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Jimi Hendrix on MusicRadar
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Saturday 18 September is the 40th anniversary of the tragic death of Jimi Hendrix. Much more than just the man who is widely regarded to be the greatest electric guitarist of all time, James Marshall Hendrix was a sonic explorer, an outrageous performer and a cultural force. And if a cooler individual has ever picked up an instrument and stepped onstage… well, we've never seen them.
This week on MusicRadar, in celebration of Jimi's 27 short years on the planet, we are revisiting some of our most popular Hendrix features and tutorials, alongside brand new interviews with some of the world's greatest players. And they are all in here in one place for your viewing pleasure...
So, without further ado, it's time for us to move over, and let Jimi take over MusicRadar. First up, Your ultimate Jimi Hendrix top 10 revealed!
Your ultimate Jimi Hendrix top 10 revealed!
To round off our week of Jimi love, we asked you to nominate your favourite Hendrix tracks to contribute to the ultimate Jimi Hendrix top 10, as voted for by users of the MusicRadar site and our Facebook and Twitter followers.
And the winner is…
Joe Satriani's top 10 Jimi Hendrix songs of all time
"Jimi Hendrix's music means everything to me. In fact, I consider it to be a fundamental part of my DNA. His guitar playing was brilliant, thrilling and revolutionary in just about every way you can imagine. Beyond that, there was his stunning ability to compose, record and produce music that has truly stood the test of time..."
Steve Vai: what Jimi Hendrix means to me
"I grew up in a house where my parents were listening to show tunes, and as a kid I liked listening to that kind of thing, too - whatever music was playing, I enjoyed it. But my sister was into all of the great rock music from the late '60 and early '70s, and I started sneaking into her room and listening to it on the headphones. She had the eight-track tape of Woodstock, and one day I went in and put that on… and it was the first time I heard Jimi Hendrix."
Eric Johnson: What Jimi Hendrix means to me
"Back in the '60s, music and movies were kind of the same: things would happen in the big cities and then they would spread across the country. Austin isn't a small city, of course, but it isn't like New York or LA or Chicago - we were behind the times by a week or a month or so in those days. A lot of the times, it took a while for us to get albums in our local record stores, even big hit records..."
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's top 10 Jimi Hendrix songs of all time
"Jimi Hendrix was instrumental in making me refuse to see any boundaries in my music. He gave me permission to try anything I wanted to try. Because that's what he did: there was no limit to his inventiveness. His canvas stretched across the sky."
MORE: Kenny Wayne Shepherd's top 10 Jimi Hendrix songs of all time
Janie Hendrix: what Jimi Hendrix means to me
"Jimi was an icon, of course, but to me he was always just Jimi, my older brother. He was a special kind of brother, though. Even before I realized how incredibly talented he was and that he had become a star, I knew there was always something a little magical about him..."
What Jimi Hendrix means to you
"For me Hendrix is the source, he defined the electric guitar as an art form, in terms of it as an instrument for expression, rhythm, lead, performance, and the blurring of the lines between those."
How to play blues guitar like Jimi Hendrix
"For all his blazing live pyrotechnics and psychedelic studio voyages, Jimi Hendrix is still regarded as one of the very best blues players of all time. To get close to Jimi's sound you'll need a gritty Fender Stratocaster neck pickup tone like the one on Red House..."
Valleys Of Neptune review: track-by-track
"One of the best albums of 2010 was recorded 40 years ago.Painstakingly curated and produced by engineer/producer Eddie Kramer, John McDermott and Janie Hendrix, Valleys Of Neptune includes more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album, and it's a vital addition to the artist's astonishing catalogue."
How to sound like Jimi Hendrix
"Jimi Hendrix was almost certainly the coolest man ever to walk the earth. Unfortunately, cool is something that's not available in any shops. However, if you want to try to emulate the man's extraordinary guitar sounds, we can point you in the direction of plenty of products that will get you in the right ballpark."
Sound like Jimi Hendrix using free plug-ins
"It goes without saying that sounding like Jimi Hendrix requires you to become a seriously good guitar player (sorry), but if you want to emulate his tone, it's possible to get pretty close using just a small selection of free plug-ins. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how."
How to sound like Hendrix, by a top impersonator
"Many guitar players want to sound like Jimi Hendrix. John Campbell actually gets to 'be' Jimi Hendrix every time he takes to a stage. Campbell has been fronting tribute act Are You Experienced? for well over a decade, playing shows across the UK and mainland Europe. There's possibly no-one better alive to talk through what it takes to become Jimi onstage..."
Hendrix's 11 greatest tracks
Back in 2008, the MusicRadar team and representatives of our sister magazine titles compiled this killer 11-song must-hear Jimi playlist. Did we get it right? What did we leave out? Let us know...
"I played Jimi's Woodstock Strat"
"Mitch Mitchell brought in a guitar case and nonchalantly opened it. The Stratocaster had been in the drummer's possession since Jimi's death in 1970 and this was the first time it had seen the light of day. Just glimpsing the thing was a Spinal Tap moment of epic proportions. Mitch said it needed looking at because the frets had tarnished, the strings were rusty and he had decided to put it up for auction."
Interview: Joe Bonamassa on Jimi's influence
Since the age of 12, Joe Bonamassa has been playing the blues alongside such greats as BB King, Buddy Guy, just to name a few. Obviously, he knows a thing or two about a thing or two. During a recent interview, Bonamassa discussed the impact that Jimi Hendrix had on the music world as a whole and himself. "I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix..."
Interview: Eddie Kramer remembers
"The relationship with Chas changed during the recording of Electric Ladyland. Jimi became very much in charge. This was Jimi's album. This was Jimi's session. And from that point on it was Jimi in charge. He had a very clear vision of what he wanted."
MORE: Eddie Kramer remembers
Jimi Hendrix: a history in photos and videos
Why is Hendrix, a man who made only three studio albums, still so revered? To The Who's Pete Townshend, "When he started to play, something changed: colours changed, everything changed." In a visual tribute to an enduring guitar and songwriting talent, here is MusicRadar's succinct timeline of the life of Jimi Hendrix - via classic photos and rare videos.
Joe Satriani: how Jimi Hendrix changed my life
"I'm pretty sure I was about the only kid in school who knew who Jimi Hendrix even was. Through my older siblings, I was getting turned on to all the great music that was happening at the time, and I really loved Hendrix."
