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St Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Carrara marble monument to Penelope Boothby (1785-1791).
Daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, Baronet & his wife Susannah.
By Thomas Banks (1735-1805), 1793.
The inscription is in four different languages - English, Latin, French & Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
"She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark and the wreck was total.”
Thomas Banks (1735-1805) was apprenticed to a London mason, but also spent time working alongside the sculptor Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781). He enrolled in the life classes held at the St Martin's Lane Academy, and later at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1772 he became the first sculptor to win the Royal Academy's three-year travelling stipend, and went with his wife to Rome, where he eventually spent seven years. He specialised in ideal works, most of which were executed in Rome for British patrons, although he continued to produce similar work after his return to London. He was made a Royal Academician in 1786. Banks was one of the most original British Neo-classical sculptors, who dedicated his work to the antique spirit rather than to the fashionable classical style alone.
For more information see:-
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Boothby
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Brooke_Boothby,_6th_Baronet
St Oswald’s Church, Ashbourne
Grade I Listed
Early foundation. Present church is mainly Early English from circa 1220 but a few remnants of earlier Norman work survive and a Saxon cross shaft (part) in the south aisle. The church is believed to stand on the site of a pagan holy well, now thought to be concealed beneath tyre crossing. The tower and spire circa 1330. The spire, which has been rebuilt several times, has a height of 215ft. Perpendicular additions and alterations circa 1520. The battlements to the chancel were added by Sir G G Scott in 1878 and the church was restored by Cottingham earlier in the C19. Some fine monuments from C14, of which the most famous is probably the figure of Penelope Boothby 1791, by Thomas Banks. Some mediaeval glass remains. In 1644, the church was fired on by Parliamentarians and the marks are still visible in the west wall.
Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.
Listing NGR: SK1763146443
He has huge talent and an intellect to match. He's also famous for not suffering fools gladly, which could make this conversation a test for both of us. Please welcome Russell Crowe.
(c) ABC TV/Zapruder's other films
Born in a nation with both unwritten rules and codified laws that prevented blacks from achieving their potential, William Thaddeus Coleman broke those rules and helped tear out those laws during a life defined by the word "achievement." Coleman's resume is sprinkled with firsts in the legal, corporate, and government sectors. Through strength of character, this man of great intellect and judgment reached his potential. His many accomplishments were acknowledged by President Bill Clinton when he awarded Coleman the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was born in the Germantown district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1920. He was the second of three children born to William Thaddeus and Laura Beatrice Mason Coleman. He married Lovida Hardin, a Boston University graduate and daughter of a New Orleans physician, on February 10, 1945. The couple had three children: William T. III, Lovida H. Jr., and Hardin L. Coleman.
Coleman was born into a middle-class family that counted six generations of teachers and Episcopal ministers on one side of the family, and numerous social workers on the other. His father, William T. Coleman Sr., was the director of the Quaker-supported Germantown boys club for 40 years. Through his father and other family members, young William met some of the country's greatest black leaders, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall. From the time he was 10- or 12-years old he dreamed of becoming a lawyer, and would spend vacation days slipping into courtrooms trying to absorb as much as he could.
Coleman attended a racially segregated elementary school before entering Germantown High School, which was all white save for a contingent of seven token black students. An incident at the high school summed up the sort of racism that was a constant in that day. When he tried joining the all-white swimming team, he was suspended from school. Later, school officials reinstated him but cut the sport until he graduated.
Though Coleman earned excellent grades in high school, they were attained in an atmosphere of bigotry in which he was not encouraged by his teachers. Racism existed in higher education as well, but did not prevent him from persevering and excelling. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. To fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a lawyer, he entered the Harvard Law School in 1941.
World War II prevented Coleman from gaining his degree promptly, but gave him some valuable on-the-job training instead. In 1943 he dropped out of law school to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. Although he had completed but a single year of legal studies, he was assigned as defense counsel in 18 court-martial proceedings. Of those, he won 16 acquittals, with one of the two convictions later reversed.
