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The Inferno - A Psychotic Episode
This is an account of one of my psychotic episodes, the worst one, the last one <knock on wood>. I wrote this in allegory as it was easier to express myself and describe the episode in that form. "The Gardener" is me the person. "The Garden" is my subconscious brain. The Mind is what small portion of my conscious mind that was left. "The Outer Existence" is life. "Garden Kin" are family and "horticulturist" my psychologist. "The Inferno" is the psychosis. Wildfire seemed the best metaphor for the force that took over my mind that night. "The Force" is the commands that the psychosis gives one to act upon.
While by far the worst episode this was only one of perhaps a dozen or more that I survived within roughly a two year period spanning 2011 and 2012.
The Gardener was tired. Tired of fighting his Garden, tired of the fighting others had done for his Garden, tired of the fighting of others over his Garden, tired of trying to navigate his Garden through the Outer Existence and among other Gardeners. He looked around at the Garden around him. It was an utter chaos of overgrown and ratty looking growth. He hated how the Garden looked, HIS Garden, but he hadn't the strength nor the desire to deal with it any longer. It was, he decided, what it was. The fight had been long and he'd had enough. He lay himself down in the middle of this chaos and made peace with it and himself. He would fight no more.
December 28th, 2012, approximately 11:30 pm
The Gardener, despite the Difficulties, had made it through the toughest of the annual rituals of the Outer Existence. His special horticulturist and he had discussed this prior, had made some strategies for handling it, and the Garden and the Gardener had held together admirably. The Ritual had gone well in part because of a bonus from an unexpected source which allowed the Gardener to better adhere to the Rites expected during the time of the Ritual. This had pleased him greatly and the gifts he bore were received well by his Gardener Kin. This pleased him even more. Socializing during the Ritual had gone better than expected as well and the Gardener managed to put on display some of the better aspects of his Garden. The Gardener gave himself good credit for having handled this often difficult time with relative aplomb.
However, there were other aspects of dealing with the demands of the Outer Existence that had not gone well at this time and this weighed heavily on the Mind of the Gardener. The Gardener was used to this but still it bothered him. On the whole, though, things were not bad. This is how the Gardener felt as he went to bed at about 11:30 pm on the night of December 28th, in the year 2012. His mood was neither this way or that, it was a balance of satisfaction and tension as it is with most Gardeners in the Outer Existence.
Not long after lying down and closing his eyes with the intention of going to sleep and being ready to face the next day, the Gardener recognized a familiar energy field within his Garden which he knew from experience would make sleep difficult in coming. But the Gardener had long developed techniques for this and was not worried. He followed his techniques for a period of time but noticed that the energy field was getting stronger. He knew this was not good and were the first signs of possible danger but he continued his techniques with relative calm.
The attempts to diminish the energy field and go to sleep had gone on for perhaps fifteen minutes when it happened – the energy field sparked and a part of the Garden burst into flames, flames that the Gardener knew from experience could be very dangerous. Though he was very familiar with sudden bursts of flame like this, the Gardener was caught by surprise. He had been free from such outbursts of flame for at least four months and had assumed that such episodes of inner fire were behind him. This assumption and the surprise he felt were to be costly.
Taken by surprise, the Gardener entered a state of slight panic. Sensing this panic, the flames lept higher still. The Gardener knew from much prior experience with inner fires like this that his technique of breathing would no longer work against flames like this. For a while, it's hard to tell how long, he did nothing but watch the flames grow in a kind of stunned astonishment and awe. Within the flames, which were rapidly becoming an Inferno, there appeared images, very unpleasant frightening images. The Gardener was familiar with these as well and now knew that he had a real fight on his hands. The images were graphic scenes of self-harm, scenes of slashing knives and gushing blood. Scenes begot panic and panic begot scenes. He attempted to choke down his panic but this was becoming harder. As much as he attempted to remain calm and not panic, the Gardener instinctively knew that he was in serious danger. Not just any danger, but in danger of leaving the Outer Existence.
The Gardener was not unused to grave danger in the Outer Existence. He had faced a five ton log bearing down on him with the speed and force of a freeway truck and had not felt fear. He had lost control of his motorcycle on a patch of glare ice and skidded towards a two thousand foot sheer cliff and had not felt fear. He had faced many other such dangers in the Outer Existence and had barely ever experienced fear. You could say that this Gardener had been fearless against danger in the Outer Existence. But in the Garden of his Mind, danger was different. Danger within is much more terrifying than danger on the Outside. Danger on the Inside was inescapable.
The Inferno was growing in intensity and the images were becoming more graphic and horrifying. There was no way to shut them out when they got this intense and graphic. The Gardener knew at this point that the Force of the Inferno was in control of his Garden now and thus in control of what he experienced. Still, he had some tricks up his sleeve. He hadn't survived many similar prior Infernos for nothing. But for some reason the Gardener hesitated too long to use them. This hesitation too would be costly. The Inferno was taking more and more control of the Garden – and worse, of the Gardener's Mind. His panic was becoming palatable now. This only fed the flames of the growing Inferno.
Desperate, he finally played his trump card. Producing in his Mind an image of his Garden Kin had always been effective before in warding off the Force of the Inferno. This Garden Kin was in fact a co-product of the Gardener's own Garden and was more important to him than anything in the Outer Existence. He had taken to calling this Garden Kin his Amulet. The Amulet had never failed before. Never. NEVER. He tried now to produce a powerful enough image of the Amulet in his Mind. The image was weak. He tried harder and harder and harder. Finally, he put forward the best and strongest image of his Amulet that he could. The Inferno consumed it like it was paper. Further efforts to produce another image produced nothing. The Inferno instead seemed to feed off his efforts and grow yet more intense. His number one weapon against the Force of the Inferno had been destroyed like tissue paper. He had never before been in this territory of Inner Inferno. The Gardener now knew that he was in graver danger than ever before.
Fear is the Garden's way of sensing danger in the Outer Existence. This is true of almost all species that exist in the Outer Existence. In a case of fear, the Garden will release, from a special hidden part of the Garden, a special substance that is designed to give the Garden's outer shape and structure the energy to escape. This substance is designed to be used for no more than a few minutes at a time and only in certain situations. Now was not one of those situations. For the danger was not external but internal and thus inescapable. Because one cannot escape the source of the fear, the "valve" for this substance thus gets "stuck" in the "open" position and floods the Garden with this substance. In short bursts this substance is life saving but when it can't be shut off it is toxic. This life saving substance thus tragically becomes like jet fuel for the Inferno. This is what was happening now.
The Gardener was in the full grips of panic and terror now, inescapable terror and panic. It was all well, well past anything the Gardener had ever experienced or dealt with before. Still, he did not give up. He tried producing images of his other Gardener Kin. These too, however, were consumed by the Force of the Inferno with terrifying ease.
The Gardener had trained himself before during times like this not to move. This had been a critical tool in his arsenal before. Ironically, this tool would now work against him. At this point, the Gardener knew – with what little bit of control he had left in his Mind – that he had to make contact with someone, ANYONE, from the Outer Existence if he were to stay a part of the Outer Existence, if he did not want to pass over to the Dark Side. But very the same training that had prevented him from acting on the demands of the Inferno before – horrible demands of self harm and self termination attempts – now prevented him from reaching for the communication devices that would connect him to a vital lifeline in the Outer Existence.
All contact with the Outer Existence was now cut off. The Gardener now was in extremely grave danger and he knew it. He was now completely surrounded by the Inferno, the Inferno had now completely taken over his Garden. The Force of the Inferno was now in complete control. The Gardener's Mind and Garden were now merging, merging to within complete control of the Force of the Inferno.
