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After 50 Years, First Mosque Opens in Slovenia
By Islam Religion Guardian On Feb 5, 2020
The construction of the mosque costs 34 million euros.
It is situated in the semi-industrial area of Ljubljana and could hold at least 1,400 worshippers at a time.
For many decades, Slovenia had no single mosque since its only mosque got demolished after the WWI.
Slovenian Muslims made a petition in 1964 to build their first mosque.
On Monday, and after more than 50 years, Slovenia's first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana, overcoming financial hurdles and right-wing opposition.
Islamic community head Mufti Nedzad Grabus said the mosque's opening was "a turning point in our lives," Business Recorder reported.
"Slovenia is the last former Yugoslav state to get a mosque,
making Ljubljana a capital rather than a provincial town on the edge of the
world," he told a press conference.
Construction, which began in 2013, cost some 34 million euros, out of which 28 million euros were Qatari donations, according to Grabus.
Mufti of the Islamic Community of Slovenia Nedzad Grabus addresses the media on February 3, 2020, in Slovenia's first mosque. (AFP)
The mosque is situated in a semi-industrial area of
Ljubljana. It can hold up to 1,400 worshippers.
The minarets of the mosque are 40 meters high and are colored
in blue. A large blue textile made dome dominates the mosque's interior.
The mosque also houses a center of the Muslim community which helps in highlighting the cultural values of Islam. The center comprises an education center, library, basketball court, etc.
A taken on on January 29, 2020, shows Slovenia's first mosque in Ljubljana. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP)
Until now, Muslims have been worshipping and holding ceremonies in rented sports halls or buildings.
Muslims make up 2.5 percent of the country's two million people, constituting the second biggest religious group, according to the last 2002 census. Grabus estimated there were around 80,000 Muslims currently.
Azra Lekovic, a Slovenian Muslim in her late 40s, described
the mosque as "crucial", saying her children, 22 and 24, had distanced themselves
from the religion over the years.
"I hope it will allow my children to get in touch with the
Islamic community again, to meet progressive people and find friends that share
their religion," the entrepreneur from Sezana in western Slovenia told AFP.
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August 1975 and thereafter
এপ্রিল 22, 2013 /in A Brief, Articles, History, Political Career /by RonZ
WHAT happened in August 1975 was a great tragedy perpetrated by an anti-people clique who did not want Bangladesh to move in the direction its people had desired it to take. The desire embodied a dream and an ideology; and for its fulfillment the people had struggled not only in 1971 but even before. The long struggle did not begin all of a sudden. It had a glorious history of its own. In December 1971 it reached a point where it was impossible for the old state not to yield to the emergence of an independent Bangladesh. What the assassins were bent upon doing was the bringing down not only of a great man but also, and not less importantly, of the ideology of secular Bengali nationalism together with the dream of a long-awaited and urgently needed social revolution. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had promoted that collective desire among, and with, the people. In mourning his death we bemoan the loss of a leader as well as of an opportunity. Sheikh Mujib died a martyr, heading the long list of those who laid down their lives to liberate the people of Bangladesh.
The assassins were a motley group comprising disgruntled army men and a section of the reactionary elements within the ruling party itself. And they acted with the silent support of the capitalist world, of which the USA was the leader. The capitalist countries had, we recall, opposed — both morally and materially — the formation of Bangladesh, being apprehensive of its turning to the left.
Not that the leftists at home were satisfied. Some of them were disheartened to see the new state not taking the line of non-capitalist development; others had gone underground fearing repression on account of their failure to join the war of liberation due to their inability to see that a resolution of the class question demanded a settlement of the national question and that the principal contradiction at that moment of history was between the people of East Bengal and the Punjabi military-bureaucratic combine that ruled Pakistan. None of the leftist groups was against a social revolution; indeed, they were fighting for it. But they did not know how to achieve that objective, which is the primary reason why they were divided among themselves, and, despite their sacrifices, were unable to take on the leadership of the liberation war. The leftists had nothing to do with the tragedy of 1975, although the Awami League leadership thought them, quite mistakenly, to be their real enemy, ignoring the reactionaries within their own camp.
The August mayhem was a rightist affair. The whole business of conspiracy, consolidation and execution was done by the ultra rightists. The more easily identifiable anti-liberation elements, including the Al-badrs and the Razakars, were not directly involved in the operation, but their ideological kinsmen had taken upon themselves a task which those known and condemned for their activities were incapable of performing.
