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The Muse of Fantasy
Thursday, September 07, 2017
From "The Flat-Heeled Muse" by Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007):
"The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes. She does not carry a soothing lyre for inspiration, but is more likely to shake you roughly awake at four in the morning and rattle a sheaf of subtle, sneaky questions under your nose. And you had better answer them. The Muse will stand for no nonsense (that is, non-sense). Her geometries are no more Euclidean than Einstein's, but they are equally rigorous."
"The less fantastic it is, the stronger fantasy becomes. The writer can painfully bark his shins on too many pieces of magical furniture. Enchanted swords, wielded incautiously, cut both ways. But the limits imposed on characters and implements must be more than simply arbitrary. What does not happen should be as valid as what does. In The Once and Future King, for example, Merlyn knows what will happen in the future; he knows the consequences of Arthur's encounter with Queen Morgause. Why doesn't he speak out in warning? It is not good enough to say, "Well, that would spoil the story." Merlyn cannot interfere with destiny; but how does T. H. White show this in specific detail? By having Merlyn grow backwards through time. Confused in his memories, he cannot recollect whether he has already told Arthur or was going to tell him. No more is needed. The rationale is economical and beautiful, fitting and enriching Merlyn's personality.
"Insistence on plausibility and rationality can work for the writer, not against him. In developing his characters, he is obliged to go deeper instead of wider. And, as in all literature, characters are what ultimately count. The writer of fantasy may have a slight edge on the realistic novelist, who must present his characters within the confines of actuality. Fantasy, too, uses homely detail, but at the same time goes right to the core of a character, to extract the essence, the very taste of an individual personality. This may be one of the things that makes good fantasy so convincing. The essence is poetic truth."
"Fantasy presents the world as it should be. But 'should be' does not mean that the realms of fantasy are Lands of Cockaigne where roasted chickens fly into mouths effortlessly opened. Sometimes heartbreaking, but never hopeless, the fantasy world as it 'should be' is one in which good is ultimately stronger than evil, where courage, justice, love, and mercy actually function. Thus, it may often appear quite different from our own. In the long run, perhaps not. Fantasy does not promise Utopia. But if we listen carefully, it may tell us what we someday may be capable of achieving."
The wonderful imagery here is by Rovina Cai, from Melbourne, Australia. Born in 1988, she studied at the University of Melbourne, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her publications include illustrations for Tintinnabula and Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan, the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
"My work is often inspired by the past," she says; "from myths and fairy tales to gothic novels, these stories resonate with me because they bring a little bit of magic and wonder to the present day."
Please visit Cai's website to see more of her work.
The passages above are from "The Flat-heeled Muse" by Lloyd Alexander, published in The Horn Book (April, 1965). All rights to the art and text reserved by the artist and the author's estate.


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De Avond Rust
De Avond Rust B&B is located within the heart of the small town of Oudtshoorn, which is the largest town in the Little Karoo and home to the largest ostrich population.
Our air-conditioned cottages are situated next to the sparkling pool, while the main bedrooms are warmly situated in this original homestead with opulent-wooden furnishings. The bedrooms are equipped with electric blankets, tea- and coffee-making facilities, fridges, verandas, robes, towels and bath amenities. Each bedroom also has a TV with selected DSTV channels.
Guests can start their mornings with a fresh brew of our famous selected brand of filter coffee (or a delicious rooibos cuppachino) and a delicious champagne buffet breakfast, before exploring the town's historical sites and curio shops – all within walking distance!
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The Passing of the Ayatollah
It looks like some snafu has knocked the Ayatollah Mugsy's blog out of commission. I may have to convert from the Pug Life Ministries to The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I hope my credits transfer.
By the way, for those of you curious about the FSM's Pastafarian movement but have a limited attention span, there's a nice little Flash thingy here.


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Automated optical inspection system for digital TV sets
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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
, 2011:140
Image and Video Quality Improvement Techniques for Emerging Applications
This article proposes a real-time test and verification system for full-reference automatic image quality assessment and verification of digital TV sets. Digital camera is used for acquisition of the TV screen content in order to ensure quality assessment of the content as perceived by the user. Test has been executed in three steps: image acquisition by camera, TV screen content extraction and full-reference image quality assessment. The TV screen content is extracted from the captured image in two steps: detection of the TV screen edge and transformation of the TV screen content to dimensions of the reference image. Three image comparison methods are incorporated to perform full-reference image quality assessment. Reference image for quality assessment is obtained either by grabbing the image from TV set or by capturing the TV screen content on the golden sample. Digital camera was later replaced with DSP-based camera for image acquisition and algorithm execution which brought significant performance improvements. The comparison methods were tested under constant and variable illumination conditions. The proposed system is used to automate the verification step on the final production line of digital TV sets. The time required for verification step decreased by a factor of 5 when using the proposed system on the final production line instead of a manual one.