This had gone on for perhaps ninety minutes. This was not, by the way, a "dream". This is far, far worse than any dream and the Gardener is awake throughout it. One cannot, therefore, escape this terror by awakening. It is truly inescapable. And to get up to move could prove fatal as well with such Force in control. Any movement whatsoever could start a cascade of movements towards fatal self-action. And this inner waking terror was about to get worse.
Now the Gardener felt strapped in to something like a roller coaster or a train, a roller coaster or train over which the Gardener had no control whatsoever. The Train, we'll call it, took off and built speed. Within a tiny sliver of his Mind, the Gardener knew from experience what these out of control "Train Rides" could be like and was filled with panic and terror at the prospect of what was coming. He was beginning to feel physically ill. The Train took off at frightening speed through tunnels of darkness. On the walls of these tunnels were more scenes of the Gardener's Past, scenes of misdeeds, errors, and harm done to others. The scenes were moving and showed faces contorted in pain. Some of the faces screamed at him but the Train was moving too fast for him to hear what they were saying. All his worst decisions in Life in the Outer Existence were played out for him in the worst possible light. Even the Good Memories were recast in grotesque, horrible light. The Gardener could not help but see them in this light. There was nothing else now. Only this tunnel of terror. He had access to nothing else in his Garden or in his Mind. Time was immeasurable at this point. This runaway freight train through these tunnels of terror went on for it's hard to say how long.
Next came the Future. The Gardener was terrified of his Future in the Outer Existence and now the Train took him through other scenes of his Future. This was not hard. It was more or less his past projected forward. Again, the Train moved at horrifying speed and the images came at him by the dozens and dozens. All scenes of continued ineptitude and failure and pain, pain and failure and ineptitude. The scenes made clear that the Outer Existence and the Gardener's Gardener Kin would all be better off without the Gardener and his Garden. The Gardener felt nor could see any reason to disagree.
It was time to come back to the Present – and What to Do.
The Train now took off through tunnels of another Darkness, a Darkness that was the deepest depths of Hell in a Garden and its Mind. The Gardener, strapped in against his Will, had no choice but to watch what was to follow.
Somewhere through these tunnels, the Train took the Gardener through scenes of terminating the lives of his Gardener Kin. Somehow it made sense at this point to end the lives of those closest to him in his life as well in order to end the suffering that the Gardener had inflicted on them. Horrific, horrific and graphic scenes of mutilation and blood and the dying gasps of his most precious Gardener Kin were played out in the Gardener's Mind's eye. Somehow, he knows not how, he fought past this.
The scenes now elevated to a new level of graphic reality and intensity. Scenes of a kitchen and a knife slashed across the throat and gushing blood. This scene was from both the perspective of the eye of the Gardener and from above, as if the Gardener is floating over the scene. The Force discarded this scenario as too likely to be discovered. Following was a scene of swallowing bottles of pills made of chemicals, ironically the very chemicals "designed" to "save" the Gardener's Garden. This too was discarded as the possibility of being ineffective was too high and not worth the risk. The scene then switched to the railroad bridge that was a few minutes walk away. The scene showed the Gardener climbing the rail and waiting for a train to jump in front of. This scene held great appeal as survival of this action seemed highly unlikely. But the scene became complicated and bystanders intervened. This was not good either.
This was all new to the Gardener's Mind. Before the sense of discovery had always connected the Gardener's Mind back to the reality of the Outer Existence and his Gardener Kin. But not now. The scenes of mutilating and killing his Gardener Kin and the distaste for discovery and intervention completely cut the Gardener off from any sense of reality of the Outer Existence and of staying within it. The Gardener now knew that the Train only had one destination now – termination. And the Gardener's Mind was losing fear.
The Force of the Train and of the Inferno were growing impatient and were growing in power. Fuck it, the Force decided. All these other methods were chicken shit bullshit. What was really needed was a gun. The best tool would be a gun. More graphic bloody scenes were played in the Mind's eye of gun blasts and exploding skull, again from the perspective of the Mind's eye and of looking at it from different outer perspectives. There was no pain experienced, only relief. Yes, it was decided, this was the way to go. Now, where to get a gun? The Force furiously tore through possibilities. There was no gun of course in the house of the Gardener. But the Gardener knew where to get them. It was a bit far and would require a bit of a wait but It knew where to get guns. Scenes of this played out in the Gardener's Mind. And something else was happening at this point. The Force and the Mind were coming closer and closer together. Danger, though more dangerous than ever before, was becoming not danger. It was becoming pure desire. The Mind was becoming complicit with the Force. The Mind was not only yielding to the Force but joining forces with it.
It was perhaps because of this that the Mind and Force rejected guns. The Mind still held onto something from the Outer Existence and that something could not lay the guilt of death onto the soul of another Gardner's Mind and Conscious, especially that of a Gardener Kin. Guns were thus ultimately rejected.
The Force was furious now. Beyond furious. It tore into the Mind to come up with something. The Mind had an answer though, an answer it came up with surprisingly quick. Rope. The Mind knew where there was a suitable length of rope. The Force responded with glee. Yes, this was the answer. The Force and Mind were in complete agreement now.
All fear left the Gardener and his Mind. All panic left. The Inferno was all around, consuming everything but the flames were dying as it was destroying the materials of the Garden but the Gardener no longer felt fear. By now about three hours had passed.
The Mind now thought of what to do. Not the Force, but the Mind. The Force still provided clear graphic images to act on but the Mind was in complete thought as to following along. The first images were of scenes inside the house but two things quickly became clear; one, there was nowhere in the house that provided a suitable anchor point for the rope nor enough room to swing and two, of course the danger of discovery was too high. The house would not do. No problem, where else? The Mind calmly thought through of where to go.
Working calmly and quickly, the Mind soon thought of a perfect place. The Gardener had spent much time in a nearby forest in happier times. It was among his favourite nearby places. It was Perfect. The forest was like a Garden of the Outer Existence and would be the Perfect peaceful place for the Gardner to exit the Outer Existence. The Force provided the imagination of the Mind with more graphic images, precise and well planned images of every necessary step. The imagination of the Mind and the images of the Force were one and the same now. They worked in concert. In the Mind's eye, it was seen where to get the rope, how to tie the rope, where the keys to the car were, the path to the car, the route to the forest, the path through the forest and the Perfect Tree. Every step of throwing the noose over the perfect branch and securing it to a fallen log were gone over in precise and exact detail. The positioning of the noose, the step onto the high log and the push off the log all played out in perfect graphic detail. And then – Nirvana. All the pain would end. The Infernos would come no more. The Garden would be no more. The hell of the Outer Existence would be no more.
It was time.
The flames now were dying away. All that was left was cinders and ash and small licks of flame here and there. The Garden was destroyed, among the ashes was the Gardener lying prone and peaceful among the ashes, his body consumed by the last of the flames, his own body becoming ashes itself.
Nearby was Death's Door. The Mind went over to it and knocked.
I did not, obviously, go through the Door that night. But I can't, and experts agree, imagine coming any closer in one's mind. There are a few interesting reasons that I theorize why I did not go through the Door as I was being compelled by the force of psychosis to do. Which will have to wait for another time.
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Q: Use activity with include tag on android I have a main layout and in this layout I use a button on android application, when user click on this button show a second layout(with include tag). How can I call activity(I mean activity for second layout)?
On second layout,I use a button, I want to set event for this button. How to do that?

