After having our son Max we quickly learned what we need and what we don't need! Now we're excited to celebrate the arrival of our precious baby girl this July 2018 and we can't wait for you all to meet her as well 😄 Thank you all for being apart. We are truly are thankful for every single one of you!


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Jim Welling was born and raised in a small town near Pittsburgh, PA. Looking for a better life for his family they decided to move to Florida in 1988. While vacationing in the mountains of Northeast Georgia/ Western North Carolina he started reminiscing, and realized how much he missed the change of seasons & the small-town atmosphere. In the fall of 1998 he and his wife Paige made a move to Western North Carolina/ Northeast Georgia Mountain area. Jim used his previous working experience to build his "Family Cabin" in Hayesville, NC. He enjoyed this "Labor of Love" and often called it his "Therapy" from the hectic Corporate Life to ease into to slower paced Mountain Life.
Jim became a realtor in 2001, serving Western North Carolina/ Northeast Georgia Mountains. He is a member of the North Georgia Board of Realtor and Georgia MLS. In his 17 years of Real Estate Business, Jim has been awarded the Circle of Excellence and the Million Dollar Club Awards. Jim's maintenance and construction knowledge is a great asset when Selling and Listing homes and properties. He enjoys the satisfaction of matching a Buyer with that "Special Mountain Property".
Jim is honest and straight forward in his approach to his work, business and his family. He continually demonstrates a high degree of loyalty and trustworthiness to his work and to his associates, and carries out his obligations with vigor and resolve. Jim believes in putting his Client's best interest first, exhausting his resources to realize their dreams and making them come true. Give Jim Welling a call today to experience a more knowledgeable and personal touch in your Real Estate needs.
Jim was such a pleasure to work with in helping us find our dream home! Getting to know and trust him came quickly for us because of his willingness to spend as much time as we needed. The thing we liked best about him was his easy-going style and great sense of humor! He certainly had a way of putting us at ease despite our being nervous at having to find a home so quickly. Thanks to Jim we wake up every day now so thankful for our beautiful log cabin home !
I want to write and tell about a fantastic realtor who became a good and valued friend. I first met Jim Welling about 3 years ago while looking for a cabin or land to build on in Georgia. I had a limited budget and found a near perfect home that was over priced. It had been vacant over 2 years and the sellers would not lower the price. Jim tirelessly showed me dozens of possibilities over the next 2 years and when he had 3 or 4 lined up I would drive up from Florida to see them. I almost bought a few acres with a 5th Wheel on it, but banks did not loan on land with a 5th wheel. Jim was not one to give up. A few more trips resulted in an almost perfect place and the price won out over the view I wanted. It was a slight fix it up place, but had lots of potential. I spend a few months using the cabin and cleaning up the property. It still wasn't exactly what I wanted with a creek and mountain view, so Jim suggested listing it in the fall and I did. It sold in about a month and now I will be asking Jim to help me look for that elusive place with a mountain and water view. He worked tirelessly to find what I want and never gave up. He didn't get frustrated and searched all listings within 20 miles of the area I wanted. After all the realty business was done, Jim even invited me to a New Year's celebration, but family illness prevented that. He was kind and caring enough to send a sympathy card when my mother recently passed. I think Jim is a terrific realtor, a true gentleman, has a LOT of patience and I would not hesitate to ask his professional help on the next vacation spot, and I would gladly recommend Jim to anyone seeking their spot in the beautiful Georgia/N. Carolina mountains. Any one wanting a recommendation is welcome to call me anytime and I will explain in detail just how hard Jim worked to find a place for me.


