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XXIX edition
Como - Milano / 6 - 12 December 2019
Carol, Orson, and me
Seeing the restored version of The Third Man on the big screen is an experience to be recommended. But seeing The Third Man and then hear Angela Allen, the very young editor's assistant on that masterpiece, share a few anecdotes on the making of the film: that's unforgettable. On the first day of Noir in Festival in Como, these two experiences, the screening and the talk with Angela Allen, came together, to the delight of Noir audiences.
Prompted by the questions put by Adrian Wootton (a genuine expert on the film), Allen talked about how much it had meant to her to work with Carol Reed, his presence on the set, and above all, Orson Welles: despite his appearing on the screen over an hour into the film, rumors have swirled ever since about Welles' contribution to his role and his also directing the picture from behind the scenes, all of which only compounded the legend of The Third Man.
"Yes, it was very early on; I think I was eighteen or nineteen. I learned a tremendous amount working on that set. Reed was really my mentor. He taught me so much.
"And I was actually on the set in the second unit. And we were the unit that spent most of our time in the sewers, and on the wheel, because for the famous wheel scene, with Orson and Joseph Cotten my unit spent, I think I spent about two weeks going round and round on that wheel shooting plates and point-of-views of down below. Of course, in those days we didn't have special effects or videos or any of those modern things."
Then it was time to talk about Harry Lyme, the "first man".
"Orson Welles, yes, he arrived rather late. They had to chase him round Europe. They had somebody and he was in Paris. So they sent somebody to Paris, the man got to Paris, and he'd gone to Rome. And so it went on. And he eventually arrived, but before he arrived, Guy Hamilton, who was the first assistant to Carol, he had to double him on a shot of a shadow running up the road. And Carol said, �Well, you'd better put a coat hanger in your coat because you're much thinner than Orson."
"I can also say that we, the second unit, shot the very first shot he ever made in the film, which was walking towards the carousel on his way to meet him [Holly, the character played by Cotten] at the wheel. Orson did that in one or two takes, because he didn't have any dialogue. But when it was time for him to go down the sewers, he saw both the actors and the crew eating bacon sandwiches, and went mad, and said, �It's disgusting! How can they eat in the sewers?' And he refused to ever go down the sewers again, and they had to build the sewer in London to do any other post-shots of him. A lot of that stuff in the sewer running is a double, because he wouldn't do it."
As to the rumors of Welles being a shadow director on the film, Allen firmly dispelled them, one and all: "Yes, I had heard, and of course Guy Hamilton, who was very close to Carol, had heard these tales, and it is totally untrue, because when you see the film, Orson doesn't make his entrance until about an hour into the film, so I don't know how he was directing it, cause he wasn't there."
In closing, Wootton asked Allen to share her favorite memories of making the film: "I think, looking back, it was just after the war and it was my first time abroad, and working with Carol, who, as I said, I thought of him really as a sort of mentor. I mean, there's no particular scene that I can recall that stands out, but one shot does stand out to me: shooting in the sewer, under, I think, the Hofbrau Palace, and Carol was there for this particular shot, and a waiter in the full black apron with a silver salver coming down the spiral staircase in the sewers to give Carol his cup of coffee. And that definitely imprinted itself on my memory."


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The Swiss scored in the last minute to save themselves from elimination at the group stage.
They are now equal on points with Brazil but stand second on their table.
Both goals scored by the hosts at the Kaliningrad were marred with controversy during and after the game because of the players' celebrations.
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As both Serbia and Albania have bad history among the Balkan states, many away fans were furious when the Swiss players celebrated by making an eagle symbol with their hands.
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Der Etappenhase (niederdeutscher Originaltitel: De Etappenhas. Een lustig Spill ut de Kriegstied in veer Uptög) ist ein Theaterstück im Genre der Komödie des oldenburgischen Schriftstellers Karl Bunje von 1935. Die Handlung spielt während des Ersten Weltkriegs in Flandern; Bunje verarbeitete in dem Werk auf humoristische Art seine Kriegserlebnisse. Bekannt wurde das Stück vor allem durch Film- und Fernsehadaptionen, u. a. mit Günther Lüders, Willy Millowitsch, Beppo Brem und Edgar Bessen. Die Fernsehausstrahlung am 27. Oktober 1953 aus dem Kölner Millowitsch-Theater war die erste Liveübertragung eines Bühnenwerks im Deutschen Fernsehen und machte das Theater bundesweit bekannt.

