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St Leonards, Dunedin
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St Leonards is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located close to the northern shore of the Otago Harbour and on the hilly slopes above the harbour. St Leonards is 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) northeast of Dunedin's city centre, between the small settlement of Burkes and Sawyers Bay.[1] St Leonards was named by early settler David Carey for the birthplace of his wife, the English town of St Leonards-on-Sea, on the Sussex coast.[2][3]
Rail and road links between central Dunedin and Port Chalmers run alongside St Leonards on the narrow strip of land between the hill slopes and harbour. The suburb is separate from the contiguous urban area of Dunedin.
The suburb is residential, and contains a significant number of smaller homes. The area is a popular residence for students from the University of Otago, and is also popular with alternative lifestylers. The suburb consists mainly of two roughly parallel roads, the Dunedin-Port Chalmers highway (State Highway 88), which runs close to the harbour, and St Leonards Drive, the former main route to Port Chalmers, which winds around the lower slopes of the hills on which St Leonards sits. The Port Chalmers Branch railway line runs parallel with the highway next to the harbour's edge. In 2012, the Dunedin Harbour Cycleway was extended to reach St Leonards.[4]
The suburbs of St Leonards, Maia, Burkes, and Ravensbourne, are often collectively referred to as West Harbour. Under this name, the area was a separate borough for many years from 1877 until amalgamation with the city of Dunedin in 1963.[5]
^ New Zealand Automobile Association. Greater Dunedin and Invercargill Street Directory, 1998 edition.
^ Reed, A. W. (1975). Place names of New Zealand. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed. ISBN 0-589-00933-8. p. 372
^ Wise's New Zealand guide: A gazetteer of New Zealand (4th ed.) (1969) Dunedin: H. Wise & Co. (N.Z.) Ltd. p. 309
^ Nettleton, Bob (9 February 2012). "Start on extending State Highway 88 walking/cycling path" (Press release). Dunedin: NZ Transport Agency. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
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We all know that working at a startup is a lot different from working at an established business, especially a larger enterprise. While necessary technical skills may be similar across business models, that's rarely the case with personality type and cultural fit. So, how do you know if you're right for a startup?
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You'll find the answer by taking a long look at yourself. We've already seen how characteristics like resourcefulness and self-motivation play a big role in the success of people working at startups. But as some have pointed out, there's no such thing as a one-off list when it comes to determining whether a job is the right fit. So, if you're thinking of going to work for a new company, ask yourself whether you have these five traits.
Though you'll see it listed as a requirement in a lot of job postings, "passion" can be a misnomer. Startup workers need more than passion—they need commitment to their company and its products. Commitment breeds focus and a single-mindedness that leads to getting things done.
As a corollary, there's willingness—the willingness to do whatever it takes for however it long it takes to accomplish your goals, especially when you're juggling diverse tasks. We're not just talking about the willingness to grind on with your development work, either. Are you someone who can jump in to mop up after a pipe bursts in the communal kitchen? Can you do your job, someone else's, and take the office-supplies order? Your actions should show a responsibility toward the company's overall objectives and goals rather than your own position.
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Startups don't offer ladders to climb, but they do provide opportunities for those who step up. Because they're small, they also don't provide many places to hide when something goes wrong. If you're the kind of person who's not bothered by facing a challenge riddled with unknowns, you may have a strong streak of entrepreneurialism yourself. Combine that with a commitment to getting things done and you're sure to find yourself in the inner circle.
Speed is the startup's advantage. New companies move quickly and grow because their employees are able to work cohesively in a fluid environment. If you thrive in chaos, can think on your feet and are capable of looking at a lot of disparate parts to comprehend the whole, you're a good fit.
Because the stakes are so high to everyone involved, your personal and professional integrity is crucial. Founders need to know their team is going to be accountable when things go wrong as easily as they take credit when things go right. Politics is everywhere, of course, but startups don't have the luxury to take the time to deconstruct why a marketing plan fizzled or a product wasn't properly tested. They need people who can face up to their missteps and move on.
Startups aren't for everyone. They move fast and don't have much of a safety net in place. But for the right people, they can be as exciting as they are rewarding. Your commitment to the company, its mission and the work you'll do will all have a big impact on how successful you can be in sometimes-dizzying environment.
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Happy Hamby Campers: Chocolate coated?!
I had a long nap yesterday. While I was dozing, Nick worked on the caravan roof.
By the time I woke up he had taped guidelines onto the roof and was ready to start applying the Liquid Rubber.
It looked like melted chocolate in the tub!
The colour was far more brown than black but darkened as it dried. Very interesting!
Nick applied the first coat with a paintbrush, then pressed the length of bandage along the roof before painting on another coat.
It was his first experience of using the Liquid Rubber paint and the result isn't quite as perfect as he planned.
We're hoping the aesthetic flaws don't affect performance.
Nick cleaned the roof so well that the masking tape clung tightly and wouldn't peel off easily - so lifted bits of rubber with it. Drat!


