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è un videogioco a piattaforme del 2006, sviluppato da Nintendo EAD e pubblicato da Nintendo in esclusiva per Nintendo DS. Si tratta del decimo capitolo principale della famosa serie di videogiochi Super Mario. Il gioco trae caratteristiche da vari altri della serie: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine e Super Mario 64 DS.
New Super Mario Bros. segna il ritorno, dopo 14 anni, della versione classica in 2D della serie con Mario come personaggio giocabile (l'ultimo capitolo fu Super Mario Land 2).

Trama
Mario e la Principessa Peach stanno passeggiando in un prato quando vedono 3 fulmini che colpiscono il castello. Mario corre velocemente a vedere cosa stia succedendo ma, una volta lontano, Bowser Jr. cattura la principessa. Disperato, Mario tenta di seguirlo invano.
Inizia quindi a cercare la principessa attraverso 8 mondi abitati da nemici e boss. Una volta arrivato nell'ultimo castello, deve sconfiggere Skelobowser: una versione scheletrica di Bowser. Quando crede di averlo battuto, un ponte rivela una nuova parte del mondo dove sono presenti altri livelli, un'altra fortezza e il castello finale, dove Bowser Jr. riesce a resuscitare il padre. Il nostro baffuto eroe deve sconfiggere  i due e, una volta fatto, la Principessa Peach sarà salva.

Personaggi

 Mario: È il personaggio giocabile principale.
 Luigi: personaggio giocabile solo premendo simultaneamente "L+R+A" nella schermata dei salvataggi. Se tutto è corretto si sentirà la voce di Luigi.
 Peach: scopo finale del gioco è salvarla dalle grinfie di Bowser Jr. e Mega Bowser.
 Mastro Toad: è il personaggio che si trova nei livelli bonus. Grazie a lui è possibile guadagnare vite e potenziamenti. Tramite delle magie, infatti, farà comparire vari blocchi che colpiti doneranno vite e potenziamenti. Per sbloccare la maggior parte di questi livelli bonus è necessario pagare 5 monete stella.
 Bowser: il malvagio re dei Koopa, si tratta dell'acerrimo nemico di Mario. È il mandante del rapimento di Peach avvenuto per mano del figlio: Bowser Jr. È il boss principale del gioco, sebbene Mario dovrà affrontarlo soltanto in due mondi: nel primo dove lo ridurrà in SkeloBowser e nell'ottavo e ultimo mondo dove comparirà dapprima in forma scheletrica e poi con un potenziamento in termini di dimensioni e forza.
 Skelobowser: si tratta di Bowser reso scheletrico dopo la sua caduta nel pozzo di lava avvenuta nel castello del primo mondo per mano di Mario. In questa forma Bowser è capace sia di sputare fuoco che di lanciare ossa per colpire Mario e poterlo sconfiggere.
 Mega Bowser: dopo essere stato nuovamente battuto da Mario, le ossa di Bowser erano ormai ridotte in pezzi dopo la caduta in un burrone. Sfortunatamente il figlio Bowser Jr, dopo averne raccolto le ossa, lancia i resti del padre in un calderone di pozione magica, che restituisce la vita al padre facendolo tornare più grande e forte di prima. In questa forma è più alto e robusto ed è capace di fare salti altissimi e di sputare fino a 5 o 6 fiamme. Alcune di queste (quelle blu) sono capaci anche di inseguire i nemici per un breve lasso di tempo.
 Bowser Jr.: è il figlio di Bowser nonché suo complice nel rapimento di Peach. Quando decide di mettersi il bavaglino, Bowser Jr diventa più forte e capace di lanciare gusci Koopa.

Modalità di gioco
La dinamica di gioco ricorda per certi aspetti quella del primo Super Mario Bros.. Vari elementi provengono invece da altri giochi della serie di Super Mario (il salto a parete, ad esempio, proviene da Super Mario 64). Fra gli ottanta livelli presenti nel gioco ce ne sono alcuni (i castelli di fine mondo) dove bisogna affrontare dei boss. Nelle torri, invece, bisogna sconfiggere Bowser Jr. che man mano si andrà avanti col gioco diventerà sempre più forte. senza dimenticare le case dei Boo. Attraverso uscite nascoste da ricercare nei vari livelli si possono sbloccare i cosiddetti Cannoni Warp che servono per spostarsi velocemente da un mondo all'altro e i Tubi Warp che servono invece per spostarsi in luoghi differenti dello stesso mondo.

In ogni livello sono presenti 3 Monete Stella da collezionare (del tipo di quelle del Drago presenti in Super Mario World) utili per salvare i progressi nel gioco (il gioco può essere salvato anche una volta completati i livelli torre o castello) oltre che per sbloccare livelli bonus e le case di Toad.

Power-Up

Sono presenti sette power-up differenti.

Super Fungo: Trasforma Mario piccolo in Super Mario.

Fiore di Fuoco: Trasforma Mario in Mario Fuoco, permettendogli di sparare palle di fuoco dalle mani.

Guscio Blu: Trasforma Mario in Tartamario.

Super Stella: Rende Mario temporaneamente invincibile.

Megafungo: Rende Mario temporaneamente gigante, permettendogli di distruggere tutto ciò che incontra sul suo cammino.

Minifungo: Rimpicciolisce Mario.

Fungo 1-UP: Restituisce a Mario una vita extra.

Sviluppo
Oltre vent'anni dopo l'uscita di Super Mario Bros., Nintendo decise di lanciare un nuovo titolo che si basasse sulle meccaniche dei suoi vecchi platform bidimensionali, aggiungendo però nuovi nemici, nuovi power up, nuovi temi musicali, e una grafica aggiornata che unisse sprite tridimensionali a sfondi bidimensionali, lasciando però inalterate le meccaniche di fondo dei vecchi titoli a cui si ispirava.

Accoglienza

Pubblico
Il gioco ha ottenuto immediato successo vendendo nel giorno in cui è uscito in Giappone circa  copie e circa  copie nei primi quattro giorni. Negli Stati Uniti il videogioco ha venduto mezzo milione di copie in poco più di un mese (con una media di 11 copie vendute al minuto) e un milione 12 settimane dopo l'uscita. Ha venduto più di tre milioni di copie negli USA
e più di tre milioni e mezzo in Giappone. Grazie a questi dati risulta essere il gioco più venduto di sempre per la console Nintendo DS (al 25 dicembre 2010). In totale, il gioco ha venduto ben 30.75 milioni di copie, diventando uno dei videogiochi della serie Mario più venduti di sempre nonché il gioco più venduto per Nintendo DS. In Giappone, New Super Mario Bros. è diventato il videogioco più venduto di sempre, con ben 6.424.000 copie piazzate, come risulta dalla lista dei Japan's 100 Best Selling Video Games Since 2001 pubblicata dalla rivista Famitsū nel 2013.

