April 3, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. will demonstrate its latest advances in connectivity and workflow integration technology on its SonoSite Turbo ultrasound system platform, during the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) 2009 Conference April 4-8 in Chicago.
As a participant at the HIMSS' Interoperability Showcase, SonoSite will conduct live demonstrations on its M-Turbo system to show how it communicates with multiple DICOM compliant products to expedite workflow. Both the M-Turbo and S Series ultrasound product lines support the following DICOM functions of storage commitment, modality performed procedure step (MPPS), modality work list (MWL), print and archive.
SonoSite's participation in the HIMSS exhibit is based on its success at the 2009 North America Connectathon, in February, when SonoSite passed a series of tests that successfully demonstrated its versatile communication capabilities.


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History's Mysteries
This is a party game called "History's Mysteries." It is a fun way to spend a few minutes, and it should provoke a fun conversation. It is aimed at the average person - no PhD's required. Hope it works for you!
Play alone, or better yet, invite a small group to participate.
Get a pencil, a piece of paper, and a calculator.
Participants are asked to call out the most famous dates that they can think of in all of history, excluding dates after 1950. For each date, only the year is needed.
Make a list of the dates that are given - at least 10, and no more than 20. This is the "long list."
Participants are then asked to decide which of these dates are the most famous. By this method, reduce the list down to a list of seven dates. This is the "short list."
IMPORTANT: Do not read further until the above steps have been completed.
On the calculator, enter the number 2060, and then subtract 71 repeatedly. (Subtract 71 once, and then just keep hitting the "equals" key to repeat the subtraction.)
On both the "long list" and the "short list" of dates, check off each date that the calculator matches. Continue until the calculator has given 30 dates, and then stop.
Results may vary slightly depending upon the group or the individual.
How many of the seven dates from the "short list" did the calculator match? (Was it between 3 and 5?) How did this happen?
Cool site.
i'm in the smartest class in my grade & I still only have this to say..."huh???"
It's not really a game is it? Not a very good game for kids to participate in either
so much for the average person most ppl dont want to know the most famous dates!
i dont like it personally.... sounds like a school game
ppl prob. think of the same AMAZING dates. for me its my bday...every year
it sonuds a bit like a game you would play as a 'treat' in a maths lesson, it is very confusing to understand as well.
too much like schoolwork
that is personal
wat if u r stupid or dunno history so u can't play cz u dunno any dates. u should have a list of dates in a book or sumthen and hav to pick sum out of it. it alot easier. especialy for people who dunno there history!!!!!!!

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The Habsburgs
Velazqueña
Spain and Italy
Confluencias
The King's Men
Spain in America
El Greco Comes to America. The Discovery of a Modern Old Master
Inge Reist and José Luis Colomer (eds.)
264 pages; 156 color illustrations; hardcover with jacket; 24.5 x 29.5 cm
English; published by The Frick Collection in association with the CEEH and the CSA; 2017
48.08€ VAT not included
This book celebrates the superlative examples of El Greco's work in American collections. The artist's idiosyncratic style emanated a kind of modernism that resonated with collectors in the New World, resulting in American museums owning many of El Greco's finest works outside Spain. Eleven scholars address topics that focus on individual collectors including Arabella Huntington, Louisine Havemeyer, Henry Clay Frick, Peter Widener, and Duncan Phillips, while also addressing the impact of exhibitions and the role of artist-advisers such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Roger Fry.
Basing their observations on a wealth of archival material, much of it never previously published, the authors of this volume bring to light how strenuously American collectors competed for works by El Greco and how prominently they displayed the artist's paintings in their homes, often thoughtfully positioned near works by more modern masters such as Degas or Manet. In doing so, and in promoting the acquisition of El Greco's paintings by the public institutions these collectors supported, they burnished the international reputation of the artist for a modern audience, ensuring an appreciation of his unique style into the twenty-first century.
Inge Reist holds a PhD from the University of Columbia, where she taught for several years, and is director of the Center for the History of Collecting of the Frick Art Reference Library. She has also directed the photographic archives of the Frick Collection and has been president of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. She is an expert in the history of collecting, on which she has published papers and given lectures at many museums and conferences. She has coedited Provenance: An Alternative Art History (2012) with Gail Feigenbaum, though she remains interested in other fields, as evidenced by "All the World's a Stage: The Theater Conceit in Early Modern Italy" for the Blackwell Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art (2012).
José Luis Colomer holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna and a degree in Art History from the Sorbonne. He currently directs the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica and the Center for Spain in America. His research addresses cultural relations between Spain and Italy in the seventeenth century through diplomatic agents and the exchange of gifts of artworks between the European courts and Spanish kings and queens, as well as Velázquez's second journey to Rome and his connections with prominent Italians at the court of Madrid. In 2012 he coedited the volumen Collecting Spanish Art: Spain's Golden Age and America's Gilded Age with Inge Reist.
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Archivo Español de Arte
Son of the Laocoön
Alonso Berruguete and Pagan Antiquity
Manuel Arias Martínez (ed.)
Dibujos de Luis Paret y Alcázar (1746-1799)
Alejandro Martínez Pérez
Dibujos de Rosario Weiss (1814-1843)
Carlos Sánchez Díez
El Greco Comes to America
The Discovery of a Modern Old Master
Zurbarán. Jacob and His Twelve Sons
Paintings from Auckland Castle
Susan Grace Galassi, Edward Payne, Mark A. Roglán (eds.)
Carreño de Miranda. Dibujos
Cristina Agüero Carnerero (ed.)
Les Espagnes de Mérimée
Jean Canavaggio
Copied by the Sun
Talbotype Illustrations to the "Annals of the Artists of Spain"
by Sir William Stirling Maxwell
Hilary Macartney and José Manuel Matilla
Ceán Bermúdez
Historiador del arte y coleccionista ilustrado
Elena Mª. Santiago Páez (ed.)
Chinese Porcelain in Habsburg Spain
Cinta Krahe
Vicente Carducho. Dibujos. Catálogo razonado
Álvaro Pascual Chenel and Ángel Rodríguez Rebollo
Sorolla in America: Friends and Patrons
José Luis Colomer, Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Mark A. Roglán (eds.)
Escribir la corte de Felipe IV
El diario del marqués de Osera, 1657-1659
Santiago Martínez Hernández (ed.)
Secrets and Glory
Baron Taylor and his Voyage Pittoresque en Espagne
Alisa Luxenberg
Collecting Spanish Art: Spain's Golden Age and America's Gilded Age
Joyas en España. 1500–1800
Priscilla E. Muller
Jewels in Spain. 1500–1800
Grabadores extranjeros en la Corte española del Barroco
Javier Blas, María Cruz de Carlos and José Manuel Matilla
An Ardent Patron
Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his Antiquarian and Artistic Circle
Lisa Beaven
Códices de la Capilla Sixtina
Manuscritos miniados en colecciones españolas
Elena De Laurentiis and Emilia Anna Talamo
La colección de libros impresos del IV Duque de Uceda en la Biblioteca Nacional de España
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Margarita Martín Velasco
Las Artes de la Paz. Ensayos
José Guillermo García Valdecasas
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Alicia Cámara Muñoz
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He wanted a veggie burger for his first back to school lunch box.
cook on a well buttered pan on medium heat until browned on each side.