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Luke's Story
By Nancy Flanagan — June 10, 2011 3 min read
Nancy Flanagan
Annette Romano is one of my most cherished teacher-leader buddies. Annette, a first-grade teacher and professional
development specialist, lives outside Albany, New York with her wonderful family, and does groundbreaking and dedicated work to elevate the practice--and the voices--of her
colleagues.
The hot issue in New York--and everywhere--is how to fairly evaluate teachers' effectiveness in the classroom. Recently, by a 14-3 vote, the NY Board of Regents established regulation that mandates the use of student test scores in assessing teachers. This did not go down well with New York teachers--including eight New York State Teachers of the Year, who wrote a powerful, thoughtful and widely publicized letter explaining the folly and probable unintended consequences when utilizing test data intended to measure to student learning as a gauge of teachers' value in the classroom.
Annette wrote a different letter--to Roger Tilles, one of the three Regents who did not support the change. The letter is heartbreaking--and I'm sharing it with the Romano family's permission:
Good Morning Regent Tilles,
I want to thank you for your continued advocacy for students and teacher excellence in this difficult political landscape. We have met many times to discuss National Board Certification, but today I want to share a personal story.
My son, Luke has been battling leukemia for the last seven years. He has had a very difficult fight. Now he is 17 years old and completing his junior year of high school. His teachers have modified expectations while continuing to teach and inspire him.
Luke has only been in school about 50% of time as he is frequently in the hospital for chemotherapy or transfusions. The school district and staff have gone well above and beyond what might be considered "appropriate education" for Luke as many of his teachers have also personally tutored him. He has been able to take his Regents exam at the NIH and at Albany Medical Center.
I illustrate my son's story as a way of demonstrating the evidence of the teachers' commitment to students and their profession, which should be captured as part of their evaluation. But what will happen next year--will teachers want to teach kids like Luke-- who may reflect poorly in their student data?
There's no way of explaining the reasons every child with difficulties isn't scoring well, but how do we capture that he has continued to have a will to live because he is part of the social structure that is essential to a child's life--school? I'm hoping you and others will help develop the big picture, which can't be captured through scores.
Thank you again for your courage, advocacy, and persistence.
Annette forwarded the letter from Albany Medical, where Luke is once again undergoing chemotherapy--an all-too-familiar process that was put off for a few days, so he could attend the Junior Prom. She shared the beautiful photo--and these thoughts:
"I was thinking about what's behind the scores--about all the stories that aren't told, not just Luke's: poverty, divorce, obesity, poor health, special needs, social and emotional problems, family addictions, pregnancy, lack of home support, the athlete that's playing two sports, the student that's already working more than 20 hours a week."
Luke took the Regents exam because he wanted to--all juniors in New York take the Regents--and his parents wanted the information it provides, too. But test scores are just numbers.
Now you know the whole story. Courage, advocacy and persistence, indeed.
[Update: Sadly, Luke Romano lost his valiant, seven-year battle on the evening of August 29th. Our heartfelt thanks to his family for sharing his story, and our deepest condolences on their loss.]
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Win-Test version 4 is out !
The Win-Test team is very pleased to inform you of the first release of the so-awaited version 4 of Win-Test.
Rotators controls : Based on a server architecture allowing future extensions, it currently supports the following interfaces and protocols : AlphaSpid RAK, EA4TX - RCI SE, HyGain DCU-1, Protistel and Yaesu. Allows antenna groups (stacks or on different rotors).
Integrated contest MP3 recorder and player.
ESM (Enter Sends Messages) mode. Can be mixed with the classical usage of the function keys messages. When the ESM is enabled, as the return key *can't* be used anymore to log silently a QSO, the key combination Ctrl+Plus has been introduced and added for this purpose.
Variable speed for the integrated voice keyer : An exclusive Win-Test feature ! You can play your voice files at a different speed (between -20% and +70%) from the original recording speed.
On the fly callsign pattern check based on the K1TTT callsign.pat file (over 400 rules applied today). You are encouraged to report the author any mistakes or improvements of this file (k1ttt@arrl.net).
Improved F10 window with graphical indication of the sun status on both sides of the QSO.
Voice messages are now stored in different directories depending on the operator / log callsign and contest type.
Data (.wt4) and notes (.not) files can be transferred thru the WT network without needing any file or directory sharing. Very convenient to gather all logs in a multi-stations environment once the contest is over.
Foundations of a Win-Test scripting language based on Lua (http://www.lua.org) to allow future extensions.
Various other small improvements you will discover by yourselves !
The version 4.0.0 is listed at 50 Euros, and the upgrade from version 3 is listed at 20 Euros (see below for free upgrade conditions).
We would like to thank our beta testers who spent much time to track bugs and malfunctions during the development : José CT1BOH, Ben DL6RAI, Werner DL4NER, Pablo EA4TX, Mike F5IN, Philippe F6IFY, Bob N6TV and Jozef OM7ZZ.
We remind you that collected funds by Win-Test sales are exclusively dedicated to the non-profit association RACK (Radio Amateur Club de Kourou) to help our contest activities, especially the FY5KE activation during international contests.
Q : What is the free upgrade policy applied from v3 to v4 ?
Q : What is the upgrade policy of this new version 4 ?
A : We decided to keep the same policy as for version 3. It means that all version 4 upgrades will be free, and for one year for version 5 starting at your purchase (or upgrade) date.
Q : Can I have a registered WT3 and a registered WT4 in the same installation directory ?
A : We totally discourage it. If you want to keep and use a v3, and also use a v4, it is mandatory to install each of them in a different directory. If not, after registering the v4 (see below), your v3 will be automatically un-registered. Of course, if you decide not to keep a v3, you can install your v4 and register it in the same existing directory. But note that the Win-Test auxiliary files are now installed in the Application Data\Win-Test\ directory.
Q : I bought the v4 / I bought the v4 upgrade / I'm eligible for free upgrade. Do I need to register again ?
A : *YES* ! Once the v4 is installed you need to register your v4 copy to remove the usual limitations of the WT software. If you own several computers where WT is installed you need to ask a registration key for each of them.
Q : I'm not interested in version 4. Will you continue development on version 3 ?
A : Unfortunately not. The version 3.27.0 is the last release, and we will no more improve it. Nevertheless, we will give help for users who chose to use it, and maintain it *only* in the case of major breaking bugs.
Q : Are you still selling the version 3 ?
A : No. As the v3 will not improve anymore, we think it is a bad idea to keep selling a discontinued software.
Q : I have numerous log files created with v3. Are they compatible with version 4 ?
A : WT 4 will automatically convert your v3 logs to the new v4 .wt4 format, and save the original v3 .wtb file if you want. This allows you to re-open this file with a WT 3 - just in case ! See above how to keep using a registered v3.
Q : In a networked environment, can we mix WT v3 and WT v4 ?
A : No. As usual, you must have the same WT version on every connected computer.
Have fun with WT 4 !


There are many YouTube Downloader addons for Chrome or FireFox, but only few for Internet Explorer. Our Video downloader for Internet Explorer plugin is the . Caution: The download of YouTube videos to hard drive is locked because of restrictions of the . vGet Extension (Video Downloader, DLNA). This Internet Explorer addon automatically refreshes websites for you. Youtube File Hack is a small and intelligent program that aims to ease up everything in.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the iPad is still a hot topic for business intelligence vendors, and both Oracle and Information Builders have just come out with new iPad support. At its Summit 2011, Information Builders has been demoing the InfoAssist tool with the built-in ability to switch between rendering in Flash and HTML5 on the fly.
Information Builders is not exactly a newcomer to the world of using HTML to render rich content. In fact the Information Builders Active reports were originally rendered in HTML 4 and offered an amazingly rich user experience completely off line. But what was amazing back in the day is becoming more commonplace, with HTML5 making it much easier to build rich interactive content. This development shows that users and developers no longer have to takes sides in the Flash vs HTML 5 argument.
To me, the moral of the story is that Microsoft, Abode and Apple may well be wasting their time fighting over the rich web development platform. It was always pretty artificial. And it isn't just large vendors like Information Builders who have this kind of multi-platform capability any more. HTML 5 is not just for MP3 bloggers any more, and as cross-platform development specialists such as Appcelerator and the many Flash / HTML 5 converters (including Adobe Wallaby) gain traction in the market, it is becoming less and less important to worry about the development tool used to get the content delivered.
Nice article! Adobe's Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.