La nomina dei livelli è stata un'idea inserita nel gioco nel 2011.

Critica

Il gioco ha ottenuto un grande successo di critica, con una media di 89,07% su GameRankings e una media di 89 su Metacritic.
 RewiredMind: 100
 GameSpy: 100
 IGN: 95
 Game Informer: 93
 Electronic Gaming Monthly: 92
 Eurogamer: 90
 GameSpot: 90

Completamento
Il gioco è completato al 100% dopo aver superato tutti i livelli, aver sbloccato tutte le uscite segrete, aver usato tutti i cannoni ed aver ottenuto tutte le monete stella (tre per livello), spendendole. L'indicatore nello schermo superiore del DS mostra: "Tutte spese!".

Seguiti
New Super Mario Bros. ha avuto dei seguiti:
 New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo Wii)
 New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo 3DS)
 New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U/Nintendo Switch)

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Scheda di New Super Mario Bros. sul sito della Nintendo

Videogiochi di Mario


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Stephen M. Saideman: Paterson Chair in International Affairs, as well as Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network – Réseau Canadien Sur La Défense et la Sécurité, and Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Alexander Salt: a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies. His research interests include American Foreign Policy, Technological Innovation, International Relations, Organizational behaviour, Canadian security policy, and Strategic studies.
Dr. Christopher Ankersen: Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Global Affairs he teaches in the Transnational Security concentration. Prior to joining NYU, Christopher was the Security Advisor for the United Nations system in Thailand. Previously, he held positions at the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the UN Offices in Geneva and Vienna; and with the Department of Safety and Security in New York, where he was Desk Officer for Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
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PhD student Michelle Spiteri Bailey (pictured) from the School of Management has been awarded 'Best academic essay' by Professions for Good and the Institute for Business Ethics (IBE) for her paper on how to put ethics and the 'public good' back at the heart of the financial auditing process in light of recent scandals and regulatory reform.
Inaugurated in 2012, but undertaken in 2013 in partnership with the IBE, the Professions for Good Ethics Writing Awards seek to promote the significance of codes of ethics and standards and the confidence and trust these engender.
Michelle said: "Ethics and trust are values which I have always tried to adhere to in my profession as an auditor, but the failure of so many financial institutions created a crisis of public confidence in the auditing industry.
The 2013 awards opened for entry on 22 October 2013 and closed on 9 December 2013.
Michelle's award-winning entry can be downloaded here.


The drama surrounding Mad Men is over, for now. After weeks of negotiations, Matthew Weiner, creator of the Emmy-winning series, has struck a deal with AMC that will allow the much-delayed fifth season to begin production and ensure the show's future for the next three years.
Weiner had insisted on a 2011 Season 5 premiere but he said AMC had informed him back in October that, because they have 4 series to accommodate, no premiere before March 2012 would be possible.
Deadline also reports that Mad Men will end after the next three seasons.


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I Found My Mother With This London Tube Map From 1977
Suchandrika Chakrabarti
As a newly arrived immigrant from India, my mother used this London subway transit map to understand an unfamiliar city. Today, I use it to understand her.
The summer after my mother died, I went through her closet. I was 16 years old, and alongside my father and brother, I had to help clear out her things and decide what to keep. Mourning and being a teenager is an odd combination; so isolating, but also, strangely freeing. I felt as though all the rules had been broken.
In the swirling newness of my grief, I still found myself fascinated by my mum's version of womanhood. I tried on her red lipstick and her brightly colored court shoes from the 1980s, reveling in their adult-like feeling. I loved her saris, but I feared them too; I hadn't grown up wearing the yards of delicate material, as she had.
But most of all, I loved the long-forgotten items from before my birth, when my mother was still new to our city. In a cream leather shoulder bag, I found a soft, worn pamphlet containing a London Tube map from 1977. It was familiar to me, but also strangely different, like a house with a person missing. Compared to a modern map, the layout was pleasingly uncluttered; the saturated colors jump out, and the capital letters naming all the subway stations feel like shouting in a digital age. It had a rough-hewn, artisanal quality that almost made it look handmade.
In truth, the map was as mass-produced as any other. But it was immediately precious to me, for it was a remnant of a defining moment in my mother's life. In 1975, she had just left behind her native city of Kolkata, India, and was getting to know the contours of London.
My parents often laughed about how the first places on my mother's mental list to visit were tourist traps: Buckingham Palace (Hyde Park Corner station, on the Tube map), Big Ben (Westminster Station), and the Tower of London (get off at Tower Hill). She acted as though she only had days to spend in London, and she wanted to see all the places she had once only imagined. When homesickness struck, my parents headed to Chinatown (Leicester Square), which just about made up for the two Chinatowns they'd left behind in Kolkata. Or they'd dine at the Indian restaurants of Drummond Street (Euston Square). It took my dad a while to convince her to try a burger from McDonald's (many locations across London).
I collected Tube and bus maps, filling my small pockets and fantasizing about my grown-up life.
I took things like Happy Meals for granted. I spent my sheltered early childhood in Hornchurch, a residential suburb on London's northeastern edge. But whenever my mum took me into the city—sometimes taking me along to the beloved job she'd eventually secure as a college lecturer in the Docklands—I collected Tube and bus maps, filling my small pockets and fantasizing about my grown-up life, when I'd be able to jump on transit whenever I needed to, rather than wait for a lift from my parents. The Transport for London leaflets from the 1990s were glossy like women's magazines, and in those last few years before mass internet access, I pinned my dreams of the future onto that expensive-feeling paper that somehow spoke of adulthood.
A 1977 map of the London Underground. Copyright Transport for London, from the London Transport Museum collection.
What about for my mother? If she had stayed at home in Kolkata, my mum could have carried on collecting degrees in literature while living under her parents' roof. For her, getting married was the only truly acceptable route into adulthood. London gave her a measure of liberty. But it also came with a generous helping of loss. Bringing up children in a city 5,000 miles away from her own family was a lonely challenge.
On some mother-daughter trip into the city, she once made me promise that, if I was ever using the stairs at a Tube stop in the future, I would help any mother I saw struggling alone with a stroller and child. She learned that lesson because she'd had to. When I was a teenager, she confessed to me that the loneliness of early motherhood had surprised her, and made her question the decision she'd made to move so far away. As I moved my eyes over the map, I recalled that confession. In that moment, my 16-year-old self grasped just how brave she had been in choosing to leave the nest and taste freedom for herself.
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When I grew up, I moved south of the river to live in Greenwich. Sure enough, I now get around by train, and for my last job I commuted by the Docklands Light Railway, the same line that my mom used to ride to work. The track dips underground to cross the River Thames, and the change in landscape from one side to the other is stark. Greenwich looks Victorian; on the Canary Wharf side, suddenly it's the future, and everything's glass, chrome, or under construction.
On some of these rides into the office, I would think of the childhood journeys I shared with my mother, and wonder what she'd make of my life now. My mum's little paper Tube map is older than me, but it still speaks of her daredevil willingness to get that stroller down the stairs and enter the unknown. She was like the "dove that ventured outside," as she'd say to me when I was a girl, quoting Rainer Maria Rilke's poem. Now that I'm an adult, those years somehow feel more within reach, too. Unlike her, I'm one of the doves that remained at home, but that hasn't shielded me from loss. It turns out, nothing can.
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Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a freelance journalist whose work has been published in The Guardian, The Times of London and the New Statesman. She makes a podcast about creativity and the internet called Freelance Pod.