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White House Deal Could Cut Cost Of At-Home COVID-19 Tests, But Supply Remains Limited In North Texas
By Andrea Lucia September 10, 2021 at 5:16 pm
Filed Under:at-home COVID-19 test, DFW News, President Joe Biden, Retailers
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – By next week, Kroger, Walmart, and Amazon have agreed to cut prices for at-home COVID-19 tests, charging no more than it costs to provide them.
The major retailers reached a deal with the White House to sell the kits at-cost for at least three months, as part of a plan to boost testing.
"I'm taking steps tonight to make testing more available, more affordable, and more convenient," said President Biden in a speech Thursday, Sept. 9, outlining his plan for combating the virus.
He said prices for the at-home tests could drop by up to 35% in some cases.
Amazon told CBS News its customers would see a $3 price cut.
A bigger obstacle may be the supply of at-home tests.
A survey of a dozen pharmacies across the Metroplex, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and Kroger locations turned up just one kit at a Walgreens in Plano, on sale for $25.
The BinaxNOW test kit was available behind the counter, where employees said they were limiting sales to one per person. It includes two tests that provide results at home within 15 minutes of doing a nose swab.
The maker of the kit, Abbott Laboratories, said it's hiring workers and ramping up production to meet growing demand.
The number of COVID tests performed in Texas has more than tripled in the past three months.
Free testing is available at local clinics and pharmacies, but appointments have also become harder to find.
President Biden has touted the at-home tests for their convenience, particularly for families with children too young to be vaccinated.
"You'll be able to test them at home and test those around them," he said.
He's invoking the Defense Production Act to boost supply and purchasing 300 million tests for community clinics, schools, and food banks.
For now, though, they remain limited.
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No one can deny that games are one of the best sources of entertainment. Today we are going to tell you about some of the best PC games according to Steam ranking.
GUILTY GEAR - BlazBlue
Guilty Gear and BlazBlue by Arc System Works are like sisters, and this is an unpleasant bureaucratic incident to blame. This game has successfully won fans' hearts since 1998 and we placed it in our list of best PC games. But in the 2000s, after the merger of publishing companies Sega and Sammy, the rights to release new games in the series were literally snatched from the hands of the developers!
As a result, a new title, BlazBlue ("Tempest Bar" in Japanese!), Has appeared - in which the soul of the predecessor games (and even the images of former heroes!) Has moved. Well, a few years later, the ARXIS successfully bought out the rights to GG, and now it would be a real crime against anime to not continue two such popular franchises at once! Both toys delight gamers with juicy and delicious drawings, memorable soundtrack, high-speed gameplay. These features encouraged us to place this game in our list of best PC games.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII
KoF XIII is still not completely abandoned, simply because it looks LUXURIOUS! Yes, nowadays they no longer make full-fledged fighting games with such gorgeous sprites - this was the last attempt of SNK Playmore, while others do not do so well.
As for the gameplay: King of Fighters XIII's effective mechanics range from simple spam to a powerful CD attack to the air to long and stylish combos that immediately take away most of the opponent's health. Let me remind you that this game still has one of the most difficult combo challenge modes in the history of the industry!
"Injustice 2" came from the virtual pen of the creators of the legendary Mortal Kombat NetherRealm Studios. Nevertheless, this very fresh toy - the 2017 release - is already going into the sunset. Gamers here are primarily attracted by the truly Hollywood gloss of a movie about superheroes: special effects, characters, voice acting, script - all at a high-budget level.
In this game, Harley Quinn smiles as if he were alive, Superman drills Batman with his laser gaze very believably, Aquaman works with a fork, as if at the last buffet table before the failure of the Justice League. However, as often happens in modern cinema, interest in the second Injustice fades away very quickly. When all the super moves and cutscenes are viewed, only the gameplay remains. And the local game mechanics are simply not able to convey all the inhuman power of the heroes involved.
It's a trifle, of course, but when the Firestorm waves its legs above the ground, it seems that someone is shaking a rag doll by the head. But there are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Four Persians in one!
Street Fighter 5 had a very tough start. The game came out almost naked - without content, any features, and with a funny roster of characters! However, almost three years later, the situation has changed: the official ranks of Capcom say that many updates, led by Arcade Edition, have restored the trust of fans of the series.
In the fifth part of the franchise, the combat is clear, simple, and incredibly aggressive! Even traditional Zoner characters like to get on the rampage here! By the way, now the size of the roster has reached 34 Heroes, among whom there are old favorites (the last to arrive was the Muay Thai fighter Sagat), and interesting newcomers.
This fighting game also reveals one of the flaws in my analysis of popularity. SFV supports cross-platform online matches, and SteamCharts only shows active PC users. In other words, you can find many more opponents on the Internet - a significant part of whom bought the game on the PlayStation console.
Tekken 7 by Bandai Namco is the ninth installment in the Tekken series and the first to be released on PC. The new fighting game features the same 1-on-1 battles, albeit with noticeable changes. For example, Rage Art is a new version of ultra hurried attacks that deal about 30% damage, depending on the character. Fully armored, but still absorbs damage.
Uses your rage and each RA is different in terms of speed. The RA input is written next to your character's portrait when loaded before the battle. Rage Drive is another option that you can spend your Rage on. It's basically a luscious version of an existing movement, and it's unique to each character. You must check out the Tekken 7 Tier list.
Access to Rage Art and Rage Drive grants Rage - a condition in which a character is with 25% or less health remaining. Another change, Power Crush is a flavorful attack available to all characters. PC allows players to keep attacking even when hit by an enemy. Power Crush only works to absorb medium to high attacks.
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Limited(s): Kirito has: Isobu the 3 tails, LRA, FTG, Rinnegan, Kotoamatsukami, multi-clone, multi-wood clone, COAT.
Limited(s): Jashinism, Creation Rebirth, LRA, and LIGHTNING DRAGON SLAYER!
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What is the third base wobble position? How could third base wobble pairing occur between codon and anticodon nucleotides?
The question asks about the third base wobble position. The occurrence of third base wobbles pairing in between the codon and anticodon nucleotides.
The Wobble Hypothesis:
Francis Crick stated this hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the 3rd base of an mRNA codon can go through base pairing with the first base in a tRNA anticodon (non-Watson-Crick base pairing).
It is a pairing that takes place between the two nucleotides in RNA molecules. It does not obey the Watson-Crick base pair rules. Wobble pairing is a type of base pairing in between the two nucleotides of RNA. Commonly, it occurs between the third position of codon and first position of anticodon.
Third base wobble pairing between codon and anticodon nucleotides:
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ROQUE SANTA CRUZ has been included in Manchester City's 25-man squad for the first half of the Premier League season squad thanks to Robinho's move to AC Milan.
But Santa Cruz has been told by manager Roberto Mancini not to expect to play much with Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor, Mario Balotelli and Jo ahead of him in the pecking order.
Moves to Lazio and Fulham failed to materialise before the transfer deadline for Santa Cruz, who faced being frozen out of Premier League football until January at the earliest until Robinho's switch to Italy on Tuesday left a gap in the 25-man squad. But Santa Cruz still expects to be biding his time and said: "I've heard from the manager that he won't be counting on me too much. I heard that a week before the season started and that gave me time to arrange a move. But in the end the club were not happy with the offers they received for me.
Owen Hargreaves has been included in Manchester United's 25-man squad, despite playing only 90 seconds of first-team football in the past two years because of knee problems.
But Jonathan Woodgate failed to make Tottenham's 25-man list after boss Harry Redknapp decided to omit the injury-hit defender, who has been fighting to save his career.
Redknapp expressed fears last month that Woodgate, 30, would be forced to retire if one final operation did not cure his nightmare groin problem.
Woodgate made only three appearances last season and has not played since November.
Specialist surgery in America and Australia proved unsuccessful and Redknapp believes the player is close to having to call it quits.
Also omitted from the Spurs squad was goalkeeper Ben Alnwick, with new loan signing Stipe Pletikosa now providing back-up to Heurelho Gomes and Carlo Cudicini.
Michael Kightly has been left out of Wolves' squad after suffering a setback in his recovery from knee problems.
Winger Kightly, 24, has not played since November 2009 because of a patella tendon injury and is likely to go out on loan once fit.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy said: "We're just going to let Kights get on with it. He's still not ready to come back and there's no pressure on him. It will take as long as it takes.
"When he is fit, he won't have played since last November and it'd be very difficult to go straight back into the Premier League.
Stephen Hunt, who is recovering from foot surgery, has been included along with new recruit Marcus Bent, a loan signing from Birmingham.
Aston Villa have named only a 22-man squad but can also call upon home-grown players under 21, such as Marc Albrighton, Nathan Delfouneso, Ciaran Clark and Fabian Delph.


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Zygmunt Kurczyński (ur. 1883 we Lwowie, zm. 11 marca 1954 we Wrocławiu) – polski rzeźbiarz.

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Studiował w krakowskiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych, a po jej ukończeniu wyjechał do Paryża, gdzie kontynuował naukę u Auguste Rodina. Po powrocie do Lwowa nawiązał współpracę z biurami projektowymi, które chętnie angażowały go do prac nad rzeźbiarską stroną prac elewacyjnych. Po wybuchu wojny polsko-bolszewickiej walczył w obronie Lwowa. Tworzył płaskorzeźby, popiersia i pomniki na Cmentarzu Łyczakowskim, po 1920 był radnym miasta Lwowa. Jego pracownia mieściła się przy ulicy Muszaka 50 (wówczas Dwernickiego). Podczas wysiedlenia Polaków ze Lwowa przeprowadził się do Wrocławia, gdzie został pierwszym prezesem tamtejszego oddziału Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków i współtwórcą Akademii Sztuk Pięknych.

Wybrana twórczość architektoniczna we Lwowie

 Kompozycja rzeźbiarska na kamienicy Massarowskiej Rynek 24;
 Płaskorzeźby na elewacji kamienicy Mazanczowskiej (Baczyńskich) Rynek 31;
 Elewacja kamienicy Galicyjskiego Banku Kredytowo-Handlowego projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza i Józefa Sosnowskiego przy ulicy Halickiej 19;
 Osiem płaskorzeźb pomiędzy oknami drugiego piętra w Kamienicy Bałłabanów zbudowanej według projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza i Józefa Sosnowskiego przy ulicy Wałowej 7 (Halicka 21);
 Cztery płaskorzeźby będące alegoriami sztuki, przemysłu i gospodarki na elewacji kamienicy projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza i Józefa Sosnowskiego przy ulicy Wałowej 9;
 Elewacja kamienicy Adolfa Lewina projektu Władysława Derdackiego i Witolda Minkiewicza przy ulicy Wałowej 11a (obecnie 13);
 Wystrój klatki schodowej i sali posiedzeń w gmachu Izby Handlowo-Przemysłowej przy Prospekcie Szewczenki 17 (Akademickiej), obiekt zaprojektowali Alfred Zachariewicz, Tadeusz Obmiński i Józef Sosnowski, malowidła otaczające płaskorzeźby wykonał Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski;
 Attyka z maszkaronami i balkon na kamienicy projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza przy ulicy Saksahanśkiego 9 (Romanowicza);
 Płaskorzeźby na modernistycznej kamienicy przy ulicy Hruszewśkego 10 (św. Mikołaja);
 Secesyjny portal z podwójną arkadą i maszkaronami w westybulu w kamienicy w stylu historyzmu projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza przy ulicy Stefanyka 10 (Ossolińskich);
 Posągi oraz wystrój klatki schodowej na kamienicy projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza (współautor elewacji Tadeusz Błotnicki) przy ulicy Kopernika 3;
 Posągi rycerzy umieszczone na elewacji kamienicy zaprojektowanej przez Romana Felińskiego przy ulicy Kopernika 5;
 Płaskorzeźby na elewacji kamienicy projektu Józefa Awina przy ulicy Doroszenki 14 (Sykstuska);
 Rzeźby na elewacji kamienicy projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza przy ulicy Kościuszki 6;
 Rzeźby stylizowane na staroegipskie posągi na elewacji modernistycznej kamienicy zrealizowanej przez firmę Michała Ulama według projektu Ferdynanda Kasslera i Romana Felińskiego przy ulicy Hnatiuka 20/22 (Jagiellońska);
 Oprawa balkonów, półkolumny i płaskorzeźby na elewacji kamienicy zaprojektowanej przez Ferdynanda Kasslera przy ulicy Bandery 24 (Leona Sapiehy);
 Płaskorzeźby na secesyjnej kamienicy projektu Józefa Piątkowskiego przy ulicy Gródeckiej 67;
 Płaskorzeźby o tematyce mitologicznej na kamienicy projektu Henryka Orleana i Edwarda Skawińskiego przy ulicy Gródeckiej 117;
 Portyk i rzeźby na elewacji kamienicy projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza i Józefa Sosnowskiego przy ulicy Zielonej 22;
 Rzeźba gladiatora umieszczona na kamienicy zbudowanej przez firmę Józefa Sosnowskiego według projektu Władysława Derdackiego i Witolda Minkiewicza przy ulicy Parkowej 14 (Pułaskiego);
 Rzeźby na secesyjnej kamienicy według projektu Alfreda Zachariewicza przy ulicy Jefremowa 6/8 (Mączyńskiego, do 1935 Murarska).
 Tablica upamiętniająca Romualda Traugutta, wmurowana 28 września 1924 w ścianie wieży kościoła bernardynów we Lwowie.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Grzegorz Rąkowski: "LWÓW. Przewodnik krajoznawczo-historyczny po Ukrainie Zachodniej". Część IV. Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", 2008. .
 Janusz Czerwiński "Lwów i okolice" Wydawnictwo Laumann-Polska Piechowice 1999
 Jurij Biriulow "Zygmunt Kurczyński i jego dzieła rzeźbiarskie we Lwowie" "Biuletyn Historii Sztuki" nr. 1-2/1991.
 Jurij Biriulow. Курчинський Зиґмунт // Encykłopedija suczasnoji Ukrajiny (ukr.)
 Ксенія Янко. Зиґмунд Курчинський, або львівський Роден // Фотографії Старого Львова, 5.10.2016 (ukr.)

