We hear the statistic, "There is an 8 percent unemployment rate for people with disabilities," but for someone who is blind and/or visually impaired, that statistic is grimmer; more like the 70 percent. This workforce population is often overlooked in terms of potential, qualifications, and ability. Naturally, it makes one ask why this number is so high for those who live with vision loss. There could be a multitude of reasons and misconceptions; however, the only way to move the needle is for more education of our local businesses on the hiring front: company recruiters, HR personnel, hiring managers, etc. It seems easy enough, but in reality, it isn't.
The majority of the general public have not met someone who is visually impaired. This means they are not aware of different technology options, accessibility software, vision rehabilitation services, and mobility training. When someone with vision loss applies for a position that involves using a computer, the hiring manager often assumes they will not be able to perform the functions of the job because they cannot see to use a computer. The candidate doesn't make it past the first round of interviews, therefore is unable to educate the employer on how they are equipped, from prior work experience and through accessible technology, to fulfill the job duties of the position. A potentially outstanding employee just fell through the cracks.
The candidate performs well in the interview and makes it to the next round, and begins to discuss the type of technology they would use to perform the essential duties of the job. The hiring manager begins to wonder how the company would provide the assistance that the individual needs: adaptive technology, low lighting, an earpiece to listen to their computer, etc. They wonder who will be able to get all of this in place, and then who on staff is capable of actually training the candidate because, well, they're blind and they've never had a visually impaired employee before. This becomes overwhelming, and they decide that they can't make it happen, and pursue a different candidate. Companies are not aware of employment services provided by local agencies who have trained staff in helping a candidate with vision loss return to work. There are state and federal resources available that may help purchase the items needed, if the company is not able to, and ensures that the individual has everything they need to be able to do the job. Employment Specialists are also available to train the company staff in addition to adjusting the candidate to their new worksite.
People who are blind and/or visually impaired are problem solvers, driven, and tenacious individuals simply due to their daily ability to think creatively as they cope with their vision loss. Often, they are more loyal employees and dedicated to their company because they were given a chance to prove they were the right person for the job. While legislation, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibits discrimination based on disability, employers can decline to hire a blind/visually impaired candidate on the basis that the applicant is unable to perform the duties of the job. However, if the applicant isn't given a chance to prove that he/she is able to do the required work, then dismissing his/her abilities solely on the basis of them being blind or visually impaired is a form of discrimination. It shouldn't have to be a factor, but it unfortunately happens.
While October is recognized as National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the awareness can't stop here. Inclusion and diversity need to be researched and at the focal point for all companies. It is known that there is an untapped pool of highly qualified, educated, experienced candidates currently looking to re-enter the workforce. They are eager, they are ready. All they are waiting for is the opportunity.