Keywordssub-image extraction image comparison functional failure detection digital TV testing TV screen capturing Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1186-1687-6180-2011-140 contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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exchange surgery was so easy.
i was able to have it done in Hamilton and still survive the 2 hour trip home immediately after. it was so good to get home and relax in my own bed and couch. i think i went to bed around 9:30pm, and was up and puttering around this morning at 6:30am...then a lovely nap at 8:15am...and up again at noon. such a great excuse to lounge and be lazy. in fact, doctors orders!
i am in more pain today than yesterday, but that is to be expected as the area the was flooded with marcaine is wearing off. still completely manageable. i just have to take it easy. the pain comes as little stabs through out but more so in the lower left breast.
here is a short can do/can't do list for yesterday and today:
Same Day Can Do:
- open fridge
- open doors (carefully, but can't hold them open for others. sorry guy at tim hortons with coffee in both hands)
- make dinner (pre-packaged pizza from the freezer)
- eat a normal size meal
- do a small amount of dishes (2 plates, pans from the pizza and pizza cutter)
- empty my own drains
- play with my iPhone, facebook, check my gmail:) (you know you breezed through surgery when you are checking and posting on social media within 1 hour of being discharged from the hospital)
- urinate without straining (gosh i hate this one. so difficult to go pee. still is, but getting better)
- be alone (doctors orders that i have care for the first 24 hours since i had day surgery. my awesome sister stayed with me for the night, and my Oma kept me company for a few hours too, before my sister was able to arrive from work)
- my hair
- scratch my back (i needed my back scratcher to reach)
- get a good look at my foobs
- keep my eyes open during a conversation past 9pm
- tie my hair up in a ponytail
- scratch my back and shoulders without using the back scratcher
- enjoy looking out the window at all the snow we've gotten
- enjoy the company of my kitties
- sleep, sleep, sleep
- bowel movement (it's been 2 days.)
- play with the kitties (they like to play fetch. no can do.)
- stand up quickly (i am still light headed from the anesthetic)
- bathe (i won't be able to bathe or shower until at least 24 hours after my last drain pull. i might plan a trip to the hair salon at the end of the week to get my hair washed, and i can still have shallow sitting baths. i just have to make sure i don't get the incision or drain sites wet. these instructions vary from surgeon to surgeon.)
- put a loose t-shirt on over my head
i got my mentor card upon discharge. i had to go to the mentor site to see what the codes look like, but if i am correct these are the sizes of my implants:
left: 350 11,7 4,9 324-4350 RSZ-3504 (350 cc's in the left)
right: 400 12,3 5,1 324-4400 RSZ-4004 (400 cc's in the right)
This is normal to have 2 different sizes in each breast. It's about appearances. In the bigger picture, 50 cc's is not that much of a difference.
i'll share a couple of pics now of my bandaging, and some of my kitties and the snowfall we've received in the last 3 days. i feel so toasty warm in my apartment and enjoy looking out the window to see the snow blowing and collecting on the trees.
oliver might be the funniest cat i've every had, but lucy is clearly the prettiest cat i have ever had.
oliver going in for the big stretch.
oliver sticking his tongue out at me. cute.


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Foreign Minister Urmas Paet stated that the opening of practical negotiations for Iceland's accession to the European Union is very positive. "Estonia is waiting to welcome Iceland into the European Union, and we're prepared to support Iceland throughout the whole accession process by sharing our accession experiences," he said. Paet added that Iceland's accession process is evidence of the vitality of the EU's enlargement policy. "It's also positive that the European Union is enlarging in Northern Europe," he added.
Foreign Minister Paet said that for the acceding country accession negotiations mean adopting the European Union acquis, but at the same time the unique characteristics of the candidate country must be taken into account. "In many areas, for example science, education, and culture, Iceland does not require separate negotiations," said Paet. "Iceland would like to begin negotiations in many other areas within the next six months. Iceland is also prepared to begin negotiations as soon as possible on issues that will prove more complicated – fishery and agricultural policy," noted the foreign minister.
Paet said that the hope is to conclude accession negotiations with Iceland by the middle of 2013.
Iceland presented its application to accede to the European Union in July 2009, and in February 2010 the European Commission gave its approval. Accession negotiations were opened in July 2010, and since then the screening process has taken place, which is the comparing of Iceland and the European Union's legislation. At the second accession conference, which took place yesterday, practical negotiations were opened. The next accession conventions are scheduled for October and December 2011.
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Nested if and if-else statements
The if-else statement allows a choice to be made between two possible alternatives. Sometimes a choice must be made between more than two possibilities. For example the sign function in mathematics returns -1 if the argument is less than zero, returns +1 if the argument is greater than zero and returns zero if the argument is zero. The following C++ statement implements this function:
if (x < 0)
sign = -1;
if (x == 0)
sign = 0;
sign = 1;
This is an if-else statement in which the statement following the else is itself an if-else statement. If x is less than zero then sign is set to -1, however if it is not less than zero the statement following the else is executed. In that case if x is equal to zero then sign is set to zero and otherwise it is set to 1.


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Catherine Ellsberg '16
Contributing Writer
"With your kinky hair, you couldn't possibly be my daughter," a man says with vitriol to the estranged woman he deserted when she was still a child. The man's back is turned to the luminous Elza, who repeats over and over, "Look at me … please look at me." He refuses to turn around, and the void between the abandoned and the abandoner grows into a deepening pit as seconds turn into excruciating minutes.
It's a remarkable scene, and only one of many in Mariette Monpierre '85's first full-length feature film, Elza. The autobiographical film charts a young woman's journey from Paris to her native island of Guadeloupe on a quest to find the beloved father who somehow managed to walk away from her. With Stana Roumillac's portrayal of the spunky Elza, we are offered a fleshed-out character of sparkling vivacity, intelligence and wit – a deserving recipient of the audience's boundless empathy and affection.
When Elza arrives in Guadeloupe, a small island in the West Indies, she can hardly wait for her taxi to screech to a halt before she rambles out onto a beach, splashing and laughing. The camera trails Elza with a sensual gaze – following her as she lolls in the waves, pausing every few moments to take in a particular angle, a choice second of sun-speckled beauty. In this scene we get our first real taste of Monpierre's use of slow motion, a tactic that will perhaps strike American audiences as soap-opera-like in nature.
The film continues with Elza's search for her father, Mr. Désiré, whose promiscuity Monpierre pluckily catches on camera. In perhaps one of the more unbelievable elements of the story, Elza manages to weasel her way into his household by pretending she came from a babysitting agency to care for his grandchild.
