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Learn about the Apalachee foods for all seasons in this week's quest!
See the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgBXZbSSDE&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy activities like a deciphering game at:
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The Virtual ATI team “dream team” hosted our strategic meeting in Orlando November 2nd-4th. We were joined by some of our wonderful friends from our IT department that are such an integral part of what we do and our fearless leader Michael Torno.
We made a little time for bowling and had a great time! When working remotely it is wonderful getting to meet and see everyone in person. Great times!
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
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The late 2019 heatwave across the south-east of the States led to some very kind weather for photography, albeit with considerable photographer discomfort, it was possibly the most humid conditions I've ever experienced.
A southbound CSX manifest passes under Highway 90 at Ideal GA on 30 September 2019, led by GE ES44AH #958.
En Biodiversidad virtual y también en Instagram como @proyectoagua.
Quizá, cuando entre el sol en Lecquereusia unas veces se deshaga en luces de arcoíris y otras se transforme en reflejos sinuosos, como los que deja en rastro de las olas bajo el agua...y mientras tanto, como un caracol escondido en su guarida, esta ameba caracol, también se ha guardado en su refugio acurrucada bajo su casa mágica de virutas de cristal.
Muy despacio en la charace en la que vive, Lecquereusia ha viajado hoy por los campos sumergidos que el agua sembró de algas, y que ella recorriendo con sus dedos a su paso, acarició haciendo cosecha. Una a una, cualquier mota verde para ella es un manjar, y en la despensa de su cuerpo blando se van deshaciendo en vida que se difumina alegre detrás sus ventanales sinuosos de eses y ces.
Lecquereusia spiralis construye su caparazón fundiendo en un frío misterioso cordones de cristal. Los moldea bajo el agua en figuras alargadas, mientras que su hermana, Lecquereusia modesta no parece utilizarlo. Ella adorna su casa de caracola también con infinita paciencia mientras recoge del lecho blando pequeños granos de cuarzo que, sin tallar, va encajando hasta armar su vidriera en germen de espiral.
Unas veces sinuosos como una "S";, otras, tan solo curvados como una "C";, los cordones de cristal en Lecquereusia spiralis van tejiendo una cubierta de joya igual que se forjó su nombre entre la C de LeCquereusia y la S de LeSquereusia y en esto también Lecquereusia despeja un bonito y sinuoso camino por la historia de su hallazgo, desde que en 1840 Ehremberg la descubriera y describiera en Berlín bajo el nombre de Difflugia spiralis (1).
Cinco años más tarde, en 1845 y con gran acierto, Schlumberger creó para ella el género Lecquereusia en honor a Charles Léo Lesquereux (pero quizá olvidando poner en el momento del bautizo la S que lleva Lesquereux) y separándolo como nuevo género por su particular morfología de Difflugia. Esta primera especie fue Lecquereusia jurassica (2) hasta que en 1880 Bütschli la representara y denominara con el nombre que debería tener validez en la actualidad Lecquereusia spiralis (3)...nombre al que no se sabe en qué momento se le cambió sin permiso su "C" original y errada de LeCquereusia por la serpenteante "S" de LeSquereusia con el que aparece en numerosas publicaciones.
Todo esto a Lecquereusia no le altera, ni le preocupa. Ella sigue siendo la misma y está ya acostumbrada a vestirse indistintamente con sus cordones cortos de C o sus sinuosas S de cristal, todas ellas tejen una vidriera mágica que envuelve su casa de caracola.
Lecquereusia spiralis es la ameba caracol de las turberas, pero hoy parece que se escapó para llegar a unas charcas muy especiales, las de los Camorchos, donde ha sido fotografiada en vivo a 400 aumentos con las técnicas de contraste de interferencia y campo oscuro, en una muestra recogida el día 2 de marzo de 2021 en la Laguna de los Camorchos por Antonio Ordóñez, unas aguas con una extraordinaria biodiversidad e interés, que merece la pena cuidarse y protegerse.
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Rosy: Tomorrow is Virtual Blythecon Day. We get to watch a live stream from Dallas Texas!
Ivy: Will we be able to see all our friends who are there?
Rosy: Yes, but they won't be able to see us.
Holly: Throughout the Day tomorrow on FLICKR we will be putting up three games to play. There will not be prizes for these three games. But on the Virtual Blythecon chat on the live stream we will be posting 18 questions. There will be really nice prizes for the first one to answer the questions correctly. At approximately 10:00 Dallas time the live stream will begin. We want to give you a solid hour to watch everyone checking in so that you can see your friends. After that about every 20 minutes a question will be posted. Watch out for them and you could win a prize!