Bühnenbild
Laut Regieanweisung von Bunje soll das Bühnenbild aus einem schlichten, schmucklosen Wohnzimmer mit mehreren Ausgängen bestehen. Die Bekleidung der Frontsoldaten soll

… stilecht sein, dreckig und abgerissen. Der Leutnant etwas hervortretend in der Kleidung, im übrigen aber ein echter Grabenoffizier. Der Etappensoldat Ferdinand ist dagegen geschniegelt und gebügelt; hoher Stehkragen, Extrahose mit Stegen, weit eleganter als der Leutnant. Er spricht ein affektiertes Platt. – Marie ist frisch, einfach und adrett gekleidet. (De Etappenhas, S. 5)

Handlung
Flandern, Oktober 1917. Die drei befreundeten Frontsoldaten Gerd, Hein und Ummo werden zusammen mit ihrem Leutnant Dierk Hansen in die Etappe nahe der deutsch-holländischen Grenze verlegt. Sie beziehen ein Haus, das allein von dem Mädchen Marie bewohnt wird. Der Landwehrmann Ummo, von Beruf Bauer, ist bereits 46 Jahre alt und sollte längst wieder in der Heimat sein, doch ist noch kein Ersatzmann für ihn eingetroffen, da aufgrund der hohen Kriegsverluste der Ersatz knapp ist.

In der Etappe treffen sie auf Ferdinand Hasenbein, einen stereotypen Etappenhengst, der es bislang verstanden hat, jedem Fronteinsatz aus dem Weg zu gehen, und der beim Oberst der Ortskommandantur als Schreiber dient. Gerd kennt ihn noch von der gemeinsamen Arbeitsstelle vor dem Krieg und freut sich dementsprechend, ihn wiederzusehen. Hein dagegen hat für Ferdinands Nichteinsatz an der Front kein Verständnis, zumal sogar Ummos ältester Sohn bereits eingezogen wurde. Daher nimmt Hein Ferdinand bei jeder Gelegenheit aufs Korn.

Hein, der dafür bekannt ist, überall und jederzeit "organisieren" zu können, entdeckt zufällig beim Besuch der Ortskommandantur einen vom Oberst geschossenen Hasen. Da alle fürchterlich Kohldampf schieben und Ummos letzte Fleischreserve aus der Heimat im Schützengraben von den Ratten gefressen wurde, freuen sich Gerd, Hein und Ummo auf einen Hasenbraten. Gerd ist aber mit dem Diebstahl nicht einverstanden, da dies den Leutnant gegenüber dem Oberst in eine sehr peinliche Lage bringen könnte und Ferdinand, der für die Verwahrung des Hasen geradestehen muss, dafür Arrest droht. Hein muss daher den Hasen an Ferdinand zurückgeben, der wegen des verschwundenen Hasen schon völlig verzweifelt ist. Gerd, der in Marie verliebt ist, hat das Mädchen allerdings schon zum Hasenbraten eingeladen; eine Absage wäre daher für ihn auch sehr unangenehm.

Marie hat jedoch einen Kater namens Peter, der gerne von der Milch nascht und Ferdinand, der ebenfalls in Marie verliebt ist, schon öfter bei Annäherungen gestört hat. Plötzlich ist Peter verschwunden. Hein lenkt den Verdacht sofort auf Ferdinand, Peter auf dem Gewissen zu haben. Das glaubt auch Ummo, der Ferdinand heimlich dabei beobachtet hat, wie der Schreiber eine mit Steinen beschwerte Kiste in einem Kanal versenkte. Ferdinand wird von den Freunden "verhört" und gesteht sofort, die Katze getötet und in der Kiste versenkt zu haben.