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Why we prefer Okonjo-Iweala's rival as WTO DG – US Govt
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United State authorities have given their reasons for supporting South Korea's trade minister Yoo Myung-hee for the role of Director-General of the World Trade Organization over Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Office of the United States Trade Representative in a statement on the selection of the next World Trade Organization Director-General, insisted that "the United States supports the selection of Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee as the next WTO Director-General" because she is better suited for the post
"This is a very difficult time for the WTO and international trade," US said in support of Yoo Myung-hee who it believes " has all the skills necessary to be an effective leader of the organization."
"WTO is badly in need of major reform" because there "There have been no multilateral tariff negotiations in 25 years, the dispute settlement system has gotten out of control, and too few members fulfill basic transparency obligations."
The needed reforms for the WTO, the US said, "must be led by someone with real, hands-on experience in the field."
US's support for Yoo Myung-hee, according to reports is the only obstacle Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala from becoming the first African to lead the WTO.
AFP reported that key WTO ambassadors tapped Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Wednesday as the best pick to lead the organisation, but she was opposed by Washington, who said it supported Yoo Myung-hee instead.
The initial pool of eight candidates for the WTO's top post had been whittled down to just two over two previous rounds of consultations, with only Okonjo-Iweala and South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee left in the race.
The global trade body is thus set to be led by a woman for the first time whichever of the two final candidates succeeds in their bid to follow Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down as WTO director-general in August a year ahead of schedule.
Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigeria finance and foreign minister expressed confidence earlier this month that she would be the successful candidate.
"I feel the wind behind my back," she told a virtual press briefing after the 55-member African Union officially supported her. She subsequently got the endorsement of the European Union for the coveted WTO DG role. (News Express/The Guardian)
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Exclusive preview: Hutton Moor's £2.15m extension to open on Monday
Briana Millett
Inside the new Hutton Moor Leisure Centre gym.
Hutton Moor Leisure Centre will unveil its £2.15million expansion on Monday, and it features a new 155-station gym, new studios and the latest fitness equipment.
A two-storey extension has been created at the back of the building so the centre's gym could be expanded from 96 stations to 155 to meet increasing demand.
The new-look centre also has two new multi-use studios which will be used for high intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, dance classes, fitness sessions and more.
Cardio equipment at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre.
The extension is home to the latest Queenax functional training system – which sees people exercise while using a suspended body weight system and will offer classes such as anti-gravity yoga, circuits and boxing.
One of the squash courts has been converted into a spinning studio with 26 bikes for cycle workout classes, while one squash court remains.
New cardio equipment at Hutton Moor includes screens to track progress and watch Netflix.
The former bar area at the front of the building, above the sports hall, has now been converted into a dance studio, which has already opened.
Inside the expansion at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre.
Work is continuing to the centre's free weight gym, which will become another multi-use studio.
The centre is run by Legacy Leisure and is visited 600,000 times a year and has more than 3,000 members, but this expansion means it can cater for an extra 800 members.
The extension has taken six months to build and the expansion also includes three new floodlit all-weather pitches and two floodlit tennis courts which have been fitted using environmentally-friendly cork.
The Queenax functional training system at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre in Weston-super-Mare.
The pitches will not be ready to use until October, but people can book them now by emailing huttonmoor@legacyleisure.org.uk
The new-look centre will officially open on Monday, but people can get a preview of its new equipment on Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm at the centre's showcase event. For more information call 01934 425900.
The new Sway dance studio at Hutton Moor Leisure Centre in Weston-super-Mare.
MORE: Second phase of Hutton Moor's expansion to include new pool.
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My Friend Matt & Hena the Whore
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Seven for a Secret Never to be Told
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At the age of 11, Mini became the subject of an award-winning documentary by Franc Roddam, which was aired on the BBC in 1975 and provoked strong public reaction and widespread outrage. The film offered a window into the everyday life of the children society would rather forget, and gave Mini the chance for his own voice to be heard by a wider audience.
When he was thrust into the adult world some years later, with diminished academic skills and no experience of life within the bounds of society, Mini remained an outsider. His attempts at pursuing the very basic dignities of everyday life seemed doomed. Support from the authorities continued to be punitive and his state of mind inevitably suffered. However, he was able to reconnect with Franc, whose belief and support became crucial to him.
Following the breakup of a disastrous relationship, Mini set his final fire at a drinks factory, for which he received a life sentence. Yet, with this move from the juvenile detention system to the adult one an inevitable pattern appeared to have been broken. He finally won his battle for freedom from custody when he was released on life license in 2002 at the age of 39.
For more than 30 years Franc and Mini have been friends, with Franc encouraging and supporting Mini, and contributing to his well-being. When Franc told Mini that he should document his journey, he promised that if Mini finished the book, he would publish it.
The result is Mini & Me. Now, at last, Mini is free to tell his story in his own words.
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Fine-Grained Authorization and Other Key IAM Terms
The world of Identity and Access Management (IAM) has a language of its own which is continually evolving as new technologies emerge and security threats change.
While the list of "must-know" terms is too long to cover in a single blog, here are some to incorporate into your vocabulary as you evaluate which IAM solution is best for your organization.
1. Access Management
The policies used to determine which users can access which resources (e.g., files, networks, applications, fields on a Web page). The main access management solutions used today are User Access Lists, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), and Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC).
2. Access Governance
Access Governance involves not only setting policy but adding the visibility to see which resources each user has access to in order to ensure that access rights are actually effective. Additionally, as the Identity Management Institute explains, access governance is concerned with "managing risks and ensuring compliance in a consistent, efficient and effective manner"
3. User Access Lists
UAL are lists that specify which users can access which resources (e.g., files, network, applications, fields on Web page). Requires either a list of users per resource and/or a list of resources per user.
4. Authorization
A permission to access a resource (e.g., file, network, application, a field on Web page, etc.) to a user whose identity has already been authenticated, Authorization is an important business decision that management should make but all too often, it is left to a company's IT department because it is very technical.
5. Authentication
Validating that someone is who they claim to be. Usually requires a username and a password; may require a biometric characteristic or the correct answer to a question. Does not authorize access to any resources, only validates identity.
6. Attributes
Characteristics of a user or user's environment that are relevant to determining access rights (e.g., job, location, time of day). Used in ABAC and PBAC.
7. RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
Authorization solution in which roles are created with specific permissions per resource (e.g., file, network, application, a field on Web page),and users are matched to one or more roles. Because it breaks the user population into roles and bases all access rights only on these roles, RBAC's authorization is said to be "coarse-grained," as opposed to the "fine-grained" access control permitted by ABAC and PBAC.
8. ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control)
Authorization solution in which a user's position in the company is only one factor for determining their access rights; other attributes could be user location and time of day. ABAC solutions generally use Boolean logic as well as XACML. Because it supports making decisions based on more than one factor, ABAC is a "fine-grained" approach to Authorization .
9. PBAC (Policy-Based Access Control)
Authorization solution in which roles and attributes are combined with logic to create flexible, dynamic control policies. Like ABAC, it uses a number of attributes to determine access rights, so it also provides "fine-grained" access control. PBAC is designed to support all manners of access devices and is generally considered the most flexible Authorization solution.
10. Fine-Grained Authorization
Approach to Authorization that has a high degree of specificity and in which access rights may vary by conditions at run-time. For example, a fine-grained Authorization solution might grant a salesperson in a certain region, working on a certain project, access to specific files during work hours via a secure network but never after hours or via unsecured WiFi.
11. XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language)
Standards based language used to define a fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy. Generally used with ABAC solutions, but can be used with RBAC as well.
12. OAUTH (Open Authorization)
Open standard used as a way for Internet users to grant one website or application access to their information on another website without transmitting the password for the second site.
13. Role explosion
Main problem in RBAC implementations. "Role explosion" occurs when there are many similar but slightly different roles being administered by an IAM solution. For example, a company can create any number of roles whose access rights differ for only one or two folders. As the number of resources and roles grows, maintenance time and effort will increase significantly.
14. Access creep
Tendency for users to acquire too many permissions the longer they work at a company, because they do not lose previous permissions as they switch to new positions. For example, a programmer will gain new permissions if they becomes a salesperson without necessarily losing their old permissions. If this occurs by inertia, not design, "access creep" has occurred.
15. EAM (Externalized Authorization Management)
Access management solution for enterprise systems that enables a much more agile way to provide authorization across the entire enterprise. Given the complexity of IAM, especially for growing companies, it's no wonder that more and more business leaders are using EAMs to create Authorization solutions for their companies.
16. Zero Trust
A cyber security framework that treats every user and every access request as potentially dangerous. Zero trust solutions use a trust engine that quantifies the riskiness of granting each access request, based on stored data. A separate policy engine determines whether the level of risk returned by the trust engine is acceptable or not, with the solution's enforcement component implementing the decision.