A: my main xml file:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/background_dark">

<include
    android:id="@+id/include1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    layout="@layout/second"/>

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:text="Button"/>

second.xml file:
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
    android:background="#ffffff"
    android:visibility="invisible">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="hi"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:textColor="#13352E" />

 <Button
  android:id="@+id/button2"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
  android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
  android:layout_marginLeft="18dp"
  android:text="Close" />

</LinearLayout>

and this my mainactivity:
Button btn=(Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {

            LinearLayout le=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout1);
            le.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        }
    });
}

and also this my secondactivity:
Button btn=(Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        LinearLayout le=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout1);
        le.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

    }
});

on second activity,button on click not work

A: you are making yourself confused.
you just need to add android:visibility="hidden" for the layout which you are treating as second xml.
then on Onclick of button change the visibility of this layout;

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IRMI's PR-school has its first graduates. The people that see public relations as their future carreer gathered here to learn about the newances of PR. These are the students of different departments of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. To familiarize themselves with the tricks of the trade the students attended the school on a daily basis. They would listen to expert views, discuss things, complete their home assignments diligently and participate in role plays.
"The idea to establish such a school emerged as a response to a standing need of future professionals that would like to practise PR but lack both theoretical and practical base. In our society the notion of PR is rather hazy. It is understood as something between advertising and marketing. And generally the attitude towards PR is ambiguous. Behind the idea to establish the school was our wish to see qualified professionals in the PR-market, the professionals that would have clear understanding as to the principles of their trade. It is even more important for the reason that very often people's destinies, their careers and future depend on how well a PR-professional does his or her work," says Irina Soldatenko, Director of the School.
The curriculum constitutes the topics that foster multi-faceted understanding of the subject: PR and Marketing – what is more important? The place of the PR Department in the organization hierarchy. Ethics in the work of a PR-professional. PR tools etc.
The students were introduced to such notions as a news piece, a brainstorm and a presentation. They received information about the ways mass media work and found out how to work with the media. They were also familiarised with business etiquette.
The agenda mainly consisted of hands-on assignments, such as the development of tools, participation in discussions and role plays and example collecting. The theory was presented so that it did not bear the character of boring lectures, however, had a space for discussion. Apart from the facilitators guest speakers would be invited. As for example, Yelena Barannik, the editor of Kharkiv News, talked on the specifics of work of the media. Besides, every group practiced PR tools on a segment of market or society. The students received a task to work with the insurance market of Ukraine and they developed a promotion strategy for relevant companies and their products. Excellent practice for the trainees was the preparation for All-Ukrainian student contest of PR-projects The Golden Compass and participation in it.
An exciting outcome of the study process has become the participation of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University team in All-Ukrainian student contest of PR-projects The Golden Compass. The Insurance Market of Ukraine theme became the basis for contest works. Five teams of different higher educational establishments of Ukraine participated in the contest. The Kharkivites developed arelevant topic of medical insurance. They intriduced the topic using true-to-life situations with good examples and expert commentaries. On top of that, the guys demonstrated their zest in PR and journalism. It was not a wonder that their team became contest winner and received a special prize from Kharkiv Insurers Union for the Highest Level of Competence in the Fundamentals of Insurance Market and its Successful Implementation in a PR-project.


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Crisis in Education Malaysia
Posted on March 7, 2020 by K V Soon
On the 3rd March 2020, I attended a forum titled "Crisis in Education Malaysia" which consisted of 4 interesting speakers who spoke on the various issue plaguing our education system.
The session began with Mr Francis De Luke, a retired school teacher who poured out his frustrations on the death of passion in the teaching community. This is further compounded by the fact that teachers are overworked mainly due to excessive paperwork. He lamented the fact that gadgets has taken over the lives of students (and teachers) making the whole teaching experience dull and uninspiring.
Next, we had Prof Dr Mohd Tajuddin. I will come back to him later.
After that, it was Datuk Lok Yim Pheng and she shared her frustrations that the government's education process has been constantly changed and revamped to the whims and fancies of each education minister who comes on board. This makes teachers and students perpetual guinea pigs without successful outcomes.
Her emphasis was to develop a quality education system and she felt this could be done through training (and regularly) retraining. She shared the fact that teachers do not have clear and regular retraining programmes. Many teachers have gone past 10-15 years without retraining.
She also raises the fact that infrastructure (or the lack of it) continues to be an issue. At the centre of it is the issue of corruption.
Beverly German shared from the human rights' perspective. She raised the issue of undocumented children not being able to get an education in Malaysian schools. On Sabah, this continues to be a major issue. She shared a story of undergraduates in Sabah who had set up makeshift "schools" made of discarded materials to give these children an opportunity to have an (at least an informal) education. Unfortunately, these efforts came to nought when officials from the Ministry of Education put a stop to these "schools" on the reason that the official curriculum was not adhered to.
Up to this point, what had been shared was nothing new. The issues highlighted were many decades old. The questions from the floor also sounded painfully familiar. Even the people who asked the questions were familiar! One very important question comes to mind: Was there any rethinking or real solutions to this age-old problem? At the end of everything, no solution was in sight. This is indeed a crisis within a crisis! This mess that no one is able to solve has succeeded in the creation of two huge industries: Tuition Centers and Private/International Schools.
There is not a lot of data on private tuition but we know that in 2010 there was an estimated 3000 tuition centers (*in?) with about 195,000 students paying between RM200 – RM2000. 10 years ago, it was a RM400m business. Private tutors can earn about RM4000 – RM 10,000 in 2010. You can be sure the numbers are much higher now after 10 years. (https://www.thestar.com.my/news/community/2012/11/05/increase-in-demand-for-tuition-in-malaysia)
For international private schools, it is an even bigger industry. For the parents who can afford international education, it is a great escape from the local education system. The cheapest is about RM75,000 per year for primary school education. You can find out more at https://www.edarabia.com/malaysia-school-fees/
However, private tuition and international schools will not solve our education problems. Clear, decisive and strong actions will.
During the forum, Beverly shared the story of Siti Nafirah who summoned eight Defendants to High Court including the Malaysian Federal Government in Putrajaya. Her Statement of Claim filings details a seven-month absent teacher, a massive and systemic cover-up by the Malaysian Ministry of Education, and stories of numerous notices sent by witnesses. The High Court will hear the case in May 2020. This a clear and strong action that people need to do to demand quality education. (follow the full story at https://tiada.guru/en/the-high-court-case)
The presentation by Prof Dr Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi took the discussion to a different perspective, giving a more strategic view of transformed principles of education. He recommends three key principles for education leading to a peaceful and inclusive society. The three principles are:
– Learn and appreciate a shared history
– Work towards a shared prosperity
– Bring out the values through shared spirituality
Dr Tajudin articulates that history is not about the past. History is about the future we want to create, we go back to create the narrative. Today's narrative is for a future where our society becomes more exclusive. History is a narrative created to structure the future.
Policymakers need to appreciate and understand these principles and be able to take it from the abstract principle level to an implementable level.
My opinion is that moving forward, whomever the education minister will be, need to move forward with transformation initiatives in both the strategic and tactical level.
What is more important is that the education minister should not just talk about ideas but seriously think about the "how" to transform. Have strategic thinking and a solid implementation process to help drive the change. Be not afraid to bring in people who are not entrenched in the thinking of the old current way and let them drive with small steps. The innovation model of "Think Big, Start Small, Grow Big" is a proven model.
The real problem we need to deal with would be in unemployment. Our 21 public-sector universities and 38 private-sector universities produce something like 51,000 graduates a year, but nearly 60% remain unemployed one year after graduation, according to a study in 2018 conducted by the Minstry of Education Malaysia's Graduate Tracer Study. https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/562309/more-and-more-graduates-are-facing-unemployment-malaysia).
The numbers will continue to grow due to economic conditions and the combination of technology adoption and automation. Industrial Revolution 4.0 will drive a lot of change. The way I see it, every other industry and sector is changing and adapting, Education must adapt.
My question to new incoming Education Minister is this, "Will you be the one to drive transformation in education in Malaysia or will it just be another blueprint-producing minister seeking glory and political milage?"
It's a tough job. I hope this is what we have actually fought for.