The liberation war, let us remind ourselves, was not fought for the limited political aim of independence. We have had the experience of independence in 1947 enormously paid for in terms of miseries and tears, and found it to be no more than a transfer of power to the Punjabis to rule over the Bengalis. That is why, since 1952, we had been struggling for liberation, which, we had realized, must be based on the twin recognition that the Bengalis were a nation and that national independence would never be meaningful without an accompanying social revolution. Revolutions have come and gone, but society, which is where people live and expect to thrive, has not changed; it has remained as class-ridden and exploitative as it has since the 1793 Permanent Settlement enforced by the British. We needed and wanted a real revolution, ensuring a democratic transformation of the state and society, guaranteeing equality of rights and opportunities to every citizen. The four state principles adumbrated in the original constitution of Bangladesh indicated the goal of a social revolution, for which the first step to be taken was secularism and socialism had to be the ultimate goal.
And it is this possibility of a liberating revolution which the assassins of August wanted to destroy. Those who succeeded them in the running of the state did not find it necessary to make apologies. Briskly they want about achieving their self-appointed task of altering the whole character of the constitution, eliminating the principles of secularism and socialism. Promulgating a martial law order, General Ziaur Rahman removed secularism and put above the preamble words which read, "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful", and inserted within it a pledge "in the name of almighty Allah." Socialism was replaced by the innocuous idea of 'economic and social justice.' The amended constitution negated Bengali nationalism by introducing Bangladeshi nationalism in its place. Clearly, the purpose was not to widen the definition of nationalism to include the small nationalities to which recognition has been denied in the constitution, but to do away with the idea that the Bengalis are a nation. Not satisfied even with that, General Ershad went to the extent of introducing Islam as the state religion.
It is not without significance that what was called 'a historical struggle for national liberation in the original document has been changed by Ziaur Rahman's decree into 'historical war for national independence,' suggesting that we fought for political independence and not for social liberation. There is absolutely no reason to doubt that those who made the alteration were unaware of the difference between independence and liberation. They wanted to make us forget that we had fought not for another independence of the 1947 type, but for emancipation of the people through a total transformation of society. What these anti-people elements wanted was not a secular state and a democratic society but a smaller edition of what was once known as Pakistan.
Even bourgeois democracy, not to speak of the one of socialist dispensation, demands as its first requisite secularism, meaning, as it does, complete separation between state and religion; and that exactly is what has been denied to us by the rulers who commandeered the state after August 1975. What surprises us is that the Awami League, which had provided leadership in the war of liberation, has found it convenient to remain silent on the question, giving us the impression that it does not consider the restoration of secularism to be an important issue. Even in a land where corruption and crime are being committed everywhere and every day, a more grievous crime than the removal of secularism from the constitution would be difficult to find. The action has not harmed any particular person, group or institution but has struck at the very foundations of the state which had been founded on the rejection of the non-secular two-nation theory on which Pakistan had based itself.
That Pakistan was a curse and a nightmare has been made obvious to those who are now living in that broken political state. We have all sympathy for them in their suffering. We ourselves came to the knowledge about the monstrous character of that state as early as 1952, having paid much too much in terms of blood and tears for allowing ourselves to be led into voting for it in 1946 by our leaders. M. A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had himself realized the mistake he had made even before the state was set up and had discarded the two-nation theory at the first opportunity that came to him, namely, the occasion to speak before the constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947.
Looking at the happenings in Bangladesh since August 1975 from a slightly different perspective, one could say that the progress we are supposed to have made amounted really to a widening of the road for capitalism to flourish. The collective dream of liberation was for the establishment of democracy in the country, and it has to be admitted that there is not much of a difference between proper democracy and socialism. That collective dream has been shattered, to be replaced by one of personal aggrandizement. This change has been hastened by the despicably heinous act of the assassins of August 15. Today the people at large are paying for the prosperity of a few. And, very naturally, mainstream politics has become a shameless game of plunder in which the ruling class, the members of which are related to one another by social and even family ties, has engaged in cut-throat competition for the acquisition of money and power.
But mere mourning would not do. It may prove to be counterproductive, creating despair. What we have to undertake is the continuation of the struggle to achieve the realization of the collective dream of a social revolution. To give up the struggle would be to degrade ourselves further than we have already done.
Author : Serajul Islam Choudhury, Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury is a reputed academic, writer and commentator on social and political issues
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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib speaks on March 7 of 1971
Bangladesh, Bangabandhu and the story that preoccupied him for years
The atonement still goes on Bangabandhu with parents
BANGLADESH: Mujib's Road from Prison to Power
Political Profile of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Government's Education Secretary Michael Gove. The new history curriculum for schools has been hotly contested and the Minister explains his views on whether facts and dates trump historical analysis. He's joined by Margaret MacMillan who will present a real-time countdown to the outbreak of WWI in the coming year, the academic and tv historian Simon Schama, and Tom Holland who has recently translated Herodotus, considered to be 'the Father of History'.
