campaigning material, phone calls and visits ahead of polling day, and so will have access to more information and support in actually casting a ballot. For young people, whom research has shown are less likely to vote than their elders because of their limited interest in and (to a lesser extent) knowledge of the issues at stake, these campaigning stimuli to participate will be extremely important.
This point can be illustrated using British Election Study data. In the 2015 general election, those who were registered to vote had a 79% chance of receiving contact of some sort from a political party; those who were not registered had only a 58% chance. The effect for 18-24 year olds was even more substantial: under-25 year olds registered to vote had a 75% likelihood of being contacted by a party, compared with just 34% for those not registered. Subsequently, people who were contacted in some way had an 82% chance of voting in the election, compared with a 76% chance for those who were not contacted. In other words, being on the electoral register provided a 21% boost to the chances of a potential voter being contacted and mobilised by a political party – and a huge 41% boost for the under-25s – and being contacted in turn provided a 6% boost to the chance of them actually voting because of the information and encouragement that contact provided.
The importance of getting young people registered to vote by 7th of June is, therefore, more important than is often suggested. It is not just the capacity of young people to actually have their say in the referendum that is at stake, but the likelihood of them having the motivation to do so and the information so that they feel they can cast an informed vote as well. In light of the limited success both the Remain and Leave campaigns are having in persuading voters to support their positions in the referendum, getting (especially young) people registered to vote could be the most important priority for both camps of the entire referendum campaign.
 These probabilities were calculated using logit regression analysis on the likelihood of being contacted while controlling for being registered to vote, as well as important demographic traits including tenure, age, gender, ethnicity, education and household income.


Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems.
Autores Jacobsen D., Milner A., Brown L., Dangles O.
Freshwater biodiversity is under threat across the globe1, with climate change being a significant contributor2,3. One impact of climate change is the rapid shrinking of glaciers4 , resulting in a reduction in glacial meltwater contribution to river flow in many glacierized catchments5,6. These changes potentially affect the biodiversity of specialized glacier-fed river communities7. Perhaps surprisingly then, although freshwater biodiversity is a major conservation priority3 , the effects of shrinkage and disappearance of glaciers on river biodiversity have hitherto been poorly quantified. Here we focus on macroinvertebrates (mainly insect larvae) and demonstrate that local (α) and regional (γ) diversity, as well as turnover among reaches (β-diversity), will be consistently reduced by the shrinkage of glaciers. We show that 11–38% of the regional species pools, including endemics, can be expected to be lost following complete disappearance of glaciers in a catchment, and steady shrinkage is likely to reduce taxon turnover in proglacial river systems and local richness at downstream reaches where glacial cover in the catchment is less than 5–30%. Our analysis demonstrates not only the vulnerability of local biodiversity hotspots but also that extinction will probably greatly exceed the few known endemic species in glacier-fed rivers.


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the spin zone
Fox News' Chris Wallace Calls B.S. On Trump Claim Of Terrorists Coming Across The Border
Terrorists are coming across the border! We've caught 4,000 of them! Al Qaeda is infiltrating through Mexico so we absolutely need this wall. 9/11! National security issue!
If any of these tropes sound familiar, you've probably heard something like it from President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Department of Homeland Security, of name-your-talking-head on AM radio.
But a segment on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace really drove home that this talking point is total bullshit, while showing White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders twisting herself into pretzels trying to make the statistics fit the administration's dubious narrative.
After bringing up that the president has talked about terrorists coming across the border amid his push for a wall — the main sticking point keeping the government shut down — Wallace told Sanders, "The State Department says there is, quote — their words — 'no credible evidence' of any terrorist coming across the border from Mexico."
In response, Sanders said, "We know roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally. And we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border."
Wallace wasn't having any of this.
"Wait wait wait, I know the statistic," he said. "I didn't know if you were going to use it, but I studied up on this. You know where those 4,000 people, where they're captured? Airports. Airports. The State Department says there hasn't been any terrorists that they've found coming across."
Just for the full context, here's what the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism said in 2017: "At year's end there was no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups have established bases in Mexico, worked with Mexican drug cartels, or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States. The U.S. southern border remains vulnerable to potential terrorist transit, although terrorist groups likely seek other means of trying to enter the United States."
Those likely other means are airports, as Wallace pointed out. It's not sending operatives into Mexico before having them walk thousands of miles through the desert.
Watch the full exchange below:
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Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher dodged the most serious charges the Navy threw at him during his court martial, but his final sentence could be far worse than what the jury originally handed down.
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The Finance team is a trusted business partner to all teams at THE ICONIC, they support the business in managing financial performance, formulating business strategy and executing growth and cost saving initiatives.
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You back yourself and have the confidence to lead any situation. You are not afraid to challenge the status-quo.
You can handle doing 10 jobs at once.
In another life you would make a perfect goalkeeper. Your attention to detail is so strong nothing gets past you. You would then retire and live the life of a detective, your need to investigate everything!
You are curious; you love learning and discovering for the sake of it.
You appreciate excellence; skilled performance in various domains of life excite and motivate you, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.
You are highly socially intelligent; you are self-aware and conscious of the motives/feelings of others; you know how to fit into different social situations; you know what makes other people tick.
Part or fully qualified (CA/CPA preferred).
Cash rules everything around me... You optimise working capital through your thorough understanding of the business as represented on our balance sheet. You are working with the components of the supply chain to ensure purchase to pay is aligned with our cash needs you don't rest until you are happy with all elements of the process.
Accounting like you were born to! Including creditors, revenue streams and other general ledger accounts.
You develop, document and implement standard operating procedures that reflect best practice. This in turn leads to alignment with accounting policies and an enhanced internal control framework. See a cute furry puppy roaming around the office. Play with it whilst chatting to its owner and learning about their department.
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End the day debriefing with the Financial Reporting Manager and Financial Controller over a game of table tennis, PS4, or simply sitting on one of the couches enjoying the stunning water views of Sydney Harbour.