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Mrs. Frances Osburn White, age 79, of Milner, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 at her residence.
Frances was born in Atlanta on Saturday, June 11, 1938 to the late James Lewis Osburn and Vella Head Osburn. She was a homemaker. Frances was preceded in death by her husband, the late Thomas Joel Parkerson.
Frances is survived by her daughters and son-in-law; Crystal Saunders of Milner, and Melody A. and Gary Leers of Milner, grandchildren; Alexander Saunders of College Park, John Thomas Saunders of Newnan, and Forrest Saunders of Griffin, great-grandchildren; Lacy Saunders of Newnan, Emily Saunders of Newnan, and Mallory Saunders of Newnan, brother, James Lewis and Nita Osburn, Jr. of Covington; several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Osburn White were held on Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 2 p.m. at Williams-Westbury Funeral Home. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday from 12-2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, those who desire may make a contribution to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 2900 Rocky Point Dr. Tampa Fla., 33607 or https://www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org/.
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More Books: By the time I finished reading The Day of the Triffids, I was so nostalgic I wanted to read more Wyndham. But the paperback copies on my keeper shelf are pretty much past reading, with brittle yellow pages coming away from the covers. The oldest was printed in 1961.
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Archeologists of the past cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics and learned to read Sumerian grocery lists written on clay tablets. Will archeologists of the future be able to decipher the contents of a well-preserved iPad?
Previous The Day of the Triffids Next Back to Borders, for the last time?
I, too, buy a lot of books from the UK, and it's only fairly recently I've discovered the Book Depository–which does not charge shipping! It's the best way to buy new titles from the UK. Or reprints of old favorites, like Wyndham.
I'm not a Sci Fi fan, but why is it all of my favorite authors — both classic, new, mystery, etc. — have always been British?
I've always loved British mysteries, too!


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November 26, 2019 — 4.16pm
Australia's growing domination of punting has continued with two former Aussie rules players vying for one of US college football's top prizes.
Max Duffy, a former Fremantle Docker in the AFL, and Dane Roy, who played for Bendigo in the VFL, will compete for the Ray Guy Award at the National College Football Awards in Atlanta on December 12.
Max Duffy, pictured here enjoying his first win for Fremantle in 2014, is a former Docker. Credit:Getty Images
Duffy punts for the University of Kentucky and Roy for the University of Houston.
"I've got to pinch myself," Roy told the Houston Chronicle.
"I still can't believe it's happened."
The lone American nominated for the top punting prize is Syracuse University's Sterling Hofrichter.
Australian punters have won the coveted Ray Guy Award five of the last six years and the honour has been a launching pad into the NFL.
The 200cm tall Roy is a former ice cream salesman from Bunyip, Victoria who proved his massive boot by winning a longest kick competition at the 2015 AFL grand final with a 73m torpedo.
Former Sydney Swans junior Michael Dickson won the Ray Guy in 2017, was snapped up by the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL draft and as a rookie sensation last year received All-Pro and Pro Bowl honours.
Perth's Mitch Wishnowsky won the Ray Guy in 2016 punting for the University of Utah and is now a member of the red-hot San Francisco 49ers.
Melbourne's Tom Hackett claimed the award in 2014 and 2015, also punting for the University of Utah, and Geelong's Tom Hornsey won it in 2013 for the University of Memphis.
Duffy and Roy also continue the stunning success of Prokick Australia.
The Melbourne-based punting academy run by Nathan Chapman and John Smith prepared Duffy, Roy, Dickson, Wishnowsky, Hackett, Hornsey and NFL players Cameron Johnston (Philadelphia Eagles), Jordan Berry (Pittsburgh Steelers) and Lachlan Edwards (New York Jets) for their US stints.


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 * Abstract:	XPM - XPM File Converter
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Демократура, Демокрадура (), Диктократія (), Диктабланда () —  політичні режими, в яких поєднуються риси  демократії й диктатури і забезпечується можливість безкарного ігнорування або порушення інтересів більшості або значної частини громадян.

Історія виникнення термінів
«Диктабланда» — гра слів: іспанською слово «диктатура» закінчується на dura, тобто «жорстка», тоді як blanda означає «м'яка». Уперше так було названо недовговічний (1930—1931) режим генерала Дамасо Беренгера в Іспанії, але надалі іспанські політологи й іспаністи інших країн охоче користувалися цим терміном і для опису режиму Франсиско Франко, особливо на пізній стадії його розвитку.

Слово «демокрадура» було вперше, очевидно, запропоновано уругвайським письменником Едуардо Галеано і утворено шляхом  контамінації слів «демократія» () і «диктатура» (). Згодом це слово підхопили американські політологи Гільєрмо О'Доннелл і , котрі переосмислили його внутрішню форму і додали йому складнішого змісту, — початок цьому було покладено в спільній роботі О'Доннелла і Шміттера «Стадії виходу з авторитарного правління: Обережні висновки про сумнівні демократії» (; Балтимор, 1986).