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Qur'anic misconceptions addressed
Clarification of misconceptions, allegations, criticism, and slander against the Noble Qur'an and its Messenger (ﷺ)
Surah al-Kahf
Maqasid
Islam's attitude towards crying at the death of loved ones
Abu Rahma / January 4, 2014
Human emotion is a very natural and normal way of expressing ourselves. All people have different emotions and they want to express them in their own way – whether these emotions are sadness, happiness, anger or grief. In an attempt to disconnect people from Islam and dehumanize the religion, some critics have said that Islam does not allow people to experience grief and that crying is completely not allowed on occasions such as the death of a loved one. As it happens too often, these claims lack substantiated proof or understanding of the proof that is cited. Even more surprising is that these critics do not look into their own religious texts to find out what their religion says about these types of emotions; if they did, they would find very similar lines of thought. This article will examine the evidence that the critics bring to the table, and then show the full explanation of each of these proofs in their proper light.
Missionary critics of Islam quote a narration relating to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) where excessive crying has been disliked and at the same time quote a passage from the Bible indicating that Prophet Eisa (Jesus) (عليه السلام) was a very kind and soft-hearted man who used to get very emotional when people cried and used to cry with them. These opposing passages make the former appear cruel and the latter appear his exact opposite. The reality is however quite different. Both messengers of Allah were among the greatest men who ever lived. Such opposing passages, as a result of selective pick-and-choose while backing it up with emotions will surely present the last prophet of God in bad light.
2. Islam's attitude towards expression of sorrow
Before dwelling on this hadith, we need to understand Islam's attitude towards expression of sorrow. According to a hadith, the Prophet said one of two voices are cursed, both in this life and the hereafter:"Screaming in adversity."[1]
In another report we read:
عن جابر بن عبد الله قال: أخذ النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بيد عبد الرحمن بن عوف، فانطلق به إلى ابنه إبراهيم، فوجده يجود بنفسه، فأخذه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، فوضعه في حجره فبكى، فقال له عبد الرحمن: أتبكي؟ أولم تكن نهيت عن البكاء؟ قال: " لا، ولكن نهيت عن صوتين أحمقين فاجرين: صوت عند مصيبة، خمش وجوه، وشق جيوب، ورنة شيطان
Jabir bin 'Abdullah narrated: "The Prophet took 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Awf by the hand and went with him to his son Ibraheem. He found him in his last breaths, so he took him and out him on his lap and cried. 'Abdur-Rahman said to him: 'You cry? Didn't you prohibit (your followers) from crying?' He said: 'No. But I prohibited two foolish immoral voices: A voice during a calamity while clawing at one's calf and tearing one's clothes, and Satan's scream.'"[2]
The permitted and prohibited in this issue are beautifully summed up in the following saying of the blessed Prophet:
ابكين، وإياكن ونعيق الشيطان ، ثم قال: " إنه مهما كان من العين والقلب، فمن الله، ومن الرحمة، وما كان من اليد واللسان، فمن الشيطان "
"Weep, but avoid the crying of the Devil. Whatever comes from eye and heart is from Allah and is a sign of mercy, and whatever comes from hand and tongue is from the Devil."[3]
Clearly, Islam does not suppress natural expression of sorrow; it only forbids screaming and self-beating, etc.
In the light of such reports, scholars of Islam have summarized his guidance in these words:
النهي عن عادة الأمم التي لا تؤمن بالبعث والنشور، من لطم الخدود، وشق الثياب، وحلق الرءوس، ورفع الصوت بالندب، والنياحة وتوابع ذلك. وسن الخشوع للميت، والبكاء الذي لا صوت معه، وحزن القلب، وكان يفعل ذلك ويقول: «تدمع العين ويحزن القلب ولا نقول إلا ما يرضي الرب» وسن لأمته الحمد والاسترجاع، والرضى عن الله، ولم يكن ذلك منافيا لدمع العين وحزن القلب،
"He forbade the practices of those who do not believe in the Resurrection, such as striking the cheeks, tearing the clothes, shaving off the head, raising the voice in lament, wailing and such like. He prescribed humility towards the dead, crying without raising the voice and sadness of the heart and he used to do these things and he said: 'The eye weeps and the heart grieves, but we do not say anything except that pleases the Lord.' And he prescribed for his people gratefulness (as opposed to ungratefulness) and recovery (from grief in submitting one's self to the Creator by saying, 'To Allah we belong and unto Him shall we return.') and to accept Allah's will. This is not opposed to tears of the eye and grief of the heart."[4]
Such reasonable restraint was especially important on the martyrdom of the Muslim soldiers because an over-reaction could discourage the people who fight in the way of Islam. If the mujahideen were to witness women crying in such a way, it could possibly affect their resolve in the battlefield with thoughts of their own women in case they were to fall.
2.1 Biblical instruction of similar import
In fact, the Bible also takes exception to exaggerated mourning. God tells Ezekiel on the death of his wife:
"Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners."[5]
In Matthew-Henry's commentary, it is explained as:
"Though mourning for the dead be a duty, yet it must always be kept under the government of religion and right reason, and we must not sorrow as those that have no hope, nor lament the loss of any creature, even the most valuable, and that which we could worst spare, as if we had lost our God, or as if all our happiness were gone with it;"[6]
3. The narration and its rightful understanding
The narration quoted by the missionary critics of Islam is reproduced here:
Narrated 'A'ishah: When the news of the martyrdom of Zayd bin Harithah, Ja'far and 'Abdullah bin Rawahah came, the Prophet sat down looking sad, and I was looking through the chink of the door. A man came and said, "O Allah's Messenger! The women of Ja'far," and then he mentioned their crying. The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered him to stop them from crying. The man went and came back and said, "I tried to stop them but they disobeyed." The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered him for the second time to forbid them. He went again and came back and said, "They did not listen to me (or us – the sub-narrator Muhammad bin Hawshab is in doubt as to which is right)." 'A'ishah added: The Prophet said, "Put dust in their mouths." I said (to that man), "'May Allah stick your nose in the dust (i.e. humiliate you).' By Allah, you could neither fulfill the order (stop the women from crying); besides you did not relieve Allah's Messenger from distress."[7]
3.1 Meaning of the phrase "Put dust in their mouths"
The phrase "put dust in their mouths" is not to be understood literally. It is a proverbial way to suggest the need to shun something with disapproval when it becomes annoying.
In an explanation to the very hadith under consideration, Mulla Ali al-Qari (d. 1014 AH) says:
والظاهر أنه ههنا كناية عن تركهن على حالهن لعدم نفع النصيحة بهن من حال ضجرهن في جزعهن
"Evidently here it is a metaphor for leaving them in their state for the lack of any benefit of advice in their impatience due to grief."[8]
The same expression is used in another hadith which shows it was simply a metaphor.
عن أنس، قال: " كان للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم تسع نسوة، فكان إذا قسم بينهن، لا ينتهي إلى المرأة الأولى إلا في تسع، فكن يجتمعن كل ليلة في بيت التي يأتيها، فكان في بيت عائشة، فجاءت زينب، فمد يده إليها، فقالت: هذه زينب، فكف النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يده، فتقاولتا حتى استخبتا، وأقيمت الصلاة، فمر أبو بكر على ذلك، فسمع أصواتهما، فقال: اخرج يا رسول الله إلى الصلاة، واحث في أفواههن التراب، فخرج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقالت عائشة: الآن يقضي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاته، فيجيء أبو بكر فيفعل بي ويفعل، فلما قضى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاته، أتاها أبو بكر، فقال لها قولا شديدا، وقال: أتصنعين هذا "
Anas said: "The Prophet had nine wives, and when he divided his time among them, he did not come back to the first one until the ninth day. Every night they used to gather in the house of the one whose night it was. He was in 'A'ishah's house and Zaynab came and he reached out his hands towards her. 'A'ishah said: 'This is Zaynab,' and the Prophet withdrew his hand. They argued and raised their voices, and the iqamah was called for prayer. Abu Bakr came past at that point and heard their voices, so he said: 'Come out for the prayer, O Messenger of Allah, and throw dust in their mouths.' The Prophet came out, and 'A'ishah said: 'Now the Prophet will finish his prayer and come, and Abu Bakr will come and do such-and-such to me.' When the Prophet had finished his prayer, Abu Bakr came to her and spoke sternly to her, and said: 'Do you behave like this?'"[9]
Commenting to it, as-Sindi (d. 1138 AH) writes:
والمراد: اتركهن واعرض عنهن حتى يسكتن بسكوت من في فمه التراب، فلا يقدر على التكلم
"And the meaning is: Leave them until they become quite like the one who has mud in his mouth and is unable to speak."[10]
It certainly has similar meanings in the narration about the incident in question.