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Muhammad Ali: A journey out of extremism.
Iconic boxer Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74 after more than three decades of living with Parkinsons disease. His death has sent shock-waves throughout the world, and people are mourning not just the loss of one of the greatest boxers in the sport, but that of a revolutionary human being and a rare role model for young Muslims around the world.
Though the man is gone, his legacy remains, and in it there are many lessons to be learnt from his prolific life both inside and outside of the ring. Notorious for his brutish taunts and staggering confidence, Ali was never one to conform with the crowd. His spirituality was no different.
Ali caused a stir in 1964 when he announced his alignment with the Nation of Islam, an African-American black nationalist sect, described by critics as black supremacist and anti-Semitic.
As the news broke out this morning on social media, many jumped onto the scene to sharing old videos of Ali, some of which displayed his exclusivist and hostile attitude. In a subtle way served as a form of vindication for anti British views of those sharing.
During Ali's time with the Nation of Islam, his controversial speeches consisted of disturbing anti-White rhetoric. In one of his press conferences, Ali is seen discussing his refusal to be drafted in the Vietnam War, saying,You [are] my enemy, White people, not Vietcong, Chinese, or Japanese. You [are] my opposer when I want freedom. You [are] my opposer when I want justice. Putting aside the discussion of whether Ali was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, what was clearly troubling was the polarization of his speech, such polarisation is a characteristic of an extremist mindset. Let us remember that White people in their thousands also demonstrated against the Vietnam war.
No doubt such divisive talk was the product of Nation of Islam's fanatical teachings on racial separation, which diverge from the doctrine of orthodox Islam. Yet Ali's polarizing rhetoric back then echoes to this day in the type of language we hear from prevalent voices within Muslim communities. Even today, it is not uncommon to hear speeches that divide and pit Muslims against wider British society in an attempt to defend the Islamic faith.
One such dissenting Muslim voice tweeted: All set for the mainstream to hijack Muhammad Ali's legacy. He would've been labelled an extremist by the same people and institutions in 2016.
The ignorance and unawareness of such a comment completely overlooks the fact that Ali's spirituality was never stagnant, it grew and changed as he went through a significant inner transformation and journey, later giving up his former extremist views and coming to very different conclusions.
Ali's journey and his evolving relationship with Islam cannot be fully comprehended without an understanding of his profound relationship with iconic social activist Malcolm X. In the recent book Blood Brothers, historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith discuss how it was Malcolm X who initially enticed Ali to join the Nation of Islam. But when Malcolm X broke away from the organisation, Ali remained, causing an irreconcilable rift in their friendship.
Deeply affected by Malcolm Xs assassination in 1965, Ali eventually left the Nation of Islam and became a Sunni Muslim, following in the footsteps of his late friend. He later embraced the spiritual teachings of Sufism in 2005 under the influence of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and rejected hard line puritan Salafi interpretations of Islam, as well as violent extremism.
Ali became undoubtedly a robust voice against extremism, right until the very end of his life. As recently as December 2015, amidst the Paris terror attacks and Donald Trumps call to ban Muslims from the US, Ali maintained his role as an advocate for Islam when he said:
"I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.
Yet Ali was not nave to the fact that the spread of extremism partly stemmed from within the Muslim community itself, recognising that, "We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. On extremists, he said, They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.
It is therefore clear to see that it would be grossly inaccurate to claim that Ali may have been seen as an extremist today. It is beyond my understanding why some within the Muslim community today wish to focus instead on Alis extremism past, rather than his journey towards wanting to unite all humankind through faith and love.
Ultimately, what is more important than nit-picking Alis past is to remember his achievements as an iconic athlete, his momentous journey from extremist to humanitarian. His religious journey is one of departing from a call of division and hostility to inclusion and compassion. A journey of self exploitation and reflection is one of the many inspiring things we can learn from Ali's life, key in transforming minds. This is nicely illustrated by one of his quotes, when he said "The Man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life". This profoundly resonates with me as former extremist as the older I got, life taught me invaluable lessons to rethink and reflect upon my views. With concerns over the growing appeal of Islamic extremism, Ali's story remains relevant to our times more than ever before.
Author Adam DeenPosted on June 4, 2016 November 25, 2016 Categories Articles
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A brilliant article. Thank you very much Adam Deen.
Muhammad Ali was a role model for many humans, as was Malcolm X – standing up for justice and harmony for all
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Can you really charge your new iPhone 6 with a microwave oven? Do oblivious texters deserve their own lanes on the sidewalk? And why are hackers downloading video games to your wireless printer? Get answers to these burning questions, and the scoop on the latest tech news, in this edition of the Geekly Update. It's guaranteed to make you 146% smarter. Read, think and comment!
Last year, the evil jokers on 4Chan tried to convince everyone that the new iOS 7 made their iPhones waterproof; a few people actually took the challenge and drowned their pricey toys. Now the 4Chan gang wishes to inform you that iOS 8 supports recharging of iPhones by zapping them in a microwave oven. Please, do not do this (unless you can send me pics).
The locations of future crime waves can be predicted with up to 68% accuracy using cell phone carriers' records of customers' demographics and movements, according to UK researchers. This is good for planning police patrols. The scary part is how easily and inexpensively the researchers were able to obtain phone owners' ages, genders, and locations.
Data encryption will be enabled by default in the next generation of Android, due in October. Android has included encryption for three years, but now users won't have to remember to turn it on. Unfortunately, your cellular carrier is probably years behind in updating Android on your phone.
"A History of Misses For RadioShack" is an interesting reprise of the iconic brand that totally missed not only the high-tech industry's boat but its entire navy. Apparently, RadioShack once owned things called Energy Express, Famous Brand Electronics, McDuff, Video Concepts and the Incredible Universe. Who knew?
"I am tired of seeing real criminals with lots of victims being ignored, while traditional law enforcement is busy going after perpetrators of victimless crimes such as those involved in the Silk Road Marketplace," says Roger Ver, co-creator of Bitcoin. The man known as "Bitcoin Jesus" has launched the site Bitcoin Bounty Hunter which pays for information that leads to the convictions of hackers and identity thieves. If you don't mind being paid in Bitcoins.
"A slam dunk?" Canon Pixma wireless printers have virtually no protection against WiFi-armed hackers, according to Michael Jordon of the UK IT services firm, Context. He was able to make a Pixma printer download and install on itself a "firmware upgrade" that was really a copy of the "Doom" video game.
Larry Ellison, the colorful cofounder of database giant Oracle Corp., has relinquished the company's CEO seat. There will now be two co-CEOs who are named – wait for it – Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. I wonder when the "herdin' cats" jokes will die down. Ellison will remain executive chairman of the board.
Patent trolls are trembling fearfully in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's August 26 ruling in Alice v. CLS Bank. The Court effectively ruled that taking routine human activities – such as holding money in escrow until a transaction is complete – and doing them in software does not create a patentable new invention. So far, at least 11 dubious patents – including one on the game, "Bingo" – have been challenged by defendants citing the Alice ruling; in every case, the patent was invalidated.
Artist Adam Ben-Dror created a mobile fish tank that is controlled and steered by the movements of his pet Siamese fighting fish, Jose'. A camera records Jose's swimming movements and software translates them into instructions for the "Abovemarine" car's four omni-directional, electrically-driven wheels. Brakes are applied when Jose' swims backwards. Now that's patent-worthy!
Leave a pithy comment below, or I'll decrypt your smartphone with invisible laser beams.
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You need to get help with that lisp.
No pithy comment.....BUT....have you seen this one, Bob?
The Radio Shack History article missed a few items.
During the 70's, Radio Shack's parent company Tandy Corporation bought Color Tile in order to have access to cheap flooring for all of the Radio Shack stores that were being built. They had Computer City stores that were sold to CompUSA in the early 90's and I know that they owned O'Sullivan Industries for about 10 years.
Regarding Radio Shack, I had 2 Radio Shack computers with TRSDOS operating systems. The first was the Model 111 with 48 k of RAM and the second was the Model IV with a screaming 64 k of RAM! I thought Radio Shack computers would be a continuing force, but today, most people have not even heard of them.
Great info gotta love 4chan.
Just tried dictation.io. Interesting, but no match for Dragon Systems with an external mic.
Oh, how I wish, I could say that, 4Chan realizes the "intelligence" of iPhone users everywhere ... But, that would be a bold-face lie. The reality is ... This is the "intelligence" of way too many Smartphone users, be they Android or iPhone users!!!
I had friends, who bought and used Tandy Computers, way back when. This was during the time, that many companies were trying to get on the "bandwagon" of personal computers. So many tried and so many lost!!! I also, remember when CompUSA was a retail store, where you could almost guarantee that, you would find what you needed, for your computer, be it parts or software.
Now, CompUSA is part of Tiger Direct and mainly, an online store, for computers, electronics and the like. They may have gone the way, that Newegg has ... Trying, to sell all goods, to beat Amazon.
Better still, let's have electronic fields that use up their minutes whenever they are "sensed" to be walking and texting outside of assigned locations.
Maybe,10x the actual usage. (This might also work for the unlimited data owners because their providers are sure to find a way to up the plan(s) cost.


