Badí‘

Badí‘ (Arabic: ﺑﺪﻳﻊ 1852  1869) was the title of Mírzá Áqá Buzurg-i-Nishapuri, also known by the title the Pride of Martyrs. He was the son of `Abdu'l-Majid-i-Nishapuri, a follower of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh.

Badí‘ is most famous for being the bearer of a tablet written by Bahá'u'lláh to Nasiri'd-Din Shah, for which he was tortured and killed at the age of 17. He is also one of the foremost Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.

The Kitáb-i-Badí', a book written by Bahá'u'lláh, has no relation to the Badí‘ of this article.

Travels

Although Badí's father was a Bahá'í, Badí was originally not touched by the new religion. He was an unruly and rebellious youth, and his father described him as the "despair of the family". It was upon a meeting with Nabíl-i-A`zam that Badí‘ heard a poem by Bahá'u'lláh and began weeping. After finishing his studies, he gave away his possessions and set out on foot for Baghdad, where a significant number of Bahá'ís were under persecution. Finally he set out on foot from Mosul through Baghdad to the prison city of `Akka.

Bad (U2 song)

"Bad" is a song by rock band U2 and the seventh track from their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. A song about heroin addiction, it is considered a fan favourite, and is one of U2's most frequently performed songs in concert.

A performance of the song at 1985's Live Aid was a career breakthrough for the band.

The live version included as the opening track of the Wide Awake in America EP is frequently chosen for airplay by radio DJs ahead of the studio version. The song is featured on the trailer of Brothers and in the opening and closing sequences of Taking Lives.

History

"Bad" began with an improvised guitar riff during a jam session at Slane Castle where U2 were recording The Unforgettable Fire. The basic track was completed in three takes. Of its immediate and live nature, U2 guitarist the Edge said "There's one moment where Larry puts down brushes and takes up the sticks and it creates this pause which has an incredibly dramatic effect." Producer Brian Eno added the sequencer arpeggios that accompany the song.

Bad (economics)

An economic bad is the opposite of an economic good. A "bad" is anything with a negative value to the consumer, or a negative price in the marketplace. Refuse is an example of a bad.

A bad is a physical object that lowers a consumer's level of happiness, or stated alternately, a bad is an object whose consumption or presence lowers the utility of the consumer.

With normal goods, a two-party transaction results in the exchange of money for some object, e.g. money is exchanged for a car. With a bad, however, both money and the object in question go the same direction, e.g. a household loses money and the garbage. The waste collector is being compensated to take the object from the consumer. In this way, garbage has a negative price; the waste collector is receiving both garbage and money, and thus is paying a negative amount for the garbage.

Goodness and badness are an inherently subjective declaration, however. As an example: two diners at a restaurant discover that the "secret ingredient" in the house specialty is peanuts. One of the diners is a peanut-lover, and the other is allergic to peanuts. In this case, peanuts are, in the same time and in the same place, both a good and a bad in economic terms.

Begging

Begging or panhandling is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation. Beggars may be found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks, and near busy markets. Besides money, they may also ask for food, drink, cigarettes or other small items.

According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, "(70%) [of beggars] stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a 'steady income' or 'getting off the street.' However, many felt they could not handle conventional jobs because of mental illness, physical disability or lack of skills."

History

Beggars have existed in human society since before the dawn of recorded history. Begging has happened in most societies around the world, though its prevalence and exact form vary.

Greece

Ancient Greeks distinguished between the ptochos (Greek: πτωχός, "passive poor" or "beggars") and the penes (Greek: ποινής, "active poor"), with the latter being accorded a higher social status. The New Testament contains several references to Jesus' status as the savior of the ptochos, usually translated as "the poor", considered the most wretched portion of society.

Apple (disambiguation)

The apple is the pomaceous edible fruit of a temperate-zone deciduous tree.

