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25/08/2017

सुख करता दुखहर्ता, वार्ता विघ्नाची
नूर्वी पूर्वी प्रेम कृपा जयाची
सर्वांगी सुन्दर उटी शेंदु राची
कंठी झलके माल मुकताफळांची

जय देव जय देव, जय मंगल मूर्ति
दर्शनमात्रे मनःकमाना पूर्ति
जय देव जय देव

रत्नखचित फरा तुझ गौरीकुमरा
चंदनाची उटी कुमकुम केशरा
हीरे जडित मुकुट शोभतो बरा
रुन्झुनती नूपुरे चरनी घागरिया

जय देव जय देव, जय मंगल मूर्ति
दर्शनमात्रे मनःकमाना पूर्ति
जय देव जय देव

लम्बोदर पीताम्बर फनिवर वंदना
सरल सोंड वक्रतुंडा त्रिनयना
दास रामाचा वाट पाहे सदना
संकटी पावावे निर्वाणी रक्षावे सुरवर वंदना

जय देव जय देव, जय मंगल मूर्ति
दर्शनमात्रे मनःकमाना पूर्ति
जय देव जय देव

शेंदुर लाल चढायो अच्छा गजमुख को
दोन्दिल लाल बिराजे सूत गौरिहर को
हाथ लिए गुड लड्डू साई सुरवर को
महिमा कहे ना जाय लागत हूँ पद को

जय जय जय जय जय
जय जय जी गणराज विद्यासुखदाता
धन्य तुम्हारो दर्शन मेरा मत रमता
जय देव जय देव

अष्ट सिधि दासी संकट को बैरी
विघन विनाशन मंगल मूरत अधिकारी
कोटि सूरज प्रकाश ऐसे छबी तेरी
गंडस्थल मद्मस्तक झूल शशि बहरी

जय जय जय जय जय
जय जय जी गणराज विद्यासुखदाता
धन्य तुम्हारो दर्शन मेरा मत रमता
जय देव जय देव

भावभगत से कोई शरणागत आवे
संतति संपत्ति सबही भरपूर पावे
ऐसे तुम महाराज मोको अति भावे
गोसावीनंदन निशिदिन गुण गावे

जय जय जी गणराज विद्यासुखदाता
धन्य तुम्हारो दर्शन मेरा मत रमता
जय देव जय देव

10/04/2016

13/03/2016

Via Friedrich Alfred Krupp, commonly known as Via Krupp , is one of the most famous streets of the ' island of Capri , which connects the historic center of the island with the resort area of Marina Piccola. Via Krupp is one of the world's most beautiful footpaths - the Via Krupp in the island of Capri - is to reopen after 30 years. The path, sharp turns into a vertical cliff in 1902 by Friedrich Krupp, the German munitions baron, has been closed since a landslide in 1976. But a £5.5 million reconstruction project has restored the route to its former glory and secured the area against falling rocks. Marino Lembo, the deputy mayor, said: "It is an outrage that the path has been closed for this long." Authors, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann and Pablo Neruda, were enchanted by the route.

The German steel magnate Friedrich Alfred Krupp , living in a suite at the Central Hotel Quisisana, could not quickly reach Marina Piccola, where he kept moored his yacht he bought hence the entire area between the Certosa di San Giacomo and Castiglione and he built the road that today takes its name. Given that the rocks are of Capri limestone , Via Krupp has always been exposed to the danger of falling rocks. For this reason, the road has experienced many closures, sometimes for many years.

Via Krupp begins immediately after the staircase leading to the gardens of Augustus, from which you can see from the road. At this point, after the short initial stretch in a straight line, via Krupp proceeds with his gait characterized by numerous bends, for a total of eight curves. Following the winding path along a straight line, the beginning of which you will find the gate that leads to the house of Fra 'Felice, it was destroyed by landslide. From the straight we can see both the famous Faraglioni of Capri is accessed one of the two paths leading respectively to the cave of Castiglione and the Arsenal. A gray gate marks the end of the straight, from the gate on Via Krupp turns to street pedestrian road. Via Krupp finally ends flowing in via Marina Piccola, the road that leads to the homonymous locality.