After the war, Coleman returned to Harvard. He became the first black ever to serve on the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. It was there that he first met a student named Elliot Richardson, with whom he would cross paths throughout his career. In 1946 he earned his LL.B. degree magna cum laude, graduating at the top of his class. As a Langdell Fellow, he stayed on at Harvard for an additional year of study.
Coleman was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1947 and quickly garnered a position as law secretary to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. After several months in that job, he left it for an even more prestigious position. In 1948 he became a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, becoming the first black to serve in that capacity for the nation's highest court.
One of the other clerks in Frankfurter's office was Richardson. They soon became good friends, regularly arriving early to read poetry together for an hour (they preferred W. H. Auden and Shakespeare) before getting their official duties underway. Their friendship lasted long beyond their stay there, with Richardson becoming godfather to Coleman's daughter.
After Coleman's clerkship ended in 1949, the young attorney was made an associate at the eminent New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. While there, he was approached by Thurgood Marshall, the founder and head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NAACP-LDF). Marshall told Coleman that he was working on cases that the NAACP hoped would lead to the end of segregation and asked Coleman to volunteer his help. Coleman was up to the challenge. "I would work at Paul, Weiss from nine to six and then go to L.D.E.F. `til 10 or 11 and then back to Paul, Weiss," he was quoted as saying later in a New York Times article. "On weekends, I would work with him (Marshall) again." They became good friends, with Coleman becoming the future Supreme Court justice's personal lawyer.
An opportunity for Coleman to return to Philadelphia arose three years later. District attorney and future Philadelphia mayor Richardson Dilworth offered him a spot on his staff. Sensing that he would just be the city's token black associate district attorney, Coleman turned him down. When Dilworth came back with an invitation to join his prominent Philadelphia law firm, Dilworth, Paxon, Kalish, Levy and Green, Coleman accepted. In so doing, he became the first black in the history of Philadelphia to join a white firm.
WORKS IN CIVIL RIGHTS
Coleman continued to work in civil rights on his own time. The five cases he worked for the NAACP during that period led to the historic Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which ended school segregation. Coleman, in fact, was coauthor of the brief presented to the court in the case. In the coming years he would defend freedom riders and other civil rights workers in cases throughout the South. He also served as co-counsel on the landmark case, McLaughlin v. Florida (1964), which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages.
At Dilworth, Paxon, he specialized in corporate and antitrust litigation, gaining recognition for his expertise in transportation law. Philadelphia and Cincinnati were among the cities he represented in mass transit and labor matters. He would go on to serve as special counsel and negotiator for both the Philadelphia and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authorities. He became a partner at the firm in 1966; soon after, his election to senior partner was reflected in the name change to Dilworth, Paxon, Kalish, Levy and Coleman.
In 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Coleman, a longtime Republican, to serve on the President's Commission on Employment Policy, which dealt with increasing minority hiring in the government. It was the first of several presidential commissions on which Coleman would serve over the next two decades for Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
Coleman's knack for high finance and his understanding of labor issues were key to his being courted to join the boards of many corporations. He accepted the invitations of Penn Mutual Life Insurance, First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust, the Philadelphia Electric Company, and the Western Savings Fund Society. As he gained prominence, his board memberships took on a more national character, including Pan American World Airways, the Rand Corporation, and the American Stock Exchange.
In 1964 Coleman was named senior consultant and assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, which was charged with investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was as a member of that body that Coleman first met Congressman Representative Gerald R. Ford, the future president.
The next year, Coleman represented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in litigation against Philadelphia's Girard College, a segregated institution. Similar attempts made in the mid-to-late 1950s to end the racially biased policies at the college had ended in defeat. This time, with Coleman in charge, the commonwealth won.
In 1971, four years after Thurgood Marshall had been elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court, Coleman was elected president of the NAACP-LDF. He also served on the boards of a number of educational, charitable, and service agencies, including the National Civil Service League, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, and the Metropolitan Opera.