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Bangladesh at high risk of coronavirus
March 6, 2020 March 28, 2020 Admin 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19
Bangladesh remains at high risk of the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread as officials said that Bangladesh's connectivity with the countries where regular incidences of the novel virus occurred left it to the chance of virus infection anytime.
'We are at high risk of the coronavirus spread which has compelled us to urgently act to take preventive measures against the spread of the highly contagious novel virus,' said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research director Meerjady Sabrina Flora on Wednesday.
The USA and China also voiced concerns over Bangladesh as it was at high risk of coronavirus spread, which so far affected 73 countries including neighbouring India, killing around 3,000 people globally and infecting over 90,000 people.
Chinese ambassador in Bangladesh, Li Jiming, on Wednesday said Bangladesh was at high risk of coronavirus infection as it was spreading in the neighbouring countries.
Speaking at the Padma Bridge Rail Link project site at Keraniganj, he urged the Bangladesh authorities to strengthen the screening measures at the ports of entry.
Jiming alleged that Bangladesh was screening mainly Chinese nationals at the ports while passengers from other countries were not properly being screened though now about 95 per cent of the cases are from outside China.
The IEDCR director said new countries are being added to the list of the coronavirus affected countries every day and Bangladesh having global connectivity with the countries always remained at high risk.
'Since the coronavirus emerged in China, with which Bangladesh has close relation, we started taking preventive measures,' Meerjady said.
'Many Bangladeshis live in Italy, South Korea, Singapore and Japan, which appeared to be new hotspots of coronavirus after China, and we have trade relations with the countries,' she said.
'We cannot rule out the possibilities of coronavirus infection in Bangladesh,' she added.
Coronavirus, which believed to have started spreading from a market in the Wuhan city of China that sells wild animals in late December, has now become a global health concern.
New patients are being identified in Italy, South Korea, Iran, Japan, Singapore and the USA.
About one crore Bangladeshis live in different countries across the world, including these countries, which becomes a cause of concern for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh suspended visa-on-arrival for Italy, South Korea, Iran and China, health minister Zahid Maleque said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Bangladesh also asked to show medical certificates to seek visa from the countries, he said.
The government also urged the Bangladeshi expatriates to avoid travel within the affected countries and requested citizens not to travel to the countries unless there was an emergency, the minister said.
Though the authorities said none so far got infected with coronavirus in Bangladesh, seven Bangladeshi expatriates were so far infected with the novel virus in Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Italy. The Bangladeshi in Italian city of Milan was identified with the virus on Wednesday, IEDCR said.
'We are always at high risk of coronavirus spread, but still we do not find anyone infected with the coronavirus in Bangladesh,' IEDCR director Meerjady said.
'Our challenge remains for prevention and controlling of the spread of the highly contagious virus because we are a populous country,' she said.
Bangladesh started screening passengers at the ports of entry since January after the coronavirus started spreading in China.
Bangladesh took different measures including setting up isolation units at all the government and private hospitals.
The government of USA on Tuesday announced a commitment of $37 million in financing from the Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious Diseases at the US Agency for International Development for 25 countries affected by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 or at high risk of its spread.
Bangladesh remains in the USA's list of the 25 countries.
The IEDCR director said on Wednesday that a Bangladeshi expatriate got infected with coronavirus in the Italian city of Milan.
The patient was being treated at home as his condition was not serious, she said.
'It is sad news for us today that a Bangladeshi has been infected with coronavirus in Italy,' she said while speaking at a press conference at her office.
Treatment for the male Bangladeshi national has been ensured at home, but he will be taken to a hospital if needed, she said.
'His condition is still not serious,' Meerjady said, citing the Bangladesh mission in Italy.
Earlier, six Bangladeshi expatriates got infected with Covid-19 in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Among them, five were infected in Singapore and three of them were already released from the hospital as they recovered from the ailments.
Among the rest two in Singapore, one was still in critical condition, said the IEDCR director.
The health condition of another Bangladeshi, who got infected with coronavirus in the UAE, was now stable, she said.
The IEDCR on Tuesday said that five suspected coronavirus patients were isolated in a hospital in Dhaka, but the IEDCR director informed on Wednesday that one of them was already released as he was not found infected with the virus.
Two of them were tested and found negative of coronavirus while tests on the rest two were underway, she said. (Source: New Age)
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Aid to Russia
When the Soviet Union abruptly ceased to exist on December 25, 1991, it seemed that the West, particularly the U.S., finally had what it had always wanted--the opportunity to introduce quick, all-encompassing economic reform that would remake Russia in the West's own image.
Janine Wedel
Since 1992, the U.S. and other donors have provided Russia billions of dollars in aid for radical economic "reforms," largely defined as privatization of state-owned assets.
The chief beneficiary of these reforms has been a small clique of political and economic powerbrokers.
The Chubais clique typically instituted reforms through top-down presidential decree and a network of aid-funded "private" organizations which has circumvented Russia's legislature.
When the Soviet Union abruptly ceased to exist on December 25, 1991, it seemed that the West, particularly the U.S., finally had what it had always wanted–the opportunity to introduce quick, all-encompassing economic reform that would remake Russia in the West's own image. To this end, the U.S., over the past seven years, has embarked upon a fairly consistent course of economic relations with Russia. Three interrelated policies characterize this course: 1) the urging of radical economic "reforms," defined largely as the privatization of state-owned assets, to restructure the economy; 2) the backing of a particular political-economic group, or "clan," to do so; and 3) the provision of billions of dollars in U.S. and other Western aid, subsidized loans, and rescheduled debt.
The United States has consistently supported President Boris Yeltsin and a Russian cadre of self-styled economic "reformers" to conduct Western aid-funded economic reforms and negotiate economic relations with the West. U.S. support for Anatoly Chubais, Yegor Gaidar, and the so-called "Chubais Clan" (a group of savvy operators dominated by a clique from St. Petersburg) has bolstered the Clan's standing as Russia's chief brokers with the West and the international financial institutions. This support continues to the present. And, the Chubais Clan–not the Russian economy as a whole–has been the chief beneficiary of economic restructuring funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Throughout the 1990s, Chubais has been a useful figure for Russian president Boris Yeltsin: beginning in November 1991 as head of Russia's new privatization agency, the State Property Committee (GKI), then additionally as first deputy prime minister in January 1994, and later as the lightning rod for complaints about economic policies after the communists won the Russian parliament (Duma) election in December 1995. Chubais made a comeback in 1996 as head of Yeltsin's successful reelection campaign and was named chief of staff for the president. In March 1997, Western support and political maneuvering catapulted him to first deputy prime minister and minister of finance. Although fired by Yeltsin in March 1998, Chubais was reappointed in June 1998 to be Yeltsin's special envoy in charge of Russia's relations with international lending institutions.
Working closely with Harvard University's Institute for International Development (HIID), the Chubais Clan controlled, directly and indirectly, millions of dollars in U.S. aid through a variety of institutions and organizations set up to perform privatization, economic-restructuring, and related activities. Between 1992 and 1997, HIID received $40.4 million from USAID in noncompetitive grants for work in Russia and was slated to receive another $17.4 million until USAID suspended HIID's funding in May 1997, citing evidence that HIID principals were engaged in "activities for personal gain." In addition to receiving millions in direct funding, HIID and the Clan helped steer and coordinate USAID's $300 million economic reform portfolio, which encompassed privatization, legal reform, development of capital markets, and the creation of a Russian securities and exchange commission.
The preferred method of economic reform was top-down presidential decree orchestrated by Chubais. Shortly after Yeltsin became the elected president of the Russian Federation in June 1991, the Federation's Supreme Soviet passed a law mandating privatization. After several schemes were floated, the Supreme Soviet passed a program in 1992 intended to prevent corruption, but the one Chubais eventually implemented contained none of the safeguards and was designed to encourage the accumulation of property in a few hands. This program opened the door to widespread corruption and was so controversial that Chubais ultimately had to rely largely on presidential decrees, not parliamentary approval, for implementation.