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(CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI came under a hail of criticism from the Islamic world Friday for comments he made earlier in the week regarding the Prophet Mohammed and the Muslim faith, in some cities provoking street protests.
A Vatican statement said Benedict was not trying offend Muslims with his remarks.
"It was certainly not the intention of the Holy Father to ... offend the sensibilities of Muslim faithful," said Federico Lombardi, the Vatican press officer.
In response to the pope's speech, Pakistan's National Assembly -- parliament's lower house -- unanimously passed a resolution on Friday condemning his remarks.
The Vatican's ambassador was also summoned to Pakistan's Foreign Office to hear directly the government's displeasure.
"It was underlined that at a time when there was an acute need for promoting inter-faith harmony such remarks, regardless of the context, were very unfortunate," said a statement from Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The ambassador promised to convey Pakistan's sentiments to the pope, the statement said.
In Cairo Friday, about 100 demonstrators gathered in an anti-Vatican protest outside the capital's al-Azhar mosque.
Meanwhile, a youth center run by the Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip was slightly damaged by a small explosion on Friday, witnesses told Reuters.
A transcript of the pope's remarks obtained by The Associated Press television network reads: "In the seventh (sura, or chapter of the Quran), the emperor comes to speak about jihad, holy war.
"The emperor certainly knew that Sura 2, 256, reads: 'No force in matters of faith'. It is one of the early suras, from a time -- as experts say -- in which Mohammed himself was still powerless and threatened.
"However, the emperor of course also knew the requirements about the holy war that were later formulated in the Quran. Without going into details like the handling of the owners of the scriptures, or non-believers, he (the emperor) turned to his interlocutors -- in a surprisingly brusque way -- with the central question after the relationship between religion and violence.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'"
The Organization of the Islamic Conference, in a statement released Thursday, said it "regrets the quotations cited by the pope on the Life of the Honorable Prophet Mohammed, and what he referred to as 'spreading' Islam 'by the sword.'"
Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohammed Mahdi Akef also expressed anger over the pope's academic speech.
"The pope's statements come to add fuel to fire and trigger anger within the Muslim world and show that the West with its politicians and clerics are hostile to Islam."
Condemnation also came from Turkey where Benedict is scheduled to visit in November.
"His words are extremely regrettable, worrying and unfortunate in terms of the Christian world and common peace of humanity," the Anatolian state news agency quoted Ali Bardakoglu, the head of Ankara's Directorate General for Religious Affairs, as saying.
"I do not see any use in somebody visiting the Islamic world who thinks in this way about the holy prophet of Islam."
In Syria, the grand mufti, the country's top Sunni Muslim religious authority, sent a letter to the pope saying he feared the pontiff's comments on Islam would worsen interfaith relations, AP reported.
"We say to the pope to re-examine these comments and to stop defaming the Islam religion that more than 1 and half billion Muslims believe in," said Haniya, who made the remarks after Friday prayers.
Later, thousands of Palestinians marched in Gaza, demanding an apology.
In Lebanon, the country's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric demanded the pope personally apologize for insulting Islam.
"We do not accept the apology through Vatican channels ... and ask him (Benedict) to offer a personal apology -- not through his officials -- to Muslims for this false reading (of Islam)," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told worshippers.
But the Vatican statement said Benedict's discussion on Tuesday was quite to the contrary.
"The Holy Father's desire (is) to cultivate an attitude of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, including, of course, Islam."
All the Pope did was to encourage dialect and thought, which is exactly what the Quran teaches as well. It teaches to reflect rather than retaliate. But then again once more it all comes down to blaming the translator or the translation...everything in life is lived according to that one term TRANSLATION. Love is interpreted and either rejected or accepted according to translation, so is virtually every verb in the human language.
The only job we as humans have is to convince ourselves of wanting to be hostile or passive on the days that we are required to make these decisions.
It's just too bad that the synapse of our brain that projects these emotions which thus leads us to these decisions are so easily manipulated.
Allow me to mix Arabic & Arabic rooted Persian in between my English Mo'ezeh! I am sure you loves both!
Well thank you Ayatollah-ette al Udama LorAllah, thank you very much for the sermon & the Islamic Apology (Maleh Keshidan-e Eslami), Islamic Scholarly style! Well thank you, thank you very much…. (Elvis Style with twitched lip)!
I have my ideas on where you were.......you went away and gots yourself married didn't ya sweets?????
To call these tazi emotional is an understatement...Islam isn't a religion ruled by the brain assuming that brain hasn't been baked in 130 degree heat I swear that's what makes those people insane are they too f*cking cheap to buy air conditioners or what?????


have had to live, and living meant transcending both the mother world and the father world. In death, Goldmund has surpassed Narziss, because Narziss will someday die as well. Narziss & Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse, contains a distinct cyclical structure. This structure is contributed to through characters, themes, ideas, times, and places. These elements help to present an intricate and carefully laid portrayal of the human psyche and the transcendence of the mother and father world.


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APM Monaco Files for Hong Kong IPO
Yuwei Zhangzou appears in an APM Monaco campaign. APM Monaco
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Fashion jewellery brand, APM Monaco, has filed for a listing on Hong Kong's HKEX main board.
According to the company's prospectus, it operates in 21 markets around the world and in 2020, its total global revenue reached HK $1.92 billion ($247.28 million). The bulk of APM Monaco's sales last year came from mainland China (57.2 percent), while Asia Pacific (excluding mainland China) accounted for 19 percent and Europe and North America for 23.8 percent.
APM Monaco sells its products direct to consumer (DTC) through its network of self-operated stores, which have grown in number from 91 to 246 between 2018 and 2020.
In future, APM Monaco said it's looking to strategically expand its customer base in mainland China and other markets, building on its DTC approach and strengthening its omnichannel strategy.


Cresco Labs announced their new partnership with a subsidiary called Well Being. What's so great about it? That they will be selling a new wellness line comprising of hemp-based CBD products through them throughout the US some time soon.
The announcement was made on Monday 25th, where Cresco Labs (CSE:CL,OTC Pink:CRLBF) said that the line will primarily be for the health and wellness market.
And they won't be the last to do so as market projections for hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) rise, we'll probably be seeing more such collaborations.
Cresco CEO and co founder, Charlie Bachtell said that this was the 'next obvious step' for the company and also indicated that CBD offerings were the reason why the US cannabis market will be valued at $75 billion by 2030.
He continued that the wellness offerings can even be distributed nationwide to various grocers, retailers, online marketplaces, and nutrition stores. This would even help further the awareness of cannabinoid based products and their beneficial properties.
Scott Wilson will be leading this new division. Wilson seems for the job too, as he is the chief experience director at Cresco. Previous to this, he was the global creative director for Nike from 2001 till 2006.
Wilson shares a similar perspective with Bachtell on the upcoming line, saying that it will 'demystify and build trust in CBD products' so that consumers will know how to incorporate CBD wellness in their daily lives.
The timing of the launch seems perfect too, as Cresco shares jumped nearly 5% at the closing bell, reaching a price of C$12.
Crescp now holds the price target of C$14 Canaccord Genuity (TSX:CF) analyst Derek Dley. Dley initiated his coverage, giving the MSO company a 'Speculative Buy' rating.
Interested investors can look into other CBD ventures and business opportunities popping up around every corner. One big reason for this boost being seen in throughout the CBD market is the passing of a US$867 billion farm bill last December.
The bill helped legalise the market, production of the hemp plant and its derivatives. Following this legislation, the Brightfield Group issued a research report with findings indicating that this market will reach a value of US$20 billion by 2022.
Bloomberg's report showed that Cowen & Co. (NASDAQ:COWN) projected the market at US$16 billion by 2025. They had reached these statistics through a consumer survey of 2,500 adults. The same survey showed even higher results for CBD consumption and that 6.9% respondents had actually used CBD products.
More details from the Cowen report showed that American adults will make 10% of the CBD market by 2025, approximately 25 million people.
Cannabis analyst at the Haywood Securities, Neal Gilmer had told Investing News Network that anecdotal evidence is the reason why the market is bullish. He says that the evidence coupled with actual medical research will boost the market even further.
In her quote to the Investing News Network,CNS Equity Partners CEO, Jennifer Sanders said the correlation for hemp/cannabis adoption in wellness circles is actually outpacing the growth or harvesting of cannabis.
Dubious claims, anecdotal information are not making it any easier for the CBD market. Especially when this industry is still trying to make sense of the limitations of CBD products, while tying to create a solid consumer base and keep them interested.
Still, Cresco will be taking up this venture and is one of the many companies that's eager to attract Canadian investors. Other MSOs are bring seen as potential markets, as they too being working on their expansionplans as well.
The farm bill looks like the biggest X factor here. Canadian cannabis bigwig, Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC,TSX:WEED) is planning on pursuing the hemp market there in the US too. They plan on investing US$100 million into this new expansion, particularly in New York hemp development.