In the midst of the Watergate scandal in 1973, Elliot Richardson, now the U.S. attorney general, offered Coleman the opportunity to become Watergate special prosecutor. Coleman, who had been a member of President Nixon's National Commission on Productivity and the successful Phase II Price Commission (1971--72), turned his friend down. In fact, he reportedly advised the president to resign rather than face impeachment, and is on record as being in favor of allowing a president to destroy tapes and documents prior to leaving office.
BECOMES SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
Early in 1975, Coleman received a call from President Ford concerning the vacant secretary of transportation post. Coleman had been offered full-time government appointments several times previously, but had always declined. He enjoyed working in the private sector and felt he could be more effective there. Besides, taking a position in the federal government also meant resigning from his law partnership and corporate directorships, taking a sizeable pay cut and selling his transportation stocks. Nevertheless, he decided to do the courteous thing, which was to meet with the president and hear him out.
To Coleman's astonishment, Ford's sincerity and the challenge of the job offered were enough to sway him to accept. He became the second black ever to hold a cabinet-level position (the first was Robert C. Waver as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966--68 under Lyndon B. Johnson).
As secretary of transportation, he took over the fourth- largest department in the government, with a budget exceeded only by those of the Departments of Defense and Health, Education and Welfare. Established just nine years earlier, the department was facing major problems in several of the areas over which it had jurisdiction. The nation's railroads, mass transit and federal highway systems, and international airlines all had crises that needed to be addressed.
In an interview with the magazine Black Enterprise for June of 1975, Coleman said that his first concern was that: I would like to leave Washington with the same reputation for integrity that I had when I came here. Secondly, I hope I can leave Washington with the reputation of having helped to guide and put together a very important department, of having gathered around me a lot of very good people who made tremendous gains in solving the problems in the areas you mentioned.
Coleman made it his first priority to develop a comprehensive national transportation policy, something the American government had never really attempted before. Coleman was instrumental in creating the 53-page study A Statement of National Transportation Policy, which he sent to Congress in September of 1975. Rather than a list of possible solutions, the document contained general principles that he felt should guide the government's decision-making process.
Coleman's ability to influence the problems facing transportation in this county, however, proved modest during his short, two-year tenure. As a fiscally responsible member of a Republican administration, Coleman tried to make the various transportation sectors less reliant on tax-supported assistance. Instead, he favored imposing user fees on those who use the majority of an industry's services. However, the Democratic Congress kept appropriations high and, in some cases, even doubled the recommendations sent down from the White House. Though no one called his integrity into question, his efforts went unappreciated, although they may have helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution four years later.
Upon his resignation when President Carter took office, Coleman opted for a return to the private sector. He stayed in the capital to become head of a 32-lawyer Washington office of O'Melveny & Myers, a large Los Angeles-based firm. By the early 1980s, he was earning $500,000 or more a year for representing major companies including Ford, IBM, and the Insurance Company of North America. He also returned to corporate boardrooms, serving on nine boards of directors. He remained active in civil rights, arguing cases, writing an occasional editorial, and continuing his affiliation with the NAACP.
On September 29, 1995, Coleman received the highest honor given to civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom , awarded to individual Americans for distinguished civilian service. President Clinton said, "I can honestly say, if you are looking for an example of constancy, consistency, disciplined devotion to the things that make this country a great place, you have no further to look than William Coleman, Jr." Clinton first met Coleman at Yale Law School, where he roomed for a year with Coleman's son, William T. Coleman III.
When Coleman's long-time friend and colleague Thurgood Marshall died in 1993, Coleman was one of four speakers at the funeral. Four years later, Coleman was honored with the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award of the NAACP-LDF. In addition to serving as the fund's president in the early 1970s, he later became chairman and long served in that capacity.
Coleman is a short, stocky man with a jowly face and high forehead. He wears rather large spectacles and dresses impeccably. He has been, or continues as, a member of numerous organizations and clubs, including the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Arbitration Association.
Coleman is important as a public servant and civil rights and corporate lawyer. His work to end school segregation with the landmark decision in 1954 enshrined him in the annals of U.S. history.
The architecture notwithstanding, U.S. parents who want to encourage the development of intellect and creativity and empathy in their children ought to keep them far away from the poisonous ideologies of the Southern Baptist Convention!!