Interview: Aerosmith's Brad Whitford
"I got to see Hendrix play in '68 at the Boston Garden with Mitch and Noel Redding and it was like, 'Wow!' I bought a Fender guitar the very next day."

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Naked Jungle
Dawn Airey, programme controller of Channel Five once famously said her channel was about the 3 "F"s: films, football and... you can probably guess what the last one is. The last of these was in connection with her description to show soft porn and documentaries about the sex industry. Since then Dawn has changed it to the much less memorable 5 "M"s; one of them is movies and I think we can all guess snidely about another of them.
Channel 5 has been making, shall we say, slow but steady progress in the ratings towards their goal of 5% audience share and they haven't been shy of using whatever gimmicks they feel necessary to grab the ratings. Accordingly, they promptly devoted a whole week of programmes to help celebrate world naturism. This is a bona fide naturist game show: host and contestants all in the buff.
The host is Keith Chegwin, most recently famous for hosting the recent successful revival of seminal team races/stunts contest It's a Knockout after a long career hosting children's TV shows in an overenthusiastic fashion.
Naked Jungle is essentially a naturist version of the recent children's action game show Jungle Run. It uses the same spectacular set and the same fine production values, but a significantly different structure so to crown an individual winner rather than team victory or success.
Five naturist couples take part: the five men compete separately among each other to produce a male champion, the five ladies compete against each other separately to find a female winner. The two, er, best-of-gender winners then team up for the endgame in an attempt to win a cash prize of £5000.
Whereas Jungle Run is a contest to collect as many bananas as possible, the theme of Naked Jungle is collecting fig-leaves. The whole show has a fig-leaf motif. Contestants wear no clothes throughout except a coloured arm-band to tell them apart. Host Keith Chegwin wears no clothes likewise except a pith helmet (that's a hat). You can tell by the uneven tan and body tone that Keith is not normally a naturist, but he has no qualms about his outfit. It also confirms that host Cheggers has been through puberty, contrary to what his voice suggests.
The process of eliminating five men down to one is through a series of five games; each gent plays each game simultaneously, and the lowest scorer is eliminated after each of the last four games. The women's contest works similarly. The set is a lavish but deliberately stylised and artificial junglesque landscape.
The first game, The Pool of Death, saw contestants scramble around on polystyrene-style boats (in the shape of lilies) around a pool to pick up fig-leaves before a short time-limit. The second game, The Lost Camp (and I think we've got your lost camp right here) saw the men searching the landscape trying to find keys to unlock chests containing fig-leaves. The ladies, on their turn, searched the same landscape for rubber insects and bugs. The lowest-scoring contestant, based on total score over the two games, was eliminated.
Game three, The Chasm of Doom, saw the gentlemen swing a ravine and run around the set trying to collect fig-leaves. (Recognise the theme here? It was starting to get a little much.) The ladies did something different; they aimed to throw colour-coded spears down off a rope bridge into a target. The weakest performer in this game was eliminated.
Game four, The Cave of Lost Souls, was a straight race. Each of the three contestants in each half of the show ran around said cave, sliding planks, laying down ladders, swinging on ropes and securing sets of netting in order to make their way around the inside of the cave and avoid falling into chasms. One of the ladies fell in. The gents all made it round cleanly, so the slowest man was eliminated.
Game five, The Waterfall of Venus, saw a contest between the gentlemen to climb round the outside of the waterfall and, indeed, collect as many fig-leaves as possible, while their opponent blasted away at either them or the fig-leaves around in order to distract. The ladies had a much less demanding task - a race involving abseiling, swimming, clambering and rope-climbing. As ever, whoever returned fewer leaves to the host or lost the race was eliminated.
So we struggled through to find a winning gentleman and a winning lady who teamed up to play the two-part endgame. In the first part, the two then raced throughout the entire set - guess what? - picking up as many of the 180 fig leaves strewn about the set on the way. A nice touch was that the contestants eliminated in each round remained stranded at the relevant part of the set so we got to see them again.
The second part of the endgame saw the two contestants make their way through the four caverns of The Temple of the Body. Each cavern featured a puzzle which took the form of a cave-painting with three parts of the puzzle missing. Three blocks are provided with the missing parts of the picture. Correctly orienting all three blocks and placing them in the appropriate places completes the puzzle and opens the door to the next cavern. Increasing amounts of money were available for each puzzle solved - £500 for the first puzzle solved, £1,000 for the second, £1,500 for the third and £2000 for the fourth, making a potential prize of £5,000. The team had to make their way back out of the Temple with the money before the expiry of the time period in order to keep the prize.
All told, the show had no intellectual content, not a vast deal of variety and very little to play along with. Furthermore, Keith Chegwin hosted it in his typical cheery fashion. We don't know what your opinions are of naturism, but the contestants chosen were realistic rather than models. Failing to make this last comment would be like reporting on a football match without telling you the score: there was neither attempt to focus upon genitals nor attempt to avoid them.
All told, what was a children's show that wasn't worth bothering with at the time (though it's improved considerably since then) turned out to be excellent source material for a one-off which actually probably gained from the naturism stipulation. A thoughtfully designed but only moderately well produced one-off, but it probably wouldn't stand up as a full series.
Such was the bru-ha-ha conjured up by the programme that then-Culture Secretary Chris Smith made oblique reference to it during Culture, Media and Sport Questions in the House of Commons: "We have noted in recent days considerable concern about some of the content on television, particularly in relation to Channel 5. Government cannot and should not directly intervene, but I believe that the broadcasters have a commercial and a moral duty to take good account of the views of the public, and I urge them to do so." (Hansard, 12 June 2000). Even though this wasn't strictly relevant to the question he was asked, which was about the provision of regional news services on digital television.
Cheggers said afterwards that his mother was so shocked by his naked cavorting that he's promised never to do the show again.
In 2006, it came top in a (totally undemocratic) list of the Top 50 worst British TV programmes of all time, according to a Radio Times article.
The winners were Steve, 39 from Surrey, and Cyndi, who wasn't. They completed 3 of the 4 puzzles in The Temple of the Body, and won £3000 between them.
As far as we know, there were never any plans to make a series hosted by Freddy from Rainbow songsmiths Rod, Jane and Freddy, regardless of what Wikipedia may have claimed.