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Azerbaijani Culture
One of the world's most ancient nations – the nation of Azerbaijan – has the right to feel proud for its history, material and cultural monuments, literature, arts, and music heritage.
The wonderful nature, climate, natural resources of the country produced a significant impact on the artistic thinking and creation skills of the Azerbaijani people as well. Despite the long and difficult way undergone by different types of arts in Azerbaijan, they still represent unity and provide outstanding opportunities for the creation of a full idea of the fine arts of Azerbaijan. The folk arts of Azerbaijan are multi-colored, complete, and rich, as its natural resources. Folk art is connected with the daily life of people and daily life occupies a very special life in the fine arts as well. Folk arks cover a long period from ancient times to nowadays and including a variety of products from garments to housing goods and decoration.
Quite obviously, the style of life, aesthetic tastes, the national image, and qualities, are strongly reflected in folk arts. One can easily come across numerous wonderful models of Azerbaijani folk arts in the world's largest museums. The pieces of arts created by the skillful hands of Nagorno-Karabakh, Tabriz, Ganja, Gazakh, Guba, Maku, Shaki, Shamakhi, and Nakhchivan can be found in large museum collections of Victoria and Albert of London, Louvers of Paris, Metropolitan of Washington, and Vienna, Rome, Berlin, Istanbul, Tehran, Cairo museums.
The history of folk arts in Azerbaijan has a long and interesting history. Works of art made from metal extracted from Nakhchivan, Mingachevir, Ganja, and other places are approximately 5000 years old. Crockery, weapons, and adornments found here are not historical facts alone, but valuable sources, which testify the skills of the master. Material and cultural models, found during archeological excavations in the territory of Azerbaijan, testify that our ancestors made crockery, daggers, axes, belts, and adornments of bronze and used them in daily life. This proves the ancient age of such types of activity as a copper-smithy and gold smithy.
There are those with portrayals, showing traditions, religious ideas, and even garments of people of that epoch among art patterns made from metal. History, of ethnographical and artistic features of folk art, is reflected on the garments. These features are reflected both on garments of a certain form and their adornments and fine needle-work, knitting.
Bronze needles and awls from the beginning of the bronze epoch (III millennium B.C) were found during archeological excavations in Azerbaijan as well. These findings prove that the ancient population of Azerbaijan could sew clothes for themselves. Little clay statues founded from Kultapa and Mingachevir (III millennium B.C) and seals of the V century B.C found in Mingachevir provided opportunities to have a certain idea of garments of that time. Clothing remnants made from different silk materials are found in Mingachevir catacombs of V-VI centuries B.C. The number of adornments (III-IV century B.C), made of gold, and clay crock of foot-gear form are well-grounded shreds of evidence, proving the old high material culture of Azerbaijanis.
Different pictures scraped on housing implements made from copper, bronze, gold, and adornments, prove the existence of fine art in Azerbaijan since ancient times. Horse-cloth with flowers on clay figure of a horse (II millennium B.C.), found in Maku in South Azerbaijan, golden basin with a picture of the line (I millennium B.C), found in Hasanli hill near the Urmiya lake, and other findings show the ancient history of carpet-making, one of the branches of folk art in Azerbaijan. Remains of palaz (a kind of carpet without pile) and the carpet of I and III centuries discovered during an archeological dig in Mingachevir.
According to archeological dig and written sources Azerbaijan people have been occupying with carpet-making since the bronze epoch (late II millennium – early I millennium). Herodotus, Klavdi Elian, Ksenofont, and other world historians wrote about carpet-making development in Azerbaijan. Carpets, weaved by separate carpet-making schools of Azerbaijan (Guba, Baku, Shirvan, Ganja, Gazakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tabriz) in different periods, amaze people till nowadays. Most of them kept in well-known museums of the world. Gobustan rock pictures, pictures, belonged to the early bronze epoch (III millennium B.C) in Aychingilli and Parichingil mountains near the Zalkha lake in Kalbajar region, rock pictures in the Gamigaya Mountains in the north of Ordubad town have exception importance among the eldest patterns of fine art. Pictures about ancient people's mode of life, welfare, labor, carved in the Gobustan rockeries, represent special interest. Different subjects, scenes on hunting, cattle breeding, planting, and other branches of household, human and animal pictures were carved dynamically. The Gobustan rock pictures – pictograms cover multi-centuries old history from primitive communal order to feudalism. Azerbaijan was rich in architectural pieces one of the branches of folk art along with works of fine art since ancient times. Maiden Tower and Shirvanshahs palace in Baku, Momina Khatun and Yusif ibn Kuseyr mausoleums, created by architect Acami in Nakhchivan, Natavan's home, pictures on walls of Shaki khan palace and other patterns are rare pearls of architecture.
The motherland of Azerbaijan people possessed rich musical and cultural heritage is famous as Land of flames. Azerbaijan music, enriching world musical culture with its rare pearls, has multi-centuries old traditions. Creators of folk music, handed over these traditions to generations, have a great role in the development of Azerbaijan music. Folk songs, dances, ashig creation (folk poet and singer) have a specific place in Azerbaijan national music. Mugams are the foundation of Azerbaijan national music. It is not accidental that UNESCO, a specialized organization of UN, entered Azerbaijan mugam into the list of world cultural heritage. Our national music has been developing along with literature since ancient times. For instance, mugam developed along with Eastern poesy. Thus, singers, performed mugam, recited gazals (a kind of poem) by Azerbaijan well-known poets as Nizami, Khagani, Fuzuli, Nasimi. Poetic forms of national poesy like Garayli, divani, tajnis along with goshma, mukhammas, ustadnama, gafilband are ashigs' favor forms. Works of art, created by classics and contemporaries, take honorable place in world cultural treasure. Works by M.F.Akhundov, N.Vazirov, M.S.Ordubadi, G.Zakir, M.A.Sabir, J.Mammadguluzade, M.P.Vagif, M.V.Vidadi and other poets and writers hasn't lost their aesthetic importance.
One of the art kinds, related to Azerbaijan literature, is theatre. The roots of Azerbaijan theatre art related to people's activity, mode of life, solemn and wedding traditions, range of vision. Elements of spectacle in rites, ceremonies, and games took an important role in popular theatre. It was realistic and related to working categories. The repertoire of popular theatre consisted of short spectacles of ethical content. Popular theatre played an important part in the establishment of Azerbaijan professional theatre. Roots of theatre art, dated to old times, started with spectacles "Vizier of Lankaran khanate" and "Haji Gara" by M.F.Akhundov, staged in Baku in March and April 1973. The repertoire of Azerbaijan theatre passed a difficult way of development, has been enriched now. Different spectacles, amazing spectators, are staged in Academic National Dramatic Theatre, Municipal Theatre, Pantomime Theatre, Theatre of Young Spectators, etc.
The history of Azerbaijani cinema is part of the history of Azerbaijani culture. National cinematography opens the bottoms of the human heart and new live horizons. It gained great experience year-by-year and created several different works, reflecting our people's lives and problems. These films were kept for future generations and became people's spiritual knowledge. Azerbaijan fine art is as old and rich as the history of our people. Research of theatre, cinema, music, and folk art, passed a long and difficult way of development, proves high cultural heritage of Azerbaijan people. Culture and fine art workers of Azerbaijan always make efforts to spread our culture to the world and has achieved it partly. Entering of Azerbaijan mugam into world cultural heritage by UNESCO, rewarding of well-known film master R.Ibrahimbayov, screenwriter and producer by "Oscar" and keeping of manual works and carpets, made by popular masters in famous museums of the world are obvious proves.
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Sexual Intelligence
An Electronic Newsletter
Written and published by Marty Klein, Ph.D.
Issue #29 -- July 2002
1. Gay Pride Goes Corporate
2. "Male Sexuality" Author Dies
3. Sterilization Successful Years Later
4. Oprah Still Promoting Sexual Anxiety
5. Jim Morrison Still Dead
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This year's Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco drew almost one million people. Many familiar names were there as sponsors, including Starbucks, Budweiser, United, Ramada, Borders, and Coca Cola. While some people see this as cynical exploitation of a high-income consumer market, others see it as validation that the gay civil rights movement has become a mainstream phenomenon.
Presumably, it's some of both. Be that as it may, corporate support for gay rights today is like a clandestine love affair: passionate words of commitment while embracing, but frosty distance in public. It's time for these supportive corporations to come out of the closet.
Companies, of course, had to provide compensation to be listed as sponsors. Next year, would-be sponsors should have to provide one other thing: banners posted in all their places of business announcing that they're a "proud sponsor of Gay Pride." Given a choice between renouncing homophobia or doing without decaf lattes and Bud Lights, the average American will embrace gay rights in a second.
Psychologist and author Dr. Bernie Zilbergeld died on June 12 from complications of diabetes. He was 62.
Bernie was best known as the author of "Male Sexuality" (1978), updated as "The New Male Sexuality" in 1992. The two books sold over a million copies, and are still recommended by therapists and physicians across the country.
