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My Top Ten Books I've Read this Year
Posted on August 4, 2015 August 5, 2015 by Lisa Orchard
Hello everyone! I hope all is well with you. I'm back today and I'm talking about one of my favorite subjects. Books! While I was recovering from chemo, I rediscovered my love of reading. I had been working so hard on the "Starlight Chronicles" (Check out the first book here http://www.lisaorchard.com/gideon-lee.html ) before I was diagnosed that I hadn't done much reading.
Reading took my mind off my illness and it eased my anxiety. So, I wanted to share with you the top ten books that I read over the last few months. This is in no particular order by the way. 🙂
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue—in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party.
When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest of the family—Hannah—who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened.
A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
The Husband's Secret
My darling Cecilia, if you're reading this, then I've died. . .
Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .
Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she's an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband's secret.
Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.
Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . .
A murder… . . . a tragic accident… . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What's indisputable is that someone is dead.
But who did what?
Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline's youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline's teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline's ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).
Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn't be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.
Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).
What Alice Forgot
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.
So imagine Alice's surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she's getting divorced, she has three kids, and she's actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it's possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she's become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it's possible to start over…
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.
Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.
Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?
Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she's become famous for, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.
I would recommend any of these books if you're looking for a story to get lost in. All of them were wonderful!
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my list. If you have a favorite book you've read, leave the title in a comment. I'm always looking for a good book to read!
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Grand Haven boys volleyball program sweeps inaugural competition
Tribune Staff • Apr 20, 2018 at 12:49 AM
The Grand Haven boys volleyball program opened its history book in grand style Thursday at Grand Rapids Christian High School with a 3-0 performance in the four-team, round-robin event.
The Buccaneers defeated Allendale (25-12, 25-14), Kalamazoo Christian (23-25, 25-15, 22-20) and host Grand Rapids Christian (25-18, 25-19).
Gavin Jonker led the Bucs with 19 kills, while Logan Naperala added nine kills, four aces and two blocks, and Tucker Beland added 24 assists and five aces.
Also adding key contributions were: Jake Thayer (nine kills, four aces), Mason Fritz (six kills), Scott Matthews (26 assists), Trent Perkins (19 service points) and Grant Ruster (two blocks).
"It went really well," said Grand Haven head coach Jim Vantol. "It was a high-energy event with a lot of Grand Haven fans in attendance. It was a historic event and you could feel like it was a very special thing to be a part of.
"It was boys varsity volleyball on a big stage in West Michigan. We had a lot of the players from the girls' team there keeping stats and cheering on the guys and the Grand Haven community would be proud of how they played."
A highlight for the Bucs came in the second match of the day against Kalamazoo Christian, in which Grand Haven fought off six match-point situations to keep the contest alive and ultimately, come away with the come-from-behind victory.
"That was huge," added Vantol. "The guys never lost their composure during that stretch and really made a lot of big plays to dig that one out. I think everyone played above where I thought they'd be considering we've only had four practices as a team so far and this is all happening very quickly.
"These kids are smart, and we keep adding things every practice. We want to add things to the offense and defense as we go without burying them in new material to take in. We still need to work on serve-receive a little bit, and we want to incorporate things into the offensive sets, but we are thrilled with where we are at right now."
The Bucs finished with 50 kills on 50 assists as a team and will look to continue that consistency Tuesday with a round-robin tournament at Davenport University at 5:30 p.m. After that, Grand Haven will return to Grand Rapids Christian on Thursday night at 5:30 p.m.

