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History of the Somnath Temple - 2
Vishwanath Chandrashekara
Describing the situation in India after Mahmud Ghazni's military expedition, Alberuni says, "Mahmud destroyed the wealth of India. The scars of this attack couldn't be erased in the minds of people of India. The people of India developed enmity towards Muslims"
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Bhimadeva
Bhimadeva of Anhilawada continued to rule large parts of Gujarat after the re-treat of Ghazni army. He reconstructed the temple at Somnath such that worship of Shiva could continue at the site. The death of Raja Bhoja in 1055 CE led to political instability in central India. Bhimadeva and Raja Karna of the Chedi dynasty attacked Malwa soon after the death of Raja Bhoja and ensured that Jayasimha, the successor of Bhoja at Ujjaini had to step down. After this, while parts of Gujarat were governed well, Malwa was neglected. The combined armies of Malwa under the leadership of commander Lakshmanadeva attacked Gujarat, which led to political instability in central India.
Bhimadeva's grandson Siddharaja (also famous as Jayasimha) became the king of Anhilawada in 1096 CE. He started to develop areas which had suffered due to conflict with Malwa. Siddharaja encouraged art, literature and other aspects of culture. It is during his time that Anhilawada became noted for cultural aspects. Even after 900 years since his rule, there are hundreds of folk songs in Gujarat that describe his achievements. Siddharaja won over Malwa and shifted the library of Raja Bhoja to Anhilawada. Siddharaja met Bhavabrhaspati at Ujjaini and requested him to come to Somnath and lead the revival of the Somnath temple. Bhavabrhaspati was a well-known scholar of the Pashupatha Sect. Somnath was restored as a center of learning, trade, and religious activities. During the reign of Siddharaja, Gujarat also made huge strides as a state. After the death of Siddharaja in 1144 CE, Kumarapala, most influential among subordinate rulers of Siddharaja, became the ruler since Siddharaja didn't have any sons who could have become the natural choice for kingship. Kumarapala chose the Jain way of life due to the influence of the poet friend Hemachandra but continued to worship Somnath.
In 1164 CE, Bhavabrhaspathi requested Kumarapala to rebuild the Somnath temple. Bhavabrhaspati was given complete responsibility to supervise the rebuilding of the temple. Bhavabrhaspati not only rebuilt the temple but also secured the town by building a fort on the boundary of the town. He also built temples for Parvati (remains of this temple can be seen on the north-west corner of present day Somnath temple), Bhimeshvara and Siddheshvara. The temple complex of Somnath was expanded and a huge sabha mantapa, tank were also built. The shivalinga was about three times the height of a normal person. It is this temple structure which existed in a hopeless state when Sardar Patel initiated rebuilding of the temple in 1947.
Bhimadeva II
In 1178 CE, Bhimadeva II of the Solanki dynasty ascended the throne in Anhilawada. During his reign Mohammed Ghori, attacked Gujarat but had to return with major losses. After winning the second battle of Tarain in 1192, he installed his commander Qutb-ud-din Aibak as the ruler of Delhi. In 1197, Aibak attacked Anhilawada and captured it. But this victory was short-lived; withing months, Bhimadeva won back the areas captured by Aibak and was given the title 'Abhinava Siddharaja' by the people.
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Sculpture of Varaha at Rani ki Vav
During a visit to Somnath, Bhimadeva met Chauladevi, a dancer. Bhimadeva married Chauladevi and took her to Anhilawada. But Chauladevi was an ardent worshiper of Somnath and she didn't enjoy her days at Anhilawada. She was depressed that she couldn't worship and dance in front of Somnath. Realizing this, Bhimdeva built a megha-mantapa at Somnath attached to the temple to please his wife. Legend says that Chauladevi left Anhilawada to Somnath and spent the rest of her life in worship of Somnath. Bhimadeva built many monuments which carry great architectural value. The stepped well called 'Rani ki Vav' in Anhilawada and the Sun Temple at Modhera were built during Bhimadeva's reign.
After Bhimadeva's death, commander Visaladeva united all the forces of Gurjara and became the ruler. He ruled from about 1247 to 1262. His son Arjunadeva ascended the throne in 1262 and ruled till 1274. The Veraval inscription of 1264 CE describes the rule of Arjunadeva. It also states that during this time Amir Rukunadin was ruling the Arab coast. Nora-din Feroz, a trader, with the blessings of the pashupatacharya of Somnath, built a small masjid on the outskirts of Somnath. Ironically, during the same time the Muslim rulers of North India were ransacking temples and building mosques over it. Arjunadeva started a school for higher education at Somnath called 'Sarasvat Sadas' and also built a sports complex called as 'Sarasvat Kridaketan.'
Rise of the Khiljis
In 1290, the Khilji dynasty came to power in Delhi. In 1292 CE, Ala-ud-din Khilji attacked town of Bhilsa (now called as Vidisha in MP) and looted the temples there. During this time Karnadeva was ruling over Gujarat. There is historical evidence to show that Madhava, the prime-minister of Karnadeva invited Ala-ud-din Khilji to Gujarat. This episode has been documented by Merutunga in his Prabanda Chintamani and Jinaprabha Suri in his work Tirthakalpataru. Madhava assumed charge of the Muslim army and attacked Anhilawada. Alaf Khan, the commander of Khilji occupied Anhilawada. They continued to loot other towns like Surat and Randhar and returned towards Somnath along the coast. Meanwhile, the Rajputs put up a brave fight to defend Somnath but the Khilji army captured the fort of Somnath. Khilji broke the linga into pieces and sent it to Delhi. Madhava was also killed by Alaf Khan since his utility was over. All through the way back to Delhi, Khilji's army indulged in forced conversions and took thousands as slaves to Delhi.
Khangara, the king of Junagadh, renovated the temple and re-installed the linga at Somnath c. 1351. Somnath continued to be ruled by kings from Delhi. In 1393, Zafar Khan, Thuglaq's governor to Gujarat, destroyed the temple that had been renovated fifty years earlier. After the fall of Thuglaq dynasty, the governor of Gujarat became independent and called himself 'sultan.' Zafar Khan killed his son to become the 'sultan,' but was poisoned by his grandson Ahmed Shah. Ahmed Shah changed the capital from Anhilawada to Karnavati and named it as Ahmedabad. He captured the whole of Gujarat and brought it under Islamic rule. He also defeated the kingdom of Junagadh, which was the only Hindu kingdom left. In 1459, his thirteen-year-old grandson became the sultan with the name Mohammed Begada. In 1467, Begada defeated Mandalika of Junagadh but the latter continued to worship Somnath. Enraged by the continuing worship of Somnath, Begada attacked Junagadh and defeated Mandalika in 1469. Mandalika converted to Islam after his defeat. Begada threw away the linga at Somnath and converted it into a masjid. Most of the Islamic architecture into the structure was added during this period. Due to the constant threat looming at Somnath, the trade also went down and as did the glory of the town. Surat became the alternative coastal city for trade and commerce.