Rosy: I can't wait to see everybody!
Ivy: Where is Lily?
Me: She is looking for my list of questions so she know all the answers and can win a prize.
Holly: This contest is not open to any members of the contest organizers blythes or family members. That means us and Katie.
Ivy: Sigh.
Me: Don't worry I got you all a gift!
PLEASE WATCH FOR THE CONTESTS THAT WILL BE HAPPENING ALL DAY DURING VIRTUAL BLTHECON AND THE GAMES THAT WILL BE POSTED HERE. PLEASE ALSO PASS THIS NEWS ON TO YOUR CONTACTS! SEE YOU ON VIRTUAL BLYTHECON. GET A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP EVERYONE.
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Staff Sergeant John Craft, tank commander, Company D, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, leads his crew through simulated combat in an M1A2 Abrams Tank simulator at the Fort Carson Mission Training Complex, March 14, 2012.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Andrew Ingram, 4th Inf. Div. PAO)
sculpture by Cherry Manga
SL Location: Mysterious Wave slurl.com/secondlife/Zone/212/125/22/
(Febr. 2011, own windlight settings)
I have been living in virtual darkness for over a month as far as Flickr is concerned. Had not a lot of access to internet after I finished my fieldwork in Gorongosa Ntional Park and left on a trip in Zimbabwe with 39 Belgian students. Even before that my access to my Flickr account got messed up. For some unknown reason I had to reset my password but instead of reactivating my account I somehow got stuck with a new one and could not get into my old one any more. Now, back home at last, I can hopefully soon continue to share more interesting botany from the Chimanimanis, more impressions from the Gorongosa survey and from my trip with the students.
(further information is available by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
History of the City St. Pölten
In order to present concise history of the Lower Austrian capital is in the shop of the city museum a richly illustrated full version on CD-ROM.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the pogroms of November 1938, the Institute for Jewish History of Austria its virtual Memorbuch (Memory book) for the destroyed St. Pölten Jewish community since 10th November 2012 is putting online.
Prehistory
The time from which there is no written record is named after the main materials used for tools and weapons: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Using the latest technologies, archaeologists from archaeological finds and aerial photographs can trace a fairly detailed picture of life at that time. Especially for the time from the settling down of the People (New Stone Age), now practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, in the territory of St. Pölten lively settlement activity can be proved. In particular, cemeteries are important for the research, because the dead were laid in the grave everyday objects and jewelry, the forms of burial changing over time - which in turn gives the archeology valuable clues for the temporal determination. At the same time, prehistory of Sankt Pölten would not be half as good documented without the construction of the expressway S33 and other large buildings, where millions of cubic meters of earth were moved - under the watchful eyes of the Federal Monuments Office!
A final primeval chapter characterized the Celts, who settled about 450 BC our area and in addition to a new culture and religion also brought with them the potter's wheel. The kingdom of Noricum influenced till the penetration of the Romans the development in our area.
Roman period, migrations
The Romans conquered in 15 BC the Celtic Empire and established hereinafter the Roman province of Noricum. Borders were protected by military camp (forts), in the hinterland emerged civilian cities, almost all systematically laid out according to the same plan. The civil and commercial city Aelium Cetium, as St. Pölten was called (city law 121/122), consisted in the 4th Century already of heated stone houses, trade and craft originated thriving urban life, before the Romans in the first third of the 5th Century retreated to Italy.
The subsequent period went down as the Migration Period in official historiography, for which the settlement of the Sankt Pöltner downtown can not be proved. Cemeteries witness the residence of the Lombards in our area, later it was the Avars, extending their empire to the Enns.
The recent archaeological excavations on the Cathedral Square 2010/2011, in fact, the previous knowledge of St.Pölten colonization not have turned upside down but enriched by many details, whose full analysis and publication are expected in the near future.
Middle Ages
With the submission of the Avars by Charlemagne around 800 AD Christianity was gaining a foothold, the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee establishing a daughter house here - as founder are mentioned the brothers Adalbert and Ottokar - equipped with the relics of St. Hippolytus. The name St. Ypolit over the centuries should turn into Sankt Pölten. After the Hungarian wars and the resettlement of the monastery as Canons Regular of St. Augustine under the influence of Passau St. Pölten received mid-11th Century market rights.