However, certain holes are left unfilled surrounding this area of the plot; for one, it seems unlikely that Elza could keep up her ruse for too long without her father figuring out her true purpose. The little girl she is meant to care for, Caroline, is also portrayed as somewhat disturbed – conveyed by her staring blankly at a TV screen all day. Other than calling to mind Poltergeist, this detail is resolved all too quickly when Elza swoops in with pop music – an apparent cure-all to young Caroline's malaise.
Music indeed plays a jarring role in Elza, as hardly a single scene goes by without the accompaniment of either a light flavor of pop or, even more prominently, the heavy use of piano cues. Combined with the deliberate use of slow-motion and a bright, high-contrast lighting, the music seems, at times, an unnecessary diversion to an otherwise promising plot.
Elza's cinematic devices drive the film's success, imbuing it with a sense of perseverance. As Spencer Adams, an audience member who attended the screening of the film, added, the film "addressed issues of race, class, and fatherhood … with a personal touch."
After the screening, Monpierre described her film as a bit "American" in its fairytale quality and possessing the sort of resolved closure she wishes she could have had with her own estranged father. During the Q & A session, Monpierre encouraged anyone estranged from a parent to seek the parent out. She ascribed the trend of men abandoning their children in her native Guadeloupe to the consequences of slavery, and counted low self-esteem, teenage pregnancy and drugs as natural repercussions of such abandonment.
Elza is the first narrative film to be shot by a woman in Guadeloupe, an accomplishment which, as Monpierre acknowledges, seems to have naturally blossomed from her time in college.
"[Smith] gave me the opportunity to explore…it gave me guts," she said. One can only hope that Elza is just one of a series of bold films to come from Monpierre.
Monpierre will be giving a talk this coming Friday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Seelye Hall 201.


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By Yoginder Sikand, NewAgeIslam.com
01 January 2011
'Jihad' is a term that evokes a multitude of contradictory emotions and images. Many non-Muslims understand (or, as many Muslims would insist, misunderstand) it to mean 'holy war' against non-Muslim 'infidels', and more or less summarises what they allege is the fundamental inability of Muslims to live gracefully and in harmony with people of other faiths.
Many Muslims, too, understand jihad to mean physical war with what they regard as 'infidels', although as to whether or not it includes offensive war remains hotly debated. Contrary to these views about jihad is what some Muslim scholars insist is the true Quranic understanding of the term: struggle or sincere and sustained efforts in the path of God. Such jihadic struggles and efforts, they point out, need not necessarily be directed against non-Muslims, and they are also not necessarily all violent. Indeed, they argue, armed jihad is but only one form of it, and is to be resorted to only as a last resort, when all efforts for peaceful jihad have been tried but have failed. Any peaceful struggle for a noble purpose, say educating the illiterate or empowering the poor, including people of other faiths, may, according to this interpretation, be considered to be a jihad in the path of God.
Despite the fact that advocates of what they regard as the strictly Quranic (as opposed to the Muslim communal) understanding of the term jihad might indeed have adequate Quranic support for their stance, the fact remains that violent war against non-Muslims (mainly defensive, and, in some cases, offensive, too), is what many Muslims interpret jihad to mean. Fighting in self-defence is an internationally recognized human right, and so those who defend jihad, in the sense of defensive war in the face of attack, obviously cannot be faulted. But what can be faulted is the routine misuse of the concept of jihad in order to promote indiscriminate hostility, hatred and violence against non-Muslims in general and against Muslims belonging to rival sects, each of which lays claims to a monopoly over religious truth. This, unfortunately, has happened throughout Muslim history, and it has far from disappeared today. In fact, a number of self-styled 'Islamic' ideologues and activists, including half-baked mullahs, may well be called what is termed as 'jihadists', their understanding of Islam and its teachings about relations with people of other faiths and Muslims belonging to rival sects being fundamentally shaped by hate-driven and (what some Muslims would regard as) completely warped understandings of jihad. The appeal of such ideologues is greatly boosted by acts of oppression by non-Muslim forces, such as, in today's context, the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, America's support for Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, and human rights violations by Indian forces in Kashmir. Dictatorial rulers in most Muslim countries, backed by the West, are another factor for the appeal of 'jihadist' groups, who seek to mobilize popular dissent against them by mouthing slogans of jihad.
Pakistan is reportedly plagued by such 'jihadists', whose mounting influence owes to a host of factors, both internal as well as external. How do ordinary Pakistani Islamic clerics understand jihad? How, in their understandings of jihad, do they project people of other faiths and Muslims belonging to rival sects? How, given their particular understandings of the doctrine of jihad, do they envisage inter-community and inter-sectarian relations? These are issues of immense strategic significance. Needless to say, the very survival of Pakistan, as well as many other Muslim-majority countries, depends how these issues are played out in the years to come.
Mashal Books, one of Pakistan's few progressive publishing houses, has an online project to document speeches delivered by Pakistani Muslim clerics on a wide range of issues. The publishing house's website hosts a set of such speeches that deal principally with the issue of jihad. The contents of these speeches provide a valuable glimpse of how these clerics (and numerous others like them) construct jihad and the implications of these diverse interpretations for how they and their followers relate to others, whether non-Muslims or Muslims of rival sects.
The clerics whose sermons are hosted on the website belong to different Muslim sects. Each of these sects believes itself to have a monopoly of the divine truth, and each claims to be the only authentically Islamic sect. By definition, this means that all the other Muslim sects (and other religions as well) are believed to be deviant and false. Consequently, their adherents are branded, sometimes implicitly, and at other times very brazenly, as outside the Islamic fold and, hence, doomed to perdition in Hell, a fate that they are said to share with all non-Muslims.
