The Rajah dies during the night, but it is kept a secret since the town is in the midst of holiday. Unaware of the death, Aziz takes his children for a walk the next morning. They visit a Muslim shrine, dedicated to a saint who freed prisoners according to his mother's wishes. At the shrine, they bump into Fielding and his brother-in-law, who are promptly attacked by bees. Now, more mature, stern and official, Fielding asks about Aziz and his affairs. He tries to be friendly and asks Aziz why he has not answered his letters. Aziz replies tritely and in riddles, showing no emotion. When Fielding asks about arrangements for the torch festival the same evening, Aziz refuses to help. Fielding complains that no one has been helpful to him.
As they reach the carriage, Aziz sees Fielding's brother-in-law and calls him Mr. Quested, assuming that Fielding has married Adela. Fielding is startled and informs Aziz that he has married Mrs. Moore's daughter, Stella. At this revelation, Aziz is deeply ashamed. When Fielding tries to explain, Aziz stops him, saying that it does not matter to whom he is married. He also tells Fielding, in Urdu and in front of his children, that he wants no British friends. Ironically on the way back to his house, Aziz feels excited and happy about the uncanny encounter. He also remembers Mrs. Moore and his promise to be kind to Stella, her daughter, and Ralph, her son.
The misunderstanding between Fielding and Aziz over Adela is cleared, but it is too late; the damage between the two friends is done. Aziz feels ashamed of his suspicions about Fielding. He also feels bad because he has been unkind to Ralph; he had promised Mrs. Moore that he would be kind to her children.
In spite of the death of the Rajah of Mau, the festivities will go on, and the news will be hidden. Fielding and his party are anxious to watch the Hindu torch parade, not really respecting the private nature of the religious observance. Fielding and his group are clearly pictured as interlopers, consuming India.
It is ironic that Aziz meets Fielding in the temple. One man is a British Christian, and the other an Indian Muslim; both are in a "foreign" place, but it is obvious that Forster shows Aziz to belong and Fielding to be spurned. In fact, Fielding and his brother-in-law are stung by bees when they enter the shrine, almost as a warning not to tread upon a Hindu holy place. It is not the first time Forster has put a stinging insect with a British; remember that Aziz compared Mrs. Moore to a wasp. Once again the weather intensifies the scene, where nothing is what it seems, and all situations are fraught with hidden difficulties.


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import time
import shutil

def trace_pdf_ppt(directory):
    try:
        flag = False
        assert os.path.isdir(directory)
        target = os.path.join('/Users/yanlu/Desktop/',               "pptPdf"+time.strftime('%Y%m%W'))
        print("target", target)
        if not os.path.exists(target):
            os.mkdir(target)
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory, topdown=True):
            for fl in files:
                print(fl)
                if fl.split('.')[-1] == "pdf" or fl.split('.')[-1] ==    'ppt' or fl.split('.')[-1] == 'pptx':
                    print("copy successfully")
                    **shutil.copy(fl, target)**

                    flag = True
        if not flag:
            print("No ppt or pdf.")
        return target

    except:
        print("Trace Error")
        return ''

