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Aitch shares new single '1989' with Shaun Ryder
Posted on February 26, 2022 by Celebrity Gossip Now
Aitch has shared his new single '1989', featuring Shaun Ryder.
The track, which you can listen to below, sees Aitch rapping over a sample of The Stone Roses' 'Fools Gold'.
Speaking about the song recently, the rapper said the Happy Mondays frontman agreed to do the track for "four cans of Guinness".
Ryder 'croaks' on the intro to the single: "I've [had] loads of nights out involving drugs, sex, fucking – you name it. But the great thing is I can never remember it."
It is taken from Aitch's forthcoming debut album 'Close To Home', which will be released on August 19 via Capitol. The record has been described as "a love letter to the city which shaped him".
Speaking to NME earlier this year, Aitch said he was "a proud Mancunian" and that his upcoming album will be "100,000 per cent a proper Manchester album," that leans into the city's proud musical heritage.
Meanwhile, he recently said that he would pay £7million to Liam Gallagher if he would feature on his next album.
Aitch also reiterated his plans to NME on the red carpet of the BRIT Awards 2022, where he told us of his plans to meet Gallagher at the ceremony and talk him into a collaboration.
Asked how he'd go about starting up a conversation with the former Oasis frontman, the 22-year-old replied: "I'll just say, 'Why are [you] not on my album yet?' See how it goes from there."
Speaking to NME recently, Gallagher responded saying that he won't be appearing on his album, adding: "He ain't got seven million fucking quid – he ain't got fucking seven fucking quid, never mind fucking seven million."
He continued: "Listen, I don't do that – that's not for me, man. He seems like a nice lad, but I don't wanna be on anyone's album."
The rapper has since said he is "still working" on collaborating with the former Oasis frontman.


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Clothes To Die For
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'Clothes To Die For' is a documentary on BBC2 about the people affected by Rana Plaza, we spoke to Zara Hayes the film's director, about why she decided to make the film, the importance of education and what she thinks about the label 'Made in Bangladesh'.
Why did you decide to make a documentary about Rana Plaza? Rana Plaza is the largest industrial disaster of the 21st century and one of the biggest industrial tragedies ever. It is such an important story to tell and I felt a huge sense of responsibility. I thought a film that told the story of the people affected by Rana Plaza had the potential to say something bigger about globalization, Bangladesh's history, female empowerment in Bangladesh and the global fashion industry.
Producer Sarah Hamilton helped me find many of the people who feature in the documentary and we felt very strongly that we had to let people who had experienced the collapse tell their own stories, in their own words.
From your interviews how do you think garment workers feel about the clothes that they are making? This was fascinating to me – what do Bangladeshi men and women think when they're sewing hot pants, skinny jeans and camisole tops? Do they ever feel like trying the clothes on? Are they interested in western fashion? The answer is yes – many of the young girls told me that they used to love the clothes they made for western consumers and they would imagine the people who would wear them one day. One of my favourite memories is when Alamgir, a male garment worker, remembers that he once made a pair of trousers that were so large he couldn't believe they were for a human as he'd never seen someone that tall in Bangladesh!
Choosing the subjects for this sort of film is difficult, what did the people you interviewed want to see changed? I think the biggest thing I took from the workers is that they'd like their voices to be heard. They are full of ideas and opinions about how to do things better. I think, like most people in the world, they want to be able to earn a living wage and work hard in a job that they feel proud to have, in a system they believe to be fair, and to be able to provide for their families.
From your research and time spent in Bangladesh what are the changes that are taking place in the industry there? It is naïve to think that things can change overnight, especially in a developing country where the challenges extend beyond this particular industry. That said, I do feel that awareness is the first stage in making real change happen, and the collapse of Rana Plaza has been a clarion call for the global fashion industry to do better, to work with places like Bangladesh to create safer, more sustainable production processes. The world's attention was focused on Bangladesh on 24th April 2013. The challenge is translating the international outcry that was seen into something meaningful for the industry.
Significant steps are already being taken – the minimum wage for garment workers was doubled in Bangladesh in the wake of the Rana Plaza, though at around £40 a month that's still one of the lowest in the world. Most western companies have now pledged to inspect the structures of the factories that make their clothes (for more information visit the Bangladesh Accord and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety).
Clearly providing information is important for a documentary maker, how important do you think education is in changing the way the fashion industry operates? I feel we need to be as aware of what we wear as we are of the food that we eat. I think it's important to show people the human stories behind the clothes they wear every day, and once there's an association with the "labour" involved, i.e. the people actually sewing our clothes, then we may start to feel differently about it all.
How do you think we can change the perception of what 'Made in Bangladesh' means to people in the UK? I think that the label has potentially become infamous because of the recent tragedies, but I think there's a real opportunity to turn that narrative around into something positive. Bangladesh's garment industry has transformed the country's economy and it now represents around 80% of the country's exports and employs millions of people. It would be a disaster for Bangladesh to lose this industry. Surely the best thing that everyone can do is to work to forge a longer-term relationship with Bangladeshi suppliers to grow and expand the industry and take it to the next level.
I got the sense from talking to factory owners that key to this is for Bangladesh to be able to move up the global value chain and to start developing the skills base needed to produce higher value fashion goods. The international demand for fashion is only going to increase, so Bangladesh wants to retain its position as being an attractive place for brands to turn to. In the UK, I think that we should work to make Made in Bangladesh something to be proud of.
Clothes To Die For will be shown on BBC 2 tonight at 21.00.
#tweetchat #politics #ethics #voiceforchange #RanaPlaza #FashionRevolutionDay #supplychain #Bangladesh
Please note this is an archive blog.
How might we reimagine fashion as a powerful medium to explore and amplify cultures?
What if we worked together to achieve the pace and scale of change that society needs from fashion?
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After the responses have been made, a discovery period will take place, during which information will be collected that could act as evidence as to why a certain party's wishes or objections have merit. This step of the process can also determine the value of the marital estate and whether a person has the financial ability to pay child or spousal support. Information regarding assets and income will likely come about during this time, and medical professionals may feel as if they will end up in a difficult spot due to earning more.
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I was born and raised in Kuwait. I have a Business Degree, major in Management Information Systems from Kuwait University, and an MBA in Strategic Management from Maastricht School of Management (Kuwait Branch).
I am a qualified HR Strategic Management practitioner with an extensive focus on Performance Management. I have 13 years of experience, ranging from retail and corporate banking, and a wide exposure to different HR areas and corporate strategic areas.
I am a Certified Balanced scorecard practitioner (BSC), and Certified Credit Management (CCM), and Project Management Professional (PMP) candidate.
I have effective team management and project management skills to initiate, design, develop, and implement new or enhanced processes, tools, knowledge & skills, aiming at the delivery of objectives, followed by comprehensive impact measurement and recommendation. I am also a trainer in the area of performance management and Balanced Scorecard practice.
Currently, I am the Head of Human Capital and Communication department for a construction and building material company, which has a regional exposure and has about 4,500 employees. I also act as the DCEO advisor and corporate strategy facilitator.
I have demonstrated a track record of achievements based on my ability to work and communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders combined with a drive to succeed and drives change to the best interest of all parties.
My dream is to apply knowledge that has a drive for a positive impact on the society wherever I go and from any position I hold. An impact that can help people unleash their capabilities and improve their quality of life. My emotional intelligence assists me in that journey.
My endevor will focus on the recent organizational restructuring that had resulted in a merge between HR and the Marketing department. This philosophy is quite new in our region and not yet applied in Kuwait. This merger will impact the organization widely, where it will help streamline practices across the board in our regional locations and help induce the new brand and employer brand DNA in the culture. The vision is to be, act and voice as one group. This will also play a role in supporting the increase in numbers of local women in engineering and non-engineering positions that can play an actual role in strengthening the private sector and move Kuwait towards a strong and solid economy. In an industry which is rigid in nature and dominated by men, it is exciting to explore ways to improve the perception of it as well as attract more women.