13/03/2016

12/12/2015

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army rocket range of almost 3,200 sq mi (8,300 km2) in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military [not in citation given] installation in the United States, WSMR and the 600,000-acre (2,400 km2) McGregor Range Complex at Fort Bliss to the south (southeast Tularosa Basin and on Otero Mesa are contiguous areas for military testing.

White Sands Proving Grounds was established in July 1945. It combined the existing ORDCIT Firing Ranges, the Alamogordo Bombing Range, and large tracts of both private and public lands. Even today, the range is speckled with the abandoned ranch houses and windmills of a bygone era. There are also several old abandoned silver and gold mines near the Gap Site of the Sierra Oscura.

White Sands Proving Grounds was later renamed to White Sands Missile Range, or WSMR (pronounced "Whiz-Mer" by nearby residents). The range occupies a somewhat rectangular strip of land, some 40 miles wide (east-west) and 100 miles long (north-south). It is the largest military installation in the United States. This strip of New Mexico desert has been in use since the 40's to test practically every weapon system in the U.S. military arsenal. Pioneering research in rocket technology shortly after World War II at WSMR helped propel the U.S. into space. Because of this, WSMR is sometimes known as the "Birthplace of the Race to Space".

The White Sands Missile Park covers a full acre with dozens of rockets and missiles, most of them pointed skyward as if ready for blast-off. There are target drones and supersonic anti-aircraft interceptors, tactical battlefield bombs and nuclear city-blasters. The mobile "Scud Buster" Patriot missile launcher has stenciled on its side, "If It Flies, It Dies." Oddities abound, such as the World War II Lark, a kamikaze-killer; and the Loon, America's version of the N**i V-1. There's a flying saucer test vehicle used by NASA to practice soft landings on Mars, and a Fat Man H-bomb.

12/12/2015

Contemporary artists boldly experiment not only with the subject of paintings, but also with the technique of their ex*****on. As some canvas masters manage to use feathers. A striking example of such an original painting - art illustrator and jeweler Brenda Lyons. "Painted Feathers - a series of drawings on her turkey feathers. We repeatedly talked about painting, arts on feathers just like our previous post Feather Art by Chris Maynard. Brenda Lyons paints with acrylics, maximum detailing animal portraits. Inspire her own imagination and childhood memories of drawings by famous American naturalist and animal painter John James Audubon. Brenda Lyons at an early age loved viewed Audubon drawing, which, by the way, considered "a monument of Ornithology," and under the impression from what you yourself began to study the life of birds of prey.

12/12/2015

The Horizontal Falls or Horizontal Waterfalls (nicknamed the "Horries") is the name given to a natural phenomenon on the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. The Horizontal Falls are one of the most amazing natural features of the Kimberley region. The tidal waterfalls located deep within Talbot Bay in the Buccaneer Archipelago are unlike any other waterfall, the water passes horizontally. Although they are called waterfalls, this natural phenomenon actually consists of intense tidal currents hurtling through two narrow coastal gorges. Massive tidal movements create a waterfall effect as water banks up against one side of the narrow cliff passage, to be repeated again on the turning tide.

The twin gaps are part of the McLarty Ranges, which have two ridges running parallel approximately 300 meters apart. The first and most seaward gap is about 20 meters wide and the second, most spectacular, gap is about 10 meters wide.

It is possible to drive boats through the two gaps to the bay behind. The tides in this area have a 10 meter variation which occurs over six and a half hours from low tide to high tide and vice versa. The effect of the waterfalls is created by the tide building up in front of the gaps faster than it can flow through them and there can be a four meter high waterfall between the bays.

12/12/2015

The memorial of the famous 19th century Irish writer and poet, Oscar Wilde, lies in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. The memorial, sculpted from a 20-ton piece of Hopton Wood rock in Derbyshire, England, unveiled to the London press in June 1912, and covered with thousands of traces of red lipstick. What do you think, who is resting? "A kiss may ruin a human life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. It can also ruin the stonework of a tomb, judging by the extraordinary graffiti – kisses in lipstick left by admirers – that for years have been defacing and even eroding the massive memorial to the Irish dramatist and wit in Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery.