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In downtown Jacksonville, Florida, on December 30th, 2017, outside the First Baptist Church's "Sixth Grade Middle School Building," a/k/a the "Youth Building," erected 1954, on the north side of West Ashley Street between North Julia Street and Hogan Street.
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This is an analytical response to the National Day of Prayer this August 6th. This is not an attack on prayer just a simple gesture to encourage people to not only pray to their higher-power of choice but to think, analyze, and discuss the problems of this great nation with others. Only with open conversation, free thought and skeptical analysis will we come to a proper solution for the nations ills. Please share with a friend or family member and don't let August 6th be the only day you feel free to think, debate and discuss challenging topics. Thank you and take care.
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That's not a declaration of Paul's intellect, whomever the hell "Paul" is, it's just a Smart Car with a logo on the side for something called "Paul's".
I'm not too sure what Paul's is. There's Paul's Boat Lines in Ottawa, but it has a different logo.
Parked on the University of Ottawa Campus.
According to WIki, conceptual art is to serve as a chalenge for the intellect. So crack your brains and tell me.
Here is Abby with one of her favorite profs, Dr. Bujak. She truly enjoyed British Studies with Dr. Bujak; he challenged her to stretch her intellect. This was at the Harlaxton Thanksgiving Dinner. (Dr. Bujak even has a facebook fan page!
Harlaxton Manor was built in the 1830s for Gregory Gregory, a wealthy Nottinghamshire businessman, to replace the original Elizabethan Manor House in Harlaxton Village. Having travelled throughout England and Europe seeking inspiration, ideas and indeed artefacts for this huge house, Gregory employed Anthony Salvin (external link) as architect and Harlaxton Manor must be regarded as Salvin's masterpiece. Built in Ancaster stone, it is an exuberant merging of Gothic, Jacobethan and Baroque styles creating an unforgettable and dramatic impact.
Owner and architect had many differences of opinion, however, and Salvin having completed the exterior of the main building was replaced by William Burn who is thought responsible for much of the interior.
Few houses in the country can match the splendid approach to Harlaxton. A straight mile long drive across a bridge, under a gatehouse, past 'the pyrotechnic display of the forecourt gates and screen'* to Salvin's towering facade whether by day or night when the building is floodlit, is in itself a memorable, experience.
The house is now owned by the University of Evansville, Indiana, USA, and is used as their British Campus.
Monument by Thomas Banks with the sleeping figure of Penelope Boothby aged 5
"I was not in safety, neither had I rest, and the trouble came
To Penelope only child of Sir Brooke and Dame Susanna Boothby; Born April 11th 1785; Died March 12th 1791. She was in form and intellect most exquisite, the unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark, and the wreck was total"
The inscription is in 4 different languages - English, Latin, French and Italian, all of which Penelope spoke.
Penelope was the only child of Sir Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall and wife Susannah daughter of Robert Bristoe & Susanna Philipson
She was the grand daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt.
Phoebe Hollins www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ogg316
Her father Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet 1744 - 1824 was a linguist, translator, poet and landowner,
In the year of his marriage he leased Ashbourne Hall from his father, whose extravagance had forced him to live elsewhere whilst renting out the family seat and began its restoration funded by his wife's dowry. As well as renovating the structure, he remodeled the parkland, he bought rare plants and works of art Like his father before him, he was extravagant in the extreme. That weakness and his emotional self-indulgence were to be his nemeses.
His only daughter, Penelope, was born in the following April.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was a family friend and his painting "The Girl in the Mop Cap" is of Penelope when aged four. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9J2z53
However on 19th March 1791, disaster struck when Penelope died at the age of five.
This permanently affected her father and he subsequently published a book of poetry, "Sorrows Sacred to the Memory of Penelope" and commissioned a painting by Henry Fuseli " The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby" in 1792 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuseli_Henry_The_Apotheosis_Of... He also commissioned this monument.