Bernie was the first popular psychologist to write that a major cause of men's sexual difficulties is their struggle with male sex roles and sexual expectations. Twenty-five years later, American men (and their partners) still suffer from these same gender expectations.
Bernie trained thousands of psychologists and sex therapists practicing today. Although he wasn't always easy to get along with, Bernie was willing to criticize popular ideas and institutions when other professionals hesitated to take similar risks. His criticism of Masters & Johnson's methodology in the late '80s, for example, was more direct than some colleagues could handle, and yet it was an important development in the field.
Along with his friend Dr. Lonnie Barbach, Bernie set the standard for straightforward, down-to-earth conceptualizing and counseling of sexual problems for decades starting in the mid '70s. We can honor Bernie by noting what American men still struggle with regarding their sexuality:
Men are still generally expected to be the ones to initiate sex, especially in the early stages of relationships.
Both men and women are taught that "real men" always want sex; to protect their reputation or prevent a partner from feeling rejected, most men report having (and even initiating) sex when they don�t want it.
Men are expected to decode female ambivalence about sex, particularly in early adulthood. Although all commentators say "no always means no," various studies (by researchers such as Muehlenhard, Shotland, Byers, and Hannon) indicate that many young women often say no when they ultimately expect to say yes. Female socialization, of course, is also part of the problem.
With the advent of Viagra, the pharmaceutical industry is popularizing the idea that "occasional erectile dysfunction" is a problem to be fixed, rather than a reasonable part of adult life. As a result, millions of healthy men pathologize themselves.
The idea that men in couples shouldn't masturbate is still very popular among various religions and media pundits. Most men masturbate--many daily--and they have to hide this fact from their mates.
Is it harder to be a man than a woman? Of course not--it�s just different. As singer Patti Smith says, it�s a drag to be ANY gender. In an era when everyone was learning about the difficulties of being a modern woman, Bernie Zilbergeld taught us about the difficulties of being a modern man.
There's good news for people considering sterilization: almost no one regrets getting it done, even long-term.
A recently-published study of over 4,000 women by the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention found that 94% feel no regret five years after getting their tubes tied or their husbands having vasectomies. This figure is far lower, of course, than the number of people who regret having unplanned pregnancies or births. The researchers also noted that some 2% wanted their procedures reversed, an astoundingly low figure for a life-changing decision.
Coincidentally, the June 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that vasectomy does NOT increase the likelihood of developing prostate cancer. A New Zealand study compared 923 men with prostate cancer and 1,224 cancer-free men. New Zealand has both the world's highest rate of vasectomy and a comprehensive cancer registry, making it the ideal place for such a study.
Americans tend to be squeamish about tubal ligation and vasectomy, often queasy about the very word "sterilization." Many men and women who have firmly decided they want no additional children (or none at all) refuse to even consider this permanent, safe, and hassle-free alternative. One response I hear regularly is, "What if my children die and I want new ones? What if my spouse dies and I want to remarry a person who wants to start another family?" When I question people who say this, what emerges is almost always quite different, however. Most really WOULDN'T have additional children.
Rather, sterilization involves an acceptance of the future, a formal recognition that one era of life has ended and another begun. THIS is what people resist. It's why garages are filled with 10-year-old tennis rackets and closets are filled with 10-year-old miniskirts. We just don't want to admit that life has gone on without our consent.
Interestingly, most psychotherapists hesitate to discuss sterilization with their patients. It's almost as if it's impolite or too personal to ask patients to face the fundamental existential dilemma. Yes, sterilization is permanent-- that's the point. So is the aging process, the inexorable changes in our families, and the losses that accompany both. Human beings are amazing: they would rather face the hassle of condoms, the side effects of oral contraceptives, and the Russian roulette of the rhythm "method" to maintain the illusion that the future has unlimited possibilities, rather than enjoy the sexual and health advantages of sterilization--and simply accept that the future has arrived.
For almost twenty years, Oprah Winfrey has been promoting sexual anxiety, showcasing victimhood, exploitation, and a dark vision of sexual relationships. Sometimes she does it herself, and sometimes she hires others to do it.
Oprah's latest surrogate is "Dr. Phil" McGraw, a forensic psychologist who helped her out when she was sued by Texas beef growers three years ago for criticizing beef on the air. McGraw's now on the show every Tuesday, and has a column in her monthly magazine. His latest pronouncement is that men who look at internet porn are "addicts" who are "cheating on their partners." ALL men, regardless of circumstance? Absolutely: "This behavior is not OK, it's not even almost OK," he says. "This habit is a perverse and ridiculous intrusion into your relationship." But don't 20 million Americans look at internet porn each month? Surely they can't all be perverts. "Addicts give lame justifications for their behavior like 'It's harmless', or 'Everybody's doing it'," says McGraw. And in a final swipe at the humanity of men, he says, "Guys just don't understand the pain, hurt and devastation they can cause with their unfaithfulness."
So Dr. Phil, with Oprah's blessing, pathologizes millions of men for looking at porn. And supports millions of women in attacking, rather than understanding, their mates.
I suppose we should expect this from the doc selected as Oprah's top guru. He perfectly reflects the messages on which Oprah has built an empire: male sexuality is a problem; female sensitivity leaves women vulnerable to male manipulation. Oprah's the one, after all, who said on a show a few years ago, "We all know that, sooner or later, all men cheat if they have the chance." Hmm, does Oprah have issues with men or sexuality?
Her recent interview with Dr. Hilda Hutcherson, author of "What your mother never told you about sex," offers more clues. On an episode broadcast last week, the middle-aged African-American psychologist was straightforward about female sexuality: use a vibrator. Love your clitoris. Talk to your mate about what you want. And to counteract media pressures about youth and beauty, walk around the house naked when alone. Yup, let those breasts breathe free, and get some air between those legs. Hardly radical stuff, and yet La Winfrey could hardly bear it: "Walk around naked? not me!" she said, obviously embarrassed about her body. And using a sex toy or a vaginal muscle exerciser was clearly out: "Hell, I ain't puttin' that thing inside me," she said, wide-eyed. Perhaps most revealing, Oprah had terrible trouble saying the words "vagina" and "clitoris." The problem wasn't network censors, who didn't try to silence Hutcherson.
Oprah is America's most influential sex educator. With her sexual conservatism hiding as embarrassment, and her victimology disguised as compassion, Oprah is betraying the eroticism of the women she claims to empower. Too bad she's leaving part of each woman behind. And too bad so many women don't seem to notice.
If you've ever had sex listening to a Doors album, take a minute on July 3 and think about Jim Morrison, who died on that day in 1971 when he was 27.
Morrison was a poet who fronted a high-powered, rapturous rock band. If you didn't come of age in the late sixties, it would be hard to appreciate the exhilarating, revolutionary way he sang about sexuality: He was a "back door man," "strange days had found us," and he demanded, baby, that you "light my fire." And if the sex got completely out of control, well, "our love'll become a funeral pyre." Unlike today's media-driven musical "acts," this guy was totally genuine--his eroticism came from deep within the intersection of spirituality, narcissism, drugs, insecurity, and a mystic vision that was both androgynous and earthily gendered.
As Morrison's public performances became increasingly raunchy, local governments became interested. When he pulled off his pants or pretended to blow another band member onstage, opportunistic cops would swoop in and arrest the dangerous degenerate. Finally, a bust in Miami for public drunkenness, lewdness, and profanity (arrested for saying "fuck" in public!) led to a 1970 trial, conviction, and jail sentence. Morrison never served it, but the band's bookings fell off permanently. Within a year, Morrison had joined Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix in the Holy Trinity of dead rock stars.
Cause of death? The same thing that killed Lenny Bruce and Oscar Wilde.
All three were persecuted for expressing their erotic imagination. To visionaries, this expression is life itself; and so once torn from their public stage, Morrison and the others could no longer breathe. All three understood that sexuality is energy in its most political form--IF it can be harnessed. Why do civilized people still tolerate the idea that government has the right to limit eroticism in popular entertainment? As long as average Americans deny that they watch porn, and insist that their vibrators are just for massage, the government will continue using force to keep eroticism BELOW the threshold of political power.
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Q: Pgfplots Tick Position Similar to this question, I want to hide some ticks in a pgfplots axis. However, I'm trying to manipulate a 3D plot. I used the proposed answer and reread the documentation at:
"4.15.2  Tick Alignment: Positions and Shifts"
but didnt get the desired (expected result). Ideally I want ticks and labels in the front (x), left (z) and right (y) and no Ticks and no labels on all other box-lines.
This is what I get:

however, what I'd expect is, that ytick pos = left hides the (picture side) left ticks and ztick pos = left hides the bottom back side and top left side ticks.
A minimal working example is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{axis}[%
      width=5cm,
      height=5cm,
      scale only axis,
      plot box ratio=3 2 1,
      xmin=-1.5,
      xmax=1.5,
      ymin=-1,
      ymax=1,
      zmin=-0.5,
      zmax=0.5,
      xtick pos = left,
      ytick pos = left,
      ztick pos = left,
      %tick pos = left,
      view={40}{20},
    ]
    \addplot3[domain=0:2*pi,samples=50,samples y=0]
      ({sin(deg(x))},
      {cos(deg(x))},
      {x/(2.5*pi)-0.5});
  \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}

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package vtk.repository.resourcetype.property;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanInitializationException;
import vtk.repository.Property;
import vtk.repository.PropertyEvaluationContext;
import vtk.repository.resourcetype.PropertyEvaluator;
import vtk.repository.resourcetype.PropertyType;
import vtk.repository.resourcetype.Value;

/**
 * Evaluator that performs a regular expression match on the resource
 * content, evaluating a boolean property to "true" if the expression
 * matches.
 *
 *
Configurable JavaBean properties:
 *

 *
characterEncoding - the character encoding used
 *   to build a string representation of the byte stream of the
 *   resource (default is ascii)
 *
pattern - the regular expression to match
 *
regexpFlags - flags to apply when compiling the
 *   regular expression (default is Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE |
 *   Pattern.DOTALL) (see {@link Pattern}
 *

 *
 */
public class ContentRegexpEvaluator implements PropertyEvaluator {

    private String characterEncoding = "ascii";
    private String pattern;
    private Pattern compiledPattern;
    private long maxLength = -1;
    private String evaluation = null;

    private int flags = Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.DOTALL;

    public void setPattern(String value) throws Exception {
        this.pattern = value;
        this.compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(this.pattern, this.flags);
    }

    public void setRegexpFlags(int flags) {
        this.flags = flags;
    }

    public void setMaxLength(long maxLength) {
        this.maxLength = maxLength;
    }

    public void setEvaluation(String evaluation) {
        this.evaluation = evaluation;
    }

    public void afterPropertiesSet() {
        if (this.pattern == null) {
            throw new BeanInitializationException(
                "JavaBean property 'pattern' not specified");
        }
        this.compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(this.pattern, this.flags);
        Charset.forName(this.characterEncoding);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean evaluate(Property property, PropertyEvaluationContext ctx) throws PropertyEvaluationException {
        if (this.maxLength > 0 && ctx.getNewResource().getContentLength() > this.maxLength) {
            return false;
        }