Термін «демократура» був введений швейцарським політологом-африканістом  в книзі «демократура: замаскована диктатура, підмінена демократія» (; Париж, 1992) — очевидно, незалежно від запропонованого Едуардо Галеано терміна «демокрадура». Водночас в Росії вже в 1994 році відзначалося часте використання в журналістиці та публіцистиці слова «демократура», яке заново винаходилось різними авторами.

Відмінності понять

Демокрадура і диктабланда
Для Шміттера й О'Доннелла демократичний устрій є кінцевою фазою суспільного розвитку, а авторитарний — початкової; будь-які проміжні й невиразні форми вони розглядають як перехідні. При цьому між диктатурою і демократією виділяються дві проміжні стадії: диктабланда і демокрадура. Виходячи з морфології слів вони пов'язували термін «диктабланда» із загальним значенням «помірна диктатура», а термін «демокрадура» трактували як «жорстка демократія».

Розкриваючи значення термінів, Шміттер пише:

У тих випадках, коли перехідний період ініціюється і нав'язується зверху, колишні правителі намагаються захистити свої інтереси шляхом «щеплення» авторитарних прийомів режиму, що виникає. У тих випадках, коли вони проводять лібералізацію без демократизації (тобто коли вони поступаються деякими індивідуальними правами без згоди на підзвітність громадянам), гібридний режим, що виник отримав назву диктабланда (dictablanda). У тих же випадках, коли вони проводять демократизацію без лібералізації (тобто коли вибори проводяться, але за умов гарантованої перемоги правлячої партії, виключення певних суспільно-політичних груп з участі в них, або при позбавленні обраних громадян можливості справжнього управління), був запропонований неологізм демокрадура(democradura).

У російській політичній науці зустрічається вживання в цьому ж сенсі термінів «диктократія» (лібералізація без демократизації) і «демократура» (демократизація без лібералізації), з прикладами з африканської (зокрема, Кенія і Кот-д'Івуар ) і центральноамериканської (Сальвадор і Гватемала 1980—1990 рр.) політики відповідно.

Демократура

У країнах пострадянського простору послідовно користувався для опису поточної політичної ситуації словом «демократура» політолог Георгій Сатаров: стаття з такою назвою, яка описувала сформований в Росії «глухий кут авторитарної модернізації», була опублікована ним у «Новой газете» 25 жовтня 2004 р., в тому ж році під цією назвою було видано збірник статей Сатарова. На думку Федора Бурлацького, «демократура не є виключно російським явищем. Вона виникала і згасала в багатьох країнах, які здійснювали радикальні реформи, — в Аргентині й Бразилії, в Південній Кореї і на Тайвані»; водночас, вважає Бурлацкий, «демократура як би визріває в самій душі росіянина в міру набуття ним влади саме тому, що сам він внутрішньо не вільний».

На Заході до реалій сучасної Росії цей термін був застосований вже канадським політологом Мішелем Рошем, який опублікував статтю «Демократура Володимира Путіна» () в монреальській газеті «La Presse» (12 березня 2004). Більший міжнародний резонанс мала стаття шотландського журналіста Ніла Ашерсона в журналі «London Review of Books» (6 січня 2005), в якій обговорювалися варіанти демократури в країнах пострадянського простору та перспективи переходу від демократури до демократії на Україні; Ашерсон користується написанням , яке вказує на запозичений, неанглійський характер слова. Нарешті, в 2006 році книгу під назвою «Демократура Путіна» () випустив німецький журналіст Борис Райтшустер.

Ніл Ашерсон пише:

У більшості з цих країн є демократичні меблі: конституції, парламенти, формально існуюча незалежна судова влада, регулярні вибори, гарантії вільного волевиявлення і зборів. Але на практиці всі ці інститути піддаються маніпуляціям в ім'я збереження привілеїв посткомуністичної еліти. У деяких демократурах, типу азійських, маніпуляції — всеосяжні і безсоромні. В інших, на зразок України або Росії, фальсифікація виборів і використання державного насильства проти політичних викликів зазвичай протікають з якимсь прикриттям. Головне — зберегти свою зграю при владі і при цьому переконати народ і зовнішній світ в тому, що політичний процес, нехай в грубій формі, але відображає сподівання населення.

Примітки

Див. також
 Керована демократія
 Суперпрезидентська республіка
 Стронґмен (політика)

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NCDHHS Urges North Carolinians to "Vax Up or Mask Up" Following CDC Guidance on Face Coverings
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A fifth-consecutive loss is tough enough to take, but imagine the long-term damage that Henry Anderson could have suffered after an agitated Cordarrelle Patterson grabbed Anderson's private parts in a scrum early in the fourth quarter of the Jets loss to the Patriots on Sunday.
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This is my favorite Mexican Restaurant. I have been coming here since I was a baby and probably always will.They are great for parties. They have the best food and drinks and great service. I recommend the midori melon margarita.
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La Casita is by far THE BEST Mexican Restaurant in Fremont. Not just for the food, but the service and the staff are unsurpassed.
If you've been to or used La Casita Restaurant, leave a review.


The Fall of America is one of my favourite collections of Ginsberg's work, despite the fact that it doesn't contain his most famous or most celebrated poetry. It is, however, a longer collection than some of his others, spanning the years 1965 – 1971 and charting a period in history that I can't help but be fascinated by.
Whether you're reading September On Jessore Road, with its Dylan-esque refrain and anti-establishment vibes, or the heartwarming series of elegies for Neal Cassady, you'll feel the raw power of Ginsberg's words as they jump off the page and blaze a path across your mind, and you're unlikely to forget the feelings that were roused even if you do forget the meaning.
The Neal Cassady poems are of historical importance themselves – Cassady, a fellow writer who inspired the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, was the first of the great beat figures to die, coming to an early end after walking home alone beside a railroad track.
Click here to buy The Fall of America.