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Petrus Apianus (Leisnig, 1495. április 16. – Ingolstadt, 1552. április 21.) sokoldalú német reneszánsz tudós.

Élete

Eredeti neve Peter Bennewitz (vagy Bienewitz) volt. (A latin apis a német Biene -magyarul a méh - szó fordítása.) A szászországi Leisnig-ben született, iskolai tanulmányait Rochlitz-ben végezte. 1516-tól 1519-ig a lipcsei egyetemen tanult. Ekkor vette fel a korabeli szokásoknak megfelelő latinos Apianus nevet.

Tanulmányait Bécsben folytatta annak a Georg Tannstetternek a tanítványaként, aki Magyarország 1527-es térképét szerkesztette.

1521-ben a B.A. fokozat megszerzése után Regensburgban, majd Landshutban tanult. 1527-ben egyetemi katedrát kapott Ingolstadban. Élete során több másik egyetemre is meghívták, de haláláig megtartotta katedráját.

Munkássága

Matematikus, csillagász, földrajztudós és térképész volt, és így került V. Károly német-római császár kegyeibe, aki 1541-ben a regensburgi birodalmi gyűlésen nemesi rangba emelte.

Apianus kifejlesztett egy módszert a földrajzi hosszúságok meghatározására, a csillagok Holdtól való távolságának a mérése segítségével. 1527-ben a nyugati világban elsőként (a névadó Blaise Pascal előtt) foglalkozott a Pascal-háromszög egy változatával.

Emlékezete

A Holdon egy krátert és a 19139-Apian kisbolygót nevezték el a tiszteletére.

Művei
 Cosmographicus Liber (1524)
 Ein newe und wolgegründete underweisung aller Kauffmanns Rechnung ….. (1527) (); im Gemälde "The Ambassadors" (1533) von Hans Holbein d. J. (National Gallery, London) wiedergegeben
 Instrument Buch (1533)
 Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)

Jegyzetek

Források
 http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/a/apian_p.shtml
 http://home.arcor.de/apian/geschichte/peter.htm

Német matematikusok
1495-ben született személyek
1552-ben elhunyt személyek
Német csillagászok
Földrajztudósok
Német térképészek
Német egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók

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Die australische Eishockeynationalmannschaft der Frauen ist die nationale Eishockey-Auswahlmannschaft Australiens im Fraueneishockey. Nach der Weltmeisterschaft 2022 liegt die Mannschaft auf dem 33. Rang der IIHF-Weltrangliste.