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Dorset Live started off in 2012, when its founder Marty Caine decided that something needed to be done to help keep entertainment alive in Dorset. Having worked in entertainment for many years he saw the entertainment industry start to decline, with venues closing and others struggling to stay afloat. He started to look towards social media as a means of promoting entertainment in Dorset. Creating various Dorset Live accounts on various platforms, he soon saw his following grow. Especially on Twitter, where Dorset live now has over 9,000 followers, mainly in Dorset.
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Review: Augury - Concealed
www.augurymetal.com
Label: Sonic Unyon Metal
Originally released in: 2004
Review online: February 8, 2011
Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible
Rated 4/5 (80%) (14 Votes)
This is a reissue of this Canadian band's debut album from six or seven years ago. Augury have hit the big time with a Nuclear Blast contract and strong reviews, and so I suppose there is demand for this. When I hear "progressive" uttered in the same sentence as "Death Metal" my eyes start rolling, but there are some good bands in this genre, so I'll always give a listen. This is a lot less tight and dense than stuff like Decrepit Birth or Origin, though it is plenty dense, it just has a looser feel that comes off more as richness than simply being overloaded. There is a minimum of jazz influence here, which is good, and the melodies are sometimes quite beautiful. Augury never neglect the heaviness though, and this is a brutal, in-your-face album with a lot of aggression wrapped around the sometimes delicate lead work.
If there is one thing I wish this band did not do, it's their gimmick of sometimes having a soprano double up with the growling vocals. It's meant to add an otherworldy feel and leaven the heaviness, but it doesn't really fit and is just distracting. Fortunately they don't do it to excess, so don't let the first track fool you. They also bring in some clean-ish vocals here and there that I just don't like but again, not too much. Overall this is a dense and layered album that rewards repeated listens. A feast for Tech Death fans and a reissue that is actually warranted.
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Senator Rand Paul calls out Anthony Fauci and his "Theater" over Masks
March 19, 2021: In an era where the gullible members of society make heroes and demi-gods out of political and media frauds like "Dr" Anthony Fauci, it is refreshing to see credible authorities like Senator Rand Paul call out and expose self-serving hacks like Fauci. For anyone who has not seen the exchange between Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci during the March 18 Senate Health Hearing, treat yourself to watching someone finally grill Fauci on his "flip-flopping" propaganda and obnoxious Covid "theater" on display over the past year (a simple search will give you access to the video coverage of their exchange during yesterday's March 18 Senate Hearing). The conclusion is that a rat like Fauci was finally cornered and exposed by someone who has authentic and current medical and health credentials (Rand Paul) and the integrity and courage to shed much needed light on Fauci, the WHO, and egregiously politicized public health policy.
Senator Paul continued to challenge Fauci (Director of NIAID) and his tendency to engage in political "theater" by asking Americans to continue wearing masks after they have been vaccinated for Covid-19. According to Paul, "The science of vaccines is that when you get an infection, or you get the vaccination you develop immunity and yet (he) keeps moving the goalposts and saying well you might get this variant from South Africa." (Newsmax - Sandy Fitzgerald; March 19, 2021) Fauci, who is Biden's chief medical adviser and has led the NIAID for 40 years in what appears to be a permanent appointment, continues to wear masks despite being Covid vaccinated – all this to bolster his argument for indefinite mask-wearing by everyone, vaccinated or not. Rand Paul struck a nerved with Fauci when he posed these two questions, "What studies do you have that people that have had the vaccine or have had the infection are spreading the infection?" If we are not spreading the infection, isn't it just theater?" Fauci, in what has become a pattern of displaying a hot temper whenever challenged, snapped back at Paul by saying, "when you talk about reinfection and you don't keep in the concept of variants, that's an entirely different ballgame. That's a good reason for a mask." Of course, Fauci failed to back any science or data to support this vague response.