His life continued to decline . He and his wife had separated soon after their daughter's funeral, and she returned to her parents' home in Hampshire , settling later in Dover. Her death was recorded under her maiden name.
As a result of his extravagance Boothby met with economic disaster which completely altered the course of his life. Ashbourne Hall was leased in c1814 - 1817 to Richard grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright. Boothby settled in diminished circumstances in Boulogne in 1815 and died there in 1824. He was buried near to Penelope with his parents and his sister Maria Elizabeth and other Boothby family members.
- Church of St Oswald, Ashbourne Derbyshire
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to
harnessing the sun’s power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house
in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and
economical way to store captured solar energy. She was also beset by rampant sexism and
fought pitched battles with her boss and colleagues — all men — at MIT’s Solar Energy Fund.
Despite these obstacles, Telkes persevered, helping to build another experimental solar-
powered house in 1971. Upon her death in 1995, she held more than 20 patents.
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
In diplomatic career, one comes across many distinguished and accomplished personalities. One such individual who impressed me greatly with his intellect, humility and passion for Islam and Muslims was Muhammad Asad, the celebrated author of “The Road to Mecca” and “The Message of the Qur’an.” I had the pleasure to meet him in 1987 when he visited Pakistan Embassy in Spain. When I offered him coffee he asked for Pakistani “chai,” a taste he had acquired during his long and eventful stay in Pakistan decades ago. Though he was 87 years old at the time, I could sense from his demeanor that he had had a glorious past.
In our conversation, he recalled fondly his time spent with the Bedouins in Saudi Arabia and his long years in Pakistan. I was an admirer of his writings and we talked about his books. He had absorbed the Muslim tradition of hospitality and magnanimity. I was pleasantly surprised when he returned the next day to present me signed copies of his books as a token of appreciation.
Few people know that apart from being an inspired writer, a distinguished scholar of Islam, an expert of Semitic languages and a perceptive traveler in the Islamic world, Asad also acted as an envoy for Saudi Arabia in 1920s and then went on to become a formal diplomat for Pakistan in its formative years.
Asad was born as Leopold Weiss to a Jewish family on July 12, 1900, in the town of Lvov (Lemberg), today in Ukraine, but then part of the Habsburg Empire. In 1922, he became a correspondent in the Middle East for the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” a prestigious German newspaper. Impressed with his writing, the paper soon commissioned him to travel more widely to collect information for a book. Asad traveled for two years through Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, getting closer to Islam in the process.
Upon concluding his travels, Asad returned to Germany to write his book but differences with the editor of the “Frankfurter Zeitung” led him to resign. He took up Islamic studies and wrote as a stringer for other newspapers. Ironically, it was here, in the heart of Europe, that he was inspired to convert. Asad writes that while traveling in the Berlin subway, noticed that the people around him on the train had no smiles on their faces despite their worldly attainments. Returning to his flat, a surah in the Quran he had been reading caught his eye: “You are obsessed by greed for more and more / Until you go down to your graves.” And then later, in the same verse: “Nay, if you but knew it with the knowledge of certainty, / You would indeed see the hell you are in.” Asad wrote that any doubt he had that the Qur’an was a revealed book vanished. He went to the leader of the Berlin Islamic Society and converted to Islam, taking the name Muhammad Asad.
Thus began Asad’s love affair with Islam which would take him to the heart of Islam in Arabia. During his pilgrimage to Makkah, he had a chance to meet with Prince Faisal in the Grand Mosque’s library who invited him to meet with his father, the legendary King Abdulaziz Al-Saud. The king was a perceptive judge of character and soon Asad had almost daily audiences with the king and became part of his inner circle. During the next few years, the king employed Asad on certain foreign missions.
At this time in British-ruled South Asia, Muslims had begun to struggle for a separate homeland for themselves, which they would later name “Pakistan.” Asad arrived in Karachi in 1932 by ship and left for Lahore. In 1933, Asad landed in the capital of Kashmir where another freedom struggle had started. The pre-dominantly Muslim population of Kashmir had begun to revolt against the Hindu prince ruling the state. Asad’s activities in Kashmir alarmed the British intelligence. The prince’s government also wanted to expel him.