Geschichte
Die australische Eishockeynationalmannschaft der Frauen nimmt seit der Weltmeisterschaft 2000 am Spielbetrieb der Internationalen Eishockey-Föderation teil. Bei ihrer ersten WM-Teilnahme scheiterte die Mannschaft 2000 mit der Qualifikation für die B-WM für das folgende Jahr. Auch im folgenden Jahr konnte sich Australien in der neu geschaffenen dritten Leistungsstufe bei den Frauen-Weltmeisterschaften nicht für die Division II qualifizieren, stieg aber bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2003 als Erster der Division III in die Division II auf. In den folgenden Jahren dominierten die Australierinnen immer wieder die Division III, konnten sich jedoch nicht langfristig in der Division II halten.

Da die Divisionen III bis V bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2009 nicht ausgespielt wurden und 2010 aufgrund der Austragung der Olympischen Winterspiele in Vancouver ohnehin keine Frauen-WM stattfand, bestritt Australien 2011 erstmals nach drei Jahren wieder ein WM-Spiel und trat in der Division III an. Seit 2012 spielen die Australierinnen durchgängig in der Division II.

Platzierungen

Bei Weltmeisterschaften
 2000 – 23. Platz (7. Qualifikation für die B-WM)
 2001 – 21. Platz (3. Qualifikationsgruppe B für die Division II)
 2003 – 21. Platz (1. Division III)
 2004 – 20. Platz (5. Division II)
 2005 – 25. Platz (5. Division III)
 2007 – 22. Platz (1. Division III)
 2008 – 21. Platz (6. Division II)
 2011 – 2. Platz Division III
 2012 – 3. Platz Division IIA
 2013 – 3. Platz Division IIA
 2014 – 6. Platz Division IIA (Abstieg in die Division IIB)
 2016 – 5. Platz Division IIB
 2016 – 1. Platz Division IIB (Aufstieg in die Division IIA)
 2017 – 6. Platz Division IIA
 2018 – 4. Platz Division IIA
 2019 – 6. Platz Division IIA (Abstieg in die Division IIB)
 2020 – 1. Platz Division IIB
 2021 – keine Austragung
 2022 – 2. Platz Division IIB
 2023 – 2. Platz Division IIB

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Steinsfurt ist ein Dorf im Süden des Rhein-Neckar-Kreises in Baden-Württemberg, das seit dem 1. Januar 1973 zu Sinsheim gehört.

Geographische Lage
Steinsfurt liegt im hügeligen Kraichgau an beiden Ufern der Elsenz am Beginn der Sinsheimer Talweitung des kleinen Flusses. Ihm fließen südlich des Dorfes von Osten der Insenbach, in der Ortsmitte von Nordosten der Goldbach zu, beides rechte Nebenflüsse. Die Gemarkung erstreckt sich von Ostnordost nach Westsüdwest über das Flusstal hinweg über etwa 6 km, senkrecht dazu in Flussrichtung misst es an der breitesten Stelle nur wenig mehr als 2,5 km. Der Ilvesbach ist lange Grenzbach der Gemarkung im Westen. Der höchste Punkt der Gemarkung liegt zwischen Insenbach- und Goldbachtal an der Straße nach Ehrstädt auf rund , der niedrigste in der weiten Elsenz-Aue auf etwa .

Die Ortsteilgemarkung grenzt im Norden an die des nächsten Taldorfes Rohrbach, das selbst nur etwa anderthalb Kilometer entfernt liegt, die östliche größtenteils an die Ehrstädter, dessen Dorfmitte in Luftlinie über 5 km weitab liegt, und auf einem nur kurzen Stück auch Adersbach bzw. an die des noch ferneren Grombach. Der Südgrenze entlang zieht sich die Gemarkung von Reihen, das mit zweieinhalb Kilometern Entfernung nächstobere Taldorf. Im Westen schließlich liegen die Gemarkungen von Weiler und zuletzt im Nordwesten von Sinsheim selbst an. Bis auf das zu Bad Rappenau im Nachbarlandkreis Heilbronn gehörende Grombach sind alle anderen Anrainer Ortsteile von Sinsheim.

Naturräumlich gesehen liegt Steinsfurt mit seiner Gemarkung im Lein-Elsenz-Hügelland, der etwas größere und profiliertere Teil im Osten gehört hierbei zum Unterraum Neckarbischofsheimer Höhen, der etwas kleinere westliche am nur unteren Anstieg zum Steinsberg zum Unterraum Schwarzbachgäu.

Geschichte

Steinsfurt an der Elsenz zählt zu den am frühesten besiedelten Orten der Umgebung. Die ältesten Funde stammen aus der Jungsteinzeit, weitere Funde aus der La-Tène-Zeit. Der bedeutendste Fund jedoch ist die größte in Südwestdeutschland gefundene Jupitergigantensäule aus der Zeit der Römer, die 1959 ausgegraben wurde und die bereits im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert entdeckte römische Funde ergänzt.

Das im Jahr 1100 erstmals erwähnte Dorf war ein Lehen des Bistums Worms, mit dem regionale Adelige belehnt wurden. Durch Kauf und Tausch kam dann das Kloster Sinsheim im 15. Jahrhundert in den Alleinbesitz über das Dorf, das seit 1335 unter der Oberhoheit der Kurpfalz stand. Steinsfurt gehörte bis 1803 zum kurpfälzischen Oberamt Mosbach (Kellerei Hilsbach), wurde dann dem kurzlebigen Fürstentum Leiningen zugeschlagen und kam nach dessen Ende 1806 an Baden.