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Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker Monday after Tablet Magazine revealed that he fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."
The seemingly prodigious young writer drew criticism last month when he admittedly recycled his own writing in blog posts for the New Yorker, including lines taken almost verbatim from previously published Wall Street Journal essays.
Now, Michael C. Moynihan, a writer for the Jewish magazine Tablet, revealed that Lehrer concocted Bob Dylan quotes and later lied to Moynihan because he "panicked."
"Three weeks ago, I received an email from journalist Michael Moynihan asking about Bob Dylan quotes in my book 'Imagine,'" Lehrer, 31, said in a statement. "The quotes in question either did not exist, were unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes. But I told Mr. Moynihan that they were from archival interview footage provided to me by Dylan's representatives. This was a lie spoken in a moment of panic. When Mr. Moynihan followed up, I continued to lie, and say things I should not have said."
Also read: Where Does Creativity Comes From? Jonah Lehrer Unlocks the Science
"The lies are over now. I understand the gravity of my position. I want to apologize to everyone I have let down, especially my editors and readers. I also owe a sincere apology to Mr. Moynihan. I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed. I have resigned my position as staff writer at The New Yorker."
At first, Lehrer apparently ignored Moynihan's requests for clarification when he located a quote in the book that appeared to be sewn together from two separate interviews with the folk singer, according to the Tablet writer.
Then, when Moynihan reached Lehrer, the newly minted New Yorker writer said the quotes were available in a more complete version of the interview he originally cited, but that it was not made public. He also apparently lied about the context in which the non-existent quotes were given.
Over the next three weeks, Moynihan said Lehrer "stonewalled, misled and, eventually, outright lied to me."
Also read: Jonah Lehrer Apologizes for 'Stupid,' 'Lazy' Self-Plagiarizing in The New Yorker
Lehrer confessed to Moynihan on Sunday that he lied.
"I couldn't find the original sources," Lehrer told Moynihan. "I panicked. And I'm deeply sorry for lying."
David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, said in a statement: "This is a terrifically sad situation, but, in the end, what is most important is that the integrity of what we publish and what we stand for."
Late Monday morning, Tablet's website was down and the magazine tweeted that it was suffering a DDoS — direct denial of service — attack, the details of which remain unclear.
Taryn Roeder, a spokeswoman for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, told TheWrap that the publisher was "exploring all options available" with the book while all e-books were taken off-sale and shipments of physical copies halted.


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Mention the name Ringo Deathstarr and it's fair to say the words 'My', 'Bloody' and 'Valentine' won't be far behind. When early singles compilation Sparkler first appeared three years ago such comparisons were rife, and last year's first full long player, Colour Trip, only served to inflame such accusations that maybe the Austin trio wore their influences a little too closely to their chests. Unfair perhaps, given that in 2012 there's very little which passes for being wholly original. Predictable also, as any band aligning themselves to such a storied genre will always have to live with being compared to what's gone beforehand.
It's to their credit, then, that against such adversity they've discovered something approaching a signature sound, but also in doing so created an identity all of their own. The dual vocals of Elliott Frazier and Alex Gehring now instantly recognisable, coupled with a guitar sound that while not being a million miles away from the Creation sound of '91 (because what we'd rather call it than shoegaze) confirms the band's suggestion when quizzed by DiS last summer that they're a punk rock band at heart. With over half the 13 songs that make up Mauve clocking in at the two-and-a-half minutes mark or under, anyone expecting a tremelo heavy collection of lengthy monologues may be slightly disappointed. And rightly so, because Ringo Deathstarr have never been that kind of band.
Where the Ringo Deathstarr EP that much of Sparkler was comprised of - and to a lesser extent Colour Trip - conveyed the sound of a band literally finding its feet; indeed the personnel that recorded the former being an entirely different line-up bar Frazier; Mauve feels like a stark realization in the band's development. It's easy to look back now and attempt to pinpoint the exact moment where Ringo Deathstarr's embryonic vision became reality but last November's collaboration with Jason Reece from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead seems as good a place as any. Freed of the customary feedback and distortion we'd come to expect, it heralded a brave, new, altogether more direct approach instead. And more importantly, welcomed the structural diatribe of why-say-it-in-five-minutes-when-you-can-say-it-in-two?
And so onto Mauve, as with its predecessor produced by Frazier, himself becoming more established as a producer-cum-engineer in his own right if his recent work with fellow Austin dwellers Galpals is anything indication. Opener and lead single 'Rip' takes its cue from Adam And The Ants' 'Feed Me To The Lions' (seriously), Gehring's distinctive yet seductive vocal taking it into more pastoral waters. It's the brutally eloquent 'Burn' and Wipers-esque 'Drain' that ably demonstrate Ringo Deathstarr's new found fervour. Neither hangs around long enough to outstay their welcome. Both aim for and penetrate the jugular to maximum effect. Similarly the Frazier-led 'Slack' could best be described as punk rock played through distortion pedals, yet fragile on the inside summed up best by its "Do you feel what I feel?" refrain.
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Indeed there's very little negative to say about Mauve, other than Ringo Deathstarr may have created a monster - in a good way of course - for themselves. The challenging part is where they go next.
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Direct debits and credit transfers generate monthly mass payments which are processed rapidly, smoothly and error-free in Aareal Bank systems. There are over 120 million postings each year. The trend is up.
Different business models require different accounts – for example, property accounts at companies with their own property holdings, trust accounts in property management. The account management system of Aareal Bank models the required accounts in accounts systems, by customer, also in case of more complex corporate structures. Thanks to this, for example, the management of authorisations and powers of attorney is extremely comfortable. Using the electronic banking applications, opening new client accounts is fast and uncomplicated.
Aareal Bank ensures that its electronic banking applications meet the highest security standards at all times. These applications enable access to the company accounts to mandate single payments, release payments, manage authorisations or to read electronic information in automated mode. In the BK01 payment transaction system which controls electronic banking functionalities from within the bookkeeping system, there is also the option of allocating and posting this account information automatically.
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Orange County CBD terpene infused Cali E-Liquid range is packed with award-winning Broad Spectrum CBD Extract. The CBD in these flavoured liquids is formulated using a specialist CO2 process that has been developed to isolate and remove any unwanted compounds while creating the maximum potency level of phytocannabinoids. Cutting edge technology is employed to ensure you get a product that includes the highest levels of CBD. Orange County CBD hemp-based phytocannabinoids offer an organic, non-GMO formulation with no chemical solvents.