Not surprisingly, then, the clerics preach hatred for Muslims of other sects and non-Muslims in general, particularly when other sects and religions are discussed in the context of jihad. Accordingly, dialogue and reconciliation with Muslims of other sects and with non-Muslims are completely ruled out, and so is the possibility of 'true believers' existing harmoniously and peaceably with other Muslims and with people of other faiths. It is as if 'true' Muslims (variously defined by clerics belonging to the rival sects) must always be viscerally opposed to the rest of humanity (that is to say, all non-Muslims and all Muslims belonging to the rival sects). They are posited in a state of perpetual hostility and war, which is blessed as what is declared to be a divinely-ordained jihad. To fire their followers with hate, the clerics do not hesitate to use vile language, including choicest abuses, against their sectarian and religious rivals. Their lectures are peppered with references to wars fought between the early Muslims, led by the Prophet Muhammad, and their opponents, but are studiously silent on acts of reconciliation and dialogue with people of other faiths that also characterized the life of the Prophet. References to the wars fought by the Prophet (which, according to some Muslim scholars, were basically defensive in nature) are used as devices to mobilize support for wars (symbolic or real) that the clerics exhort their followers today to launch against those whom they identify as supposed 'enemies of Islam'—who, in effect, is everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim, other than adherents of their own particular sect.
One such cleric is a certain Maulana Manzur Ahmad, who preaches at the Jamia Masjid Ahl-e Hadith in the town of Sheikhupura. He belongs to the sternly literalist Ahl-e Hadith sect, which is almost identical with the Saudi Wahhabis. He appears to be an ardent supporter of the dreaded terrorist outfit Lashkar-e Tayyeba, as is apparent from his laudatory references to a certain top Lashkar ideologue. He begins his speech by haranguing the Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, calling him a 'thief', a 'sick man', a 'liar' and a 'caster of the lustful gaze at other's wives', and even a 'killer of his own wife' and a 'bastard'. He is particular incensed with Zardari for conniving with the Americans to unleash havoc in the country, and prays to God for him to be got rid of. Zardari is no democrat, of course, and his connivance with American imperialist designs in the region has earned him the wrath of vast numbers of Pakistanis, which radical Islamists like Maulana Ahmad are quick to tap and take advantage of.
But it is not just Zardari and his American patrons that are the target of the Maulana's ire. As the Maulana sees it, all non-Muslims and non-Ahl-e Hadith Muslims, encapsulated in the evocative term 'kufr' or 'infidelity', are supposedly mortal enemies of Islam and its adherents, and hence must be firmly fought. 'Infidelity' and those who uphold it are, so the Maulana seems to argue, engaged in a relentless war against Islam (which is to say, the Ahl-e Hadith version of it). This is a war that can have no resolution until 'infidelity' is completely wiped off or till 'infidels' (that is to say, everyone except the votaries of Ahl-e Hadith-style Islam) are firmly subdued. Thus, the Maulana triumphantly declares, 'The Wahhabi will press down kufr and hold aloft the flag of Unity of Allah.' In the Maulana's understanding, jihad is thus regarded as virtually synonymous with 'press[ing] down' 'infidelity', a ceaseless war against non-Muslims in general as well as, one supposes, Muslims of other sects, who are regarded by the Ahl-e Hadith as virtual infidels.
Maulana Muhammad Hanif, who preaches at the Jamia Masjid Loharan Wali in Attock, belongs to the Barelvi sect. The Barelvis follow a range of popular Sufi customs and beliefs which the Wahhabi Ahl-e Hadith and other Sunni groups, such as the Deobandis, regard as wholly 'un-Islamic' and as akin to polytheism. Accordingly, they regard the Barelvis as virtual apostates. The Barelvis answer them back in the same coin, branding them as unambiguously outside the Muslim pale. Radical Ahl-e Hadith and Deobandi activists have been responsible for blowing up Sufi shrines in Pakistan and killing large numbers of Barelvis, including their leaders. Not surprisingly, then, Maulana Hanif interprets jihad principally to galvanise his fellow Barelvis against the Wahhabis and the Deobandis, who, in the Pakistani context, appear as much greater and immediate threats to (the Barelvi version of) Islam than non-Muslims.
Maulana Hanif commences his impassioned lecture by referring to the war fought between Khalid bin al-Walid, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, and a false prophet named Musailama, shortly after the Prophet Muhammad's death. By claiming to be a prophet after the Prophet Muhammad, Musailama, the Maulana relates, defied the general Muslim belief that Muhammad was the last prophet. This, he says, necessitated the launching of war or physical jihad against him. 'Both sides raised the cry of Allahu Akbar ("God is Great!"), which scared the companions of the Prophet because they did not want to kill the believers in Oneness of Allah,' relates the Maulana. But Khalid insisted that they must fight on, for the followers of Musailama had denied the finality of the prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, the false prophet and his soldiers were killed.
The lesson that Barelvis must learn from this example, Maulana Hanif underscores, is that they must forever stridently oppose, resorting to physical violence in the name of jihad if need be, all those who deny the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad, including and particularly those who, in his estimate, falsely call themselves 'Muslims'. These are people, he says, who are, in effect, 'rebels against Islam', and who, though they take the name of the Prophet Muhammad 'on their tongues', do not actually believe him to be God's final prophet. He specifies in this regard the Qadianis, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of the town of Qadian in Punjab, who claimed to be a prophet, and whom other Muslims are unanimous in condemning as apostates.