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1977 Philadelphia Phillies / Franchise: Philadelphia Phillies / BR Team Page[edit]
Record: 101-61, Finished 1st in NL Eastern Division (1977 NL)
Managed by Danny Ozark
Coaches: C.B. Beringer, Billy DeMars, Ray Rippelmeyer, Tony Taylor and Bobby Wine
Ballpark: Veterans Stadium
History, Comments, Contributions[edit]
The 1977 Philadelphia Phillies were the first edition of the team since 1950 that finished with the best regular-season record in the National League. It was also Philadelphia's second straight 100-victory season. Though the 1980 and 1983 editions of the team would go further, one would have to consider 1977 the acme of this Philadelphia "success cycle."
The team was substantially the same as the 1976 division champs. Free agency had cost them second baseman Dave Cash and first baseman Dick Allen, but netted them third baseman Richie Hebner from the Pittsburgh Pirates. With Mike Schmidt anchored at the hot corner, Hebner took Allen's job at first base. Ted Sizemore became the starter at second. Young Randy Lerch arrived from the AAA Oklahoma City 89ers to join the Phillies' starting rotation.
That rotation lost the first four games of the season; the Phillies didn't climb above .500 till mid-May. The mid-June acquisition of Bake McBride from the St. Louis Cardinals added a strong bat to the lineup, but the team had hitting to spare, led by outstanding seasons from Schmidt and Greg Luzinski. (Schmidt would finish the season with the lowest batting average among Phillies' regulars, a crisp .274.) The team's inconsistency in the early going was largely a matter of pitching; the bullpen was strong but overworked, because only the phenomenal Steve Carlton among the starters gave the Phillies a solid chance to win.
On June 25th, the Phillies were in fourth place and the Chicago Cubs were running away with the division, 8 1/2 games ahead of Philadelphia. The next day, veteran Jim Kaat and reliever Gene Garber combined to shut out the Cardinals, 2-0, as the Phillies began an 11-1 run, gaining 5 1/2 games on the Cubs.
At the end of July, the Phillies were still two games back. They dropped their first game in August but then reeled off 13 straight wins, including a four-game sweep of the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Young starter Larry Christenson was especially hot during this streak. They paused to lose 13-0 to the Montreal Expos on August 17th and then won six more in a row. By that point the Cubs had wilted and Philadelphia had opened up a considerable lead on the second-place Pirates. Christenson beat Chicago on September 27th to clinch the division title for the Phillies.
With the Big Red Machine just a memory, the Phillies saw a clear path to the pennant through the relatively weak Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Phillies captured Game One in Los Angeles, 7-5. Veteran Jim Lonborg was pounded in Game 2, but the Phillies headed home with a split in the series. In Game 3, Garry Maddox drove in Hebner and scored on an error to give the Phillies a 5-3 lead - and that was their high-water mark. In the top of the 9th, as Phillies fans sat stunned, Dodger pinch-hitter Vic Davalillo nosed a weak two-out drag [bunt]] for an infield hit. The great pinch-hitter Manny Mota followed with a drive to left that Luzinski, who was inexplicably still in the game despite usually giving way to the much better fielder Jerry Martin whenever the Phillies had a late lead, could not catch. Two errors and a single off the body of Mike Schmidt later, the Phillies trailed 6-5, and went quietly in the bottom of the 9th. In the Game 4, Carlton was simply outpitched by Tommy John, and what was perhaps the best Phillies team ever had to settle for a mere division flag.
Schmidt, Maddox, and Kaat won Gold Gloves. Luzinski finished second in the National League with a career-high 130 RBI. Carlton led the league in wins with 23 and claimed his second Cy Young Award.
Awards and Honors[edit]
All-Stars: Steve Carlton, Greg Luzinski and Mike Schmidt
NL Cy Young Award: Steve Carlton
NL Gold Glove: Jim Kaat (P), Garry Maddox (OF) and Mike Schmidt (3B)
Mitchell Nathanson: The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2008.
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Mary Hanafin – Sr. Fideles Sports Hall Officially Opens in Thurles
Friday last, the Presentation Secondary School in Thurles, Co Tipperary, saw the official opening of their new and most magnificent Sr.Fideles Sports Hall, by past pupil and Irish Government Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs.
It was a particularly proud day for Board of Management Chairperson Sr.Fideles Purcell who had helped to spearhead the project and to whom the facility was dedicated.
This €3 million complex boasts an international size basketball arena, dance studio, gymnasium, meeting rooms, changing and shower facilities, reception area and stores and is expected to be a huge addition to the School.
The site for this building had been donated by the Presentation Order who also donated €1.5 million to the overall cost of this project. Students, both present and future will now enjoy a state-of-the-art facilities in all their future attempts to achieve both academic and sporting excellence.
Guest speaker Mr Aidan O'Brien and his wife Anne-Marie received a Guard of Honour, alongside Minister Hanafin on their arrival at the school.
Prior to Minister Hanafin cutting the ribbon, the projects Chairman Mr Antoin O'Brian, welcomed all in attendance. Mr O'Brian told the gathering that the project was now completely debt free and enormous gratitude was owed by the school to all who contributed towards its construction in any way. He also thanked the hard working committee, who had laboured so hard to further the project and looked forward to it bearing fruit in the years to come.
The many distinguished guests were welcomed by Sr.Fideles, Chairperson of the Board of Management, while a well rehearsed school choir and orchestra provided the entertainment for this event.
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Lawyer speaks about childhood sexual assault
June 4, 2018 |Written By Alexia Kapralos
Greg Gilhooly poses with his book, I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life.
The Toronto Lawyers Association hosted an author's talk event on May 31 at the TLA Lawyers Lounge with lawyer Greg Gilhooly, who wrote a book called I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life about his experience as a child sexual abuse survivor.
The book delves into his personal story of being sexually abused as a child at the hands of his hockey coach, Graham James, who also sexually abused former NHL hockey players Sheldon Kennedy and Theoren Fleury as youth. Gilhooly's book also sheds light on the legal angle of sexual assault and how he believes the justice system does not do enough to rehabilitate survivors.
"You don't have to be a somebody to be the victim of a notorious predator," he said during his talk.
John Macfarlane, partner at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and long-time friend of Gilhooly, led the discussion, before turning to the audience for a question and answer period.
Gilhooly spoke about his book and the changes he believes are needed to reform the criminal justice system for better helping victims of sexual abuse through his talk.
He said he is passionate about wanting to make a difference in law regarding sexual abuse and is interested in the possibility of dedicating the rest of his career to change the system. But he said he is also "at a fork in the road" with his life, as he also wants to take back the time he lost suffering the negative effects of the abuse throughout his lifetime.
The evening concluded with a book signing, refreshments and time for attendees to mingle.
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Dear , i'm the Mycrazything Records's manager .
May i have your email to send you our next promos tracks.
Hi there, just enquiring as to how i get my labels music reviewed by "This is Why we dance" ?
Our latest EP will drop 10th May – AwayEP – Nuno Estevez and Tonic HD , can u send me an email address so i can email u promo for review ?
Hi guys, thanks for your recent feedback and support of our current promo: (THR009) Richard Empire – No Rush EP.
We wanted to contact you guys and see if we could send you through a press release and supporting DJs for a possible review/ feature on your blog?
Please email me back and let me know.
Hiya, if you want to contact me (no 'guys' it's just me!) then thisiswhywedance@gmail.com is the best address to use. Look forward to hearing from you!
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Doubt: Many Verna owners mentioned me that braking is not so good and especially there have been many accidents because of high-speed braking ability on highways. Same case with latest verna as well - I did test drive and many auto experts mentioned the lacking of brake feel on spirited/highspeed driving.
1. You go check in service centres, they ll tell you its 'ABS working'. But !!! ABS dsnt work this way. It definitely has a problem.
Thank you for a Genuine feedback and I respect you for sharing the same with us. Keep up the good work. Manufacturer should rectify this problem immediately and regain customer trust if they care about the peoples life.
As discussed here "that braking is not so good and especially there have been many accidents because of high-speed braking ability on highways."
One of my close relatives, owned a new Hyundai Verna face the same issue last night, it was a very narrow escape, the right/driver side of the car is damaged badly but luckily everyone is safe.
Can anyone suggest how to complain this to the higher authorities. ?
Yes, I have observed the braking issues in Verna 2017 model. At some stage the brake didn't apply at all and the car jumped over the speed braker. I don't think ABS is designed for this problem. We have to relay on braking system. At one stage car just dragged further after applying the full brake, I had to use hand brake to slow the car down.
I'm looking for recommendations on how to upgrade my discs or pads ?
As you would know, all the models of Verna and Creta were enabled with EBD recently for better braking efficiency. My friend has purchased New Verna with EBD model and shared his experience about one particular incident; when he was traveling on national highway around 90kmph he encountered lacking of high speed braking all of a sudden on the highway. Also he mentioned that the model with EBD had effective braking when compared with previous model without EBD.
Hyundai didn't resolve braking issue yet. How do we escalate this problem to Hyundai. Please let me know your thoughts.
I have purchased a new verna(latest) 1.4ex and on the way from pune to Chandrapur which is almost 800 kms felt the braking is an issue. When I applied break at speed 110 kmph at around 40 kmph there is a panic in break (it feels something like khad-khad-khad) and the vehicle doesnt come to desired speed. Today (12-06-2018) i have reported the issue to service center. lets see what they say.
Yes, hyundai verna have braking issues. I always feel that the peddle kickbacks are horrible. You wont even feel like the car is equipped with ABS. Terrible feedback from the braking system.
I have approached 2 service centers in Bangalore Trident Hyundai Krpuram and Advaith hyundai whitefiled to get them checked. They have replaced the front disc pads still the same issue. They actually don't have a solution. They simply say "everything is fine", a ready made dumb answer.
I too feel the same problem with the brake..a kind of khad khad khad sound comes out when I apply the brake in a rough road..brake does not give the punch..which is required..