There is news that is going to bring back nostalgia in the hearts of many 80s kids! It has been reported that the PTV's most beloved golden era show 'Andhera Ujala' is getting a sequel after almost 30 years and we all almost jumped up in joy.
Titled 'Andhera Ujala 2', a number of outstanding actors like Danish Taimoor, Erfan Motiwala, and Ayaz Samoo have been roped in for pivotal roles in the serial.
Apart from them, the second installment of the serial also includes Irfan Khoosat and Qavi Khan.
It has been revealed that the Wrong No. actor Danish Taimoor will be playing the role of Qavi Khan's son and will tackle the present era's social issues.
On the other hand, the dapper Ayaz Samoo will be playing the role of Dildaar Khan who is really loyal to his team.
We are sure he will do justice to his character!
We're already convinced that it is going to be an amazing sequel!
Helmed by Aamir Yousuf, the upcoming serial is produced under the banner of Everyday Pictures and will be aired on PTV, besides one Private channel as well.
However much details have not been revealed yet but the sequel will definitely be special for the people who are die-hard fans of the original series.


Regardless of whether you are building your proofreading business primarily with online clients in mind or local clients, you need a website. This is not an option, it's imperative to your business. There is website building software available if you are interested in building your own. If you do not feel confident in going that route, there is always the option of hiring a website designer to do it for you.
Now that you have your website created you are ready to start doing some marketing. You can market both locally (offline) and online. Online marketing can be as simple as joining some forums that are geared towards writers and editors/proofreaders or purchasing some advertising on some sites that target your niche.
Offline marketing has a wide variety of options available for you. The first thing you'll want to do is tell your family and friends all about your business. Ask them to mention your name if the opportunity ever comes up that your services would benefit someone they have contact with. Business cards are another option and you can even give them to your family and friends so they have them available to hand out.
Some other offline marketing tactics are flyers. You can make some up on your computer and print them off yourself or you can always have a local printing company make them and print them for you. Flyers can be hung at places like grocery stores, if they have bulletin boards available for the community to post things on, libraries, colleges/universities, etc.
Another option is sending out a mailing to businesses you think would benefit from your skills. After you've sent out the mailing, give it a couple days to get to the businesses and then pick up the phone and follow up. Many people don't like cold calling but sometimes it's that phone call that lands you a client. Step out of your comfort zone and make that call.
Last but certainly not least you can always purchase advertising in trade magazines or local newspapers. Advertising in magazines and newspapers may be expensive but remember that you have to invest in your business, especially marketing when you are brand new, to profit in the long run.


A snowy morning at the ski house.
tights and giant sized sweater I don't know what to expect. I know there is a man in the house but I don't know what kind of man he will be. I don't know I'm going fall in love in with him.
Barry jumps up from his chair to shake my hand. He is that kind of gentleman. He explains the bandages on his right hand - a motorcycle accident. I barely hear what he is saying because I'm mesmerized by his beauty - his pale blue eyes, his tan, weathered skin, and a little tuft of dark hair peaking out of his ski hat. Oh, oh my. I watch him sip his beer gingerly with his good hand. He smiles often.
Why am I standing in this kitchen? Was I going to make dinner? Who cares about dinner with Barry sitting at the kitchen table? I grab a beer, forget about dinner, and with my three friends bombard him with questions.
When Barry was ten his mother dropped him off in the Redwoods to camp for the weekend - alone. She trusted me, he tells us. He is a mountaineer, a guide, a skier, a climber, a man who doesn't want kids. He's 41 and he's sure of it, even as we ask him how he can be so sure. He can. He is. He asks us how we feel about marriage, children, all of it.
When the A-framed ski chalet gets cold he tends to the fire and soon we are warm again. Although sitting next Barry I don't need the fire to keep me warm. I stay in my chair for the rest of my life listening to his husky yet soft-spoken voice while he talks about relationships and life. I want to know everything about him right now. He wants a life partner, he wants to get married, but dating is difficult because of the kids issue. He is up front about this on the first or second date. "I don't want to waste their time." I imagine their disappointment.
Barry just met us and yet on his way out he envelopes each one of us with his strong arms in the most amazing hug. He squeezes me gently and lingers for a moment longer than any other stranger I just met would. He smiles when he says good-bye. He loved meeting us. I believe him. I loved meeting him too.
Barry is a man. A type of man that I did not know existed on this planet until now. I wonder why I had to travel 3,000 miles to meet him and if I'll ever know anyone like him again.
Barry guides men and women up the most challenging mountains on the planet. He pushes them to their physical and mental limits because they pay him to do so. When they are tired and broken, panting, sweating, shaky, and are sure they can't take another step forward, Barry is there.
He stands next to them, holds them, tells them that, yes, they can keep going if they dig deep enough inside themselves. Eventually they will find that place of inner strength and they will believe what he says. He will wait until they do. Then he will watch them go forward on their own always trailing closely behind in case they fall.
I want a man like Barry close to me always to catch me if I fall.