3.2 Reflections on the hadith
There are many important details that must be highlighted for the correct understanding of the hadith.
The blessed Prophet was himself sad at the demise of his beloved Companions, especially Ja'far.
He himself did not go after or even take notice of the women of Ja'far.
A person came to him as if complaining about something wrong on the part of women of the household of Ja'far.
Understanding that some women were perhaps really behaving the wrong way, the Prophet asked for it to be stopped it but the man kept coming again and again, only with complaints about the women.
At last the Prophet said, "Put dust in their mouths."
'A'ishah's final statement in the narration shows she understood that the Prophet was irritated by the man's behavior. This is why she reprimanded the man for neither stopping the women nor helping the Prophet get over his distress.
In fact the true significance of the hadith becomes clear only from the final words of 'A'ishah. Anwar Shah al-Kashmiri (d. 1352 AH) explains this:
أي لو كنتَ قعدت في بيتك ولم تُواجِه رسولَ الله صلى الله عليه وسلّم بما يكرُهُه كان أحسنَ لك، فلا أَنَّك تفعلُ ما يَطِيب بنفسه، ولا تمتنِعُ عما يكرهُه. فهذا كله يأتي في محل الكراهةِ مع إمكانِ الإِغماض عنها. وهذا الذي أرادَتْ مِنْ قولها: «ولم تترك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلّم … إلخ. أي إذا كان بكاؤهُنَّ في حدِّ الإغماض، فلك أَنْ لا تُخبر به رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلّم فتدعهن وبكاءهن. ولكنَّك لا تَقْدِر أن تفعلَ ما أُمِرت به
"It means: if you were to sit in your house and were not to bring to Messenger of Allah's attention what displeased him it was better for you. You neither did what pleased him nor stopped what displeased him and all this is itself from distress even though it could have been overlooked. This is what she meant by her words 'you did not relieve Allah's Messenger from distress,' i.e. if their weeping was to the extent that could be tolerated you should have not informed the Messenger of Allah of it and left them and their weeping. But (once you informed the Prophet), you were not able to carry out what you were ordered to."[11]
To summarize: the Prophet was already disturbed due to the demise of his beloved Companions and while he had himself had not known what the women of Ja'far's household were doing, a man came to him and told him of their weeping and crying. Considering that a man came to make a complaint, he thought they were overdoing it and therefore asked him to stop them. Failing to stop the women, he came to the Prophet again only to have same command repeated. But he turned up once again with the same complaint. At this point the blessed Prophet said "throw dust in their mouths," i.e. 'Shun them until they become quite like the one who has mud in his mouth and is unable to speak.' 'A'ishah – may Allah be pleased with her – also reprimanded the man for his behavior that only added to the distress of the Prophet.
It is thus clear that in this hadith there is no direct reproof for the women of Ja'far. It was the behavior of the man that made the Prophet utter that phrase.
4. Some Biblical narratives of apathetic behavior of Jesus
Before discussing the narrations related to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) let us look at something similar in the Bible:
"And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.""[12]
Other translations use the words "shouting", "pleading", "cry out" and "shout" instead of 'crying' – all words indicating the severity of her cry. She came from her region travelling a lot only to find cure to her pains indicating even further the pain and suffering she was encountering and her choice of words while begging for mercy further enlighten the readers to the level of distraught and sadness she was suffering from. However, the response she received appears troublesome:
"Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us."[13]
True that Jesus eventually listened to her and healed her, but we see the woman was rebuked for crying but when she surrendered and accepted being called a dog, that moved him and made him realize her level of faith and so he helped but initial reaction to crying and shouting was apathetic.
We find other passages in the New Testament that indicate that the Biblical Jesus was portrayed as somewhat cold at times:
The following is a conversation that Jesus had with his disciples:
He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God." Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family." Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."[14]
If we were to use the same strategy as the missionaries and cherry pick statements out of context to portray the Messengers of God in bad light, then such passages provide the best opportunity. Applying the same logic as that used by the anti-Islamic missionaries, one would reach the conclusion that Eisa (Jesus) (عليه السلام) was a cruel and cold hearted man.
Jesus did not allow another man to return to his family and bid them farewell. Ignoring all context and any sound commentary and using hate and twisted logic, one would reach the conclusion that Eisa (Jesus) (عليه السلام) did not care about other people. However, we as Muslims, refuse to accept such an absurdity.
5. Reports about 'A'ishah and Fatimah beating themselves in grief
Though we have shown the Islamic position on various expressions of sorrow through the sayings of the Lawgiver, we take this opportunity to address reports about the Prophet's beloved wife 'A'ishah and his youngest and most beloved daughter Fatimah self-beating in grief.
5.1 Did Fatimah beat herself on hearing the rumor of Prophet's death?
The missionaries quote from a Shiite polemic write-up on a random online forum a statement with reference to Persian work Madarij al-Nabuwwah of 'Abdul-Haqq ad-Dehlawi (d. 1052 AH/1642 AC). The way they put it is:
"Fatimah az-Zahra, hearing the rumor of the martyrdom of the blessed Prophet at Uhud, came out of her house running and beating her head."[15]
We reproduce the actual statement and analyze it. Giving the details of Battle of Uhud, he writes:
از غرائب روایات است کہ در معارج النبوہ آوردہ کہ آواز شیطان کہ بقتل محمد صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ندا میکرد بمدینہ رسید تا در خانیای مدینہ نیز مشنیدند و فاطمہ زہرا رضی اللہ عنہا چون این آواز شنید دست برسر زنان از خانہ بیرون دوید و میگریست و ہم زنان ہاشمیہ می نالیدند
"From the strange reports (ghara'ib riwayat) is what it is stated in the book Maʻarij an-Nubuwwah that the Devil's cry "Muhammad has been killed" reached Madinah and was heard in the houses there. And that when Fatimah az-Zahra – may Allah be pleased with her – heard this voice, she put her hand on the heads of the women and came running out of her house and wept, and the Hashmite women also cried."[16]
Firstly, it is to be noted that the narration does not say anything like "beating her head;" it rather suggests she was with some women and as she allegedly heard the voice she left the gathering to come out running and in the process placed or rested her hands on the heads of women she was with. There is no idea of self-beating here.
Moreover, it is important to note that ad-Dehlawi has termed this report as odd (ghareeb) and he quoted it only on the authority of a little known work Maʻarij an-Nubuwwah. This work is actually al-Haj Muhammad Mu'in al-Farahi's (d. 954 AH/1501 AC) biography of the Prophet in Persian, Maʻarij an-Nubuwwah fee Madarij al-Futuwwah.[17]
Reference to such a late, secondary and obscure work cannot be used to prove an act of a Companion, let alone to make suggestions on Islamic etiquettes and rulings.
