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Yet Another Record Breaking Hurricane: Sandra
By gregladen on November 26, 2015.
Sandra is a Category 4 hurricane in the Eastern Pacific. The storm will hit Mexico.
Sandra breaks several records. It is the first observed Category 4 hurricane on Thanksgiving Day. It is the latest major Western Hemisphere hurricane observed. It is the latest Category 4 storm in either the eastern Pacific of Atlantic basins. Most likely, Sandra will become the latest landfalling tropical cyclone on record for Mexico.
(Jeff Masters has details.)
Sandra will come near the southern time of the Baja late Friday, but will likely be a tropical storm at that point. The storm will come ashore overnight or Saturday morning as a tropical depression (or maybe a weak tropical storm) in Sinaloa. So, this may be a case of the rare Eastern Pacific hurricane reaching land, but as a rainstorm rather than a threatening tropical storm.
This year's record tropical storm activity is rather astonishing and is a result of a combination of continued global surface warming (which is thought to contribute to an overall increase in the frequency and severity of major storms) and this year's very strong El Niño.
Hurricane Sandra
I hope they have a second list of names the first one is up to S already.
By Doug Alder (not verified) on 26 Nov 2015 #permalink
Slightly off topic and at a tangeant or three here but thinking of the rainstorms coming ashore and El Nino effects this article :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-18/el-nino-peru-prepares-for-devasta…
about its consequences on Peru may be worth a look.
This one here :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/global-el-nino/6954706
notes its effects on the Pacific and world more generally with a good graphic and news of the disaster in Papua New Guinea which has been going under the RADAR but causing a lot of human suffering.
Plus this :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/after-the-fire-pinery-residents-r…
is what people in my nearby vicinity, the outskirts of my home city are returning to after the Pinery bushfire a day or two ago. Our local Astronomical Observatory had a close call but survived. Two - maybe three - people died and many homes were destroyed with this bushfire still burning - and it'snot even summer here (Dec-Jan-Feb) yet.
One bushfire cannot be ascribed to Global Overheating and our nation has always had these bushfires - but the trend with many more and worse and earlier bushfires certainly can be and the implications here certainly has me scared. Can't wait till autumn and hope we reach it with no further such natural (and yet now also artificially enhanced) disasters claiming more lives and homes and so much more.
By StevoR (not verified) on 27 Nov 2015 #permalink
So... what happened to this "record breaking" hurricane, exactly? It hit land as a tropical depression... well, not really, more like a "rain event." You mentioned "on record," just how far do these records go? Im sure its a few hundred thousand years, hopefully a few million...?
By gino patrucci (not verified) on 30 Nov 2015 #permalink
Gino, it broke the record I said it broke, then it did what I said it was going to do.
Records go back to the mid 19th century, but good records start some time in the 20th century.
By gregladen on 01 Dec 2015 #permalink