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For all the technological, engineering and military advantages that the British wielded over unsuspecting native peoples, the humble disease carrying microbes and bacilla would often prove a far deadlier barrier to the spread of British imperialism.
Missionary Vaccinating Locals
Disease shaping the Empire
West Africa was not called the white man's grave for nothing. The average life expectancy of British officials and merchants could be measured in months of being posted to these tropical lands. Without the natural protection built up by the local peoples over generations, Europeans would quickly be stricken down by a whole host of debilitating and even fatal diseases. Similar but different conditions would be replicated across the empire - from the Caribbean to the Indian sub-continent. Each colony would have its own battery of invisible microbes and parasites which might attack the unsuspecting European colonist. As a rule, the warmer and more humid the colony the greater the danger that it presented as the microbes enjoyed the more stable breeding conditions. It was no accident that saw the great majority of British migrants heading towards the safer temperate colonies of Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and South Australia. Although even the sometimes alien nature of these colonies could challenge the medical knowledge and understanding of the first colonists to arrive. It should also be remembered that until the mid-Nineteenth Century and the acceptance of the germ theory, no one even knew of the existence of disease-bearing microbes.
It was not just the effect of microbes on people that shaped where colonists did and did not go. Rinderpest was a disease that could be lethal to that favourite form of transportation for the colonists, the horse, and one of their favourite farm animals, the cow. Colonists from South Africa spread further and further north until they reached a temperature that sustained the microbes in the faeces of infected animals. Once they hit the so-called Rinderpest zone, European farmers, mounted police and the military in general were halted in their tracks by this invisible disease.
Plant diseases also shaped the location and form of colonies around the world. One of the first tasks undertaken by colonists to any new land was to establish which cash crops could be viably grown with the local soil and climate conditions. Countless colonial farmers would have invested huge amounts of time, effort and money in seed, machinery and farmland on crops that might seem viable for a couple of seasons, only for them to be reduced to a pulp as some local disease mutated to infect the imported plants or for some disease to catch a lift alongside some imported plantlings. Disease could dictate the economic viability and structure of whole communities and even whole colonies.
The modern transportation and communication links that enabled colonists to travel around the world as their empire grew could also prove to be a double-edged sword. Not only could Europeans travel half way around the world, but when they travelled back they could bring new and deadly diseases with them. The most devastating example of this phenomenon was the way that Cholera was brought back to Britain from the Indian sub-continent with devastating results. The imperial habit of moving slaves and then labourers around the world to tend the new plantations and factories opening up around the empire would bring a further danger of introducing disease to populations that had no natural resistance to them. Again, the migration of diseases was not limited to those that affected humans - animal and plant diseases were just as easily displaced as the colonists tampered and experimented with nature in order to advance their economic prospects.
Dealing with the Invisible Problem
Starting from a base of almost total ignorance, the imperial responses to disease went through many stages. The journey from haphazard experimentation to full blown public health systems was a long and painful one that cost many millions of people their lives.
The initial habits of the earliest colonists could sometimes be surprisingly effective in dealing with the dangers of disease. Those colonists who adapted to the local customs would be better suited to avoiding and dealing with local diseases. For example, those East India Company men who built airy bungalows with good ventilation and who ate the local cuisine (curried for hours on end which would kill off any microbes) were far more likely to survive than those who transplanted their English customs lock, stock and barrel to the tropics. However, it was not long before an air of European superiority over local customs would build up and displace many of the sensible living habits of the earliest colonists - usually to their disadvantage.
Additionally, the lack of proper administrative controls over the early empire worked against the authorities. Ignorant farmers, soldiers and labourers could spread disease far more effectively than the authorities could deal with it. The laissez-faire nature of the empire meant that there were no passports, no immigration or screening departments. Administration cost money - and the empire was designed around making money, not spending it. If you could afford a ticket to India - you could go there. As is often the case, it was only after a disaster had struck that something was done about it. The devastations of the Cholera epidemics on Britain was just such a disaster. Regulations were brought in to screen passengers, to isolate those who exhibited symptoms once aboard a ship, to limit the density of passengers on a particular ship and to ensure that clean food and water was provided to all the travellers.
This increasing willingness of the imperial government to deal with public health was a useful weapon in the battle against disease. Even if no one knew that disease was carried by germs, the fact that colonial governments were increasingly willing to invest in public works projects such as fresh water and sewage systems was helpful in keeping many diseases at bay. These were usually confined to those areas with the most Europeans living in them, but they did spread out into the wider metropolitan areas as the authorities realised that these were often the breeding grounds for diseases that could eventually spread to European compounds anyway.
Developments in the armed services would also play a helpful role. In most campaigns the army had long lost more soldiers to disease than to any enemy in the field. The Crimean War would vividly illustrate the need for reforms in the conditions of the soldiers in the field and in their treatment on being injured or on becoming ill through disease. Florence Nightingale proved statistically that her sanitised hospital regimes which insisted on cleanliness, exercise, edible food and fresh water were far more effective than the army's laissez-faire approach to dealing with sickness. The remarkable thing about her reforms is that it was done with a complete ignorance of the role that germs played in transmitting disease. She recognised a correlation between hygiene, recovery rates and the abeyyance of disease without understanding the underlying reasons.
Obviously, when the role of germs in the spread of disease was finally understood, medical breakthroughs came thick and fast. The most important developments were actually in preventative medicine: prophylactics and vaccinations. Cures for existing sufferers were actually more difficult to develop and so there was an appreciable time-lag between the two developments (some diseases have never had a cure developed for them). The British Empire was fortunate in that it had a strong scientific, industrial and technological basis to research, develop and mass produce these medicines, vaccines and prophylactics. Although for vaccines in particular to be effective, it was preferable to immunise whole communities and populations at the same time. At first, well meaning voluntary organisations and missionaries would undertake such programmes. Although these would not always be as effective as they did not have the administrative abilities to ensure that whole populations were being reached in a short period of time. It was only when the full weight of the administrative authorities could be persuaded to engage in such programmes that they began to have signficant effects. It was only really in the Twentieth Century that the full weight of industrial medicine and administrative application would make significant in-roads into limiting the spread and hosting of diseases.
Cinchona
Malaria would illustrate the hopes and setbacks of such industrial medicine. By far one of the most common, debilitating and often deadly of the tropical diseases. It was the one disease that eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century colonists could expect to contract if they spent any significant time in the tropics. In the Nineteenth Century the bark of the Cinchona plant was found to have an active ingredient that inhibited the spread of the Plasmodium parasite that caused the symptoms of the disease. In fact, unusually, the quinine could be used as both a prophylactic and a treatment. In the 1860s, a group of English and Dutch adventurers actually stole seedlings from its native Peru (its export was strictly prohibited by the Peruvian Government). The British Empire then used its geographical expanses and organisational strength to try growing the bark in plantation form around the empire. After a great deal of experimentation, it was found that Malaya and Indonesia were the best places to grow the bark and a new business opportunity was created for a few well-capitalised entrepreneurs. The bitter taste of the quinine was added to tonic water to make it more palatable as a medicine. This is almost certainly why 'Gin and Tonic' became the effective beverage of empire. Although the effect of the alcohol on the quinine in the tonic was probably not beneficial. However, by the end of the Nineteenth Century it seemed that another major barrier to imperialism had been broken down. Unfortunately, genetic mutation would rear its ugly head and the parasites would evolve to combat quinine medication which was not always being taken in its correct dosages (or being diluted by gin!). Malaria would mutate into new and more virulent forms which quinine could do little to combat. However, even by the Second World War, the loss of the quinine plantations in Malaya and Java to the Japanese was still regarded as a medical catastrophe to the Allied war machine.
It is perhaps ironic that the British Empire came to a close at a time when it was at its most capable of bringing about significant medical advances to those peoples it had ruled over for so many years. The period following World War II saw major medical developments once again. Penicillin and anti-biotics were being mass-produced at affordable prices; medical equipment and surgical techniques made huge advances. It is therefore appropriate that the final stage in the imperial battle against diseases was sharing this knowledge and these techniques with at least some of the local populations. At first, some ruling elites might send their sons (rarely daughters) to study in the private colleges of England. Local private schools would be developed over time and then finally, hospitals, universities and medical colleges would be built throughout the colonies. Medical students and doctors could share their knowledge and techniques with one another. It would no longer be necessary for British doctors to be parachuted into an unfamiliar area, attempt to deal with conditions and factors that they were unfamiliar with and be expected to perform medical miracles. Locally trained doctors could get hold of the latest research (often from the field), use high quality industrially produced medical equipment and medicines and yet still apply local knowledge and understanding where appropriate.
This synthesis of western and local medicine was a useful if unexpected an unanticipated by-product of British Imperialism.
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Red and orange striped Gargoyle available. Looking male. Weight is 9.3 grams. Hatch date was 8-10-18.
Feeding great on Repashy CGD and crickets/dubia.
Pictures of parents included and are not for sale ( sire was recently sold ).
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I do have the dam but she's not for sale. You can email me at chefexec1@gmail.com if your interested in the juvenile that's posted.


