Top 5 Reasons to Visit Croatia

Croatia is a country vibrant in beautiful beaches and parties as well as stunning architecture and gorgeous landscape. Whether holidaying with a group of friends, solo or with family, Croatia caters to all needs and all budgets.

Festivals

One of the main attractions that draw young people to Croatia is the abundant festivals. Hideout festival is set on Pag Island and is the perfect destination to party to dnb acts and world class djs whilst on the sandiest beach in town. Perhaps the most famous, Outlook festival at the beginning of September is where the real party-hard head to. Situated near Pula, this event brings together some of the finest bass artists and famous boat parties, and has recently expanded in size due to popularity.

Water Sports

With over 2,000 miles of coastline known as the Dalmation Coast, Croatia plays host to an array of water sporting activities. Popular excursions include Sea Kayaking and there are packages available from the many islands, the somewhat rocky nature of the shores and calm winds providing a beautiful environment for this. Water skiing, boat trips and scuba diving are all extremely popular in these crystal clear waters. For more advice on activities in Croatia check out lowcostholidays.

Exploring Outdoors

Croatia is a land of beauty. Aside from the fabulous coastline, the Dinaric Alps, rivers and inland plains provide brilliant scope for treks. KRKA National Park in Sibenik-Kinn is home to the Skradinski Buk waterfall – a stunning feature flowing over 17 steps and spanning over 200 metres through the forest. Plitvice Lakes is a similar destination- a rival when it comes to breath-taking water falls in Croatia. If you fancy trekking, take the Premuzic trail through the mountains for 50km, high enough to provide views of the sea and valleys below.

Wildlife

As a coastal country, there is of course lots of sea life to marvel at. Dolphins, fish, raptors and pelicans can be found by the shore line, and bears and lynx can be found inland. Take a trip to Cres Island to visit the Griffon vulture rescue centre or to Sjeverni Velebit National Park which covers the northern area of Velebit Mountain and has beautiful botanic gardens.

Architecture

Croatian architecture is a beautiful mix of avant garden, flamboyant palaces from the 18th century and gothic, fort-like buildings dating back to the Renaissance and times of a split nation. With the Ottoman Empire playing a huge part of the country’s historic struggles, much of the architecture reflects this in Baroque style churches and palaces especially seen in Dubrovnik’s church of St Vlaho.  Most recently Croatia won it’s War of Independence from Serbia and finally became a country of its own again only a mere 20 years ago, allowing freedom of expression.

HISTORY OF PIG FAT by Dr. M. Amjad Khan Very important for every Muslim to read this

In nearly all the western countries including Europe, the PRIMARY choice for meat is PIG. There are a lot of farms in these countries to breed this animal. In France alone, Pig Farms account for more than 42,000.

PIGS have the highest quantity of FAT in their body than any other animal. But Europeans and Americans try to avoid fats.

Thus, where does the FAT from these PIGS go? All pigs are cut in slaughter houses under the control of the department of food and it was the headache of the department of food to dispose of the fat removed from these pigs.

Formally, it was burnt (about 60 years ago). Then they thought of utilizing it. First, they experimented it in the making of SOAPS and it worked.

Then, a full network was formed and this FAT was chemically processed, packed and marketed, while the other manufacturing companies bought it. In the meantime, all European States made it a rule that every food, medical and personal hygiene product should have the ingredients listed on its cover. So, this ingredient was listed as PIG FAT.

Those who are living in Europe for the past 40 years know about this. But, these products came under a ban by the ISLAMIC COUNTRIES at that time, which resulted in a trade deficit.

Going back in time, if you are somehow related to South East Asia, you might know about the provoking factors of the 1857 CIVIL WAR. At that time, Riffle Bullets were made in Europe and transported to the sub-continent through the sea. It took months to reach there and the gun powder in it was ruined due to the exposure to sea.

Then, they got the idea of coating the bullets with fat, which was PIG FAT. The fat layer had to be scratched by teeth before using them. When the word spread, the soldiers, mostly Muslim and some Vegetarians, refused to fight, which eventually lead to the civil war. The Europeans recognized these facts, and instead of writing PIG FAT, they started writing ANIMAL FAT.

All those living in Europe since 1970's know this fact. When the companies were asked by authorities from the MUSLIM COUNTRIES, what animal fat is it, they were told it was COW and SHEEP FAT. Here again a question raised, if it was COW or SHEEP FAT, still it is HARAAM to MUSLIMS, as these animals were not SLAUGHTERED as per the ISLAMIC LAW.