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Welcome to the Asian Financial Forum's annual cocktail reception. After a long day full packed with global financial intelligence and insight, I would say this is happy hour at its finest. Most needed indeed.
Most fitting as well, given that we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Asian Financial Forum.
And there is more to celebrate. The Forum has been named the first major event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. With much more to come, all under the theme of "Together‧Progress‧Opportunity".
Over the decade, the Forum has welcomed some 20 000 high-profile professionals from Hong Kong, the Mainland and all over the world.
In recent years, about one quarter of the Forum participants are returning participants.
And we believe they are returning for more than this celebrated happy hour and the connections it creates.
They are returning - indeed you are returning - because of the continuing rise of Hong Kong as a financial services capital. And you are not alone in appreciating the opportunities that offers. Last May, the International Institute for Management Development named Hong Kong the most competitive economy in the world. The Swiss Institute also put the city at the top in financial efficiency.
Not surprising in either case. Consider. Over the past decade, the Hong Kong stock market finished among the top five global markets for IPO (initial public offerings) every year. Indeed, it finished first in five of those years, including the past two. Raising an impressive US$300 billion over that decade.
There are other ways of raising capital. Profitably. And Hong Kong makes it happen like nowhere else. Take, for example, our inaugural sukuk. The US$1 billion issue, in 2014, was the world's first US dollar-denominated sukuk packaged by an AAA-rated government.
Hong Kong's financial services sector attracts a world of interest. Some 70 per cent of our asset management business comes from investors outside Hong Kong. Which means that our asset managers enjoyed a remarkable volume of new business over this past decade. Indeed, our combined fund-management business totaled about US$2.2 billion in 2015, almost four times higher than just a decade earlier.
Hong Kong has captured the risk-conscious market as well. The insurance sector's annual gross premium income almost tripled, to some US$50 billion, between 2005 and 2015. Nowhere in Asia will you find a higher insurance density, per capita, than Hong Kong, which comes in at around US$6,000 per person.
Then there is the Renminbi. With the support of the Central authorities, Hong Kong launched its offshore Renminbi business about 13 years ago. Today, we count the deepest, most liquid, Renminbi market outside the Mainland. Our Renminbi-denominated investor products are unmatched.
China has been issuing Renminbi sovereign bonds to international investors through Hong Kong. Last month, the Ministry issued bonds totalling RMB 14 billion in Hong Kong, following a first-batch issue of about RMB 14 billion last June. Indeed, 2016 marks the eighth year in a row that the Ministry of Finance has issued Renminbi sovereign bonds in Hong Kong.
No less important, Hong Kong has been first mover in securing mutual access between the markets of the Mainland and Hong Kong.
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect, launched just last month, follows the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect in 2014 and the introduction of the Mainland-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds Arrangement in 2015.
Under these access schemes, the cumulative net fund flow from Mainland investors to Hong Kong, combined with funds from Hong Kong and overseas investor flowing into the mainland, has realised more than US$70 billion since their respective launches.
Hong Kong's singular role in the two-way opening up of the mainland's capital markets will continue to grow. Continue to create opportunity for Hong Kong, for the Mainland, and for a world of finance and commerce.
Indeed, Hong Kong has the capital, the connections, the products and the expertise to serve as the financial and investor services hub for the Mainland's Belt and Road initiative.
Encompassing some 65 nations spanning Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Belt-Road is perhaps the 21st century's most ambitious multilateral undertaking. And Hong Kong will take very good advantage of it - of that, I can assure you.
And finally, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to wish you the best of health, wealth and happiness in the Year of the Rooster.
Enjoy the rest of the evening. Thank you.


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The Workshop approach is carried forward into the sophomore year where students begin working on more advanced experiments. Courses such as Vibrations, Waves, and Optics, and Introduction to Relativistic and Quantum Physics have strong laboratory components that allows students a chance to explore more modern topics in physics. In particular, a modern quantum optics laboratory allows students to explore such intriguing quantum phenomena as wave-particle duality and single-photon interference.
There is plenty of interesting research going on in Tome Hall to satisfy the interests of any student. Dickinson professors have ongoing research projects in astronomy, plasma physics, non-linear dynamics, ultrafast laser physics, and magnetic fluid pattern formation. Additionally, motivated students can undertake a research project in some other area under the guidance of a faculty advisor.
The department houses a fully equipped metal and wood shop. The metal shop includes two milling machines, two lathes, drill presses, a band saw and welding tools. The wood shop features large table and miter saws, a planer, a jointer, and various sanders (among others). The machine shop is integral in supporting much of the student and faculty research in the department. In addition, the department's technician, Jonathan Barrick, offers machine shop training courses for majors.
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NGC 79 (również PGC 1340) – galaktyka eliptyczna (E-S0), znajdująca się w gwiazdozbiorze Andromedy. Odkrył ją Guillaume Bigourdan 14 listopada 1884 roku.

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 Lista obiektów NGC

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Linki zewnętrzne

0079
Galaktyki eliptyczne
Gwiazdozbiór Andromedy
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1884

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Вербовское () — село,
Письменский поселковый совет,
Васильковский район,
Днепропетровская область,
Украина.