Da Hein gut kochen kann, soll er im Auftrag des Leutnants den Hasen für den Oberst zubereiten. Je näher das Festmahl für den Ortskommandanten kommt, desto schlechter wird die Stimmung unter den Freunden mit Ausnahme von Hein, der ganz vergnügt ist. Als Hein den Braten an Ferdinand übergeben hat und dieser zum Oberst abgeht, verkündet er zur großen Überraschung aller, dass es heute doch noch einen eigenen Hasenbraten gibt. Auch Dierk ist eingeladen und nimmt gern an dem Festschmaus teil.

Nach dem Essen lüftet sich dann durch ein Versprecher Ferdinands das Geheimnis der zwei Hasenbraten: Ummo hat die Kiste aus dem Kanal geholt. Darin befindet sich jedoch nicht der Kadaver des Katers, sondern ein nagelneuer, aber völlig verbrannter Uniformrock des Obersts. Ferdinand gesteht, dass ihm der Uniformrock, den er für den Oberst von der Post geholt hat, durch einen Unfall verbrannt ist. Um das Missgeschick zu vertuschen und der Post in die Schuhe zu schieben, hat er den Rock verschwinden lassen.

Hein muss nun zugeben, dass er den Kater auf dem Gewissen und gegen den Hasen des Obersts "ausgetauscht" hat. Das will Ferdinand nicht glauben, da er doch beim Oberst mitgegessen und den Hasenkopf verspeist hat. Hein macht ihm klar, dass der Hasenkopf das einzig echte am Hasenbraten war. Ferdinand, der nun erkennt, wie falsch sein Leben als Etappenhengst war, meldet sich freiwillig in die Kompanie von Dierk, weil er hier wahre Frontkameradschaft kennen gelernt hat. Für Ummo ist der Krieg zu Ende: Er kann in die Heimat zurückkehren.

Film- und Fernsehadaptionen
 Der Etappenhase, Spielfilm (D 1937, Regie Joe Stöckel, mit Günther Lüders als Hein Lammers)
 Der Etappenhase, Bühnenaufführung des Millowitsch-Theaters am 27. Oktober 1953, live übertragen durch den NWDR, mit Willy Millowitsch als Anton Pannedeckel (= Hein Lammers) und Lucy Millowitsch als Marie.
 Der Etappenhase (Fernsehfassung von 1956, mit Willy Millowitsch als Anton Pannedeckel und Lotti Krekel als Marie).
 Der Etappenhase, Spielfilm (BRD 1957, Regie Wolfgang Becker, mit Beppo Brem).
 Der Etappenhase (Fernsehübertragung 1969, mit Willy Millowitsch als Anton Pannedeckel und Lotti Krekel als Marie)
 Der Etappenhase, Fernsehübertragung des Ohnsorg-Theaters, ausgestrahlt durch die ARD am 16. Dezember 1978 mit Edgar Bessen als Hein Lammers und Herma Koehn als Marie.
 Der Etappenhase, Bühnenfassung des Millowitsch-Theaters von 1989, mit Willy Millowitsch als Anton Pannedeckel, ausgestrahlt 1991.

Siehe auch
 Kater Lampe von Emil Rosenow

Literatur
 Karl Bunje: De Etappenhas. Een lustig Spill ut de Kriegstied in veer Uptög, Verden an der Aller (Verlag und Vertrieb plattdeutscher Bühnenspiele Fr. Mahnke) 1935.

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Crowfoot was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 2015.

It was located in the central part of the province, and is named in honour of Chief Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot First Nations in the 19th century.

Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Crowfoot was a strongly conservative riding.  The major right-wing party of the day--Progressive Conservative (1968-1993), Reform (1993-2000), Canadian Alliance (2000-2003) and Conservative (after 2003)-- won every election in this riding, usually by some of the largest recorded margins in Canadian politics.  As a measure of how conservative this riding is, Jack Horner, the riding's original member, crossed the floor to the Liberals in 1977, only to tumble to only 18 percent of the vote in 1979.