Wilde died in the city in 1900, aged 46. His restored tomb will finally be unveiled this week, newly protected from his devotees.For years visitors would confine themselves to leaving gently admiring billets doux dedicated to the creator of The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan. All that changed in the late 1990s, when somebody decided to leave a lipstick kiss on the tomb. Since then lipstick kisses and hearts have been joined by a rash of red graffiti containing expressions of love, such as: "Wilde child we remember you", "Keep looking at the stars" and "Real beauty ends where intellect begins". Surprisingly, perhaps, most are written by women.

Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, said the lipstick had become a "serious problem" because the grease sinks into the stone. "Every cleaning was causing a bit more stone to wear away," he said. "No amount of appeals to the public did any good at all. Kissing Oscar's tomb on the Paris tourist circuit has become a cult pastime, which is proving impossible to break. Even if one could catch someone in flagrante delicto – there is a €9,000 (£7,700) fine – most perpetrators are probably tourists, so they would be home before the French authorities could bring them to court.

"From a technical point of view, the tomb is close to being irreparably damaged. Each cleaning has rendered the stone more porous necessitating a yet more drastic cleaning." With the Paris authorities offering a fraction of the cost of preserving the memorial, the Irish have come to the rescue, paying for it through the office of public works in Dublin, which is responsible for a number of Irish monuments and buildings overseas. They have paid for a radical cleaning and "de-greasing" of the tomb, as well as a glass barrier which will surround it to prevent the kissers from causing further damage.

12/12/2015

A love lock or love padlock is a padlock which sweethearts lock to a bridge, fence, gate, or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Typically the sweethearts' names or initials are inscribed on the padlock, and its key is thrown away to symbolize unbreakable love. Since the 2000's, love locks have proliferated at an increasing number of locations worldwide. They are often treated by municipal authorities as litter or vandalism, and there is some cost to their removal.

In Paris Town Hall in May 2010 expressed concern over the growing number of love-locks on the Pont des Arts, Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor and the Pont de l'Archevêché bridges, stating: "they raise problems for the preservation of our architectural heritage". The lovelocks of the Pont des Arts mysteriously disappeared during the night of 11 May 2010, but the Administration denied responsibility, until it was discovered that they had been removed by a student of the nearby École des Beaux-Arts to make a sculpture. Love locks immediately began appearing on the Pont de l'Archevêché. On 9 June 2014, the weight of the padlocks on the Pont Des Arts bridge were blamed for the collapse of part of the parapet.

04/12/2015

The Coast Redwood or California Redwood — Sequoia sempervirens is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200–1,800 years or more. This species includes the tallest trees living now on Earth, reaching up to 379 feet (115.5 m) in height (without the roots) and up to 26 feet (7.9 m) in diameter at breast height. Before commercial logging and clearing began by the 1850s, this massive tree occurred naturally in an estimated 2,100,000 acres (8,500 km2) along much of coastal California (excluding southern California where rainfall is not sufficient) and the southwestern corner of coastal Oregon within the United States. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood trees have been cut down due to their excellent properties for use as lumber in construction. The name sequoia sometimes refers to the subfamily Sequoioideae, which includes S. sempervirens along with Sequoiadendron (giant sequoia) and Metasequoia (dawn redwood). On its own, the term redwood usually refers to the coast redwood, which is covered in this article, and not to the other two species.

The Grove of Titans is a redwood grove in Del Norte County, Northern California, which includes several massive Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) trees, some being the largest known redwoods in terms of wood volume. The largest Coastal Redwood tree in the grove by volume is Lost Monarch. The largest known single stem Coastal Redwood that resides there is Del Norte Titan. The Grove of Titans (unofficially named) was discovered May 11, 1998, by Stephen Sillett, and naturalist Michael Taylor in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. The location of the grove has not been disclosed to the general public. The discovery implies that Sillett and Taylor are the first to realize and declare the significance of the grove, not that they are the first ones to have seen the grove. In fact, many people pass by these trees as they hike the popular Mill Creek Trail, as the Grove easily can be seen--and accessed--from the trail. The grove's botanical significance is near equal with Atlas Grove to the south.