Код КОАТУУ — 1220755401. Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 704 человека.

Географическое положение
Село Вербовское находится у истоков реки Соломчина,
ниже по течению на расстоянии в 2 км расположено село Рубановское.
Река в этом месте пересыхает, на ней сделано несколько запруд.

Экономика
 «Авангард», ООО.

Объекты социальной сферы
 Школа.
 Дом культуры.
 Амбулатория
 Дет. сад.

Религия
 Свято-Знаменский женский монастырь.

Примечания


Spurning the advice of several city departments and an urban design consultant, a Board of Supervisors committee voted yesterday to split the traffic lanes of the planned $103 million Embarcadero Roadway project.
The vote on a seemingly mundane question of traffic patterns has far-reaching implications -- it precludes the city having a grand "gateway" plaza in front of the century-old Ferry Building.
The supervisors' Housing and Land Use Committee voted 3 to 0 to split the roadway into two three- lane segments. A private consultant and the transportation, park, port, planning, art and traffic commissions had recommended that the road be configured as a six- lane boulevard -- saving space and allowing designers to create a showcase public space in front of the city's symbol of its waterfront past and future.
The supervisors voting for the split road were Sue Bierman, Carole Migden and Mabel Teng. The full board will take up the issue on January 29. It is rare that the 11- member board overrules a committee vote.
Bierman, a former planning commissioner and the chief advocate for the split alternative, said the wide boulevard would be an intimidating wall of traffic and noise, amounting to a "big expanse of nothingness."
"I think the plan we came up with is a more graceful design," she said. "My personal feeling was that a big plaza would be nice, but not if you have to cross six lanes of traffic and a streetcar line."
But Jim Adams of Roma Design Group, the firm selected by the city to plan the huge open space between the foot of Market Street and the Ferry Building, said by splitting the road, the city has lost the chance for a distinctive new plaza.
"This decision forecloses the possibility for a great civic gathering space," Adams said. "We could close some traffic lanes for special events, but in terms of a day-to-day functioning as a grand gateway -- that is compromised."
The split roadway will have a D-shaped open space between the two traffic segments, running the length of the Ferry Building. Bierman suggested that the area could be landscaped to make an attractive space in itself.
But Jim Haas, a lawyer and transit advocate who attended yesterday's committee meeting, predicted, "Nobody will want to sit there and eat their lunch."
Still, Adams and other advocates of the wider boulevard were pleased that the supervisors had made a decision. Millions of dollars of federal transportation funds are needed to complete the project, but those will be released only after an environmental report is finished. Yesterday's vote will allow the review process to begin.
Adams said his firm will focus on remaking the acres of open space on the city side of the roadway, including Justin Herman Plaza and the area in front of the Southern Pacific building on Steuart Street.
"The challenge would be to pull together those open spaces that have functioned as edge spaces and make them function as meaningful open space," Adams said.


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Britain appears to have experienced a cultural shift in the age of social media as a recent NetNames consumer poll revealed that around 28 per cent of the British population share their allegiances or opinions on politics through social media.
"Politics, along with money and religion, is a notoriously taboo conversation topic amongst Brits. However, our survey suggests that social media is triggering a cultural shift. With almost four in ten 18-to-20 year olds now showing their political views on social media, parties, leaders and organisations still have time to use this year's election to increase their digital impact and engage potential floating voters," NetNames CEO Gary McIlraith said.
28 per cent of Labour voters are found to have the most confidence in their party's effective utilisation of social media, compared to 26 per cent of UKIP voters, 23 per cent of Conservative supporters and just 7 per cent of Liberal Democrats.
However, while people have become more willing to share their political opinions, only 4 per cent of UK voters formally list the political party that they support on social networks. In addition, British men are found to be four times more likely to formally announce their political leanings online than women, at 8 per cent and 2 per cent, respectively.
Despite the increase in social media utilisation, 46 per cent of respondents said that television remains the most popular source for consuming news. But the survey also revealed that there is scope for parties to engage using social platforms, because 22 per cent of British voters already expressed comfort with political parties using data that they post on social media to track opinion. For respondents between 18 to 24, this percentage rises to almost 31 per cent.
"While digital platforms are powerful tools for political organisations, it also presents them with reputational threats. The internet is an open forum, where users are able to express their views democratically.
"However, it is easy to set up fake profiles that mimic party branding and can damage reputation. Political parties – and any public-facing organisations for that matter – therefore need to be able to monitor social channels for any infringements if they are to thrive in the social age," McIlraith explains.
NetNames has retrieved figures YouGov Plc, which acquired responses online from 1,643 adults between 24 February to 6 March.