Instead of encouraging market reform, this rule by decree frustrated many market reforms as well as democratic decisionmaking. Some reforms, such as lifting price controls, could be achieved by decree. But many other reforms advocated by USAID, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including privatization and economic restructuring, depended on changes in law, public administration, or mindsets, and required working with the full spectrum of legislative and market participants-not just one group. The "reformers" set up still other means of bypassing democratic processes, including a network of aid-funded "private" organizations controlled by the Chubais Clan and HIID. These organizations enabled reformers to bypass legitimate bodies of government, such as ministries and branch ministries, and to circumvent the Duma.
Problems with Current U.S. Policy
Key Problems
U.S. officials and a team of Harvard advisers have embraced the "reformers'" dictatorial political methods, arguing they alone are capable of instituting swift privatization and other economic restructurings.
While professing to support simply economic reform, U.S. policies have consolidated political and economic power in the hands of one clique.
The $11.2 billion IMF bailout in July 1998 will intensify these abuses and has failed to stem Russia's financial crisis.
The privatization drive that was supposed to reap the fruits of the free market instead helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of Western aid and plundered Russia's wealth.
Despite evidence of corruption and lack of popular support, many Western investors and U.S. officials embraced the "reformers" dictatorial modus operandi and viewed Chubais as the only man capable of keeping the nation heading along the troublesome road to economic reform. As Walter Coles, a senior adviser in USAID's Office of Privatization and Economic Restructuring program, said, "If we needed a decree, Chubais didn't have to go through the bureaucracy," adding, "There was no way that reformers could go to the Duma for large amounts of money to move along reform."
While this approach sounds good in principle, it is less convincing in practice because it is an inherently political decision disguised as a technical matter. As Chubais Clan member Maxim Boycko himself acknowledged in a 1995 co-authored book on privatization, "Aid can change the political equilibrium by explicitly helping free-market reformers to defeat their opponents…. Aid helps reform not because it directly helps the economy–it is simply too small for that–but because it helps the reformers in their political battles."
In a 1997 interview, U.S. aid coordinator to the former Soviet Union, Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar, stood by this approach: "If we hadn't been there to provide funding to Chubais, could we have won the battle to carry out privatization? Probably not. When you're talking about a few hundred million dollars, you're not going to change the country, but you can provide targeted assistance to help Chubais."
U.S. assistance to Chubais continued even after he was dismissed by Yeltsin as First Deputy Prime Minister in January 1996. Chubais was placed on the HIID payroll, a show of loyalty that USAID Assistant Administrator Thomas A. Dine said he supported.
Much of this feels familiar to Russians raised in the Communist practice of political control over economic decisions–the quintessence of the discredited Communist system. While professing simply to support reform, U.S. policies afforded one group a comparative advantage and allowed much aid to be used as the tool of this group. Ironically, far from helping to separate the political and economic spheres, U.S. economic aid has instead reinforced the interdependency of these spheres. Indeed, the activities of HIID in Russia provide some cautionary lessons on abuse of trust by supposedly disinterested foreign advisers, on U.S. arrogance, and on the entire policy of support for a single Russian group of so-called reformers.
The July 1998 IMF bailout of Russia represents an intensification of the very policies that have produced such abuses. The $11.2 billion aid package for 1998, (with another $7.8 billion funds over three years pledged if Russia "stays on track"), is supposed to put an end to Russia's financial crisis. Yet only a very few certain political-economic players–not the population at large, including workers who have gone without wages for months–stand to reap any benefits.
Among those who spoke out against the bailout was Veniamin Sokolov, head of the Chamber of Accounts of the Russian Federation, Russia's equivalent of the U.S. General Accounting Office. Sokolov, who has investigated the destination of some previous monies from international lending institutions and aid organizations, argued, "All loans made to Russia go to speculative financial markets and have no effect whatsoever on the national economy." And it is the Russian people who are responsible for repaying those loans.
The very call for an IMF bailout is a commentary on the failure of previous economic aid to Russia: If aid had been effective, why were billions in IMF loans needed to prevent the country from falling into crisis? The IMF loan and accompanying hype were intended to revive confidence in Russia's plummeting markets and give the government time to get its financial markets under control. However, just weeks after the IMF deal was approved, investor confidence hit a new low and the Russian government was forced to devalue the ruble.
For its part, USAID, which provided Russia with $95.7 million in economic aid in 1997 and another $129.1 million estimated for 1998, is requesting from Congress $225.4 million in economic aid for Russia in 1999.
Toward a New Foreign Policy
In order to support its stated objectives of fostering sound economic development and democratic institutions, the U.S. needs to reverse its current policies and practices in Russia.
The United States must accept that the future shape of Russia must and will be determined by the Russian people and adhere to its basic principles such as participatory democracy and the rule of law.
Washington should recognize that a healthy banking and financial system depends on a revival of production and distribution within Russia and should use its considerable influence with the World Bank and IMF to promote policies that address these fundamental problems.
Given the continuing socioeconomic deterioration of Russia, what should the United States do? If the U.S. government wants to adhere to its own declared objectives and help promote in Russia sound economic development and equitable growth as well as viable and transparent democratic institutions, it has no option than to reverse its current policies and practices.
The U.S. role in creating a system of tycoon capitalism and the current economic meltdown, coupled with military policies such as NATO expansion, have fueled anti-American sentiment in Russia. The first thing we should do, as Joseph Stiglitz, a leading World Bank economist, correctly suggests, is to adopt "a greater degree of humility…. (and) acknowledgement of the fact that we do not have all of the answers." Washington must also accept that the future shape of Russia society will and must be determined by the Russian people. U.S. policy should at least try to adhere to some of the principles that it preaches, such as participatory democracy and the rule of law or even "no taxation without representation." In line this with, the U.S. must stop its policy of support-at-all-costs for Yeltsin and the Chubais Clan, not only in USAID targets but also in U.S. influence in IMF and World Bank lending.
Second, the U.S. government should recognize that a healthy banking and financial system cannot arise without a revival of production and distribution in the "real" economy. Measures which emphasize increases in tax collections and reductions in government expenditures under the current extremely depressed conditions simply guarantee accelerated decline of the real economy and social-political chaos. The United States should use its great influence on the IMF andWorld Bank to reduce their pressure on Russia to pursue such suicidal policies. Not only did the IMF bailout fail to restore confidence, but the business of international aid has been fundamentally ill-conceived. As Veniamin Sokolov warned: "Giving more loans to the Yeltsin government is comparable to giving a drug addict a fresh supply of narcotics. Any new loans will only go to the realm of financial speculation and to prop up support for Boris Yeltsin. Russia does not need any further such lending." In sum, further aid will go to the same corrupt niches and is likely to make the situation worse, not better.
Third, the U.S. should embark on a broad-based policy to encourage governance and the rule of law. It is essential that the United States discontinue support of non-inclusive organizations and the bypassing of democratic process through decree. Some U.S. aid funds have gone for "democracy building," including strengthening and revamping the judiciary. However, these efforts have been a low priority and have been compromised and undermined by the practice of U.S. economic advisers encouraging the Chubais Clan to enact swift economic reforms without approval of the Duma, Russia's popularly elected legislature.
The U.S. needs to adopt a pro-democracy stance that encourages institution-building and as broad a range of democratic positions as possible. We must cease to select specific groups or individuals as the recipients of uncritical support, which both corrupts our "favorites" and delegitimizes them in the eyes of their fellow citizens.
Fourth, President Clinton himself, other U.S. officials, and economic advisers need to establish contact and ties with a wide cross-section of the Russian leadership–politicians, economists, and social and political activists–and not only with Yeltsin and his allies. How Russian elites perceive the efficacy of U.S. aid programs and policies should be a source of concern, especially because many Russians have questioned American intentions. Although a reversal of policy will require a long and resolute process of diplomacy, Clinton administration officials can take steps by, for example, making efforts to meet with members of the Duma and a diversity of Russian elites.
by Janine R. Wedel, George Washington University