Thus, they were again banned. Now these multinational companies were again facing a severe drought of money as 75% of their income comes from selling their goods to Muslim Countries, and these earn BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of profit from their exports to the MUSLIM WORLD.

Finally they decided to start a coding language, so that only their Departments of Food Administration should know what they are using, and the common man is left lurking in the dark. Thus, they started E-CODES. These E-INGREDIENTS are present in a majority of products of multinational firms including, but not limited to:

TOOTH PASTE
SHAVING CREAM
CHEWING GUM
CHOCOLATE
SWEETS
BISCUITS
CORN FLASKS
TOFFEES
CANNED FOODS
CANNED FRUITS

Some medication Multi-vitamins since these goods are being used in all MUSLIM COUNTRIES indiscriminately, our society is facing problems like shamelessness, rudeness...

So, request all MUSLIMS or non pork eaters to check the ingredients of the ITEMS of daily use and match it with the following list of E-CODES. If any of the ingredients listed below is found, then DEFINITELY AVOID IT, as it has PIG FAT;

E100, E110, E120, E140, E141, E153, E210, E213, E214, E216, E234, E252, E270, E280, E325, E326, E 327, E334, E335, E336, E337,  E422, E430, E431, E432, E433, E434, E435, E436, E440, E470, E471, E472, E473, E474, E475, E476, E477, E478, E481, E482, E483, E491, E492, E493, E494, E495, E542, E570, E572, E621, E631, E635, E904.

Dr. M. Amjad Khan
Medical Research Institute, United States.

Please keep on sharing until it get to BILLIONS OF MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE.

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                                          : پنما کاغذات میں پاکستانی سیاستدان، تاجر اور ایک جج؟!

پاناما لیکس کے خفیہ دستاویزات کا خزانہ ہاتھ لگنے سے انتہائی رازداری سے کام کرنے والی غیر ملکی کمپنیوں میں ملوث پاکستان سمیت دنیا کے متعدد معروف شخصیات کے نام آشکار ہوئے ہیں جس میں کئی ملکوں سیاستدانوں سمیت کاروباری شخصیات، بینکرز اور ہائیکورٹ کے حاضر اور ریٹائرڈ جج بھی شامل ہیں۔ تاہم اب پانامہ لیکس کے دستاویزات میں ان تمام پاکستانیوں کے نام سامنے آ گئے ہیں جو کہ آف شور کمپنیوں کے مالک ہیں ۔
پانامہ لیکس کے دستاویزات کے مطابق 200سے زائد پاکستانی شخصیات براہ راست اس کاروبار میں ملوث ہیں اور ممکنہ طور پر مزید افراد کے نام سامنے آنے کا امکان ہے ۔انتہائی دلچسپ امریہ ہے کہ ان دستاویزات میں 1977 تا 2015 تک کاروبار کرنے والے افراد کے نام شامل ہیں جبکہ پاکستانی شخصیات ان میں 1990کی دہائی سے شامل ہوئیں ۔
پاکستانی میڈیا کی نظر اس وقت شریف فیملی پر ٹکی ہوئی ہے جبکہ پانامہ کے دستاویزات کے مطابق شریف فیملی زیادہ آف شور کمپنیاں رکھنے والا خاندان نہیں ہے ۔لکی مروت کی سیف اللہ فیملی برطانوی جزیرہ ورجن ،سے چیلز ،ہانگ کانگ ،سنگا پور اورآئرلینڈ میں 34آف شور کمپنیوں کی مالک ہے۔ پانامہ دستاویزات کے مطابق یہ تمام کمپنیاں سینٹر عثمان سیف اللہ ،سلیم سیف اللہ ،انور سیف اللہ ،ہمایوں سیف اللہ،جاوید سیف اللہ،ڈاکٹر اقبال سیف اللہ اور جہانگیر سیف اللہ کے نام سے منسوب ہیں ۔