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Extraordinary Japanese late Meiji period four panel screen depicting colorful chrysanthemums growing along a brushwood fence. The screen features extensive moriage (raised pigment) decoration on the fence and flowers that are difficult to appreciate in photos. Crafted with ink and color pigments on silver leaf squares with a beautifully aged patina. Made in the Nihonga school style late 19th-early 20th century. Set in an ebonized wood frame with a silk brocade border. From an estate in San Francisco, CA.
Dimensions: 97"w x .75"d x 67.5"h
Circa: Late 19th-Early 20th Century, Japan
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Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum
About the location: Part of the LD Institute of Indology, this museum houses a fine collection of ancient and medieval Indian art treasures, including stone, marble, bronze and woodcarvings and 75,000 Jain manuscripts in over nine galleries dedicated to a specific variety of art or historical heritage. The 6th-century AD sandstone carving from Madhya Pradesh, the oldest-known carved image of the god Rama, is also part of the collection amidst ancient coins, bronze and stone statues and artwork. Amongst other noteworthy pieces, the Chola style Nataraja (11th century AD) and an exuberant Nepali/ Tibetan bronze Mandala (18th century AD) are prominent exhibits in the gallery.
Brief History: Shri. Kasturbhai Lalbhai, a well-known Ahmedabad based industrialist, and Jain Acharya Muni Punyavijayji jointly established the museum in 1956 as the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology. Muni Punyavijayji donated his personal collection of manuscripts, bronzes and paintings. The collection grew more extensive over the years and the vast repository of heritage needed more space to showcase. In 1984, a new building adjacent to the LD Institute of Indology was built by world acclaimed architect, Balakrishna Doshi. The LD Museum was formally inaugurated by Brajkumar Nehru, the then Governor of Gujarat.
10.30am–5pm (Monday closed)
By Road Gujarat has one of the better developed road networks in India. Ahmedabad is well connected with all major cities and towns by road.State and private buses are a great option to travel between smaller towns in the state.
By Train Major Indian cities are also connected via the Ahmedabad railway station that lies on the western railways network.. The main railway station is located in Kalupur area. This station falls under the prominent national railway circuit and is connected to all major cities of India. India's first bullet train project will be connecting Mumbai to Ahmedabad by December 2023. It will run at a speed of 320kmph and cover the distance in 3 hours.
By Air Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport in Ahmedabad connects all major cities in India and key cities abroad to the state.
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() град је у западној Мађарској. Балатонфизфе је град у оквиру жупаније Веспрем.

Географија

Локација
Балатонфизфе се налази на североисточном делу језера Балатон, на обали залива Физфеј. Насељени делови насеља настали су у различито време и са различитим функцијама, делом везаним за делатност овде основаних индустријских погона, а у неким случајевима посебно као њихова стамбена насеља.

Историја
Према археолошким налазима, Балатонфизфе је насеље са историјом још из римског доба. Село звано Мама, првобитно насеље, вероватно је већ постојало у време доласка мађара на ове просторе. Име насеља Мама се први пут појављује у оснивачком писму на старогрчком језику из 990. године, према којем је краљ Иштван ставио Маму заједно са суседним насељима у посед женског манастира у Веспремвелђи.

Године 1242. Татарска инвазија опустошила је и ово насеље, а можда је и његова црква уништена, јер археолози датирају изградњу данас познате порушене цркве у 13. век. Према једном документу, Мамина црква подигнута у част Светог Ласла стајала је већ 1292. године, која је највероватније саграђена након најезде Татара.

Данашња слика града почела је да се формира у првим деценијама 20. века – после изградње железнице (1909), а формира се и данас. Историја и развој Физфеа су се спојили са хемијском индустријом и индустријом папира изграђене овде. Међутим, због индустријског карактера, туристички потенцијал Балатонфизфеа је дуго остао "скривен", иако се у насељу развија живахан бањски и једриличарски живот почев од 1920-их година.

Балатонфизфе је проглашен градом од 1. јула 2000. године, проглашење је озваничио председник Републике Мађарске Арпад Гонц, на предлог министра унутрашњих послова Шандора Пинтера.

Становништво
У време пописа 2011. године, 87,9% становника изјаснило се као Мађари, 1,6% као Немци, а 0,2% као Роми (11,9% се није изјаснило).

Верска дистрибуција је била следећа: римокатолици 34,9%, реформисани 10,7%, лутерани 1,7%, гркокатолици 0,2%, неконфесионални 22,1% (29,4% се није изјаснило).

Извори

Спољашње везе

 Сферна панорама са Балатонфизфеа
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Градови у Мађарској
Википројект географија/Насеља у Мађарској
Насељена места у жупанији Веспрем