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Girl Scout Cookies (Fl Durban x OG Kush) has an all-round delicious biscuity flavour which leaves you with an irresistible cookie taste. Its pleasantly sweet flavour and intoxicating aroma contains earthy undertones as well as an uplifting and sweet flavour on the exhale. A deliciously sweet treat from this dessert-style E-Liquid.
Grandaddy Purple
Grandaddy Purple (Mendo Purps x Skunk Afghanistan) is a real treat for your senses. Your taste buds should immediately recognise the tangs of grape, berries and other sweet delights. A wonderful and sultry aroma is clear from the inhale right through to the exhale.
Orange Cream
A superb sparkling citrus flavour, Orange Cream (Orange Valley x Cookies and Cream) has a wonderfully sweet and tropical scent. It can be best likened to newly ripened oranges or mangoes which instantly transport you to a grove of fruits. There are tangy, bright citrus accents alongside a super creamy and vanilla citrus flavour. This terpene infused liquid has a tropical but milky aftertaste that lingers long after the last puff.
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express (Trainwreck x Hawaii) is a tasty juice touted for its delicious tropical flavour. From the first inhale you can sense the hints of something fruity, citrusy and maybe even a little floral thrown in for extra good measure. On that first inhale, you'll experience the fruitiness in its full expression, with a hint of pineapple left floating on your tongue long after the smoke has gone, sending your taste buds into a whirlwind of pleasure. When you breathe out, pine and woodsy tastes fill up your mouth.
Star Dawg
Star Dawg (Chem Dawg x Double Dawg). The earthy, pine aroma stands out with sour undertones and notes of diesel. Star Dawg packs a punch with its potent aroma and taste. Cannabis connoisseurs may also be able to detect the light citrusy notes that come through upon inhaling. If you're into the skunky scents of Star Dawg, then you will love the taste!
Sunset Sherbet
The aroma and flavour of Sunset Sherbet (Girl Scout Cookie x Pink Panties) is deliciously moreish. Your senses will be completely engulfed in a sweet, tropical, fruity sensation. Notes of sherbet, bubblegum, berries and even tropical fruits will fill your senses while the terpene infusion will give you that recognisable scent you love.
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Super Lemon Haze (Lemon Skunk x Super Silver Haze), as you probably guessed, is full of lemony and citrus zing. Notes of sugary citrus will float into the mix alongside the terpene infusion, creating a combination worth remembering. Its sweet, citrus, earthy flavour consumes your taste buds, leaving you wanting more. Reminiscent of a tall glass of iced lemonade or your favourite citrus marmalade, this is a flavour not to be missed.
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Cherry OG Kush (Chemdawg x Lemon Thai) is well known for its aromatic qualities, it tastes just as good as it smells.. The terpene infusion complements the sweet, fruity flavour while hints of vanilla sneak in as well as a sour, citrusy zest. Users may be able to find an earthy taste that wraps up the exhale.
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"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." -W. Edwards Deming
Work takes time to flow through an organization and ultimately be deployed to production where it captures value. It's critical to reduce time-to-production. Software - for many organizations and industries - is a competitive advantage.
Organizations break their larger software ambitions into smaller, independently deployable, feature -centric batches of work - microservices. In order to reduce the round-trip between stations of work, organizations collapse or consolidate as much of them as possible and automate the rest; developers and operations beget "devops," cloud-based services and platforms (like Cloud Foundry) automate operations work and break down the need for ITIL tickets and change management boards.
But velocity, for velocity's sake, is dangerous. Microservices invite architectural complexity that few are prepared to address. In this talk, we'll look at how high performance organizations like Ticketmaster, Alibaba, and Netflix make short work of that complexity with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.


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Facebook to Build Housing in Silicon Valley for First Time
The shortage of housing in California's Silicon Valley has gotten so severe that Facebook Inc. on Friday proposed taking homebuilding into its own hands for the first time with a plan to construct 1,500 units near its headquarters.
The growth of Facebook, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and other tech companies has strained neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay area that were not prepared for an influx of tens of thousands of workers during the past decade. Home prices and commute times have risen.
Tech companies have responded with measures such as internet-equipped buses for employees with long commutes.
Facebook has offered at least $10,000 in incentives to workers who move closer to its offices.
Those steps, though, have not reduced complaints that tech companies are making communities unaffordable, and they have mostly failed to address the area's housing shortage.
"The problem with Silicon Valley is you don't have enough supply to keep up with the demand," said Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at real estate research firm CoreLogic.
With Facebook's construction plan, the company said it wanted to invest in Menlo Park, the city some 45 miles (72 km) south of San Francisco where it moved in 2011.
The company said it wants to build a "village" that will also have 1.75 million square feet of office space and 125,000 square feet of retail space.
"Part of our vision is to create a neighborhood center that provides long-needed community services," John Tenanes, Facebook's vice president for global facilities, said in a statement.
The 1,500 Facebook housing units would be open to anyone, not just employees, and 15 percent of them would be offered at below market rates, the company said.
Facebook said it expects the review process to take two years.
Alphabet has taken a smaller step, buying 300 modular apartment units for short-term employee housing, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
Menlo Park Mayor Kirsten Keith said in an interview that there were concerns about whether the Facebook plan would increase traffic, a subject the city's planning department would study.
She said, though, that Facebook's plan fits with the city's own long-term plan for development, and that the city was excited about the additional housing.
Facebook's Tenanes said the density of the proposed development could also entice spending on transit projects.
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Luxury developers rewrite the rules on pre-fab housing
Building high end homes has never been quicker and they've never looked better as prefab housing takes huge leaps forward.
With the prefab industry taking huge leaps forward over the last decade, the higher end of the market is now known for its innovative, high-tech design thanks to names like Huf Haus and Scandia Hus.
Featuring airy glass panels and sustainable materials – no place for cheap plaster and vinyl flooring here – homes are built in highly controlled factory environments where precision cutting means the parts can be slotted together easily and quickly on site.
And as many countries face growing populations, emerging middle classes – especially in Asia, and rising house prices, demand for high quality homes with a more affordable price tag is on the up.