But the list does not stop here, and Maulana Hanif goes on to club the Qadianis with the Deobandis, arch-rivals of both the Barelvis and the Qadianis. He appears to suggest that the Deobandis are somewhat in the same league as the Qadianis in terms of some of their beliefs (a claim that the Deobandis would, of course, would be quick to counter). To press his point, he refers to what the Barelvis regard as anti-Islamic passages in a book by a leading Deobandi cleric, Qasim Nanotawi, noting that the founder of the Barelvi sect, Ahmad Raza Khan, had denounced Nanotawi as an apostate for what he considered to be his un-Islamic views, which he suggests he shared with the Qadianis. He argues that the Deobandis do not share the same beliefs about the stature of the Prophet Muhammad as the Barelvis, and, that, hence, the Deobandis are, along with a host of others, including the Qadianis, firmly outside the Muslim pale. Further in his speech, he seems to equate activists of the Deobandi-inspired Tablighi Jamaat, the largest Muslim religious movement in the world, with the deadly Kharijites (lit: 'those who secede'), who were responsible for the slaughter of Ali, the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and the fourth Sunni Caliph and are not considered to be proper Muslims at all by Muslims in general.
Far from suggesting dialogue with the Deobandis and other Muslims (and with people of other faiths as well) in order to resolve their differences or to agree to live harmoniously despite them, Maulana Hanif insists on stressing and reinforcing these divisions, which serve as vital markers of identity that mark off the Barelvis from others and reinforce their claim to being the only 'true believers'. He goes to the extent of insisting that 'there will always be dispute between the rebels [non-Barelvis] and the defenders [Barelvis] […] They will never unite.' Even the slightest hint of pan-Muslim ecumenism across the sectarian divide is thus to be stamped out as sheer anathema.
With clerics of each Muslim sect describing their own sect as the sole authentic Islamic community, branding all others as deviant, un-Islamic and, sometimes, even as apostates, it is hardly surprising that efforts to promote dialogue between the different Muslim sects have proven to be virtually impossible. For the same reason, genuine inter-faith dialogue for justice, compassion and harmony between Muslims and others continues to flounder, often facing stiff opposition from self-righteous clerics, who believe that they alone possess the truth and that everyone else, and all other religions, are wholly false and ungodly. It is as if they know the mind of God, and that all other creatures of His are His enemies. This problem is made even more intractable by routine appeals to violence in the name of jihad, symbolic, at times, physical on other occasions, in order to actively fan hatred against other sects and people of other faiths, as the Pakistani case so starkly illustrates.
A regular columnist for NewAgeIslam.com, Yoginder Sikand works with the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion at the National Law School, Bangalore.
Islam is based on violence and jihad; and innocent Coptic Christians were slaughtered in their homeland so 2011, just like the 7th century, is based on blind hatred. The war within Islam is a joke - many of the early caliphs were killed by Muslims and relatives of Mohammed were killed by Muslims, therefore, it is just one long line of violence. A religion which sanctions cross amputation, stoning to death, killing apostates, and other barbaric methods, will always be at war with itself and against non-Muslims. Judaism once supported barbaric ways but Judaism reformed itself but how do you reform Mohammed? Islamic fanatics took the sword to India and killed Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, and others; then after carving up "mother India" the followers of Islam in Pakistan are killing each other and non-Muslims. And all in the name of an "Arabic God" which was taken from Pagan Arabs.
I think the time is ripe to savour this poem:
By giving in to the Maulanas,
The Islamic debate has shifted to Pyjamas*.
The principles no more open for discussion,
'Cut and paste' has now become a fashion,
The deep focus of debates is now on ankles,
One inch below or above only rankles.
Used to wearing long pants sweeping the floor,
Have always feared being questioned for attiring that far,
As much have I wondered,
Why the moral police were rooting for exposure?
When in fact,
All their attention should have been on to cover.
One day, my life was saved almost by a whisker
When death was being pronounced on the wearer of the low
My left leg trouser was found hung above the ankle
While the right length was below!
The sleight of hand of the tailor for cutting the length too short
(Which had in fact attracted my anger)
Proved handy for me to save the day,
Yes, the tailor was blamed for the longer length
While the benefit of doubt came my way
Rejoicing in my good luck,
I pray for the good health of the tailor,
Who cannot cut the lengths in equal,
And thus settles the score in my favor!!
Author's Note: *Pyjama is a trouser worn by Muslim clerics and by other Muslims for their Friday prayers. Fanatics insist on wearing the lengths of Pyjama above the ankles, transgression of which led to a fracas which further led to a death in Multan.
Dear Mr Sikand,
Will you be kind enough and express your own views on Mr Sultan Shahin's article ''Radical Islamism and Jihad'' to the issue of Ahle kitab vis-a-vis Hinduism which should be correctly called Vedantic religion and contextual mention of Christianity please.
Going by the cerebral fatwas of erudite Pakistani ulema, as revealed in their incitement to qital in the name of jihad described here, no Muslim would appear to be within the pale of Islam.
Who is within and who is outside the pale of Islam is thus perhaps the biggest question staring us as the War within Islam intensifies and goes beyond the ideological. I think we should expend a lot of intellectual energy on settling this question first. All our internecine wars flow from this. Can we go back to the simple, uncomplicated Islam the Prophet (PBUH) had left behind? Can we go back to the time when someone wanting to embrace Islam did not face the question: which Islam? Of course, we cannot go back, so we have to settle the issue in the here and now. Our ability to live peaceably in plural societies around the world will remain questionable until we learn to live peaceably among ourselves.