Linki zewnętrzne
 Stanisław S. Nicieja "Sprawa Gorgonowej. Najgłośniejsze morderstwo II Rzeczpospolitej" NTO 2 stycznia 2010

Absolwenci Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Absolwenci Lwowskiego Państwowego Instytutu Sztuki Dekoracyjnej i Stosowanej im. Iwana Trusza
Członkowie Związku Polskich Artystów Plastyków
Ludzie urodzeni we Lwowie
Polscy rzeźbiarze
Radni Lwowa (II Rzeczpospolita)
Rzeźbiarze związani ze Lwowem
Urodzeni w 1883
Zmarli w 1954

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Intramurals is sponsoring a trip to Dragon's Lair in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, April 28, for students to play Laser Tag. Students must sign up and pay $15 at the Residence Life Office in Old Sem before 4 p.m. on Friday. Space is limited to 16 participants. Van shuttles will depart from the Thomas Commons at 7:45 p.m. and return around 10:30 p.m.m after playing 90 minutes of high energy, high-tech, laser tag!


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Charges dismissed against former Healdsburg school district Student Services Director
Charges dismissed against former Healdsburg school district official in email hacking case
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | May 19, 2016 BY: JULIE JOHNSON
The husband of a Healdsburg school official who became embroiled in a computer hacking investigation pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor computer crime in an agreement with prosecutors, authorities said Thursday.
Kestrel Davis Montes was the Healdsburg Unified School District's director of student services when she and her husband, Francisco Montes, were the focus of a district investigation into a fraudulent email sent to school staff. The email, which complained about a principal, involved hacking into the school's computer system, said Carl Chapman, a supervising inspector with the Northern California Computer Crimes Task Force.
On Wednesday in Judge Arthur Wick's courtroom, prosecutors dismissed the case against Davis Montes. Francisco Montes pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of illegally accessing a computer system and agreed to pay about $29,000 in restitution to the district, Chapman said.
Francisco Montes, who also formerly worked for the district, was sentenced to a 24-month probation term and 10 days in jail, Chapman said. The judge suspended the jail time, meaning Francisco Montes won't have to spend a day in jail if he successfully completes the probation time.
Wick dismissed all charges against Davis Montes, who had been accused of conspiring with her husband to commit the crimes. She has been on leave from her job since Dec. 1 because of the investigation.
Investigators had suspected the couple had attempted to complain about the principal anonymously by getting into the email system and sending an email through another person's account, Chapman said.
Superintendent Chris Vanden Heuvel said the couple has already paid the restitution money to the district. It will go toward the cost of the district's investigation into computer hacking. Vanden Heuvel said that the case led the district to hire an outside vendor to audit its network security.
You can reach Staff Writer Julie Johnson at 521-5220 or julie.johnson@pressdemocrat.com.


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Eigenschaften
Die Vergabekriterien sehen vor, dass natürliche und juristische Personen in Gibraltar sitzen müssen, um eine .gi-Adresse anzumelden. Domains können sowohl direkt unter .gi, als auch auf zweiter Ebene registriert werden. Es existieren folgende Second-Level-Domains:

 .com.gi und .ltd.gi für kommerzielle Unternehmen
 .edu.gi für Bildungseinrichtungen
 .gov.gi für Regierungseinrichtungen
 .mod.gi für das Verteidigungsministerium
 .org.gi für sonstige Organisationen

Sonstiges
Vereinzelt gibt es Domains, die vor den geltenden Kriterien angemeldet wurden und daher weiterhin von Organisationen im Ausland genutzt werden: Beispielsweise ajuntament.gi für die Stadtverwaltung von Girona. Neben Sapphire Networks ist ebenfalls die Health Limited in Gibraltar ansässig. Das Unternehmen hat sich um die Einführung der neuen Top-Level-Domain .health beworben.

Weblinks
 Website der Vergabestelle (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Länderspezifische Top-Level-Domain
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Messages;
using Ros_CSharp;

namespace tf.net
{
    public class TimeCache
    {
        private const int MIN_INTERPOLATION_DISTANCE = 5;
        private const uint MAX_LENGTH_LINKED_LIST = 10000000;
        private const Int64 DEFAULT_MAX_STORAGE_TIME = 1000000000;

        private ulong max_storage_time;
        private volatile SortedList<ulong, TransformStorage> storage = new SortedList<ulong, TransformStorage>();

        public TimeCache()
            : this(DEFAULT_MAX_STORAGE_TIME)
        {
        }

        public TimeCache(ulong max_storage_time)
        {
            this.max_storage_time = max_storage_time;
        }

        public static ulong toLong(TimeData td)
        {
            return (ulong)ROS.ticksFromData(td);
        }

        private byte findClosest(ref TransformStorage one, ref TransformStorage two, ulong target_time, ref string error_str)
        {
            lock (storage)
            {
                if (storage.Count == 0)
                {
                    createEmptyException(ref error_str);
                    return 0;
                }

                if (target_time == 0)
                {
                    one = storage.Last().Value;
                    return 1;
                }

                if (storage.Count == 1)
                {
                    TransformStorage ts = storage.First().Value;
                    if (ts.stamp == target_time)
                    {
                        one = ts;
                        return 1;
                    }
                    createExtrapolationException1(target_time, ts.stamp, ref error_str);
                    return 0;
                }

                ulong latest_time = storage.Last().Key;
                ulong earliest_time = storage.First().Key;
                if (target_time == latest_time)
                {
                    one = storage.Last().Value;
                    return 1;
                }
                if (target_time == earliest_time)
                {
                    one = storage.First().Value;
                    return 1;
                }
                if (target_time > latest_time)
                {
                    createExtrapolationException2(target_time, latest_time, ref error_str);
                    return 0;
                }
                if (target_time < earliest_time)
                {
                    createExtrapolationException3(target_time, earliest_time, ref error_str);
                    return 0;
                }

                ulong i = 0;
                ulong j = storage.Last((kvp) =>
                                           {
                                               //look for the first keyvaluepair in the sorted list with a key greater than our target.
                                               //i is the last keyvaluepair's key, aka, the highest stamp
                                               if (kvp.Key <= target_time)
                                               {
                                                   i = kvp.Key;
                                                   return false;
                                               }
                                               return true;
                                           }).Key;
                one = storage[i];
                two = storage[j];
            }
            return 2;
        }