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Q: Gradle dependency downloads but packages aren't available in project I published a small library of mine to a free maven hosting service, and am using that package in another project. I've done this before without issue but something isn't working this time.
Gradle finds the file just fine, and downloads it I assume. I know this because any change to the URL, package name, or version, and Gradle throws the "can't find the dep in any of these places" error.
However, any import of the packages in this JAR error, saying it can't find the package. IntelliJ, when I refresh gradle deps, also doesn't show my library in the "External Libraries" section.
Here's my gradle.build for the project I'm using the library in:
apply plugin: 'java'

repositories {

    maven { url = 'https://repo.repsy.io/mvn/viveleroi/tileowner' }
}

group = project.property("group")
version = project.property("version")

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'network.darkhelmet.tileowner:tileowner:1.0.0'
}

compileJava {
    options.compilerArgs += ["-parameters"]
    options.fork = true
    options.forkOptions.executable = 'javac'
}

The test class:
import network.darkhelmet.tileowner.TileOwner;

public class Demo {}

Gradle says it's on the classpath:
compileClasspath - Compile classpath for source set 'main'.
\--- network.darkhelmet.tileowner:tileowner:1.0.0

compileOnly - Compile only dependencies for source set 'main'. (n)
\--- network.darkhelmet.tileowner:tileowner:1.0.0 (n)

I've downloaded the published jar of my library from that repository, unzipped it, and have confirmed all files are in there as expected.
Here's the build.gradle of my library project:
import org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath group: 'com.github.rodionmoiseev.gradle.plugins', name: 'idea-utils', version: '0.2'
    }
}

plugins {
    id "com.github.johnrengelman.shadow" version "7.0.0"
    id "xyz.jpenilla.run-paper" version "1.0.6"
    id 'maven-publish'
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'idea-utils'
apply plugin: 'checkstyle'

processResources {
    filter ReplaceTokens, tokens: [
        "apiversion": project.property("apiversion"),
        "version"   : project.property("version")
    ]
}