Resurgence of Somnath
In the early 16th century, the temple was raised by the people of Somnath so as to mask the tomb of the masjid. Regular worship of Somnath resumed after a gap of about 150 years. The political situation in Gujarat became unstable and in 1573, the Moghul emperor Akbar captured Gujarat and added it into his empire. The worship of Shiva continued even when Akbar's rule extended to Somnath.
In 1675, Aurangezeb ordered Mohamed Azam, the governor of Gujarat, to damage the Somnath temple in order that it could not be renovated and used for Hindu worship. The Marathas exerted pressure on the Moghuls in late 17th and early 18th century. Aurangzeb destroyed the temple structure at Somnath in 1706. But Damji Gaikwad captured Somnath subsequently. The temple structure had become weak so the worship started in a small temple just outside the town. The Marathas continued to weaken the Moghul forces and finally captured whole of Gujarat in 1759.
In 1783, the Rani of Indore, Ahaliyabai Holkar visited Somnath. She was depressed at the state of the temple structure at Somnath. Since the temple was not fit to use, she built a temple just a few meters away, which stands to even this day. To avoid the chances of the linga being broken down, Ahilyabai installed the linga in a cellar on which the temple was built. In 1800, the whole of Saurashtra came under the Gaikwads of Baroda. The Gaikwad dynasty continued to worship Somnath. But in 1820, Jungadh fell into the hands of British and the Nawab of Junagadh pursued the British to levy tax on visitors to Somnath. The Gaikwads of Baroda protested this move and the British recalled the tax.
Sardar Patel vows to rebuild the Somnath temple
In 1947, after India secured independence from British, the Nawab of Junagadh wanted to accede to Pakistan. He announced that Junagadh will secede to Pakistan on 15 September 1947. But the 82% majority of non-Muslim population wanted to align with India. The Nawab started to intimidate people by violent methods. Eminent people of Junagadh state under the leadership of Shyamal Das Gandhi, Durlab Keshav Khaitani, Bhavani Shankar Ojha, Surag Bhai Varu, Manilal Doshi, and Narendra Nathwani formed a interim government, and declared that they will align with India.
Taking a cue from the situation, the Nawab escaped to Pakistan and asked his dewan, Shah Nawab Bhutto (the father of Zulfiqur Ali Bhutto) to look after the affairs of Junagadh. Realizing the the situation had grown out of hand, Bhutto wrote a letter to the commissioner of the Indian Government in Junagadh to make arrangements for India to take over Jungadh. On the day of Dipavali in 1947, Sardar Patel, Jam Saheb, and Kaka Saheb Gadgil went to Junagadh along with the army. The people of Junagadh welcomed the Indian Army and Junagadh was added into Indian State. On kartika shuddha padya, Sardar Patel visited Somnath and was moved by the state of the temple. He along with Jam Saheb, went to the sea shore, took the water of sea in his hand as the witness to his oath and promised that he would rebuild the Somnath temple.
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Q: junk value while reading in file.(Suspected junk value seems to be the word TextView) This was just a simple program to create a diary of sorts. While reading from the file junk value of TextView(suspected) is present before the recorded text.None of the toasts show any junk. Help please
I'm getting an error while reading from this class
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JAMB Fixes 2017/2018 Admission Cut-off Marks
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Senator Iroegbu in Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday fixed the cut-off marks for admission into higher institutions of learning in the country for the 2017/2018 academic session.
At a policy meeting held with the heads of institutions and other education regulatory bodies in Abuja, the examination body ratified 120 as the minimum mark for degree-awarding institutions.
The meeting at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja, had in attendance vice chancellors, Rectors, Provosts and Registrars of tertiary institutions.
For the polytechnics, the lowest mark that qualifies a candidate for admission is 100, while the highest that an institution can fix is 180. Same mark applies to Colleges of Education.
The admission cut-off mark for Innovative Enterprise Institutions ranges between 110 and 120.
Leading heads of institutions in attendance to agree on the marks, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, said the newly agreed marks would over-ride the previous marks submitted by the institutions.
Oloyede warned that the Board would not allow any institution to go below the ratified marks in their admission process.
He, however, said the reduction in the 2017/2018 admission cut-off marks does not portend any danger for education standard and does not translate to a fall in education standard.
The JAMB registrar said the decisions on first choice candidates by universities would end on October 15, while the second choice candidates would end on December 15; after which the remaining students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the January closing date.
He disclosed that a Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) would be used to streamline admission processes among institutions, as it addresses challenges associated with the former approach.
He said: "We should not be sentimental in fixing our cut-off mark; we need not over-dramatise issue of cut-off mark.
"In order to enhance transparency, no automated admission for those without the necessary requirements will be tolerated."
Speaking further, Oloyede said the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has reabsorbed the conduct of Post-UTME examination as a prerequisite for admission into tertiary institutions.
According to him, the cancellation of post-UTME was a mistake, urging JAMB to ensure that fee for the examination should not exceed N2,000.
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Pole banners can be used to decorate for Advent! Pole banners can be displayed in front of your church to celebrate Advent. You can display messages like " Hope, Peace, Love, Joy" and other praise messaging.
We have templates available for you to customize in the online designer. You can choose from our backgrounds, and clip art images. You can also add text and upload your own images in the online designer. You can also upload your own print ready files, or have one of our graphic designers create your artwork for you.