25/09/2015

The Namib Desert of southwestern Africa, is home to a mysterious phenomenon called “fairy circles”– nearly circular barren patches within a sparse matrix of small short-lived grass species. Despite 30 yr of research their origin remains unknown. Fairy circles vary between 2 and 15 meters or 7 and 49 ft in diameter. They typically occur in essentially mono-specific grassy vegetation, especially in Namibia, where conditions are particularly arid. Associated grasses commonly are species in the genus Stipagrostis. The origin and history of fairy circles have long been a puzzle and their investigation has proved challenging.

Unresolved questions remain about the soil from the center of the circle inhibiting plant growth and the interactions of other species in the fairy circle as they relate to the local ecosystem. Furthermore, the received wisdom from about a century ago remarked on the "heuweltjies" being anomalously rich in plant nutrients, raising the question of how many effectively different types or circumstances of circles or heuweltjies there might be. The circles have been recognized and informally remarked on for many years, first being mentioned in technical literature in the 1920's and intermittently thereafter with the intensity of study increasing during the final quarter of the 20th century.

In 2013, Michael Cramer and Nicole Barger suggested that the circles were the consequence of vegetation patterns that arose naturally from competition between grasses. They examined the conditions under which fairy circles arise and found that fairy circles are negatively correlated with precipitation and soil nutrition. This observation is consistent with resource competition being a cause of the crop circles. Grassy landscapes with a mixture of grasses can result in barren spots as a consequence of under-ground competition between different types of grasses. The patches are maintained because they form a reservoir of nutrients for the taller grasses at the periphery and possibly because of the activity of termites, as in the theory above. Using rainfall, biomass and temperature seasonality, they can predict with high accuracy the presence or absence of fairy circles in a region. According to Walter Schinkel, this theory accounts for all the characteristics of fairy circles, including the presence of tall grass species. The argument however is intrinsically inconclusive, and several points remain to be settled, for example by research into differences between the types of circles in various regions and soils, and the effects of excluding termites from participation in the formation of circles.

In the oral myths of the Himba people these barren patches are said to have been caused by the gods, spirits and/or natural divinities. The region's bushmen have traditionally ascribed spiritual and magical powers to them. Of specific beliefs, the Himba people note that their original ancestor, Mukuru was responsible for the creation of the fairy circles, or that they were the footprints of gods. Another myth put forth, believed by some scientists to be tied to tour guides, is that the circles are formed by a dragon in the earth and that its poisonous breath kills the vegetation.

25/09/2015

The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, measuring more than 4 kilometers or 2.5 miles wide and 1,200 meters or 3,900 feet deep. Since 1906, when the first steam shovels began removing waste rock from the sides of the mountain to reach the low-grade copper ore deposits, Bingham Canyon Mine has yielded more than 19 million tons of copper, 23 million ounces of gold, 190 million ounces of silver, plus other minerals. The value of the resources extracted from here is greater than the Comstock Lode, Klondike, and California gold rush mining regions combined!

Bingham Canyon discovered in 1848 by two brothers, Sanford and Thomas Bingham. Although they reported the find to their leader, Brigham Young advised against pursuing mining operations because the survival and establishment of Mormon settlements was of greater importance at that time. It was not until 1863 that extraction of low-grade porphyry copper ore began. These nineteenth-century mines, though, were relatively small. However, in 1903, Daniel Jackling and Enos Wall organized the Utah Copper Company and began construction of a pilot mill at Copperton, just beyond the mouth of the canyon. Serious mining efforts got underway in 1906. The Kennecott Copper Corporation that operated mines in Kennecott, Alaska, acquired the company in 1936. this mine, which is on the National Register of Historic Sites, is just one of the two man-made objects on earth that can be seen by astronauts from outer space. The other is the Great Wall Of China.

On April 10, 2013, Bingham Canyon also produced the largest, non-volcanic landslide in the history of North America when 65–70 million cubic meters of dirt and rock thundered down the side of the pit. The event was large enough that seismic networks designed to record earthquakes detected the rumble of sliding debris.

Today, the mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC) which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. As of 2010, KUCC is the second largest copper producer in the United States and meets about 13-18% percent of the country’s needs for copper.