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Women and Adversity: Jane Addams
Nobel Peace Prize winner, social reformer
Jane Addams struggled with health issues her entire life but was vigorous in her ambition:
to relieve the hardships of the poor
improve the status of women
reform labor practices
provide education for all ages from preschool to adults
encourage the wealthy to care for those less fortunate
Some of her wide-ranging achievements:
1889 – established Hull House in Chicago with friend Ellen Gates Starr for newly arrived immigrants, the first settlement house in the United States
1905 – member of Chicago's Board of Education
1908 – participated in the founding of Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy
1910 – 1st woman president of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (Renamed National Conference of Social Work)
1910 – first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale University
1911 – established National Federation of Settlements
1919-1929 – president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1931 – co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1st American woman to receive this award
Laura Jane Addams was born in 1860 of a wealthy family in the northern Illinois town of Cedarville. She was the eighth of nine children, five of whom died in infancy. She was a toddler when her mother died, but her father, a prosperous miller and political leader with influential friends, including Abraham Lincoln, became her role model. A defect in her spine limited her physically, but she was driven to find her niche in life.
Jane graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and a year later was granted a bachelor's degree when the school became accredited as Rockford College for Women. She entered Women's Medical College in Philadelphia but had an operation on her spine, which ended her medical education.
The visit in 1887 to the settlement house at Toynbee House in London with her friend Ellen Gates Starr inspired the pair to establish Hull House in Chicago, the first settlement house in the U.S. This facility offered day care, kindergarten, educational classes, public kitchen, social programs and other assistance to those in need. It grew to include more than 10 buildings.
In 1963 University of Illinois established its Chicago campus, which demolished the buildings except for the original Hull House, now a National Historic Landmark and museum. However, the Jane Addams College of Social Work is part of UIC.
Jane Addams delivered speeches, wrote essays and a dozen books, some of which are:
Twenty Years at Hull House
Peace and Bread in Time of War
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
This social reformer had a heart attack in 1925 and never fully recovered. She died in Chicago on May 21, 1935 at the age of 74.
www.biography.com/people/jane-addams-9176298
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1931/addams/biographical
socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/settlement-houses/hull-house
Biography: Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight
Thank you for this inspiring post. I remember reading about Jane Addams in college. She's one of the reasons I majored in Social Work.
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Q: less css for ubuntu (and compilation automatically)? I tried simpless, but is not supported now for linux. I tried with wine, and later another alternatives. I don't want to type: lessc file.less > file.less each time I modify a file.
Any good compiler, confortable, automatically,  for less CSS?
What is the linux tool that has same functionality as WinLESS i.e. that compiles less files whenever they change taking into account which less files include which?

A: The most obvious way is to run the javascript implementation on Node.
For Ubuntu, start by installing nodejs and npm, then see e.g. these instructions for compiling LESS to CSS with Node. You should get it going with something like
npm install -g less
lessc mystyle.less

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Biografia
Figlio di Oscar De Pasquale (autore teatrale e, negli anni settanta, direttore artistico dell'Osteria delle Dame il noto locale bolognese luogo di appuntamento di Francesco Guccini, Lucio Dalla, Roberto Vecchioni), frequenta la Scuola di Recitazione di Roberto Garagnani di Bologna e si diploma in Arti Visive nel 1990. Nel 1995 firma il montaggio di Un giorno ideale per i pescibanana con Stefano Accorsi tratto dall'omonimo racconto di Jerome David Salinger e Vincitore del "Concorso Iceberg". Nello stesso anno collabora con Wim Wenders e Michelangelo Antonioni curando la sincronizzazione audio di alcune scene del film Al di là delle nuvole. La collaborazione con Wim Wenders riprenderà poi nel 2010 in occasione del primo cortometraggio italiano in 3D in veste di montatore insieme a Roberto Perpignani.

Negli anni novanta firma il montaggio di spot per DeLonghi, DinoErre , Sigma e Loacker.

Nel finire degli anni novanta inizia la collaborazione con la RAI firmando la post-produzioni di trasmissioni di prima serata per RaiUno, RaiDue e RaiTre. Per RaiTre insieme all'amico Lucio Dalla post-produce la trasmissione Taxi, per RaiDue monta il Concerto di Renato Zero "Tour per Tour", per RaiUno e con la regia di Francesco Vicario, firma il montaggio di Ruvido Show.

Come regista sul finire degli anni novanta dirige il corto Tre secoli d'amore per Nonna Cleofe tratto da un racconto del giornalista Sergio Turone e interpretato da Carla Astolfi, e gli spettacoli teatrali per Canal Jimmy Sky di Alessandro Bergonzoni, Mario Zucca e Stefano Nosei. Il Cortometraggio Panocchie gli vale una segnalazione al SacherFilm Festival di Nanni Moretti.

Nel 2005 dirige l'opera teatrale La leggenda del Passatore a cui seguiranno una serie di altre opere inedite ed il ritorno al Teatro.

Per i Musei d'Arte Antica di Bologna scrive e dirige il Format: "Visite animate Il museo prende vita

Filmografia

Montatore

Spot
 Tasciugo DeLonghi, regia di Ruggero Deodato (1994)
 Telesalvalavita Beghelli
 Stiromeglio DeLonghi, regia di Ruggero Deodato (1998)
 Il Re Leone - Album Panini, (1995)
 Polo Nord Riello, (2000)
 Sentigas Beghelli (2000)
 DinoErre, regia di Guido De Maria (1993)
 DinoErre, regia di Guido De Maria (2000)
 Malaguti Centro, (1999)
 Smeg (2000)
 Mirabilandia (2001)
 Borsci, regia di Paolo Pratesi (2002)
 Expert (2010)
 LineaBella lepel (1996)
 Belseno Lepel, regia di Paolo Pratesi (2000)
 Clementoni, (2000)
 Loacker, regia di Guido De Maria (2000-2017)
 Expert (2015)
 Pasta del Capitano (2017)

Televisione
 Taxi, regia di Lucio Dalla (1995)
 Ruvido Show, regia Francesco Vicario (1998)
 Un disco per l'estate, regia di Roberto Cenci (1998)
 Tour per Tour - Renato Zero (1998)
 Voyager (2010)
 SuperGulp (2010)

Cinema
 Tre secoli d'amore per Nonna Cleofe, regia di Gabriele de Pasquale (1995)
 Panocchie, regia Francesco Merini (1998)
 Il volo, regia Wim Wenders (2010)
 Un giorno ideale per i Pescibanana, regia Francesco Merini (1995)
 Cultura, cibo per l'anima, regia di Gabriele de Pasquale (2013)

Video musicali
 KOM2013, Vasco Rossi (2013)
 Spaccacuore, Samuele Bersani, regia Lucio Dalla
 Melodramma, Andrea Bocelli

Regista

Televisione
 Stefano Nosei Show (2008)
 Zius
 La Repubblica delle Idee (2012)
 Cosmoprof Live (2010)