When asked to elaborate on his Senate Hearing concerns today, Rand Paul said, "My point to him [Fauci] is, show us the evidence. Show us the scientific evidence that people who have already had Covid or people that have already gotten the vaccine are getting it again." Rand Paul went on to note that the science of vaccines comes from the basis of when one gets an infection or a vaccination, that person develops immunity. In Paul's words,
"Yet he [Fauci] is moving the goal post and saying well, you might get this variant from South Africa. My point to him is to show us the evidence. Show us the scientific evidence that people who have already had Covid or people who have already had the vaccine are getting it again. If they're getting it in large numbers and getting ill and going to the hospital and dying, we should know that, but it's not true. It's his conjecture." (Newsmax - Sandy Fitzgerald; March 19, 2021)
Under that reasoning, Paul cleverly added, that this is like saying "well, we might get the Spanish flu, so maybe we should wear the mask until the Spanish flu comes back. It's a ridiculous notion not based on science, and what he is doing is pure theater and it goes against the science of vaccines." Paul emphatically pointed out that once you get Covid-19 you can not get it again. Rand Paul concluded by saying, "He [Fauci] is wearing a mask because it's one of his noble lies to convince everybody to wear masks, but it's not true. If you've been vaccinated or have had the infection, you don't need to wear a mask."
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Q: Best way for client to retrieve chat messages from server? I'm building a chat application with JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL and PHP, and I'm just wondering what is the best way for the client to retrieve chat messages from the server? My current potential candidates are Polling, Long Polling, HTML5 Server-Sent Events (EventSource), and WebSockets. Which of these would be the fastest (instantaneous messages) and most efficient method (explain why too if possible)? Or if there a better way to do this, please detail it in the answer.
Additionally, I've also looked at Node.js + Socket.IO, but the documentation and sample code I found for those did not make a drop of sense to me.
Finally, I'm using XAMPP as my local server and MySQL as my database for this application.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: Coincidentally, your listed options are listed in order of efficiency, from least to most.
Polling is the least efficient. It will poll whether there are messages or not and it introduces a latency between a message being sent and received by other clients.
Long polling is better; then you can get the message when it's sent, but then there might be a slight delay in reconnecting. During that delay, messages will not be delivered, but otherwise, it's practically instantaneous.
COMET (not mentioned) is better than long polling, but worse than Server-Sent Events. It, too, must occasionally reconnect due to most web servers and browsers having timeouts on connections, but connections need not be re-established whenever a message is sent. Like long polling, there might be a delay while reconnecting, but otherwise, it's usually instantaneous.
Server-Sent Events are similar to COMET, but when not shimmed, it has native support from the browser, so it can bypass the timeout limitations and only needs to make one connection over its lifetime (as long as the connection isn't broken). Another advantage is that it automatically reconnects if the connection is broken without any client-side code needed on your part. This is instantaneous.
WebSockets are by far the best out of all of those options; it only needs one connection, and it's duplex: not only can you receive messages through it, but you can also send messages through it rather than needing to connect to the server separately every time you want to send a message. Unlike Server-Sent Events, it does require some more code: it does not automatically reconnect if a connection is broken and server-side implementations are typically more complex. I'm also not sure if you can use it with Apache/XAMPP. This is instantaneous.
Socket.io is a library that supports (almost?) all of these and some more (e.g., Flash sockets) and abstracts it behind a nice API, so you don't have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of browser support for each of them. It is as fast as the transport it chooses to use, which depends on the browser it's running on. It also can cut down on the amount of code you have to write. However, if it's too complex for you and you don't care about older browsers, it is certainly not necessary. Additionally, it really likes to be run on its own. You might be able to get XAMPP to proxy to it, but again, I don't know if Apache can be configured to forward WebSockets to it.

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IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS : 2010
New Booking Office opened at Akola at North side on 1st January 2010 to issue un-reserved tickets through UTS.
Two Intermediate Block Home Signals have been commissioned in BGN-KTP and KTP-MZR sections on 20/2/2010 and 22/2/2010 respectively.
New Foot Over Bridge have been commissioned at Nagardeola, Kajgaon and Paras in Feb'10.
FOIS terminal has been commissioned in Badnera Yard in March'10.
IBH commissioned in YAD-BGN block section on 17/3/2010.
With the commissioning of ROB, L/C Gate No. 04 in MZR-YTL NG section at Kms 624/0-1 between Murtizapur Town-Kinkhed stations closed for road traffic from 12/4/2010.
With the commissioning of ROB, L/C Gate No. 21/B in CSN-DHI section at Kms 382/1 closed for road traffic from 18/4/2010.
RMS (Rake Management System) commissioned at Malkapur Goods Shed on 29/04/2010.
RMS (Rake Management System) commissioned at Khamgaon Goods Shed on 30/04/2010.
TMS commissioned at Dhule Goods Shed on 5/5/2010.