Taking the designer approach
Revolution Precrafted is one company that realizes the mass market potential of high-end prefab homes – and doing it in a way that stands out from the crowd. Launched in December 2015 by Filipino businessman Robbie Antonio it has collaborated with more than 30 star architects including Zaha Hadid Architects, Marcel Wanders and Jean Nouvel to create a range of cutting edge prefab homes and pavilions.
As Antonio tells Design Boom: "Revolution is democratizing high-end design and architecture by introducing designed spaces in exclusive collaboration with industry leading creative."
With the company recently valued at US$256 million, Antonio believes his designer homes could go global as he aims to make Revolution Precrafted the first proptech unicorn to come out of the Philippines.
"The idea of Revolution Precrafted is really quite simple – affordable luxury for people to own something by a star architect which would otherwise be out of reach," says Claro Cordero, Head of Research, JLL Philippines. "It's a unique concept that has captured the imagination of many and changed how they think about prefab homes."
Targeted at developers, landowners and affluent individuals, the homes, which are reported to cost an average of US$120,000 each, provide a more affordable alternative to bricks and mortar structures. "For people looking to build their own homes the usual costs of hiring the right builders, architects and contractors could end up costing much more," says Cordero. "It removes a lot of the project management work required too. With a prefab home it's more a case of what they see is what they get."
A growing field
More competitors are also entering the prefab homes space in Asia. Cult lifestyle brand Muji will be selling its new minimalist huts in Japan later this year, and already has worked with Japanese architects such as Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban to create prefab homes for sale in Japan.
Despite the appeal of the likes of Muji and Revolution Precrafted, Cordero says there are limitations to how and where these high-end prefab homes can be installed by ordinary home owners in Asia. "You need to find a suitable area or land for it and work around building guidelines or standards, and follow zoning laws," he explains.
Nevertheless, Cordero believes that prefab homes have a definite role to play in the future of housing both in the Philippines and more widely in Asia. "There's still a perception that prefab homes are lower quality than traditional homes but as evolving technology makes the manufacturing and construction of quality prefab homes, the public image could improve too and open up the market further."
For now, the ongoing buzz around Revolution Precrafted is good for the Philippines' tech and real estate scene, Cordero believes. "The Filipino population is getting increasingly tech-savvy and there has always been a real interest in real estate in the country. We've seen real estate developers increasingly embracing technology such as creating specific apps for marketing residential projects," he says. "If Revolution Precrafted succeeds in being the country's unicorn, and one from the real estate sector at that, it will serve a great encouragement for the industry."


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The practice of generosity, or dana – sharing our time and energy to support each other – is at the heart of community. An important element of giving is the joy and happiness that we experience when we are able to give from the heart, without any expectation or attachment to the result.
Offering Our Practice
The most precious thing we can offer is our energy of mindfulness. Together we support each other on this beautiful path of practice. We can help the wider community of mindfulness to grow by investing time and energy into our own local community, a sangha, or by helping to create a new sangha. The greatest gift you can offer Blue Cliff is regularly spending time practicing here. Please visit us!
Offering Financial Support
Another important way to contribute is through financial support–making a donation to the monastery or by becoming a regular donor to the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation. All of the financial needs of our monastery and sister monasteries are met through donations and, to a smaller extent, through purchases of books and other items. Please contact the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation for more information about opportunities to offer financial support.
Offering Service
Finally, we can offer our time and energy through service here at the monastery and beyond. When you get to know the community, you will naturally begin to see our needs and the best ways to help. Please reach out to us with any offer of support or take a moment to discuss service opportunities with any of our monastic brothers or sisters while you are here. We have a number of residential programs that allow you to live and serve here. We also employ staff to help in a few specific areas.Contact your local sangha for opportunities to serve within your local community.


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Presets – Focal Point for Landscapes
Hey there! I'm pretty excited about this week's presets. I had an idea a while back about using the adjustment brush to create a focal point in certain parts of the photo (by darkening the rest of the photo). The vignetting controls are great for doing this but if your subject isn't in the middle of the photo then it doesn't work as well. So I figured I could use the adjustment brush to darken parts of the photo and save it as a preset. Wrong! I quickly found out you couldn't save adjustment brush controls as a preset so I went back to the drawing board and came up with this idea instead. I've created 4 different presets that each use the Graduated Filter to do something similar. This week's batch is for Landscapes only (top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right). However, I'm working on an update that I'll get out next week for portraits as well. Enjoy 'em and let me know what you think!
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Challenges that Sellers will face in 2020
What Are the Biggest Challenges Sellers Will Face in 2020? 2019 was a stellar year for sellers who keep the advantage going into 2020. However, according to a HomeLight Top Agent Insights Survey from Q4, over 50% reported that there is a new trend arising, and we're veering towards a more neutral market. There is an uptick for buyers for…
DIY Window Cornices
If you like to avoid sewing as much as possible (which I do, because I stink at sewing), window cornices or pelmet boxes are a great way to dress up your windows with just some fabric and a staple gun. Here's my quick supply list: – Staple gun – mdf/composite board – Wood glue – Nail gun – Fabric spray…
How To Build A Custom TV Frame
After receiving several suggestions from one of our recent blog posts, I decided to whip up a frame for the TV. I also thought it would be a fun little surprise for Ellie to come home to. My vision for the TV frame is essentially just a box that fits overtop of the TV and then just sits on it….
A{pallet}othecary: The Details
Let me start off by saying……I would not build another one the way that I built this one. It's tremendously hard to be this cheap. My goal was to spend the least amount of money possible to build an apothecary table for our front entry way. I just picked up a ton of pallets for free from the Craigslist free…
So far, I feel great about our 2012 project list because we already crossed one project off and we've got another in progress. 1) Install "Arctic Ice" back splash from Home Depot in the Kitchen. 2) Lay and stain hardwood floors in the kitchen and family room to match our existing hardwood in the dining room and foyer. Labor intensive…
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night for Tucker
If you're in the Richmond area, we'd love to have you come meet Tucker and eat more chikin'. On Thursday July 25th and Thursday August 15th from 5-8pm, Grace Community Presbyterian Church is hosting a Spirit Night for Tucker at the Virginia Center Chick-fil-A (10176 Brook Rd, Glen Allen, VA 23059). Children from 3 years old up to 5th grade participate in…
Deck Remodel
Life is swimming along back home now-a-days and I came up for air long enough to knock out a small deck remodeling project that I've been wanting to do for quite some time now. When we first moved in, the deck received some immediate attention. Our fresh cream/white vinyl siding was no longer meshing well with the red dilapidated deck….