سیاستدان اور ان کے رشتہ دار
پانامہ پیپرز میں جن شخصیات کا نام لیا گیاہے جو کہ آف شور کمپنیاں رکھتے ہیں ان میں وزیراعظم نوازشریف کے بیٹے حسین نواز ،مریم صفدر الیاس،مریم نواز ،شہید بینظیر بھٹو اور ان کے بھتیجے حسن بھٹو شامل ہیں اور سینیٹر رحمان ملک شامل ہیں ۔وزیراعلیٰ شہبازشریف کی رشتہ دار الیاس مہراج اور سمینہ درانی کا نام بھی اس فہرست میں شامل ہے۔جبکہ وزیراعظم نوازشریف اور وزیراعلیٰ پنجاب شہبازشریف کے نام پر کوئی بھی آف شور کمپنی نہیں ہے۔پاکستان مسلم لیگ ق کے سربراہ چوہدری شجاعت حسین کے قریبی رشتہ دار وسیم گلزار اور زین سکھیرا کے نام بھی پانامہ کی فہرست میں شامل ہیں ۔

کاروباری شخصیات
پانامہ کی جانب سے لیک کیے گئے دستاویزات میں جو کاروباری شخصیات آف شور کمپنیاں رکھتے ہیں ان میں صدر الدین ہاشوانی اور ان کے بیٹے مرتضیٰ ہاشوانی،ملک ریاض اور ان کے بیٹے احمد علی ریاض،اینگرو کارپوریشن کے حسین داو¿د،سیفائر ٹیکٹسائلز کے یوسف عبداللہ،شاہد عبداللہ،ندیم عبداللہ ،عامر عبداللہ کے نام شامل ہیں ۔ان کے علاوہ لکی ٹیکسٹائلز کے گل محمد تابا ،مسعود ٹیکسٹائلز کے شاہد نذیر ،ہلٹن فارما کے شہباز یاسین ملک ،حبیب بینک لمیٹڈ کے سلطان علی آلانہ ،بکسلی پینٹس کے بشیر احمد اور جاوید شکور ،برجر پینٹس کے ڈاکٹر محمود احمد ،اے بی ایم گروپ آف کمپنیز کے اعظم سلطان ،پیزاہٹ کے اکیل حسن اور ان کے بھائی تنویر حسن ،یونیورسل کارپوریشن پرائیویٹ لیمیٹڈ کے ذوالفقارپراچہ ،سورتی انٹرپرائیزز کے عبدالراشد سورتی اور ان کے خاندان کا نام شامل ہے ۔

میڈیا مالکان
پانامہ لیکس کے دستاویزات میں پاکستانی میڈیا گروپس متعدد برجوں کے نام بھی شامل ہیں جن میں ایکسپریس میڈیا گروپ کے ذوالفقار لاکھانی فہرست میں ٹاپ پر ہیں جبکہ چینل 24کے گوہر اعجاز ،جیو اور جنگ گروپ کے مالک میر شکیل الرحمان بھی آف شور کمپنیا ں رکھنے والے افراد میں شامل ہیں ۔
وکلاءاور ججز
پانامہ دستاویز کے مطابق آف شور کمپنیاں رکھنے والے افراد میں متعدد پاکستانی وکلاءاور ججز کے نام بھی شامل ہیں جن میں لاہور ہائیکورٹ کے جسٹس فارخ عرفان اور جسٹس (ر)ملک قیوم کا نام شامل ہے.

Chinese Robot Just Kept Walking…and Walking…and Walking

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A four-legged robot with serious athletic endurance recently walked its way right into the history books.
The sure-footed robot hiked 83.28 miles (134.03 km) to break the world record for the farthest distance traveled by a quadruped robot, Guinness World Records reported Monday (Nov. 2). Researchers from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China built the resilient little bot, which kind of looks like a shoebox on stilts.
The aptly named Xingzhe No. 1 robot (xingzhe means "walker" in Chinese) has four articulated, or jointed, legs and is guided by a computer. While the robot's endurance is impressive, Xingzhe isn't known for its speed. It took the robot 54 hours and 34 minutes (that's more than two days) to complete the record-breaking journey before its battery died.
The robot walked around the same 104.32-yard (95.39 meters) indoor track 1,405 times to earn its title. The previous world record holder for farthest distance covered by a four-legged bot was Ranger Robot, developed by researchers at Cornell University. Ranger Robot walked just 40.5 miles (65.18 km) to earn its world title back in 2011.
Although Xingzhe No. 1 has gained notoriety for being such a persistent pedestrian, the real impetus for creating the bot was to study the electrical efficiency of such machines, said Li Qingdu, a robotics professor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, who led the research team that developed Xingzhe. Qingdu told the Guinness World Records that he and his colleagues also aimed to increase the endurance and durability of the remotely controlled bots to make them more useful in real-life situations. The ultimate goal, he said, is to have a bot like Xingzhe perform tasks that might be dangerous for humans.
Qingdu and his team aren't alone in their quest to design robots that can perform human tasks. In June, roboticists from around the world met in California to participate in the Robotics Challenge Finals, a competition hosted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Like Xingzhe, the two-legged bots that competed in the DARPA finals were designed to complete tasks that might be dangerous for people. The bots opened doors, climbed over walls and even drove around in cars to simulate things first responders might need to do after natural or man-made disasters.
But the DARPA bots have yet to earn a Guinness World Record, an honor that Xingzhe shares with a number of other smart machines. There's CUBESTORMER 3, a robot from the United Kingdom that holds the record for fastest bot to solve a Rubik's Cube (it takes the bot a little more than 3 minutes). And while Xingzhe might be the farthest walking robot, a bot from Germany holds the record for largest walking robot (it's more than 51 feet, or 15.5 meters, tall).