Teatro
 La leggenda del passatore (2007)'
 Hari Libur (2009)
 Hai sentito di Lucia (2011)
 Per il tuo amore (2014)
 Due gatti un morto e altre quisquilie (2016)
 Il viaggio di Bemolle (2019)
 A Naked Love (2021)

Riconoscimenti
 2019 - Premio della Critica Pr.I.M.O. (Premio Italiano Musical Originale) per l'opera teatrale Per il tuo Amore}
 2021 - Primo Premio Festival Letterario Internazionale Castrovillari Città Cultura per il testo teatrale A Naked Love}
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We'll leave the harbour in the morning or after lunch and be out in the island studded archipelago immediately – Dalarö is right on the edge of the outer archipelago. During the tour, which lasts four hours, we'll have time to enjoy a filling morning or afternoon snack and a cup of steaming freshly brewed coffee, and maybe a few surprises in the form of sea eagles or seals. Dalarö Fortress and Jungfrufjärden Bay are within reach and we'll get back to Dalarö by lunch or dinner time which you´ll be sure to enjoy at one of Dalarö's many excellent cafes or restaurants.
We sail 35 to 40 foot top brand yachts as Linjett 35, Arcona 36 and Beneteau Oceanis 40, all of them of a very high standard. These are boats that are seen as really good vessels that give seasoned sailors a run for their money. The yachts are also easy to learn to sail so even complete beginners can have a go, making sailing with us an activity suitable for everyone.
The maximum number we can have on board during a day outing is seven on the 35-36-footer or ten on the 40-footer. When we do longer trips you'll sleep on board in double or single bunks. On the Linjett there are two separate cabins with a double berth and a saloon with two comfortable full length berths. On the Arcona and Beneteau there are three separate cabins with double berths.
If you're arriving by car drive from Stockholm along route 73 towards Nynäshamn. Exit onto route 227 to Dalarö after around 20 km, and carry on to the T Junction after the bridge over the canal. Turn right towards Dalarö and then immediately right again into Askfatsvägen which leads to Askfatshamnen harbour. There's a large free car park. Walk along the canal to the harbour and the pier where you'll find our boats.


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The Philadelphia Shell Club
The Philadelphia Shell Club was formally founded on September 22, 1955 during a meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Among its 58 charter members were collectors such as John Dyas Parker and Charles Wurtz, and scientists including Henry A. Pilsbry, Ruth D. Turner and R. Tucker Abbott.
The regular monthly meetings
The club meets on the third Thursday of every month except July and August. There is a main speaker, and often shorter presentations from club members. Over the years, every major figure in American Malacology has spoken at a PSC meeting, most more than once! See the meeting page for details of past and upcoming presenters.
The club's annual Shell Auction was its earliest special event. It was held for the first time on November 17, 1955, and netted $151.26 for the club's treasury. The auction has since grown considerably and moved to the third Thursday in May, where it replaces the regular meeting. One of the last regularly scheduled shell auctions in the world, this is a great opportunity to buy rare and unusual specimens at a fraction of market prices!
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PM's Commitment to Free Press: The real test is in practice
Mahfuz Anam
Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:00 AM Last update on: Sun Nov 1, 2020 06:45 PM
File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Nothing could please us more than to hear Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterate her commitment to the freedom of the press and democracy. But does it match with how the Digital Security Act operates, especially against journalists?
We couldn't agree more when the PM called on us to shun unethical and yellow journalism and keep in mind the interest of the nation and its people with the utmost importance. She quoted Bangabandhu as saying, "Like unprincipled (nitiheen) politics, unprincipled journalism also cannot bring good to the society." Again, we couldn't agree more.
The problem arises when we question: who decides what constitutes "unethical" journalism? Who decides what is in the "national" and "public" interest? Is it the "public" or the "powers that be"? (The latter have all the coercive machinery of the state to turn things their way, while the public must wait another five years to have their say, which too can now be "custom-made".)
The PM also urged us to engage in "constructive criticism" but not to "confuse" the people. Here, we could do with some details as to what constitutes constructive criticism. For example, up to what point is criticising the government "constructive", and when do our criticisms start to become destructive?
A government elected for a specific period of time is by definition going to use all its power and influence to get itself re-elected by any means possible, sometimes even bending democratic norms and reinterpreting the legal regime. At that moment, what should a media committed to the "public interest" do?
For politicians, national interest and party interest often appear to be the same (we cannot cite one example where a politician opposed their own party because they thought it went against public interest; given the nature of our politics, it just cannot happen). And thus we hear them accusing us of hurting the national interest when, in reality, we are just exposing corruption and crimes. While we talk about "yellow journalism"—and we accept the criticism with bowed heads and due humility as and when it occurs—we may also raise the issue of "yellow criticism" when unfounded, out-of-context and outright lies are spread against well-researched investigative reports, and when fact-based editorial positions are termed to have a yellow hue.
It is the media's pledge to the public and its bounden duty to expose cases of abuse of power, corruption, waste of resources, and the depriving of citizens of their individual and collective rights. When a government claims to have done this or that, a fundamental fact is not given prominence—that is, everything is being done with public money. When a specific project estimated to cost a particular amount ends up costing several times more—without any credible reason—it is "we the people" who pay for it. So the media is bound to investigate and report how public money is spent. Very often, as recent revelations have also proven, government high-ups don't even know how public money is being wasted, syphoned off or just gobbled up through false papers or fake submissions. It is only when the media reveals them that some action is taken. We dare say if the media did not report, all such cases would never have seen the light of day.
An independent and ethical media is crucial to ensure democracy, people's freedoms and rights, and good governance. Photo: Collected
By and large, the mainstream media in Bangladesh follows the broad ethical codes of the profession. But when a rare example of a rotten apple comes to the fore, it is cited as an example of how the whole media behaves. We have stood firm in supporting democracy, secularism, national sovereignty, illegal takeover of power, etc. We have loudly proclaimed and celebrated every success that our people and government have achieved. No credible example can be cited where the media took a position that was against the public interest.
The differences in perception/definition/interpretation of what constitutes "national" or "public" interest between a government and the media are historical. Some examples will illustrate the point.
In 1961, soon after assuming power, US President John F. Kennedy was preparing to invade Cuba and topple Castro by landing troops at the Bay of Pigs. The New York Times found out about it and was preparing to report. The story goes that President Kennedy personally called the editor of NYT urging him not to publish it, saying that printing the story would jeopardise the US national interest and endanger lives of American troops. The NYT editor said, attacking Cuba is against the US national interest and it is the administration—not the paper—that was jeopardising American lives by waging an illegal war. The story was eventually printed and the invasion ended in a total fiasco. No journalist was jailed, nor was the NYT sued for treason, which might have been the case elsewhere. Issues of far lesser gravity have landed many here with sedition charges.
The case of NYT publishing the classified Pentagon Papers (which contained secret documents about US involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967), against the wishes of the US government, is another celebrated example of who defines the "national interest". The US constitution did not empower the government to forcibly stop its publication. The government went to the Supreme Court, where its petition was thrown out, making for one of the most famous cases on the First Amendment to the US Constitution. (This is an excellent example of media-judiciary collaboration to uphold the freedom of the former. Without the judiciary giving unwavering support to the free press, it is very difficult to withstand assaults by governments. Two examples illustrate the point: the Trump administration tried its best to muzzle the press but the court prevented him; In Egypt, Turkey, Thailand, Myanmar, etc., there is no such protection of the press by the courts.)
In South Asia, one of the crowning examples of ethical journalism is what Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani journalist, did in 1971. The military junta brought him along with several others for a visit to East Pakistan to see and report on how the army had "saved Pakistan" from the Bengali traitors. Upon their return, the other journalists sang the military's song while Anthony Mascarenhas revealed to the world, in graphic detail, the genocide that we Bengalis were being subjected to. (He had to defect to the UK to do so.) He went against his own country's "national interest" and exposed, through The Sunday Times, the killing machine that his own army had become, dramatically changing the world public opinion in favour of our independence struggle. His book "The Rape of Bangladesh", published in 1971, raised global awareness about the crimes against humanity, which was our case during the recently held war crimes trial.
Wasn't supporting Bangabandhu's Six Points against the "national interest" of Pakistan? Those of us who are old enough to have passed a part of our lives in Pakistan remember the role that most newspapers consistently and unwaveringly played in supporting the case for our political autonomy, cultural identity, share of the economic pie, and freedom of expression and democracy—causes that were personified by Bangabandhu. All those papers and the journalists who worked tirelessly at that time could have easily been accused of sedition for "working against the state" and "confusing" the public, if seen from the perspective of the government of the day.
Let us consider the media coverage of the "caretaker government movement" spearheaded by Awami League during the 1993-96 period. Those of us who saw the merit of the demand and supported it through reporting, columns and editorials were writing something that the government of the day considered to be anti-constitutional (since the caretaker government concept was not in our constitution), anti-government, against the "national interest", and an attempt to "confuse" the public.
Late Saifur Rahman, BNP's finance minister for several times, while in opposition once saw this writer at a diplomatic reception and introduced The Daily Star "as the conscience keeper of the nation." Later, on another occasion, after he returned to power and saw me in a similar event, literally shouted out "here comes the enemy of the government." I politely replied, "Saifur Bhai, I am where I was but you have moved from one side of the fence to the other and with it your views about things have become the exact opposite."
I recount the above story only to drive home the point that the attitude towards an independent media drastically differs with being "in or out of power". When in opposition, an independent media is the "conscience", and when in power, we are the "enemy". We are neither—just committed and ethical journalists performing our professional duty.
Coming back to the issue of "unethical" journalism, definitely it is something that we must abhor and shun with every breath in our body. However, quite often critical journalism is termed as unethical just because it embarrasses the government or puts it in an awkward position or even proves it to be corrupt. We are accused of "confusing" the people because we are contesting the government version, and we are supposedly not serving the public interest just because we are opposing the official narrative.
A vital lesson to learn from the socialist/communist failure is that they never allowed the official narrative to be contested, with the result that they were never aware that the ground was shifting under their feet. Finally, when the day came, a 70-year-old system collapsed from within. In my view, one of the vital reasons why the Soviet Union collapsed along with all its "friendly" countries was because they never allowed a free and independent press. The Brezhnevs and Kosygins of the day did not know how corrupt their regimes had become, how little public support they enjoyed, and how little influence they had on the public view of things. All because of the absence of a free media.
In reading Bangabandhu's "Unfinished Memoirs" and "Prison Diaries", especially the latter, it is clear how attached he was to newspapers and how respectful he was of this profession. Recently, in an op-ed column that we carried, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shared her own stories of growing up with newspapers. An intrinsic respect for journalism is obvious in both. We would like to assure the prime minister that we remain essentially of the same genre with the vital difference that now she is the focus of most of our attention—both positive and critical.
The journalism of her younger days was single-mindedly focused on gaining our independence. The goal for the people, as well as for journalism, was crystal clear. The task at hand was not to question but to enthusiastically rally behind. The demand of the day was sacrifice—sacrifice everything including our lives.
Then she was a freedom fighter. Now she is the head of government which, by definition, is a highly complex institution, and running it is one of the most exacting tasks that there is, especially when a country has as many challenges as we do. Journalism of today is focused on nation building whose important ingredients are democracy, freedom, rights, accountability, transparency and good governance.
None of the above can be assured without an independent, free and ethical media. As Walter Cronkite, a global icon of quality journalism, said, "Freedom of the press is not just an important part of democracy, it is democracy."
Mahfuz Anam is Editor and Publisher, The Daily Star.
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যুক্তরাজ্যের বিজ্ঞান বিষয়ক জার্নাল 'নেচার'-এর ২০২২ সালের 'ফিজিক্যাল সায়েন্স' বা ভৌত বিজ্ঞান বিষয়ক গবেষণায় বৈশ্বিক র‌্যাংকিংয়ে বাংলাদেশের অবস্থান ১০২তম। তালিকায় যুক্তরাষ্ট্র ও জার্মানিকে ছাড়িয়ে এক...
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Q: How to see text in toast I'm trying to see text from GridView using a toast when I selected or clicked on GridView's data. I can see position, but don't know what to put to see a text.
Here is a code.
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    String [] data = {"a","b", "c","d","e","f", "g","h"};
    GridView gdView;
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
    String result;