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Sebastian Kislinger (ur. 1 sierpnia 1988) – austriacki snowboardzista.

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Po raz pierwszy na arenie międzynarodowej pojawił się 12 marca 2004 roku w Haus im Ennstal, gdzie w zawodach FIS Race nie ukończył rywalizacji w gigancie równoległym. Nigdy nie wystąpił na mistrzostwach świata juniorów. W zawodach Pucharu Świata zadebiutował 6 stycznia 2010 roku w Kreischbergu, zajmując 60. miejsce w gigancie równoległym. Pierwsze pucharowe punkty wywalczył 21 grudnia 2011 roku w Carezza, zajmując dwudzieste miejsce w tej konkurencji. Na podium zawodów tego cyklu po raz pierwszy stanął 12 lutego 2017 roku w Bokwang, kończąc zawody na drugiej pozycji. W zawodach tych rozdzielił swego rodaka, Andreasa Prommeggera i Aarona Marcha z Włoch. Najlepsze wyniki osiągnął w sezonie 2016/2017, kiedy to zajął czternaste miejsce w klasyfikacji PAR i siódme w klasyfikacji giganta równoległego. Na rozgrywanych w 2017 roku mistrzostwach świata w Sierra Nevada był ósmy w swej koronnej konkurencji. Rok później wystąpił na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Pjongczangu, gdzie był jedenasty w gigancie równoległym.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej
 sezon 2009/2010: 90.
 PAR
 sezon 2010/2011: 83.
 sezon 2011/2012: 35.
 sezon 2012/2013: 42.
 sezon 2013/2014: 24.
 sezon 2014/2015: 14.
 sezon 2015/2016: 16.
 sezon 2016/2017: 14.
 sezon 2017/2018: 5.

Miejsca na podium w zawodach
  Bokwang – 12 lutego 2017 (gigant równoległy) - 2. miejsce
  Winterberg – 17 marca 2018 (slalom równoległy) - 2. miejsce
  Carezza – 13 grudnia 2018 (gigant równoległy) - 3. miejsce

Linki zewnętrzne
 Profil na stronie FIS

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Austriaccy snowboardziści
Austriaccy olimpijczycy
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2018
Urodzeni w 1988
Medaliści Zimowej Uniwersjady 2011
Medaliści Zimowej Uniwersjady 2013