        private void interpolate(TransformStorage one, TransformStorage two, ulong time, ref TransformStorage output)
        {
            if (one.stamp == two.stamp)
            {
                output = two;
                return;
            }

            if (output == null)
                output = new TransformStorage();

            double ratio = (time - one.stamp) / (two.stamp - one.stamp);
            output.translation.setInterpolate3(one.translation, two.translation, ratio);
            output.rotation = slerp(one.rotation, two.rotation, ratio);
            output.stamp = one.stamp;
            output.frame_id = one.frame_id;
            output.child_frame_id = one.child_frame_id;
        }

        private emQuaternion slerp(emQuaternion q1, emQuaternion q2, double rt)
        {
            return q1.slerp(q2, rt);
        }

        private void pruneList()
        {
            ulong latest_time = storage.Last().Key;
            while (storage.Count > 0 && storage.First().Key + max_storage_time < latest_time || storage.Count > MAX_LENGTH_LINKED_LIST)
                storage.RemoveAt(0);
        }

        public bool getData(TimeData time_, ref TransformStorage data_out, ref string error_str)
        {
            return getData(toLong(time_), ref data_out, ref error_str);
        }

        public bool getData(ulong time_, ref TransformStorage data_out, ref string error_str)
        {
            TransformStorage temp1 = null, temp2 = null;
            int num_nodes = findClosest(ref temp1, ref temp2, time_, ref error_str);
            switch (num_nodes)
            {
                case 0:
                    return false;
                case 1:
                    data_out = temp1;
                    break;
                case 2:
                    if (temp1.frame_id == temp2.frame_id)
                    {
                        interpolate(temp1, temp2, time_, ref data_out);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        data_out = temp1;
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    ROS.FREAKOUT();
                    break;
            }
            return true;
        }

        public bool insertData(TransformStorage new_data)
        {
            lock (storage)
            {
                if (storage.Count > 0 && storage.First().Key > new_data.stamp + max_storage_time)
                    if (SimTime.instance.IsTimeSimulated)
                    {
                        storage.Clear();
                    }
                    else
                        return false;
                storage[new_data.stamp] = new_data;
                pruneList();
            }
            return true;
        }

        public void clearList()
        {
            lock(storage)
                storage.Clear();
        }

        public uint getParent(ulong time, ref string error_str)
        {
            TransformStorage temp1 = null, temp2 = null;

            int num_nodes = findClosest(ref temp1, ref temp2, time, ref error_str);
            if (num_nodes == 0) return 0;
            return temp1.frame_id;
        }

        public uint getParent(TimeData time_, ref string error_str)
        {
            return getParent(toLong(time_), ref error_str);
        }

        public TimeAndFrameID getLatestTimeAndParent()
        {
            lock (storage)
            {
                if (storage.Count == 0)
                {
                    return new TimeAndFrameID(0, 0);
                }
                TransformStorage ts = storage.Last().Value;
                return new TimeAndFrameID(ts.stamp, ts.frame_id);
            }
        }

        public uint getListLength()
        {
            lock(storage)
                return (uint)storage.Count;
        }

        public ulong getLatestTimeStamp()
        {
            lock (storage)
            {
                if (storage.Count == 0) return 0;
                return storage.Last().Key;
            }
        }

        public ulong getOldestTimestamp()
        {
            lock (storage)
            {
                if (storage.Count == 0) return 0;
                return storage.First().Key;
            }
        }

        #region ERROR THROWERS

        private void createEmptyException(ref string error_str)
        {
            if (error_str != null) error_str = "Cache is empty!";
        }

        private void createExtrapolationException1(ulong t0, ulong t1, ref string error_str)
        {
            if (error_str != null) error_str = "Lookup would require extrapolation at time \n" + t0 + ", but only time \n" + t1 + " is in the buffer";
        }

        private void createExtrapolationException2(ulong t0, ulong t1, ref string error_str)
        {
            if (error_str != null) error_str = "Lookup would require extrapolation into the future. Requested time \n" + t0 + " but the latest data is at the time \n" + t1;
        }