        @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.item, R.id.tvText, data);

        gdView = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gdView);
        gdView.setAdapter(adapter);

        gdView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()
        {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v,
                                    int position, long id) {
             Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
}

Could someone suggest me, what I need to use or where to look for it?
Thank you

A: Turn last string to
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), String.valueOf(position), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

A: The parameter int position of the method onItemClick() on AdapterView.OnItemClickListener gives you:

The position of the view in the adapter.

See here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AdapterView.OnItemClickListener.html#onItemClick(android.widget.AdapterView, android.view.View, int, long)
You can use this to retrieve the content of this view from your ArrayAdapter with:
adapter.getItem(position)

See here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ArrayAdapter.html#getItem(int)
This will return the content of your ArrayAdapter at the given position, in your case as a String, which you can store in a variable if you like or pass directly into Toast.makeText().


With aboriginal morning clouds blind over Husky Stadium, the Washington football aggregation opened its bounce affected on Montlake on Monday morning, the team's additional bounce beneath arch drillmaster Chris Petersen.
As the drillmaster prepares for his additional year at the captain of the program, he reflected actuality aback out on the convenance acreage about three months afterwards UW's 30-22 Cactus Bowl accident to Oklahoma State.
On the aboriginal day of practice, all eyes were on the quarterbacks. A action is developing amid inferior Jeff Lindquist, redshirt apprentice K.J. Carta-Samuels and accurate apprentice Jake Browning, and that took centermost date Monday.
At this time a year ago, Petersen had aloof two quarterbacks on the field: Lindquist and Troy Williams. Now, afterwards Williams' abandonment and the advertisement that Cyler Miles — aftermost season's amateur — will absence bounce convenance while demography a leave of absence from the program, numbers are afresh attenuate beneath center.