Apple, apples or APPLE may also refer to:

Botany

  • Malus, the genus of all apples and crabapples
  • Cashew apple, the fruit that grows with the cashew nut
  • Custard apple, several fruits
  • Love apple:
  • Tomato
  • Syzygium samarangense, a plant species in the Myrtaceae family
  • Mammee apple (disambiguation)
  • May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
  • Oak apple, a type of gall that grows on oak trees
  • Rose apple (disambiguation), several fruits
  • Thorn apple (disambiguation):
  • Crataegus species
  • Datura species
  • Wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)
  • Hedge apple (Maclura pomifera)
  • Companies

  • Apple Inc., a US-based consumer electronics and software company founded in 1976
  • Apple Corps, a multimedia corporation founded in the 1960s by The Beatles
  • Apple Bank, an American bank in the New York City area
  • Apple Leisure Group, an American travel and hotel management company
  • Party of Free Democrats

    The Party of Free Democrats (Ukrainian: Партія Вільних Демократів) is a political party in Ukraine led by Mykhaylo Brodskyy. It was registered in November 1999 as Yabluko (Ukrainian: Яблуко; Apple). The party has about 1,000 members.

    History

    Mykhaylo Brodskyy (a member of the Hromada faction) formed a 14-member "Yabluko" faction in the Ukrainian Parliament mid-September 2000.

    At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 1.2% of the popular vote and no seats (as Yabluko).

    In March 2005, the party was self-liquidated and merged into Fatherland Party (Batkivschuna) led by Yulia Tymoshenko. But in March 2007 Mykhaylo Brodskyy announced the renewal of the party; renaming it Party of Free Democrats.

    On 30 September 2007, elections, the party failed again to win parliamentary representation.

    The party nominated Brodskyy as its candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential elections late October 2009.

    During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party won representatives in municipalities and did particularly well in Cherkasy.

    Suikoden (video game)

    Suikoden (Japanese: 幻想水滸伝 Hepburn: Gensō Suikoden,  listen ) is a role-playing game published by Konami as the first installment of the Suikoden series. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, it was released initially in 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan. North American and British releases followed one year later, and a mainland European release came the following March. The game was also released for the Sega Saturn in 1998 only in Japan, and for Microsoft Windows in 1998 in Japan. On December 22, 2008, Suikoden was made available on the PlayStation Store for use on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles.

    The game centers on the political struggles of the Scarlet Moon Empire. The player controls the son of a Scarlet Moon Empire general who is destined to seek out 108 warriors (referred to as the 108 Stars of Destiny) in order to revolt against the corrupt sovereign state and bring peace to a war-torn land. The game is loosely based on the Chinese novel Shui Hu Zhuan, and features a vast array of characters both controllable and not, with over ninety characters usable in combat and many more able to help or hinder the hero in a variety of ways.

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    Bad Apple

    by: Miku Hatsune

    Ever on and on I continue circling
    With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony
    Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing
    And suddenly I see that I can't break free--I'm
    Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity
    With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony
    To tell me who I am, who I was
    Uncertainty enveloping my mind
    Till I can't break free, and
    Maybe it's a dream; maybe nothing else is real
    But it wouldn't mean a thing if I told you how I feel
    So I'm tired of all the pain, of the misery inside
    And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night
    You can tell me what to say; you can tell me where to go
    But I doubt that I would care, and my heart would never know
    If I make another move there'll be no more turning back
    Because everything will change, and it all will fade to black
    Will tomorrow ever come? Will I make it through the night?
    Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?
    Am I hurting? Am I sad? Should I stay, or should I go?
    I've forgotten how to tell. Did I ever even know?
    Can I take another step? I've done everything I can
    All the people that I see I will never understand
    If I find a way to change, if I step into the light
    Then I'll never be the same, and it all will fade to white
    Ever on and on I continue circling
    With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony
    Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing
    And suddenly I see that I can't break free--I'm
    Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity
    With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony
    To tell me who I am, who I was
    Uncertainty enveloping my mind
    Till I can't break free, and
    Maybe it's a dream; maybe nothing else is real
    But it wouldn't mean a thing if I told you how I feel
    So I'm tired of all the pain, of the misery inside
    And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night
    You can tell me what to say; you can tell me where to go
    But I doubt that I would care, and my heart would never know
    If I make another move there'll be no more turning back
    Because everything will change, and it all will fade to black
    If I make another move, if I take another step
    Then it all would fall apart. There'd be nothing of me left
    If I'm crying in the wind, if I'm crying in the night
    Will there ever be a way? Will my heart return to white?
    Can you tell me who you are? Can you tell me where I am?
    I've forgotten how to see; I've forgotten if I can
    If I opened up my eyes there'd be no more going back




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