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import React from 'react';
import {connect} from 'react-redux';

import Scrollbars from 'konux/common/components/Scrollbars';
import Datepicker from 'konux/common/components/Datepicker';

import FilterItemDateList from './FilterItemDateList';
import FilterItemAssetList from './FilterItemAssetList';
import FilterItemRegion from './FilterItemRegion';
import FilterItemRoute from './FilterItemRoute';
import FilterItemTypeList from './FilterItemTypeList';
import FilterItemXAxelList from './FilterItemXAxelList';
import FilterItemYAxelList from './FilterItemYAxelList';

import {common} from './../../../../actions';
import {bindActionCreators} from 'redux';

import * as MenuType from '../../../../constants/popupType';

class FilterPopup extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            toggleCalendar: false
        };
    }

    onDatePickerToggle() {
        this.setState({toggleCalendar: !this.state.toggleCalendar});
    }

    getPopupElement(popupType) {
        switch(popupType){
            case MenuType.DATE_LIST:
                return <FilterItemDateList onDatepickerToggle={this.onDatePickerToggle.bind(this)} />;
            case MenuType.REGION_LIST:
                return <FilterItemRegion />;
            case MenuType.TYPE_LIST:
                return <FilterItemTypeList />;
            case MenuType.ROUTES_LIST:
                return <FilterItemRoute />;
            case MenuType.X_AXEL_LIST:
                return <FilterItemXAxelList />;
            case MenuType.Y_AXEL_LIST:
                return <FilterItemYAxelList />;
            case MenuType.ASSET_LIST:
                return <FilterItemAssetList />;
        }
        return null;
    }

    render() {
        return(
            (!this.props.popupType || this.props.popupType !== -1) ?

                    <Scrollbars
                        renderTrackHorizontal="track-horizontal"
                        renderTrackVertical="track-vertical"
                        renderView="filter-list-scroller">

                                {this.getPopupElement(this.props.popupType)}

                    </Scrollbars>
                    {
                        this.state.toggleCalendar ? <Datepicker hideCalendar={this.onDatepickerToggle.bind(this)} onApply={this.props.setTimeFrame}/> : null
                    }

 : null
            );
    }
}

const stateMap = (state) => {
    return {
        popupType: state.componentSettings.popup.type
    };
};

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
    return {
        setTimeFrame: bindActionCreators(common.datelist.setTimeFrame, dispatch)
    };
}

export default connect(stateMap, mapDispatchToProps)(FilterPopup);


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Q: Reload the tabs in angularjs I have a problem!
I have 2 tabs with user's info and in the header-bar 1 switch to change the user. I use this:
$state.transitionTo($state.current, $stateParams, {
    reload: true,
    inherit: false,
    notify: true
  });

With this i change the user in the title but the tabs don't show this change, I need refresh de app with f5.
Any help?

A: You can use location to reload your app like this:
$location.path('/url')