Editor Note: November marks the first anniversary of the unsuccessful attempt to incorporate Carmel Valley in 2009. Tom Adams, a financial analyst and media consultant, decided to find out whether this proposed 12-mile-long city would have been financially feasible.
Tom Adams examined tax data for Carmel Valley over the last fiscal year. He looked at revenues collected from sales tax, property tax and the hotel tax (TOT). With data provided by the Monterey County Tax Assessor office, Adams discovered that for the fiscal year 2011, the proposed city of Carmel Valley would have had a $2.29 million shortfall. LAFCO had predicted $10.63 in tax revenues for fiscal 2011, but the actual figure turned out to be $8.34 million.
FY 2011 property taxes were projected by LAFCO to be $3.34m. But the assessed value of property in the CV plan area was $2.9bn in 2010, and the Assessor's office says we can assume 1% of that is paid in taxes with 10% of that going to the municipality. Assuming the assessor's -2.5% change estimate "for a number of years" applies to FY 2011, we're assuming $2.84m in 2011 property tax, a $500k shortfall from LAFCO's projected $3.34m. We thereafter grow property taxes at 1 percentage point below the projected LAFCO growth rate. That would leave 2020 property taxes at $3.72m, or $1.36m short of LAFCO's projected $5.08m.
TOT taxes were projected by LAFCO to be $2.98m in 2011. Instead, they fell to $2.55m in 2009 and to $1.974m in 2010, according to the county tax collector, with Quail open 4 months and the Ranch running at super-low occupancy for six months. Pull out Quail's 4 months TOT, and assume occupancy recovers at the Ranch now that its remodel is 90% complete, and 2011 should come in at $1.77m. That's a gigantic $1.2m shortfall (-41%) from the LAFCO projection. With consumer spending still crimped, assume 2% growth going forward rather than LAFCO 3%. So 2020 TOT would be $2.12m, not LAFCO projected $3.88m, a $1.7m shortfall.
LAFCO projected $1.85m in 2011 sales taxes, up from FYE June 2008 actuals of $1.6m (page 83 of LAFCO report). County sales-tax receipts were $6.8m that year, and have subsequently declined to $5.4m (-21%). We can assume that declines in the Carmel Valley area were at least as steep with several restaurants and hotels closing or downsizing. But even it they only declined by the same 21% as the county, FY 2010 sales tax receipts in the proposed city would have been $1.26m. Even in the unlikely event that they don't decline again in FY 2001, sales-tax receipts would be 32% below the LAFCO projections in the city's first year. Assuming continued weak consumer-spending trends, and therefore annual growth going forward that averages 1 percentage point less than LAFCO's projected rate, the city would come up $38% short of LAFCO's $2.41m projection for 2011 at $1.5m.
The impact of the Great Recession on Carmel Valley's tax revenues would have been profound. Instead of having $10.63 in revenues in fiscal 2011, the city would have had $8.34, a $2.29m shortfall v. LAFCO projections. In 2020, total revenue would have been $10.35m, not the projected $14.69m, a $4.34m shortfall.
The city would run a surplus (after Road Fund deficits) through 2015, and only small deficits thereafter, leaving it with a $3.77m cumulative surplus in 2020. On top of that, the city's contingency fund would have about $9.1m in it.
As it turns out, the city would have started running deficits in fiscal 2012, even before it had to begin making "mitigation payments" to the county to recompense it for the tax base transferred to the new city. The deficits would have jumped dramatically to $2.57m in 2013 when mitigation payments to the county began. By 2020, the cumulative deficit would have been $29.5m. Of course, rather than building a contingency fund at $1m/year, the city would have devoted the contingency cash to reducing that deficit—but still, the $20.3m cumulative deficit would amount to $4,060 per valley home.
Proponents insisted this debt-ridden-city scenario couldn't happen, and they are right, since who would loan money to people reckless enough to incorporate during the Great Recession, then militantly refuse to allow development to fill the budget gap? Banks don't have that kind of forbearance. To avoid going broke, the city council would be forced to not only allow the development contemplated in the county General Plan that is 93% built-out already, as the county might do, but pursue development plans well in excess of what the county's General Plan would allow. That's what other peninsula cities are doing. That's what all cities do.
Tom Adams is a financial analyst and media consultant in Carmel Valley. Report issued on Oct. 13, 2010.


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Q: Where can I find the source code of "GFileInfo" functions like "g_file_info_get_content_type"? I want to read the source code of a GFileInfo function:
g_file_info_get_content_type ( GFileInfo *info );
Could somebody tell me where to find the source code file? I search the glibc code by didn't found the functions.
These function are introduced in this link: http://library.gnome.org/devel//gio/2.26/GFileInfo.html

A: Here's the file you are looking for. Note that the page you linked is generated from it.
It's actually part of GLib (GTK+ Library) which is part of the GNOME project, but is used by a host of other software projects. You might wanna get a git checkout for the sake of convenience.


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Georgi Petrov
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Oral health varies by wealth and location
People with lower household income and people living in regional and remote areas generally have poorer oral health than other Australians, according to new information published on the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website today.
Today's update to the AIHW's Dental and oral health web pages shows that both dental health and dental visiting patterns are affected by remoteness and socioeconomic status.
The proportion of people with untreated decay was greater in Remote/Very remote areas (38%) than in Major cities (24%).
'In 2004-06, adults living in Inner regional areas had the highest measure of poor oral health, which is defined as the average number of decayed, missing or filled permanent teeth (DMFT) at 14.75,' said AIHW spokesperson Dr Adrian Webster.
Similar patterns were also seen in dental visiting, with adults in Major cities the most likely to have visited a dentist for a check-up at least once in the past 12 months (49% of adults).
This compares to just 31% of people living in Remote/Very remote areas.
Most dentists work in Major cities (79.7% of all employed dentists), while only 0.9% were in Remote/Very remote areas (0.9%). Major cities also had the highest rates of dentists and dental hygienists, while Remote/Very remote areas had the lowest rates of all dental practitioners, except dental therapists.
'Visiting patterns also varied by household income. Under one-third (28%) of adults in the lowest income group had visited a dentist for a check-up in the last 12 months, compared to over half of those in the highest income group (56%),' Dr Webster said.
People in higher income households generally have lower rates of untreated decay as well as fewer missing teeth, compared to those in lower income households.
'The proportion of people with untreated decay was highest for those with household income of less than $12,000 per year, and the lowest where household income was $100,000 or more,' Dr Webster said.
People living in lower income households went to the dentist less often than those in higher income households.
Half of those with a household income of less than $12,000 per year had visited the dentist in the previous year (50%), compared to two-thirds of those with a household income of at least $100,000 (67%).
Around one-third of the lower income group hadn't visited the dentist at all in the past 2 years (34%), compared to less than one-fifth (16%) of the higher income group.
Survey data from 2010 shows more than one-quarter of people aged 5 or older (28%) avoided or delayed visiting a dentist due to cost. From 1994 to 2010, there was a rise in the proportion of adults avoiding dental visits, from about 25% to 30%. For children, the overall trend was unchanged at around 14%, but varied between 8.5% and 17% over this period.
The AIHW is a major national agency set up by the Australian Government to provide reliable, regular and relevant information and statistics on Australia's health and welfare.


We all enjoy a good story, whether it's a novel, a movie or simply something one of our friends is explaining to us. Why are we so engaged when we hear a good narrative about events or persons?
It's, in fact, quite simple. If we listen to a discussion or a powerpoint presentation, a certain part in the brain gets activated. Scientists call this Broca's area and Wernicke's area. Overall, it hits our language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning.
On the other hand, when we are being told a story, things change dramatically. Not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but "any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too," writes Australian author Leo Widrich in LifeHacker, a weblog site.
If someone tells us about how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up. If it's about motion, our motor cortex gets active. Metaphors like "The singer had a velvet voice" and "He had leathery hands" activates the sensory cortex. A story can put our whole brain to work. When we tell stories to others that have really helped us shape our thinking and way of life, we can have the same effect on them too. The brains of the person telling a story and listening to it can synchronise, confirms Uri Hasson, a researcher from Princeton University.
Using the power of a story, we can get others also experience anything that we experienced ourselves. When the narrator and the listener have the same brain areas activated, they feel really connected. A story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect, writes Widrich. And that is exactly how we think. We think in narratives, no matter if it is about buying groceries, our job or our success. We make up short stories in our heads for every action and conversation. That is simply because our brain is wired to listen to stories or perceive cause and effect. That is why, Jeremy Hsu, a researcher from Stanford University, found that "personal stories and gossip make up 65 per cent of our conversations".
We need to realise that as human beings, we are all part of the larger story of the universe and of living beings. Our spiritual quest is part of the interconnected and shared story that makes our lives significant.