The Future of Drones: Uncertain, Promising and Pretty Awesome

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When filmmaker George Lucas popularized droids — worker robots designed to tend to humanity's every need — in the 1977 movie "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope," he seemed like a sci-fi visionary. But fast-forward nearly 40 years, and the idea of flying surveillance cameras, robotic companions and even unmanned aircraft carrying supplies around the planet is swiftly becoming mainstream.
The first drone delivery in the United States took place this past summer, marking an important milestone in the development of the new technology. But even though Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headlines in 2013 when he unveiled the company's vision for using delivery drones, the online retail giant was not the one to carry out the first-ever delivery flight.
Instead, Australian startup Flirtey, in partnership with Virginia Tech and NASA, used a drone to carry 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of medical supplies from an airfield in Virginia to a remote clinic about a mile away over three 3-minute flights. While the demonstration was a landmark moment for drone technology and policy, it was a far cry from Amazon's vision of a fleet of drones delivering online purchases to customers' doorsteps within 30 minutes.
Still, Amazon is committed to making its drone delivery program, dubbed Prime Air, a reality. In April, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted the company permission to begin testing its drones. But Amazon isn't the only tech giant doubling down on drone technology.
In July, Facebook revealed that it had completed a full-size version of its solar-powered Aquila drone, which is now ready for testing in the United Kingdom. The huge robotic flier, which has the same wingspan as a Boeing 737 jetliner, is designed to circle around in the stratosphere (the layer of Earth's atmosphere located between 6 and 30 miles, or 10 to 48 kilometers, above the planet's surface)and use lasers to beam Internet access to the most remote corners of the world.
A similar drone developed by Google crashed during a test run in New Mexico in May, but the company is also developing a delivery service, known as Project Wing, to compete with Amazon's Prime Air.

While these developments grab headlines, they tend to overshadow the real progress being made in the drone industry, experts say. Many companies are leveraging drones' ability to capture high-resolution imagery using tech ranging from regular cameras to laser scanners, leading the FAA to predict that drones will spawn a $90 billion industry within a decade.
Drones could help farmers prioritize where to apply fertilizer. They also could help energy companies monitor their infrastructure. Drones could even enable emergency response teams to quickly map the extent of damage after natural disasters. [Photos from Above: 8 Cool Camera-Carrying Drones]
"There's been even more explosive growth than I expected," said Dan Kara, practice director for robotics at the technology consulting firm ABI Research in Oyster Bay, New York. And because the technology is still in its infancy, Kara said, the potential is limitless. "There will be applications that will just come over the wall," he told Live Science. "If you think of these things as basically just airborne mobile sensors, all kinds of uses open up."


But not everyone is satisfied with these incremental steps. Michael Drobac, executive director of the industry-backed Small UAV Coalition, said the proposals are less restrictive than anticipated, but only because expectations for how the FAA would handle the emerging tech were so low. He said he credits Congress with "putting the fire under" the FAA. However, without allowances for flying these UAS beyond visual line of sight, and without separate rules for safer micro-UAS that weigh less than 4.4 lbs. (2 kg), the industry will remain hamstrung, he noted.
"Personally, I am very disheartened, because it doesn't make any sense that the biggest problem companies face are arbitrary and capricious rules," Drobac told Live Science.
A spokesman for the FAA denied that pressure from Congress had any impact on the agency, and pointed out that promoting commercial drone use is not its mandate. "Our primary goal in integrating UAS into the airspace is to maintain today's ultra-high level of safety," he said. He added that separate micro-UAS rules could eventually make it into the final regulations, as the agency asked for input on the proposed framework announced in February.
The FAA's detractors point out that some other countries, such as Canada and Switzerland, have more relaxed regulatory environments. But with more than 19,000 airports; 600 air traffic control facilities; and far more general aviation concerns to oversee, U.S. airspace is arguably the most complex in the world. "The FAA has been in the business of integrating new technology into U.S. airspace for 50 years," the spokesman said. "I have no doubt we will be able to do the same with UAS, but it has to be done in a safe and incremental way."