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Beginning the Ending of War
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This article is the Introduction to the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition, published in October 2013.
As I write this, in September 2013, something extraordinary has just happened. Public pressure has led the British Parliament to refuse a prime minister's demand for war for the first time since the surrender at Yorktown, and the U.S. Congress has followed suit by making clear to the U.S. president that his proposed authorization for war on Syria would not pass through either the Senate or the House.
Now, this may all fall apart in a week or a month or a year or a decade. The forces pressing for a war on Syria have not gone away. The civil war and the humanitarian crisis in Syria are not over. The partisan makeup of the Parliament and the Congress played a role in their actions (although the leaders of both major parties in Congress favored attacking Syria). Foreign nations' intervention played a role. But the decisive force driving governments around the world and U.S. government (and military) insiders to resist this war was public opinion. We heard the stories of children suffering and dying in Syria, but we rejected the idea that killing more Syrians with U.S. weapons would make Syria better off.
Those of us who believe that we should always have the right to reject our government's arguments for war should feel empowered. Now that it's been done, we cannot be told it's impossible to do it again ... and again, and again.
In the space of a day, discussions in Washington, D.C., shifted from the supposed necessity of war to the clear desirability of avoiding war. If that can happen once, even if only momentarily, why can it not happen every time? Why cannot our government's eagerness for war be permanently done away with? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the unsuccessful marketing campaign for an attack on Syria, had famously asked, many years earlier, during what the Vietnamese call the American War, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" We have it within our power to make war a thing of the past and to leave Secretary Kerry the last man to have tried to sell us a dead idea.
(An argument will be made that the threat of war aided diplomatic efforts to disarm the Syrian government. It should not be forgotten that when Kerry suggested that Syria could avoid a war by handing over its chemical weapons, everyone knew he didn't mean it. In fact, when Russia called his bluff and Syria immediately agreed, Kerry's staff put out this statement: "Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used. His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That's why the world faces this moment." In other words: stop getting in the way of our war! By the next day, however, with Congress rejecting war, Kerry was claiming to have meant his remark quite seriously and to believe the process had a good chance of succeeding.)
In this book I make the case outlined in the four section titles: War can be ended; War should be ended; War is not going to end on its own; We have to end war.
Others have made the case that war can be ended, but they have tended to look for the source of war in poor nations, overlooking the nation that builds, sells, buys, stockpiles, and uses the most weapons, engages in the most conflicts, stations the most troops in the most countries, and carries out the most deadly and destructive wars. By these and other measures, the United States government is the world's leading war-maker, and--in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.--the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Ending U.S. war-making wouldn't eliminate all war from the world, but ending war-making only by poor countries wouldn't come close.
This should not come as a shock or an offense to most people in the United States, some 80 percent of whom consistently tell pollsters that our government is broken. It's been over half a century since President Dwight Eisenhower warned that a military industrial complex would corrupt the United States. Military spending is roughly half of the U.S. government's discretionary spending every year, dwarfing any other expense. The United States is closely tied with the European Union as the wealthiest place on earth. Surely that money must be going somewhere. Surely a broken government is bound to be at least a little broken in the primary thing it does--in this case, the making of war.
By "war" I mean roughly: the use of a nation's military abroad. The use of a military at home to establish a police state or attack a sub-population is related to war and sometimes hard to distinguish from war, but usually distinct (the exceptions being called civil wars). The use of military-like tactics by a non-nation group or individual may sometimes be morally or visually indistinguishable from war, but it differs from war in terms of responsibility and appropriate response. The use of a nation's military abroad for purely non-war purposes, such as humanitarian relief, is not what I mean by war, and also not easy to find actual examples of. By the term "military," I mean to include uniformed and non-uniformed, official troops and contractors, acknowledged and clandestine--anyone (or any robot) engaged in military activity for a government.
I intend this book for people everywhere, but especially in the United States and the West. Most people in the United States do not believe that war can be ended. And I suspect that most are aware of the significant role the United States plays in war-making, because most also believe that war should not be ended. Few actually view war as desirable--once a widespread belief, but one heard less and less since about the time of World War I. Rather, people tend to believe that war is necessary to protect them or to prevent something worse than war.
So, in Part II, I make the case that war endangers, rather than protecting us, and that there isn't something worse than war that war can be used to prevent. I argue that war is not justified by evil forces it opposes or by false claims to humanitarian purposes. War is not benefitting us at home or the people in the nations where our wars are fought, out of sight and sometimes out of mind. War kills huge numbers of innocent people, ruins nations, devastates the natural environment, drains the economy, breeds hostility, and strips away civil liberties at home no matter how many times we say "freedom."
This case is not so much philosophical as factual. The most significant cause of war, I believe and argue in the book, is bad information about past wars. A majority in the United States believes Iraq benefitted from the 2003-2011 war that destroyed Iraq. If I believed that, I'd favor launching another one right away. A majority in Iraq believes the war left them even worse off than they were before it. (See, for example, the Zogby poll of December 20, 2011.) Extensive evidence, discussed below, as well as basic common sense, suggests that Iraqis, like anyone else, actually know best what their own situation is. Therefore, I want to prevent a repeat.
I wish I could have written a theoretical case against war, without mentioning any wars. But, everyone would have agreed with it and then made exceptions, like the school board member where I live who said he wanted to support a celebration of peace as long as everyone was clear he wasn't opposing any wars. As it is, I had to include actual wars, and facts about them. Where I've suspected someone will object to a piece of information, I've included a source for it right in the text. I discuss in this book the wars launched when George W. Bush was president and the wars launched or escalated since Barack Obama became president, as well as some of the most cherished "good wars" in U.S. culture, such as World War II and the U.S. Civil War. I also recommend reading this book in combination with a previous book of mine called War Is A Lie.
I don't recommend taking my word for anything. I encourage independent research. And a few other points may help with keeping an open-mind while reading this book: There's no partisan agenda here. The Democrats and Republicans are partners in war, and I have no loyalty to either of them. There's no national agenda here. I'm not interested in defending or attacking the U.S. government, or any other government. I'm interested in the facts about war and peace and what we should do about them. There's no political agenda here on the spectrum from libertarian to socialist. I certainly place myself on the socialist side of that spectrum, but on the question of war it's not particularly relevant. I think Switzerland has had a pretty good foreign policy. I admire Costa Rica's elimination of its military. Sure, I think useful and essential things should be done with the money that's now dumped into war and war preparations, but I'd favor ending war if the money were never collected or even if it were collected and burned.
Disturbing as it is to run into countless people who believe war can't and/or shouldn't be ended (including quite a few who say it can't be ended but should be ended, presumably meaning that they wish it could be ended but are sure it can't be), I've begun running into people who tell me--even more disturbingly--that war is in the process of ending, so there's nothing to worry about and nothing to be done. The arguments that have set people on this path distort and minimize death counts in recent wars, define large portions of wars as civil wars (and thus not wars), measure casualties in isolated wars against the entire population of the globe, and conflate downward trends in other types of violence with trends in war-making. Part III, therefore, makes the case that war is not, in fact, going away.
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The Canadian Embassy in the Philippines is a bilateral mission in Manila and promotes Canadian interests in the Philippines. The embassy of Canada also plays an important role in development, cultural affairs and contacts with the local press of the Philippines. The Canadian Embassy in Manila is headed by Mr Christopher Thornley - Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines.
Many embassies in the Philippines require an appointment before you visit. On the official website of the Canadian embassy in Manila you will find information on opening hours and how to book appointments.
Next to the embassy in Manila there could be additional Canadian consulates located in the Philippines.
Please check below for the locations of the Canadian consulates in the Philippines.
The consular department of the Canadian Embassy in Manila offers consular assistance. The consular department in general offers services for visitors from Philippines to Canada as wel as for Canadian citizens in Philippines. Generally, services comprise of visa applications, passport renewals, marriage registration, legalization of documents, birth of a child, Canadian nationality issues and more. Contact the consular department directly by telephone or email.
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One of the biggest advantages of having a roommate is the ability to split the cost of rent and utilities; which usually mean you'll be able to afford a larger apartment or house with better amenities than you could if you were living alone. However, when you live with roommates, you have to share major expenses, and money can be a sensitive subject. Whether the bedrooms are different sizes or one person has more amenities than another, sometimes splitting the rent evenly isn't totally fair. Creekbend Property Management has some practical advice to help avoid giving yourself a headache trying to come up with a fair way to divvy up rent.
Don't forget other shared expenses: While you're discussing how to split the rent, you should also talk about utilities. Does one person never watch cable while the other can't live without Game of Thrones? Talk through who will use what, and decide what you think is fair.
Get your rent down in writing:To guard against future money disputes, get it down in writing and make sure each person has a bit overkill, especially if you're living with friends, but a roommate agreement could help you save on expenses and avoid arguments down the line.
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Mrs. Melissa Manaker, Assistant Principal, returns for her second year as Assistant Principal of Saint Rita School. A Michigan native, she has enjoyed a variety of experiences in school settings to include long term preschool substitute, teaching positions in fifth grade, middle school math, science and religion as well as high school yearbook. She holds an undergraduate degree in Public Administration from Michigan State University, a Master of Arts in Systematic Theology from Christendom College and is currently working on a Master of Education in School Administration through Marymount University. Mrs. Manaker holds also holds the Advanced Catechist certification in the Diocese of Arlington, as well as endorsements in Algebra and Geometry. Mrs. Manaker embraces the mission of Catholic schools to form students academically and spiritually in a Christ centered environment that conveys the Gospel in truth, fosters community, and prepares our youth for service at home and within the community. One of her favorite quotes, which guides her teaching philosophy, is that "every child is a unique and unrepeatable gift of God" (Pope Saint John Paul II on the Capitol Mall, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1979. Her greatest joys are seeing students achieve the "aha" moment in learning, while also growing in their knowledge that they are truly beloved of God.