$10 per person (minimum of 2 people and maximum of 5 people per group).
If you arrive on the day of the program with extra people in your group that are not included in your registration, you will need to pay for them prior to starting the program.
Registration closes at 5pm on Friday, April 19 or when the session is full.


Bisphosphocins have the potential to save billions of dollars in hospital stays and lengthy treatments versus conventional standard of care antibiotics.
Bisphosphocins directly disrupt microbial cell membranes, leading to fast and safe eradication of infections.
Our novel approach is to treat locally, administering highly-effective bisphosphocins directly at the site of infection.
With over 100 years of combined pharmaceutical industry experience, our leadership team has the expertise to efficiently bring bisphosphocins to market.
A rapid and safe topical bactericide and fungicide has the potential to save millions of lives.
Bisphosphocins rapidly kill bacteria and fungi by depolarizing microbial cell membranes, leading to cell death within minutes.
SNNLive spoke with Steve Parkinson, President and CEO of Lakewood-Amedex, Inc., a private company, at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2018 in New York City, NY.
Steve Parkinson, President and CEO of Lakewood-Amedex (a privately-held, clinical stage pharmaceutical company), discusses their development of a broad portfolio of first-in-class antimicrobial and antifungal therapeutics called bisphosphocins™.


text:
#import "DebuggerTextField.h"

@implementation DebuggerTextField

- (void) additionalInitStuff
{
    history = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    historyPosition = -1;
}

- (id) initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frameRect];
    if (!self) return NULL;

    [self additionalInitStuff];

    return self;
}

- (id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder
{
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
    if (!self) return NULL;

    [self additionalInitStuff];

    return self;
}

- (BOOL)textView:(NSTextView *)aTextView doCommandBySelector: (SEL)aSelector
{
    return [self tryToPerform:aSelector with:aTextView];
}

- (void) addToHistory:(NSString*)script
{
    [history addObject:script];
    historyPosition = [history count];
}

- (void)moveUp:(id)sender
{
    historyPosition -= 1;
    if (historyPosition < 0)
    {
        historyPosition = 0;
        return;
    }

    [self setStringValue:[history objectAtIndex:historyPosition]];

    NSLog(@"setStringValue: %@ pos: %d", [history objectAtIndex:historyPosition], historyPosition);

}

- (void)moveDown:(id)sender
{
    historyPosition += 1;

    if (historyPosition >= [history count])
    {
        [self setStringValue:@""];
        historyPosition = [history count];
        return;
    }

    [self setStringValue:[history objectAtIndex:historyPosition]];

    NSLog(@"setStringValue: %@ pos: %D", [history objectAtIndex:historyPosition], historyPosition);
}

- (void)dealloc
{
    [history release];
    [super dealloc];
}

@end

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Q: Listing objects by date So, I have a list of objects, it looks like this:
ID    Date

1     15/11/2009
2     11/06/2010
3     11/09/2015
4     12/08/2013
5     09/08/2011
6     11/10/2012
7     11/10/2014

Now, I want to sort that list of objects by its date. I have tried sorted(list,key=lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%m-%Y')), tried list.sort(), tried all kind of different things, but it simply doesnt sort.
Can somebody help me?
Object looks like this:
class X:

    id = None
    date = None

    def __init_(self, id, date):
        self.id = id

A: According to the list, the date input format is: dd/mm/yyy so the strptime method expects the format argument to match the input, therefore '%d/%m/%Y' should be passed to strptime.  Note: capital %Y expects yyyy and lower-case %y expects yy.
Hope this helps!
Try this:
import datetime
dates = ['15/11/2009',
     '11/06/2010',
     '11/09/2015',
     '12/08/2013',
     '09/08/2011',
     '11/10/2012',
     '11/10/2014']

sorted_dates = sorted(dates, key=lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%d/%m/%Y'))
#This just print the dates for verification
for v in sorted_dates:
    print(v)

A: Assuming your list looks something like this:
objects = [
   (1, datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 13, 0, 0)),
   (2, datetime.datetime(1992, 4, 29, 0, 0)),
   (3, datetime.datetime(2001, 5, 23, 0, 0))]

You should be able to use the seconds of a datetime.timedelta to write a comparison function:
def cmp_objects(tuple_a, tuple_b):
    t_delta = tuple_a[1] - tuple_b[1]
    return int(t_delta.total_seconds())

sorted_objects = sorted(objects, cmp_objects)

I believe the main issue you were running into is that comparisons of tuples or (date) strings is handled lexicographically (alphabetical) but you would prefer a numerical comparison. The cmp_objects function references the datetime object stored in your tuple, then does math to compare two dates as integers.


Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) campaigns are an integral to your online marketing strategy. With the majority clicks coming from organic listings, it's imperative that you're ranking highly on Google for your business to thrive.
Who can benefit from SEO Training?
The beginner course is designed for those who have zero or limited understanding of Search Engine Optimisation. We will give you training with the goal of giving you the knowledge and confidence to begin work on your own SEO campaigns. From set up to management, to analysis and improvement, we will teach you the basics to allow you to start ranking on Google search terms.
To attend the course, it's important for you to have a decent level of computer knowledge and a solid understanding of how the web works. SEO, even in its basic form isn't child's play. The course is aimed at business owners looking to gain a experience in the workings of the digital world to help them improve their business, or to professionals looking to begin their career in Digital Marketing. If team training is required, a maximum of 10 people can join the beginner course at one time.
SEO must haves – What is required for a successful SEO campaign?
The importance of strong content – What is it and what must it contain?
The cornerstones of SEO – How does Google rank my website?
The Advanced course is designed for those who are already adapt and running SEO campaigns who are looking to upskill and improve their knowledge of how to achieve better ranking results. Digital Ethos only employees the best in the industry, so you can rest assured you will gain significant insight to either further your career in digital marketing or to improve your business' ranking results. For team training, up to 6 people can join the training at one time.
The advanced course is targeted at marketing or web managers who already have significant experience of implementing SEO campaigns. Likewise, if you have attended several of our beginner courses you are welcome to attend this higher level course and will advise this to you should you have reached the level of competency required.
Improve your analytic capabilities to understand the pitfalls in your current campaigns. This is essential to make the marginal gains necessary to climb to the very top of the organic rankings.


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Put together some pipes - pronto!
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Q: Network interface with unknown speed When I try to print the maximal throughput of my network interface, I receive an error:
$ cat /sys/class/net/<interface>/speed
cat: /sys/class/net/<interface>/speed: Invalid argument

response. According to my investigation, this attribute is only valid for interfaces that implement ethtool get_link_ksettings method (source).
My goal is to calculate network utilization for each interface by fetching the sent and received number of bytes each second (parsing the /proc/net/dev pseudo-file) and then using throughput to calculate percentage of utilization. I am doing this in C, so max throughput is obtained via ioctl() function that is unable to succeed for interfaces with unknown speed.
Is there a way how I can obtain the speed attribute in some other way? The simplest solution I was able to come up with is to say that the default speed of an interface is standard 10Mbps and if the utilization is over 100%, I can step the max speed up to the next standard speed of 1000Mbps and so on for 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps and 10Gbps. This could somehow work, but it may get broken with bundled interfaces utilizing non-standard speeds, e.g., two 1Gbps cards bundled into one 2Gbps. Bundled interfaces are not a big concern for me, but having general solution would be awesome.


Ocasio-Cortez focused in on this plan during a Climate Change Town Hall hosted by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Promoting "economic and environmental justice and equality"
A 15-person select committee tasked with creating the plan must do so by the start of 2020. The committee has 90 days to finish the plan's draft legislation after creating the plan, with a cutoff of March 1, 2020.
Once the plan is in motion, its objectives are set to be completed in 10 years.
Exporting green technology and knowledge, eventually aiding other nations in becoming "greenhouse gas neutral economies"
The plan calls for the committee to develop the plan and create draft legislation pertaining to its enactment. The committee can conduct studies and gather other relevant information, and — if it chooses —report findings to the U.S. House.
The outline for the plan details the impact it can have on the nation's economy, describing it as "a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation."
Offering programs to benefit employees, including health care, "to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism"


In today's post, we will concentrate on critical behaviors that impact oral health. Of course, effective brushing and flossing are two vital habits for healthy teeth, but there are many more things we can do to keep a healthy smile.
Do eat a nutritious diet with a variety of foods. This is necessary for overall physical health and a strong immune system.
Don't eat sugary foods. Sugar triggers the production of detrimental cavity-causing acids that weaken enamel and lead to cavities.
Don't snack throughout the day. This revs up plaque production and subjects the teeth to continual contact with acids.
Don't drink energy drinks. They have many substances that are dangerous to teeth.
If you have children, talk to Dentist Mandelaris about water fluoridation. If your municipal water supply is not fluoridated, you may want to give your kids fluoride supplements.
We encourage all of our patients to maintain a lifestyle that advances dental health as well as overall physical health. At Aloha Dental, we serve the West Valley area with exceptional dental care including general and cosmetic dentistry. Ask us about Oral hygiene, Pediatrics, Orthodontics and Oral surgery.


The President Pro Tempore is Ted Stevens. He is the senior senator for Alaska. He is third in the succession line to become president, after George Bush and Richard Cheney. He is in the federal level of the legislative branch. He is a Republican and has been in the Senate for 36 years.