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The tower invented by Italian designer Arturo Vittori can collect an average of 50 to 100 liters of drinking water per day. But how does it work?
Harvesting water from the air
The tower invented by Italian designer Arturo Vittori can collect an average of 50 to 100 liters of drinking water per day. Around 10 meters high and made of woven rushes, the delicate structure collects rain and harvests fog and dew from the air. How does it work? Water from the air condenses and raindrops are collected on a fine mesh made of bioplastic fixed inside the woven shell of the tower. The harvested water drips down, runs through a filter and is then collected in a 3,000-liter water tank. The Warka Water system has a onetime cost of around $1,000. A prototype has been tested in Ethiopia since May 2015 and mass production is scheduled to start in 2019. Only around one-third of all Ethiopians have access to clean drinking water.
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A rerelease of the figure of the strongest of the Flügel race - Jibril!
From the anime series 'No Game No Life' comes a rerelease of the 1/7th scale figure of the youngest and strongest of the Flügel - Jibril! Just like the previously released figure of Shiro, Jibril has been sculpted and painted with close attention to the creative style and use of color in the original illustration, creating a figure bursting with color and details for fans to enjoy in their collection.
She has been sculpted with a relaxed expression on her face surrounded by books to show her thirst for knowledge while also capturing her character as faithfully as possible. In addition a chibi figure of Shiro is also included to accompany her, and she also comes with an alternate expression based on her time in the Great War. Simply choose the Jibril you prefer!
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Monmouth, UK set to become the world's first Wikipedia town
By Lee Kaelin on May 18, 2012, 10:30
Monmouth (Trefynwy), a small town in Wales, UK, known for being the birthplace of King Henry V looks set to make history once again, after Wikipedia announced it was to become the world's first Wikipedia town. The widely popular online encyclopedia says the Welsh town's relatively small size and historical significance made it ideal for this groundbreaking project.
First established in 1067, the town will have numerous small ceramic plaques and stickers bearing QR codes dotted around parts of the town, designed to be read by smartphones which can then reveal important information about each point of interest. Plaques and stickers will be placed on every important building, near rivers, on landmarks, museums, and hundreds of shops.
"The idea for Monmouthpedia began at a TEDx talk in Bristol when John Cummings, an occasional Wikipedia editor, suggested from the audience that the UK Chapter use QR codes to do a whole town," said Roger Bamkin, director of Wikimedia UK on their official blog. "That challenge was handed to Cummings when the Wikimedia UK chapter backed the idea. He then moved to his home town of Monmouth where he assembled an ad hoc group of supporters who wanted to participate, including the local County Council."
The project was funded jointly between the Monmouthshire County Council and Wikimedia UK, a charity that supports the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia's mission and took six months to turnaround. Those visiting the town won't have to worry about data charges either, as the council has also installed free town-wide public Wi-Fi access, also the first of its kind to be implemented in a town in Wales.
The language used for results after scanning each QR code will be dependent on the handset's language settings, enabling tourists to learn about each landmark via Wikipedia's website in their own native language.
According to Wikimedia, there are now over 1,000 QR codes spread across the town, and over 450 new articles have been written in over 25 different languages by volunteers all around the world. In the future, Wikipedia would like to incorporate this model into larger towns and cities of interest.
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Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups
by Kevin D Randle
A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Kevin Randle is a highly respected and credible author who always tries to set the record straight … This is a thorough book that covers a lot of ufological ground and is especially recommended for beginners in the UFO field.
Alternative Perceptions Magazine
...filled with great information and research about the UFO enigma.
Randle will be known ... as a reliable authority on Roswell and 'UFO crashes' generally. [W]hat he has to say on these subjects will be of great interest.
The Shocks, the Surprises, and the Mysteries Uncovered, Unraveled, and Exposed
Thoroughly investigated by a former army officer and taken from his review of hundreds of historical and government documents and in-person interviews, Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups follows the evidence—no matter where it leads or whom it implicates. Surprises, twists, and turns await you as you follow the investigations into more than 100 sightings, events, and discoveries of alien encounters, government conspiracies, and the influence of extraterrestrials on human events throughout history.
From prehistoric UFO sightings, cave paintings, and ancient astronauts to modern sightings around the world, this book investigates claims of aliens living among us, abductions of humans by alien spacecraft, and accounts of interstellar cooperation since the UFO crash in Roswell, along with evidence of what the government knows and what it has covered up. This book is packed with thought-provoking stories and shocking revelations of alien involvement in the lives of Earthlings.
Conspiracy theories run rampant in the world of UFOs and the search for alien life. Alien Mysteries, Conspiracies and Cover-Ups tackles the data and uncovers evidence long hidden from the public to untangle the truth from these theories. Whether government-sanctioned or government-sponsored, whether they can be laid at the feet of UFO witnesses and UFO investigators, you will be lead through the complete dossier of alien activities and government cover-ups— from ancient astronauts to the recent UFO crash in Needles, California.
About Kevin D Randle
Kevin D. Randle is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who toured in Iraq. He has master's degrees in psychology and the art of military science, as well as a doctorate in psychology. His army and air force training as an intelligence officer, military policeman, and in public affairs brings unique insights into the operations and protocols of the military and its investigations into UFOs and related phenomena. He has interviewed hundreds of witnesses to mysterious crashes, sightings, abduction cases, animal mutilations, alien home invasions, and humans working with the aliens.
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FLEMINGTON - The revitalization of Main Street has cleared a major hurdle with developer Jack Cust reaching an agreement to buy the property from the person who successfully bid on it in a sheriff's sale last week.
Councilwoman Brooke Warden, a member of the Borough Council's redevelopment committee, posted that Cust reached an agreement with Steve Romanowski — who won the auction — over coffee Saturday with Mayor Phil Greiner and Warden.
"Negotiations had been stalled for quite some time, but Jack and Steve were able to sit down and compromise on some outstanding issues and they both left happy enough with the outcome," Warden stated.
Included in the sale are the hotel property and the adjacent building at 78 Main St.
Cust could not be reached for comment.
The sale agreement, whose terms have not been disclosed, paves the way for the redevelopment project to proceed to the next step — submission of a site plan to the borough's Planning Board.
Romanowski foreclosed on the property after Flemington Union Hotel LLC failed to make payments on a $605,000 loan he had made.
Liam Burns and Matthew McPherson, the principals of Flemington Union Hotel LLC, were designated as redevelopers in May 2013 but were de-designated in August 2015 when attempts to find financing were unsuccessful. That paved the way for Cust to become involved in the project.
Romanowski agreed to lend the company $1 million in August 2013, but gave them only $605,000. He then declared the company in default in February 2015.
At the sheriff's sale, Romanowski bid $501,000 for the property, outbidding Cust, who stopped bidding at $500,000.
Opponents of the redevelopment plan — a 300,000-square-foot development that calls for a 100-room hotel behind the facade of the Union Hotel, 222 luxury apartments, a parking garage and 32,000 square feet of commercial space, including a restaurant with a liquor license — are not surrendering their fight.
"I've been asked if this means the destruction of our historic district is a done deal, and it is not," Councilwoman Betsy Driver posted on Facebook. "The clock moved a little closer to midnight, but as long as the buildings are standing, I will continue to fight for the preservation of our Main Street."
Warden emphasized that the "Union Hotel will remain standing and be revitalized," while the rear of the building will be demolished and the front will be attached to the new hotel, Warden said.
"Demolishing the Union Hotel hasn't been on the table for over a year and a half and saying otherwise is a completely false," Warden posted.
Borough officials are still willing to meet with the project's opponents, Warden said.
The redevelopment of the Union Hotel and surrounding properties is seen by borough and county officials as the key to revitalizing the county seat's downtown.


The term "black humor"–also known as "dark humor"–was coined by surrealist André Breton in 1935 to designate a subgenre of comedy in which pleasure arises from topics generally considered taboo. Dark Humor: African American Art from the University of Delaware presents work by contemporary black artists who employ this type of subversive humor to question the currency of cultural and racial stereotypes. The show was selected from the African American art collection at the University of Delaware and features paintings and prints produced between 1970 and 2008 by artists, including Camille Billops, David Hammons, Barkley Hendricks, and Peter Williams.
Birth of the Mammy I, 1999. Joyce J. Scott (born 1948). Mixed media, 21 × 9 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of the Alberta du Pont Bonsal. Foundation, 2000. Image © Joyce J. Scott.
Absolutely Hilarious, 1997. Peter Williams (born 1952). Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches. University Museums purchase made possible through the generous support of Donald Puglisi, Coleman Townsend, Cynthia Primo Martin, Teresa Mason and Margaret Andersen. Image © Peter Williams.
Sacrifice of the Watermelon Virgin or Shirt Off Her Back, 1987. Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945). Color offset lithograph, 21 5/8 × 30 inches. Lent by University Museums, University of Delaware, Paul R. Jones Collection, A Gift of the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. Image © Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
24-7, 1995. Michael Ray Charles (born 1967). Color screen print, 46 × 30 inches. University Museums, University of Delaware, Gift of Danny Simmons, Image © Michael Ray Charles.
The Sista Descending the Staircase, 2003. Lori Crawford. Color digital painting, 19 × 13 inches. University Museums, University of Delaware, Paul R. Jones Collection. Image © Lori Crawford.
The Trickster on his Throne, With Henchmen, 1996. Renée Stout (born 1958). Lithograph, 30 × 22 1/4 inches. University Museums, University of Delaware, Paul R. Jones Collection. Image © Renée Stout.
This exhibition was organized by the Delaware Art Museum.
This exhibition is made possible by the Johannes R. and Betty P. Krahmer American Art Exhibition Fund and the Hallie Tybout Exhibition Fund. Additional support provided, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.