Der Ort teilt die Geschichte der meisten Nachbarorte und war von Zerstörungen im Dreißigjährigen Krieg und den nachfolgenden kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts betroffen. Im 19. Jahrhundert wanderten zahlreiche Einwohner aufgrund der vorherrschenden Armut in dem rein landwirtschaftlich geprägten Ort aus. Ein erster wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung stellte sich erst durch den Bau der Elsenztalbahn und den damit verbundenen Betrieb von Steinbrüchen bei Steinsfurt ein. 1939 hatte Steinsfurt 1440 Einwohner, durch Zuzug von Evakuierten und Zuweisung von Heimatvertriebenen und Flüchtlingen stieg die Einwohnerzahl bis zum Ende der 1940er Jahre auf 2450 Personen an.

Einen bedeutenden wirtschaftlichen Impuls setzte in den 1960er Jahren der Bau des Teilstücks der A 6 von Weinsberg nach Walldorf mit der direkt am Ort befindlichen Abfahrt sowie der Ausbau der B 39, die den Ort durchquert. Die verkehrsgünstige Lage förderte die Ansiedlung von Industriebetrieben, führte jedoch auch bis in die Gegenwart zu einer hohen Verkehrsbelastung.

Am 1. Januar 1973 wurde Steinsfurt bei der Gebietsreform in Baden-Württemberg nach Sinsheim eingemeindet. Die ehemalige Gemeinde hatte eine Fläche von 12,08 km².

Religionen
Mit dem Stift Sinsheim wurde Steinsfurt im Jahr 1565 durch Kurfürst Friedrich III. reformiert. Die Glaubenswechsel in der Kurpfalz führten in der Folgezeit jedoch zur Ausbildung von drei christlichen Glaubensrichtungen (Reformierte, Lutheraner und Katholiken), die jeweils eigene Kirchen errichteten. Die ursprüngliche Kirche des Ortes, eine 1496 erwähnte und dem Hl. Petrus geweihte Pfarrkirche, befand sich in der Goldbach, wurde jedoch 1662/63 durch eine neue Kirche am Platz der heutigen katholischen Kirche ersetzt, die zunächst von allen drei Konfessionen genutzt wurde, 1707 dann den Katholiken zugesprochen wurde. 1767 wurde von den Lutheranern, 1769/70 von der reformierten Gemeinde jeweils eine eigene Kirche errichtet. Die katholische Kirche wurde 1802–1804 durch einen Neubau ersetzt. Nachdem die Reformierten und Lutheraner 1821 zur Evangelischen Landeskirche vereinigt worden waren, wurde die lutherische Kirche aufgegeben und abgerissen. 1936/37 wurde eine neue evangelische Kirche erbaut und das von den Reformierten errichtete alte Gotteshaus säkularisiert.

Juden sind in Steinsfurt seit Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts belegt. Eine jüdische Gemeinde entwickelte sich am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Nachdem die Gemeinde zunächst nur über einen Betsaal in einem Wohnhaus verfügte, wurde ab 1893 noch eine Synagoge errichtet, obwohl die Gemeindegröße zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits seit über 20 Jahren rückläufig war. 1933 lebten noch 32 Juden in Steinsfurt, die alle vor Beginn der Deportationen auswandern konnten. Die Synagoge wurde im Oktober 1938 verkauft.

Wappen
Die Blasonierung lautet: in silber ein blau gerüsteter Engel mit goldenem Nimbus, mit der goldenen Lanze einen grünen Drachen tötend. Der Engel stellt vermutlich den Hl. Michael dar. Die Wappenzeichnung ist bereits im Jahr 1766 belegt, die 1901 festgelegten Farben sollen durch Blau und Silber an die einstige Zugehörigkeit zur Kurpfalz erinnern.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

 Das Lerchennest ist ein kleinbäuerliches Anwesen in fränkischer Fachwerkbauweise, in dem Friedrich der Große in der Nacht vom 4. auf den 5. August 1730 auf seinem Fluchtversuch übernachtete. Kronprinz Friedrich war zusammen mit dem Pagen Keith aus seinem Reisequartier bei Steinsfurt geflohen, um sich der Erziehungsgewalt seines strengen Vaters, König Friedrich Wilhelm I., zu entziehen und sich nach Frankreich abzusetzen. Er wurde jedoch verhaftet, in der Festung Küstrin unter Arrest gestellt, und musste dort im November 1730 die Hinrichtung seines Freundes und Mitwissers Katte ansehen. In dem in den 1970er Jahren renovierten Anwesen befindet sich heute ein Museum.
 Die Alte Kaserne unweit des Lerchennests ist ein Fachwerkgebäude aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, das 1626 und 1704 nach vorangegangenen Kriegszerstörungen jeweils wiederaufgebaut wurde. Der Keller mit historischem Kreuzgewölbe war 1661 ein Treffpunkt von Täufern.
 Die katholische Kirche St. Peter wurde 1803/04 anstelle eines Vorgängerbauwerks von 1662/63 errichtet. Vor der Kirche ist eine Sandsteinstatue des Brückenheiligen Johannes Nepomuk von 1742 aufgestellt, die sich bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts auf der Elsenzbrücke befand.
 Die Evangelische Kirche wurde 1936/1937 nach Plänen des Mannheimer Architekten Christian Schrade erbaut und am 28. November 1937 eingeweiht. Bei der Kirche befindet sich noch ein evangelischer Kindergarten, der 1884 erbaut und 1955 sowie 1988 umgebaut und erweitert wurde.
 Die Alte evangelische Kirche wurde 1769/70 von der reformierten Gemeinde errichtet und ab 1821 von der vereinigten evangelischen Gemeinde genutzt. Nach dem Neubau der evangelischen Kirche 1936/37 diente die alte Kirche nach dem Krieg zunächst als Kino, danach als Gasthaus.
 Die Steinsfurter Synagoge wurde 1893 nach Plänen von Wilhelm Dick aus Hoffenheim durch die jüdische Gemeinde Steinsfurt erbaut und bis 1936 als Gotteshaus genutzt. Das Backsteingebäude befindet sich seit 1938 in Privatbesitz und wurde von der Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg zum "Denkmal des Monats Juli 2008" ernannt.