Science fiction and confusion often go hand in hand, but Ergo Proxy is close to reaching the kinds of befuddling heights scaled only by behemoths like Mamoru Oshii. The dialogue, the action and even the damn visuals are so frustratingly cryptic and symbolic that only vaguely am I able to follow what is going on here – not that this is a bad thing, though certainly the viewer should be in the right (preferably coffee induced) frame of mind to get the most out of Ergo Proxy; just don't expect answers, only more questions.
My real concern (no pun intended) is that this series severely lacks in compelling human qualities; the similarly bleak cyberpunk thriller Texhnolyze was hardly easy to follow, but at least it introduced us to a cast of interesting, dramatic human characters. Ergo Proxy has Real and that's it- her predictable resurrection from murder is a godsend in that she is the only character in this show that I can empathise with, the rest are emotionless shells; proxies for Dai Sato's high brow musings.
The truly great aspect of Ergo Proxy is its dark dystopian vision and pondering philosophy; I can see myself enjoying it much more once a few of the big questions have been answered and I'm able to just sit back and let the atmosphere wash over me. I love that this series has vastly decaying landscapes, a sophisticated and mature theme with proper adult characters and a really unique animation style that takes on bizarre, exciting feats of physical action when Proxies clash heads.
It's bad for your health too watch more than one episode of Ergo Proxy at one sitting. It's bad for digestion. Sometimes it might be the fault of fansubs making the show even more incomprehensible.
Yeah- more than anything the dialogue gradually wears me down; all the characters talk in such complicated, symbolic ways that it takes 100% attention to just work out what is being said, you can forget about what is on screen.
Ah yes, Dai Sato – how far has this great writer fallen?
I loved Sato's previous work on Bebop, Wolf's Rain and Champloo. But this time around it's been only mediocre at best. You've hit the nail on the head by comparing it to Texhnolyze. What's sad is that, even though Ergo Proxy has been advertised as one of the best sci-fi shows, Texhnolyze trumps it in every area, from animation to plot to characters.


One source of funding for entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their business is government grants for small businesses. Want to know more about where to start?
If you're looking for federal business grants, the best place to start is Grants.gov. This site serves as a database of all federal grants, including those that are specifically available for small business owners. To search for this type of grant, visit the official government grants website and check out their section for grant applicants to see if you're eligible. It's important to note that this database includes a variety of different types of grants, so you may need to do a little sifting through different options to find opportunities that are the most relevant to you.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is another great resource for small business owners. The SBA was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. Although the SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established, their purpose remains the same: to help American entrepreneurs start, build, and grow businesses. If you can't find any grants that fit your profile, you can see if you qualify for any of our funding programs, or schedule to meet with a counselor to talk about financing your business.
The SBA's State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) provides financial awards to state and territory governments in order to help small businesses with export development. The program's mission is to increase the number of U.S. small business exporters and their export sales. Small businesses can work directly with the state entities that receive STEP awards.
If your small business is engaged in scientific research and development, you may qualify for federal grants under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. These programs encourage small business operations to commit to scientific research that helps meet federal research and development objectives and have high potential for commercialization, if successful. The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer grant programs help connect small businesses, universities and research centers with federal grants and contracts from 12 government agencies. To qualify, you must operate a for-profit business, have no more than 500 employees, and meet other eligibility requirements relating to type, size and ownership of the business.
The Economic Development Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides grants, resources and technical assistance to communities to support economic growth and encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. In addition, each state's agency helps businesses find financing (including state or regional grants), secure locations and recruit employees. You can search for regional offices and local resources at the EDA's website.
Finally, Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) provide support for small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs. They're often associated with local universities or the state's economic development agency, and many can help connect business owners with financing opportunities, as well as mentors and networking opportunities and training on basic business skills.


In these times when we're all being defined by numbers and crunched into conformity, we still want something that expresses our own style. Something that says, "This is me." For some time, an underworld of car customization has existed. But today, it's not just low-riders and hotdoggers who want to make a personal statement. With the popularity of shows such as "American Chopper" and "Pimp My Ride," orders for custom cars and bikes have skyrocketed. Now, ATV and utility vehicle owners are just as eager to spruce up their rides.
They are beginning to appreciate their sturdy off-road vehicles - more often associated with hunting and farming - and are dreaming up ways to make them unique. Each becomes a signature piece, reflecting the taste and style of the owner. The trend, spearheaded by celebrities and sports stars, now is becoming more mainstream, according to Polaris, a leading manufacturer of ATVs and utility vehicles. The Southwest, especially California and Arizona, seems to be the hub of this new fad. Here are some of the hottest ways to customize your ride: * Flames: Since the 1950s, painted flames scorching the front and sides of hot rods have meant speed.
Today, this classic design still leads the pack. * Chrome: The luxurious Packards and Cords of the 1930s were loaded with shine and sparkle. Grills, doors - everything that could gleam, did gleam. Even now, chrome says high style. * Color-keyed rims: They would have loved this in the 1960s. Bright primaries, strong earth tones, simple neutrals -choose a color and your ride is instantly one of a kind. * Sound systems: Install one in the bed or roof. Whether your music of choice is golden oldies or heavy metal, everything will sound better. And on those camping trips when you're deprived of your usual comforts, you can still enjoy quality sound.


I am currently in my third week at my third and final Canisius internship at Righteous Babe Records here in Buffalo. Although I've only been in the office a handful of times, I am really loving it because I can already tell I am going to leave with diverse and extensive experience.
Righteous Babe Records was started by musician and Buffalo native Ani DiFranco in 1990. The offices of Righteous Babe are housed at Babeville, a beautiful converted church on Delaware Avenue. In addition to offices, Babeville boasts two concerts venues (Asbury Hall and The 9th Ward), as well as a rentable art gallery. The work I complete this semester will support both the record label and Babeville.
So far, I've completed a variety of tasks that have included writing press releases for upcoming concerts at Babeville venues, submitting show information to local event calendars, entering artist touring information into a database system, and organizing and digitizing press archives. I have also just begun a large social media project for Righteous Babe. My tasks are teaching me about so many areas, like marketing, writing, public relations, social media, how a record label functions, and how a concert venue functions. As a marketing and communication studies student with a huge passion for music and live shows, I know I'm in the right place. I've already done so much in this barely three week period, so I'm very excited what will come my way the rest of the semester.