On return from Kashmir to Lahore, Asad met the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. It was Iqbal who had proposed for the first time the formation of a separate state for South Asian Muslims in 1930. Iqbal asked Asad to remain in India and work “to elucidate the intellectual premises of the future Islamic state.” Iqbal, 24 years senior to Asad, shared a German connection with Asad as he had obtained his Ph.D. from Germany. He must have inspired Asad with his towering intellect, political acumen and intimate knowledge of Islamic and Western philosophy and literature. For Iqbal’s fervent criticism of materialism, excessive individualism and Godless democracy would find echoes in the pamphlet “Islam at the Crossroads” written by Asad in 1934. This text resonated with Muslims everywhere, going through repeated printings and editions in India and Pakistan. It also appeared in an Arabic translation in Beirut in 1946 under the title “Al-Islam ‘ala muftariq al-turuq” which was published in numerous editions through the 1940s and 1950s.
The ruler of Hyderabad, the Nizam, had established a journal “Islamic Culture” which was edited by Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall (1875-1936), a British convert to Islam well known for his English translation of the Qur’an. When Pickthall died in 1936, the Nizam chose Asad for the editorship of the journal. In October 1938, Asad resigned from the editorship of Islamic Culture, and then left India. He returned to Europe in 1939 with the intention of saving his Jewish parents from Nazis. But his efforts ended fruitlessly as Germany invaded Poland and Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939. Back in India, Asad was detained by the British rulers immediately as an enemy national and spent the next six years in internment camps with Germans, Austrians and Italians.
The scholar Martin Kramer writes that upon Asad’s release, he “wholly identified with the cause of Pakistan, which he saw not simply as a refuge, but as the framework for an ideal Islamic polity.” He understood that a new state for Muslims of India was “an historical necessity” to preserve their separate identity. After Pakistan came into being in 1947, Asad became director of the Department of Islamic Reconstruction and began formulating proposals for its constitution.
Asad’s purpose was to portray an Islamic state as a liberal, multiparty parliamentary democracy. He cited evidence in the Islamic sources for elections, parliamentary legislation and political parties. His proposals, published in March 1948 as Islamic Constitution-Making, were reflected in the Preamble to the first Constitution of Pakistan, adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1949. That year, Asad joined Pakistan’s foreign service, eventually rising to the position of head of the Middle East Division of the Foreign Ministry. According to Kramer, “his transformation was now complete, down to his Pakistani achkan (formal Pakistani dress) and black fur cap.” In 1952, he went to New York, as Pakistan’s minister plenipotentiary to the United Nations.
Like Kashmir, Asad was also drawn to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Early in 1922, an uncle had invited Asad to visit Jerusalem where another uncle was an ardent Zionist. But Asad was anti-Zionist even before his conversion. He wrote, “I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.”
At the end of 1952, Asad resigned from Pakistan Foreign Service to focus attention on what would be his masterpiece, “The Road to Mecca” which won accolades in East and West alike. Asad also planned to write a new English translation of the Qur’an and began work on it in 1960. He was not satisfied with the existing English translations of Qur’an since he believed that “familiarity with the Bedouin speech of Central and Eastern Arabia—in addition to academic knowledge of classical Arabic” was the only way for a non-Arab of his time to achieve the required understanding of the diction of the Qur’an. He admired Prince Faisal immensely and had reestablished a link with him in 1951. In 1963, Prince Faisal financed the translation project through Muslim World League. Asad published a limited edition of the first nine surahs in 1964. In 1980, he published the full translation and commentary, called “The Message of the Qur’an.”
Asad died on Feb. 20, 1992. He was buried in the small Muslim cemetery in Granada, Spain. He was, like Iqbal, deeply aware of the issues of the 20th century Islamic world. He foresaw its problems and suggested solutions which can be found all over his writings. He wanted Muslims to be aware of the glorious standards of knowledge, morality and spiritual progress set by Islam. In the modern Muslim’s struggle to attain those standards, Asad’s writings will remain a bright beacon for generations.