        if (property.getDefinition().getType() == PropertyType.Type.BOOLEAN) {
            if (ctx.getContent() == null) {
                return false;
            }
            try {
                byte[] buffer = ctx.getContent().getContentRepresentation(byte[].class);
                String contentString = new String(buffer, this.characterEncoding);
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One of the great unsung members of the Square Peg Alliance is Jeremy Casella. Our song of the day today is one of my favorites off of his album RCVRY. The title of the song is "Hypocrisy #785" (I've heard rumors that songs about Hypocrisies #1-784 are secreted away in a SPA vault deep under the Siberian tundra.)
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@curtmcley March 16, 2010 at 4:46 am
How many copies of this project did Jeremy sell? Whatever the number, it's not enough. This record deserves to be heard. If I were to make a list of the ten records I've played the most in the last few years, this one would be on that list (mainstream or otherwise). It blows my mind how a man can produce a work that is so out-of-the-box creative, and yet so mind blowingly beautiful.
One might think that an effort which is so eclectic and diverse would produce a hodgepodge, mishmash that would just stall out. To the contrary, it's one of the most rockingly majestic efforts I've ever heard. And somehow, it comes together in a perfect storm of creativity. Honestly, I was so captivated by the music, it took me weeks before I even started listening to the thought-provoking lyrics. Seriously, this record should have won a Grammy. If you don't have it, please don't hesitate. You will probably thank me later.
Recovery is one of my absolute favorite ablums of all time. Seriously. I've listened to it hundreds of times, and yet the lyrics never grow old, the music never seems dry. It always sounds fresh and absolutely gorgeous.
I will never forget the first time I listened to it. It was a perfect late summer day in early September here in VA, and I got on the Blue Ridge Parkway, put in Recovery, and let the beauty of the music and the beauty of creation just take me away. It was marvelous.
All this to say, get this album. Get it for your friends, and tell them to get it for their friends.
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Love this album! Any idea when he'll be coming out with another?
Recovery really is one of the best records I've ever heard. From the "folk orchestration" to the amazing lyrics, this record literally blows away everyone who has heard it. I've yet to hear or read someone who had anything negative to say about this album. The above 2 comments are right on target! Buy it!
Aaron Roughton
That's the most strongly worded "recommendation" I've ever seen from Curt, and I sort of feel like it's an offer I can't refuse. If I don't buy the album the lopped off headstock from an acoustic guitar might end up in my bed. I've only heard two songs from this album including this one, but they're both fantastic. Combine that with Curt's high marks and the other comments and this is an obvious decision. Thanks for posting, and thanks for the reviews.
@andrew March 16, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I conCurt. Jeremy raised the bar for all of us with this album, and however many he sold, it isn't nearly enough. I hope you guys'll head to the RR store and support him and his family.
We regularly sing Jeremy's version of "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" in church, and his haunting melody with that majestic lyric always moves me. May Jeremy keep making great music.
As for any word on a new project, that's a great question.
Jeremy?
Well thanks to the six impressions it takes to buy something, I just discovered (thanks to a Rabbit Roomer!) this album last month and I completely agree. So much love. I can't really write anything to convince anyone they need to have a listen more than what Curt wrote, just thought I'd add my voice to the chorus. 🙂
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@stephen-lamb March 16, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Agreed with everything said here so far. I love this record, musically, lyrically, and production-wise. And like Curt, it is one of the most-played records in my collection. I can't recommend it enough.
On his twitter account (http://twitter.com/jeremycasella), Jeremy has mentioned that he is working on a new acoustic hymns record, but I don't know when it will be out.
I like how he was described as unsung. He's an unsung singer!
Thanks for posting Hypocrisy #785! RCVRY is my First Love! After every Darkest Night, when Daylight comes, I am Born Again from the practice-death of sleep (The Space Between Living and Dying, you might say) when Casella's album blares like a Distress Signal from my computer's alarm clock playlist.
…I wanted to go all the way with that, but I'm out of steam. Someone bring it home for me.
Casella's version of Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah is indeed a fantastic arrangement! Anyone out there who hasn't experienced the awesomeness needs to check it out from Indelible Grace's 4th album Beams of Heaven at igracemusic.com
Jeremy Casella
thank you so much for the kind words. Especially you Andrew. I read that last night and was so humbled.
I've been working on a lot of music since I released RCVRY. Writing mostly and then re-writing. I've also been touring a lot more than ever since last August– did 35 shows last Fall and will be doing at least as many this Feb-May. I've posted all the dates on my tour page (http://www.jeremycasella.com). The shows are solo acoustic with me on guitar and piano. Songs & stories aiming at Truth & Beauty.
I'm out there singin' and working hard but my thing has always been somewhat quiet and below the radar so sometimes people think I am unsung.
This late summer I am working to release a new collection of songs. Most likely an EP which I will tour really hard this Fall. I'm thrilled with how the songs are coming together and can't wait to get it out there.
I've been delayed in releasing new material mainly due to huge life changes for me and my family– my wife and I have had two kids and we bought a 110 year old house that has used up alot of our resources so rather than go into debt we've been chipping away with repairs and renovation. It was a smart move for our family in the long run though– and we're almost finished. Other delays are involved with the fact that I book myself and run this little shootin' match from my home office– as time has gone on, it has become more and more difficult to give proper time and attention to each and every detail. Somehow though, the Lord has really blessed me and my family with a great deal of work (shows, etc) and we are thankful. Being an indie artist is the strangest most wonderful way to make a living in this world. It's all I've ever known and yet I still weigh it all out every day it seems.