And let us not beguile ourselves with the thought that what is happening in Pakistan and West Asia or other parts of the Muslim world cannot happen here. Already clean-shaven Muslims are being pushed to back rows in the mosques and bearded ones asked to come forward, as if, the beard alone has become the distinction of a good Muslim. Similarly a non-hijabi girl in an American mosque gets the kind of looks and stares, if not lecturers, that dissuades us from going back to the mosque.
Yes, the situation in India will not degenerate exactly to the level of Pakistan as the sectarian killers-in-the-making here will not have state support. But many of us live in exclusive villages and urban ghettos where state may not be able to exercise much control. Ghettoised existence is a scary part of Muslim life in many parts of the West as well.


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Procedures classification for optimizing strategy assignment
Optimizing compilers make significant contribution to the performance of modern computer systems. Among them VLIW architecture processors are the most compiler-dependent, since their performance is ensured by effective compile time scheduling of multiple commands in a single clock. This leads to an eventual complication of VLIW compilers. Taking as an example optimizing compiler developed for the Elbrus family processors, it runs consequently over 300 stages of code optimization in basic mode. Such an amount of stages is needed to obtain decent performance, but it also makes compilation quite time consuming. It turns out that the main reason for compilation time increase when using high level compilation is applying some aggressive unreversable code transformations, which eventually leads to code size increase that is also unwanted. In addition, there remains the problem of using a number of optimizations that are useful for rare contexts. To reach the objectives, namely increasing performance, decreasing compilation time and code size, it is reasonable to choose an appropriate strategy on an early compilation stage according to some procedure specific characteristics. This paper discusses the procedures classification problems for this task and suggests several possible solutions.
Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming, vol. 27, issue 3, 2015, pp. 87-100
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Flexible Learning Leaders - Induction - Canberra - June 2004 & Workplace Visits
As a late inclusion into the FLL program, I travelled to Canberra for an Induction to the program with the project team.
Many thanks to Marie, Jenny, Jyothi, Thea and Cathy for making me feel welcome and for a thorough induction to the program.
I had the opportunity to have dinner with previous FLL - Wanda Jackson and lunches with current leaders - Kerry Trabinger, Emma Deutrom and Ellie Thompson. This was a perfect environment to "swap notes", network and to get a general understanding of what other leaders had planned for their year.
Utilising my time efectively whilst in Canberra, I took the opportunity to arrange orientations of workplaces applicable to my program focus of Remote & Indigenous.
The following faculties, organsiations and services were visiting to exchange knowledge and to gain an overview of their current methods of delivery:
*** Canberra Institute of Technology - Faculty of Business & IT - James Hamilton
James gave me an orientation of the Electronic Business Simulator prototype.
No! It's NOT a Toolbox!
Earlier this year, I was involved in an NT trial of this flexible method of delivery which supports the certificate/s - CertII Business, and CertII Information Technology.
Quite a high level of tecnical experience is required to "tailor" the simulator to your own participants needs. Still in the "tweaking stage" the simulator is very text based........Not a prefered method of my client base.
*** Canberra Institute of Technology - Australian Network of Practice Firms - Kath Billing
A practice firm is a simulated business that is set up and run by students as part of their study program with support from an educator and staff from a real business. Practice firms conduct business with other practice firms in a simulated market economy on a local, national or international basis.
Participation in a practice firm gives students real business insights and an awareness of business sensitivities. They develop skills in decision making, problem solving and in working with clients towards a positive outcome. Students learn to work effectively in a team and prioritise their work; they learn about accountability and daily work routines.
A practice firm often resembles the business on which it models itself, for example in its form, organisation and functions. As employees of the practice firm, students undertake market research, advertise, buy and sell goods; they work out their pay rates and receive a virtual salary to spend in ANPF.
Although there is no actual transfer of goods or money, all the usual business transactions take place: orders are sent, invoices issued, financial records maintained, and a business plan and marketing strategy developed and monitored. Students learn about business, but they also learn how business really works and how decisions are made. They test their skills in IT, customer relations, interpersonal relationships, negotiation, and time management.
Apparently students become highly motivated and engaged. This is "their" business! Hence the energy and enthusiasm is totally different to the standard classroom operation.
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I was made aware that Tauondi College operates a Practice Firm in Adelaide - "Virtual First Aid" who I plan to visit in when in Adelaide in July.
I would be very interested to see this simulated/virtual training methodology in practice within an Indigenous context.
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An Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service that provides a culturally safe holistic health service for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of the ACT and surrounding areas. I had an opportunity to meet with Sharon Ingram who orientated me to her organisation. We discused flexible modes of delivery and the underlying health issues that are affecting the Indigenous people of the ACT.
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Last March, the EU's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use said that Gilead's aztreonam lysine, a treatment for bacterial infections in cystic fibrosis patients, wasn't up to snuff. Like its American counterparts, the agency said it wanted to see results from additional trials before approving the drug.
Gilead appealed and, lo and behold, the agency did an about-face and recommended approval for the drug. Well, maybe it was more like a quarter-turn. The recommendation is for a conditional approval contingent on positive results from the ongoing studies. Still, it's better than nothing; at least Gilead would be able to sell the drug in the EU while the trials are occurring.
The therapy is an inhaled version of the active ingredient in Elan's
Drug companies sometimes appeal decisions by regulatory agencies, but it's often a waste of the paper they're written on. For instance, Encysive Pharmaceuticals -- now part of Pfizer
Gilead is in the process of expanding from an HIV specialist to a more diversified drug company with therapies for cystic fibrosis and heart diseases. Perhaps it should consider expanding into writing briefs for attorneys appealing to the Supreme Court.
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QLD Youth Boost Payment – up to $20,000 for eligible employers
QLD Youth Boost Payment – up to $20,000 for eligible employers
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As part of the Queensland Government's Back to Work scheme, Queensland employers may now be eligible for a Youth Boost Payment of up to $20,000.