In the second half of the 20th century historians stated that records in which the rights of citizens were held were to be qualified as Town Charters. Vienna is indeed already in 1137 as a city ("civitas") mentioned in a document, but the oldest Viennese city charter dates only from the year 1221, while the Bishop of Passau, Konrad, already in 1159 the St. Pöltnern secured:
A St. Pöltner citizen who has to answer to the court, has the right to make use of an "advocate".
He must not be forced to rid himself of the accusation by a judgment of God.
A St. Pöltner citizen may be convicted only by statements of fellow citizens, not by strangers.
From the 13th Century exercised a city judge appointed by the lord of the city the high and low jurisdiction as chairman of the council meetings and the Municipal Court, Inner and Outer Council supported him during the finding of justice. Venue for the public verdict was the in the 13th Century created new marketplace, the "Broad Market", now the town hall square. Originally square-shaped, it was only later to a rectangle reduced. Around it arose the market district, which together with the monastery district, the wood district and the Ledererviertel (quarter of the leather goods manufacturer) was protected by a double city wall.
The dependence of St. Pölten of the bishop of Passau is shown in the municipal coat of arms and the city seal. Based on the emblem of the heraldic animal of the Lord of the city, so the Bishop of Passau, it shows an upright standing wolf holding a crosier in its paw.
Modern Times
In the course of the armed conflict between the Emperor Frederick III . and King Matthias of Hungary pledged the Bishop of Passau the town on the Hungarian king. From 1485 stood Lower Austria as a whole under Hungarian rule. The most important document of this period is the awarding of the city coat of arms by King Matthias Corvinus in the year 1487. After the death of the opponents 1490 and 1493 could Frederick's son Maximilian reconquer Lower Austria. He considered St. Pölten as spoils of war and had no intention of returning it to the diocese of Passau. The city government has often been leased subsequently, for instance, to the family Wellenstein, and later to the families Trautson and Auersperg.
That St. Pölten now was a princely city, found its expression in the coat of arms letter of the King Ferdinand I. from 1538: From now on, the wolf had no crosier anymore, and the from the viewer's point of view left half showed the reverse Austrian shield, so silver-red-silver.
To the 16th Century also goes back the construction of St. Pöltner City Hall. The 1503 by judge and council acquired house was subsequently expanded, rebuilt, extended and provided with a tower.
A for the urban history research important picture, painted in 1623, has captured scenes of the peasant uprising of 1597, but also allows a view to the city and lets the viewer read some of the details of the then state of construction. The economic inconveniences of that time were only exacerbated by the Thirty Years War, at the end of which a fifth of the houses were uninhabited and the citizenry was impoverished.
Baroque
After the successful defense against the Turks in 1683, the economy started to recover and a significant building boom began. Lower Austria turned into the land of the baroque abbeys and monasteries, as it is familiar to us today.
In St. Pölten, the change of the cityscape is closely connected to the Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer. In addition to the Baroquisation of the interior of the cathedral, a number of buildings in St. Pölten go to his account, so the reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg, the erection of the Schwaighof and of the core building of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Englische Fräuleins - English Maidens) - from 1706 the seat of the first school order of St.Pölten - as well as of several bourgeois houses.
Joseph Munggenast, nephew and co-worker of Prandtauer, completed the Baroquisation of the cathedral, he baroquised the facade of the town hall (1727) and numerous bourgeois houses and designed a bridge over the Traisen which existed until 1907. In the decoration of the church buildings were throughout Tyroleans collaborating, which Jakob Prandtauer had brought along from his homeland (Tyrol) to St. Pölten, for example, Paul Troger and Peter Widerin.
Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II: Their reforms in the city of the 18th Century also left a significant mark. School foundings as a result of compulsory education, the dissolution of the monasteries and hereinafter - from 1785 - the new role of St. Pölten as a bishop's seat are consequences of their policies.
1785 was also the year of a fundamental alteration of the old Council Constitution: The city judge was replaced by one magistrate consisting of five persons, at the head was a mayor. For the first mayor the painter Josef Hackl was chosen.
The 19th century
Despite the Napoleonic Wars - St. Pölten in 1805 and 1809 was occupied by the French - and despite the state bankruptcy of 1811, increased the number of businesses constantly, although the economic importance of the city for the time being did not go beyond the near vicinity.
Against the background of monitoring by the state secret police, which prevented any political commitment between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 revolution, the citizens withdrew into private life. Sense of family, fostering of domestic music, prominent salon societies in which even a Franz Schubert socialized, or the construction of the city theater were visible signs of this attitude.