What makes this report even more dubious is the fact that no such reaction is reported from Sayyidah Fatimah after the actual demise of the blessed Prophet some eight years after the Battle of Uhud.
It is amazing that these missionaries take information without verifying their sources, which causes their writings to lack objectivity.
5.2 On the report about 'A'ishah beating herself at Prophet's death
There is a report about Sayyidah 'A'ishah's crying and self-beating at the death of the Prophet. It is reported in Sirat Ibn Hisham, Tarikh at-Tabari, Musnad Ahmad and other books that 'A'ishah said:
مات رسول الله ص بين سحري ونحري وفي دوري، ولم أظلم فيه أحدا، فمن سفهي وحداثة سني أن رسول الله قبض وهو في حجري، ثم وضعت رأسه على وسادة، وقمت ألتدم مع النساء، وأضرب وجهي
"The Messenger of God died on my bosom during my turn, and I did not wrong anyone in regard to him. It was because of my ignorance and youthfulness that the Messenger of God died while he was in my lap. Then I laid his head on a pillow and got up beating my chest and slapping my face along with the women"[18]
Clearly 'A'ishah attributed her actions to her ignorance and youthfulness, suggesting that she had realized her mistake and repented.
In fact, it appears this reaction of 'A'ishah and other women was just for a very short while, for it is reported from other Companions that the Prophet was not wailed over.
عن حكيم بن قيس، أن قيس بن عاصم، قال: لا تنوحوا علي، فإن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لم ينح عليه
It was narrated from Hakim bin Qays that Qays bin 'Asim said: "Do not wail over me, for no one wailed over the Messenger of Allah."[19]
Abu Hurayrah also reported the same.[20]
6. Summary and Conclusion
1- Islam takes a very balanced approach towards expression of sorrow and while it forbids wailing and self-flagellation, it recognizes the grief of heart and shedding of tears as natural and honors such expression.
2- In the hadith about the women of Ja'far, the reproof is more for the man who came to the Prophet time and again only with complaints while the blessed Prophet was himself sitting grieved. The final statement of 'A'ishah confirms this.
3- The expression "put dust in their mouths" means 'Shun them until they become quite like the one who has mud in his mouth and is unable to speak.' It is not to be taken literally as evident from the report of Abu Bakr using it for 'A'ishah and other wives of the Prophet who raised their voices to him.
4- There is no proof that Fatimah beat her head on hearing the rumor of Prophet's death in the Battle of Uhud. The report sometimes quoted has no such backing. Furthermore, it comes from an obscure work which is not an authoritative reference.
5- While 'A'ishah did beat her chest and slap her face, the same report says she attributed her actions to her ignorance and youthfulness, implying that he recognized her mistake and repented.
6- The Bible also commends a sober restraint in expression of sorrow without giving in to the ways of those who do not believe in God.
7- Using twisted logic and hate while trying to learn would result in reaching the conclusions one already has in his/her mind. Preconceived notions need to be removed while genuinely trying to learn and if they are not removed, then the conclusion would be nothing less than hate and bigotry as seen from the original claim from the missionary of hate.
Indeed, Allah knows the best.
[1]al-Bazzar, al-Musnad, (Madinah: Maktabat al-Uloom wal Hikam, 2006) Hadith 7513; classified as sahih by al-Albani in Silsalah al-Ahadith as-Sahihah No. 427
[2]at-Tirmidhi, al-Jami', Translated by Abu Khaliyl, (Riyadh: Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, 2007) Hadith 1005; classified as hasan by al-Albani
[3] Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad, al-Musnad, Cairo: Dar al-Hadith, 1995) Hadith 2127; classified as sahih by Ahmad Shakir
[4] Ibn al-Qayyim, Zaad al-Ma'ad fee Hady Khayr al–'Ibad, (Beirut: ar-Resalah Publishers, 1998) Vol.1, 480
[5] The Bible, Ezekiel 24:17
[6]Henry, Matthew, "Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible"
[7] al-Bukhari, as-Sahih, Translated by Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh: Maktabat Dar-us-Salam, 1997) Hadith 1305
[8] al-Qari, Mulla Ali, Mirqat al-Mafatih, (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 2002) Vol.3, 1245
[9] Ibn Hajjaj, Muslim, as-Sahih, Translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh: Maktabat Dar-us-Salam, 2007) Hadith 3628 (46-1462)
[10]as-Sindi, Abul-Hasan, Hashiah Musnad al-Imam Ahmad, (Qatar: Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, 2008) Vol.7, 100
[11] al-Kashmiri, Anwar Shah, Fayd al-Bari, (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyah, 2005) Vol.3, 34
[12]Matthew 15:22
[13] Matthew 15:23
[14] Luke 9:59-62
[15] Rafiqul-Haqq, M. and P. Newton, "Tears between Muhammad and Jesus"
[16] ad-Dehlawi, Madarij al-Nabuwwah, (Lucknow: Naval Kishawr, 1877) Vol.2, 163
[17] Khalifah, Haji, Kashf az-Zunun, (Beirut: Dar al-Ahya at-Turath al-'Arabi) Vol.2, 1723
[18] at-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari – The Last Years of the Prophet, Translated by Ismail K. Poonawalla (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990) Vol.9, 183
[19]an-Nasa'i, as-Sunan, Translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh: Maktaba Dar-us-Salam, 2007) Hadith 1852; classified as sahih by al-Albani
[20]al-Bazzar, al-Musnad, Hadith 8018
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Humans tend to show their mothers love with things like phone calls, hugs, and a commercialized holiday dedicated to the wonderful women who brought us into this strange and confusing world. However, hippo affection is simply just strange and confusing.
When the Cincinnati Zoo uploaded this video of their famous hippo baby, Fiona, exploring her mom Bibi's mouth, they had to explain that this ritual isn't as disturbing as it may look.
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Participants had a chance to learn about the art of film making and used it as a way to help Anne tell her story.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 5th Eastern Economic Forum Vladivostok, Russia, on September 4, 2019.
Our Special Correspondent | New Delhi | Published 05.09.19, 09:28 PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a Line of Credit worth a billion dollars for the development of Russia's Far East, warming the cockles of his support base while critics questioned why India was investing so much in optics at a time its economy was going through a slowdown.
This is the first time that an LOC — an instrument introduced in 2004 to help forge India's development partnership, particularly in Africa — is being extended to a specific region and that, too, of a developed country.
"For the development of the Russian Far East, India will give a Line of Credit worth $1 billion. This is the first time we are giving this to a specific region…. This will be a take-off point for our Act Far East Policy," the Prime Minister said while addressing the plenary session of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
A Line of Credit is not a grant but a "soft loan" provided at concessional interest rates to developing countries, to be repaid by the borrowing government.
LOCs also help promote the export of Indian goods and services as 75 per cent of the value of the contract must be sourced from India.
Only Indian companies/firms can bid for executing Line of Credit projects, thereby creating opportunities for India's public and private sector to enter new markets.
Modi's announcement of the Line of Credit for the Russian Far East — coupled with the agreements signed during this visit, including the decision to develop the Chennai-Vladivostok sea route — appears to be a clear expression of India's intent to invest in the oil and mineral-rich region where China is already the biggest investor.
In an occasional paper written for the Observer Research Foundation in 2014 — a decade after the LOC mechanism was introduced — researcher Asgar Qadri had said this instrument "has not only reshaped India's position as an emerging non-DAC (Development Assistance Committee) donor but also helped the country leverage its strategic and economic investments overseas".
While Modi's supporters rejoiced in this show of power and money by the Prime Minister in a country once regarded as a superpower and is still no pushover, his critics wanted to know whether this was how he planned to use the Rs 1.76 lakh crore that the Reserve Bank of India had transferred from its surplus to the government last month.