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Lisa Salters Rise Through The Ranks at ESPN and Everything About Her Personal Life
By Ose
Lisa Salters may be one of the most recognized sports journalists in America but the ironic fact is that she never set out to achieve that status. As a young lady growing up in Philadelphia, she admired African-American news anchors and aspired to be just like them. She thus acquired a degree in broadcast journalism from Pennsylvania State University and spent the first decade of her career covering hard news for various local channels.
Salters was set to continue in this stead for a very long time but a piece of unsolicited advice led her to sports giant, ESPN, in the year 2000 and she has never looked back since then. She has covered premier sporting events such as the 2004 Olympics, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2020 Super Bowl. She has also interviewed some of the biggest names in American sports, including LeBron James and Peyton Manning, and her exploits have fetched her several awards.
She Started As A General Assignment Reporter
Lisa Salters began her professional career in the year 1988 as a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV, based in Baltimore. She worked with the station for about seven years during which she covered hard-hitting stories such as armed conflicts in countries such as Somalia. She also covered the crisis in Rwanda, including the reprehensible 1994 genocide.
Having received this baptism of fire, Salters was prepared for anything that the journalism world could throw at her and as such, sought for tougher challenges. She found this at the Los Angeles branch of ABC News and joined the station in 1995. Lisa would spend exactly five years in the City of Angels during which she continued her hard news beat. She covered the Oklahoma City bombings trial. She also covered the crash of TWA flight 800, as well as the sensational trial of former NFL star, O.J. Simpson.
An Unsolicited Advice Landed Her A Job At ESPN
Despite her preference for hard news, Lisa, who had played college basketball, was still an ardent sports fan and would often turn to the sports section of whichever magazine she could lay her hands on.
This fact did not escape her bosses and so, when the premier sports network, ESPN, was searching for people who could cover both a combination of hard news and sports for them, Lisa's boss naturally thought of her and asked her to apply. She did and landed the job in the year 2000.
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Salters interviewing NBA star, LeBron James in May 2020 Image Source
Her Progression From Correspondent To Lead Monday Night Football Sideline Reporter
Upon joining ESPN in 2000, Lisa Salters initially reported on hard news items for the network. She was subsequently given more sports-related assignments and would go on to report from major sporting events such as the 2002 FIFA World Cup Championships in Japan and South Korea, the 2004 summer Olympic Games in Greece, as well as the 2006 winter Olympics in Italy.
In recognition of a work well done as a correspondent, Salters was promoted to the role of a sideline reporter in 2006. These promotions came in two parts. She was tasked with covering live NBA games for ESPN and ABC; contributing to shows such as NBA Saturday Primetime and NBA Sunday Showcase Games. She was equally tasked with covering live college football games for the ABC program, Saturday Night Football. Salters would effectively carry out these dual roles for about six years.
Her excellent track record did not go unnoticed and by 2012, she was promoted to serve as the sideline reporter for the prestigious ESPN show, Monday Night Football (MNF). In this role, Lisa gets to cover some of the biggest NFL games out there, including wild card and pro-bowl games. She also interviews star players and coaches and covered Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Lisa combines her MNF gig with her coverage of the NBA and has proven that she can handle anything thrown at her. On one occasion in 2017, she covered an NBA game in New York before dashing off to Philadelphia for an NFL game.
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Lisa's Time At ESPN Has Brought Several Awards
Lisa Salters has earned several awards in the course of her career, including the Excellence in Media Award at the 2019 Sports Power Brunch, as well as an induction into the Montgomery chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. She has also received some accolades for her contribution to the ESPN newsmagazine show, E:60. Lisa helped create the show in 2007 and served as its correspondent for about 12 years before being promoted to co-host in 2019.
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During the time she served as a correspondent, Salters filed several touching stories. They include a story about a transgender high school athlete (Life as Matt), as well as the death of a beloved UNC mascot, named Jason Ray, whose organ donations helped to make about 60 families happy (Ray of Hope). Such stories and more fetched Salters several awards, including the 2009 Gracie Award for best feature (from the Association for Women in Radio and Television), as well as the 2017 Sports Emmy Award.
Salters with her Excellence in Media Award at the 2019 Sports Power Brunch Image Source
Lisa Salters has largely had a seamless and controversial-free career. The only downside has been people who belittle and mock the role of sideline reporters. Such people hold the view that such reporters don't do anything much and as such, this is why many networks recruit females for that role. They refer to the sidelines as a dumping ground for women but Salters is not letting this bother her one bit. This is because she knows the amount of sacrifice and hard work she has put in over the years.
She's Doing A Good Job Balancing Her Career With The Demands Of Being A Single Mother
Lisa Salters is not all work and no play. The adorable journalist spends her spare time working out, playing the piano, as well as golf. She also loves spending quality time with her family members, including her mother, who is her most impactful mentor, as well as her son. The famed sideline reporter tried for several years to have a child of her own without much success. She subsequently signed up for adoption but didn't have much hope, given that she was a single woman going up against married couples.
Lisa Salters and her son Samuel Salters image source
Luck smiled on Lisa in 2012 when a young lady chose her to adopt her unborn son. The boy later came into the world in 2013 and the ESPN anchor named him Samuel. Lisa and her son now reside in Philadelphia and she has been doing an excellent job bringing him up so far; spending quality time with him and occasionally travelling along with him on some of her trips. Even though her job takes her away from the boy from Saturdays to Sundays, she makes sure to reserve all her free time from Tuesdays to Fridays for him.
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We have stopped our self-driving pilot in California as the DMV has revoked the registrations for our self-driving cars. We're now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide rules.
Uber had begun updating self-driving Volvo X90 SUVs in San Francisco on December 14, providing service to randomly selected uberX customers in the area. It chose not to pursue the permit the state issues to companies for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, arguing that its cars didn't require such permits as they could not operate completely autonomously at this stage.
While initially Uber continued its pilot even in the face of regulatory objections, both the DMV and California's Attorney General's office said that Uber would face legal repercussions, including injunctive action, if they maintained the active service.
Uber currently operates another trial of its self-driving technology, in Pittsburgh, where its Advanced Technology Group is based. Those trials, which began earlier this year, use Ford Focus vehicles retrofitted with autonomous sensors and onboard computing, and will continue.


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by Ricky Gradwohl
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first cell phone call, and one would be hard pressed to think of a more ubiquitous high tech device. Market research firm mobiThinking puts the total number of worldwide cell phone subscribers in 2012 at more than 6.8 billion. That's equivalent to about 96 percent of the world's population!
How did the cell phone become the most widely used communication technology in human history? A major factor is the ongoing advancement of high-performance, low-power semiconductor components. These advancements improve battery life and enable the continuous addition of new features and functionality that make today's smartphones a reality. Taking this one step further, the advancements in semiconductor technology are largely the result of work by thousands of engineers and scientists to push the limits of the physical and material sciences.
Using advances in precision materials engineering, chip designers have been able to create multicore processors and GB-density flash modules that hold billions of transistors and memory cells, integrate more technology on chip, reduce power consumption and heat output, and take advantage of greater economies of scale. In turn, these factors have given cell phone designers reduced component counts, more powerful mobile capabilities, longer battery life, smaller and thinner form factors, and increasingly aggressive price points. This allowed the industry to move from the "brick" phones of the 1980s (remember the Motorola 8000?) to the sleek, feature-rich smartphones of today, like Samsung's Galaxy S4. A teardown of the Galaxy S4, which includes some of the most advanced semiconductor technology available, is a case in point. When the Motorola 8000 hit the scene, 1 micron (1000-nm) was the state-of-the art in semiconductor technology; the Galaxy S4 uses 28-nm technology (Moore's Law, anyone?). For a more visual representation of this, compare the size and component count of that teardown to these images of chips and PCBs used in a Motorola 8000 to see just how far semiconductor technology has progressed.
Sometimes it's hard to comprehend exactly how far we've come as an industry. We've put together a timeline examining the evolution of the cell phone over the last 15 years with the added context of other historical events to help remind you where you were when the various cell phones listed were the "must have" device of their time. Take a look below at how the size and performance capabilities of the cell phone have progressed over that time, and let me know what your favorite device was.
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All London is at Julia Wentworth's feet. The beautiful, enchanting actress is the toast of the theater world—and anything she desires is hers for the asking. But the incomparable leading lady guards a devastating secret: a mystery husband whom she does not know, dares not mention. . .and cannot love.
For years Damon Savage has been searching for the stranger his unscrupulous parents wed him to without his consent. Wanting no more than to be legally rid of the foolish chit, Damon is shocked to discover his "bride" is the exquisite stage performer whom he intended to make his mistress! But though his wife by law, Julia will never truly be Damon's—until he conquers her fears, his formidable rivals. . .and the stellar lady's proud, independent heart.
Hmmm...what to say? What to say?
As I work my way through Lisa Kleypas' backlist I am sure that I am going to find books that were more miss than hit....and this was kind of one of them. Or perhaps it would be fair to say that this book just isn't as good as her others. It's still pretty good but it isn't exceptional.
Is it okay if I leave it at that? I mean, they had terrible childhoods, as soon as they meet again they know there is a strong attraction between them, they of course sleep together, she is of course a virgin and of course, they end up living happily ever after.
The one thing that did grab my attention is the character of Logan, Julia's theatre manager and fellow actor. I really want to read his story and see how someone can break through his cold exterior and rival the passion he feels for his theatre.
This book wasn't Lisa Kleypas at her best. Onto the next one!
This is defintely one of her "lesser" books. I've read it but only once and haven't been tempted for a reread like some of her others.
Thank goodness!! I thought maybe I was just in a bad mood when I wrote this!
It's not just you two, I didn't really care for this book at all, but Logan's book? I've read that one so many times it's falling apart. I love Because You're Mine. It was fabulous!