This electoral district was also home to the largest margin of victory in any federal riding in the 2004 and 2006 federal elections.  Conservative candidate Kevin Sorenson won 37,649 votes, or 80.2% of the riding's total in 2004. This represented a difference of 34,034 votes, or 72.5%, from the candidate with the riding's second most votes, Liberal Adam Campbell who only received 3,615 votes, or 7.7% of the riding's votes. It was the riding with the highest Conservative vote in the 2004 and 2006 elections. In 2006, Sorenson increased his vote even further, to 43,009 votes, 82.5% of the total.

Geography
The district included the City of Camrose; the Town of Drumheller; the Municipal District of Acadia No. 34; Wheatland County; Kneehill County; Starland County; the County of Stettler No. 6; the County of Paintearth No. 18; Camrose County; and all of Alberta's three special areas (Nos. 2, 3 and 4).

History
This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Medicine Hat, Acadia, Bow River  and Macleod ridings.

In 2003, parts of Wild Rose riding were added.

It was abolished in 2012. Most of the riding's eastern portion became Battle River—Crowfoot, with much of the western portion transferring to Bow River and Red Deer—Mountain View. Some outer western portions of the riding that had been annexed into Calgary joined Calgary Shepard and Calgary Forest Lawn.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.

Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997.

See also
 List of Canadian federal electoral districts
 Past Canadian electoral districts

References

2011 results from Elections Canada
 Expenditures - 2008
 Expenditures - 2004
 Expenditures - 2000
 Expenditures - 1997