        private void createExtrapolationException3(ulong t0, ulong t1, ref string error_str)
        {
            if (error_str != null) error_str = "Lookup would require extrapolation into the past. Requested time \n" + t0 + " but the earliest data is at the time \n" + t1;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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Posts Tagged 'Jane Austen in Winchester'
I thought of Jane Austen today on the eve of the 205th anniversary of her death in Winchester. At only 42 years of age, she left us a legacy so rich that her genius as a writer is regaled to this day. Several days prior to her death on July 18, 1817, she wrote the following poem about the Winchester races.
Ascot Heath Race for His Majesty's Gold Plate, James Pollard, 1826, Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons. While this is not an image of the Winchester racing stands, one can gain a good idea of the size of the crowds and their enthusiasm.
When Winchester Races
When Winchester races first took their beginning
It is said the good people forgot their old Saint
Not applying at all for the leave of Saint Swithin
And that William of Wykeham's approval was faint.
The races however were fixed and determined
The company came and the Weather was charming
The Lords and the Ladies were satine'd and ermined
And nobody saw any future alarming.–
But when the old Saint was informed of these doings
He made but one Spring from his Shrine to the Roof
Of the Palace which now lies so sadly in ruins
And then he addressed them all standing aloof.
'Oh! subjects rebellious! Oh Venta depraved
When once we are buried you think we are gone
But behold me immortal! By vice you're enslaved
You have sinned and must suffer, ten farther he said
These races and revels and dissolute measures
With which you're debasing a neighboring Plain
Let them stand–You shall meet with your curse in your pleasures
Set off for your course, I'll pursue with my rain.
Ye cannot but know my command o'er July
Henceforward I'll triumph in shewing my powers
Shift your race as you will it shall never be dry
The curse upon Venta is July in showers–'.
– Jane Austen
About the poem:
When it was written:
"Jane Austen wrote this poem just two days before her death, on 15 July 1817, which was the day of the Winchester Races, a fashionable race day and also St. Swithin's Day. – Jane Austen's House Museum
St Swithin:
St Swithin, a 9th century bishop, patron saint of Winchester, is linked through long tradition to the idea that if it rains on his feast day, it will continue to rain for 40 days and nights. The summer of 1817 was notably wet…" – Jane Austen's House Museum
Winchester's old name, which dates from Roman times.
About the Winchester Races during the 18th-19th Centuries:
During both centuries races, such as the Winchester Races, welcomed all people from every segment of society, whether they were betting or enjoying the social events. Groups of hairdressers and milliners traveled from London and Bath to Winchester during their respective racing seasons to provide fashionable services (and between 1781 and 1790 the 'finest assortment of French Pomades and coloured powders'). London's season, linked to the sessions in Parliament, began in February at the start of the opening session. Many did not arrive until after the fox-hunting season at the end of March. Horse racing was an important component of each social season in the aforementioned cities.
The Winchester Races were held in late June/early July each season, from Tuesday until Thursday during one week. The city's annual social calendar revolved around the social seasons of winter and summer. Amusements ranged from balls, assemblies, cockfighting, public breakfasts, fairs, etc. During race week, public breakfasts and balls were held daily. An annual performance by the Winchester College boys included a reading of a selection of prose and a music festival were also organized.
A View of the Road to Newmarket Races, James Pollard, Yale Center of British Art, Wikimedia Commons.While this scene is about the crowds going to the Newmarket Races, one can imagine a similar group heading for Winchester in 1817.
These annual races drew people from all walks of life for nearly a fortnight. Genteel society took advantage of the social events to show off their finery, of which, as previously mentioned, certain working groups took full advantage. The change in racing venues provided an opportunity for visitors to move from a stifling London to fresher more rural environments, with the added attraction of more gambling opportunities.
Royalty was at times present at the Winchester races, but the 'the bulk of its pleasurable amenities was utilised by the county gentry. Winchester society was well patronised by the Duke of Chandos and the Pawlett family (Marquesses of Winchester), as well as a host of others who were noted in the newspapers..' – Proc. Hampshire Field Club Archived. Soc. 54,1999, 127-145 (Hampshire Studies 1999) LEISURE AND SOCIETY IN GEORGIAN WINCHESTER, By M COOPER
I don't know what happened to Jane Austen's original copy of the poem. This site by the Jane Austen's House Museum offers a facsimile in her sister Cassandra's hand. (Link to the Winchester Verses). On 24 May 1817, she left Chawton with Cassandra and moved into lodgings in Winchester to be near Dr Lyford at the County Hospital. Her illness however rapidly worsened and she died on 18 July 1817.
"The poem, which is written in cross-rhymed quatrains, was initially suppressed by [Jane's] Victorian-era family, and later released in edited versions that changed words and punctuation (including one version that altered the word "dead" to "gone". They thought that joking about St. Swithin and horse racing and death would be dimly viewed by the public." –Kelly R. Fineman
Austen Family Poetry:
Jane's family left a legacy of letters, poems, riddles, and charades, which are charmingly captured by David Selwyn in his book, The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family. Below is a link to a youtube video on the Winchester City Museum site, in which another one of Jane's poems is captured.
More About July 18, 1817 on this blog:
Cassandra Writes About Jane Austen's Death
Jane Austen's Death: Events in College Street 18th July, 1817
Jane Austen's last hours
On the Anniversary of Jane Austen's Death
Cause of Jane Austen's Death Not Universally Acknowledged
What Killed Jane Austen?
Jane Austen's Last Days … Never was a human being more sincerely mourned
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July 18th (today) marks the anniversary day of Jane Austen's death in a rented house in College Street, Winchester. Her life was all too short (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817), and her output all too meager for those who wish she had written more novels. This post consists of a series of recollections of Jane's last days from her, her family, and her biographers:
During her illness, Jane wrote:
"I live chiefly on the sofa, but am allowed to walk from one room to the other. I have been out once in a sedan-chair, and am to repeat it and be promoted to a wheeled chair as the weather serves."
"On this subject I will only say further that my dearest sister, my tender watchful, indefatigable nurse has not been made ill by her exertions. As to what I owe to her, and to the anxious affection of all my beloved family on this occasion, I can only cry over it, and pray to God to bless them more and more."
Her brother Henry wrote that "she supported, during two months, all the varying pain, irksomeness, and tedium," attendant on her decline "with more than resignation, with a truly elastic cheerfulness." "She retained," he says, "her faculties, her memory, her fancy, her temper, and her affections, warm, clear, and unimpaired, to the last . . . . She expired on Friday, July 18 (1817), in the arms of her sister."
We have followed Miss Austen to Winchester, and have visited the house in College Street where she passed the last weeks of her life. College Street is a narrow picturesque lane, with small old-fashioned houses on one side, terminating in the ancient stone buildings of the College. The garden ground on the opposite side of the street belonged, and still belongs, to the head master. We have entered the "neat little drawing-room with a bow window" which remains unchanged. It is a pretty quaint parlour, with a low ceiling and a narrow doorway. Its white muslin curtains and pots of gay flowers on the window sill lent a cheerful air to the room. We almost fancied we could see Miss Austen seated in the window writing to her nephew, glancing from time to time across the high-walled garden, with its waving trees, to the old red roofs of the Close, with the great grey Cathedral towering above them.- Constance Hill, Jane Austen, Her Homes and Friends
The parlour in College Street
Of her last days, her brother Henry wrote in the introduction of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, published posthumously:
But the symptoms of a decay, deep and incurable, began to shew themselves in the commencement of 1816. Her decline was at first deceitfully slow; and until the spring of this present year, those who knew their happiness to be involved in her existence could not endure to despair. But in the month of May, 1817, it was found advisable that she should be removed to Winchester for the benefit of constant medical aid, which none even then dared to hope would be permanently beneficial. She supported, during two months, all the varying pain, irksomeness, and tedium, attendant on decaying nature, with more than resignation, with a truly elastic cheerfulness. She retained her faculties, her memory, her fancy, her temper, and her affections, warm, clear, and unimpaired, to the last. Neither her love of God, nor of her fellow creatures flagged for a moment. She made a point of receiving the sacrament before excessive bodily weakness might have rendered her perception unequal to her wishes. She wrote whilst she could hold a pen, and with a pencil when a pen was become too laborious. The day preceding her death she composed some stanzas replete with fancy and vigour. Her last voluntary speech conveyed thanks to her medical attendant; and to the final question asked of her, purporting to know her wants, she replied, "I want nothing but death."
Jane's last poem written July 15th:
About Jane's funeral, David Nokes writes in Jane Austen: A Life:
The funeral took place on the morning of Thursday 24 July at Winchester Cathedral. "It is a satisfaction to me,' Cassandra wrote to Fanny, that her sister's dear remains were 'to lie in a building she admired so much – her precious soul I presume to hope reposes in a far superior mansion.' Only three of the brothers – Edward, Henry and Frank – were present at this 'last sad ceremony'. Charles, at Easbourne, was too far away to attend; James, too, stayed away. 'In the sad state of his own health and nerves,' he said, 'the trial would be too much for him.' Women were not expected to attend such melancholy ceremonies; their grief, it was thought, might overcome them. The funeral was held in the early morning; it 'must be over before ten o'clock,' Cassandra told Fanny, 'as the Cathedral service begins at that hour'. Before the coffin was closed, she cut off several lock of Jane's hair as family mementoes. 'Everything was conducted with the greatest tranquility,' she wrote. She and Martha Lloyd 'watched the little mournful procession the length of the street & when it turned from my sight I had lost her for ever.' (p. 521)
More about Jane's last days:
Jane Austen's illness
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, A Family Record, Chapter XX, Winchester, 1817, Molland's
Henry's Preface to Persuasion and Northanger Abbey
UK Grave Pix: Winchester Cathedral
Click here to read my other posts about Jane's final illness
Austen's obituaries
You can watch Persuasion 2007 online
Ways to Keep Warm in the Regency Era, Part 2