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()

    maven { url = "https://repo.aikar.co/content/groups/aikar/" }
    maven { url = 'https://hub.spigotmc.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
}

group = project.property("group")
version = project.property("version")
targetCompatibility = sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'org.spigotmc:spigot-api:1.18-R0.1-SNAPSHOT'
    implementation 'co.aikar:acf-bukkit:0.5.0-SNAPSHOT'
}

compileJava {
    options.compilerArgs += ["-parameters"]
    options.fork = true
    options.forkOptions.executable = 'javac'
}

jar {
    actions = []
    dependsOn = []
    dependsOn('shadowJar')
}

shadowJar {
    relocate 'co.aikar.commands', 'network.darkhelmet.tileowner.acf'
    relocate 'co.aikar.locales', 'network.darkhelmet.tileowner.locales'
}

publishing {
    publications {
        shadow(MavenPublication) { publication ->
            project.shadow.component(publication)
        }
    }

    repositories {
        maven {
            name = 'repsy'
            url = 'https://repo.repsy.io/mvn/viveleroi/tileowner'
            credentials(PasswordCredentials)
        }
    }
}

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The best piece of advice we can give to travellers flying from Heathrow is that, unless they have several hours to spare before boarding, they must know for sure which terminal they are going to, where their check-in counter is and how much time they have to go through security. Even though this applies in every airport of the world, it becomes particularly true in the case of the main airport in London, which is a small city with plans for expansion.
The good news is that Heathrow airport in London provides passengers with a quick and effective free transport system to go from one terminal to another. Terminal 2 (known as the Queen's Terminal) is within a short walk from terminal 3. Notwithstanding that, in order to reach terminals 4 and 5 we will have to use the shuttle trains or buses. Moreover, the Picadilly tube line stops in each terminal, but bear in mind that you need to pay the standard fee for a really short journey. If you have a connecting flight at Heathrow, your airline will probably arrange the shuttle service towards your next boarding area.
It must be said that this airport in the British capital is very well signposted, and that every terminal has different levels which can be easily accessed by using lifts. This way, the arrivals halls and the baggage claim areas are located on the ground floors, from where you can go down to the tube and the shuttle trains, as well as information offices, shops and currency exchange booths. Both in the airside and the landside, we will find charging stations for our mobile devices.
The upper floors house the check-in desks, the security filters, the shops and the boarding gates. In terminal 5, the gates are divided into three zones, and we need to take a complimentary train to get around; if we take into account that gates are announced 15 minutes before the actual boarding time, we must remain alert and check information panels frequently.
Once in the departures area of Heathrow, we may go shopping at designer brand stores and have a delicious pre-flight meal. Some of its most popular establishments are Caffé Nero, M&S Food, Caviar House & Prunier, Costa Coffee, Starbucks, Pret a Manger, Yo Sushi, Chanel, Zara, MAC, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Harrods, Michael Kors, World Duty Free and Hugo Boss.
If you are having a layover in Heathrow and you need to spend the night at the airport, we recommend you book a room at the Sofitel hotel in T5; if your stay will be a longer one, you can check availability and prices of hotels in London.
-Terminal 2 (the Queen's Terminal): Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Egypt Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Eurowings, EVA Air, Flybe, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, SAS, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss, TAP Portugal, Thai Airways, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines.
-Terminal 3: Air Canada, American Airlines, ANA, ASIG, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, EVA Air, Finnair, Iran Air, Japan Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Vueling.
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-Terminal 5: British Airlines and partner airlines from the One World Alliance operating code share flights.
As soon as we land in Heathrow we may connect our devices to their free WiFi, which requires a simple registration. Providing we do not want to use our smartphone or laptop, there are computers with broadband internet connection in all terminals; in order to find out where they are located, check the digital screens displaying terminal maps.
T2: Plaza Premium featuring showers, bedrooms and spa, Lufthansa Senator and Aer Lingus Gold.
T3: Club Aspire, No.1, Traveller bedrooms No.1, American Airlines, Delta, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic. Additionally, there is a Plaza Premium arrivals lounge in the public area.
T4: Plaza Premium featuring showers, bedrooms and spa, Sky Team, Etihad, Qatar Airways.
T5: Aspire (lounge & spa), and exclusive British Airways lounges.


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Q: React Native: How to inline a toggle switch with a textInput? This is what I have done so far:

I want the text input to extent until reaches end of box.
Here's my code:
<View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }} >
     <Switch style={styles.switch}
             trackColor={{true: "#36d79a", false: 'grey'}}
             thumbColor={{true: "#36d79a", false: 'grey'}}
     />
    <Input right placeholder="Type your custom question here." iconContent=
   {<Block />}
     />
</View>

A: To fill space along the main axis of flexboxes, apply the flex property with a number value to flex children. The number specifies the proportions of how the available space is distributed among the flex children. See the docs on flexbox for details.
In your case, you would specify flex: 1 only for the <Input /> meaning that this component alone is allowed to fill the rest of the space. I've created this React Native & MUI Codesandbox to demonstrate it.
<View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }} >
     <Switch style={styles.switch}
             trackColor={{true: "#36d79a", false: 'grey'}}
             thumbColor={{true: "#36d79a", false: 'grey'}}
     />
    <Input style={{ flex: 1 }} right placeholder="Type your custom question here." iconContent=
   {<Block />}
     />
</View>

A: Add justifyContent: 'space-between' to your main View.
Alternatively, you can always use placeholder views:
<View style={{ flex: 1 }}. You would put that placeholder between the Switch and the Input.