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Nasty Michigan Attorney General Nessel Trashes Trump and His Supporters in Tweet About Michigan Restaurant Owner's Arrest
Posted By Liberty Paige On March 24, 2021 @ 12:00 am In Politics | No Comments
Michigan Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel is a real prize. She likes to go after "targets" that get press for not adhering to the tyrannical pandemic edicts of Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The Governor's emergency orders were found to be unconstitutional in a 6-1 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court because she didn't get any of her rules approved by the legislature as the law states.
So she immediately did an end run around the law she was supposed to adhere to and got the Michigan Health Department to rule over the residents of Michigan under state health statutes.
Because God forbid she works with the Republican-led Congress on anything.
These orders have always included the closings and restrictions of Michigan restaurants even though the state has no evidence that the spread of COVID-19 comes from restaurants.
Meanwhile, zillions of people are allowed to walk around Menards and Walmart.
Marlena Pavlos-Hackney is one of the Michigan restaurants that Whitmer is trying to bankrupt with her insane rules that have gone on almost a year now.
Pavlos-Hackney, who fled communist Poland, came to America in 1983 and opened the restaurant "Marlena's Bistro & Pizzeria" in 2000. She was arrested on March 19th for keeping her restaurant open while ignoring the local health department and state emergency COVID-19 decrees.
Pavlos-Hackney did not require masks or social distancing in her restaurant and that ticked off the two Michigan women who are in control of us.
The restaurant was declared an "imminent threat to public health" even though Marlena's customers come in voluntarily and can social distance on their own and wear masks if they choose to.
Pavlos-Hackney is now in jail. She's in jail for breaking what looks to be a health department rule, not a law. She's in jail for serving food in her restaurant. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists roam free.
As a woman, I can make this assessment of Attorney General Dana Nessel. She has proven herself to be a vindictive woman who is more concerned about targeting her political enemies than being concerned with law and order.
Is she investigating Whitmer for killing the elderly with her nursing home policies? Of course not.
But she goes after people like Karl Manke and Pavlos-Hackney just for spite.
She's gotta make sure to throw restaurant owners in jail because they are the REAL criminals.
She has to make an example of them so that everyone else will bow down to the will of Whitmer.
And in order to push back against the push back that she's getting for having Pavlos-Hackney arrested, she tweeted out yesterday a list of orders the state and local health department gave to Pavlos-Hackney and also included a snotty statement about Trump that has nothing to do with the case.
Nessel's tweet said, "Marlena Pavlos-Hackney had countless opportunities to comply with even the most basic health and safety protocols to protect her community from the spread of Covid."
Heads up, Dana. It's COVID-19 or coronavirus, not Covid. You can also call it the China virus or the Wuhan virus.
Nessel continued, "She (Pavlos-Hackney ) defied her local health department and the court at every turn, instead choosing to taunt health inspectors, law enforcement and the courts at every turn…"
Heads up, Dana. Does "taunting" consist of trying to support her family and her employee's families by not closing her restaurant?
And is "taunting" a crime?
Nessel continued her rant by saying, "…going on Tucker Carlson and setting up a lucrative Go Fund Me account instead of making the slightest effort to protect her customers, her workers and her community…"
Heads up, Dana. Is it also a crime to tell the media what a tyrant you are? Is it a crime to set up a Go Fund Me account to keep her business going and pay attorney fees????
Dana, isn't an Attorney General supposed to be a legal representative for the government? Why are you discussing Marlena's media appearances and Go Fund Me accounts?
Your website [1] says you are the state's top lawyer and law enforcement official. It doesn't say anything about being a partisan hack or marketing spokesperson for the Democrat party.
Nessel's snotty diatribe continued on Twitter. She said, "She (Pavlos-Hackney) is no martyr and no hero. One cannot repeat the mantra of 'Law and Order' and support the activities of Ms. Pavlos-Hackney. But if you cheered Donald Trump when he bragged about the many ways he avoided military service while others complied with their legal obligations, it's no wonder you revere this woman. Making personal sacrifice for the greater good of our state and nation was once considered admirable. Not anymore."
Does this woman sound like Donald Trump's ex-wife or what? How totally unprofessional.
But not surprising at all.
URL to article: https://www.stevegruber.com/2021/03/nasty-michigan-attorney-general-nessel-trashes-trump-and-his-supporters-in-tweet-about-michigan-restaurant-owners-arrest/
[1] website: http://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,4534,7-359--451426--,00.html


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Happy 34 year anniversary to this October 1976 issue of Sesame Street!
....until I noticed the shape of the moon. A perfect crescent, or quarter moon.
Okay, there is an obvious similarity between the moon and symbol of Islam, which has correspondingly been blamed for the events of 9/11/01 without any proper investigation.
This is not the first case of potential warnings (or mockery) of the 9/11 events before 9/11 happened by media via magazines, cartoons, T.V., and movies.
Back to Sesame Street. Sesame Street was originally aired by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) which has since become the non-profit Sesame Workshop.
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These are just some of the pieces to the puzzle that have been warped into our brains since we were kids on the street, or sesame street for that matter.
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Ditch Your Car, Ride Your Bike and Check Your Scale European study finds people who mostly use bikes to get around weigh less
By Idries Abdur-Rahman August 15, 2016 No Comments
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Cyclists weigh almost 9 pounds less, on average, than people who get around mainly by car, a new study shows.
The finding from a survey that included 11,000 people in seven European cities does not prove a direct link between people's choice of transportation and weight. But researchers called the initial results intriguing.
They plan to follow 14,000 volunteers in London, Rome, Vienna and Zurich, as well as Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; and Orebro, Sweden. The project is called PASTA, which stands for Physical Activity Through Sustainable Transport Approaches.
"We hope this first finding will encourage more people to take part in the survey so that we can get more data over time and make a link between transport decisions and health," project leader Audrey de Nazelle said in a news release from Imperial College London. She is a lecturer at the college's Center for Environmental Policy.
Adrian Davis, a transportation and health expert in England who serves on PASTA's advisory board, noted that people who are inactive have higher odds of being overweight and developing diseases such as cancer, stroke and heart attacks.
"Our research shows that factors like urban design, how we move in cities, and the use of cars, bikes or walking could all play an important role in determining the level of people's daily physical activity," he said.
The researchers said getting people to walk or bike as part of their daily routine is an ideal way to tackle the epidemic of inactivity.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute offers a guide to physical activity.
SOURCE: Imperial College London, news release, Aug. 10, 2016
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Q: Android background selector drawable intercepting onClick events? I'm trying to make a phone button component with its letters on top and the number on bottom. I'm implementing it as a custom FrameLayout that uses a style that uses a selector drawable as background.
The problem comes when it is not properly responding to onClick events. I noticed that it just responds when you click out of the bounds of the background selector. Also it works if I remove the style that uses the background drawable selector (phoneButtonStyle).
Any ideas? Thank you.
PhoneButton.java:
public class PhoneButton extends FrameLayout {

    View view;

    public PhoneButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
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        ((TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.number)).setText(number);
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}