 Die Mühle wurde bereits 1541 als Mühle des Sinsheimer Stifts erwähnt und im Lauf der Zeit mehrfach erweitert und erneuert. 1907 wurde das Wasserrad gegen eine Turbine ersetzt und ab dem Folgejahr elektrischer Strom für die Gemeinde produziert. Das Wohngebäude der Mühle wurde 1929 erneuert, die Mühle wurde 1934 modernisiert.
 Die Koch- und Fortbildungsschule wurde 1923/24 von Hermann Weil gestiftet. Das Gebäude dient heute überwiegend Wohnzwecken.

 In der Ortsmitte bei der neuzeitlichen Verwaltungsstelle und einer Replik der Jupitergigantensäule befindet sich das 1911 erbaute Lehrerwohnhaus am Platz der früheren Gemeindebäckerei.
 In Steinsfurt befinden sich außerdem weitere historische Gebäude aus unterschiedlichen Epochen, darunter Wirtschaftsgebäude wie die Alte Kelter und das Schafhaus, das historische Bahnhofsgebäude im Stil des Klassizismus und verschiedene historische Wohngebäude.

 Die Erholungsanlage Ansbach ist ein öffentlicher Platz, der 1866 als Tuchbleiche bezeichnet wurde und später auch Festplatz war. In den 1960er Jahren wurde der Platz zu einer Grünanlage umgestaltet. 1963 wurde ein Ehrenmal für die Toten beider Weltkriege errichtet. Das Haus Hohenzollern hat ein Metallrelief Friedrichs des Großen gestiftet, das auf den Sockelstein eines früheren Kriegerdenkmals montiert wurde.

Radverkehr
Durch Steinsfurt verläuft die Burgen-Tour Kraichgau-Stromberg, eine etwa 52 Kilometer lange regionale Radroute, die das Dorf mit den Orten Rohrbach und Weiler verbindet.

Persönlichkeiten
 Peter Stephens (1687–1757), Pionier, Gründer von Stephens City, Virginia.
 Philipp David Schwab (1806–1864), Ökonom und Autor, Bürgermeister der Gemeinde Hockenheim
 Hermann Weil (1868–1927), Unternehmer und Mäzen
 Karl Völker (1923–2009), Unternehmer und Stifter
 Erich Würfel (1926–2015), Jurist, Kommunalpolitiker, Politiker, Landrat Landkreis Rastatt 1973–1989
 Gerd Hockenberger (* 1941), Landwirt und Präsident des Landesbauernverbandes in Baden-Württemberg

Literatur
 Hans Appenzeller: Ortschronik Steinsfurt. 4 Bände (1987–2002), ohne ISBN
 Hartmut Riehl: Auf den Spuren der Adelsgeschlechter in Sinsheim. Verlag Regionalkultur, Sinsheim 2020, ISBN 978-3-95505-182-2.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Website www.steinsfurt.de für Steinsfurt
 Karte der Steinsfurter Gemarkung auf:
 Karte von Steinsfurt auf:

Ort im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
Ortschaft von Sinsheim

Ehemalige Gemeinde (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis)
Ort im Kraichgau
Ersterwähnung 1100
Gemeindegründung 1806
Gemeindeauflösung 1973
Ort an der Elsenz


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Q: C drive shows as full, despite not being full Specs:

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*Win10 Pro

*1x 256gb HDD

*1x 1tb HDD

I have an issue on this particular machine where the C drive becomes full and says there are 0 bytes free. Deleting programs or files does nothing to change this and disk clean-up can remove a maximum of 31mb. I have reinstalled Windows 10 on this machine 3 times now, the day that I do the reinstall, everything is working fine with 200gb of free disk space after the windows install, give it a couple of nights and suddenly it is full again.
The below image shows that even Windows can't figure out why the drive is full. Once the drive is full, any attempts I have made to clear it are useless, and eventually, core Windows features like the settings and start menu no longer function.
Win10 storage settings
Any help with this will be much appreciated, I'm probably going to buy a new drive in the meantime, but it's such a strange issue and I feel like it is software related as the drive works perfectly fine for a few days, then suddenly has this issue.
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After checking the specs in cmd, the drive seems to think it is a hard drive, I have updated this above. The drive is deceivingly fast though, Windows boots in just a few seconds.