Notes

External links
Elections Canada
Website of the Parliament of Canada

Former federal electoral districts of Alberta
Camrose, Alberta
Drumheller


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Advanced Robot Manipulators
Giving surgeons a sense of touch
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By Long Wang & Rashid Yasin
This blog is a follow-up to the previous article by Amy Wolf, "giving surgical robots a human touch", which featured Dr. Nabil Simaan and his lab, Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications (ARMA). ARMA Lab, one of the labs under Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery & Engineering (VISE), is focused on advanced robotics research, with an emphasize on medical applications.
In Amy's article, she mentioned an exciting direction that Dr. Simaan is leading our team – making surgical robots more intelligent as surgeons' partners. Achieving such functionality may spare surgeons from low-level and tedious tasks like regulating safe interaction forces with the anatomy and allow them to focus on more important tasks like navigating tools to the proper locations to perform treatment e.g. ablation therapy. It may help surgeons transition from "good to great", also see paper in Mechanical Engineering, 137(9).
For one of our projects, we have demonstrated the concept of building intelligent robotic systems to assist surgeons by (i) regulating the interaction force with the anatomy and (ii) computing and rendering an assistive "virtual fixture" force on surgeons' hand to reflect the location of the anatomy on the remote side in an effort to give surgeons the sense of touch they are often missing in robotic surgical procedures. This particular work is a collaboration between ARMA at Vanderbilt and LCSR at Johns Hopkins University, supervised by Dr. Nabil Simaan, Dr. Peter Kazanzides, and Dr. Russell Taylor.
A typical workflow in an operating room with robot-assisted technology is shown in the figure above (source: 2015 Intuitive Surgical, Inc.). Surgeons interact with master consoles while robot manipulators on the patient's side (remote side) replicate their motions to execute surgical tasks. We use a similar arrangement to develop and test our framework.
Patient Side
On the patient's side (remote side) we use a da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) Patient Side Manipulator (PSM) and a mockup silicone phantom model mounted on a force sensor. We have an inexpensive stereo camera system to provide stereo views to the user, to replace the Endoscopic Camera Manipulator (ECM) that is used in a real surgery.
As we would not be able to place a force sensor underneath an organ in a real surgical setting, the force sensor setup is not realistic, however, we are able to answer more fundamental research questions by using it to give us full information about the contact forces between the robot and the anatomy. In the future, this can be replaced by force sensing capabilities of the robot itself: there are promising researcher efforts by many, including our group, to provide force-sensing capabilities on surgical robots.
Surgeon (user) Console
For the surgeon (user) console side, we use a da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) Master Tool Manipulator (MTM), including two master arms (only one is used for this demo) and a stereo viewer system that projects the two video feeds from the remote side. A standard foot pedal system is used for control.
A sense of touch & intelligent robot assistance
Surgeons (users) in this demo can see "inside" the anatomy through stereo video feeds from the remote side. But to give a sense of touch, a more complicated method is required. Simply sending the readings from the force sensor will be too noisy and will add a lag between the user movements and the force feedback. To combat these problems, a model representing the environment is updated behind the scenes and that model is used to generate haptic rendering forces based on a simple spring force model. Additionally, without any input by the user, the patient side robot manipulator regulates the interaction force with the environment, relying on its own hybrid force motion controller.
Demo in VISE Symposium
We believe the best way to improve a system is to ask different surgeons and users to try the system and get valuable feedback from them. The 5th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium sponsored by VISE was a great opportunity for us to do just that. We received a great deal of positive feedback from the users and also we found places where we can improve the system in our ongoing research plan.
Lab tour & demo for Harpeth Hall Winterim 2017
One very important mission of our research is to connect to and inspire younger generations. As the culmination of a 3-week "Winterim" teaching program at Harpeth Hall high school on medical robotics, lab members showed a group of 10 students around the ARMA lab. The lab tour included this demo along with other examples of what we are working on. These 9th and 10th graders were able to feel how the robot reacts to their commands and get a more physical understanding of what robots look like and how they are developed.
Approximately half of the class was thinking of a career in the fields of biomedical engineering or medicine. While we do not expect them to understand all the engineering details of how we create these demos, but we hope, that one day when some of these students become doctors, the features that we are building today will become commonly found in surgical suites across the globe.
This work has been accepted by Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and will be shown in coming issues. The published manuscript can be found here, and the open sourced data sets about robotic palpation is documented here.
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Description: The counter part to grumpy cat. This mastodon sized rat tramples everything. That which dares to oppose it becomes its' dinner for it is always hungry for battle. The glowing red eyes often the last horrifying sight for it's victims.
Description: [player] inhales deeply, gathering excess oxygen in [gender] lungs. Using a strange technique [player] exudes the air from their pores in high-pressured steam, melting everything in a small area.
Description: [player] takes an offensive stance, and swings [gender] arm back. Stepping forward, they throw they punch and throw their weight with it, pulverizing anything in the way of their enormous fist.
Description: [player] exudes massive amounts of steam from [gender] body, shielding them from the enemy's view. When the steam disappears, [player] is gone. In the time it takes to find them again, [player] has bolstered their resistance considerably.
Description: The sounds that emanate from this Hollow can be pleasant and harmful. The wielder's voice of this Ressureccion can establish communication from large distances.