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave
by Whelan on January 15, 2022
by Ed Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom
The influence of Plato on western philosophy has been immense; some of his key thoughts are encapsulated in the Allegory of the Cave. This presents some of his key philosophical ideas on the nature of truth, reality and even society. It is essential for understanding the Athenian thinker's concepts which are still as relevant today as they were over two thousand years ago.
Plato's Metaphysics
To understand Plato's Allegory, it is first necessary to grasp some of his major ideas. In his masterpiece, the Republic, he outlines his theory of reality. He proposed that there are two worlds. There is the world of the senses that we know, which is always in flux, and unreliable. Then there was a second world; a timeless and unchanging world of eternal ideas or forms. What we call 'truth' is knowledge of these forms or ideas, which are the models for all that we perceive in the physical realm. This world of Ideas is the 'real' world. According to Plato we can know the Forms by the practice of reasoning and philosophy.
Plato from a 4th century BC sculpture
Plato frequently used parables and allegories to communicate his arguments and to make points. The Allegory of the Cave, which appears in the Republic, was written by Plato to develop his ideas on reality and knowledge. It was designed to show the dichotomy between opinion and belief, and the real and the unreal. The story is told in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Plato's brother Glaucon.
In the allegory, Plato has Socrates narrate that there were a number of prisoners chained together in a cave for a great period of time. There is a fire behind them, and between the fire and the captives are people carrying objects. The flames cast shadows on the walls before the prisoners who think that they are real. So, the prisoners mistakes shadow-play for reality. One day one of the prisoners' escapes, and see the fire and realizes that what he understood to be real was only shadows.
He then explores the world outside the cave, and understands the nature of reality for the first time. The prisoner realizes that the other chained prisoners need to know this, and that this would encourage them to escape the cave. On his return to the cave, the prisoner was half-blind because his eyes were not used to the sunlight. None of the prisoners would believe him and now think that he is blind. They refuse to try and leave the cave, and continue to believe that the shadows that they see is reality. In the dialogue, Plato has Socrates state that if the chained prisoners were freed, they would kill their liberators.
Bust of Socrates
The Allegory of the Cave and Reality
Socrates, who is really only speaking the ideas of Plato, explains the allegory to Glaucon. The cave and its shadows are the world of the sense, the fire is the sun, and the external world is the realm of Ideas. Most people are only aware of the shadows and not the real world. This is because they assume knowledge of the senses, and not the forms. Most people live in ignorance as a result. The escape of the prisoner from the darkness to the outside world reflects the rise of the soul from the sensible realm to the that of the Ideas, which is where truth resides. Like the prisoner, those who see the Forms will reject the old view of reality and want to know more about the truth, which can only be known intellectually. The allegory shows the two-fold nature of Plato's view of reality. It also argues that everyone can know the truth, like the escaped prisoner, and become wise, if they only turn their mind to the Forms. It also shows, however, that enlightenment is challenging, as seen in the escaped prisoner's problems with the chained men in the cave. This is because the majority are in error, like the chained prisoners, and are hostile to the wise who have seen the real world because they contradict popular beliefs.
The Allegory and Truth
For Plato, only those who know the Forms know the truth and should be leaders. Because of their knowledge, they understand goodness and abhor the immoral. As a result, they have a duty to help their fellows who are still in ignorance. Those who only know the shadows (sensible world) are the majority of people and are ignorant and irrational. Those who have seen the Forms are wise and have knowledge of the goods. Plato believes that the rule of Philosophers is the best form of government. Because most people are ignorant, they are not fit to be involved in politics. This idea has been criticized as undemocratic as it argues that only the few should rule. Many commentators see in the allegory allusions to Socrates and how he was driven to his death by the Athenians. Socrates, like the prisoner who tried to tell the truth and urged people to change but was not believed and attacked instead. Several scholars have interpreted the Allegory as saying that those who know the truth will suffer for it like Socrates, because the minds of the majority are only directed at the unreal.
In the School of Athens painting by Raphael, Plato is shown pointing towards the sky, illustrating his belief in the Forms
In the allegory, Plato presents many of his most profound and influential ideas. He used the story to illustrate the two-fold nature of reality, the nature of truth, belief, and opinion. The Athenian philosopher shows that people do not want to know the real and be free. Plato uses his arguments to justify rule by the wise or philosophers. He also demonstrates that enlightenment was hard and that the wise often suffer if they try and help others.
Plato (2000). The Republic. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Juge, Carole. "The Road to the Sun They Cannot See: Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Oblivion, and Guidance in Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'." The Cormac McCarthy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. 16-30
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An effort like this cannot be the work of one person. We take great pleasure in presenting the members of the team behind Mana Ghantasala. They all deserve a round of applause and hearty congratulations for the effort they put in!