Doing all the planning needed for a trade show is complex. The process takes some time, because there are lots of details.
All these things (and more) go into every show on your calendar.
It takes lots of skill and careful planning. Every line item has a cost attached, and these costs add up quickly.
Many exhibitors are most surprised by unplanned costs, or those that ballooned much higher than planned.
Many exhibitors look at all of the trade show expenses.
They never make a budget. They're forever taken by surprise when costs get out of hand.
The best practice is to work out a budget that includes everything you can think of. Then add a little extra "pad" to it, and then stick to the plan.
Last minute changes are your biggest enemies. These add rush fees and increased shipping costs.
Plan as far ahead as possible. Be sure to get all the early response discounts you can from the show.
2) Get buy-in and approval from on high.
Ask about our "12" sale to save 12%!
Get approval from those who control the purse strings, before you commit to clever (but expensive) concepts.
Explain that delays in approvals cause rush charges and increased shipping expenses.
Planning: 1) Start as soon as you can.
Your planning for next year's show should probably start before this year's show is in the history books.
Twelve months in advance is ideal. Most companies only manage to work about six months ahead.
Every expenditure that gets delayed will increase costs. This includes hotel rooms, airline tickets, and printing your graphics — delays always result in higher costs.
2) Think like a coupon clipper.
Coupon users look for every chance they can find to save a few cents on whatever they purchase.
There are discounts available for booking your booth space early, as well as just about every other on-site expense.
And be sure to pay attention to the deadlines your suppliers provide, so you can avoid late fees or rush charges.
3) Be a labor organizer.
Union rules can change a lot from one convention center to another.
As your shows change locations, you may face higher costs or other complications related to show labor.
Be sure to review the show booklet with all its rules and deadlines.
If possible, schedule your booth set-up and tear down during regular work hours, avoiding overtime charges.
Mistakes happen, even with digital receipts. So check what you're being charged by the show or by its vendors.
In many cases, if you don't catch the mistake while you're on-site, you have no recourse against the added costs.
So, while everything's still fresh in your mind, go over all your receipts and make sure the figures are in line with what you had agreed to.
Crates & Boxes: 1) Size matters.
When the size of your crates goes up, so do the shipping and drayage costs, even when there's no actual increase in the crate's weight.
It's called "dimensional weight." Shippers charge for how much space you take up in their trucks. Even if the large box doesn't weigh very much, this can add unexpected costs.
Drayage fees are slightly different. There is usually a minimum charge – weight combination, like $200 minimum for every package up to 200 lbs.
So adding a few small packages instead of one combined package might prove very expensive, because they will charge the minimum charge for each package.
Check the rules and check the sizes and weights of your total shipment before the show, so you know understand how this show works, then pack to minimize costs.
2) Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Don't be in too big a rush to catch your flight home.
The exhibit hall will move your equipment off the show floor. If it wasn't disassembled, they will do that for you.
Then they will charge you for the labor. They will charge your for storage. There will be late penalties.
They often will decide to ship it, via their most expensive shipping partner. It will probably ship to your return address – regardless of your plans.
Complete all your material handling contracts and label all your crates clearly before you leave the hall, so you can avoid these added costs.
Be sure the show understands your desires. If you fill out the show material handling forms incorrectly, they may turn away your scheduled carrier, and then once again, "force" your display.
This will add an attempted pickup charge from the scheduled carrier to the other costs and penalties!
There's no magic to creating a successful—and cost-effective—trade show program.
It takes proper planning, some diligence and a touch of creativity. Plan well, communicate with your team, and get everything in writing.
Put everything onto your calendar. This will help meet deadlines and avoid unneeded costs and penalties.
After that, think about whether your trade show exhibit itself is doing its best.
Is it time to update your booth design or get new graphics? Whether you need a completely new trade show booth design, a few new graphics, or a new digital display, we can help you make a memorable impression on the show floor.
For more ideas, check out our tips on cutting trade show costs or check out or article on saving money and still having great trade show displays.