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A deal cooked up between Governor Ralph Northam and legislative leaders, with the support of environmental groups and the acquiescence of Dominion Energy, will require Dominion to excavate coal ash ponds at four of its power plants, recycle at least 6.8 million cubic yards, and move the rest to modern landfills. The requirement, according to the Washington Post, will add about $1 billion to the $1.7 billion cost of Dominion's preferred approach. The cost to ratepayers is not to exceed $225 million a year (the Richmond Times-Dispatch figure) or $5 per month per typical retail customer (Washington Post).
What I find disturbing is the totally false premise upon which the legislation is based: that landfilling of coal ash is necessary because existing coal ash ponds are leaking heavy metals. This assertion, made endlessly over the past year, provides the justification for the legislation. If you want proof that Virginia politically is becoming New Jersey, now you've got it.
EnCAP-IT schematic shows how coal ash can be stored on-site above ground level in synthetically lined cells, or bunkers. Source: "Macroencapsulation: Obtaining on-site clean closure," Geosynthetics magazine.
By Dominion Energy's most recent estimate, it will cost between $2.77 billion and $3.36 billion to recycle the utility's 30 million tons of coal ash or bury it in synthetically lined landfills — as much as $2 billion more than burying it in place. Environmental groups say the risk is justified to offset the risk that toxic levels of heavy metals might leak into nearby rivers and streams.
But what if it were possible to reduce the environmental risks while also slashing the cost to rate payers? Shouldn't the General Assembly be considering that option?
John Swenson, founder and managing partner of Henrico-based EnCAP-IT Solutions of VA, has developed 12 patents around a coal-ash disposal process he calls macroencapsulation, which combines the cost-efficiency of cap in place with the risk reduction of removal to landfills. He's frustrated because he can't get either Dominion Energy or environmental groups to consider his approach. Now a compromise solution backed by Governor Ralph Northam effectively removes the option from consideration.
In a possible early-warning sign of what may be in store for Virginia electricity consumers, North Carolina regulators have decided that Duke Energy could charge their Tarheel rate payers the first $778 million chunk of an estimated $5 billion in coal-ash cleanup costs. The sum does not include $100 million in two mismanagement penalties for practices that "resulted in cost increases greater than those necessary to adequately maintain and operate its facilities," reports the Associated Press.
Dominion Energy Virginia will likely incur coal-ash disposals costs in the $1 billion to $4 billion range, although no firm figure will be available until the state issues solid-waste permits for a disposal plan. Dominion says that de-watering the coal ash, consolidating the material in a single pit at each power plant, and covering it with a synthetic liner will protect the public at a fraction of the cost of the alternative, favored by activist groups, of hauling the ash to landfills with greater environmental protections.
North Carolina's Attorney General said he would go to court to stop Duke from passing along its disposal costs to rate payers. "This case will ultimately be decided by the North Carolina Supreme Court," he said.
The coal-ash disputes in North Carolina could prefigure in part what happens in Virginia. State regulators must approve disposal plans for millions of tons of coal ash that accumulated legally over the decades at Dominion's Bremo, Possum Point, Chesterfield, and Chesapeake power plants. Presumably, Dominion will file with the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to pass along as much of that cost as possible to ratepayers.
What makes Dominion's situation different from Duke's is that Dominion's base electric rates were frozen between 2015 and 2018, and Dominion has already written off a portion of disposal costs incurred during that period. Also, under terms of recently enacted grid-modernization legislation, Dominion now will plow surplus earnings into renewable-energy, energy-efficiency and grid-upgrade projects. The public has not yet been informed how multi-billion charges for coal ash-disposal costs would be treated from an accounting viewpoint, what impact they would have on Dominion profits, or how the costs would ripple through to grid modernization.
I cannot foresee any circumstances in which the SCC would dun Dominion for mismanagement penalties. The company has complied with state and federal laws and regulations as well as judicial rulings throughout the process.
Last week I argued that Virginians need more information about the disposal costs and health risks associated with coal ash ponds before the General Assembly rushes ahead with a law requiring Virginia's electric utilities to recycle and/or landfill their coal ash. Some of that data could come from the experience of Duke Energy in North Carolina as well as utilities in South Carolina, which are farther along in the process than Dominion Energy Virginia.
Travis Fain, a former Daily Press reporter who has moved on to WRAL.com, reported yesterday how Duke Energy has blasted its opponents in a regulatory filing, asserting that they leaned on "simplistic crutches," false analysis, and a Pollyanna hindsight to argue against the company's bid to raise electricity rates sufficient to cover its coal as clean-up costs. Duke Energy's foes have some not-so-nice things to say about the utility, too. The bottom line for Virginia is that political and regulatory facets of the coal-ash controversy are further along in North Carolina than they are in the Old Dominion. Many of the same issues are likely to surface here, and economic data from the Tarheel State could illuminate our debate.
The company complied with existing laws and industry standards when it left wet ash in unlined pits for decades, they said. At one point "the lack of a liner was considered a feature, rather than a flaw" because soil would filter out contaminants, the company said. Impact on groundwater wasn't initially a concern "because the ash basins were built more than a decade before the adoption of any federal or state regulation related to groundwater corrective action," attorneys argued.
The Attorney General's Office referenced to a number safety reports, including an inspector who found "open cracks" and other problems in safety features at the H.F. Lee Plant in Goldsboro in 1999. That inspector returned in 2004 to note that "those same problems had not been repaired and still existed," the Attorney General's Office said.
The Public Staff also proposed that Duke Energy Progress split coal ash cleanup costs 50-50 with customers, something the company rejected.
Coal ash cleanup costs alone would add nearly $183 million a year to customer bills under Duke Energy Progress' proposal.
Dominion has said it would cost roughly $4.5 billion to landfill all the coal ash at its Bremo, Possum Point, and Chesterfield plants. Dominion foes have charged that its estimates are inflated because the utility could reduce its costs by recycling coal ash into cement, bricks and pavers. Basically, we have a he-said, she-said situation. Although both Dominion and the Southern Environmental Law Center have hired consulting engineers, no non-aligned third party has weighed in with a judgment.
One obvious step, it seems to me, would be to compare Dominion's situation to Duke Energy's. Duke Energy says the cleanup will cost $183 million a year. It's not clear how many years we're talking about — likely 15 at least, maybe longer. If so, that implies a total cost of between $3 billion to $4 billion. As I recall, Duke Energy has to remove more tonnage than Dominion, so its removal costs per ton are likely lower than Dominion's estimates.
However, it is dangerous to make simplistic comparisons. Costs vary widely power station by power station, depending upon a number of factors, and direct comparisons may or may not be appropriate. Furthermore, the properties of coal ash vary, and Duke Energy's material could be more, or less, suitable for recycling. Finally, Duke Energy has first-mover advantage in recycling its coal ash. Its coal ash will flood the Mid-Atlantic market, arguably depressing prices and making the recycling option less attractive to Dominion.
The article hardly answers all the questions one might have, but it seems clear that we are talking about disposal costs in the billions of dollars. Whether recycling/landfilling is an economical option in Virginia remains to be seen. Hopefully, the General Assembly won't pass law in the absence of authoritative information.
Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, has co-sponsored legislation that would require Dominion Energy to remove more than 25 million tons of coal ash from its Chesterfield, Bremo, Possum Point and Chesapeake power stations, reports the Chesterfield Observer.
Senate Bill 1398, introduced by Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, applies to any owner or operator of a "coal combustion residuals unit." The bill specifies that any coal ash stored in an unlined pond that is located within a half-mile of a floodplain or river must be excavated and disposed of either by recycling into cement or removal to a landfill.
The concern of environmentalists, residents living near the power plants, and many elected officials is that Dominion's proposed solution — burying the coal ash on-site and capping it with an impermeable liner — will not prevent groundwater from seeping through the pits, picking up contaminants, and migrating into rivers and streams. Reinforcing their fears are the findings of riverkeeper groups of elevated levels in nearby groundwater and surface waters of potentially toxic heavy metals found in coal ash.
A Dominion-commissioned study by AECOM, an international engineering firm, found that Dominion's proposed bury-in-place solution would cost between $480 million to $1.7 billion (not including judicial remedies ordered for the disposal of ash at the Chesapeake plant). By contrast, the most economic solution for removing and landfilling the coal ash would run about $4.15 billion. Critics say that AECOM overstated the cost of recycling and removal.
For all that has been written about coal ash disposal, there is much that we don't know. Given the current state of knowledge (at least the knowledge that has seeped into the public policy debate), it's hard to see how a rational, well-informed decision can be made.
There is one thing we can say for certain: contaminants from coal ash do leak in minute quantities into the groundwater, and groundwater does make its way into rivers and streams. Beyond that, there is very little certainty. Two questions arise: Does the contamination reach levels that are hazardous to human health (generally measured in a few parts per million)? Will Dominion's proposed remedy of capping the coal ash piles reduce the level of contamination to safer levels?
Adjudicating a lawsuit filed by the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club against Dominion Energy Virginia for coal-ash pollution at Dominion's Chesapeake plant, U.S. District Court Judge John Gibney found that (a) the coal ash ponds at Chesapeake did contaminate groundwater and the nearby Elizabeth River, but (b) the concentration of potentially toxic compounds was so low that it did not pose a threat to human health.
Heavy metals and other pollutants are often found naturally in groundwater, rivers and streams. Zero contaminants — the equivalent of distilled water — is neither necessary nor desirable. Some elements, such as zinc, are toxic at elevated levels but are necessary to sustain human and animal life in minute traces. The purpose of public policy should be to keep the concentration of these chemicals below the threshold at which they pose a threat to human and aquatic health — not to achieve zero contaminants.
Environmentalists have conducted tests in public waters near Dominion's coal ash pits and have found non-safe levels of chemicals on numerous occasions. However, those tests reflect the condition of Dominion's coal ash impoundments in their current form. Following standard industry practice, the utility buried the coal ash in multiple pits at each location and covered them with water to keep them from drying out and creating a dust problem. Rainwater falling on the water-laden pits created hydrostatic pressure that elevated the movement of water through the coal ash and increased the rate of contamination.