Sreenadh Jonnavithula is the webmaster of Mana Ghantasala. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, his day job involves Computational Fluid Dynamics. Building websites is a (pretty serious) hobby. He lives in Long Island, New York (USA) with his wife and six year old son.
"I have been a great fan of Ghantasala all my life, and working on this site is finally allowing me to repay some of the debt for the immense pleasure he has given me all this time. The support and encouragement of all the other fans is so encouraging, and I am glad I got started on this project!"
Born in 1959, I am a Science graduate from Sri Konaseema Bhanoji Ramars College, Amalapuram. Right now working as Divisional Engineer (Mobile Services), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited., Hyderabad. My father Sri. Nukala Mahadevanarayana known as a teacher to many people of Konaseema was an orthodox fan of Ghantasala. Perhaps that must have left some remnants in me along with the love and affection showered by my father. I have started the digitization of audio songs of great and eternal voice of Ghantasala some where in 2005 and could complete the process of more than 2500 songs from different languages within a period of 8 months working approximately 14 hours a day. My sincere thanks to Dr. K.V. Rao, Hyderabad, Sri. N.S. Krishna Murty, Secunderabad, Sri. D.S. Sankar, Vakkalanka, Sri. Panchakarla Ramesh, Hyderabad for their invaluable support and help in compiling the project. And finally the inestimable support given by my wife Rama Devi, my two daughters Lakshmi Madhavi, and Swathi is worth mentioning here.
Mechanical Engineer by Degree from Kakinada Engineering College, Aerospace Engineer and Program Integrator by profession at U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency. All seven siblings of my Devaraju Family, breath Ghantasala gArU! We cannot feel the world and life without associating ourselves with that "MOOD" expressed in Master gArU's songs. Since 1971, I have been heavily involved with Telugu People and Associations in USA. I breath Telugu too! Telugu Sangeetam and Saahityam are my two eyes. Also written, produced, enacted and directed many telugu dramas. Not a single day has gone by in my life, without listening to Ghantasala gAru. I hope you are all enjoying the telugu fonts of the lyrics that I am transliterating weekly. As always, without the Heavenly Blessings from my Parents Sri DVS Narayana Murty and Smt. Ranganayakamma and the whole hearted support given by my beautiful & compassionate wife Gayatri, daughters Sougandhi and Geeta, I could not have done what ever I have done thus far in my life.
Panini is a longtime fan of Ghantasala, and has been the main contributor to building the Ghantasala database.
Sreenivas's knowledge of Ghantasala's music is encyclopaedic, and we are fortunate to have his support. He has supplied several of the lyrics to the songs on this site.
K.V.Rao lives in Hyderabad, and is a close personal friend of the Ghantasala family and a longtime fan. He has contributed the quiz questions currently on the site, plus a lot of audio, text and photographic material which will soon be published.
Another old website on Ghantasala was maintained by Krishna. He has kindly donated the contents to us, and it appears as the section on the Bhagawad Gita. He has also contributed several lyrics, which will be published shortly.
Appa Rao Nagabhyru is a Primary care physician practicing in Plymouth, England. He is a 'devotee' of Ghantasala, started singing his songs since college days. He is a family friend of Ghantasala met the greate master once. He formed 'UK Ghantasala association' with six others, mainly to support Sri Ghantasala Sangeeta Samsmarana Kalapeetham established in Machilipatnam in AP.He ha a large collection of Ghantasala's songs and articles.
Originally a resident of Hyderabad, I am currently a student of Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering at the Louisiana Tech University, U.S.A. My hobbies make a big list [:-)] , basically because I don't take up anything very seriously! [:-(] I write songs (looking forward to jump into Tollywood soon :)!) and poetry in Telugu, draw pictures occasionally, sing frequently (but it's good to hear only rarely!), snap good (at least I feel they're good) photographs, especially of Mother Nature (for which I get scoldings from my family that I waste film in trying to replicate commercially available greeting cards), read books (mostly Telugu), browse the Internet, etc. Of course, I study and do some research too [:-)] , at least because I plan to start my Ph.D. soon! I also write articles to a few websites including the ReformIndia, TeluguCinema, and Kaburlu.
In music, I like anything melodious, but I prefer to listen to Carnatic music or old Telugu film music. That's how I started liking Sree Ghantasala's voice. I have been hearing to the golden voice for at least 20 years now, thanks to my parents for inculcating such good taste to me and my brother. It's a great opportunity for me to be a part of the project of building this website. I wish this shall be a one-stop website for Ghantasala, though I also wish the great singer is commemorated through various sites on the cyberspace. I was not even born when Sree Ghantasala passed away, but it was a pleasure to be able to see at least his family members. (I proudly possess Sree Ghantasala's son's signature in the guestbook of my personal website.) My humble homage to the great singer of India, and my kudos to all those highly knowledgeable persons behind this project.
I am a Communications Software Engineer by profession and I live in Hyderabad, India. My hobbies include listening to Music(Telugu Old Songs, Carnatic and Hindustani), reading books and touring. I started pursuing these only a few years back and so I am still a novice.
I am a fan of Ghantasala. I have to do lot more to be called a "great" fan. I am really amazed by the fact that this project is done very professionally and very enthusiastically. I am also surprised by the depth of knowledge some members possess. Above all, I like the humbleness of this group, I am glad that I got to know them and meet some.
Ramam is a Ghantasala fan from Dallas, TX, USA. Ramam hosts a radio program (with Padma Devaraju as the co-host, Saturday mornings at 9:00am CST). He has contributed the songs from the New York concert.