But I've still got work to do and after a certain point, it's just really about being obedient for me. I have no idea how long I'll do this– this is my tenth year. But I'm grateful to God for healing me and changing me. Growing me up and widening me out to make me more useful to other people. RCVRY is the sound of a bitter and angry young man getting healed by the Truth & Beauty of the Gospel. Something I'll never get over– and don't want to!
Probably way too much information! Just wanted to say thank you.
Curt nailed it with his comment. This CD is so amazing. I can't say it enough. Lyrically and musically, it's just beautiful. And every time I listen, I swear I hear something new. Very few albums I've heard are like that for me.
To anybody who might be reading this who hasn't heard the album yet: do yourself a favor and go buy it now. It'll be the best thing you do all month.
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if only im the P.D of the station im in, Casella and the rest of the Pegs will be so popular in Cebu City with a celebrity like status just like what happend to an Oklahoma indie band Stephen Speaks back in the early 2k
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« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 21:03 GMT (UK) »
One of my brick walls!
This is not really a look up, more a discussion to see if I've missed anything and if there are any other avenues that I might explore. I've tried to give a brief summary of the info but it is rather long and hope that you'll read it with patience.
Various cousins have been researching this line from the 1950s and possibly before. We have used
all the sources that we can find including lettters, wills, family bibles, kirk sessions minutes,
newspapers, prison/legal docs. and the usual OPRs, MIs, BMDs, censuses, etc.
John Burgess m Jean Spalding - I have a theory that this was a second marriage. The first might
have been to an Agnes Watret in Holywood, DFS.
Known Children ~
Mary - b.c. 1775 -1849 (from 1841 census and death cert/gravestone) Died Wales, aged 75
Thomas - b.c.1777 - 1813 (from gravestone. Army record (NA) suggests b. Kirkmahoe, DFS but
nothing found) Died Kells, aged 35
*James b.c. 1779 - 1856 (from censuses, death cert and gravestone) Died Wales, aged 77
Samuel Spalding - not sure about this one- see below!
John - b.c. 1884 - before 1876 (info from Canadian descendants) Died Canada
William b. 1789 - 1823 (info from baptism record, probate/etc., newspapers, letters and bible) Died
Jean b. 1792 -1844 (inf from baptism record and bible) Died Canada
*(re James (my line) - I have found a possible baptism for James in Holywood, February 1779.
parents - John Burgess and Agnes Watret. Investigations so far cannot locate this James other
than the one above. Holywood is adjacent to Kirkmahoe (see Thomas). I have pencilled/italicised in
this record into my tree. His children were: Jean, Margaret, Mary,William, Menie, John, Ann P
Smith, Helen, Johan, James, Agnes (wife's parents William and Margaret Wife's name - Jean))
The first recorded info is from the baptism of William. At that time they were living at Nether
Gairloch, a farm in the SW of the parish of Kells. At some stage after the baptism of Jean in 1792 they
seem to have moved to Longcroft, close to Kells old parish kirk - marriages of children and
baptisms of grandchildren recorded there. Also, this location is mentioned in the Kells KSMs.
Longcroft is on one of the 18th century maps but not on any modern ones. Between 1813 and 1815
at least some of the family moved to Nether Dullarg, a large hill farm/ferm toun in the parish of
Parton. John died there in 1815 and it appears that son James took over the lease. Jean Spalding
died at Midlaggan (not far away from Nether Dullarg) in 1819. I surmise that this was where
daughter Mary and her husband George Carson were living at that time. Info on John and Jean's
deaths is from the MI in Kells. I think that this was erected by Mary after the death of her husband
in 1833. The inscription reads:
To the memory of
John Burgess who died at Dullarg parish of Parton 11 July 1815 aged 78 years
Jean Spalding his spouse who died Midlaggan parish of Parton 4 November 1819 aged 86 years
Thomas Burgess their son who died at Longcroft 19 March 1813 aged 35 years
Angnes Dunchee his spouse who died 14 February 1813 aged 25 years
George Carson Sergt Royal Artillery and son in law to john Burgess who died Castle Douglas 7
May 1834 aged 61 year.
I think that the age given for Jean is wrong - she would have been 56 & 59 when William and Jean
were born.It is more likely that the stonemason made a carving error and Jean was either 66 or 68
when she died, suggesting a birthdate of between 1751 and 1753. Alternatively, Mary may have
given the age that she would have been when the stone was erected (1834), which would give abirth
date of circa 1748. It is possible that Jean and William could have been children of one of the
others but no evidence of this. From Mary's will, it would appear that she was unable to have
children and 'adopted' Thomas's son when Thomas and Nancy died.
Dullarg was owned in the late 17th century-18th century by the Spalding family (a Samuel Spalding
was minister of Parton 1692-1712. The Fasti has him b. in Ireland of Scottish stock. Educated
Edinburgh and m. Elisabeth Broun, the heiress of Shirmers - including Dullarg) . In 1756, there is a will for a Margaret
Spalding of Nether Dullarg (m WilliamWaterson). Her brother, Samuel contested it. His brother was
Alexander Spalding who m. Jean Gordon of Holme, Balmaclellan. Ref in Dumfries KSM of 1774 to
Alexander asking for permission to be buried in the plot of his recently deceased brother, Samuel. Added - from the SP burial records, Samuel was buried in Dumfries 11th Feb 1774
So far, I've not found the grave.Samuel, Alexander, and by inference, Margaret, were children of
Samuel Spalding and Elisabeth Broun (Fasti) . None of Alexander and Jean Gordon's children fit my
Jean Spalding, which leaves the possibility of Margaret or Samuel but no documentary evidence.
Alternatively, she might not have a connection with the family. The current Kirk Sessions clerk for
Parton believes that there must have been a link though.
contd/..........................
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Re: Burgess-Spalding - a puzzle/condundrum
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 17 February 09 21:04 GMT (UK) »
contd...............
Having exhausted lines of enquiry on all of the other children, I've turned my attention to Samuel to
see if there are any clues there.
Samuel Spalding Burgess and Euphemia Coltart m before 1808
Known Children ~ (Kells or Balmaclellan)
1808 Jane
1810 William
1812 Agnes McMichael
Sept 1823 Thomas (from Canadian censuses and death cert - also a bpt in Kells in Oct 1823 but
assigned to Samuel's brother John)
Euphemia living in Pluckmain,Kells, aged 45-49
A possible for Samuel in Blackridge, Balmaclellan as Samuel Spalding, 45-49, MS b. County
I have a copy of a letter written from his brother John in Canada to his brother James in Wales in
1841 suggesting that Samuel had had some kind of problem but that they had no sympathy and