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President Address
Trump Leads in Iowa, Bloomberg May Join the Race
By Bruce Alpert
For nearly a year, candidates have been telling American voters that they are best qualified to become the next U.S. president. On Monday, voters will have their say in an evening of discussion and debate known as the Iowa caucus.
Monday's caucus in the Midwestern state of Iowa is the first in a series of caucuses and primaries to select a nominee for the Republican and Democratic parties.
In the Republican presidential field, businessman Donald Trump expands his lead over the crowded field of candidates.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes a question from a member of the audience after speaking at a rally at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Jan. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
A Fox News poll in Iowa shows Trump leading 23 to 34 percent above Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Another poll by CBS News has Trump with a smaller lead over Cruz in Iowa -- 34 to 39 percent. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is in third place in both polls.
Nationally, support for Trump is also increasing, according to a new CNN poll on Tuesday. It shows Trump with the support of 41 percent of Republican voters across the United States. Cruz is in second place with 19 percent.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont are in a virtual tie among Iowa voters. The CBS poll of Iowa voters shows Clinton leading 46 to 47 percent. But Clinton still has a large lead over Sanders nationally in the new CNN poll. Her lead is 38 percent to 52 percent.
As a candidate, Trump has called for deporting undocumented immigrants and for banning Muslims from entering the U.S. On the opposite side, Sanders has called for breaking up large financial institutions. He also wants free college tuition at public colleges.
Rival candidates have called their proposals as unrealistic and "not serious." But Trump, on the Republican side, and Sanders, on the Democratic side, continue to gain strength among primary voters.
"There seems to be an extraordinary amount of anger in the United States, both on the left and on the right and maybe even in the center and it's a little disconcerting," said political analyst Stan Collender. "I don't think anyone saw this coming or anyone predicted it."
Will Bloomberg enter the race?
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a run for president as an independent.
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering an independent big for the presidency, according to close associates who are familiar with his decision making.
The paper reported that Bloomberg would run if Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were the Democratic and Republican nominees.
Bloomberg, a billionaire like Trump, was mayor of New York City for 12 years. Since he has left office, Bloomberg has spent much of his own money calling for tougher gun control laws.
The threat of another billionaire in the race brought quick response from the candidates. On NBC's Meet the Press, Clinton said, "Well, I'm going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn't have to."
Trump said he would be happy if Bloomberg ran. Trump said he and Bloomberg have been friends, but "perhaps we're not friends anymore."
Sanders' candidacy is largely a promise to reduce big wage differences between wealthy and poor Americans.
"If Donald Trump wins and Mr. Bloomberg gets in, you're going to have two multi-billionaires running for president of the United States against me," Sanders said on Meet the Press. He said Americans do not want to see "billionaires control the political process."
Obama weighs in
Even President Barack Obama felt the need to say something about the race.
In an interview this week with Politico, Obama described Clinton as "wicked smart," and "extraordinarily experienced."
He also praised Sanders, but not as much, according to Politico. Obama said Sanders gets the benefit of being a new candidate for president. Clinton also ran in 2008, when she lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Obama.
"You're always looking at the bright, shiny object that people haven't seen before — that's a disadvantage to her (meaning Clinton)," Obama said.
But he had nothing good to say about Trump and Cruz, the two leading Republican candidates.
"When I ran against (Senator) John McCain, John McCain and I had real differences, sharp differences, but John McCain didn't deny climate science," Obama told Politico. "John McCain didn't call for banning Muslims from the United States. ... [The] Republican vision has moved not just to the right, but has moved to a place that is unrecognizable."
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Salmon Catch Is Falling For This Alaskan Village. Will A Big Military Exercise Make It Worse?
Residents of Cordova are worried that chemical contamination, debris, sonar and other effects of the training will harm their fishing ground.
Ryan Wichelns— High Country News
05/08/2019 03:28pm EDT | Updated February 15, 2021
This story was produced and originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The air in Cordova, Alaska, is an unlikely mix of fresh glacial air and diesel fuel fumes. On one side of the isolated town rise the Chugach Mountains; on the other, a worn-looking fleet of fishing boats float in Prince William Sound, a northern branch of the Gulf of Alaska. There are no roads in or out of Cordova, and more than half of its 2,000-plus residents depend on the salmon industry. But for two weeks this May, their way of life could be under fire — literally.
While Cordova's fleet busily prepares for the summer fishing season, another armada will borrow the Gulf of Alaska, starting May 13. Since the Cold War, the U.S. military has periodically practiced cold-weather operations in Alaska's waters. But locals are worried about the impacts of the Arctic readiness exercises, including possible pollution and harm to marine life, especially because many of the details are unknown. With climate change already hammering the ecosystem, it's clear that the ocean is not a limitless supply of resources, raising questions about just how much the environment can take and who gets to say how it's used.
Joint training exercises have been held near Cordova nearly every other year since 1975. "Northern Edge," as the operation is now called, involves a massive force from all branches of the military. While many of the specifics are classified, ships and aircraft fire ammunition, train for submarine detection and evasion, and practice air combat, among other maneuvers. This year, the exercises will feature about 10,000 service members and 250 aircraft spread across the state, with a fleet of five warships in the Gulf of Alaska — a force roughly 50% larger than the 2017 event.
Carol Hoover, the executive director of the Eyak Preservation Council, a Cordova-based conservation organization, worries that chemical contamination, debris, sonar and other effects of the training will harm the ecosystem. Similar concerns inspired a 150-boat demonstration in Cordova's harbor and united resolutions from more than a dozen Prince William Sound communities and tribes against the 2015 exercises. Ultimately, it comes down to one thing: the fish.
Salmon fisheries in the area have been dwindling in recent years, likely due to a combination of factors, including overfishing, ocean acidification and warming. In 2018, the sockeye salmon catch fell nearly 67% compared to the average over the last decade, most likely owing to unusually warm sea temperatures. That's something Bert Lewis, a regional supervisor for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Central Region, said could happen more often in the future. "We're in a state of dynamic flux," he said. "There were lots of predictable patterns when it comes to the fisheries, but all those patterns have kind of fallen apart."
Hoover and others fear that Northern Edge will further stress the fish. Sonar's deadly effects on marine mammals, for example, are well documented, but its impacts on salmon are far less clear. The Navy's environmental assessment for the exercises concludes that fish are unlikely to have their hearing impacted by sonar, but Hoover and her team wonder whether specific frequencies could physically damage salmon. A study commissioned by the Navy in 2008 noted that specific sonar signals could increase death rates in some types of fish by resonating within their swim bladders. But the assessment makes no mention of the problem, and no research has been done to examine it.
And while large debris and contamination are an obvious concern, the harmful impacts of chemical changes — from explosives, aircraft chaff, or other expendables — are another major unknown. According to Michael Stocker, the director of Ocean Conservation Research, a nonprofit focused on ocean noise pollution, salmon rely on water chemistry to navigate. But "we don't have any studies about how these salmon are being compromised by the chemicals," he said.
Master Sgt. Miguel Lara III, a planner for the Air Force, said the Navy's environmental assessment is thorough and was "developed using the best available science." He added that Northern Edge overlaps only minimally with established fisheries management areas, though Hoover and others argue that those areas don't include all salmon habitat. Still, Lara said, "Alaska is strategically important to the United States, both as a location to project military power into the Indo-Pacific and to ensure the United States is protected from external threats." From the military's perspective, holding Northern Edge in the Gulf of Alaska in May provides the most realistic training conditions for regional operations during a time when the exercises are unlikely to be hampered by bad weather.
In a town that takes so much pride in its salmon, it's no wonder that locals are worried. "If the fishermen aren't doing well, the community suffers," said Bill Webber, a Cordova fisherman of 52 years. Webber, who came close to foreclosure when the Exxon Valdez oil spill ravaged local fisheries 30 years ago, doesn't want to risk another disaster. "Alaska is one of the last wild and sustainable, pure and clean ecosystems left on the planet which still has a good diversity of seafood resources that we harvest and feed the world with," he said. "Do we need to be exploding those bombs up here? I'd say no."
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The classroom is a social environment where student success is dependent on the ability to interact well with others. Whereas, 72% of students on the autism spectrum have additional mental health needs that cause challenges in the classroom.
Although the learning disabilities that are associated with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) are unique to each child many autistic students share the same development problems: social interaction, language, and behavior.Autism can hinder a student's ability to communicate and share experiences with others. Compared to their peers, autistic students are four times more likely to need extra learning and social support. This lack of social-emotional competence leads to a decrease in their connection to the learning environment and academic performance.
ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) treatments for autistic children have proven that the behavior of autistic students can be changed. Studies have demonstrated that ABA techniques produce improvements in communication, social relationships, and school performance.With the right accommodations, including proper modifications to the educational environment, along with the addition of positive reinforcement, autistic students can overcome the many barriers to learning.To put in place effective ABA techniques, educators need a better understanding of autism and how it may affect learning. Teachers are being called upon to be innovative and creative due to the unique challenges that students with ASD provide, this includes modifying their education programs.