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The candid thoughts of media buyers: 'We're being scrutinized'
March 6, 2018 | By Shareen Pathak
Media buyers gathered in New Orleans Monday for the Digiday Media Buying Summit. Over closed-door town hall sessions and working groups, they discussed everything from the waning relevance of the agency to clients increasingly caring about where their ad dollars were going. Here are highlights, edited for clarity.
Clients are getting smarter
"Clients are getting more educated. The worst is when a client is just educated enough to be dangerous. If they know too little, that's fine. If they know too much, also OK because we have high-level discussions."
"The silver lining to anything going in-house is they still keep us around for part of the buying process like inventory management. The nice thing is we now have someone on the client side who knows what it's like."
"We are at the bottom of the dredges of the ocean when it comes to what really impacts our business. We don't have enough high-level conversations. We need to ask 'what are we fighting for?' with clients. If you want to do this yourself, fine, go, take it."
"It's also related to more scrutiny over digital as a channel. Clients are back to 'why am I putting X amount of my budget into this when TV for instance, you know what you're getting.' With fraud, it opens up a Pandora's Box. It's not new, but there is more sensitivity around clients' part with digital as a channel."
"What I've seen is, because of digital, we have all these analytics they love to talk about, they dive even deeper into this. Before it was them saying, 'These numbers look right.' Now it's, 'I gave you metrics for digital campaigns,' and they ask, 'Are you sure?' Because we gave them a little bit, they want to take a mile, and that's accelerated the conversation to 'ad fraud is real, can I even believe the impressions you're telling me?'"
"We're being scrutinized as a space because we're giving a little bit more data now because we have more analytics. It's broadly a blessing and a curse of digital."
"If you're asking agencies to do disparate separate parts of what's driving business outcomes, you're never going to get best performance. You're always looking at numbers in a vacuum."
"The in-house thing isn't really happening. What is happening is that clients are trying to take media buying in-house, then flaming out."
Vendor bashing
"One of the things we've done with vendors is we ask a series of questions to them like who is in their site list, transparency, what percentage of CPM is going toward the buy and how much is going to the tech. And we ask what is your testing threshold from a budget perspective? What is your minimum? We always lowball. If they balk at it, we say 'thank you' and continue on."
"The minimum-spend thing is a fake. I don't want to start spending $30,000 or $40,000 on a test that doesn't work. And they're not even real."
"We basically say, 'Sorry we can't buy that' to Facebook if we can't see who is in their network. They know the answer is going to be 'no' unless they work on this stuff."
Publishers don't care
"Publisher lack of concern over viewability and fraud. With the whole fraud and viewability conversation, it's laughable to me that publishers come back to me and say we hit 70 percent viewable, but only 13 percent of the time. You are off my plan. We tried the GroupM 100 percent viewability thing, and people literally turned away. They don't even care. There's this lack of concern from publishers."
"I think that ads.txt is in preliminary stages, and a lot of partners aren't even fully integrated at this point. A lot of them are getting there. It's on the pub side to make that integration, and so patience is the only thing to have."
"GDPR was set up as a trap for Google and Facebook, but instead what it's done has made it really hard for publishers to sell advertising."
"I always want cool buzzworthy stuff. Our planners will go to publishers, and they'll just give us more standard things. They never want to brainstorm with us. When we're giving pubs free license to go crazy and push the envelope, we just get pushback."
Fraud is still real
"It's a mess out there. Most people have good intentions, but there are so many instances of getting spoofed, or running outside where it was agreed to run."
"Even with some of the best things in place, campaigns are still crap."
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The 1997 Wolfgang Petersen directed film "Air Force One" starring Harrison Ford is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray on November 6th via Sony. The film co-stars Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, William H. Macy, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, Liesel Matthews, and Dean Stockwell. Tech specs for the release include full 2160p 4K video in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 form of High Dynamic Range and Dolby Atmos sound. The release will come in the form of a "combo pack" with a Blu-ray Disc and Digital Copy of the film included.
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Minoru Yamasaki Papers
Creator: Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986.
Title: Minoru Yamasaki Papers
Quantity: 0.5 linear feet
Abstract: Papers of the artist, architect. Includes project files with photographs and working papers, undated manuscripts, and other material. Projects include Dhahran Air Terminal in Saudi Arabia, the United States Pavilion at the World's Fair in Seattle, Washington, and the World Trade Center in New York City.
Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) was an American architect. Born in Seattle, Washington, he studied at the University of Washington (graduated 1929) and at New York University. He began his career working for Gitchen and Kelly (1935-1937) and teaching watercolor at New York University. In 1937 he moved to Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, designers of the Empire State Building, and then in 1945 he moved to Detroit to work for the firm of Smith, Hinchman, and Gryll. Four years later he became a partner in Limweber, Yamasaki, and Hellmuth and soon after opened his own firm, Yamasaki & Associates, based in Birmingham, Michigan.
Yamasaki's work, which is distinctly modern in tone, includes banks, schools, auditoriums, airport terminals, libraries, conference centers, and consulates. He was the designer of the United States Science Pavilion for the Seattle World's Fair and of the New York World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2, which were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century and his firm, Yamasaki & Associates, continues to do business today.
The Minoru Yamasaki Papers includes correspondence, subject files, projects, and manuscripts. Correspondence consists of a single outgoing letter. Subject files contains a radio broadcast made by Yamasaki for the Voice of America. Projects contains photographs and data for a number of Yamasaki's works, including the Dhahran Air Terminal in Saudi Arabia, the United States Pavilion at the World's Fair in Seattle, Washington, and the World Trade Center in New York City. Manuscripts contains two manuscripts by Yamasaki.
Each series is arranged alphabetically by title or topic.
Special Collections Research Center has the papers of a number of architects. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986.
Yamasaki & Associates.
Architecture -- United States -- 20th century.
Architecture, modern.
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photoprints.
Architects.
Minoru Yamasaki Papers,
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Revision history: 12 Oct 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC); 6 Nov 2017 - minor corrections to project titles (MS)
Box 1 Outgoing 1965
Box 1 Voice of America radio broadcast undated
Box 1 Dhahran Civil Air Terminal, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 1963
Box 1 McGregor Memorial Community Conference Center, Wayne State University 1961
Box 1 Michigan Consolidated Gas Company office building 1963
Box 1 Northwestern National Life Insurance Company office building 1962
Box 1 Reynolds Metal Company Regional Sales Office 1963
Box 1 Temple Building, North Shore Congregational Israel 1963
Box 1 Terminal Building, Lambert-St. Louis Airport 1962
Box 1 United States Science Pavilion, Seattle, Washington 1964
Box 1 World Trade Center, Port Authority of New York 1964
Box 1 "The Challenge to the Arts" undated
Box 1 "Report on Wascana Centre" undated