Work-Out Closet
My time's been fairly limited here lately but I did have enough time to squeeze in two small projects. What was once a room setup with our treadmill has now turned into Tucker's nursery. We relocated the treadmill perfectly into one of the three closets in our home office. It's a pretty sweet set-up because you can fold it up…
Tucker's Room
There's still some finishing touches needed but when Tucker finally comes home this will be how his room looks when he arrives. These pictures didn't turn out too well….so at some point we'll need to take some better ones.
Turn Style Legs Table
Several weeks ago I had the privilege of building my first table with removable legs for some friends. It was also the first table that I built with turn-stye legs (except for the table that I used retrofitted bedposts as legs). Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to get this one built so I didn't document as well as I would have…
Pallet Wall Construction
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then the Bowers from http://www.bowerpowerblog.com/ should consider this the best compliment ever! After the initial shock of finding out that we were having a boy, Ellie was super excited about their little man's nursery. Check out their reveal here and you get a good sense of what our nursery is going to look like…
Fancy X Pallet Table
I haven't posted the details yet from our pallet wall in the nursery, the sneak peek is here, but after that project was finished we had a ton of leftover scraps. If you've been around our blog for a while, you know that I look for ways to utilize every piece of scrap. So I decided to whip together a…
Bedside Tables
We've made some progress on our guest room over the last couple months. We started with a clean slate and moved any furniture that we had out of the room. The dresser was painted and put in the nursery, the pallet headboard and bed were sold, and the IKEA bookcase was relocated. So all we had in the guest room…
Man Nursery….Sneak Peek
There's much more to this story but we couldn't resist giving you a sneak peek at Tucker's Nursery….aka Baby Man Cave. More details to follow.
Book and Picture Ledges
Another quick and easy project was completed for Tucker's nursery a couple weeks ago but I'm just now posting about it. For whatever reason, these pictures didn't turn out well….but there's some major construction going on in Tucker's room today….so you'll definitely need to check back for the full nursery reveal soon I followed the principles of the simple photo…
Old Wood Sign
The pictures on this one may not do it justice……you'll have to wait for Tucker's entire nursery to come together to get the full effect. Anyways, I was dropping off some recycling the other week and came across this really sweet old farm bench. My vision was to fix it up and put it in our backyard somewhere. Ellie did…
Living Room Side Tables
Our updated living room was in need of some new side tables. We looked for some reasonably priced ones at our local antique store, Target, IKEA, Home Goods, and more but didn't find anything that we liked or at a price that we could afford…..so, I did what I almost always do and began to figure out how I could…
Built-In Bookcases and Living Room Reveal
One of the big projects we've been meaning to tackle is to build some built-in bookcases around the doors in our living room. I've been putting this off until we changed the flooring (that way the baseboard would already be ripped off). Well, the time had come…..and thus began the research phase of looking at bookcases. I was hoping to…
Kitchen Island Redo
I finally put the finishing touches onto our kitchen island. When I refinished our floors, I disassembled our kitchen island (to take a look at what it used to look like; click here). On the rebuild, I wanted to do 2 things; add doors/drawers to it and put it on wheels so that we could clean underneath the island and…
Finished Floors
Question: Would you ever install unfinished floors and finish them yourself? Answer: No. Never again. I've been working on our hardwood floors for quite a while now. An hour here, and hour there, and a few minutes squeezed in when I could. It was a good project to have at the beginning of our NICU process (see Tucker) because…


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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, 2nd Edition
Paperback – Illustrated, Aug. 19 2016
by Sandor Ellix Katz
The Book That Started the Fermentation Revolution
Sandor Ellix Katz, winner of a James Beard Award and New York Times bestselling author, whom Michael Pollan calls the "Johnny Appleseed of Fermentation" returns to the iconic book that started it all, but with a fresh perspective, renewed enthusiasm, and expanded wisdom from his travels around the world. This self-described fermentation revivalist is perhaps best known simply as Sandorkraut, which describes his joyful and demystifying approach to making and eating fermented foods, the health benefits of which have helped launch a nutrition-based food revolution.
Since its publication in 2003, and aided by Katz's engaging and fervent workshop presentations, Wild Fermentation has inspired people to turn their kitchens into food labs: fermenting vegetables into sauerkraut, milk into cheese or yogurt, grains into sourdough bread, and much more. In turn, they've traded batches, shared recipes, and joined thousands of others on a journey of creating healthy food for themselves, their families, and their communities. Katz's work earned him the Craig Clairborne lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance, and has been called "one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene" by The New York Times.
This updated and revised edition, now with full color photos throughout, is sure to introduce a whole new generation to the flavors and health benefits of fermented foods. It features many brand-new recipes―including Strawberry Kvass, African Sorghum Beer, and Infinite Buckwheat Bread―and updates and refines original recipes reflecting the author's ever-deepening knowledge of global food traditions that has influenced four-star chefs and home cooks alike. For Katz, his gateway to fermentation was sauerkraut. So open this book to find yours, and start a little food revolution right in your own kitchen.
Praise for Sandor Ellix Katz and his books:
"The Art of Fermentation is an extraordinary book, and an impressive work of passion and scholarship."―Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors
"Sandor Katz has proven himself to be the king of fermentation."―Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation
"Sandor Katz has already awakened more people to the diversity and deliciousness of fermented foods than any other single person has over the last century."―Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
"The fermenting bible." ― Newsweek
"In a country almost clinically obsessed with sterilization Katz reminds us of the forgotten benefits of living in harmony with our microbial relatives." ― Grist
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Fall Season is Facelift Season
The summer season is coming to a close and it is time to prepare for fall… which is an ideal time to squeeze in a cosmetic procedure. Most people enjoy active summer months with vacations, fun outdoor activities and events. For those people, it's a great time to stay up to date with rejuvenating procedures that don't involve any downtime, such as Botox or Juvederm. Once the back to school flurry settles, there's a nice 2 to 3 month window – in the fall -before the holiday festivities kick in. This is an ideal time to do a cosmetic surgery that requires some downtime/recovery… the Facelift.