One ABA treatment that is growing in popularity is the use of therapy dogs. If you are unfamiliar with therapy dogs and the benefits of therapy dog treatment, here is a brief history lesson: Smoky, a Yorkshire terrier, and World War 2 veteran was the first official therapy dog whose service on and off the battlefield would pave the way for future therapy dogs. Injured soldiers relied on Smoky, their canine companion, for entertainment to boost their morale. Today, therapy dogs act as a safety net, guardian, and friend who are trained to respond to a child's most repetitive behaviors. Due to their calming influence, therapy dogs are becoming popular in the autism community. The special relationship between the therapy dog and child stimulates positive changed behavior. For children with ASD, their furry companions are not only their best friend but also offer therapeutic benefits.
Therapy dogs show unconditional love, and often times, a loving friendship develops. Both therapy dog and patient enjoy each other's company in nonverbal ways which assists with everyday life. For example, therapy dogs de-escalate emotional meltdowns by gently interrupting any self-harming behaviors.
The biggest challenge faced by students with autism is social interaction with peers. When introduced to the classroom, therapy dogs can increase a child's participation and functional level. After interacting with their canine companions, students with ASD transfer over their new-found social relationships with other students.
Another benefit of therapy dogs is that they can assist with behavior management by their comforting and calming demeanor. Many therapy dogs are specifically trained to decrease inappropriate behavior by acting as a source of comfort, such as leaning against a child or gently across their lap.
The most important benefit that therapy dogs can provide for students is an improvement in academic performance. After introducing therapy dogs, you will find that your students are more attentive. While also being better behaved with a new-found self-confidence – which is key to academic success. Autistic students face many challenges in the classroom. To help autistic students overcome barriers to learning school administrators, teachers, and parents must be equipped with the right accommodations. Therapy dogs mitigate the impact of autism and assist in managing the sensory overload of the school environment, and provide students with autism with the stability needed to be successful in the classroom.
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This artist's concept depicts a distant hypothetical solar system, similar in age to our own. Looking inward from the system's outer fringes, a ring of dusty debris can be seen, and within it, planets circling a star the size of our Sun.
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For several years scientists have been detecting planets around mature stars and, separately, imaging dust disks around younger stars. A strong theory has developed that planets form from these disks of material that are leftovers of the star formation process.
In other investigations, lumpy objects in young star systems have been seen, and researchers figure they're planets-in-the-making.
However there has been a glaring gap in the observations: Mature stars harboring both planets and disks have remained elusive, perhaps simply because the disks have thinned out to almost imperceptible levels.
New observations announced today begin to fill in the missing link.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected dust disks around mature, Sun-like stars known to have planets. The dust is in the outlying reaches of each system and is presumed to result from collisions between objects, as occurs in our own solar system's Kuiper Belt, out beyond Neptune.
The half-dozen systems Spitzer analyzed contain gas giant planets. Rocky, Earth-sized planets might exist in them, but technology cannot find them now.
The findings suggest theories of planet formation, including here in our solar system, are on track. It goes like this: A star is born amid a cloud of gas and dust. Leftovers swirl into a relatively flat disk that orbits the rotating star. Dust and chemicals collects and build rocky and icy objects, which collide. Some stick to make comets, asteroids and planets. Other collisions later on continue to produce dust -- which Spitzer detected.
The new results "fit into theoretical picture that we've built up about how stars and planetary system form," said Charles Beichman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of the study.
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Separate new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal significant dust disks around a young star, one between 50 million and 250 million years old. Importantly, the star is similar to our Sun.
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String Quartets by Debussy and Ravel/Claude Debussy: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10/Maurice Ravel
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The Ravel Quartet, written a decade later in , is a perennial discmate of the Debussy to which it is related in some structural elements. Here too, the Juilliard's refusal to dawdle pays dividends, as in the opening, which can seem cloying in slower readings, while the group's gift for rhythmic lift and tonal color makes Ravel's. Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op / Ravel: String Quartet in F major () / Kodaly: String Quartet No.2, Op (DG The Originals) Melos Quartet out of 5 stars /5(10). Buy Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op / Ravel: String Quartet in F major () / Kodaly: String Quartet No.2, Op (DG The Originals) by Melos Quartet from Amazon's Classical Music Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(14). String Quartets by Debussy and Ravel/Claude Debussy: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10/Maurice Ravel: Quartet in F Major Prelude a "l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune"/Trois Nocturnes (Dover Miniature Scores) Works for Piano Four Hands and Two Pianos, Series I (Series 1).
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Henri Vieuxtemps (–): Three string quartets (in E minor, Op. 44, in C major, Op. 51, in B ♭, Op. 52—the latter two published posthumously). Emilie Mayer (–): String quartet in G minor, Op. 14 and several in manuscript. Friedrich Kiel (–): Two string quartets (Op. 53, in A minor and E ♭) and waltzes Op and. Check out Debussy, Fauré & Ravel: String Quartets by Quatuor Ébène on Amazon Music. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Op () for string quartet Claude Debussy $ String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Scorch Virtualsheetmusic. Recorded on 07/12/, uploaded on 12/23/ Musician's or Publisher's Notes. In , Claude Debussy found himself hopelessly struggling to complete his planned opera Rodrigue et Chimène, forcing himself to work with a libretto he knew was wholly incompatible with his concept of both music and tely, he abandoned the project and in the aftermath turned to the composition of.
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The string quartets of Claude Debussy (–) and Maurice Ravel (–) seemed destined to face an identity crisis from the very outset. Reacting to the premiere of the Ravel, composer Eduard Lalo was hardly alone in proclaiming: "In all the elements it contains and all the sensations it evokes it offers an incredible resemblance to.
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The quartets by Debussy and Ravel are as much about color as they are about style, technical precision, and the awesomely intricate details of phrasing.
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The most important and iconic building erected in the market squares was the town hall. However, only in a few of the biggest merchant cities town halls were built shortly after a city's establishment. Cities needed to have adequate financial resources to invest in the erection of such a building.
Preserved documents confirm there was a town hall in the market square in Częstochowa. It is first mentioned by royal vetting in 1564. This does not mean that Częstochowa did not have a municipal authority seat before that time. There are no sources (settlement document and others) specifying when privileges were obtained by the city and townspeople, and hence no credible hypothesis can be made about when such a municipal authority seat was created. Following the example of other cities in northern Lesser Poland (e.g. Lelów or Przyrów), we can assume that in the initial period of the city functioning, the mayor's house, along with dedicated economic facilities, took the place of the town hall. The probability of this is proved by the fact that in 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło issued a privilege to the mayor of Częstochowa, Siegfried Baruth, generously endowing him. He was a knight that served the king. Most likely he had a spacious house in the town.
Research confirms that only the richest cities built town halls. It was a very expensive investment. As a rule, settlements that received municipal status in the 14th century built their town hall in the 15th century, or even in the 16th or 17th centuries. This was probably the case with Częstochowa, which, compared to other places in Lesser Poland or on the Silesian-Lesser Poland border in the first half of the 16th century, was one of the most populated cities with 1,600 inhabitants. It seems most probable that the town hall was erected only after a settlement privilege was renewed in 1502 by Aleksander Jagiellończyk. According to information recorded by royal inspectors in 1564 and 1660, the building had brick cellars, where traditionally an inn was run, and local beer was sold. The building is mentioned again in 1630. Because of a prevailing plague, city councillors did not deliberate in the town hall, but in a field near Kiedrzyn.
We do not have any written information about the appearance of the town hall or what purpose the building's rooms served. Compared with other buildings of this type described in the sources, with a high degree of probability, we can make a hypothetical reconstruction of the Częstochowa building.
The size of the town hall depended on the size of the city, social and economic structure, the number of councillors, etc. The main and most important room of the seat of the municipal authorities was the great council meeting room, sometimes called "the chamber of the lord". It was located on the first floor, usually lavishly decorated; usually – for the safety of municipal authorities – it had a balustrade that separated the mayor and councillors from the gathering townspeople. The second most important room was the court room, where the jury met for debate and sentencing. These two rooms, due to their representative nature, were decorated with occasional paintings and maxims. In addition to the above-mentioned rooms intended only for persons performing public functions, there were, depending on the individual needs of the municipal community, rooms used for administrative purposes, such as an archive, treasury, writer's office, and sometimes a library. Throughout the centuries, town hall cellars housed beer and wine taverns, coexisting with a prison. It should be mentioned that the town hall building included additional facilities, like the municipal weigh house, stalls, etc. Undoubtedly, all these had a place in the Częstochowa town hall.
This picture was immortalized 100 years later, i.e. in the second half of the 17th century, on Jan Aleksander Gorczyn's engraving. We can read that the building placed among the urban buildings was quite spacious, on a plan similar to a square, two-storey, with a high gable roof, with pinnacles typical of public buildings placed at the top of gables, with clear gothic features. From the north and possibly from the south, the first floor had an arcade in the form of a mono-pitched roof probably supported by columns. The engraving also shows a roof reaching the height of the cornice from the east, which may indicate that the town hall had two-storey galleries. The wooden elements probably constituted additional spaces which were necessary for trade.