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Trump invokes death of John Kelly's son in furor over calls to fallen soldiers
President Donald Trump, pictured with chief of staff John Kelly, was adamant Tuesday that he's called the family of every fallen service member. | Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images
By Nolan D. McCaskill
Updated: 10/17/2017 06:01 PM EDT
President Donald Trump on Tuesday invoked the death of the son of his chief of staff, John Kelly, as he defended his claim from a day before that Barack Obama and other past presidents didn't always call the families of slain service members.
"For the most part, to the best of my knowledge, I think I've called every family of somebody that's died, and it's the hardest call to make, and I said it very loud and clear yesterday. The hardest thing for me to do is do that," Trump said Tuesday morning during an interview with Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade.
"Now, as far as other representatives, I don't know," he continued. "I mean, you could ask General Kelly did he get a call from Obama. You could ask other people. I don't know what Obama's policy was. I write letters, and I also call."
A White House official said Kelly didn't receive a call from Obama after his son, 2nd Lt. Robert Kelly, died in Afghanistan in November 2010 when he stepped on a land mine.
Obama did, however, host a breakfast in May 2011 for Gold Star families. And Kelly and his wife attended and sat at the table of first lady Michelle Obama, a source familiar with the event said.
"President Obama engaged families of the fallen and wounded warriors throughout his presidency through calls, letters, visits to [Arlington Cemetery], visits to Walter Reed, visits to Dover, and regular meetings with Gold Star families at the White House and across the country," a former White House official said.
Trump has faced an onslaught of criticism — most notably from former Obama aides — since making the accusation against Obama on Monday afternoon in a Rose Garden news conference when asked about his silence regarding the death of four Green Berets related to an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger.
"The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls," the president alleged without evidence Monday. "A lot of them didn't make calls. I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I'm able to do it."
By Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer and Daniel Lippman
He said he was "told" that Obama didn't always make calls but doesn't know for sure. "All I can do is ask my generals," he added Monday. "Other presidents did not call. They'd write letters. And some presidents didn't do anything."
Obama's former aides chafed at the comment. Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, called the president's claim "an outrageous and disrespectful lie even by Trump standards" and noted on Twitter that it was Trump, not Obama, who attacked a Gold Star family that had been critical of him.
Alyssa Mastromonaco, Obama's former deputy chief of staff of operations, was even more direct, tweeting, "that's a f------ lie. to say president obama (or past presidents) didn't call the family members of soldiers KIA - he's a deranged animal."
Trump, however, said Tuesday that he doesn't feel a need to clarify his remarks.
"There's nothing to clarify," he said, blaming CNN for first broaching the subject at his news conference. "This was, again, fake news CNN. I mean, they're just a bunch of fakers."
In an apparent attempt to clean up the president's comments, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that Trump "wasn't criticizing his predecessors, but stating a fact," and insisted that past presidents never "called each family of the fallen" because they sometimes sent letters or met with them in person in lieu of phone calls.
"I think what the president was saying is that there are many different ways to reach out to these families," White House counselor Kellyanne Conway explained Tuesday in an interview with Fox News. "The president, I think, made very clear there what he meant and what he was saying."
Trump was adamant Tuesday that he's prioritized calling the family of every fallen service member.
"It's very difficult to be able to do that, but I have called, I believe, everybody. But certainly I'll use the word 'virtually' everybody, where during the last nine months something's happened to a soldier I've called virtually everybody," the president said. "I've gone to Dover [Air Force Base]. I've seen what takes place at Dover. It's an incredible scene and very, very sad — one of the saddest things you'll ever see."
He cautioned, however, that he speaks for himself, not past presidents. "I don't know what Bush did. I don't know what Obama did," he conceded. "You could find out easily what President Obama did. All you have to do is ask the military people. But I believe his policy was somewhat different than my policy."
Trump said his policy is to call the family of every fallen soldier, though his rhetoric Monday suggested he only calls "when it's appropriate" and "when I think I'm able to do it."
"You have to let a little time go by. You can't just call immediately," he said, explaining why he has yet to reach out to the families of those killed in the Niger ambush. "But I will be calling, have called and will be calling the parents and the loved ones, wives, etc., of the soldiers that recently were killed."
Sanders said in a statement later Tuesday that Trump had spoken to the families of all four service members who were killed in action.
"He offered condolences on behalf of a grateful nation and assured them their family's extraordinary sacrifice to the country will never be forgotten," she said.
Edward-Isaac Dovere contributed to this report.
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Anonymous denies stealing data from Sony's servers
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According to Sony, a file under the of hacktivist group Anonymous was left its online entertainment network servers.
The company hasn't directly accused the group of planting the file.
Sony, in a letter to a US congressional committee investigating data theft, provided its most detailed explanation yet of the hacker attacks on Sony Online Entertainment, the PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service.
Personal information such as the user names, passwords, addresses and birth dates of more than 100-million people may have been compromised in the attacks and the intruders may also have made off with credit and debit card data.
Committee chairman Mary Bono Mack, a Republican from California, criticised Sony for declining to attend the hearing, calling its decision "unacceptable," and said it should have notified customers sooner of the data breach.
Mack said Sony claimed it was "too busy" with its ongoing investigation to appear, but Sony Computer Entertainment America chairman Kazuo Hirai did respond to questions from US lawmakers in a letter to the committee.
Sony, in the letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, noted that the large-scale data theft came shortly after the PlayStation Network suffered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks from the loose knit group of "hacktivists" known as Anonymous.
Anonymous, which carried out attacks last year against US companies which withdrew services to WikiLeaks, had vowed retribution against Sony for taking legal action against hackers who cracked PlayStation 3 (PS3) defenses to change console operating software.
Anonymous argues that PS3 console owners have the right to do what they want with them, including modifying them.
In a typical DDoS attack, a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers, slowing service or knocking it offline completely.
Anonymous took credit for the DDoS attacks but denied involvement in the data theft.
Sony's Hirai, in his letter, said "what is becoming more and more evident is that Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyberattack designed to steal personal and credit card information for illegal purposes."
He said intruders who stole data from Sony Online Entertainment servers "had planted a file on one of those servers named 'Anonymous' with the words 'We are Legion,'" the Anonymous motto.
"Just weeks before, several Sony companies had been the target of a large-scale, coordinated denial of service attack by the group called Anonymous," Hirai noted.
"Almost two weeks ago, one or more cybercriminals gained access to PlayStation Network servers at or around the same time that these servers were experiencing denial of service attacks," he said.
"Whether those who participated in the denial of service attacks were conspirators or whether they were simply duped into providing cover for a very clever thief, we may never know," the Sony executive said.
"In any case, those who participated in the denial of service attacks should understand that — whether they knew it or not — they were aiding in a well planned, well executed, large-scale theft that left not only Sony a victim, but also Sony's many customers around the world," he said.
Sony also said it was cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and private forensics companies in investigating the data theft, which has led Sony to temporarily shut down the PlayStation Network.
The PlayStation Network connects PS3 consoles to online games, films and more. Players are still able to take part in games offline on consoles, but have lost the ability to challenge others on the internet.
The PlayStation Network was launched in November 2006 and boasts about 77-million registered users worldwide.
Sony said it discovered the initial breach between April 17 and April 19 and shut down the network on April 20, but has faced criticism for not disclosing it until a week later. — AFP
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Alfonso Letelier-Llona (ur. 4 października 1912 w Santiago, zm. 28 sierpnia 1994 tamże) – chilijski kompozytor.