Facelift in the Fall
As the weather is starting to cool down, the calendar is as well. Taking advantage of this pre holiday season of rest is the perfect occasion for a Facelift.
The Facelift is one of the most time tested and perfected procedures in plastic surgery. It is extremely customizable, yet requires significant technical and artistic skill. This combination can only be achieved by an experienced board certified surgeon, such as myself.
Also, the ease and time frame of the Facelift recovery can be greatly determined by the skill of the surgeon, the quality of the skin and the type of Facelift that is performed. Having your Facelift in the late summer – early Fall phase gives your body a good chance to heal and reveal great results in time for Thanksgiving and the winter festivities.
What a Facelift Can Do for You…
I spend time with my patients – one on one, face to face (the consultation), to understand their desires and to explain what kind of results to expect. There are many options and techniques to give you the most harmonious, youthful results possible.
On the minimal end of the spectrum is the Mini Facelift. The Mini Facelift offers a subtle rejuvenation to younger patients in their 40s with minor signs of aging and loose skin. Your face will look refreshed and more youthful, but most people won't be able to pinpoint that you've had surgery.
On the end of the Facelift spectrum providing more dramatic results is a Traditional or Full Facelift. A Full Facelift is a comprehensive way to rejuvenate every area of the face from the forehead down to the neck. It provides smoother, tighter, lifted skin that can take 10 years off your appearance.
Facelift Recovery…From weeks to months to over a year, there are different stages of recovery.
Someone may be able to go back to work with makeup on in a matter of a week after a Mini Facelift. On the other hand, the tightness, sensation and swelling of the internal tissue may take more than a year to completely heal after a Full Facelift, even though superficially the face looks great after about 3 months. As mentioned previously, the recovery depends on the:
skill of the surgeon to execute the surgery with gentle, precise technique,
quality of the skin to bounce back and heal,
type of Facelift surgery to determine the amount of tissue, muscle and skin affected.
A younger, refreshed face is waiting for you this Fall. Now is the perfect time to talk about, plan and perform your Facelift. Visit www.davinciplastic.com today.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2008 April Final Four in Baltimore
Final Four in Baltimore |
By Jennifer Shahade | |
April 6, 2008 | |
The Final Four of College Chess consists of a four-team, three-round round robin, with Miami Dade, New York University, University of Texas at Dallas, and University of Maryland Baltimore County qualifying through the 2007 Pan-American Championships. The first round began with an exciting slugfest between Mackenzie Molner of NYU and GM Sergey Erenburg of UMBC. TD Michael Atkins told CLO how the time control of G/120+30 second increment affected the game: "After about 15 moves, Molner was a couple pawns down and down to around 1 minute and Erenburg had over an hour. The game lasted into the 50's and Molner kept improving his position, winning back the two pawns, activating his pieces. Although he finally lost, this is a good example of how increment chess, ala FIDE, is very different than delay as Molner would have never survived that long in so much time pressure with delay." 1801 The action will come down to the final round on Sunday, when powerhouses UTD and UMBC face off. Check out the most updated standings, see Monroi for games and read CLO on Monday for a final report. |


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A Century of Service
Issue 76 January 2011
Very few Islamic institutions in the UK can commemorate a centenary. East London Mosque is one of them. It was founded on pluralistic ideals and had prominent non-Muslims amongst its founders. Jamil Hussein plots the history of the mosque and looks at whether it has lived up to its ideals.
Photography by Rehan Jamil
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It is one of the biggest mosques in the UK and - despite being just an adhan away from London's financial district - in one of the poorest parts of the country. But Whitechapel's iconic mosque was actually conceived in a glitzier part of town: the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair to be exact. On 9th November 1910, Right Honourable Syed Ameer Ali, Aga Khan III and writer Sir Theodore Morrison met at the hotel to lay the foundations of what is now known as the East London Mosque (ELM). The meeting concluded with the participants creating a fund – The London Mosque Fund – to build a mosque in the capital. The founders hoped the mosque would create harmony between the faiths and be a symbolic gesture to Muslims in the Empire. Syed Ali was the main instigator. He was a keen supporter of the Empire and the first Muslim privy councillor in British history - the second being Sadiq Khan a century later in 2009. "The inspiration to build a mosque came from Syed Ali, who wanted to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together. But there was a collective vision amongst the founders, which included non-Muslims, to work together and build a mosque at the heart of the British Empire," says Shaynul Islam, ELM's assistant executive director.
Non-Muslims connected with the mosque have included Lord Rothschild, Lord Lamington, Lord Ampthill, Sir Frederick Sykes, Earl Winterton, Sir John Woodhead and Sir Ernest Hotson. Prominent Muslim figures Marmaduke Pickthall and Yusuf Ali – the two famous translators of the Qur'an – were also involved in the early stages. Initially, jumm'ah (Friday) prayers were held at hired halls around West London, catering for ambassadors and Muslim dignitaries in the area. But the demand for prayer facilities was more urgent in the East.
The influx of Muslim workers and merchants from London's Docklands meant East London was a prime location for a mosque. Again, halls were hired, including Kings Hall on Commercial Road - a Yiddish Theatre that had once seen Vladimir Lenin give a talk. The switch to the other side of London attracted local volunteers to the mosque. They helped in the day-to-day operations and later organised into a group called Jamait-ul-Muslimin.
Mohammed Toboris Ali has been a volunteer since 1977. He organises volunteer stewards for Friday prayers when around 5,000 worshippers turn out. When the 69-year-old first started volunteering, he used to drive local children to the mosque every weekday evening to their Arabic classes. "I get 30-year-olds stopping me in the street now. They hug me and say 'Don't you remember me? You used to take me to the mosque." Ali said those moments make him realise the benefit volunteers have on the community. "I hope we can set an example to others, especially the youth, of how you can help in the community. And also, hopefully, get our good deeds rewarded by Allah."
In 1940, three renovated houses on Commercial Road were bought, and a year later East London Mosque opened. It became a magnet for new migrant workers coming to London to rebuild the city after the war. Even the mosque was damaged during the Blitz and funds from the War Damage Commission were allocated for its repair. Bengali Muslims, working mainly in the garment and restaurant business, were the biggest post-war immigrants to the area. Today, although Bengalis are still the majority, sermons are given in several languages, reflecting the ethnic mix of the congregation.