To be eligible, employers must have hired an unemployed young person (aged 15-24) between 1 December 2016 and 28 February 2017 (inclusive).
What funding is available?
Once approved, funding of $20,000 (for a full-time employee) is paid in three parts:
- first payment of $6,000 after 4 weeks of continuous employment
- second payment of $7,000 after 26 weeks of continuous employment
- final payment of $7,000 on completion of 52 weeks of continuous employment
Eligible part-time jobs between 20 and 35 hours per week on average attract 75% of the full Youth Boost payment (i.e. $15,000 over 12 months in three payments).
Who is an eligible employee?
An eligible employee is a person who:
- is aged 15-24 years on the date they commence employment with the employer making the application
- is a permanent resident living in Queensland
- was unemployed for at least four weeks directly prior to commencing employment with the eligible employer
- commenced paid work with the eligible employer between 1 December 2016 and 28 February 2017 (inclusive)
- has worked for the employer for at least four weeks prior to application
- has not undertaken paid work for the employer in the 52 weeks prior to their commencement date
- is not a full-time student
Who is an eligible employer?
All employers who hire an eligible employee in a regional Queensland job are eligible except for government entities including local, State and Commonwealth government, government-owned corporations and statutory bodies.
Youth Boost Payments are available for apprenticeships and traineeships where the employer is not eligible for Queensland's Apprentice Trainee rebate for payroll tax.
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I want very much to eat at McDonald's today.
In Canada.
If you are a regular reader of this blog (not likely) or have ever read it before (slightly more likely), you might be aware that I am obsessed with the Moby Illustrated Classics that used to come in the McDonald's Happy Meal between 1978-1983. I did a whole series on it last summer. The odd and unexpected decision by a fast food corporation to promote literacy by including kid-sized adaptations of the classics with their most popular kid-oriented offering changed my life, and I will be forever grateful.
And look: what do I find in the LA Times this morning? They're doing it again! In Canada. This is great news. Mostly for Canada, but still. (And embedded in Michael Schaub's story is that video of PM Trudeau explaining quantum computing which will make you weep with envy, that Canada elected a leader who can connect brain to tongue and is curious about the world and educated and…. oh god… [weeps])
This time around, the kids are given a choice between book or toy, and the books are picture books from the excellent Kids Can Press, publishers of such soon-to-be classics as A Horse Named Steve and No Girls Allowed.
As Carolyn Kellogg reported in 2015 and 2016, McD's did the same thing in the U.S. the last few years, even offering books in Spanish, with partners Reading Is Fundamental and HarperCollins.
Though there is a part of me that kinda wishes they weren't picture books, but more text-based, like the ones I found in my Happy Meals, according to a comment in Kellogg's 2015 story, it sounds like the goal was to increase family reading time. Obviously, that's a worthy idea.
Huzzah for the Happy Meal, I say. (You can even get apple slices or yogurt these days.) Keep up the good work. Don't you love those rare times you're pleasantly surprised by a massive corporation? And parents, be ready to take advantage of when/if they bring books back to the Happy Meal; it could be your chance to get those reading hooks into your kids.
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In a playful, surprising and thought-provoking portrait of our time on earth, National Geographic demonstrates, in a series of remarkable visuals, what makes up an average human life today and how everything we do has impact on the world around us. In Human Footprint, it shows all the people you will ever know, how much waste you will produce, the amount of fuel you'll consume and how much you've got to pack in during your 2,475,526,000 seconds on earth.
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I love your Beads of Courage. Decorated beads like the ones you drew always fascinate me and the little square letter ones remind me of the newborn baby bracelet beads that spell their name. Beautiful! I love how you used the purple in your New To Me tile - you did a great job on Genevieve's tangles!ReplyDelete
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Now that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has moved use of tanning beds to the highest cancer risk of being "carcinogenic to humans," it is a good time for tanning bed worshippers to consider an alternative form of tanning. Airbrush tanning involves a 20 minute session where a trained technician sprays a special tanning liquid all over one's body. Is it safe to be sprayed head to toe with a tanning solution?
Airbrush tanning uses a chemical called dihydroxyacetone (DHA) which causes the outer cells of our skin, the epidermis, to darken. The solution is sugar based and continues to develop in color over the next 8-12 hours after it is applied. A bronzer is usually also added to give an initial colored tan, but the bronzer washes off after the first shower which can be taken 8 hours after getting an airbrush tan. An airbrush tan lasts about 5 to 7 days and is not absorbed into the body.
DHA is FDA approved for external application but is not deemed safe for application to lips, mucous membranes or if inhaled. If you decide to get an airbrush tan, a technician will spray the DHA tanning solution onto you. Make sure not to let the spray get inside your mouth or genital area, eyes or inside your nose. The FDA recommends wearing protective eye goggles and even nose plugs in your nose.
Some spas have misting booths where you stand inside and a nozzle sprays the tan onto you. However, that requires moving into special positions to get total coverage and exposes you to potentially inhaling the DHA that is in the air. You can hold your breath when the spray is on but since the mist is still in the air after the spray shuts off, you will still be breathing in DHA.
Skin rashes have occurred to people who are sensitive or allergic to DHA or the bronzers so it might be a good idea to do a patch test on an inconspicuous part of your body before a real session. Don't forget, you still need to wear sunscreen with an airbrush tan as it does not give you any protection from the sun's UV rays.
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We love these types of articles because there are so many people who want a healthy alternative to traditional UV tanning but don't know the options. An airbrush client should also be aware of how to properly prepare for and care for their sunless tans so they get the longevity out of their cosmetic tan.