"Can someone please explain the logic of 7200,00,00,000 Rupee line of credit to Russia, when Indian economy is reeling under crisis???," AAP national executive member and spokesman Prithvi Reddy tweeted.
"This is the government that just refused to provide free foodgrains to victims of floods in Kerala," economist Jayati Ghosh tweeted.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav also took to social media to voice his opinion on a move he summed up as "starve people at home and distribute abroad".
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The Gates of Hell drain stands out from others nearby because it is square in shape and dry while all others drains in the area typically have streams of water flowing from them. A ladder allows visitors to climb inside the drain, actually a series of connecting drains. Reportedly, the drains go on for hundreds of feet underground, layered seven times just like the circles of hell, and are filled with the remains of satanic sacrifices - bones and decaying carcasses, crosses, and more.
According to the legend, there is a room deep underground that can only be entered by those possessed with the powers to lift giant axes that weigh thousands of pounds and block the doors. The room is filled with a glowing human skull that is the last sign before you encounter the devil himself. Other, slightly more plausible legends, tell of people drowning in the drains while trying to explore them and the rooms underground being used as meeting places for devil worshippers and members of the KKK.


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The Fed will have a hard time giving everyone what they want, from stock traders to Trump
This just might be Fed Chair Jerome Powell's toughest meeting yet because whatever the outcome, odds are high that it will disappoint a large group of people, and that's not even counting President Donald Trump.
The Fed began its two-day meeting Tuesday, and by 2 p.m. ET today, markets will be pouncing on whatever the Fed has decided on interest rates, future rate cuts and the state of the economy. Most economists expect the Fed to pass on cutting rates, but move to a tone in its statement and in its forecasts that suggest a rate cut is coming, and many believe in July.
That's where it gets tricky. The Fed now says it is "patient," willing to watch the incoming data and weigh what to do about policy. But after Fed officials signaled in various comments that they could cut rates, the markets now anticipate a new rate cutting period. That means the Fed will also likely transition from being "patient" to becoming something else. What other language it uses, could determine how dovish or hawkish the market will believe it to be.
"With the market pricing in a 1 in 5 chance of a rate cut for the current meeting, and a 100% probability of a 25bp cut at the July meeting, it is relatively easy for the Fed to disappoint risky assets," notes Alan Ruskin, head of G-10 foreign exchange strategy at Deutsche Bank. "The biggest dilemma for the Fed is how to maintain maximum policy 'optionality' for July without having risky assets reprice sharply negative."
In fact, a negative 'reprice' of risk assets— or simply a stock market sell-off — has been the norm for the Fed meeting day since Powell took over from former Fed Chair Janet Yellen. Ruskin notes that after all of Powell's 10 meetings, the S&P 500 was lower on nine of them.
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"If the Fed shows considerable flexibility and a strong bias to cut rates in July, but is some way from pre-committing because they are data and politics dependent, it would be expected that the [dollar] will be stronger against almost all currencies," Ruskin wrote. The Fed's next rate cut will be its first since it cut rates to zero in late 2008.
Powell speaks to the press at 2:30 p.m. ET, following the meeting, and he could use that time to clarify the Fed's message.
"I know he's Mr. Volatility…he tends to generate a lot of volatility. Who knows especially coming on the heels of Draghi's comment and Trump's tweet. Almost no matter what he does is going to surprise someone," said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies. McCarthy is in a minority of Street economists not expecting the Fed to cut rates this year.
On Tuesday, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi laid out a framework for the ECB saying it could buy more assets and even cut its negative rates. Those comments sent German and French yields into record negative territory and the U.S. 10-year close to 2%. Draghi was seen as adding pressure on the Fed to be more aggressive about easing, since he widened the gulf between U.S. and European rates.
In a tweet, Trump criticized the ECB for moving to easier policy since it would send the euro lower against the dollar. He also criticized the Fed again Tuesday for not easing, and when asked if he'd demote Powell, he said: "Let's see what he does."
McCarthy said the Fed could be very clear that it has options by changing the message on its 'dot plot' chart, literally a chart it uses to show what individual, but anonymous, Fed officials see as the path of the fed funds rate. The dot plot still shows higher rates next year, and McCarthy said that could change.
"The Fed has been trying to get optionality since last December. I think they'll achieve that today but have the dot line flat line. You still have a positive slope.They'll take that slope out," McCarthy said. "For the most part, that puts the ball in Trump's court because it's trade negotiations that will determine things. Trump may get what he wants in lower rates, and it will be because he drops the ball."
Bespoke also studied market moves post-Fed meeting, and found the string of stock declines after Powell meetings to be a bit unusual.
"While the S&P usually trades higher on Fed Days, over the last 10, the S&P has averaged a decline of 0.30%. Aside from the S&P's 1.55% gain on the day of the January 2019 meeting, the S&P has fallen on 9 of the last 10 Fed Days. As shown in the chart below, there have only been three other periods over the last 25 years where the rolling 10-Fed Day average % change for the S&P has dipped into negative territory for multiple months like it has recently — early 2001, early 2006, and early 2014," Bespoke noted.
The firm also noted that when the Fed does make a move, either raising or cutting interest rates, the S&P averages declines in the month following those moves. But it has averaged a gain of 0.9% in the month after the meetings where it has not made rate changes.
"The Fed has left rates unchanged for two consecutive meetings, and in the month following each of the last two, the S&P gained 4.17% and 2.97%, respectively. A Fed on hold suggests that things are running smoothly, and that's just what the market tends to like– not too hot or not too cold," Bespoke wrote.
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The sixth annual Auburn University Percussion Day will be held Saturday, March 30th 2019 from 8:30-4:00 at Goodwin Music Building (exact ending time will be contingent on the number of performing ensembles and soloists). There will be performances by junior high and high school percussion ensembles and soloists, the AU percussion ensemble, and the first annual AU High School Honors Percussion Ensemble. Our guest clinician will be percussion composer and teacher Josh Gottry from Arizona State University. Additional clinics will be presented by Doug Rosener and Andy Martin of Auburn University. Attendees are encouraged to bring sticks and a practice pad, as there will be an opportunity to drum along!
Equipment for all ensembles performers will be provided by Auburn University, no trucks or moving are required.
Performing groups may play for any amount of time up to 20 minutes.
The AU Percussion Day is open to the public. Performing is not required, and all are welcome. General admission is $5 at the door. Ensemble directors and children 5 and under are free.
For questions about the day, please contact Dr. Doug Rosener, rosendb@auburn.edu.
Pre-register performing groups and individuals; the cost for groups of 4 (not including director) or more is $50 per registered group. For smaller groups and soloists, the cost is $5 per performer.
Students may apply to perform with the honors percussion ensemble with the submission of a recommendation by their director or private teacher. Applicants must be able to perform on all percussion instruments. Students will be sent music in advance of the event and will be expected to prepare the part they are assigned. Application does not guarantee acceptance. Attendance at the rehearsal Friday March 29 at 6:30 is mandatory to perform.
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Sustainability is the main buzzword of Copenhagen Fashion Week. This comes naturally to Kopenhagen Fur, the world's largest fur auction house, owned by Danish Fur farmers, as fur is nature's own material – and one answer to the current demand for sustainability. Fur is slow fashion: It lasts for many years, it can be remade, altered, or inherited. Contrary to fake fur, it is a bio-degradable life investment, and the opposite of fast fashion.
With this in mind, the company, and its label Oh! by Kopenhagen Fur, continuously experiment with new techniques and ways of making and designing fur. And, very importantly, they spot and support new talent.