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And there was SO much goat cheese, yum!! I can't stand when restaurants skimp on goat cheese; teany was very generous in this respect.
The salad was obviously delicious because you can't go wrong with that combination of ingredients. One interesting thing to note: the beets were raw! I don't think I've ever had raw beets before. They were cut into strips and, even though I was surprised by the texture at first since I was expecting a roasted beet, I have to say that their firmness complemented that of the apple pieces in a way that mushier cooked beets would not have.
I sill prefer my beets with the stronger earthy and sweet flavor they get from being cooked, but this salad got me thinking about how delicious raw beets would be as part of a crudites platter at a party. I've been to loads of weddings with overflowing edible displays of raw vegetables, but I have never encountered one that included beets. Someone needs to get on this ASAP!
How sweet is the decor???
I've been wanting to try this place! I love shredded raw beet salad — ever tried it? YUM!
Why didn't we go there today? That menu sounds way better than today's.


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Clearing is a guitar solo album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It was Frith's first solo guitar recording since Live in Japan (1982) and his first solo guitar studio recording since his landmark 1974 album Guitar Solos.

Clearing comprises eleven tracks of unaccompanied and improvised music played on prepared guitars by Frith. Ten of the tracks were recorded in Stuttgart, Germany in 1996 and 2000, and one was recorded live at the Konstrukcja w Procesie Festival VII in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2000.

Background
In 2000, John Zorn commissioned Frith to make a guitar solo album for Tzadik Records as a follow-up to his 1974 album, Guitar Solos. Using prepared guitars, Frith recorded Clearing in Stuttgart, Germany in July 2000 in a similar vein as Guitar Solos, revisiting areas explored on that album but not developed further at the time. He also included two additional tracks, "Gaifu Kaisei" and "This Earth is a Flower" that had been recorded earlier.

Frith used a variety of found objects when recording the album. On "Chains", Frith placed a lozenger tin on the guitar strings and dropped a chain into the tin. An acoustic sound was achieved on "Blue" by placing microphones close to the electric guitar strings. Chopsticks were jammed between the guitar strings on "Gaifu Kaisei". "Minimalism" was performed entirely by striking the guitar strings with drumsticks.

Frith dedicated four of the tracks on the album to:
Bill Frisell – United States guitarist for the band Naked City, in which Frith played bass guitar;
Andy Goldsworthy – British landscape sculptor and subject of the documentary film, Rivers and Tides (2001) for which Frith made the soundtrack, Rivers and Tides (2002);
Akira Iijima – Japanese guitarist that appeared on Frith's Guitar Solos 3;
Tomoko Itani – Japanese guitarist that appeared on a compilation of Japanese music, Welcome to Dreamland (1986) that Frith had produced.

Reception

AllMusic said this of the album:

Derk Richardson, writing for CT Insider, commented: "Some tracks are delicate and fragile, some are dense thickets of sonic thistles, some tiptoe with elegance and grace, some bully their way through time. However abstract or heady, none achieve anything less than absorbing grandeur."

Track listing
"White (for Andy Goldsworthy)" (Frith) – 9:28
"Open Ocean" (Frith) – 5:12
"Chains" (Frith) – 2:00
"The Bow Moon" (Frith) – 4:00
"Minimalism (for Tomoko Itani)" (Frith) – 5:07
"Not With Love But With Fear" (Frith) – 6:03
"Theatre" (Frith) – 10:09
"Gaifu Kaisei (in memory of Akira Iijima)" (Frith) – 2:50
"Road Movie" (Frith) – 2:12
"This Earth is a Flower" (Frith) – 3:52
"Blue (for Bill Frisell)" (Frith) – 3:12

Personnel
Fred Frith – prepared guitars

Sound and artwork
Tracks 1-7,9,11 recorded by Peter Hardt at Jankowski Studio, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2000
Track 8 recorded by Peter Hardt at Jankowski Studio, Stuttgart, Germany, January 1996
Track 10 recorded live to DAT by Grzegorz Kazimierczak at the Konstrukcja w Procesie Festival VII, Bydgoszcz, Poland in association with Mózg and the International Artists' Museum, June 2000
Sequenced and pre-mastered by Myles Boisen at Headless Buddha Mastering Lab, Oakland, California, December 2000
Mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital, New York City
Cover photo by Fred Frith.

References

2001 albums
Fred Frith albums
Tzadik Records albums
Albums produced by Fred Frith


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Q: Decode/Read a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) Using Java or BouncyCastle I am generating a CSR (certificate signing request) using code without an issue with the appropriate information.  I need pointers to figure out how to read the CSR content using Java and/or BouncyCastle.
Any pointers or ideas are appreciated.