Welcome the little one in style! Shower the parents with a gorgeous arrangement to celebrate the new addition to their growing family and to start the new life off right.
We offer New Baby flower arrangements to welcome a baby boy or girl! Send new parents your love during this exciting time with flowers from KaBloom. Our gorgeous fresh flower bouquets range from pure white, to soft pastels, to bright bursts of color! We deliver our bouquets in water to ensure freshness and increase vase life.


The first step for most individuals is the Checklist Tool. This is a screening tool to help work out whether their needs might make the individual entitled to NHS Continuing Healthcare. This will be completed by a practitioner who has suitable training. The completion of the Checklist Tool will indicate if a full assessment is required.
If the Checklist Tool suggests that there is a possibility that you might be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare a full assessment of your needs will be carried out. This information will be used to complete a Decision Support Tool. The purpose of the Tool is to help decide the nature, complexity and intensity of your needs. A recommendation will then be made to the Clinical Commissioning Group in your area as to whether you are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare.
If the completion of the Checklist Tool indicates that you do not require an assessment for NHS Continuing Healthcare you can ask the Clinical Commissioning Group to reconsider this decision. The process for doing this is included in the letter you received.
If you need an urgent package of care because of a rapidly deteriorating condition, which may be entering a terminal phase, we will use the Fast Track Tool instead of the two stage process.
An appropriate clinician will complete the assessment. If this indicates that you are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare arrangements will be made to provide care as quickly as possible.


With the most esteemed watch brands Swiss-made – including Patek Philippe, Rolex and Omega – Switzerland remains the undisputed watch capital of the world. It has been so ever since the 16th century, when brands such as Vacheron Constantin began crafting timepieces in Geneva's Vallee de Joux, which is frequently referred to as the birthplace of Swiss horology.
Hong Kong is an avid consumer of these luxury watch brands, with specialist auctioneers such as Antiquorum, as well as Sotheby's and Christie's, frequently showing its most rare and coveted lots in the city. According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH, Hong Kong recorded an upswing of more than 28 percent in 2011 for Swiss watch exports. As a result, there is a growing need for qualified watchmakers in the region to service these prestigious timepieces.
Swiss luxury goods holding company Richemont, which owns Piaget, IWC and Vacheron Constantin among others, has addressed the growing need for qualified watchmakers in the city by opening the Hong Kong Kong Institute of Swiss Watchmaking (HKIOSW) in 2009. The school is one of only three in the world, with the other two based in Dallas, in the United States, and Shanghai. Francois Bauder, Director of HKIOSW, says Hong Kong's strategic location – in the centre of East Asia – represents a hub for young professional watchmakers serving the burgeoning market for Swiss watches in the Asia Pacific. To ensure maximum attention is given to each student, the annual intake of the two-year long course is restricted to six students.
Mr Bauder believes HKIOSW graduates may even be able to challenge the expertise and long tradition associated with Swiss watchmakers by offering the best in professional watchmaking instruction. "Over the two-year course, students receive 3,000 hours worth of training. The emphasis is on hands-on experience, so there are 2,400 hours dedicated to practical training and 600 hours' worth of theory." Practical training consists of classes in micro mechanics, covering filing, sawing, drilling, heat-treating, turning and other operations necessary to manufacture parts of a watch such as a winding stem and balance staff. The theoretical element covers every aspect from materials to technical drawing.
Another institution providing watchmaking training is the Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), which offers a Higher Diploma in Horological Science and Technology at its Department of Engineering Management and Technology at the Lee Wai Lee Campus in Tseung Kwan O. "Our department has offered courses related to watch repairing since 1979, but the original courses have been gradually modified and upgraded to the current course," said Raymond Liu, Deputy Course Leader. He and one other member of the IVE team hold WOSTEP Trainer Certificates.
In addition to the Higher Diploma in Horological Science and Technology, a series of Skills Upgrading Scheme (SUS) courses and SUS-Plus courses have been offered since September 2005, all of which are supported by the Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades and Industries and the Hong Kong Watch Manufacturers Association.
"These courses are mainly related to the structure and functioning of mechanical and quartz watches and focus on those watchmaking techniques needed to repair different kinds of quartz and mechanical modules, movements and watches," he said. A Professional Diploma in Watch Repairing (QF Level 4) is under development by the department and will be introduced in September 2013, Mr Liu said. "As there is a desperate shortage of qualified watchmakers in Hong Kong to repair esteemed timepieces such as Patek Philippe and Rolex, these types of watchmaking courses are needed to upgrade the skills of watch repairers," he added.
About 52 per cent of its graduates are employed by Rolex, Swatch Group and Richemont, which are the three largest Swiss watch groups, noted Mr Liu, who added the institute would offer a wider variety of watchmaking courses, with the ultimate goal of boosting the number of qualified watchmakers based in the city. With Hong Kong now the world's largest retail market for Swiss watches, there will be no shortage of timepieces for any horology graduate to service and repair.


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Q: Need to display previous folder in the modified zshrc file, how do I do it? This is my current configuration of the zshrc file for showing git branch which results in showing the current folder with the git branch (if present)
function parse_git_branch() {
    git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -n -e 's/^\* \(.*\)/[\1]/p'
}

setopt PROMPT_SUBST
export PROMPT='%F{cyan}%.%f %F{blue}$(parse_git_branch)%f%F{normal}$%f '

Instead of . in the PROMPT, I tried ~ but then it will show the complete path of the directory, but I wish to only see the current directory and the previous one. How should I proceed?
export PROMPT='%F{cyan}%.%f %F{blue}$(parse_git_branch)%f%F{normal}$%f '

If I am currently in Documents/gitRepos/project1, terminal would show me project1 [master], what I want is gitRepos/project1 [master]

A: Zsh has this built in:

%c
%.
%C

Trailing component of the current working directory.
An integer may folow the '%' to get more than one component. Unless
'%C' is used, tilde contraction is performed first. These are
deprecated as %c and %C are equivalent to %1~ and %1/.,
respectively, while explicit positive integers have the same effect as
for the latter two sequences.