At each location, Dominion proposes to drain the water from the ponds, consolidate the near-dry coal ash into a single pit at each location, and cap the pit with a synthetic barrier. That barrier will prevent rainwater from reaching the coal ash and eliminate the main source of hydrostatic pressure. Also, in theory, the coal ash also will be buried above the water table, thus foreclosing the potential for groundwater to migrate through. In practice, however, as the Southern Environmental Law Center has shown from documents filed by Dominion, low-elevation portions of the Chesterfield impoundment will intersect with the water table. In other words, while most coal ash will be inert, a small portion will be exposed to the groundwater.
It should be within someone's power to compute (a) the rate of flow of the groundwater, (b) the volume of water that will be exposed to coal ash, (c) the extent to which groundwater will pick up contaminants, (d) the volume and toxicity of groundwater that will reach rivers and streams, and (e) the resulting increase of potentially toxic chemicals in public waters. If the level of contamination in the River remains below Environmental Protection Agency thresholds, it makes little sense to spend billions of dollars to remove the material to a landfill. If the level of contamination exceeds safe levels, then action is justified.
The problem is that we don't know the answer to the question. The Surovell-Chase bill presupposes that Dominion's preferred, cheaper remedy would be inadequate. But we don't know, and we can't reach a judgment based on tests conducted during the old regulatory regime.
Environmental groups are arguing that utilities in North Carolina and South Carolina are pursuing the recycling and landfilling approach called for in the Surovell-Chase bill. If recycling/landfilling makes economic sense for them, they say, it should make sense for Virginia. That argument is buttressed by the testimony of companies offering to recycle as much as half of Dominion's coal ash, some of it potentially at a profit to the utility.
AECOM examined four potential recycling technologies and concluded that Dominion couldn't come close to recycling its coal ash at a profit. What the study did not do, as best I can tell, is determine whether it would be cheaper to recycle or load into a landfill. In other words, even if Dominion lost, say, $30 to $100 per ton through recycling, would that still be cheaper than trucking the coal ash to a landfill? The report did not make that calculation. Moreover, the report allows for a wide variation in costs. It makes a big difference if the cost of beneficiation (as the recycling process is called) at the Bremo station is $96 per ton or $217 per ton. Likewise, it makes a big difference if the coal ash sells for $30 a ton or $60 per ton. The AECOM discussion of recycling economics makes only the roughest of rough cuts. It does not provide enough data to make an informed decision.
The same can be said of the environmentalists who are critical of the AECOM report. We are told that Carolina utilities are recycling and landfilling their coal ash. But an obvious question arises: at what cost? The coal ash issue is even more emotional in North Carolina than in Virginia because North Carolina is where one of the nation's worst coal ash spills occurred. Is Duke Energy under more intense judicial and political pressure to pursue the recycling/landfilling strategy to remedy its coal ash problem regardless of cost? The cost per ton of recycling/landfilling in North Carolina may be public information, but it hasn't entered into the public discourse in Virginia.
The problem with the Surovell-Chase bill isn't that it's a bad bill. It's that the public has no way of knowing whether it is a good bill or bad bill. We don't have the data to make an informed decision. Perhaps the General Assembly should make it a priority to get that information before voting the bill up or down.
Update: Haha! Looks who's wallowing in ignorance! Juliana Condrey informs me that SB 1398 was from the 2017 session.
Anyone Remember the Coal Ash De-watering Controversy?
Bremo Power Station de-watering test results. Click for legible image.
Environmental controversies are flying so fast and furious in Virginia these days that it's hard to keep track of them all. As for last year's disputations, they are quickly forgotten. Remember, for instance, the wrangling over Dominion Energy's plans for de-watering coal ash ponds at its Bremo and Possum Point power stations?
After intense negotiations, riverkeeper groups, the Southern Environmental Law Center, Dominion, and the Department of Environmental Quality settled upon a protocol for treating and monitoring the quality of effluent before it entered the James River and Quantico Creek. How has the arrangement worked out? The absence of headlines this year is one clue. The water-testing results posted on Dominion's website provide another.
The tests, which cover pH, suspended solids, oil & grease, hardness and 15 heavy metals and other compounds, show that the water treatment process is cleaning the water to the point where the presence of most pollutants is impossible to detect.
At the Bremo station, only arsenic and chloride appeared in measurable quantities among the three samples taken in early May, and the concentration of both chemicals is less than one-tenth of the Environmental Protection Agency's permit levels.
At Possum Point, five chemicals appear in large enough quantities to be detectable, but all are safely within prescribed bounds. One chemical, thallium, nudges up close to the permit limit but does not go over.
I don't purport to have any expertise in these matters, but it looks as if the arrangement is working as it should. If you want to browse through a year's worth of test results, click here.
This is far from the end of the story, of course. Dominion still must obtain permits for de-watering its Chesapeake and Chesterfield facilities. The results at Bremo and Possum Point suggest that Dominion has the de-watering process firmly under control.
However, the company has yet to receive solid-waste permits for disposing of the coal ash after it has been de-watered. Dominion wants to pursue a cap-in-place approach while environmental groups want the utility to bury the material in landfills. That issue will take longer to resolve. Among the uncertainties is determining the extent to which underground water picks up contaminants while migrating through the coal ash pits. Getting answers will require a different testing protocol than the one used for the de-watering process.
A North Carolina riverkeeper inspects testing samples of coal ash taken from the Dan River. Photo credit: WRAL.
So, it looks like the there will be a pause in the solid-waste permitting process for Virginia coal ash. Governor Terry McAuliffe had submitted an amendment to legislation that, if approved, would require Dominion Virginia Power to compile more information on contamination around its coal ash sites and study alternative closure methods before the state issues the permits. Now Dominion has decided to go along, which means political opposition to the idea could evaporate.
Dominion had originally opposed the testing and study provisions, which were stripped out by the House of Delegates. But if the power company drops its opposition to McAuliffe's amendment, as Farrell's letter indicates, Surovell and Chase likely will get their way.
According to the bill summary, HB 1398 will require owners of coal ash ponds (1) to identify water pollution emanating from the ponds and address corrective measures, and (2) evaluate the feasibility of "clean closure." Clean closure would entail removing the coal ash from ponds where it has been stored to lined landfills. Dominion has estimated that the cost of landfilling could amount to $3 billion, but environmental groups have argued that the cost would be much lower if the utility recycled the material as an additive to cement and other products.
Bacon's bottom line: Pausing the permitting process to get a better handle on what's happening at the coal ash ponds is a good idea. Frankly, despite considerable testing by both Dominion, environmental groups and even Duke University, little can be said with certainty about the process at each of Dominion's four sites by which groundwater migrates through the coal ash and contaminates either well water or nearby rivers and streams.
Any testing regime must be rigorous enough to provide definitive answers. The last thing we need is set of ambiguous results that Dominion and environmental groups try to spin to their advantage in another contest of P.R. and political clout. Any credible testing program should recruit outside experts, perhaps from Duke or perhaps from a Virginia university, who can identify the questions to be answered and what protocols will provide definitive answers.
Dominion has conducted tests on its property and found little evidence of contamination at Possum Point, Chesterfield and the Bremo Power Station, but a federal judge recently used Dominion data to conclude that coal ash its closed Chesapeake plant was contaminating groundwater. Testing by riverkeeper groups of groundwater and surface waters just outside of Dominion property show elevated levels of heavy metals which, at sufficient concentrations, can be toxic to aquatic life and human health. Additionally, Duke University has conducted extensive testing in North Carolina and Virginia using "forensic tracers" that have found elevated levels of heavy metals in groundwater near Bremo and Chesapeake. But other Duke tests have found that elevated levels of the carcinogen hexavalent chromium, also associated with coal ash, is endemic in piedmont groundwater and in many cases cannot be attributed to the coal combustion residue.
Complicating any analysis is the fact that trace levels of heavy metals and carcinogens are frequently found in groundwater and surface water as the result of natural processes. Levels vary depending upon local geology. The existence of trace elements of heavy metals in groundwater near coal ash ponds is not in itself proof that the heavy metals came from the coal ash. The trace elements could be ubiquitous in the area, but no one knows unless tests are conducted some distance from the power plants. Ideally, any testing regime for Dominion's coal ash ponds should adjust for background levels of contaminants.
Another complication is ascertaining the movement of groundwater. For example, the water from several wells near Possum Point have shown elevated levels of heavy metals. It is easy to deduce from the proximity of the wells to coal ash ponds that the contaminants come from the ponds. But to demonstrate the point conclusively, one must show that the groundwater migrates from the coal ash ponds toward the wells, and not in some other direction. To make that proof, it is necessary to conduct extensive sampling and create detailed maps that mark the geographic scope and elevation (in feet above sea level) of the underground water and determine the direction of the water flow. Only if it can be documented that underground water is migrating from the coal ash pond toward the wells can one reasonably conclude that the coal ash is to blame for elevated levels of well-water contaminants. If the water is migrating away from the wells, the well-water contaminants probably have another source.
Adding another layer of complexity to the analysis is estimating how much contamination the groundwater picks up while migrating through coal ash. Dominion maintains that its coal ash pits do not come into contact with the water table; the deepest part of the ponds have a higher elevation than the underground water table. However, using Dominion's own maps, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) contends that the bottom reaches of the coal ash ponds at Bremo and Chesterfield intersect with the water table. If the SELC is right, groundwater that migrates through a portion of the coal ash could pick up contaminants along the way.
The question then arises, how long must the water be in contact with the coal ash in order to pick up trace metals? That is a function of the chemistry of the coal ash, how tightly or loosely the metals are bound to inert materials, and the speed of water migration, which depends upon the permeability of the clays and rocks. If the groundwater comes into contact with only a small percentage of the coal ash for a short time, the leeching of heavy metals could well be minimal.