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A Posthumous Reflection on the Death of Bin Laden and the Boston Marathon
April 25, 2013 by Safiyyah
Celebrating in the Shadows of World Politics
The Vatican said the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, a man who sowed division and hatred and who caused "innumerable" deaths, should prompt serious reflection about one's responsibility before God, not rejoicing.
'Osama bin Laden, as we all know, bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations, causing the deaths of innumerable people, and manipulating religions to this end" Father Lombardi said. "In the face of a man's death, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibilities of each person before God and before men, and hopes and works so that every event may be the occasion for the further growth of peace and not of hatred.' (Catholic News Service)
The Vatican is holding firmly on to its commitment to realizing the ideals of common respect and tolerance between Islam and the Church as articulated in the historic document "A Common Word Between You and Us."
From our side, let us remind ourselves as Muslims that our celebrations, festivities and commemorations need to be configured within the orbit of Islamic Spirituality. This was the want of some of our greatest leaders in the past such as Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin d. 1193), Omar Mukhtar of Libya (d. 1931) and al-Amir al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (d. 1883). The latter is known to have freed his French prisoners purely on the grounds that he did not have enough food for them to eat! In July of 1860 – whilst in exile in Syria – he saved thousands of Christians from slaughter by the Druze. For this the French honoured him with special favours. Moreover, acts of humanitarianism during times of war by the former two are far too many to be mentioned in a short piece of this nature. Suffice it to say that they all gained the greatest respect both within the Muslim World and beyond. While some of them lost the battle and others won gloriously, the modus vivendi of all these great saints and warriors stand us both proud and as vitalizing nodes of inspiration for whoever wishes to fight and struggle in the name of Islam.
There is a well-known saying amongst Muslims that declares: 'ala al–mar'i an yasa' wa laysa 'alayhi idrak al-najah (It is compulsory for one to try one's best; but it is not compulsory to succeed).
In their efforts to defend Islam against the most belligerent invaders, they stood us proud in their defense of the cause. They tried their best according to the Divine Pattern of things. While some of them lost the battle they remain as monuments of light and left behind an immortal legacy as beacons of the Way of the Prophet (the sunnah) in conducting and setting the standards for a just war. A deep sense of the ethical, of morality and spirituality, were constitutive values in their engagement of the enemy, and they were all of a Sufi disposition.
Today we witness jubilant scenes celebrating death and destruction on both sides of the divide – both in the Muslim world and just recently in the USA. Indeed Hollywood has already produced its Oscar award winning sensationalist version of the Bin Laden event, "Zero Dark Thirty, capitalizing on the death of the many innocent people who died in the search for the USA's most wanted man.
Meanwhile the over-politicization of the world and humanity at both the civilizational and cultural levels will invariably lead to increased tensions and animosity. Add to that a consumerist culture of rampant economic greed – bereft of any sense of the sacred – then we have a cauldron of boiling poison that threatens to destroy the very ground upon which it stands.
The lessons to be learnt are that when we do rejoice – such as during the two 'Ids and the Mawlud al-Nabi (the Birth of the Prophet) celebrations, for example – our rejoicing need not be read as a moment of insensitivity towards the suffering of others. On the contrary, our rejoicing is an expression of the Qur'anic verse:
"Do not despair of the Mercy of Allah, for Allah forgives all sins."(39: 53)
We have to rejoice at the fact that even if we have nothing other than Islam and Iman (secure faith) that this is enough cause for celebration.
"Indeed, the true religion with Allah is Islam." (Qur'an, 3: 19).
Here Islam is not presented as a falsification of other prophets and religions, but as a crystalline distillation of those beliefs, rites and practices that found both their manifestation and actualization – in all their multifarious forms – throughout our sacred history from the time of the Prophet Adam (as) and Hawa (as) to the Prophet Muhammad (saw). With the advent of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) the sacred chain of prophets and religions had come full circle and found its perfection in him.
In the latter sense Islam is the ultimate ni'mah (Divine Grace). Within the starkness of this condition we have to remember that in Islam the emphasis is on optimism, not pessimism. This will remain so despite the fact that it appears as if we are going through one of our most trying moments in history. The Bin Ladens, the Bushes and the Donald Trumps have become the supreme symbols of a sensationalist and vitriolic worldliness – much as they might speak in the name of religion and material progress. Donald Trump in an interview on Fox TV went as far as making the startling claim that the Arabs "would not even exist" without the USA; and further laments the fact that after the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, the USA foolishly returned Kuwait to the indigenous people. "That is our oil!" he wailed. Here the God-given dignity of all people is assaulted by qualities such as malicious envy, rancor, belligerence, and bigotry. This circumstance, unfortunately, is exacerbated by both internecine hatred and hatred of the "other" – on the one hand, by the counter-Traditional Evangelists and on the other, by the corrosive rigidity of the so-called Islamic "fundamentalists". A common Muslim saying has it that the "devil continually seeks to ape God."
There are media and cultural biases against Muslims, religiously bigoted views about Islam and active distortion about the political and social conditions in some parts of the Muslim world. But when we venture below the surface we encounter another story – that Islam is in fact the fastest growing religion on the planet despite the best efforts by propagandists to smear and demonize Islam and Muslims. In addition, the world birth rate is 2.4 while the Muslim growth rate is 2.9. For those in the know in the non-Muslim world, it is not bombs, bullets and the behavior of emotionally disturbed individuals speaking in the name of the ummah that will get Islam and Muslims anywhere, but potentially this demographic fact of the massive conversion rate in the world today – particularly in the Western world, and even more particularly amongst women. This latter is a topic religiously avoided by the media. Yet care should be exercised in this regard. Demographics alone is not good enough.
So what is the position of Muslims vis-à-vis all of this. The Qur'an tells us,
"When the help of Allah comes and victory; and you see people entering the religion in droves, then hymn the praises of Allah; be then grateful and seek forgiveness." (110: 1-3).
The message is clear: Islam is not the property or possession of any particular person. It does not belong to "me" to boast about when there is an increase in fortune and capital. It is not a self-aggrandizing condition that entitles cradle Muslims to sport and parade their newly acquired wares. What indeed are required are gestures of humility and thanksgiving that speak of hearts that are fully aware of the fact that Islam requires change founded in a sacred and transcendent order that seek to spiritually liberate the human condition from the most blameworthy qualities that blight that condition.
Nonetheless, celebrating the entrance of droves of humanity into Islam – as mentioned in the verse above – is meant and designed to celebrate the great qualitative changes that may precipitate from those who adopted Islam as their new faith on the basis of choice and free will. Choices that may well contribute to elevating those cradle Muslims fossilized in an arrogance and self-righteousness that serve to destroy rather than proclaim the universal message of Islam. The rigidity and hostility of the neo-wahhabis such as Bin Laden inc. have done much to marginalize that inherently universal vision.
To more fully understand the Traditional Islamic idea of praise and celebration we need to join hands with those who are both firmly rooted in and creatively linked to our classical legacy and, more specifically, to that great Tradition of Islam that finds its expression in the voices of the likes of Hujjat al-Islam Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, al-Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyi l-Din ibn al-'Arabi, Shaykh Junayd al-Baghdadi, Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi and others far too numerous to mention. It is a Tradition, too, that has never failed to recognize and acknowledge that the Qur'an and the Sunnah form the twin sources of spirituality and Divine Grace (barakah) – spirituality and a grace that have found their infinite space and flow upon the shores of those hearts receptive to the perennial rhythms of Divine Providence. Upon these shores, and across the ages, stand these gladiators of Islamic Spirituality who wield those radiant staves – enlightened and enlightening – of Sufism.
In these representatives we find an Islam that combines fearlessness with wisdom, methodology with sanity and a state of being imbued with confidence and dignity. It is an Islam that tells us when we invite to the Way of Allah that we do so with hikmah (wisdom) and maw'idhat al-hasanah (beautiful exhortations) – and not through the burning of effigies and flags. It is an Islam that tells us that representative Muslims are those who
"are guided unto good speech and are guided unto the path of the Praiseworthy." (Qur'an, 22:24)
It is an Islam that teaches us that while it is permissible to requit a wrong, it is yet better to forgive. It is an Islam that teaches us that if we are oppressed and removed from our homes that we are entitled to fight for the restoration of our natural rights. It is an Islam, moreover, that teaches that if our enemies stop their hostilities with offerings of peace that we, in turn, reciprocate with peace and get on with our lives.
In short, it is an Islam the essence of which is taught in our sacred institutions such as the "madrasah" (school) of Ramadan and that of the Hajj. Here we are taught the virtues of taqwa (God-consciousness), the virtues of disciplining the will and aligning it with the Will of Allah, the virtues of purifying the heart and the soul, and the virtues of sabr (patience and endurance), namely, that extraordinary and richly rewarding capacity to live with fortitude in the long term.
In these sacred institutions we are taught to be truly human. And we can only be truly human, in Islamic terms, if we live up to the highest standards demanded by Islamic Spirituality. It is in the context of realizing the greatness of spirit within each and every human being that we come to recognize the greatness of Allah. Moreover, we need to live up to the greatness of that spirit within each and every one of us in order to realize and to rediscover that spiritual umbilical cord that connects us to Allah – and that cord is a consentient one animated by the remembrance (dhikr) of Allah.
The Boston Blasts
Unfortunately there are also those who fail – in a cosmologically epic way – to fully comprehend the common origins of all humanity. Allah states in the Quran :
O people reverence your Lord Who created you from a single essence and created of like nature the mate; and from them two scattered forth countless men and women. Reverence Allah about whom you ask and demand so much; and reverence the wombs that bore you; for Allah ever watches over you. (an-Nisa – The Women, 4:1).
Yet severe dichotomies abound. There are those who are alienated, discriminated against and marginalized because of their religious persuasions. These occur in public spaces, in schools and at work. People grow more resentful of one another by the day. Majorities are held hostage to the behavior of minorities and minorities continue to be persecuted by majorities throughout the world.
Our hopes are yet again severely tested by the Boston Bombings. To murder people in this way invokes the highest forms of prohibition and legal punishment in Islamic Law. We cannot bomb people to death – especially 8-year olds – nor may we burn people to death, regardless of the nature of their crimes. But despite the horror of this and other events, political leaders of the world need to reconcile themselves to a number of matters. Will they resolve to stand on the side of wisdom and compassion, or on the side of hatred and hostility? Will they choose to walk the difficult road of true enlightenment, dignity and liberation; or to contrive in the shadow world of bigotry and prejudice? Will they choose to condemn violence and bloodshed, from both people who claim to represent Islam and those who are retaliating in the name of a 'war on terror'? Or is there an element of the "witches" in Macbeth here? In the midst of the drama on the international stage of politics we have the disturbing sight of "witches" screaming even more disturbing vitriol on the world and its major actors: "Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air." The question is: for how long will ordinary people, and those with a heightened sense of the moral life, care to hover in that foul and filthy air? That air stretches across continents and was in much better shape during the 1970's and 1980's. That air – foul and filthy as it might be – was certainly not fanned exclusively from the Middle East.
For my part, and in the spirit of that refreshing stream of Traditional Islam and Sufism, ultimate Praise is for Allah alone. And that is nothing other than an echo that found its first articulation when the children of Adam and Hawa were asked to bear witness to their Lord in their original state of primordial nativity:
"Am I not your Lord? Yes" they proclaimed "Indeed You are our Lord!" (Qur'an, 7: 172).
But we should not forget our praise and thanks for those upon whom and within whom the imprints of that Lordship have found their resonance and expression. They are those prophets, saints and savants who have been touched – in varying degrees – with the radiance of Divine Grace. As living symbols of all that constitute the sacred, these are the people too, whom we should never forget in our commemorations and celebrations. They form as much a part of sacred history and memory; as sacred – if not more on occasion – as those divinely selected and sanctified moments of space and time, such as that of the Haram (the sanctified precincts around the Ka'ba) or the hallowed month of Ramadan.
While the death of those such as Bin Laden and others of their kind – who have done more to pervert the message of Islam than most before them – would be welcomed by many in the world, and while their deaths may act as a catharsis for the psyches of the likes of Bush and others, we should always be vigilant about not following their "sunnah". When a number of Omar Mukhtar's troops captured a number of Italian soldiers they wanted to torture them on the pretext that they had killed, maimed and raped many of their family members. Mukhtar's response was typical: "Do you wish" he asked, "to follow the 'sunnah' of the Italians or the Sunnah of the Prophet (saw). Feed them, clothe them and treat them with respect."
With the likes of Umar Mukhtar in more recent times, and those of Salahuddin al-Ayyubi in earlier times as models par excellence of the great human and universal heights Muslim may aspire to and achieve, there is every hope that our Muslim brothers and sisters will have the moral and spiritual courage to stand as monuments of the highest levels of grace, mercy, compassion and authentic, sensitive leadership that humanity can produce.
Azzawiyah Institute
24 April, 2013.
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on May 1, 2013 at 10:50 pm | Reply Safia
Very interesting& so true.
on July 4, 2013 at 11:34 pm | Reply osmaan
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We are pleased to announce the next guest for Autographica.
A very good guest, do you know if George will have some Robin of Sherwood photos?
I had no idea he was in the Dam Busters - cue guest announcement for Richard Todd and Dambuster vets! Apparently the director is still alive!
Do I go for OHMSS or Spy?
Excellent, I want to meet him for 'I, Claudius'!
Choices - I might have to have three - Robin of Sherwood, James Bond and Ruth Rendall Mysteries.
Excellent guest announcement. He attended a Tenth Planet (they can be mentioned on the Showmasters forum can't they, as they were at the last Autographica at the B'ham Hilton Metropole in April last year?) event a couple of weekends ago down south but I wasn't going to travel down there for just one person. So I'm very pleased George Baker has been announced for this event in Birmingham.
Hopefully they will have some Inspector Wexford photos on his table, plus some pictures from On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me.
Correct me if I am wrong but somewhere at back of my mind I remember George passing away late last year - and when I checked IMDB there was no date of death but then on Wikipedia it states his date of death as 1 December 2008. It is the same George Baker as it lists his films/tv appearances at the bottom of the page. All I can think is that this is another mistaken death like what happened with Norman Wisdom at Christmas???
Maybe Wikipedia is referring to another actor with the same name?
Correct me if I am wrong but somewhere at back of my mind I remember George passing away late last year - and when I checked IMDB there was no date of death but then on Wikipedia it states his date of death as 1 December 2008.
Wikipedia are renowned for getting things completely wrong and also for making loads of stuff up too.
No attendance day(s) confirmed, and the photoshoot has been taken off sale - can we have confirmation on this please ?
Confirmation required - please confirm whether or not George Baker will be attending.
I would also like to know whether he is appearing - I'm hoping to meet him so that I can get my 'I, Claudius' DVD signed.
Would it be wrong to suggest confirmation is being held off in fear of losing a few attendees? What with the crunch and all, I'm sure most of us customers are thinking about attending based on the amount of people we want to meet being there.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but some clarity on this guest must be achievable a week from the event, surely???
Do we have a date that George Baker is attending yet? I need to make arrangements to come and it's all to see George. Sat or Sun or both?