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Ukończył studia rolnicze na uniwersytecie w Santiago, jednocześnie w latach 1930–1935 uczył się w konserwatorium u Pedro Humberto Allende i Raúla Hügela. Uzupełniające studia odbył w Madrycie u Conrado del Campo. W 1940 roku został współzałożycielem Escuela Moderna de Música, prowadził też własny zespół madrygałowy. Od 1946 roku wykładał kompozycję na Conservatorio Nacional de Música w Santiago, w latach 1951–1962 był dziekanem jego wydziału sztuki, a w latach 1958–1962 również rektorem. Od 1953 do 1962 roku pełnił funkcję przewodniczącego rady Instituto de Extensión Musical. W 1969 roku objął posadę kierownika departamentu muzyki w chilijskim ministerstwie edukacji.

W latach 1950–1956 był przewodniczącym Asociación Nacional de Compositores. Od 1967 roku był członkiem Academia de Bellas Artes. W 1968 roku otrzymał Premio Nacional de Arte de Chile. W latach 1986–1989 był dziekanem wydziału sztuki i kultury fizycznej Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. Od 1994 roku wydział sztuki Universidad de Chile nosi jego nazwisko.

W swojej twórczości początkowo nawiązywał do języka dźwiękowego francuskiego impresjonizmu, który łączył z elementami chilijskiego folkloru. W latach 50. XX w. zaczął wykorzystywać dorobek twórczy drugiej szkoły wiedeńskiej. Pisał również muzykę do filmów.