So, simply replace %. with %2. or %2~ or whatever you prefer here.


Come along on this estimated 45-minute tour, and you'll fly over miles of lush rainforest on your way to Kilauea, which is the most active volcano in the world. Once there, you'll marvel at its latest efforts to make the Big Island even bigger. With a little luck, you'll even see some lava! Afterward, it's on to the Wailuku River. You'll fly by an amazing array of waterfalls cascading into cool tropical pools far below. Don't forget to bring a camera! Some of the sites you'll see include the Current activity at Kilauea Volcano, Tropical rainforests of Puna, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hilo Harbor, and the Waterfalls of North Hilo.


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Up in the real ale heartlands of North Yorkshire, what people really get enthused about is a great pint of bitter.
WORDS: Katie Taylor
Up in the real ale heartlands of North Yorkshire, what people really get enthused about is a great pint of bitter. Generally speaking, in Skipton where Beer Monkey Brew Co. set up shop last year, you'd be hard-pressed to find a bad pint. This fervour for excellent beer is what interested Ian Vart in the trade in the first place; long before Beer Monkey began, he was Operations Manager for a well-known competitor. Through his various roles in large pubco businesses - we're talking John Smiths, Diageo and Wellington Pub Co. to name but three - Ian developed an interest in what made his local customers so invested in the humble, ever-popular blonde bitter brewed by smaller local producers.
This interest led him to open Beer Monkey Brew Co., a brewery that's attempting to build a stile over the wall between traditional real ale fans and new, younger drinkers in North Yorkshire. With a thriving beer culture running underneath the whole area, the Skipton-based brewery sought to create a core line of products that offered solid traditional beers with a more approachable, interesting brand direction. Basically, they wanted to look cooler and more modern than their direct competitors. Opening in August 2017, the brewery began with a range of four cask beers sold in local pubs; a blonde (Blonde Rogue), a bitter (Bitter Revival), an American-style IPA (Uncle Monk's IPA) and a Pilsner-style lager (Evolution).
A year on, now based in a sizeable industrial warehouse on the banks of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, Beer Monkey has already ploughed some serious investment into their operation. Ian's proud that as well as beer, the brewery is providing jobs for local people and he's keen to continue growing the company to provide stability and create more jobs in the future. Even so, his current workforce seems more than sufficient, with Jamie Morrissey the Brewer on-site full-time, two apprentices working in all areas of the brewery's processes and a Brewing Consultant called Alan Jefferies, who oversees all the beers and the team making up just some of the crew.
Jamie's credentials are locally respected. Formerly a brewer at Copper Dragon for nine years, he's putting his own passion for well-made beer into Beer Monkey's standard range, as well as offering ideas for their special and seasonal beers too. Alan's history at The Great Yorkshire Brewery also give Beer Monkey some industry kudos and a lot of top-end quality control keeping every brew grand as owt.
In early 2018, the brewery began offering the bubbly magic of keg for some of their range too, namely the supremely-popular-in-Yorkshire-and-East-Lancashire Uncle Monk's IPA and the Evolution Pilsner. But why did they decide to go keg?
"The market wants it. It's as simple as that," says Ian. And he's putting his money where his mouth is because he's got some more news about the future of the brewery - namely a £300,000 kegging plant they've ordered from Germany.
"This is really exciting because it means we won't have to rely on having our beer packaged externally and will give us the option to keg beers on small runs. We've already found that city centre bars much prefer keg beers so we're looking forward to being able to give them the types of beers that our customers want."
As well as kegging, the brewery entered the world of canning and bottling in 2018, and is now available throughout Yorkshire in supermarkets, Wetherspoons, Stonegate pubs, Co-Ops and Bierkeller bars all over the country.
"The dream is to grow, but to remain sustainable," says Ian. "I want Beer Monkey to be able to protect the jobs of our team members and eventually not to have to rely on larger companies to sell our beer."
So that's Beer Monkey Brew Co., a down-to-earth, northern brewery keeping their beers real and their premises rural. We're seeing a lot of that lately, aren't we? Is there some sort of real ale revolution going on?


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Ministry: Turkey joins coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Syria
By Gul Tuysuz and Zeynep Bilginsoy, CNN
Updated 1:46 PM EDT, Sat August 29, 2015
NEW: Pentagon commends Turkey for joining coalition efforts against ISIS
Turkey joined coalition operations against ISIS on Friday night, its foreign ministry says
Turkish warplanes previously carried out unilateral strikes against ISIS positions in Syria in July
Turkey launched its first airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Saturday as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the extremist group, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The participation of Turkish air forces in coalition operations was formalized and signed on Monday, according to the ministry.
As part of the framework of the agreement, Turkey, along with coalition aircraft, began joint operations Friday night against ISIS targets in Syria.
The targets were deemed to represent a security threat for Turkey, the ministry said.
Turkish warplanes bombed ISIS positions in Syria for the first time late last month, but the airstrikes were then part of a unilateral effort and not as part of the U.S.-led coalition.
The Turkish strikes in July were carried out without going into Syrian airspace, according to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Friday's Turkish Air Force strikes were fully integrated into systems for managing coalition air operations.
"We commend Turkey for its participation in counter-ISIL air operations alongside other Coalition nations in the international campaign to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL," he said, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
Turkey's new willingness to take the fight to ISIS comes after months of reluctance from Ankara to act.
The shift in stance follows intense international pressure and an attack last month by an alleged ISIS suicide bomber in the Turkish town of Suruc, near the border with Syria, which killed 34 people including the suicide bomber.
It also allowed the United States to launch manned airstrikes from a base in Turkey against ISIS forces in Syria earlier this month.
Q&A: Why has Turkey reversed itself on ISIS?
CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and national security producer Jamie Crawford contributed to this report.