Description: Berserker, a robust creature fully clad in pitch-black armor and a rustic helmet with a thinly carved slit displaying the ghastly glow of his eyes. The armor is the work of the delicate and nuanced workmanship of its smith's utmost effort, succeeding in granting it an air of formidability and a fine construction. It is a perfect armor that can be called neither exquisite nor crude, and it instead perfectly melds magnificence and functionality. It is carved with countless marks and scratches, the highlights of his various military exploits etched into it to add a touch of valor. It is an ideal battle outfit that all knights could not help but envy.
Description: A long silver weapon used by a high elf after it fell from the sky. Radiating with a white light. It illuminates the wielder in a silver aura.
Description: Upon a horse of solid steel sits the wielder of an iron lance. Untiring and unflinching the rider will charge into battle impaling its' enemy without a second thought.
Description: In gilded armor this soldier stands. A massive shield on the right, a holy sword on the left. Striking down those in the wrong it seeks to maintain its' own sense of justice in the world.
Description: In heavy armor with an equally heave shield and spear stand this unbreakable warrior. While preferring to fight with others it has incredible stopping power by itself drawing its' greatest power from its' own will to not die.
Description: Upon release this plain looking sword transforms ito a pair of heave knives and a bow. The wielder now cloaked in shadows clothes designed to make them hard to see no matter the circumstances. Assassinations from the dark is where this fight excels.
Description: The user hardens their Hierro into a glassy material to protect them selves. the glass is able to reflect light farther then a mile.
Description: This Shinigami uses darkness to carry out all action. As a master of stealth can pass through dimensions usually wielding weaponssuch as four strangely-shaped knives, two butcher's knives, and a black, bloodstained scalpel.
Description: Twin lance so beautiful it leaves opponents in awe. Both Lances have different colours which provide different functions in battle.
Description: Upon release this Zanpakutou transforms the environment into a thick bramble resembling a caged arena. The only way out is a fight to the death while this release is active.
Moves: Root of Confusion (bind) - As the fight rages opponent becomes entangled in a massive root system slowing there reaction time.
Raging Inferno (Fire AoE) - [player] calls forth a great storm forcing lightning to set fire to all it strikes.
Description: Upon release this hollow summons a gale force wind kicking up a cloud of dust. As the cloud recedes the hollow seems to have grown giant wings and razor sharp claws resembling the look of a giant bird.
Moves: Blinding Sunlight (reflect) - [player] flies high into the sky cuasing [gender] opponent to look up into the sun blinding them for a short time.
Falcon Drive (recoil) - [player] dives towards [gender] opponent at a incredible speed. At the last second [player] pulls up driving [gender] claws into [gender] opponent with godlike force.
Description: Descended from the high heavens above, this sword grants it's wielder a near-perfect angelic appearance. While the appearance might be one of mercy and understanding, this Angel strives for glory and it would be a mistake to underestimate his power.
Will begin going through these. You can still suggest concepts (much appreciated even if it's just a simple concept!) as well as write your own.
Description: It is a standard normal to long length Katana, the hilt is light cyan-blue with a normal light-gold rectangular tsuba. Through the blade a black lightning underlined with blue flows constantly warning any unwanted guests. Legends say this is one of the 13 Divine Weapons with limitless powers crafted for the Spirit King by the Royal Blacksmith.
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Description: When this ressurrection is released, the hollow grows two big angel-like light blue wings and two small angel-like light blue wings from it's back and white-like symbols appear across it's body. His hair becomes light-blue also two white stag-like horns appear from his forehead, from his waist down he grows light-blue fur hair ending at it's knee's and his eyes are light white-silver with slim red underlines. His hands and his legs become strong monster-like weapons, glowing with an otherworldy white aura. None have faced this legendary hollow and lived to tell the tale and too many souls fell before it.
Effect: Melee Boost - 11%, Dual-Resistance - 11%, Spirit Boost - 11%.
Pls, do not edit the name in Spanish & in English they are both correct. Thank you !
Description: When this ressurrection is released, the hollow gains an iron armour ornated with sapphire's across it's chest the armour piece is also made-up of shoulders, fore-arm, arm, hands, waist and legs gaining a short blue skirt-like cloth. His hair becomes white like snow, wielding a great battle spear forged out of magical frost sapphire's. This is a hollow with dreadful powers being capable of freezing an enemy in an instant and shattering him with his ice mastery or freezing the air in a chosen area, thus unleashing devastating attacks.
Effect: Spirit Boost - 11%, Area Resist - 11%, Range Boost - 2 squares.
Description: Chishi giamerodī is a double-headed voulge with a peacock likeness to it.
At both ends is a scythe-like edge to it, extending outward by a foot. The cloth wrapped guard is at the middle, with 2 gold discs protect the hand wielding it. At the top of the blade is a curl, looking like a wave, then another curl starts at it's end, and repeats two more times. The top and bottom has a hole in the center, the top containing a revolving gear, and the bottom containing a clock.
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Q: Installation and configuration of an SNMP client I want to install a SNMP client (NOT AGENT) on my computer so I can connect to a Cisco Router on which an SNMP agent is already installed.
The problem that all the documentation I found for Ubuntu were for installing an agent not a client.

A: As suggested, you should use snmpwalk or snmpget in a script.
The package containing snmpwalk and snmpget is "snmp" and the correct syntax for install is:
sudo apt-get install snmp

instead of "get-apt install snmp snmpd mbrowse"
After install, you can do a complete snmpwalk to discover wich of the informations you need from your cisco device and later filter them using snmpwalk otions.
Example:
snmpget -v1 -c public 192.168.0.254 .1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.14.11.5.1.1.2

Hope this helps!

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