Last night, Kopenhagen Fur hosted Imagine Talents 2018, in which 22 young designers from 14 universities in eight countries competed for the prize of 5,000 euros – given for innovation, skill, and contemporary.design.
This commendable initiative resulted in many spectacular and interesting fur designs that took to the catwalk. Like Shuhan Zhang from China Academy of Arts, whose beautiful red coat circled with snakes of red mink was inspired by the constant oppression of women. Like Lisa Maria Stofsky from Via University College in Denmark, who took her inspiration from women from the Qing Dynasty to emerge as a fabulous purple pleated mink coat inserted with lime mink drops and diamante strewn black mink shoulders. Also from Denmark, from Design School Kolding, Jens Knud Gonzales Friborg showed the most beautiful fairy-like negligee gown – or evening coat billowing in floor-length cream chiffon, edged with silver fox and embroidered with waste scraps of fur.
Shangqian Xu from Westminster University was the right winner with a great long white fringed man's coat striped in denim, black and orange mink. "Sustainability is the main thread of my design", she declares.


Wolverine defeats Mojo, saving existence.
Wolverine, Mystique & Spiral attack Mojo, attempting to stop him from delaying the Crunch and thus ending all existence, but he sets his plasma wraiths on them and offers the captive Jubilee the opportunity to save Wolverine in exchange for becoming his slave. Suddenly, Gateway appears, and shows Wolverine that the solution lies with Albert & Elsie-Dee, along with a cruise missile. Figuring it out, Wolverine sends Mystique & Spiral to get the missile, while he stalls Mojo. As Wolverine battles more wraiths, Mojo reveals that he knows Jubilee will agree to his terms, since Abcissa is the Jubilee who said yes. In Canada, Spiral confirms the adamantium skeleton found by Albert & Elsie-Dee is from an alternate Wolverine, and agrees to send them back in time to unravel the mystery in exchange for a missile from their stealth bomber. Sending the missile through the vortex, Wolverine hops onto it and steers it towards Mojo. In his panic, he releases Jubilee, who jumps onto Wolverine's motorcycle and manages to grab Wolverine and race into the collapsing vortex just before the missile hits Mojo. Suddenly, Wolverine is in the midst of a poker game, and gets interrupted by a call from Jubilee; she needs Wolverine to come bail her out of jail in Tokyo.
The issue ends with Jubilee having been deposited (along with Wolverine's motorcycle) in Japan, setting up next issue's story.
Wolverine, meanwhile, gets deposited at Four Freedoms Plaza, during one of the Thing's semi-famous poker games.
This issue confirms that Mojo's lackey Abcissa is Jubilee, from the timeline in which she agreed to serve as Mojo's slave in exchange for Wolverine's life.
It also established that the adamantium skeleton found by Albert and Elsie-Dee is Wolverine's, the remnant of the Wolverine from the timeline in which Abcissa was created.
Gateway appears briefly in this issue, and helps Wolverine come up with the solution to defeat Mojo.
Spiral is able to track Albert & Elsie Dee because Pierce used parts from her Body Shoppe when building them, and she is able to track said parts.
Everybody's memories of the events which occurred at the end of time eventually fad away, because they're memories of the future (whatever...).
What a weird, crazy story. I'm not even going to try to make sense of the time travel logic (mostly because I suspect it doesn't really hold up), because the far bigger issue with this story is the villain at the center of it. Mojo simply doesn't work as a world-stomping, cosmic-level Big Bad (heck, he barely works as a villainous parody of marketing forces), and certainly not as one whose goal is to bring about the end of all existence (to Hama's credit, he pays some lip service to the idea that Mojo is doing all this just to film it, and hints that he has a way to survive it, but it feels very tacked on). Mojo is a character tied to a very specific type of story, and while it's possible to make small steps away from that story type work, "trying to bring about the end of existence" is a pretty big step outside his comfort zone.
Hama still has a strong grasp of Wolverine's character, and that helps keep things centered amidst all the swirling craziness - even if everything else is little more than nonsense, Wolverine is consistent and reliable throughout - and while "big and cosmic" doesn't necessarily play to Silvestri's strength (I'd almost rather have seen Andy Kubert on this chapter and Silvestri on the first one), he continues to do fine work here. Jubilee also has some effective moments in this issue. But Mystique is completely lost in the narrative at this point, almost literally just along for the ride, and Spiral has done such a 180 from how she was introduced in the first chapter that it seems like issue #51 was written by a different writer. And at the center of it all sits Mojo, horribly miscast as some kind of cosmic menace.
Next week: Uncanny X-Men #288, X-Force #10 and X-Factor #78.
That's quite an interesting notion considering how over at EXCALIBUR Rachel has lately had her memories all jumbled up.
I think it's previously been pinned on time spent at Mojoverse, but then again it was Spiral who took her there, so maybe it's specific to Spiral's time/space dancing and she's mistakingly presenting it as a normal thing. The reveal of her being Ricochet Rita whose mind was opened to all the timelines by Mojo is heavily in the works at this time.
It's a bit curious that Elsie-Dee recognizes Spiral. They haven't met on-panel. Earlier on UNCANNY Pierce was impressed on the level of the tech on Lady Deathstrike which assumably was from Body Shoppe. Spiral made point of telling Reese, Cole & Macon in #205 how special Lady D was in comparison to them (and their Pierce cybernetics). A and E-D shouldn't have Spiral-tech on them, unless Pierce repurposed some on Lady D on them, prompting interest and a visit from Spiral to Australia. But she may just have been okay with it being used to blow up an X-Man.
True, though in Rachel's case, her memories aren't of the future cuz she's from the future. They're just memories of her past.
Then again, even if Spiral & Mystique experienced something in the future, that experience becomes past to them as soon it happens, so they should maintain their memories.
Good notion about Rachel. And Earth-616 especially isn't her world's past anyway because of the sideways thingy. Which makes me realize that Kate Pryde in Days of Future Past wasn't in her past and maybe that's what messed up Destiny's perception of her.
But Spiral and Mystique return to their past from the future, and anything they do there can alter the future they've previously supposed to have been in which can make things wonky I guess. Parts of people disappearing on photos and whatnot.
True. My net impression, however, is still of being overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. So much going on here and I can't bring myself to care about any of it.


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ECOLISE
From Communities for Future wiki
European Network of Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability
Eamon O'Hara, Robert Hall
Founded at
Nonprofit organisation
support community-led initiatives
Mundo-B Building, Rue d'Edimbourg 26
Region served
Membership (2021)
47 member organisations from 19 European countries
Eamon O'Hara
Alisa Dendro
Duncan Crowley
Main organ
https://www.ecolise.eu/
Attendants of 2019 ECOLISE General Assembly.
ECOLISE is the European Network of Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability is a coalition of national and international networks, as well as organisations that support a community-led transition to a resilient Europe.
2 Purpose of ECOLISE
3 History of ECOLISE
4 Scope of ECOLISE
4.1 Membership
4.2 Initiatives in numbers
4.3 ECOLISE by countries
4.4 Links to key examples
4.5 Numbers of people involved, and indirect beneficiaries
5 Research on ECOLISE
6 Impacts of ECOLISE
6.1 Ecological impacts
6.2 Social impacts
6.3 Economic impacts
6.4 Impacts in other dimensions
ECOLISE aims to raise the profile of community-led action on sustainability and climate change. As a network of networks, it represents voices of thousands of bottom-up initiatives in Europe that take social, environmental and economic challenges seriously, acting on them in their professional and private domains. ECOLISE brings together various organisations, establishing a common, Europe-wide agenda and a platform for collective action. The unique stress of ECOLISE is on community-led since vital communities are crucial for resilient response to crises and for an effective transition to a sustainable Europe.