A well-written and informative article. Here in Australia there is alot of concern of the risks involved with solarium (tanning bed) tanning. And as a result airbrush spray tanning and auto booth spray tanning has become more popular. I put together a website http://solarium-and-spray-tan-guide.com/ (which is a work in progress, comments are warmly welcomed) covering the two main types of non-natural sun tanning. Would love any feedback on there and also happy to reference this article if you like. Thanks, WillisJuly 27, 2010 - 6:19am
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The shear modulus of two-dimensional liquid foams in the dry limit of low liquid content has been studied theoretically. The focus is on the effect of geometrical disorder on the shear modulus (besides the influence of surface tension). Various theoretical predictions are formulated that are all based on the assumptions of isotropic geometrical characteristics, incompressible bubbles, and negligible edge curvature. Three of these predictions are based on a transformation of Princen's theory that is strictly valid only for regular hexagonal bubbles. Another prediction takes into account variations in bubble areas by considering the foam as consisting of approximately regular hexagonal bubbles with varying areas. Two other predictions are solely based on the characteristics of the bubble edges. The first of these is based on the assumption of affine movement of bubble vertices, while the second accounts for nonaffine deformation by considering the interaction with neighboring edges. The theoretical predictions for the shear modulus are compared with the result from a single foam simulation. For the single simulation considered, all predictions, except that based on affine movement of bubble vertices, are close to the value obtained from this simulation.
Example of a two-dimensional foam: bubbles, edges, vertices, and edge vector; adapted from Ref. 4
Schematic of micromechanics: constitutive relations at macroscale and microscale levels, averaging and localization; adapted from Ref. 15
Geometry of a regular hexagonal bubble
Length and orientation of a straight edge
Geometry of the neighborhood of an edge
Edge orientation distribution function E(θ0) from simulation; dotted line: E(θ0) for isotropic foam geometry
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Many women work in the advertising field in California and around the country. A study indicates that a majority of women who work in the industry have been sexually harassed while they were working on the job.
Are English-only rules at work national origin discrimination?
Some businesses in California and across the nation are implementing rules that require their employees to speak only English at the workplace. Rules like this are considered discriminatory by some, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. English-only rules at workplaces could be legal under certain circumstances, but they could also be legal discrimination under others.


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【tdr0507】The sale number of popular wagon food "popcorn" is enormous!?
The typical wagon food of Tokyo Disney Resort "popcorn".
There are various flavors are provided such as typical salt flavor, caramel flavor, unstoppable butter soy sauce flavor, sweet addiction honey flavor, chocolate flavor, and unique curry flavor, so it is hard to decided which one to order.
Also, "bucket" that changes limitedly is one of attractions too.
When purchasing popcorn with bucket you can walk around with it by hanging from the neck and it can be used as storage box for small items at home, so many guests purchase it for memory.
Probably there are people that room is full of buckets.
That's how much this wagon food is popular. So, the total sale number is amazingly enormous.
To count regular box as one and when counting the sale numbers since the opening of Disneyland to 2012, it is over 100 million.
This is just amazing.
It can be eaten easily and cute looking popcorn.
To exceed 200 million is just around the corner.
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An update about the hovering body in my hallway, dear strangers.
(Read Part 1)
As I described in my earlier report, the body is nonphysical—I was able to reach my hand through his torso—and is pressed face-first against the ceiling, the way an ordinary body would lie facedown on a floor. Because he's so close to the ceiling, I was initially unable to see his features.
My solution was to Sawzall a hole in the ceiling, cutting a circle around his head, so I could see him through the floor of the hallway above. This was messier and more challenging than expected, but after I cut a crude hole in the ceiling, I walked upstairs, coated in plaster dust, and finished the hole from the upper hallway.
It was psychologically difficult using a Sawzall in close proximity to what appeared to be a live human head. I was relieved to see that throughout the process, the man's expression remained unperturbed. The sawdust and plaster drifted through his head to the hallway below, and I was left with a rough but sufficient portal.
The hovering man's head was then visible eighteen inches below in the hole, separated from me by the joisted gap between the house's two levels. The gap was dark. A flashlight would have been useless because he was non-corporeal; light would have simply passed through his head. Fortunately, he was faintly self-illuminating, and his pinkish-gray face glowed up at me with excellent clarity.
His eyes were open. They didn't blink. He was bald and lacked stubble, eyebrows, and eyelashes, which gave his head and face an embryonic smoothness I found both repulsive and fascinatingly generic. I wondered why his hair had vanished in the afterlife.
As I had earlier suspected, he was silently mouthing words, and because he didn't move his eyes left or right, his mysterious soliloquy seemed directed at me with unsettling intensity.
I have little experience with lip-reading, but by emptying my mind and allowing instinct to guide me, I started to interpret some of what he said. After many minutes of watching, I recognized the pattern of his mouth's movements and determined that he was speaking a single repeated sentence:
"I never told you what happened that night."
I sat away from the hole, with my back against the wall, and pondered his words. To whom was he attempting to speak? What had happened on the night in question? Such answers were impossible to guess, but I imagined the man speaking to his lover, or his child, about an incident in darkness—a night of so much meaning in the story of their lives that he'd persisted after death in order to express it.
As I daydreamed various scenarios—a fatal accident, murder, betrayal, maybe a missed opportunity of necessary love—I began to absentmindedly stare upward. My eyes zeroed in on a strange protrusion in the ceiling.
I stood for a closer look and discovered it was a nose and upper lip. They were the same pinkish gray as the man's spectral form below, and I realized I was looking at parts of a second hovering body, nearly all of which was hidden in the space between the ceiling and the crawl-space attic above…
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