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Home Veritas Page 1
Veritas, Vol. 27, No. 03, December 1986
VOL. 27 NO. 3	FOR THE FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	DECEMBER 1986
Professor of Finance William Heusott, followed by President Edward T. Foote (left) and Board of Trustees Chairman James W. McLamore, leads the academic procession.
TheUMat60:
A look back and to the challenge ahead
Editor's Note: The University's celebration of its sixtieth anniversary included a special Convocation on the Green Dec 4. Salutations were given by Francis Houghtaling first enrolled student at the UM; Charlton W. Tebeau, Florida historian and professor of history emeritus; Audrey' Finkelstein, alumna and UM trustee, and President Emeritus Henry King Stanford.
The date also marked the fifth anniversary of Edward T Foote as president of the University. President Foote's Sixtieth Anniversary Address is reprinted below.
The early morning, then as now, was lumi
nous in that wondrous way of the sub-tropics, the humidity hanging in the still-cool breeze, as this young man, our friend, Francis Houghtaling, left Northwest 95th Street and 12th Avenue in his 1926 Model T Ford sedan after a breakfast, he still recalls, of two eggs, two pieces of white toast and lemonade, drove across town to Coral Gables and arrived early to become the first student to enroll in the University of Miami. It was October 15,1926.
Mr Houghtaling was on time for the historic opening. The University almost was not. Beginning a series of adversities that afflicted its early days, the disastrous hurricane of 1926 had devastated Miami a month earlier. And a few months later, the Florida land boom, on the crest of which George Merrick and his Coral Gables had ridden to feme, burst. It was the harbinger of the Great Depression.
What days those must have been! Led by its first president, Bowman Foster Ashe, the University of Miami, then only a handful of teachers and students, began its legendary trajectory: What guts and drive, as well as vision, those founders had. The history of the University is summarized in your programs, but a few brief highlights will serve to remind us of the exceptional contributions of exceptional people long ago.
On these 260 acres, most donated by Mr Merrick, the founders began constructing the University's first building, the Merrick Building over there, but. like millions of other Americans in those days, ran out of money and had to stop with just a skeleton completed, settling temporarily instead on Anastasia Avenue in what became proudly known as the Cardboard College.
Through the dismal, fiscally' desperate 1930s the University survived, just barely: Professor Tebeau. from whom you have just heard, reminds us in his fine book on the history' of die University that for 15 years, from the opening in 1926 until the Second VCbrid War it was a "struggle for survival." Indeed it was. Reading that chapter and other chronicles of the 1930s is a moving reminder to us all never to give up never—and President Ashe never did.
With the Second VCbrid War came the first quickenings of a major true university The Merrick Building still stood as a skeleton, but the University tripled its size. Despite still uncertain times, it opened the Graduate School in 1941 and soon after graduate programs in English, history; botany and zoology; then the marine laboratory' that
was to become in time the world famous Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
In 1944, the University and the City of Miami began discussing the possibility of collaborating to use the Jack-son Memorial Hospital for medical education, a medical center now' the fourth largest in the United States and recently' ranked in a book. The Best in Medicine. as 16th among the top 25 medical centers.
President Ashe's extraordinary 26 years of leadership ended in 1952, followed by the appointment of the University's second president. Jayr EW. Pearson, who served during a period of rapidly' escalating growth until 1962.
By' 1956. half the University's life ago. the University
with new* buildings. The faculty grew' rapidly' during the 1950s and 1960s, gaining increasing distinction from every comer of the world.
From 1962 until 1981. my distinguished predecessor Henry' King Stanford, led the University through politically turbulent, booming times of national expansion in higher education as it grew and settled and strengthened to become the largest private research university in the southeastern United States.
And so, when the telephone rang in my office in St. Louis. Missouri, almost exactly' six years ago. Trustee Mel Greenberg, with whom I first spoke, and a day' or so later Chairman of the Board Jim McLamore, represented an institution of incredible accomplishments. As the
comprised eight colleges and schools, including the fledgling School of Medicine. This campus blossomed
Title Veritas, Vol. 27, No. 03, December 1986
Summary Veritas magazine, begun in 1960, is the printed version of the University of Miami newsletter that provides campus information targeted to UM faculty and staff. The magazine now appears in an electronic version; the printed version ceased in 2008.
Subject University of Miami; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; Universities and colleges -- Professional staff; Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
Genre Periodicals
Date 1986-12
Physical Description 1 periodical; 12 pages
Collection Title Veritas
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Full Text VOL. 27 NO. 3	FOR THE FACULTY AND STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	DECEMBER 1986 Professor of Finance William Heusott, followed by President Edward T. Foote (left) and Board of Trustees Chairman James W. McLamore, leads the academic procession. TheUMat60: A look back and to the challenge ahead Editor's Note: The University's celebration of its sixtieth anniversary included a special Convocation on the Green Dec 4. Salutations were given by Francis Houghtaling first enrolled student at the UM; Charlton W. Tebeau, Florida historian and professor of history emeritus; Audrey' Finkelstein, alumna and UM trustee, and President Emeritus Henry King Stanford. The date also marked the fifth anniversary of Edward T Foote as president of the University. President Foote's Sixtieth Anniversary Address is reprinted below. The early morning, then as now, was lumi nous in that wondrous way of the sub-tropics, the humidity hanging in the still-cool breeze, as this young man, our friend, Francis Houghtaling, left Northwest 95th Street and 12th Avenue in his 1926 Model T Ford sedan after a breakfast, he still recalls, of two eggs, two pieces of white toast and lemonade, drove across town to Coral Gables and arrived early to become the first student to enroll in the University of Miami. It was October 15,1926. Mr Houghtaling was on time for the historic opening. The University almost was not. Beginning a series of adversities that afflicted its early days, the disastrous hurricane of 1926 had devastated Miami a month earlier. And a few months later, the Florida land boom, on the crest of which George Merrick and his Coral Gables had ridden to feme, burst. It was the harbinger of the Great Depression. What days those must have been! Led by its first president, Bowman Foster Ashe, the University of Miami, then only a handful of teachers and students, began its legendary trajectory: What guts and drive, as well as vision, those founders had. The history of the University is summarized in your programs, but a few brief highlights will serve to remind us of the exceptional contributions of exceptional people long ago. On these 260 acres, most donated by Mr Merrick, the founders began constructing the University's first building, the Merrick Building over there, but. like millions of other Americans in those days, ran out of money and had to stop with just a skeleton completed, settling temporarily instead on Anastasia Avenue in what became proudly known as the Cardboard College. Through the dismal, fiscally' desperate 1930s the University survived, just barely: Professor Tebeau. from whom you have just heard, reminds us in his fine book on the history' of die University that for 15 years, from the opening in 1926 until the Second VCbrid War it was a "struggle for survival." Indeed it was. Reading that chapter and other chronicles of the 1930s is a moving reminder to us all never to give up never—and President Ashe never did. With the Second VCbrid War came the first quickenings of a major true university The Merrick Building still stood as a skeleton, but the University tripled its size. Despite still uncertain times, it opened the Graduate School in 1941 and soon after graduate programs in English, history; botany and zoology; then the marine laboratory' that was to become in time the world famous Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. In 1944, the University and the City of Miami began discussing the possibility of collaborating to use the Jack-son Memorial Hospital for medical education, a medical center now' the fourth largest in the United States and recently' ranked in a book. The Best in Medicine. as 16th among the top 25 medical centers. President Ashe's extraordinary 26 years of leadership ended in 1952, followed by the appointment of the University's second president. Jayr EW. Pearson, who served during a period of rapidly' escalating growth until 1962. By' 1956. half the University's life ago. the University with new* buildings. The faculty grew' rapidly' during the 1950s and 1960s, gaining increasing distinction from every comer of the world. From 1962 until 1981. my distinguished predecessor Henry' King Stanford, led the University through politically turbulent, booming times of national expansion in higher education as it grew and settled and strengthened to become the largest private research university in the southeastern United States. And so, when the telephone rang in my office in St. Louis. Missouri, almost exactly' six years ago. Trustee Mel Greenberg, with whom I first spoke, and a day' or so later Chairman of the Board Jim McLamore, represented an institution of incredible accomplishments. As the comprised eight colleges and schools, including the fledgling School of Medicine. This campus blossomed Continued on page 6


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Taliban Seize Jalalabad, Cut Off Afghan Capital From East
William S. Morrow August 15, 2021
The collapse of Jalalabad, which had been the last major city standing besides Kabul, leaves Afghanistan's central government in control of just the capital and seven other provincial capitals. In a nationwide offensive that has taken just over a week, the Taliban has defeated, co-opted or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swathes of the country, even with some air support by the U.S. military.
President Ashraf Ghani, who spoke to the nation Saturday for the first time since the offensive began, appears increasingly isolated as well. Warlords he negotiated with just days earlier have surrendered to the Taliban, leaving Ghani without a military option. Ongoing negotiations in Qatar, the site of a Taliban office, also have failed to stop the insurgents' advance as thousands of civilians flee into Kabul.
The militants posted photos online early Sunday showing them in the governor's office in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province.
Abrarullah Murad, a lawmaker from the province told The Associated Press that the insurgents seized Jalalabad after elders negotiated the fall of the government there. Murad said there was no fighting as the city surrendered.
The seizure Sunday comes amid rapid gains by the Taliban over the last week, pressuring Afghanistan's central government as U.S., British and Canadian forces rush troops in to help their diplomatic staffs still there.
The fall Saturday of Mazar-e-Sharif, the country's fourth largest city, which Afghan forces and two powerful former warlords had pledged to defend, hands the insurgents control over all of northern Afghanistan.
On his speech Saturday, Ghani vowed not to give up the "achievements" of the 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks.
The U.S. has continued holding peace talks between the government and the Taliban in Qatar this week, and the international community has warned that a Taliban government brought about by force would be shunned. But the insurgents appear to have little interest in making concessions as they rack up victories on the battlefield.
"We have started consultations, inside the government with elders and political leaders, representatives of different levels of the community as well as our international allies," Ghani said. "Soon the results will be shared with you," he added, without elaborating further.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled their homes, with many fearing a return to the Taliban's oppressive rule. The group had previously governed Afghanistan under a harsh version of Islamic law in which women were forbidden to work or attend school, and could not leave their homes without a male relative accompanying them.
Salima Mazari, one of the few female district governors in the country, expressed fears about a Taliban takeover Saturday in an interview from Mazar-e-Sharif, before it fell.
"There will be no place for women," said Mazari, who governs a district of 36,000 people near the northern city. "In the provinces controlled by the Taliban, no women exist there anymore, not even in the cities. They are all imprisoned in their homes."
Faiez reported from Istanbul and Gambrell from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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Статус и границы сельского поселения установлены Законом Читинской области от 19 мая 2004 года «Об установлении границ, наименований вновь образованных муниципальных образований и наделении их статусом сельского, городского поселения в Читинской области».