The author is Ambassador of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia.
Thursday 24 May 2012
Arabi News
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
"The only necessary condition for
development of intellect seems to be the
intent of intellect itself."
Thomas J. Chalko
Our friend Niala Boodhoo was invited
to interview Kwame Anthony Appiah,
regarding his book- and
his exploration(s) of Cultural Identity-
Tribalism- and our need(s) to be able to "categorize"
those we encounter-
be it within Our Groups- or during an UBER ride.
Slightly over my head- Intellectually speaking- but I did my best to "keep-up"!
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Twenty two short stories about women, mostly with bare minimum education, zero ambition, and zero intellect. Often mistresses of married men, these women are intent on lying to themselves, keeping their eyes closed to the faults of "their" men - essentially a collection of stories about losers.
[Spoiler Alert]
Most of the stories end on a down note. These stories were written about thirty years ago, and most of them show their age, and not in a good way.
Twenty two short stories, with names of twenty two stations on victoria line and central line, talk about human, or rather, woman follies and weaknesses... they usually end on a depressing note after a rather nice build up. the reader does not find much evidence of Binchy's Irish humor in these pages.
Out of twenty two, about seven or eight of the stories are somewhat good, the rest of them are eminently forgettable.
My Recipe for a Great Weekend - using the Vowels of a Life to the Full
It would include doing some art or drinking some in
Making a deposit in someone else's emotional bank account, or making a withdrawal myself if I needed encouragement
The 'E' could equality be 'encouragement'
Intellect - make sure I get some brain food
Open space - I need Nature
Unusual - and my prefrontal cortex needs novelty - the Unusual to keep it engaged.
This photo was taken while entering the area for the Temple of Heaven. It was a few weeks before the Chinese New Years celebration and they were getting prepped for the Year of the Dragon.
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Tesla design models have influenced our intellects with clean power, high safety ratings and a wide array of 21st century technologies. Tesla, the purveyor of premium electric cars utilizes supercar acceleration and cat-like reflexes to also appeal to our lust for power and the primal urge to control and direct it. The Model 3 will begin pricing at $35,000 which is roughly half the cost of a base Model S. The base car will accelerate 0-60 mph in less than 6 seconds, enjoys an electric range of at least 215 miles per charge, seats five comfortably and provides storage from front and rear trunks. Expect deliveries yearend 2017.
all men make mistakes. But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. - Sophocles
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Embassy of Brazil in London on January 20th, 2012
This event was hosted by UKTI and Intellect and focused on the trading opportunities existing between the UK and Brazil in the hi-tech sector. The slides I used during my own presentation can be found here:
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Taken with a Canon 60D and a Tamaron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.
Element Collection - Air
Intellect; the energy that shapes the pattern of things to come; communication.
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Essential oils of bergamot and lemon.
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In this image, Duncan Rawlinson brilliantly blurs the lines between photography and modern AI-powered image generation tools to produce a visually captivating portrayal of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Rawlinson starts with his signature photographic method, leveraging his prowess in capturing the nuances of his subjects. His choice of the Phase One XF IQ4 150MP Camera ensures an unmatched level of detail, a testament to his commitment to quality.
From this photographic foundation, Rawlinson skillfully transitions to the digital art realm. The AI's "head" and its complex neural network are not captured through the lens, but through the precise and calculated application of AI image generation tools. These tools allow him to visualize an abstract concept like a neural network, converting it into tangible lines and nodes, interweaving through the AI's head.
The creation process is thus a symbiotic dance between high-resolution photography and AI-driven digital art. Rawlinson marries the tactile realism of photography with the boundless possibilities of AI-powered graphic design. The result is a unique hybrid image, demonstrating how AI can be used as an artistic tool to bring abstract concepts to life.
By creating the image in his signature style, Rawlinson adds a layer of artistic interpretation to the AI's representation. He invites the viewer to appreciate not only the AI's intricate complexity but also the novel way in which traditional photography can be elevated by modern AI tools. This image stands as a testament to the intersection of art, technology, and human creativity.