Purpose of ECOLISE
ECOLISE network was established to strengthen the collaboration and impact of sustainable community initiatives across Europe, represented particularly by the Permaculture Network, Global Ecovillage Network and Transition Network, but also by other organisations promoting sustainability and working with (local) communities. A key aim of ECOLISE is influencing European and national policy development and delivery to empower, enable and build upon the benefits of community-led action. To achieve such influencing, the network facilitates the creation and sharing of knowledge, maintains knowledge commons online libraries and provides relevant information infrastructure. All this serves to catalyse effective cooperation among member networks and other stakeholders.
History of ECOLISE
ECOLISE network was established in 2014 at the initiative of Eamon O'Hara and Robert Hall and formally instituted at the first ECOLISE General Assembly in January 2015 in Freiburg, Germany. In the pre-forming period in 2013, 21 organisations stepped up as co-founders with the prominence of Ecovillage, Transition and Permaculture networks. In the first years after its formation, the work of the organisation was powered largely by volunteer work and a modest budget. From 2016 the increasing funding allowed for the employment of an increasing number of staff and collaboration in a number of EU funded projects.
Scope of ECOLISE
ECOLISE works with its member organisations and partners as well as with EU institutions and organisations. Being a European network, ECOLISE is mostly active in Europe, but due to its key members' global identity, the impact is broader. In 2019, the operational ECOLISE strategy was created, consisting of four pillars, called Inspire, Enable, Learn and Advocate. These four pillars express as [Communities for Future (CfF)] action programme, launched in September 2020. CfF is the ECOLISE's flagship project, bringing more structure and connection to the already existing areas of work and building upon the European Day of Sustainable Communities (EDSC). EDSC is an annual event, taking place on the third Saturday in September. EDSC celebrates the local communities taking action for a more regenerative, just and inclusive Europe. On that day hundreds of communities and other groups across Europe organise events and ECOLISE provides support, inspires the wider public, draws the attention of policymakers to best practice solutions to social and environmental challenges.[1]
The members of ECOLISE include international networks of community-based initiatives such as the Transition Network, the Global Ecovillage Network, the Permaculture movement and ICLEI, the association of local governments for sustainability; national and regional networks; and other specialist bodies engaged in European-level research, training and communications to support community-led action on climate change and sustainability.
Initiatives in numbers
ECOLISE website[2] lists 47 members: 4 European networks, 24 national networks, 4 local initiatives and 15 specialised members. Transition Network represents over 1200 Transition initiatives, the Global Ecovillage Network represents 15,000 ecovillages (globally) and the Permaculture movement has 3 million practitioners (globally).
ECOLISE by countries
In 2020, ECOLISE had national members in Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK.[3] The four European Network members of ECOLISE have their respective members in most other European countries.
Links to key examples
Numbers of people involved, and indirect beneficiaries
ECOLISE team and council consist of 25-30 people. Programmes and projects engage another 50-100 people, who each work with tens or even hundreds of people under the banner of ECOLISE projects. Between 2017 and 2020, the European Day of Sustainable Communities has engaged with hundreds of communities in 27 European countries.
Research on ECOLISE
In 2019, ECOLISE published the Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe [4]
Impacts of ECOLISE
In 2021, ECOLISE was still a young network, finding its position among many networks, organisations and institutions in European society.
The main vehicles for creating impact are ECOLISE projects. Since 2020, the flagship project is Communities for Future, a broad framework bringing together various related projects such as COMETS, Urban Arena, Ecovillage Transition in Action, European Day of Sustainable Communities etc. For the full list, please refer to ECOLISE projects.
Ecological impacts
Community-led initiatives expand on the ecological benefits of individual actions, scaling them across broader geographies to amplify impact. Despite the ecological footprint of ecovillages tending to constitute a mere fraction of national averages due to an amalgamation of infrastructural and behavioural reasons, participation of all EU residents in community-led initiatives would lead to emissions reductions of up to 70% when measured across the total EU area[4]. This would be owing to the promotion of renewable energy expansion at national scales and the adoption of lower energy-intensive lifestyles. It would also include increased uptake of low-carbon transportation, including active transport modes, and of more plant-based diets on a regular basis. Quantitative data extrapolation indicates that even an active participation rate of five percent in each EU member state's population would allow 85% of the EU's constituent countries to meet their emissions reduction targets[4]. As more private corporations are obliged to emerge from addictions to fossil fuels, the ecological impacts of these actions will likely have a magnifying effect across the different communities that comprise society on each habitable continent.
Evidence indicates that significant impacts of community-led initiatives in the critical areas of sustainability, economic and climate emergency policy design would reshape the social impacts of each constituent member of the EU[4]. The potential for such impacts may be vastly strengthened when give appropriate support, particularly through the expansion of qualitative outcome monitoring and feedback within the policymaking teams of each central bank directing regulation in EU states. This can be attributed to the long-neglected importance of mental health and well-being as a measurable impact of policy decisions made by every level of government. Qualitative indicators, including the formation and nurturing of interpersonal relationships, group dynamics within communities and the subjective experiences of participants, are crucial components of a just transition, as is acknowledged in the European Green Deal's references to the need for a just transition. Formal research underscores the positive social benefits of participation in community-led initiatives, including increased social capital, a boost to civic participation through volunteering and mentorship, and smoother transitions to inclusion across a wide range of peoples without treating difference as an obstacle to amity.
Economic benefits of community-led initiatives include creation of both direct and indirect employment, along with a range of broader benefits, both tangible and intangible to local economies. Politically, they employ various sophisticated methods of inclusive governance that could potentially constitute the foundation of wider direct and participatory democracy[4]. This may include piloting and feeding back to smaller-scale universal basic income support trials across different geographies, which may form the basis of a wider rollout of wealth partaking programs through direct transfer of cash. Fostering trust in these programs would necessitate long term commitments to the disestablishment of the premise that an individual is only worth their contribution to a growth mindset, which, in turn, calls for a transformation of the political environment into a more participatory space where everyone feels safe and welcomed. If realised, this may exist in tandem with existing hierarchical structures, as has been viewed in the Swiss and Icelandic contexts, before eventually replacing legacy structures that have perpetuated the growing gap between those who control more economic capital and those who have none of this. These governmental structures warrant review and restructuring in favour of decentralised administrative teams, owing to the lack of accountability and transparency that has caused existing structural flaws to be exposed with increasing frequency.
Impacts in other dimensions
Most community-led initiatives have been active in areas covered by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and the Millennium Development Goals before them, since the start of the 2000s. Specific CLIs have adopted the framework used by the SDGs to evaluate their work and to link it with wider national initiatives intending to act sustainably, with the goal of fostering resilience. The work of CLIs directly contributes to 16 out of the 17 goals (the sole outlier being life in water, which is impacted by indirect outcomes of dietary, lifestyle and consumption choices). This journey of contributions contradicts the expectation that unbridled economic growth must be considered an outcome of and precondition for progress in meeting the targets set by the SDGs. In fact, most CLIs successfully address the SDGs through strategies that explicitly and implicitly decouple well-being from material prosperity[4].
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↑ European Day of Sustainable Communities website
↑ ECOLISE website
↑ List of members on ECOLISE website
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe, Penha-Lopes, Gil; Henfrey, Tom, 2019
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Guest blogger John Patrick is the sustainable fashion designer behind the John Patrick ORGANIC line. A docu-drama featuring his work and his life will air on Planet Green in 2011.