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Hot times ahead as oil-fuelled Russia chairs the Arctic Council and polar warming picks up pace
On 24. May 2021 24. May 2021 By iqiceblogIn Arctic, Cryosphere, Global climate
The bi-annual Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 20th attracted a lot of media interest – not least because the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was attending, alongside Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. This is one arena where the two rivals and Cold War adversaries come together as partners, cooperating to ensure stability and well-being in an area shared by nations and Indigenous peoples. As the Arctic Council celebrates its 25th anniversary, this was its first in-person meeting since the onset of COVID. Russia takes over the rotating chairmanship from Iceland for the next two years, at a crucial time, with climate change dominating the Arctic and international agenda.
The Arctic Council is an international forum made up of the eight circumpolar nations: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, United States and six Arctic Indigenous groups, the "Permanent Participants": Aleut International Association, Arctic Athabaskan Council, Gwich'in Council International, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North and the Saami Council. It was set up in 1996 to work together on environmental protection and sustainable development.
Cartoon from Arctic Frontiers 2021 (Screenshot I.Quaile, cartoon: Baz Köhler )
The climate factor
The Arctic has been gaining in international interest, with climate change impacts opening up the region rich in natural resources on the one hand, and at the same time a growing awareness of the significance of melting ice and thawing permafrost for the global climate. Countries vie to be granted "observer status" and have a seat – at least on the sidelines, if not right up at the table.
The good news from the Reykjavik meeting: since the departure of Donald Trump and the appointment of Joe Biden as US President, climate change is back on the Arctic Council agenda – and right at the top. At the last ministerial meeting, in 2019 in Rovaniemi in Finland, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to accept any mention of the term "climate change" in the Ministerial Declaration, so that, for the first time ever, none was issued. This time around, Secretary of State Blinken brought the climate issue along as a priority.
Had a moment to see a breathtaking view of Greenland's ice caps and fjords. Unfortunately, Arctic warming threatens these views, and more importantly, the surrounding communities' livelihoods. We must act to address the climate crisis. pic.twitter.com/0oqPSd2mcJ
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) May 21, 2021
The not-so-good-news from Reykyavik: climate change is hitting the Arctic even faster than previously estimated. At the ministerial meeting, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) presented their Arctic Climate Change Update 2021, showing climate change is now hitting the Arctic at three times rather than twice the pace of the global average.
The #ArcticMinisterial2021 stresses the importance of achieving the #ParisAgreement goals and calls all parties to implement and enhance measures to reduce #climatechange. See why this is utterly important for the #Arctic and for the #World: https://t.co/1olkq491qp
— AMAP (@AMAP_Arctic) May 20, 2021
In the closing Reykjavik Declaration, the Ministers note, "with utmost concern", that this warming is having harmful effects on "the environment, biodiversity, society and infrastructure, as well as on subsistence-based livelihoods of many Arctic communities". They also recognize that black carbon is accelerating the melting of snow and ice and intensifying the adverse effects of climate change and "reiterate the need for enhanced action to meet the long-term temperature goal and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement".
The science appeared to be illustrated in real time as record temperatures and unseasonal, early fires were recorded across the Arctic.
It reached +30°C (86.5°F) in the Arctic today. Hotter than pretty much all of Europe right now.
Truly exceptional for any time of the year but mind-boggling for May. More updates to follow. pic.twitter.com/2CTTykUW3F
— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) May 19, 2021
The 25th Anniversary was marked by the adoption of the first ever Strategic Plan of the Arctic Council, to cover 10 years and improve on the old system of two-year programmes, set by the respective nation in the chair, in rotation. Forward planning, continuity can only be a good idea. The director of WWF Arctic Progamme, Dr. Peter Winsor, welcomed the plan, which would "improve the transparency and accountability of the Arctic Council and provide more stability and continuity."
But the content of the paper is very general. Heather Exner-Pirot, Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars entitled a blog post for Eye on the Arctic: "The Arctic Council is back on track… or is that a rut?" Her take on the new document:
"The long awaited, and first, strategic plan of the Arctic Council is a beautifully written, entirely predictable affirmation of everything the forum does already… One could create a template for each Ministerial's press release, with the location, Chair, and number of deliverables changing, but the fundamentals remaining largely the same. Steady as she goes."
Russian Rhetoric?
It is the second time in the quarter of a century of the organisation's history, that Russia holds the rotating chairmanship. Is this good or bad news for the climate? If it means Russia will get on board to shift the Arctic development agenda away from drilling for gas and oil towards protecting the fragile and unique Arctic environment from pollution and global warming, that would be fantastic news. But it's a big if. And – OK – a lot of wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking? Iceblogger at Ny Alesund, Spitzbergen (Rainer Vockenroth/AWI)
In Russia's programme for the coming two years, we read:
"Russia, whose territory covers almost one third of the Arctic with more than 2.5 million inhabitants, is implementing a comprehensive integrated program for the development of the High North. We therefore intend to focus Russia's Arctic Council Chairmanship on integrating into the Arctic Council activities the principle of promoting sustainable development in a balanced way – in its social, economic and environmental dimensions".
But what is "sustainable development", in the view of the fossil-fuel-based Russian economy? The statement notes the region's "growing positive potential" in respect of "sustainable growth in the Arctic". It goes on:
"It is important to be mindful not only of its vulnerability in the face of climate change but also of its prospects and capability, owing to its natural, energy and transport resources, to substantially contribute to energy transition to an environmentally neutral economy and, accordingly, to the fulfillment of goals and objects of the 2015 Paris Agreement."
It is hard not to see a few potential contradictions here. How are the "opportunities" and "resources" offered by a warming Arctic going to be exploited without further exacerbating climate change? How is Moscow going to lead the Arctic nations to fulfill the Paris Agreement goals without fundamentally changing the oil and gas economy on which the country's prosperity is based? Will it submit adequate, new goals itself to the UN before the COP26 climate conference in Scotland at the end of the year?
The Reykjavik Declaration signed by the Foreign Ministers includes:
"Stressing the importance of achieving the Paris Agreement goals and, in that regard, calling upon all parties to the Paris Agreement, including Arctic States and Arctic Council Observer States, to implement and enhance nationally determined contributions and other measures in line with the Paris Agreement goals".
That includes a hint to the world's biggest emitter, China, which received observer status at the Arctic Council in 2013. In 2018, Beijing announced plans to build the "Polar Silk Road" — a network of Arctic shipping routes. It has also previously referred to itself as a "near-Arctic state," a proposition which created quite a lot of controversy. The country's enhanced activity in the high north has evoked a lot of suspicion.
The Chinese Arctic Research Station in Ny Alesund, Svalbard (I.Quaile)
"Stressing" the importance of Paris and "calling upon all parties" is easy rhetoric. But the Arctic energy players have to put their words into action, not just pay lip service. The USA, the 2nd-biggest emitter after China, has upped its goals since Joe Biden came to office and took the country back into the Paris Agreement. Russia still has plenty of homework to do.
Clean energy is to be high on the Russian agenda. Again, it remains to be seen how this fits in with Russia's oil and gas interests. Not that Moscow is the only Arctic Council member with a problem here. The USA, Canada and Norway, for instance, all have their own interests in that sector.
As Jan Dusik from WWF's Arctic Programme put it:
"We are encouraged that Arctic states are once again acknowledging the climate crisis is a real and present danger. Their commitments to renewable energy development in Arctic communities and a 25-30 per cent reduction of black carbon emissions by 2025 are all positive steps. But the temptation of tapping into fossil fuel reserves and their failure to provide a concrete vision for how they will work together to achieve a carbon neutral Arctic are very concerning."
On thin ice – or sagging permafrost
Russia finds itself in a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, there are the opportunities referred to above. Climate change is opening up areas previously inaccessible, laying them open to exploitation for fossil reserves now slumbering peacefully. At the same time, international climate action is a threat to an economy that relies on those outmoded forms of energy. The country is finding itself on thin ice – and on thawing permafrost. This is a major threat to infrastructure across the high north. President Putin has had to change his tune in recent years – from climate denial to acknowledgement. But so far this has not had much effect on the country's fossil fuel follies.
There is evidence that zombie fires are currently affecting the Russian Arctic, which also experienced severe burning in 2019 and 2020. If you want to save Arctic permafrost from burning, including zombie fires, we need #ClimateAction. 9/ https://t.co/axxAogVaNp
— Dr. Merritt Turetsky (@queenofpeat) May 19, 2021
When Russia puts the focus of its Arctic Council programme on sustainable development, it seems likely development is number one, followed by sustainable – a concept subject to definition and interpretation. If it includes drilling for and burning oil and gas, it seems to me problematic – to say the least.
In the Barents Observer of May 19, Thomas Nilsen reminds his readers:
"Last autumn, President Vladimir Putin put his signature under the document that outlines the country's main Arctic priorities for the period until 2035. The new guiding document for the vast northern territories includes plenty of focus on oil, natural gas and shipping, and only few words about climate change and green energy."
For all Arctic nations, shipping and oil are high on the agenda, here in Tromsö, Norway (I.Quaile)
Power game
The northeastern sea route is one of Russia's key development plans. It could shorten the distance to Asia by around a half compared with the route through the Suez Canal. Climate change is making it increasingly ice-free and navigable for several months a year. Russia wants to control it, and is investing in harbours and railways along the route. This does not appeal to the country's "partners" in the Arctic Council, who are, of course, rivals when it comes to trade and governance systems. China, too, as mentioned earlier, wants to secure its influence on what could become a key trade route to Asia.
Here, at the latest, it becomes clear that security issues are playing out in the Arctic region. Military matters are traditionally kept out of the Arctic Council dealings. Annual meetings between armed forces chiefs from Arctic states were halted in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea. Russia has not participated in another forum, the Arctic Security Forces Roundtable, since 2014. Russia would like to change that.
Ironically, back in 2019, it was the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who introduced hard security issues to Arctic Council discussions, breaking a taboo that had been in existence since the forum's founding.
Foreign Minister Lavrov said resuming an Arctic Council military dialogue would contribute to stability:
"It is therefore important to extend the positive relations we have within the Arctic Council to encompass the military sphere as well, first of all by revitalizing multilateral dialogue on military issues between the general staffs of the Arctic states".
The outgoing council chair, Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson, of Iceland, responded diplomatically:
"Everything that we can do as nations to lower tension and see stability is something that, of course, should be looked into very positively, but I think it's important to keep the council as it is."
However Lavrov later indicated that Russia would "carry on regardless":
"We have not received any 'no's' so far but we have not received any positive reaction, either," Lavrov said. "So we have decided that within the next three years we will create the proper conditions so that this particular aspect of common security will once again be part of the work of the Arctic Council."
It seems clear that Moscow would like to use its position as chair of the Arctic Council to re-normalize relations after the annexation of Crimea and the ongoing dispute with Ukraine.
There has been plenty of posturing on both the Russian and the Norwegian sides of the border – if military activities like base-building and manoeuvres can be described as posturing. Five of the Arctic Council states are NATO members, and Norway has controversially changed its own legal framework to allow the USA increased activities in its Arctic region.
Busy times for the coastguard, here in Tromsö, Norway ( I.Quaile)
Competition and Cooperation
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau in an interview with Eye on the Arctic after the Ministerial rejected Lavrov's suggestion for defence meetings, but said this would not affect cooperation on climate and northern development under the Russian chairmanship:
"We've seen their strategic vision and things are looking good: the importance of the environment, people first who live in the Arctic, and sustainable development, which is very important for Canada. That's the vision of the Russian strategy that's presented going forward, and we think that's the right approach…We want to ensure that a we move forward and adapt, because of climate change, that we try to minimize the effects of things such as black carbon, heavy fuel oils, plastics in our oceans, and taking care of the importance of fish stocks".
Indigenous representatives, however, feel that their views are not being given enough attention: James Stotts of the Inuit Circumpolar Council said in his recorded address to the delegates: "What good is participation if no one listens and our concerns are not being paid the attention we think they should be? The current situation within the Arctic Council has become a concern for us."
Stott expressed anxiety over the level of "recent angry and provocative rhetoric". He added: "We do not want to see our homeland turned into a region of competition and conflict."
Ultimately, climate change and security cannot be separated. Climate change has a security dimension. It is a destabilizing factor. It affects food supplies, water, transport, and will make some regions of the world unlivable. Cooperation is essential to ensure the battle for land and resources does not turn into full-blown conflicts between states or groups. The big question is whether the rival powers USA, Russia and China, can work together on climate change in spite of their geopolitical and systemic differences and struggle for economic predominance.
And the ice keeps on melting… ( I. Quaile)
Climate action – from Reykayvik to Glasgow
The Council members want to draw increasing attention to the Arctic in international climate forums, including this year's COP26 in Glasgow. Seems like a good idea? But if they want to do that with any credibility, the member states have to show in practice that they are willing to shift to green energy and respect nature. You can't call for help for the Arctic and its peoples because they are suffering from climate change while continuing to pursue the activities that are causing the damage. A recent IEA report called on global leaders to drop all new plans to extract fossil fuels to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and keep global warming below 1,5°C. That has major consequences for the targets all countries will (or should) put on the table in November.
The Arctic Council itself is not the venue where climate policies of individual members are decided. But the Arctic is one of the regions of the world where the effects of those policies are most evident. The impacts of greenhouse gas emissions are concentrated in the high north. The Arctic is at the heart of the climate crisis. There is increasing public attention to the fact that even the icy bastions of the planet are not immune to warming – and that this will have dire consequences for even the least-icy regions of the world.
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Quaranta anys després, Joseph Richardson va treballar en una versió més gran, tardant tretze anys en la seva construcció, i que li va permetre fer una gira europea. Altres van voler copiar l'invent amb aquestes pedres de Skiddaw, com els Abraham Brothers o William Till; l'instrument que feia servir als seus concerts, el Rock Armonicum (ca. 1880) (xilòfon de pedra), el trobem al Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art de Nova York.