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Чахартак, чахартаг () — кубическое сооружение с куполом и четырьмя арками по четырём сторонам. Появились в эпоху Сасанидов (III-VII вв). Прототипом чахартага мог послужить тетрапилон, который ещё не имел купола. Чахартак строился из тёсаного камня и покрывался штукатуркой. Первоначально форму чахартага имели зороастрийские храмы, впоследствии исламская архитектура адаптировала чахартаг для строительства мечетей и мавзолеев. В частности, чахартаг явился основой Мечети в Исфахане, где переход от кубической конструкции к полусферическому куполу достигался при помощи тромпов.

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Ссылки
 СИМВОЛЫ ВЕЛИКОГО ЗЕРВАНА: «ЧАХАРТАКИ» — ХРАНИТЕЛИ ВРЕМЕНИ, СОЛНЕЧНЫЕ КАЛЕНДАРИ
 КУПОЛ КАК АРХИТЕКТОНИЧЕСКАЯ ФОРМА МЕЧЕТИ ИРАНА

Архитектура Ирана
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Liopelmowate (Leiopelmatidae) – rodzina płazów z rzędu bezogonowych (Anura). Ich względnie prosta budowa wskazuje na pradawne pochodzenie.

Zasięg występowania
Rodzaj obejmuje gatunki występujące na Nowej Zelandii.

Charakterystyka
Jaja składa w jednym kłębie pod różnymi przedmiotami w okolicy mokradeł, źródeł lub potoków (głazy, korzenie, zmurszałe pnie). Larwy nie mają aparatów gębowych i otworów oddechowych – tlen pobierają silnie ukrwioną siecią naczyń w fałdach ogona i na brzuchu, zaś żywią się zawartością żółtka.
Dorosły osobnik ma ok. 3 cm (maksymalnie 5), barwę żółtoszarą. Żyje w jamach, skalnych szczelinach, pod korzeniami krzewów, gdzie chroni się przed wiatrami. Prowadzi naziemny tryb życia. Długość życia tej jednej z najprymitywniejszych żab wynosi nawet 30 lat.

Systematyka

Taksonomia
Najbliższymi żyjącymi krewnymi liopelmowatych są przedstawiciele północnoamerykańskiego rodzaju Ascaphus, przy czym ostatni wspólny przodek rodzajów Ascaphus i Leiopelma żył jeszcze w mezozoiku. Na tej podstawie niektórzy autorzy zaliczają także rodzaj Ascaphus do liopelmowatych, inni natomiast wydzielają go do osobnej rodziny ogończakowatych (Ascaphidae), uznając jednocześnie liopelmowate i ogończakowate za taksony siostrzane.

Etymologia
 Leiopelma (Liopelma):  leios "gładki"; πελμα pelma, πελματος pelmatos "podeszwa stopy".
 Leioaspetos: gr. λειος leios "gładki"; ασπετος aspetos "niewysłowiony". Gatunek typowy: Liopelma hamiltoni .

Podział systematyczny
Do rodzaju należą następujące występujące współcześnie gatunki:
 Leiopelma archeyi  – liopelma Archeya
 Leiopelma hamiltoni  – liopelma Hamiltona
 Leiopelma hochstetteri  – liopelma Hochstettera
 Leiopelma pakeka

oraz gatunki wymarłe:
 Leiopelma acricarina
 Leiopelma auroraensis
 Leiopelma markhami
 Leiopelma miocaenale
 Leiopelma waitomoensis

Znacznie starsze skamieniałości, datowane na okres jury, również należące do tej rodziny znaleziono w Argentynie.