A: Figured it out:

*

*Convert the CSR PEM to a PKCS10CertificationRequest

*Get the X500Name instance by accessing the getSubject() method from PKCS10CertificationRequest instance

*Iterate over the RDN[] array and get the specific field you want using one of the ASN1ObjectIdentifier's (for example COUNTRY is 2.5.4.6)

Here is the code:
public class EncryptDecrypt {
    private Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EncryptDecrypt.class);
    private final String COUNTRY = "2.5.4.6";
    private final String STATE = "2.5.4.8";
    private final String LOCALE = "2.5.4.7";
    private final String ORGANIZATION = "2.5.4.10";
    private final String ORGANIZATION_UNIT = "2.5.4.11";
    private final String COMMON_NAME = "2.5.4.3";

    @Test
    public void testReadCertificateSigningRequest() {
        String csrPEM = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----\n" +
                "MIICwjCCAaoCAQAwfTELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEDAOBgNVBAgTB0Zsb3JpZGExEzAR\n" +
                "BgNVBAcTCkJvY2EgUmF0b24xGzAZBgNVBAoTEkxvb25leSBUb29ucywgSW5jLjEU\n" +
                "MBIGA1UECxMLRGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQxFDASBgNVBAMTC2V4YW1wbGUuY29tMIIBIjAN\n" +
                "BgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAiJCj31d1Rp+aKz/GTkedaiS/VSCc\n" +
                "PRARYgXukobjgBHx46HjldAcfg/DoANn5lEQaFxaIZJLbZ/AdLUyw/hUbU0CjWXv\n" +
                "pN3Ep3o9XgRTPkIFoI22VOI/O2ZLjBq/E4DWyVmv+vG6BK0LRh7hykzPCw6KIRR9\n" +
                "NCmUMJMQX5d5P/r1lR5H399pnLcLsrHoWDwBSEDgkGWyxnvEB0+/bIz42T3qnlFt\n" +
                "7avarxlHG2p5DoRTf8GJ+6imY88ZeBW/Nk18aDINsAHWLv383JICIAsZ3VuMk8m/\n" +
                "Z/Z5b21zIuZECDJjZjvAAjr/shVLB+Pck5+HJy6tqj79MJOQu+jKIrK8VwIDAQAB\n" +
                "oAAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQADggEBAGtuAAHG4OC9jSRjGWSqfMXTDMz9tgekDREA\n" +
                "SYv5QIrOXsMzwbgDw8LxRJZEskl4JJOnjwEvUXWUF1M6XmG2h358nOnrkOlsumHw\n" +
                "Tx5gGSr6S6aJO/HG46erctE8aWpnFZYMfuEkul4ApsIufL7Bxqs3NHZWcrWBlLIP\n" +
                "aVCKx1FPRMC36Tj3EslbuUB/iTRt90Nfq1IxHMIKiwCiSNJSqfRVLANhI8MUbOjB\n" +
                "CBly1wcH68WWNkyvHVvbcF/B9AfYG9AqWjZjygKpyf81VZWctXhDc8UtomqrblXN\n" +
                "mvz4RKpIhZQLuuxlBrdzJkPm2sOdtdZghebCRRVWdjsig4sylgQ=\n" +
                "-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----";

        PKCS10CertificationRequest csr = convertPemToPKCS10CertificationRequest(csrPEM);

        X500Name x500Name = csr.getSubject();
        System.out.println("x500Name is: " + x500Name + "\n");

        // country is 2.5.4.6
        System.out.println("COUNTRY: " + getX500Field(COUNTRY, x500Name));
        // state is 2.5.4.8
        System.out.println("STATE: " + getX500Field(STATE, x500Name));
        // locale is 2.5.4.7
        System.out.println("LOCALE: " + getX500Field(LOCALE, x500Name));

    }

    private String getX500Field(String asn1ObjectIdentifier, X500Name x500Name) {
        RDN[] rdnArray = x500Name.getRDNs(new ASN1ObjectIdentifier(asn1ObjectIdentifier));
        String retVal = null;
        for (RDN item : rdnArray) {
            retVal = item.getFirst().getValue().toString();
        }

        return retVal;
    }

    private PKCS10CertificationRequest convertPemToPKCS10CertificationRequest(String pem) {
        Security.addProvider(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider());
        PKCS10CertificationRequest csr = null;
        ByteArrayInputStream pemStream = null;
        try {
            pemStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(pem.getBytes("UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
            LOG.error("UnsupportedEncodingException, convertPemToPublicKey", ex);
        }

        Reader pemReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pemStream));
        PEMParser pemParser = new PEMParser(pemReader);

        try {
            Object parsedObj = pemParser.readObject();

            System.out.println("PemParser returned: " + parsedObj);

            if (parsedObj instanceof PKCS10CertificationRequest) {
                csr = (PKCS10CertificationRequest) parsedObj;

            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            LOG.error("IOException, convertPemToPublicKey", ex);
        }

        return csr;
    }

    private String toPEM(Object key) {
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        PEMWriter pem = new PEMWriter(sw);
        try {
            pem.writeObject(key);
            pem.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.printf("IOException: %s%n", e);
        }
        return sw.toString();
    }
}

A: I propose this "simple" solution to read a csr
You must add dependency with
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
    <artifactId>bcmail-jdk15on</artifactId>
    <version>1.62</version>
</dependency>

Create new object CSRObject
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1ObjectIdentifier;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x500.RDN;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x500.X500Name;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser;
import org.bouncycastle.pkcs.PKCS10CertificationRequest;

import java.io.*;

public class CSRObject {
    private final X500Name x500Name;

    public CSRObject(final String csr) throws IOException {
        final Reader pemReader = new StringReader(csr);
        final PEMParser pemParser = new PEMParser(pemReader);
        x500Name = ((PKCS10CertificationRequest) pemParser.readObject()).getSubject();
    }

    public String get(final CSRObjectEnum field) {
        RDN[] rdnArray = x500Name.getRDNs(new ASN1ObjectIdentifier(field.code));
        String retVal = null;
        for (RDN item : rdnArray) {
            retVal = item.getFirst().getValue().toString();
        }
        return retVal;
    }

    public enum CSRObjectEnum {
        COUNTRY("2.5.4.6"),
        STATE("2.5.4.8"),
        LOCALE("2.5.4.7"),
        ORGANIZATION("2.5.4.10"),
        ORGANIZATION_UNIT("2.5.4.11"),
        COMMON_NAME("2.5.4.3"),//
        ;
        private final String code;