Is the government tinkering with global warming data?

The hottest topic in climate research is the observation that global average surface temperature, as well as satellite observations of temperatures in the atmosphere, has shown little or no warming during the 21st century.
Now the political climate is heating up over the same issue. Heated words began circulating last summer, when a team of government scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), led by Thomas Karl, published a paper in Science titled “Possible Artifacts Of Data Biases In The Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus.” 
The press release from NOAA included this statement from Karl, who is head of the National Centers for Environmental Information:   “Adding in the last two years of global surface temperature data and other improvements in the quality of the observed record provide evidence that contradict the notion of a hiatus in recent global warming trends.”
Media headlines quickly touted the Karl conclusion that science now shows the hiatus in warming never existed.
The significance of the hiatus is that it contradicted the 2007 assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which projected a rate of warming of 0.2^oC per decade in the early part of the 21st century.  The discrepancy between the climate models and the observations raised serious questions about the climate models.
Scientists on both sides of the debate have been critical of Karl’s paper and temperature adjustments made in the new data set, particularly the ocean data analysis.
Some said that adjusting reliable ocean surface buoy data upwards to match much less reliable data from engine intake channels in ships causes an artificial upward trend in the readings.
Another recent paper used a different NOAA ocean surface temperature data set to find that since 2003 the global average ocean surface temperature has been rising at a rate that is an order of magnitude smaller than the rate of increase reported in Karl’s paper.
Clearly, scientists have much work to do to better understand the problems with historical ocean temperature data, adjust the biases among different types of measurements, and understand the differences among different data sets.
But the hiatus fuss is also telling us about the politicization of climate science.
The surface temperature data set plays a central role in the political debate over climate change. In his 2015  State of the Union address, President Obama declared: “2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record.”
This statement followed a joint press release from NOAA’s Karl and Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that said the same thing. The release was widely criticized for failing to point out that 2014 was in a statistical tie with several other recent years.
NOAA’s press release in June for Karl’s paper on the hiatus also appeared just before a big event: EPA was getting ready to issue its very controversial Clean Power Plan. And the politics are heating up even more with the approach of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris at the end of this month.
Last month, the House Science Committee, chaired by Lamar Smith (R-Texas), subpoenaed NOAA for data and communications relating to Karl’s article.  NOAA is refusing to give up the documents, citing confidentiality concerns and the integrity of the scientific process.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Tex) called the request “a serious misuse of Congressional oversight powers.”
Is the subpoena harassment or appropriate constitutional oversight?
There are two legitimate concerns here.
The first is data quality, an issue that needs to be resolved owing to the central role that this data set is playing in U.S. climate policy.
The second issue is arguably more worrisome and difficult to uncover: a potential alliance between NOAA scientists and Obama administration officials that might be biasing and spinning climate science to support a political agenda.
Rep. Smith stated: “The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made.”
The House Committee’s investigation should provide insight into the following questions that deserve answers.
To what extent did internal discussions occur about the more questionable choices made in adjusting the ocean temperature data?
Was any concern raised about the discrepancies of the new ocean temperature data set and NOAA’s other ocean temperature data set (OISST) that shows no warming since 2003?
Were any Obama administration officials communicating with NOAA about these statements prior to issuing press releases?
Was the release of the land and ocean temperature data sets, which were documented in papers previously published, delayed to follow Karl’s June press release?
Earlier this year, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., initiated an investigation into possible industry funding of scientists (including myself) who had recently provided Congressional testimony for the Republicans.
While potentially undisclosed industrial funding of research is a legitimate concern, climate science research funding from government is many orders of magnitude larger than industrial funding of such work.
If the House Science Committee can work to minimize the political influence on government-funded research, and also help to resolve legitimate scientific issues, it will have done both science and the policies that depend on science a big favor.