The mosque suffered a setback when the Greater London Council made a Compulsory Purchase Order on the building to expand the A13 highway in 1975. In return, the mosque was given temporary facilities in its current location on Whitechapel Road, next to the Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue. It meant the local community had to start raising funds again. But it gave them the creative scope to build a purpose-built mosque complete with dome and minarets. That dream was finally realised in 1985. It was also the first mosque in the UK to project the adhan, which the local authority planners needed to be convinced about. "The management got the planners to come on a Sunday and at 12pm the bells from the local church started chiming. The trustees were trying to show that the call to prayer wasn't much different," says Islam. By the turn of the century, the Muslim population continued to grow, and so did the mosque. A new wing - the London Muslim Centre (LMC) - was completed in 2004. Prince Charles helped lay the foundation of the LMC and cited the history of the mosque and the "many non-Muslims amongst its ranks."
Replica Watches Although non-Muslim involvement in the management has long ceased, work with people from other backgrounds is still very much on the agenda. The mosque has been involved in inter-faith programmes and local community projects. It works with the Council on various projects, assists on health and drugs issues with the Primary Care Trust, undertakes employment and training programmes and has a pro bono legal service for both Muslims and non-Muslims. "There's no question it benefits the whole community. The mosque leads on promoting community cohesion," says Neil Jameson, executive director of civil engagement group London Citizens. "It has been an outstanding active participant in the work we do."
ELM was a founding member of London Citizens. It helps with the organisation's campaigns, such as "Living Wage" – to get companies paying £2 more than the minimum wage - and "CitySafe," which tackles street crime. The mosque also helped Citizen UK (the national incarnation of London Citizens) with an event that hosted the leaders of the three main political parties before the general election. Jameson said London Citizens relies on the mosque for many things and it has been important in making events and meetings successful. Ties with local non-Muslim organisations were fomented in the 70s when a young restaurant worker, Altab Ali, was killed in a racist attack just yards from the mosque. The local community, from all backgrounds, rallied together to oust the far right influence.
But in recent months, the noise of far right boots has resurfaced. The English Defence League (EDL) threatened to march to the mosque. But again, the community stood united and the march was cancelled. Islamophobia has risen in recent years because of 7/7 and other terrorist actions by extremists around the globe. But the mosque believes the rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric in certain sections of the media and the internet is spurring far right groups even further. "There is no doubt that anti-Muslim bigotry in the media is fuelling the likes of the EDL, who have cited the work of certain right-wing newspapers and commentators as a prime source for attacking the ELM," says Dilowar Khan, the director of the mosque.
Upto 25,000 people a week come to the ELM and LMC, and many more attend the Eid prayers. Ramadan is a particularly busy time with lots of activities and a complete recitation of the Qur'an during tarawih.
Critics of the mosque say it has invited extremist speakers and question its close ties with a grassroots group called Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), which some accuse of being "fundamentalist," and Jamaat e-Islami, an Islamic political party in Bangladesh. "Despite all the attempts to smear us, there has never been a single example of extremist talk from the mosque itself," says Khan. "On rare occasions it may be that someone speaking at an event for which a room or hall has been hired says something we neither agree with nor approve of." To stop this, the mosque now takes a more stringent approach to vetting speakers and materials when third parties use its facilities. On the IFE, Khan says the group provides voluntary help to the mosque and is a tenant, with many others, in the business wing of the LMC - the IFE itself denies the "fundamentalist" tag and points out its many partnerships with non-Muslim groups. "There is no organisational or structural link with the Jamaat-e-Islami," adds Khan.
Neil Jameson from London Citizens says he has been working with the mosque for 15 years and accusations of it being "extreme" are "completely foreign" to him. "Absolutely, they are moderate. They are interested in community life and are very committed to it," he says, adding that criticism of the mosque tends to come from outsiders.
The mosque hopes increased transparency will help dispel some of the negative views. Sermons are now available online and visitors are free to tour the mosque and talk about their concerns, even the media. "Fortunately, people who come into regular contact with us, who work with us, know what we are really like," says Khan. "We want to make our community and society a better place by providing wider services and working with others. We are determined to do that."
A thoughtful Dr Abdul Bari, the current Chairman, reflects on the history of the ELM.
The Mosque was opened on Friday 1st August 1941 and the prayer was led by Shaykh Hafiz Wahba, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia.
The services the mosque provides will increase this year when construction of the nine-story Maryam Centre is completed in the second half of 2011. Already the mosque has a designated nursery, secondary school, gym and funeral service but the new building will prioritise the needs of women - the first of its kind in the UK. It will add to its existing women's advice centre with a women-only fitness gym, clinics, domestic violence support and counselling rooms. The mosque believes the expansion will make it the biggest in Europe in terms of congregation – something the original founders would have been proud of, says Khan. "It has definitely lived up to the ideals and expectations of its founders. The mosque was founded out of co-operation and mutual understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims," he says. "The universal understanding we all hold as human beings is important. We have to work towards the common good, even if there are some conflicting views in society. As long as we can work together to make our society a better place, I think that is what matters the most."
From left to right - The Right Honourable Sir Syed Ameer Ali arranged a meeting at the Ritz Hotel in November 1910 to establish a fund for the purpose of building a mosque and centre. Sir John Woodhead served on the East London Mosque Trust for almost 14 years. Muhammad Ikramulla, the Pakistan High Commissioner, was Chairman of the Mosque Fund from 1952.
The Development
The East London Mosque has gone from a rented hall, to a purchased house, to a purpose built mosque, to a major centre
1) The original mosque and sailors' hostel was based in a row of three houses at 444-448 Commercial Road.
2) In 1975 the mosque had to move to temporary buildings in Fieldgate Street until a permanent purpose built mosque could be constructed.
3) It took another ten years before the purpose built mosque in Whitechapel was officially opened.
4) The new mosque was designed by John Gill Associates and constructed by W.J.Mitchell & Sons.
5) As the local community grew, the need for a larger mosque space and community centre became evident. The local community raised funds by literally purchasing bricks. The London Muslim Centre was opened in 2001.
6) The Maryam Centre will focus on women, offering extensive services and facilities.
7) The ELM (foreground), the LMC (right) and the Maryam Centre (under construction) are a now a local landmark.
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