I feel very strongly that the creative process needs time to develop and part of that development requires "viewer participation." Ricardo, who runs Ecotintes, a specialized natural dyeing and textile company, is very much one of the creative entities that can use support and nurturing from the design community. Having worked with Ricardo Calmet several years ago and seeing him progress has been one of the great pleasures of my work recently. I first said upon meeting him that he needed a box to put all of his colors in so that he could show them to the world and also be able to charge for it. He works in extremely humble surroundings and is one of the most unaffected, direct, and honest people I have ever met. Ricardo has a vivid imagination and I hope that some of the readers who see this article this contact him and go and visit him and work with him.
He does not speak a tremendous amount of English, so a translator is helpful if you are writing to him. I proposed the questions below to him, and let him take a while to answer them. Since his native tongue is Spanish there is a slight amount of "broken" dialogue within the answers but I feel that is a very real part of the translation. Listen with your eyes and ears to feel how passionate he is about his work and his country.
John Patrick:You have now been doing Ecotintes for several years. When I first found you I had to track you down in a part of Lima that I had never been to. I think your brother was also there in that house, as were so many of your inventions. Briefly tell me a little of your beginnings with Ecotintes—how you started and who you were learning things from.
Ricardo Calmet: To be truthful I don't know when it started, perhaps I always had the incentive, that bit of adrenaline you feel when you discover something, even just for you. Walking through dark roads that only clarify and enlighten with persistence and tenacity, and a lot of curiosity and commitment. All of these have to be linked to one's story, especially your early experiences, and of course your needs. And, I cannot forget Popular Mechanics, a magazine that during the 50s and 60s was the center of technological revolution. It was truly the magazine of "do it yourself." A primitive form of a knowledge-community that now the Internet offers.
I was in the textile business a few years later in agriculture and close to a project to promote organic cotton in the Cañete Valley, Peru. Linking all of this with concerns over the lack of well-paid jobs for hundreds of thousands of Andean women-mothers, who live in misery and yet they have a rich textile knowledge that the world is yet to discover; they spin with a spindle called Pushka. The spinning wheel which is a common good of humanity, without copyright or patent, is a step which would increase to at least double the productivity and doubling revenues. Communities could process their wool and alpaca fibers directly and not sell them at minimal prices as it is now. We need a production line as the Khadi in India.
You know better than anyone that color is the essence of fashion, that fiber is ennobled with color; it becomes diverse, broad, encompassing us all. The color is an integrative concept. No one is excluded; there are billions of choices, all different. If we had the natural thread—organic—chemical dyes could not pass as safe or clean. Although, some is known of the potential danger to the health of synthetic dyes, very little is known about the production. This is very aggressive with the environment and especially in emerging countries where regulations are very soft and little information is made to the public.
JP: Your daughter Daniella is now helping you with the Ecotintes business. She has been studying chemistry, I believe? Can you elaborate a little bit about the role she has played in expanding your business into the natural dye area?
RC: Daniella is a biologist and is responsible for developing the colors in the laboratory, this is a complicated job because at the moment, the natural dyes are not standardized and the raw materials are never exactly alike, therefore for each process is necessary to develop a specific recipe. Then the recipe must be scaled to manufactory and this is not simple arithmetic, it requires consideration of many factors, making it complex. Throughout this a base knowledge of great value is made. Science and technology have abandoned natural dyes since the nineteenth century, the current interest in natural dyes need to be updated with more information. Daniella also handles the processing of samples and tests at the request of customers. She is the Ecotintes pillar.
JP: The area of Chancay seems to be an important part of your business model. What is so magical about Chancay? I know there has been weaving and spinning there for thousands of years but what exactly do you do up there?
RC: Chancay was the cradle of a pre-Columbian culture. Here we live and have the space and proximity to agriculture to integrate business and achieve a cycle of water use that is sustainable, and this would be impossible in the city. The dyeing processes normally consume a lot of water and this water goes into sewers of cities without further treatment. The chemical dyes consume great amounts of water and are a serious source of pollution. A reactive dye for cotton can have up to 50% of the fixed pigments to the fiber that must be rinsed, staining and polluting the water. It is very difficult to remove from the effluent. In our process the effluents containing organic materials are returned to the soil without polluting since they are bio-transformed by soil microorganisms. The soil acts as a giant filter, the water returns to the water table, where water is extracted and used again. It's a cycle where 100% is reprocessed water, no more nor less than what agriculture does.
RC: You are now offering ecological cotton for sale, and people are able to buy as little as 10 kilos. What is your thought process behind this idea? I know you Ricardo and I know there is a big idea hiding in there!!
RC: The idea is the organic production chain and fair trade to deliver a quality product, and not just an appearance for quality. It requires "traceability," making "transparent" the whole production chain from the planting of cotton to the final consumer; to confirm the standards of organic production, fair trade with producers and workers, the lack of child labor, etc.; hence, what is very important for everyone, is to secure supplies. When you purchase a fabric for your design, you probably do not have a picture of the farmed cotton being used. If you had that picture, your customers may know in detail what and who is behind the shirt you are wearing. It is a way to preserve the value of the work of the producer. I guess that your shirt will be more valuable than if it were just another piece of mass production for a mass consumer. To know where the product is coming from and how it was made is an important piece that the conscious consumer demands.
JP: What do you see as your number one challenge to make your business an "international" business?
RC: That the international market opens to us the possibility of connecting to consumers who have the same concepts of sustainability that in our countries is still a small fraction. We address the Organic Fashion designers that are scattered throughout the world. We already offer our help to all those who want to develop projects. Perhaps, with your support, we can begin some international workshops, for young designers to develop projects with fiber and natural colors, in dyeing, shibori, and silkscreen print. We have also re-launched our website; we will soon launch a blog of natural dyes to share experiences and disseminate the technologies, and a shop on the Internet for marketing our yarns and knits.
JP: If you were able to come up to New York City for a bio fair and were only able to bring 1 suitcase with you, what would you pack?
RC: It would be filled with color charts and samples to spread the natural colors between designers and the media. I feel this is still in the germinal stages. You know the consequences of poor research and development focused on natural dyes for more than 100 years. Now we need that research so that the process of taking advantage of natural dyes don't go back to medieval times. We work inspired by textiles and colors of the ancient Peruvians, but we cannot simply repeat their processes; today we have plenty of resources to make natural dyes real and sustainable.
JP: Do you think that the indigenous cotton is protected enough in Peru and by the Peruvian government?
RC: It's incredible the official ignorance about the importance of Peruvian cotton. The free import of low quality cottons have seriously affected the Peruvian cotton farmers; the hope is the organic production chain that incorporates the farmer and make him earn money. For that we have to facilitate links between producers and textile designers with the organic chain. If you do a little daring calculation, pure Pima cotton Armani shirts sell for $80. For that cotton that the shirt contains, farmers in Peru receive no more than one dollar; if we could double or triple that amount, fashion and textile industries could improve the lives of those small farmers.
JP: What can we expect to see new from Ecotintes in the next year or so?
RC: We want to perfect our services and facilitate the work of designers so we could feed them with natural colors that they, with their creativity and knowledge, will use to enhance the planet and realize their expectations. It is associated with designers, especially of fashion, superficiality, and banality. I think, on the contrary, that in them, in essence people of great sensibility, there is great potential for transformation in how we are beginning to live.
JP: What is it that makes Ecotintes so unique?
JP: Actually I don't think that we have something truly unique. Ecotintes maybe, in the future, will bring something. For now we only picked up from others. We are very thankful for that and we would like to be a source of inspiration. If we work a little hard we will find that everything or almost everything is already written. We just need to look for it.