By proposing a development that aligned with existing zoning, the owner was able to move the project much more quickly.
Rendering of Dedham Dior. McKay Architects.
Dedham, conditions before the project.
This article is drawn from a new case study by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism, Reclaiming the Strip Mall: A Common Suburban Form, Transformed, by Christopher Kuschel. Download the report here.
In the Boston suburb of Dedham, population 25,000 people, the Dior Dedham has demonstrated how a small site can be transformed into a pedestrian-oriented oasis, even in a place designed for drivers. Located along the Providence Highway, a six-lane road lined with strip malls and light industrial development, the 0.8-acre Dior Dedham property has been owned by one family since the 1970s. It contains a small strip mall with several retail establishments, and a large building housing the family's Dedham Cabinet Shop. Now in its third generation, the shop is managed by proprietor Chris Priore, who owns the land for his business and an adjacent parcel with retail space that he leases.
Next to Dedham Dior is Legacy Place, one of the largest retail lifestyle centers in the region, home to more than 80 chain retailers and restaurants, a 15-theater cineplex, a Whole Foods Market, a structured parking facility, and large swaths of surface parking. Two nearby residential apartment buildings contain more than 600 units, many of which are deed-restricted as "affordable" to residents making 80 percent of the Area Median Income—yet still commanding relatively high rents (2-bedrooms lease for $2,300 and up). On the southeast side of these apartments, across the street, is the Dedham Corporate Center commuter rail station.
An abundance of shops, a movie theater, everyday goods, multi-family residences, transit, and nearby open space: these sound like the ingredients for a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood. Yet the area does not operate as a cohesive, walkable place that can take full advantage of its transit-connected location. Because of this, the area was the subject of studies by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), metropolitan Boston's Regional Planning Agency (RPA); the Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel (TAP), a study sponsored by the Town of Dedham. Although the two studies had slightly different study area boundaries and focuses, the numerous recommendations largely support each other, among them a suggestion to introduce additional residential and mixed-use development that would truly enhance walkability and contribute to creating a real neighborhood.
As the property surrounding Legacy Place became attractive for development, Priore sought a new, more pedestrian-oriented use for his property. Not a developer by trade, he spent time brainstorming on what would work best. Priore first looked into other retail opportunities, such as a bank or a Trader Joe's grocery story. But parking requirements have ballooned in the area since his grandfather's day, due to newer zoning. Accommodating the new requirements were virtually impossible.
Priore considered other plans and concepts. A big box retailer would also not be feasible because of the lack of necessary space for parking. He instead focused on creating space for smaller retailers to encourage a greater diversity of tenants. Working with a local architect, he determined site layout and architectural style. Permitting took about 18 months. The property's location in the Highway Business District meant that mixed-use development was already allowed, and parking was set at one space for every 200 square feet of retail, typical of suburban communities in the area. Residential parking was incorporated within the structure of the building on the first floor. Both the town planner and, critically, the planning board were supportive of the vision. The Town of Dedham provided input that helped inform and strengthen the project, including ensuring sufficient open space and pedestrian connectivity. The entire process, including construction, took three years, with a summer 2019 opening.
The development, known as Dior Dedham, contains 48 apartments and 8,500 square feet of retail space. The building is four stories facing Providence Highway and five in the rear due to slope change. The building mass is broken up into a series of smaller bays, incorporates high-quality materials, and contains abundant windows on the ground floor to activate the space. The building is buffered from busy and congested Providence Highway by landscape bedding and trees, along with parking in the front. Because of the auto-centric nature of Providence Highway, the development focuses the pedestrian connection on the other side toward Legacy Place. The residences are concentrated on the rear of the property, as furthest removed from noisy Providence Highway and connected to Whole Foods and Legacy Place with enhanced pedestrian links.
Use local help. The biggest advantage to doing a project in Dedham is using the attorneys and architects who already know the town. They know what the town is expecting, have relationships with important stakeholders and decision makers, and can navigate local politics.
Get access to cash. Given the bank's requirements, it was critical to find a partner who had the liquid assets needed as collateral. In addition, Priore and his partner spent tens of thousands of dollars on various costs before even knowing if the project would move forward.
Have patience. Although the town was supportive of the project and there was little community opposition, there was red tape to overcome, daunting for a new developer.
When possible, work within existing zoning. By proposing a development that aligned with existing zoning, the owner was able to move the project much more quickly and avoid a potentially insurmountable roadblock.
Learn, learn, learn. Although Priore is not a developer by trade, he spent the time to understand the types of programs that are in high demand, the elements that make for a successful project, and the going rents for various uses.
Leverage planning studies. The two recent planning studies provided both a vision and market analysis for this area, allowing Priore to confirm his own analysis regarding the demand for a mixed-use development adjacent to Legacy Place and the commuter rail station.
For more case studies like this, download Reclaiming the Strip Mall: A Common Suburban Form, Transformed, by Christopher Kuschel. Download the report here.


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The KULANU Adult education class will resume on Sunday, September 23. This class meets on Sunday mornings from 9:30-11:00 a.m. whenever Religious School is in session. We have studied a wide variety of subjects. We studied the message of our Prophets, the text of the Torah with modern and traditional commentaries, the Apocrypha which contains books not included in our Tanaach. We also studied the history of the Jews of Spain and then the Jews of Ashkenaz.
This year we will begin with the study of the Ethics of the Fathers, the Pirkei Avot. This is a small section from the Mishneh Avot which is part of Nezikin. The text deals with the sayings of our sages dealing with ethical and moral principles. There are no binding laws in this tractate. Many of the maxims are well known and many form the lyrics for popular Hebrew songs. It is customary to study a chapter of Avot every Shabbat between Passover and Shavuot. For this reason, many traditional Siddurim, prayer books, contain the six chapters in their totality. Following the completion of Ethics of our Fathers, we will study the history of our people from the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile.
All are welcome to attend the class. There are no prerequisites and the class is conducted in English with accompanying handouts.
There is a nominal fee. Please see Joan in the school office to register.
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Q: Unrar all file in directory without prompting I tried:
find . -name "*.rar" -exec unrar x -o {} \;

Output:

Extracting from ./setup.part2.rar
Extracting from ./setup.part1.rar
RORY/nsfw.zip already exists. Overwrite it ? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll,
  n[E]ver, [R]ename, [Q]uit A

I can't have this prompting me; both hands occupied unfortunately. thought the -o flag would do it, but nope.

A: You need to specify -o+ to enable automatic overwriting:
find . -name "*.rar" -exec unrar x -o+ {} \;

From unrar usage:
o[+|-]        Set the overwrite mode

A: Do not list *.rar files in other directories (only where the command is run) using maxdepth. Remove print or messages on the screen with -inul.
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.rar" -exec unrar x -o+ -inul {} \;