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La Universidad de Chicago (en inglés: The University of Chicago) es una universidad privada ubicada en Chicago, Illinois (Estados Unidos). Fue fundada en 1890 por John D. Rockefeller y su campus principal se encuentra en el barrio Hyde Park. Se trata de una de las universidades más prestigiosas de los Estados Unidos y del mundo, en la que se han educado numerosos alumnos destacados, investigadores y académicos, reconocidos por sus notables contribuciones en diversas ramas de las ciencias. Esto, le ha hecho acreedor de 100 premios Nobel, 54 Rhodes Scholars, 26 Marshall Scholars, 9 Fields Medalists, 4 premios Turing, 52 becas MacArthur, 27 premios Pulitzer, 20 Medallas Nacionales de Humanidades y 8 medallistas olímpicos. La universidad se encuentra clasificada en el top 10 como una de las mejores según el criterio de las principales clasificaciones académicas del mundo.

Diversas personalidades de renombre forman o han formado parte de la universidad en varios campos de la ciencia, entre ellos, Enrico Fermi, Robert Millikan, Jerry Coyne, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Myron Scholes, Gary Becker, Saul Bellow, John Dewey, entre muchos otros. El expresidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, fue profesor y catedrático de la Universidad durante 12 años y mantiene su residencia cerca del campus de la universidad en Hyde Park.

En 2015 la universidad dedicó 421 millones de dólares en investigación científica. Además, profesores y alumnos de la universidad han jugado un papel importante en el desarrollo de la economía mundial, de la sociología, el movimiento derecho y economía en el análisis legal, y la física (por ejemplo, investigaciones de la Universidad llevaron a la creación del primer reactor nuclear autosuficiente, dirigidos por Enrico Fermi).

La universidad alberga también la editorial más grande de todas las universidades en los Estados Unidos, la University of Chicago Press.

Fundación
Fue fundada por American Baptist Education Society gracias a una donación del magnate petrolero y filántropo John D. Rockefeller, y fue constituida en 1890. William Rainey Harper se convirtió en el primer presidente de la universidad, en 1891, y las primeras clases tuvieron lugar en 1892.

Facultades y escuelas
En la Universidad de Chicago nacieron lo que se conocen como "escuelas" de Economía de Chicago y Sociología de Chicago, que no son escuelas ni facultades propiamente dichas de la universidad, sino corrientes de opinión.

La Universidad de Chicago solamente tiene una facultad de pregrado denominada Facultad de la Universidad de Chicago. Los estudios de postgrado se imparten en siete escuelas profesionales:
Escuela de Medicina Pritzker
Escuela de Negocios Booth
Escuela de Derecho
Seminario de la Universidad de Chicago
Escuela de Políticas Públicas Harris
Escuela de Administración de Servicio Social
Escuela de Educación Continua Graham

Rankings
La Universidad de Chicago se clasifica de forma continua entre las diez mejores universidades estadounidenses y mundiales en la mayoría de los rankings.

La escuela de negocios de la universidad, la Booth School of Business, lleva clasificando como la mejor escuela de negocios del mundo por el ranking de Business Week desde 2006 hasta la actualidad. La escuela también es considerada la mejor del mundo por el ranking de la revista británica The Economist 2012.

Entre los profesores, investigadores y alumnos de la Universidad ha habido 91 premios Nobel y 50 becarios MacArthur.

Administración y aspectos financieros

La universidad está gobernada por un consejo de administración. El consejo de administración supervisa el desarrollo y los planes a largo plazo de la universidad y gestiona los esfuerzos de recaudación de fondos, y está compuesto por 55 miembros, incluido el presidente de la universidad. Directamente bajo el presidente están el rector, catorce vicepresidentes (incluidos el director financiero, el director de inversiones y el vicepresidente de vida en el campus y servicios estudiantiles), los directores del Laboratorio Nacional Argonne y del Fermilab, el secretario de la universidad y el defensor del estudiante (ombudsperson).  El actual presidente del consejo de administración es Joseph Neubauer; en mayo de 2022, el nuevo presidente será David Rubenstein. La actual rectora (provost) es Ka Yee Christina Lee, que entró en funciones en febrero de 2020 después de que el anterior rector, Daniel Diermeier, dejara el cargo para convertirse en canciller de la Universidad de Vanderbilt. El actual presidente de la Universidad de Chicago es el químico Paul Alivisatos, que asumió el cargo el 1 de septiembre de 2021. Robert Zimmer, el anterior presidente, pasó a desempeñar el nuevo papel de chancellor de la universidad.

La dotación de la universidad era la duodécima más grande entre las instituciones educativas estadounidenses y los sistemas universitarios estatales en 2013 y a para 2020 estaba valorada en 10.000 millones de dólares. Desde 2016, el consejo de administración de la universidad se ha resistido a la presión de los estudiantes y el profesorado para que desinvierta sus inversiones en empresas de combustibles fósiles. Parte del plan financiero del anterior presidente de la universidad, Zimmer, era un aumento de la acumulación de deuda para financiar grandes proyectos de construcción, , lo que suscitó tanto el apoyo como las críticas de muchos miembros de la comunidad universitaria.

Deportes

Véase también
 Anexo:Doctores honorarios de la Universidad de Chicago
 Proyecto Man in Nature (Universidad de Chicago)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
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