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Optical Rotatory Dispersion (ORD) provides information on chiral molecules even without chromophores, such as saccharides. It can be used to measure the chirality of non-absorbing samples and the determination of absolute configuration.
JASCO offers two methods of ORD detection: optical null and intensity measurement systems. The intensity measurement method, using a fixed analyzer, is simpler and more economical, while the optical-null approach, with its rotating analyzer, is intrinsically more accurate because the measurement is absolute. Since ORD is very sensitive to strain in the sample cell window, cylindrical cells are strongly recommended for use ORD measurement.


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Buzz Aldrin – Dr. Rendevous
Posted on January 30, 2015 by The Victor Crew
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. was born on January 20, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey. Aldrin later legally adopted his childhood nickname, Buzz. Buzz Aldrin's interest in space flight began at home. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of an Army Chaplain. His father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin, was an aviation pioneer, a student of rocket developer Robert Goddard, and an aide to General Billy Mitchell.
Buzz Aldrin graduated from Montclair High School and entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1951, graduating third in his class with a Bachelor of Science degree. Buzz Aldrin entered the Air Force after graduating from West Point and earned his air force pilot's wings in 1952. He flew Sabre jets in 66 combat missions during the Korean War.
Buzz Aldrin temporarily left flying in 1959 to enter graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. He planned to complete a master's degree and then apply for test pilot school. Instead, he earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics in 1963. His thesis, "Guidance for Manned Orbital Rendezvous", was the study of piloted rendezvous (bringing piloted spacecraft into close proximity with each other). His thesis dedication reads, "The men in the astronaut program. Oh that I were one of them." Techniques he devised are used on all space rendezvous and docking flights.
After leaving MIT, Buzz Aldrin was assigned to the air force's space division in Los Angeles, California. In 1963 he transferred to the Manned Space Center (now the Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas, working closely with experiments for the Gemini Program. NASA accepted Aldrin into its third group of astronauts in October 1963. He was the first astronaut with a Ph.D. degree and quickly earned the nickname of "Dr. Rendezvous". He was in the first crew to orbit the earth, where he made major improvements by advancing operational techniques for astronautical navigation star display.
In 1966 Aldrin and astronaut Jim Lovell were assigned to the backup crew of Gemini 10. That same year they were scheduled to fly aboard Gemini 12 from November 11 to November 15, 1966. Aldrin's two-hour space walk on the flight was the longest and most successful spacewalk ever done to that time. His rendezvous abilities were also put to use when he manually recomputed all the rendezvous maneuvers after the on-board radar failed.
After Gemini 12, Aldrin was assigned to the backup crew of Apollo 8. He was closely involved with Apollo 9 rendezvous flight tests, the first flight in which two astronauts in a Lunar Module separated from the third astronaut in the Command and Service Module. The Lunar Module of the Apollo spacecraft could not reenter the earth's atmosphere, so rendezvous and docking were critical to the lives of the astronauts in the module.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their Lunar Module on the moon's Sea of Tranquility and became the first two humans to walk on the moon.\r\n\r\nUpon returning from the moon, Buzz embarked on an international goodwill tour. He was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom plus over 50 other distinguished awards and medals from the United States and numerous countries.
Since retiring from NASA and the Air Force, Dr. Aldrin has remained in the forefront of efforts to ensure a continued leading role for America in manned space exploration. To advance his lifelong commitment to venturing outward in space, he has created a master plan of evolving missions for sustained exploration utilizing his concept, "The Cycler", a spacecraft system which makes perpetual orbits between Earth and Mars. In 1993, Dr. Aldrin received a U.S. patent for a permanent space station he designed. He recently founded his rocket design company, Starcraft Boosters, Inc. and the ShareSpace Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to opening the doors to space tourism for all people.
"There's a need for accepting responsibility – for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education." – Buzz Aldrin
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