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Jarocin ([jaˈrɔt͡ɕin]) () es una villa en el centro de Polonia con 26.353 habitantes (2016), la capital administrativa del distrito de Jarocin. Desde 1999, Jarocin se encuentra en el Voivodato de Gran Polonia, antes de eso se encontraba en el Voivodato de Kalisz (1975-1998).

Jarocin es una ciudad histórica, fundada en el siglo XIII y concedida los derechos de la ciudad. El mercado cuenta con un ayuntamiento (o ratusz) construido entre 1799 y 1804, que ahora alberga el Museo Regional de Jarocin.

La ciudad también se hizo famosa en la década de 1980 gracias al Festival de Jarocin, uno de los primeros festivales de música rock-punk del antiguo Pacto de Varsovia y en Europa. El primer evento fue organizado en 1980.

Historia
El señorío de Jarocin se mencionó por primera vez en una escritura de 1257 emitida por el duque Boleslao el Piadoso de la Gran Polonia. La ciudad estaba convenientemente ubicada en la intersección de las rutas comerciales de Breslavia a Toruń y de Poznań a Kalisz.

Jarocin fue anexado por el Reino de Prusia en la Segunda Partición de Polonia de 1793 y administrado dentro de Prusia del Sur. Fue parte del Ducado de Varsovia – durante las guerras napoleónicas, pero fue restaurado a Prusia después. La ciudad fue incluida dentro del Gran Ducado de Posen desde 1815 y la Provincia de Posen desde 1848. Se convirtió en parte del Imperio alemán en 1871. En 1889 se incluyó dentro del recién creado Distrito Jarotschin de la Provincia de Posen.

Jarocin participó en el Levantamiento de la Gran Polonia (1918-1919) y tuvo el primer consejo de soldados en la provincia de Posen. Posteriormente se incluyó en la Segunda República Polaca. El ministro de Alemania Occidental y exoficial de las SS Waldemar Kraft nació aquí en Brzozów en 1898.

La ciudad fue anexionada por la Alemania nazi en 1939 durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y administrada dentro de Reichsgau Wartheland como parte del distrito o condado (kreis) de Jarotschin. Muchos ciudadanos polacos, especialmente judíos, fueron expulsados y reemplazados por alemanes étnicos de los estados bálticos, Volinia y Bukovina. Una prisión de trabajos forzados funcionó en las cercanías desde enero de 1941 hasta enero de 1945. Tras la llegada del Ejército Rojo y el final de la guerra, Jarocin pasó a formar parte de la República Popular de Polonia.

Galería

Educación

 Wielkopolska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna

Ciudades hermanas
Jarocin está hermanado con:

  Libercourt, Francia
  Veldhoven, Holanda
  Hatvan, Hungría
  Schlüchtern, Alemania
  Oleksandriia, Ucrania
  Korkuteli, Turquía

Referencias

Localidades del voivodato de Gran Polonia

Enlaces externos

Sitio de la Oficina Municipal de Jarocin