The town hall in Old Częstochowa, like most buildings in the city center, was consumed by a fire that broke out on July 23, 1760. The town hall building was destroyed. A year later it was recorded that the town hall still had no roof and the basement was partly in ruins. Information about the great fire clearly emphasized that two town buildings burned down then: "the town hall in the middle of the square and the upper and lower prison, also in the middle of the square". At that time, the ruined town hall was leased to Józef Piotrowski. The first attempts to save the town hall building were made a few days after the fire. Maciej Śliwiarz took over the lease from Józef Piotrowski and committed to "rebuild the town hall chamber and, if necessary, repair the town hall within a year". We learn from subsequent records that he did not fulfil his obligation, because at the meeting of the council on June 14, 1761, the problem of rebuilding the town hall was still topical and widely discussed. As a result, the townspeople of Old Częstochowa and citizens of New Częstochowa, who owned land in Old Częstochowa, were obliged to bring wood to the town hall, while those who did not own carts were obliged to pay five fines. Mandating townspeople to pay was slow, which upset Councillor Antoni Bielski, who "scorned the city and declared 300zł for the rebuilding of the town hall." At the meeting of the City Council on July 4, 1762, the problem was revisited, obliging the townspeople to bring in lime and stones or pay 2zł. Meanwhile, bailiffs had to work an extra day. Work on the town hall was not completed until May 1763. According to the settlement of the mayor, Jacek Kośmidrowicz, the cost of the rebuilding was 1625zł. For comparison sake, the renovation cost of a municipal brewery was 142zł. Facilities like the town hall or municipal brewery were covered with shingles. The royal property inspection of 1765 seems to prove that the city dealt with the effects of the fire and most of the buildings were restored. Even though the rebuilding was not completed until June 1763, in July 1761, the lessee, Maciej Śliwiarz, paid 150zł to the city. treasury for the lease of commercial premises in the town hall. In 1769, funds for the lease of the lower floor of the town hall, probably the ground floor, were received by the Municipal Bank.
Another fire that hit the city in 1790, ravaged mainly the south side, where church buildings were located. Other homes were also at least partially destroyed. We do not know whether municipal buildings were affected, and to what extent. All signs point to the fact that the town hall was still standing in 1809. According to sources, the lower part of the city was leased to local merchants. As a result of the hostilities that took place in 1809, the seat of the municipal authorities was completely burnt down. The town hall fire burned the town archive, which contained old, as well as current, records. The city authorities tried to rebuild the ruined building, but as noted in 1811, in the propination law document: "A new one may not be built until the after fire ruins are compensated and the money paid for the army from this cash register is returned to this cash register". The difficult financial situation of the city and the ongoing military operations in the vicinity of Częstochowa forced the city to postpone the reconstruction of the town hall. And at the beginning of the functioning of the Congress Poland, in view of the more and more evident initiative of combining Old and New Częstochowa into one urban entity, plans to rebuild the old town hall were abandoned in favour of building an urban structure in the middle of the road connecting the two cities. Finally, after 1813, the town hall was completely demolished, as the prefect A. Garczyński, on behalf of the townspeople of Częstochowa, asked for in a letter to the Minister of the Interior – "to level the ground in the market square and repurpose the area where stood the ruins of the burnt town hall", with the help of detainees. It is not known whether he received such help, but the old town hall was no longer mentioned in town plans.
Discovered in 2006, relics of a brick building with cellars correspond to the general description of the town hall, and the historical facts can be associated with the phases of its construction, reconstruction and the end of its operation. The existing quadrilateral cellar walls are also the foundation walls of the former building, approx. 17 m long, 12 m wide and 3 to 4 m high. The total building area was approx. 204 m². In the outline of the existing walls, three essential rooms with vestibules stand out. The basement walls, about 50-190 cm thick, are made of limestone on a lime mortar. At least three phases of reconstruction and expansion of the building's cellars are evident. The cellar walls of the room located on the west side, in terms of the applied stone and masonry threads in the lower part, differ in particular from the rest of the building. Presumably, this was an extension of the original building. This is evidenced by a thicker wall from 1.2 m to 1.9 m, under the cylindrical vault. The corner of the cellar is probably a rebuilt part added from the west side to the original building. In this area there was a way down to the cellar, leading from the ground floor or from the outside of the building. This fact is confirmedb by archaeological research. Walls were excavated outside the cellar, on the west side of the building – "walls" which were created from the arrangement of stones.
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World Cup dream for Chelsea's Brazilians still alive after penalty win
Chelsea's Brazilian trio are still in the World Cup after a dramatic penalty shootout victory against South American rivals Chile.
Brazil were again largely unchanged from their usual set up – the only change from the Selecao's last game against Cameroon saw Manchester City's Fernandinho come in for Paulinho in the heart of midfield. Chile played with their usual 3-4-3, with a handful of names that Chelsea fans will recognise starting – Cardiff's Gary Medel playing on the right wing rather than his usual centre-back position, and ex-West Brom man Gonzalo Jara, a right-back by trade, playing behind the striker as Chile attempted to make the last eight for the first time since 1962.
Chelsea fans saw all three of their Brazilian stars play at one point or another during the clash inside the Estadio Mineirao, with Oscar starting, and Ramires and Willian featuring as extra-time substitutes.
It was however to be a former Chelsea man who opened the scoring – at least according to the scoresheets. The record books will show that David Luiz scored his first Brazil goal, however it looked more like a combination of the ex-Chelsea defender and Chile's Jara as the ball was bundled over the line from a corner. Either way, Brazil had taken the lead to turn the already electric atmosphere in Belo Horizonte up a few notches.
Neymar attempted to put space between the two sides, as he raced through on goal but failed to hit the target. Chile always remained a threat throughout and there was always a feeling that an equaliser was never too far away.
After a few half chances here and there, Chile had finally drew level the tournament's hosts. One of their mercurial talents in Alexis Sanchez capitalised on a defensive lapse and fired into the bottom corner.
Hulk – and indeed everyone in the stadium – thought he had given Brazil the lead once again not long after half time, but English referee Howard Webb had ruled it out for a handball. It initially appeared harsh, but replays showed that he had got it right, much to the chagrin of the swathes of yellow in the stadium.
It was Chile's turn to crank the pressure up as it took a superb stop from QPR goalkeeper Julio Cesar to deny Charles Aranguiz. Not to be outdone, Chile's stopper Claudio Bravo also produced a marvellous stop from Hulk's effort to keep it level as the game headed to extra time.
Chile were the width of a crossbar away from breaking the hearts of millions as Mauricio Pinilla smashed the woodwork in the final minute of extra time, and so the game went to penalties.
David Luiz took the first penalty for Brazil, and after a trademark huge run up, dispatched it to get the shootout off and running. A miss from a nervous Willian was sandwiched between two fantastic saves from Julio Cesar, to keep Brazil ahead 1-0 after two penalties each. Marcelo and Aranguiz then scored their penalties, before Hulk failed to convert to level the scores at 2-2. Neymar drilled his penalty into the bottom corner, and up stepped Gonzalo Jara to keep Chile in it but could only to contrive to hit the post to give Brazil the most dramatic of victories in this enthralling encounter.
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The 'EV' Electric Vehicle Revolution
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'The 'EV' (Electric Vehicle) Revolution.
The Other Revolution
'There is a revolution taking place? No not in civil rights, and not even in the growth of Western style communications on emerging economies,What we are discussing is the 'Electric transport' or 'EV' Revolution!.
Ok so you think you've heard it all before,So why is it different this time?.
The world's biggest automaker's and every other form of transportation for that matter are implementing strategies right now to involve themselves in this 'Revolution'.
But why electric you say?,
Everyone has heard of the challenges we face environmentally,but the essence of the 'EV' solution lies not in the mode of transport but rather the method by which the energy is sourced namely via 'solar'.
The biggest hurdle that the electric vehicle transport industry had were namely the amount of power that could be produced 'cleanly' and the method of storage of the energy'aka' the battery design.
What do we mean?
The anti clean energy lobby make the argument that solar just can't produce the amount of power needed to produce a city's transport needs.But they really are not considering the big picture.New research and development in the area of Solar,wind and other forms clean energy are being developed and implemented into the mainstream mix that even the internet can hardly keep pace with the progress.
There is investment and commitment from the world's biggest financiers and communications and media companies.There is also undertaking of companies such as Tesla,Siemens,and Alstrom to perpetuate and grow the clean energy 'EV Revolution. Progress in battery development and recycling in not only traditional markets such as the U.S,Japan and Germany, is happening but also in emerging economies such as Eastern Europe,Asia and Africa.
The world has sensed sustainability is a 'new game' and consequently joining in.Ok so how is this playing out on the road?
One example is, it's now possible to drive from the West Coast of the United States to the East Coast completely free of fuel cost.
This is just an extra incentive in the adaptation from fossils to clean energy methods.So you may ask how is electric good for the environment?
Well the implementation of solar charging will remove the need for dirty sourced power.And these methods are available in many different forms both fixed and mobile.
The emergence of 'EV' vehicles is inevitable not only can these vehicles prove they can outperform and handle as well as their traditional counterparts, they are safer on the road and eliminate the enormous cost in fuel, freight and transportation, not to mention the noise and other related hazards that come with fossil fuels.
As an extra bonus in favor of the 'EV' existing vehicles can be modified and converted to this electrified method so your cherished classic can enjoy a renaissance into a clean rebirth.
So what are some of the disadvantages of 'EV's?
Well the initial purchase price of the vehicle, however with the commitment of Industrial superpowers such as China the U.S and Germany who are mobilizing their capacity for the adaption, will ensure to allay that argument.
Also Australia's reluctance to adopt these emerging technologies has seriously stifled the solar and sustainable's industry potential and the 'EV' Solution.
These modes of development are being structured and molding the future economic strategies not only in the car industry but also in the bike,bus,tram,boat,airline and train economies as well who the latter incidentally'feed' power back to grid .
Despite this,there is still reason for optimism as community awareness and sense of contribution from the general public is encouraging and has endured the strategy from the 'anti climate change lobby.
This will ensure Australia's rightful place in the 'EV' REVOLUTION!'
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