JTBS (Janasadharan Ticket Booking System) commissioned at Shegaon on 6/6/2010.
Niphad – 1st FOB launched in June'10.
Raver-Rail level Platform raised to high level to accommodate 24-coach trains on 1/7/2010.
SMS Inquiry 'Alert-cum-Grievance System' introduced on the division on 8/7/2010.
Terminal Management System (TMS) commissioned at Inland Container Depot Bhusaval on 19/7/2010.
Train Management System (TMS) commissioned at Goods Shed, Bhusaval on 9/8/2010.
Level Crossing No. 21/B of Dhule station closed to road traffic on 30/8/2010, as ROB provided & became functional.
Terminal Management System (TMS) commissioned at GDSG Manmad on 25/9/2010.
Train Management System (TMS) commissioned at FCI Siding, Manmad and Gaigaon stations on 25/10/2010.
Level Crossing Gate No. 98 between NR-KBSN stations interlocked on 2/11/2010.
Video Conferencing between DRM & GM facility provided on 15/11/2010.
IPScommissioned at 05 locations i.e. LC-32, LC-115/B, KUM-B, KUM-A & PNV-B in Dec'10.
Tohave quick communication, 1106 Nos CUG mobile SIM cards provided to Loco Pilots & Guards in Dec'10.
ØBHUSAVAL division has a route kilometer of 740 Kms. on B.G. & 244 Kms. on N.G. and is at the heart of Railway operations of Central Railway due to its location.The division is also connected with Western Railway at Jalgaon& Khandwa, with South Central Railway at Akola, Khandwa and Manmad and with W.C.Rly. at Khandwa.
ØThe Division is divided into three main sections viz. Bhusaval-Igatpuri, Bhusaval-Khandwa and Bhusaval-Badnera sections.All the trains are worked with AC/Diesel traction.
ØBHUSAVAL Division deals mostly with through traffic and has to function as a buffer Division as it is required to regulate the traffic as per the needs of adjoining Divisions in the event of any operating problems. BHUSAVAL Division has to undertake the job of speedy movement of Box, Jumbo and Oil tank rakes for timely feeding to Power plants, Goods sheds and Oil depots.
ØThe Division falls in the jurisdiction of two states namely, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. It serves the Civil Districts of Nasik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Buldhana (Malkapur), Akola, Amravati and Yeotmal in Maharashtra. In Madhya Pradesh it serves Khandwa and Burhanpur Districts. The Divisional Commissioners are located at Nasik and Amravati.
ØThree Major powerhouses at Nasik (5 units with total Capacity 910 MW having Coal Consumption of 13,000 MT/day), BHUSAVAL (3 units with total Capacity 482.5 MW having Coal Consumption of 7,200 MT/day) and Paras (One unit with total Capacity 62.5 MW having Coal Consumption of 950 MT/day) are situated within the Division. Consistent flow of coal rakes has to be maintained for the powerhouses. Coal traffic for some powerhouses in Gujarat also passes through BHUSAVAL Division.
ØThe Division deals with outward traffic of POL, Onions, Sugar, Food grains, De-Oiled Cakes, Grains & Pulses. The revenue earning traffic of Raw Plantain, Coaching rated Grape traffic and Military / Ordnance traffic from Devlali, Nasik and Bhusaval are also handled.The important goods sheds on the Division are Nasik, Manmad, Nandgaon, Dhule, Jalgaon, Akola, Khamgaon, Badnera and Khandwa.
ØBHUSAVAL Division has undulating gradient in all the three sections. Loaded stock of 40 BCN with WAG-5 and 58 BOXN with WAG-7 locomotive requires banking in:
§BSL-KNW section between NPNR to DGN (19.33 Kms) due to risinggradient of 1 in 110.
§KNW-BSL section between KNW to DGN (23.21 Kms) due to rising gradient of 1 in 150.
§BSL–BD section between VNA to BDWD (18.27 Kms) due to rising gradient of 1 in 132.
§BSL–IGP section between NGN – SUM (36 Kms) due to rising gradient of 1 in 150 provided train shall run through at KJ, VGL, CSN, HPR, NI and PKE stations.Otherwise, banking is required to be done right from KJ to SUM(97 Kms).
§IGP–BSL section between IGP to AV (24.96 Kms) due to rising gradient of 1 in 110.
§Loaded stock of 40 BCN/BCX with single WDM-2 and 58 BOXN with Multiple WDM-2 locomotive requires banking in MMR–ANK section between MMR to ANK (13.11 Kms) due to rising gradient of 1 in 100.