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Reporter Memo: Extreme Heat and Record-Breaking Heat Are Linked to the Climate Crisis
Summer is just starting, and already we are smashing heat records. Last month, we experienced the second hottest April since 1880, marking the 412th consecutive month with global temperatures above the 20th century average. The Southeast is expecting near-record or record heat over the Memorial Day weekend. These developments follow a disturbing long-term trend: Each of the past 42 years has been warmer than the 20th century average. The hottest year on record was 2016, with 2015, 2017 and 2018 close behind. Eighteen of the 19 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000. Based on current anomalies and historical temperature readings, 2019 is expected to be a top-10 year, with a 99.7% chance of being in the top five.
Temperatures have risen about 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels, and greenhouse gas pollution is the cause.
U.S. Media Have a Critical Role to Play by Covering the Climate Crisis But Fell Short in 2018, Especially on Connecting the Issue to Record Heat
The magnitude of the climate crisis, coupled with the availability of solutions, merits constant, high-quality media coverage to educate the public and spur robust discussion.
Audiences will be receptive. Seventy-three percent of Americans believe climate change is real; 65% believe it already is affecting the weather; 62% believe it is caused by humans; 69% say they are at least "somewhat worried" about it; and the same percentage say they are "interested" in it.
The climate crisis has become an important issue for voters. Sixty-two percent believe the environment should be a top priority of the president and Congress, with 46% advocating for climate change specifically. Climate was the second-highest ranking issue for Democratic voters in a recent Monmouth University poll and the highest ranking in a recent CNN poll, with 96% of Democratic voters saying it is at least "very important" that a candidate supports "taking aggressive action to slow the effects of climate change."
Media coverage on the climate crisis is far too scarce for such an important, popular issue. Only 56% of Americans report hearing about climate change in the media even once a month. This is an improvement from 43% in early 2018, but still low in relation to the threat posed by the climate crisis.
The summer months, during which dangerously hot days and extended heat waves affect most of the U.S. at some point, provide the easiest and most obvious context in which to report and editorialize on the climate crisis. Indeed, 61% of Americans already report being at least "a little worried" about extreme heat in their local area.
A Public Citizen survey of the top 50 U.S. newspapers by circulation* found that just 33% of 2018 articles mentioning record or extreme heat also mentioned climate change. This is a slight improvement over 2017 when the rate was 28%. The rate was higher on online news sites, with 38% of articles mentioning climate change, a 1% drop from 2017. The rate was lowest on television networks, where only 22% of television news segments on extreme heat also mentioned climate-related terms. This too is an improvement from 2017, when only 10% of segments on extreme heat mentioned climate.
In a 12-day period from June 27 to July 8, more than 400 daily maximum temperature records were broken in localities in 37 states, and four states set all-time temperature records. In 13 states in which 10 or more heat records were broken during this period, just 26 of 673 newspaper articles on heat (3.9%) mentioned climate. This was a decline of 66% from the coverage of heat in 2018 leading up to that 12-day period. National programming from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Network and MSNBC produced 114 pieces on heat during this period, but only one piece mentioned climate change.
Ways to Connect Extreme Heat and Climate Change
According to Climate Signals, reporters can raise the topic of global warming in the context of a heat event by considering how the event compares to historical averages, as well as discussing how global warming is changing the averages over time. Consider comparisons to the 30-year average observed from 1951 to 1980; this is a standard weather reference period that occurred during a relatively stable climate era, before a surge of changes in the past 40 years. More recent averages will include the effects of much more warming, biasing the comparison.
Reporters also can watch for potential signals of warming, including heat waves that:
are especially severe;
are longer than usual;
are earlier or later in the season than usual;
raise the total number of hotter-than-average days for the year above the long-term average for the year to date;
involve unusually hot nights; or
break records.
These all are indicators that the climate crisis may be playing a role in a particular heat event. In most cases, it is. Globally, four in five record-hot days are driven in part by global warming.
Good sources for weather records include local meteorologists, the National Weather Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Sophisticated attribution studies now allow scientists to identify and quantify the part human-caused climate change plays in many types of extreme weather, including heat waves. The Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science found that the deadly heat event that took place from May to July 2018 across the Northern Hemisphere – from Canada and the United States to Russia, Japan and South Korea – could not have occurred without human-induced climate change.
A separate attribution study of the 2018 heat wave in Europe concluded that global warming made the event twice as likely as it would have been in a climate unaltered by humans.
Attribution studies not only provide certainty in the connection between climate change and extreme weather but also give reporters the opportunity to follow up and provide their audiences with more conclusive information about the role of the climate crisis.
Rising Temperatures Cause Severe Harm
Heat is dangerous. It kills more Americans annually than any other weather-related hazard, possibly as many as 1,300 per year. As temperatures rise, heat waves will continue to be longer, more frequent and more intense. One recent analysis projects that summertime deaths in the U.S. could rise to nearly 30,000 per year by the 2090s. Excessive heat exposure can also result in heat exhaustion, with symptoms such as nausea, headaches, and dehydration, and exacerbate other health problems like asthma and heart disease.
As record-breaking summer temperatures become the norm, people in a wide variety of outdoor and indoor workplaces, as well as other vulnerable populations (children, elders, pregnant women, and low-income individuals without access to climate-controlled environments), are at increased risk. A Public Citizen report found that during the July 4, 2018 week, an average of more than 2.2 million construction and farm workers labored in extreme heat each day.
Increased heat also contributes to other major climate harms:
It makes hurricanes more damaging.
It can increase both drought and heavy downpours, or in some places even both, in a feast-or-famine rain pattern. Heavier downpours increase the risk of flooding.
Warmer and drier conditions result in larger and more damaging wildfires.
Together, these climate changes cause harms like:
Staggeringly costly direct damage (more than $306 billion worth in 2017 alone);
Severe damage to agriculture, harming the economy, raising food prices and contributing to hunger;
Increased risk for workers and sharply reduced labor capacity;
Poorer air quality, causing more cardiovascular and respiratory illness; and
Economic costs that are expected to rise to $360 billion per year, equivalent to 55% of U.S. growth, over the next decade.
These are just some of the harms caused by the overheating of our planet, and this is by no means an exhaustive list. It is important not to lose sight of the big picture: Collectively, the direct damage, megadroughts, famine, species loss, mass migration and increased conflict from runaway global warming could threaten human civilization before the end of this century. On our present path, we face at least a 5% chance of "catastrophic" warming (more than 3°C/5.4°F) by 2050, and an equal chance by 2100 of warming so terrible (more than 5°C/9°F) that we cannot count on most humans surviving.
We know how to solve most of the problem. The most significant steps are making everything possible run on electricity and converting the electric grid to 100% renewable energy sources. The current debate among experts is whether we can transition to 100% renewables with existing technology in a few decades or whether we can get to just 80%. Meanwhile, new studies show it increasingly is possible to power an electric grid entirely with renewables. Far from causing hardship, this energy transformation will pay for itself many times over in short order. The main drivers of cost savings are avoiding the $875 billion per year that Americans waste buying fossil fuels and several hundred billion more in medical costs that result from fossil fuel air pollution. All of this is without including the incalculably large economic benefits of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
The time for small-scale responses has passed. Climate science tells us that preventing catastrophic harm requires, at a minimum, cutting global greenhouse gas pollution in half by 2030 and eliminating it by 2050. (And for equity reasons, the U.S. arguably should proceed much more quickly, as it is responsible for a vastly disproportionate amount of all carbon pollution.) Rapid decarbonization will require unprecedented effort – an ambitious, assertive set of policies that transform the U.S. economy to run on renewable energy instead of fossil fuels.
Plans like the Green New Deal resolution sponsored by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey outline most of what is needed: achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by generating 100% of the nation's electricity from clean, renewable sources; upgrading buildings and transportation infrastructure; increasing energy efficiency; and investing in green technology research, development and training.
But the news media rarely connect the climate crisis with solutions. In 2018, only 8% of newspaper articles, 5% of television transcripts and 16% of online news articles discussing climate change mentioned solutions. A December 2018 survey found that 81% of registered voters supported the goals of the Green New Deal, although only 17% reported hearing anything about the policy. Coverage by national broadcast news was slim, and among the top 50 U.S. newspapers, half never printed the words "Green New Deal" in 2018.
Coverage has improved in the new year, and by April 2019, awareness had increased to 58%. However, support decreased among Republicans after relentless attacks by right-wing media. A study by Yale and George Mason University researchers found that Republicans who watch, read, or listen to Fox News more frequently were less likely to support the resolution than those who watched less frequently or never.
This summer, we urge you to connect the dots between extreme heat and climate change.
* The newspapers are: Arizona Republic, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Buffalo News, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Detroit Free Press, East Bay Times, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Houston Chronicle, Indianapolis Star, Kansas City Star, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, Miami Herald, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, Newsday, Oklahoman, Omaha World-Herald, Orange County Register, Oregonian, Portland, Orlando Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Plain Dealer, Sacramento Bee, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, Star-Ledger, Sun-Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times, Times-Picayune, USA Today, Virginian-Pilot, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
Cover Climate
No Green Deal: Widespread Media Silence on One of the Biggest Climate Stories of 2018
Call it a Crisis: The Role of U.S. Network News in Communicating the Urgency of Climate Change
Calling It a Crisis and Covering It Like One


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Suislepa Airfield (also given as Tõrva, Torva and Torva North) is a former air base in Estonia located in the village of Suislepa,  north of Tõrva.  It is an abandoned front-line or maritime bomber base that was mainly used in the 1960s.  Some remains of runways and taxiways can be seen on Google Earth satellite imagery.

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Defunct airports in Estonia
Soviet Air Force bases
Viljandi Parish
Buildings and structures in Viljandi County


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Facebook opens public vote on privacy changes
Facebook has agreed to hold a public vote on its proposed new privacy policy, following pressure from activists on the social networking site.The Facebook Site Governance Vote, as its being called, is now open for one week only and gives users the option of adopting the changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Use Policy.The Facebook vs Europe group wants huge changes to both, and is encouraging users to shoot down these slight revisions, saying it wants Facebook to do more.If enough people vote either way, the changes will come into effect or be scrapped. If not they'll go under advisory.
Banned Politicians back on track
Published on 03 June 2012 Updated on 18 November 2016
Zhang Fang
Facebook has agreed to hold a public vote on its proposed new privacy policy, following pressure from activists on the social networking site.The Facebook Site Governance Vote, as its being called, is now open for one week only and gives users the option of adopting the changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Use Policy.
The Facebook vs Europe group wants huge changes to both, and is encouraging users to shoot down these slight revisions, saying it wants Facebook to do more.If enough people vote either way, the changes will come into effect or be scrapped. If not they'll go under advisory.
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The plan originally called for a voluntary tender bid to be made within a year in order to proceed with the US$8.6 billion merger, but this need was not reached, according to Telenor of Norway.
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China continues to lead global e-commerce market with over $2 trillion sales in 2022
China accounted for over 37% share in the global e-commerce market, in terms of payments value in 2021. The country was followed by the US with $1.5 trillion, while the UK stood at a distant third with $292.1 billion in 2021
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