        CSRObjectEnum(final String sCode) {
            code = sCode;
        }

    }
}

And you can test with this method :
@Test
public void test() throws IOException {
    final CSRObject csr = new CSRObject(TEST_CERTIF);
    for (final CSRObject.CSRObjectEnum field : CSRObject.CSRObjectEnum.values()){
        LOGGER.info("{}:{}", field.name(), csr.get(field));
    }
}

with TEST_CERTIF is String
private static final String TEST_CERTIF = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----\n" +
        "...\n" +
        "-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----\n";

A: I built on David's answer to verify CSR content for a unit test in Kotlin on Android. It assumes you have the CSR in string format to begin with. CSR was generated using SpongyCastle JcaPKCS10CertificationRequestBuilder.
class yourCsrTestClass {
    ...
    private lateinit var csrContent: PKCS10CertificationRequest
    ...
    @Test
    fun yourCsrTest() {
        //This creates a CSR with SpongyCastle which we will test
        val csr = yourCSRService.generateRequest()

        //Convert our CSR string in modified code from David
        convertCsrString(csr)

        //Get x500Name subject
        val x500Name = csrContent.subject

        //Assert test as true if content matches as intended
        //This can be applied to any CSR attribute
        assertTrue(getX500Field(BCStrictStyle.O.toString(), x500Name) == "Your intender organization name")
    }
    ...
    private fun convertCsrString(pemCsr: String) {
        val stream = ByteArrayInputStream(pemCsr.toByteArray())

        val pemReader = BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(stream))
        var pemParser: PEMParser? = null
        try {
            pemParser = PEMParser(pemReader)
            val parsedObj = pemParser.readObject()
            println("PemParser returned: $parsedObj")
            if (parsedObj is PKCS10CertificationRequest) {
                csrContent = parsedObj
            }
        } catch (ex: IOException) {
            Log.d("IOException, convertPemToPublicKey", ex.toString())
        } finally {
            if (pemParser != null) {
                IOUtils.closeQuietly(pemParser)
            }
        }
    }
    ...
    private fun getX500Field(asn1ObjectIdentifier: String, x500Name: X500Name): String {
        val rdnArray = x500Name.getRDNs(ASN1ObjectIdentifier(asn1ObjectIdentifier))

        return rdnArray[0].first.value.toString()
    }
}


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Book Review: Sorcery At Caesars
Sorcery At Caesars:
Sugar Ray's Marvelous Fight
Inkwater Press 233pp
Boxing, perhaps more than any other sport, is fundamentally dramaturgical, an intersection of conflicting epics. And every fighter becomes, thus, a kind of document of his movement through a mosaic of collected stories. Strangely, however, these stories are often inscrutable to the fighters themselves. In his extraordinary new book, Steve Marantz explores the puzzling, secret narrative of Sugar Ray Leonard's historic 1987 bout with Marvin Hagler and decodes, for us, the bout's complexities which have, in the years since, alchemized into lore and fractured mythology. Sorcery at Caesars is a singular achievement, splendidly written and subversively inventive.
Marantz's provocative thesis is that Leonard's improbable victory was, in fact, the final turn in a carefully conceived, elaborately-staged performance of the Dark Arts. Indeed, we find in Marantz's clever analysis a very real commitment to the idea of metaphysics in boxing: he fully understands the intricacies of psychological warfare, the centrality of ritualized display, and the magic of a counterintuitive sensibility.
That Leonard has now become one of boxing's elder statesmen is, of course, a received view; but Marantz's vision, far more radical and fascinating, reveals Leonard in his full range of coordinated contradiction. Tracing each fighter's arc, as they curve inexorably toward a collision, Hagler emerges as the rogue parvenu and Leonard, the cool cosmopolitan. He is, at once, a creature of public consciousness, a confidence man, a worldly sophisticate but also a privately reflective student of the Self and its shifting identities. It is precisely this close attention to detail and the monastic ambience of his conjuration that distinguishes Leonard in his luminous moment. Marantz writes:
"Now materialized the specter of an outcome decided by three judges. Hagler's inability to stop Leonard in the 9th diminished the likelihood of a knockout. Thoughts turned toward the three men with pencils [ … ] Leonard's willingness to hold and Hagler's refusal to complain underscored the finesse gap between the two. Leonard's finesse also was seen in the ebb and flow of his attack. [ … ] Indeed, the 10th, essentially an even round, was 'stolen' by Leonard."
From the remote, Greek concept of the pharmakeus, mystery and magic have imputed their influence to boxing through the tradition of cut men. But with this remarkable, eminently readable, and prodigiously learnèd book, Steve Marantz has conceived a language for speaking about the deep modalities of the Sweet Science as a space for narratological representation and mystical experience. Sorcery at Caesars is a major contribution to the literture of boxing, intellectually rigorous, engaging, funny, and brilliantly imagined. The show and the trick, to be sure, were Leonard's, but the sorcerer is Marantz himself.
Scott Wilkerson
Columbus State University
Research Associate,
Halawaukee Studio for the Arts
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