referred to his son William as going off to US and leaving the family - the behaviour that you would
expect from a son of Samuel.
Canadian cousins thought that Samuel died but no proof.
Euphemia and the rest of the family went to Canada in late 1840s/1850 - before the 1851 census.
I have found a death cert for a Samuel Spalding Burgess, June 1858, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire:
Described as a stay maker, aged 80, Parents -----------Burgess, farmer (deceased) and
----------------m.s. Spalding (deceased). The informant was Grace Burgess, widow.
On the 1851, I've found a likely pair in High Street, Sanquhar, although the age is way out but fits with the 1841.
Samuel Spalding, 58, stay maker, b. NK, Ireland
Grace Spalding, wife, 40, staymaker, b.Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire
So, is this Samuel the son of John Burgess and Jean Spalding or not? If it is, it suggests that he
might have been b. Ireland. Alternatively, was he the son of just Jean Spalding. None of the other
children gave Ireland as a birthplace on any of the censuses.
Are James and his sibs all descended from the same family? I seem to be stuck at John Burgess and Jean Spalding just like all the other descendants!
Grateful for any ideas, comments, etc.
Thanks for reading all this
Scatza
Alabama Azalea
Gadget, how can I resist adding my tuppence worth? We have discussed the possibity of a link between my James Burgess family and yours before, and were not able to make a connection. However, I am still convinced that there is one, although it may be further back than the more easily accessible records suggest. Now you have thrown a Coltart into the mix, and that has got me going again Coltarts are in my direct line, although back in the mid 1700's to 1800's is where I stopped looking.
A recap, because it was some time ago, and I have since added my James' likely parents. Unfortunately I have not been able to find more about them - yet - but I was wondering if you have come across a Francis in your research and process of elimination?
Francis Burgess b. abt 1754 and Jannet Stott b. abt 1780 (he is at Muiryard, Borgue, 1841 census - place of birth not helpful, just says 'Kirkcudbrightshire', and the he died a pauper so unlikely to have a will!)
Mary b. abt 1801
James b. 9 Oct 1803 Kelton
Ann b. abt 1816
James married Helen Shaw and was a Blacksmith in Rhonehouse. He died in Kelton 8/12/1866. I won't include the rest because I don't think they will provide any clues.
I will take a closer look at all the information you have provided, and see if any new avenues open up .....previously I didn't have all that. Sorry I have no great insights to offer now, but after all that work you deserve an acknowledgement and I am interested in seeing what other responses your post gets!
McMurrie/McMurray, McFegan, McClune, Coltart, Shaw, McLean - Kirkcudbright; McMurray, Simpson, Adams, Mussett South Africa
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 18 February 09 00:02 GMT (UK) »
I'm still not convincesd, Scatza, although I'm keeping my options open
I do recall looking at a Francis at one stage but decided that he wasn't one of my Burgesses.
Re my puzzle - a PS really - I have searched for Spalding variations - Spadie, Pauling, etc. There is a family in Wiltshire who eventually inherited Holm from Alexander Spalding. Alexander's daughter Jean (b.c. 1750) married a James(?) Fraser in Edinburgh.
O.K., but I'm not conceeding - yet! Is it just serendipidy that James Burgess and Jane Corson in Parton had daughters named Ann Smith Burgess b. 6 Oct 1822, and Helen Burgess b. 20 June 1825? They are the next generation to my Helen Shaw Burgess and Ann Burgess, who was my James' sister. I have no other Ann in my tree, only in my Burgess line. Maybe my James' father, Francis, was a bother of your James' father? Do you remember why you excluded that possibility?
I checked out Euphemia Coltart, and was more surprized by this - none of the Euphemia's on LDS seem like a remote possibility in my Coltart line
I'm probably distracting you from your original reason for posting this thread, but hey, at least I'm interested!
Hi Scatza
I am really trying to find information on John Burges(s) b.c. 1737 and his wife Jean Spalding b. <I know not when> So far, many of my relatives and I have tried to find them by searching numerous records (including Kirk Sessions Minutes in Edinburgh), newspapers and personal documents.
If you think that there is a connection between your Francis and this family, it might help if you could establish his parentage.
Burgess is not all that uncommon a name in Kirkcudbrightshire and Dumfriesshire. I have got the MIs for all the parishes in KKD and, although there are numerous inscriptions, only one is definitely one of my ancestors'.
In the 1841 census, there are 49 Burgess and 6 Burges in KKD. Of these less than 10 are definitely my relatives. By 1851, there are 44 and 10 resp. and even fewer are definitely related to me. By 1861, they have all gone - to Wales, Canada, USA and Liverpool.
I would be interested in any leads that help me get more information on John Burgess and Jean Spalding.
PS Her name was Jean/Jane Carson - Corson was one of those many clerical and/or transcription errors that one finds in the OPRs
Well, you seem to have covered all possible sources that might reveal more about your Jean Spalding, and I can't think of a single other one that might help I have not been able to find anything more on Francis Burgess, other than what is in the OPR's. Oh, and two more children that I found while looking at your data and generally searching around - Grizel 1799 Crossmichael and Isabella 1805 Parton. I don't think there is even an MI for him. However, his wife Jean/Jane Stott's family appear to have been in Holywood in 1795 when they married (Robert Stott and Ann Aitkin (son)). Possible matches to my lot keep cropping up on Ancestry.com in Canada (as you know two of my McMurrays went there in mid 1800's), but nothing definitive. After my James and Helen Shaw died, not of that line of Burgess' are in Scotland either. I guess there are just some things that we will never know!
As far as I can remember there were two Burgess families in Holywood having children around 1730s- 1750s a John and a Robert. I think there was an early Grizzel b. to a John Burgess there. It might be worth following them up.
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 19 February 09 17:52 GMT (UK) »
Gadget, I do have an idea If Samuel Spalding Burgess' 'behaviour' was somewhat in question, have you looked him up in jail/prison? It's intriguing that Euphemia makes no bones about being Mrs. Samuel Burgess once she arrives in Canada, so the other possibility is that Samuel just died? There are not many Canadian census entries that stress the Mrs. bit, give the husband's name rather the woman's own name, which to me suggests she might have been a widow. But you have probably checked that out already. I am more interested in the Coltart connection now than spending any more time on 'my' Burgess family per se ...... it's been years and nothing "ah ha!" has revealed itself.