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Mild Mannered Reviews - Superman/Wonder Woman Comics
Cover: Yanick Paquette & Nathan Fairbairn
Reviewed by: Adam Dechanel
"Beginning and Ends" - Part 1
Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Penciller: Marco Santucci
Inker: Michel Lacombe
Clark is sitting on the porch of his old family home flicking through photo albums of Martha and Jonathan Kent's past. So young and so deeply in love.
Clark thinks back to the early times in his relationship with Diana how their loneliness and similarities brought them together as two people.
Then how their similarities as heroes brought them together as Justice League members, colleagues and ultimately lovers.
Then most recently when visiting the graves of his human parents, declaring his love for Diana and retrieving something from the family home...
"Taking a Breath"
Writer: Keith Champagne
Art: ChrisCross
It is a double date, early into the relationship for Clark and Diana, with Arthur and Mera in the heart of Atlantis.
While Superman and Aquaman sit back after a hearty meal and talk gadgets and technology, Mera takes Diana away for a swim and asks Diana when she and Clark will officially be a couple and tell the other League members.
Mera asks Diana what it is that attracts her to Superman besides his impressive physique. Diana points out that Clark is genuinely caring and kind. They both feel so deeply for each other but their careers as heroes makes love a complicated addition to their lives.
Mera points out they aren't so different, He is a King and a superhero and she a Queen of an ocean jail, the League offers even more complications to their time together but their love keeps them strong. Sometimes a kiss can be far scarier than saving the universe.
"Unsaid"
Writer: K Perkins
Artist: Ken Lashley
In Pakistan two civilian ramblers are attacked by Dichara, a demigod with a literal split personality. He has decided to launch an attack on Earth to Olympus that with paint him as a hero and a villain.
Diana and Clark arrive and save the civilians and battle Dichara and until Diana is able to gain the upper hand. She tells Clark to head home while she returns to Olympus to rejoin him later.
Clark ponders the decision he discussed at his parents grave and opens the small box he took from the Kent farm, revealing it to me Martha's wedding ring. When Diana returns however she reveals that Ares was recently killed and she had kept a recent development from Clark... she was now the God of War.
Clark reacts badly, not only to Diana's new role but the lies and deceptions his girlfriend crafted to keep it from him. When Clark presses for answers and Diana offers answers that conflict with his beliefs, cracks begin to appear in their relationship. How can Peace love and Justice be Wonder Woman's cause when she is now the epitome of war?
The questions create a tension and Diana apologizes for hiding her role while Clark struggles with how this will affect their future together.
"Vulnerable"
Writer: Sholly Fisch
Penciller: Matthew Clark
Inker: Sean Parsons
Clark burns his hand while making a classic Kent recipe.
It is a short while now since Clark developed the Solar Flare and Diana doesn't like its after effects of leaving her partner powerless. Clark points out that the downtime he experiences as a human after the Flare are what he considers an upside.
The quiet night in is interrupted by a request for the God of War to aid in a quest. When Clark offers to help, Diana shuts him down and tells, while powerless he is best used to stay at home and to keep dinner warm while she goes out to work.
Clark struggles with the trappings of a powerless life while Diana fights the good fight.
When she returns home Clark is alone in the dark and dinner is ice cold.
Clark takes out his frustrations on Diana for leaving him behind. He can still contribute to the relationship, he is still a hero, he is more than his powers.
Diana agrees and tells Clark she wanted to keep him safe, just as he would do if she were in the same position. It is then she realizes Clark is struggling being left out, as a hero and a partner. He tells her of the unique bond the Kents shared, how they could deal with anything life threw at them because they faced it together.#
The two of them realize then that they have to work together, to make their relationship, their bond, their life, continue to work.
Clark thinks back over the times past, their adventures as heroes, their struggles as a couple from beginning to the end.
The time to propose is gone, for better or worse, Clark and Diana are no more, at least romantically.
He closes the Kent family album, walks back into his parents bedroom and replaces his mother's wedding ring in her old dresser before leaving.
Story - 5: I have always, always been a fan of Lois and Clark as a couple.
I was, like many, dismissive of Diana Prince and Clark Kent as a couple, not Superman and Wonder Woman, but Diana and Clark.
None of the stories I'd read changed my mind - until now. For the first time we got a series of stories at different time periods of the New 52 that explored the relationship the couple share and how it affected the main stories and led to their end.
Beginnings and Ends is heart wrenching as the opener and closer.
Taking a Breath was a bit too soppy for my liking but went quite a way into exploring the attraction between them and how it transcends physicality.
Unsaid was a strange mix. Dichara as a device was something that didn't work, and was ultimately unnecessary. The fallout afterwards was pure palpable drama and offered a strong exploration is a rarely seen side to their relationship. Clark's frustration, anger and disappointment is something shared with readers over the decision to make Diana an ambassador of peace AND a force or destruction but again the writing solidly explains direction, motivation and resolution.
Vulnerable was a beautifully written segment exploring not only the misstep of the Solar Flare but ties it into a character moment, development and a dramatically strong piece that makes use of the long lost and often forgotten roots of the Kent family.
By the end of all the segments they seemed to truly be a couple, ups and downs, just like the rest of us mere mortals and instantly making them relatable to me as the reader.
The finale made sense as it approached but by its end I found myself a fan of Diana and Clark - consider this annual a success in action and drama.
Art - 4: Each segment had some great accompanying artwork, the parallels between key photos of the Kents and the echoes of Prince and Kent are noticeable and with each facet of the relationship explored so too did the artwork adapt to match.
Vulnerable was of particular note, their dark moods were reflected brilliantly in the pencils and inks.
Cover Art - 5: As with the recent cover to Superman/Wonder Woman #24 this cover draws you in with both a wow factor, the 'warm and fuzzies' of a rare happy moment in their early days focused on in the foreground and their current dark emotional state in the background. Again this team of writers and artists really have me buying into Diana and Clark as a couple. Bravo DC!


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Beaver Valley Ranch south of Hayden sells for $9 million
News | June 28, 2013
Steamboat Springs — The 2,665-acre Beaver Valley Ranch on Routt County Road 55 south of Hayden sold this week for $9 million after being listed by Harrigan Land Co., of Sedalia, for $10.5 million.
The ranch is tucked up against the Beaver Flattops and includes 4.5 miles of the East Fork of the Williams Fork River. The stream has undergone substantial trout habitat improvements and has been managed for its big game and wildlife values as well as a working ranch. Water rights include 11.2 cubic feet per second, described as being enough to irrigate 300 acres of hay meadows.
The seller was Beaver Valley Ranch, a business entity registered with the Colorado Secretary of State in 1999 and based in Centennial. The purchaser, Bar Double J Ranch, is based in Bennett, east of Aurora and south of Interstate 70.
The ranch has been managed as a low-key guest and hunting ranch with limited accommodations, according to company literature.
Records at the Routt County Clerk's Office describe three residences on the property, including a log owner's home with three bedrooms and three baths, a two-bedroom guest cabin and a three-bedroom manager's house.
The ranch is 30 minutes from daily commercial air service at Yampa Valley Regional Airport, according to sales literature. It is described as being dotted with 19 adjudicated springs and as sharing a 2-mile boundary with the Routt National Forest.
To reach Tom Ross, call 970-871-4205 or email tross@SteamboatToday.com


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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941) A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure is a 1977 American musical fantasy film directed by Richard Williams, produced by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, a publishing arm of ITT, and released theatrically by 20th Century Fox. A 1941 short film had previously featured the Raggedy Ann and Andy characters created by Johnny Gruelle. Raggedy Ann is the beloved doll of Marcella, along with her brother Raggedy Andy and a whole nursery full of colorful toys.
Raggedy Ann and Andy swap their outfits, no reason or context given. If clothes swap weren't challenging enough, they have same face and similar body proportions (with some exceptions in doll companies and animated adaptations; very subtle still) which makes difficult to differentiate them. But it was fun. Ann and Andy's reaction are taken from their personalities from the 1977 movie, so I don't think it's too OOC. And don't worry Andy. Dresses gives freedom to the legs. Tissa David/Chuck Jones. Cartoon 1976/The Great Christmas Caper Special 1978.
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The University of Wisconsin Associated Students of Madison swore in its 24th session and elected its leadership positions Monday night.
During its first meeting of the session, they were able to elect most chairs, apart from Grant Allocation Committee, Sustainability Committee and Student Activity Governing Board. The rest of the chairs will be elected at the Student Council meeting Thursday, along with all closed committee at-large positions.


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KLEEMANN presents yet another high-performance car without comparison. Based on the new SLK 55 AMG from Mercedes-Benz, KLEEMANN produces a power output of 596 Hp and 770 Nm with a KLEEMANN Kompressor System and a Stage 8 engine upgrade. The KLEEMANN SLK 55K S8 has an electronic speed limit of 300 km/h and hits 100 km/h in just 3.7 seconds.
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Q: set Recycler View Visible row count max 3 items even though it has more items Stuck in this problem about RecyclerView Visible item count
Requirement :-
RecyclerView has 3+ items but ,need to show 3 items (other items can be reached through scrolling)
RecyclerView has <=3 items , need to show the full items
Recyclerview set adapter code
     cardoptionlist.clear();
    cardoptionlist.addAll(savedcards);
    cardoptionlist.add(new CardModel(true));

    if (cardOptionAdapter == null) {
        cardOptionAdapter = new CardOptionAdapter(getActivity(), cardoptionlist, this);
    }

    if (rcv_card_options.getLayoutManager() == null) {

        rcv_card_options.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity()));

    }

    rcv_card_options.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(getActivity(), LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL, 0, false));
    rcv_card_options.setItemAnimator(new DefaultItemAnimator());

    rcv_card_options.setHasFixedSize(true);
    rcv_card_options.setItemViewCacheSize(20);
    rcv_card_options.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
    rcv_card_options.setAdapter(cardOptionAdapter);

Recyclerview Xml file
      <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/rcv_card_options"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/rounded_white_app_color_border_8dp"
        android:paddingBottom="2dp"

        android:paddingLeft="8dp"
        android:paddingRight="8dp"
        android:paddingTop="2dp"

        >

Thanks in advance

A: this can be help to you
 public void setHeight(final View convertView) {
    final int height = mRecyclerView.getMeasuredHeight() / 3;
    convertView.setLayoutParams(newAbsListView.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, height));
}