If you're looking for a subtle traditional accessory to don in your modern interior designs, then think about using area rugs. Since they do not actually lie within the general vision angle of a user, they tend to go unnoticed until someone does more than a quick perusal of the space. So even with an elaborate design to back it up, an area rug can be the most understated way you can use a classical twist in your spaces.
While classic drop chandeliers used to be the main focal point of a room in the past, these days ceiling fans have taken that place. Many homeowners think that going for a typical fan can make their rooms look conventional and boring, but that can be easily avoided by picking a contemporary fan. There are so many textures and shapes available in the market. You can even opt for one with a ceiling light to get the best results!
Drapes and heavy curtains used to be such a bold interior design accoutrement, and even today they hold a very classic appeal. You can use these as a traditional design element in your modern interior by effusing it with a contemporary twist! The fall and knots of the drapes can remain the same, but you must exchange the old-school materials for something like sheer fabrics to get a space that strikes appealingly to all modern sensibilities.
Interior designs of ye old always used to feature bold and oversized furniture. This is mostly because the spaces used to be so humongous in the past. However, you can still emulate this classic look with modern furniture that is scaled just a size above normal to suit contemporary floor layouts.
Traditional interior designs used to be very elaborate, and there used to be at least one in-built element that acted as a focal point in them. You can go for a similar aesthetic, but finish it in modern visuals and materials. An in-built seating area featuring customized carpentry is a good way to modernize a classic look!


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This 2 day Delphi training course will introduce you to the current version of the Object Pascal programming language and the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Following a short introduction to the basic principles of Object Oriented Programming you will be taught the fundamentals of programming with Delphi.
The major objective to the course is to give you enough knowledge and hands-on experience to be able to build simple object oriented programs.
This 2 day course will take you further into the depths of the Delphi/Pascal programming language. By utilizing the newly added framework Firemonkey you will learn how to program and build an application that will compile for both Mac and Windows. As well as get a deeper knowledge of the Pascal language and its capabilities.
The major objective to the course is to give you enough knowledge and hands-on experience to be able to build object oriented programs with some advanced features and get the applications running on Mac as well as Windows using the same codebase.
The last couple of years there has been a new Delphi version twice a year. With every new version there has been new features added, enhancements made and the product has just grown bigger and better.
This one day training course will introduce you to the FireDAC framework for connecting to and working with various databases with Delphi. The FireDAC framework is available in VCL applications as well as Firemonkey applications.