A Cuba, els sonores picaven entre si dues pedres de riu, i també a Mèxic tenien les "piedras que cantan" (Shepherd, 2003). A Togo els kabiye fan música amb la percussió de les pedres, o els chokwe d'Angola, que fan sonar unes campanes de pedra anomenades sango, i també la txalaparta basca, i així arreu del món.

També les castanyoles tindrien un origen en les pedres, com les anomenades crusmata, o les que utilitzen els nens, anomenades "tarreñas", més rústiques, o les basques (anomenades arxaluak). I encara algunes roques sonores que indiquen els límits d'un santuari, com la Roca de la Salve d'Encamp en relació al santuari de Meritxell, d'Andorra.

A finals del  Antoni Roca Várez idea i construeix un litòfon a Menorca. Aquest llicenciat en Filosofia i Lletres natural de Maó (Menorca), era un apassionat de la música i gaudia de l'anomenada oïda absoluta. Passejant per les seves terres, es va adonar que al colpejar pedres planes de diferent mida i gruix amb un bastó es produïen diferents sons, i així, va sorgir la idea d'ordenar un conjunt de pedres per tal d'aconseguir una escala de sons musicals completa.

Per aconseguir el propòsit, Antoni Roca va haver de retallar, polir o reduir la grandària de les pedres elegides, ordenar-les i col·locar-les damunt d'uns suports especials, i escollir cuidadosament uns petits martells de determinades condicions amb els quals havia de percudir les pedres.

El primer litòfon era capaç únicament d'emetre els sons de l'escala diatònica, però fent noves proves i investigacions va aconseguir perfeccionar l'instrument i ampliar-lo perquè fos capaç de donar tots els sons de l'escala cromàtica, la qual cosa el posava en condició de poder executar qualsevol peça musical.

La construcció del litòfon cridà la curiositat de la gent del terme d'Alaior i es té constància d'un escrit que va publicar el diari El Bien Público el 8 de novembre de 1893 que deia: Està cridant l'atenció del veïnat un Litòfon que a la seva finca Torrealta té construït el nostre amic D. Antoni Roca. Dit instrument es compon, com el seu nom indica, de pedres que per mitjà de la percussió comuniquen el seu so, el qual es propaga a llarga distància, permetent sentir-se les seves melodies a dos quilòmetres de distància. Està compost de trenta notes i té d'extensió dos octaves i mitja sobresortint entre elles els baixos. Grups de músics i aficionats surten del poble cap a Torrealta incitats per la curiositat de veure i sentir un instrument per primera vegada en les seves vides, havent merescut l'entusiasta aprovació de tothom fins i tot de Mr. Solberg, que procedent dels Estats Units va passar per l'Illa per visitar els seus monuments. Permetins el Sr. Roca la nostra aprovació pel seu original invent molt merescut, per cert, per tan admirable treball.La curiositat despertada per l'estrany instrument del Sr. Roca Várez, el va fer decidir a organitzar un concert públic perquè poguessin adonar-se de les possibilitats del litòfon quantes persones ho desitgessin. L'acte, tingué lloc el capvespre de dia 9 d'agost de 1896 al lloc de Llumena Nou, propietat de l'inventor de l'instrument. Posteriorment, l'estiu de 1901, Antoni Roca i Várez va presentar l'instrument a l'Exposició Partenopea de la Ciutat de Nàpols i el dia 20 del mateix mes se li va atorgar el premi de la Medalla d'Or per la invenció de l'instrument en qüestió.

Bibliografia
 El Bien Público (premsa històrica). 8 novembre 1893 i 9 agost 1896.
 Montevideo Musical (premsa històrica). Primer número de febrer de 1894.

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