The economic upswing of the city did not begin until after the revolution of the year 1848. A prerequisite for this was the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Western Railway, moving Vienna, Linz, soon Salzburg, too, in a reachable distance. The city walls were pulled down, St. Pölten could unfold. The convenient traffic situation favored factory start-ups, and so arose a lace factory, a revolver factory, a soap factory or, for example, as a precursor of a future large-scale enterprise, the braid, ribbon and Strickgarnerzeugung (knitting yarn production) of Matthias Salcher in Harland.
In other areas, too, the Gründerzeit (years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany - and Austria) in Sankt Pölten was honouring its name: The city got schools, a hospital, gas lanterns, canalization, hot springs and summer bath.
The 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th Century the city experienced another burst of development, initiated by the construction of the power station in 1903, because electricity was the prerequisite for the settlement of large companies. In particular, the companies Voith and Glanzstoff and the main workshop of the Federal Railways attracted many workers. New Traisen bridge, tram, Mariazell Railway and other infrastructure buildings were erected; St. Pölten obtained a synagogue. The Art Nouveau made it repeatedly into the urban architecture - just think of the Olbrich House - and inspired also the painting, as exponents worth to be mentioned are Ernst Stöhr or Ferdinand Andri.
What the outbreak of the First World War in broad outlines meant for the monarchy, on a smaller scale also St. Pölten has felt. The city was heavily impacted by the deployment of army units, a POW camp, a military hospital and a sick bay. Industrial enterprises were partly converted into war production, partly closed. Unemployment, housing emergency and food shortages long after the war still were felt painfully.
The 1919 to mayor elected Social Democrat Hubert Schnofl after the war tried to raise the standard of living of the people by improving the social welfare and health care. The founding of a housing cooperative (Wohnungsgenossenschaft), the construction of the water line and the establishment of new factories were further attempts to stimulate the stiffening economy whose descent could not be stopped until 1932.
After the National Socialist regime had stirred false hopes and plunged the world into war, St. Pölten was no longer the city as it has been before. Not only the ten devastating bombings of the last year of the war had left its marks, also the restrictive persecution of Jews and political dissidents had torn holes in the structure of the population. Ten years of Russian occupation subsequently did the rest to traumatize the population, but at this time arose from the ruins a more modern St. Pölten, with the new Traisen bridge, district heating, schools.
This trend continued, an era of recovery and modernization made the economic miracle palpable. Already in 1972 was - even if largely as a result of incorporations - exceeded the 50.000-inhabitant-limit.
Elevation to capital status (capital of Lower Austria), 10 July 1986: No other event in this dimension could have become the booster detonation of an up to now ongoing development thrust. Since then in a big way new residential and commercial areas were opened up, built infrastructure constructions, schools and universities brought into being to enrich the educational landscape. East of the Old Town arose the governmental and cultural district, and the list of architects wears sonorous names such as Ernst Hoffmann (NÖ (Lower Austria) Landhaus; Klangturm), Klaus Kada (Festspielhaus), Hans Hollein (Shedhalle and Lower Austrian Provincial Museum), Karin Bily, Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon ( NÖ State Library and NÖ State Archive).
European Diploma, European flag, badge of honor, Europe Price: Between 1996 and 2001, received St. Pölten numerous appreciations of its EU commitment - as a sort of recognition of the Council of Europe for the dissemination of the EU-idea through international town twinnings, a major Europe exhibition or, for example, the establishment and chair of the "Network of European medium-sized cities".
On the way into the 21st century
Just now happened and already history: What the St. Pöltnern as just experienced sticks in their minds, travelers and newcomers within a short time should be told. The theater and the hospital handing over to the province of Lower Austria, a new mayor always on the go, who was able to earn since 2004 already numerous laurels (Tags: polytechnic, downtown enhancement, building lease scheme, bus concept) - all the recent changes are just now condensed into spoken and written language in order to make, from now on, the history of the young provincial capital in the 3rd millennium nachlesbar (checkable).
www.st-poelten.gv.at/Content.Node/freizeit-kultur/kultur/...
A U.S. Marine briefs task force leaders during a virtual team meeting at Camp Lejeune, N.C..
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Benjamin Larsen
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Erin McManus in motion capture suit
Junior Erin McManus, a computer science and mathematics major, was a finalist in the 2011 Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition. McManus was honored for research she conducted on avatars (computer users’ representations of themselves in a computer game or other electronic environment) at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI) in Tübingen, Germany. She used MPI’s state-of-the-art facilities to design and run an experiment that looked at the effects of avatars on human performance in virtual environments. The research was in collaboration with MPI and the Learning in Virtual Environments lab in VUSE’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
The CRA award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research.