A: Check this out. windirstat https://windirstat.net/  Hope this helps.
"To figure out where your space has gone use windirstat https://windirstat.net/
Run this utility as a administrator (right click on the icon and run as administrator)"
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Songs will be due on Monday, June 27th at 9:00 PM Eastern US time.
One vs. Many! Yes, it's a little complicated, pay attention.
"One" means any game where the player or players control one character at a time (even if you rotate between multiple characters). AI tagalongs or assistant/puppet characters like Yoshi/Rush don't count as player-controlled.
Includes: Mario 1/2/3/World/etc., Metroid, Mega Man 5, Star Fox, Illusion of Gaia, Portal, Kirby's Adventure, Castlevania 3, Resident Evil 4.
"Many" means any game where the player or players can control multiple characters at a time (competing or cooperating).
Includes: Final Fantasy, Street Fighter 2, Doom, Final Fight, Portal 2, Contra 3, Super Smash TV, Secret of Mana.
We can discuss/argue about the definitions if you want to get everything narrowed down and spelled out.
Games like Tetris, where the player does not control any characters, are invalid.
Yes, this is kind of weird and complicated, but isn't the name "One vs. Many" cool? That's a good enough reason, right?
I'll retag the songs tonight and finish updating the site tomorrow night.
And yes, the art was done by FoxDragon. While he was sick, even!
Hopefully this doesn't count as a double post and merges the two. . .
For the curious, this is my source material.
Also, thanks for all the reviews and votes. Most of you were spot on with my song. The heavy part came out.. muddier than i thought. Akira Yamaoka and his open chords, so yeah.
And i don't have any idea on what game to do, fantastic.
Not quite. Multiplayer is a big chunk of "many" but it also includes games where you control multi-character parties like a lot of RPGs.
megaman II vs FF7 month.
fighting games versus side scrollers sounds interesting. but, hmmmm.
wow, this theme. You see, the point of a versus month was to pick a side and root for one or the other. With this type of versus theme, it's hard to pick sides and pull for something. the excitement is lost because there is no clear definition of the sides. bummer.
Is it time for me to make a return to DoD with some below average entries?
so, if the racing game only has a 1 player mode, then it counts as a "one"
and if the racing game has a 2 or more player mode, whether through network or locally, it counts as a "many"
remember the sega saturn netlink? ummmm. never mind.
so, if there's any multiplayer option at all, then it counts as a "many". even if you have to purchase a sega saturn netlink with the game. right?
::jumps up and down:: I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD BE CONFUSING!
I already told him, but I loved ScaredSim's Okami track to death. The other was very good too, but it just repeated itself so I lost interest in that one by comparison. shame too, because it was beautiful playing.
Biggest surprise for me on this list is Brandon Strader and REXY? I hear no Piano, is she on violin/fiddle or something like that? Awesome job, you two. That was one of the most different DoD entries ever.
Across the board I did not know hardly any of the scource material songs for this month, but like I said before.. I enjoyed all of them.
So uh. good luck with THIS month, now.
ok well, if you're not gonna answer my questions then i'm out.
Nate, you weren't kidding. You tried to explain this to me and I just kind of thought it would make sense once it actually came around.


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This is a list of nations, as represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs), that have participated in the Winter Olympic Games between 1924 and 2022. The Winter Olympic Games have been held every four years (once during each Olympiad) since 1924, except for the cancelled Games of 1940 and 1944, and in 1994 when the Winter Games were moved to the middle of the Olympiad, two years after the previous Games.

129 NOCs (118 of the current 206 NOCs and 11 obsolete NOCs) have participated in at least one Winter Games, and twelve nations (Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) have participated in all twenty-three Winter Games to date. Including continuity from Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have also been represented in every edition.

History

Origin and early Games
The first winter sport to be contested at the modern Olympic Games was figure skating at the 1908 Games in London. A total of 21 skaters from six countries (Argentina, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Russia, and the United States) competed in four events on 28–29 October.
Skating was not in the program of the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, but returned for the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Ice hockey was also part of the 1920 program of events, with seven teams competing.

The first Winter Games were held in 1924, in Chamonix, France. They were originally called International Winter Sports Week and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, but were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the I Olympic Winter Games.
Sixteen nations participated in these Games: fourteen from Europe and two from North America.
Four years later, 25 nations were represented at the 1928 Winter Olympics, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, including Argentina (the first nation from the Southern Hemisphere), Japan (the first Asian nation), and Mexico.
The 1932 Games, held in Lake Placid, United States, saw the participation of 17 nations.
The 1936 Winter Games, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, had 28 participating nations, the largest number to that date.
These would be the last Winter Games for twelve years, as the planned 1940 Games and 1944 Games were cancelled due to World War II.

Post-war years and Cold War era
After the war, 28 nations would return to St. Moritz for the 1948 Winter Olympics, but not Germany or Japan, who were not invited because of their roles in the war.
The 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, Norway, featured 30 participating nations.
The 1956 Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, marked the Winter Games debut of the Soviet Union, along with 31 other nations.
The NOCs of East Germany and West Germany would be represented by a single German team, an arrangement that would continue until 1964.
Thirty nations would participate at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States, including South Africa, the first African nation to participate in the Winter Games.
Thirty-six nations were represented in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1964.

The 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, marked the first time that East Germany and West Germany competed as independent teams, two of the 37 nations that took part.
The Games of 1972 were held in Sapporo, Japan, the first time the Winter Games were held outside of Europe or North America. A total of 35 nations were represented, including the Philippines, the first appearance by a southeast Asian nation.
The Winter Games returned to Innsbruck, in 1976, with 37 participating nations.

Lake Placid was the site of the Winter Games in 1980, with 37 competing nations.
The People's Republic of China made their Olympic debut but, in response, the Republic of China boycotted the Games, protesting their inability to use the name "China" after the decision by the IOC. Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia was host to the 1984 Winter Olympics, which welcomed 49 nations.
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were the first two Caribbean NOCs to compete in the Winter Games.
Several more tropical nations would participate at the 1988 Winter Olympics, in Calgary, Canada, including the famed Jamaica national bobsleigh team.

Recent Games
The post-Cold War events of the early 1990s led to a large increase in participating nations at the Olympics. At the 1992 Games, in Albertville, France, a total of 64 NOCs were represented, including a single Germany team—following the German reunification in 1990—and a Unified Team composed of six of the ex-republics of the Soviet Union.
The Baltic states competed independently for the first time since 1936, and some of the ex-Yugoslav nations started to compete independently in 1992.

In October 1986, the IOC had voted to hold the Olympic Winter Games halfway through the four-year Olympiad, rather than in the same year as the summer Games, and this change started with the XVIIth Olympic Winter Games in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. A total of 67 nations took part, including the Czech Republic and Slovakia as independent teams, and each of the ex-Soviet nations. Pakistan debuted in the Winter Olympics in 2010. Nigeria debuted in the Winter Olympics several years later, in 2018.

The Winter Games continued to grow in the recent past, with 72 nations at the 1998 Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan, 77 nations at the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, United States, 80 nations at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, 82 nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, 88 nations at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and a record 93 nations at the 2018 Games.

List of nations

Description
This list includes 129 NOCs (118 of the current 206 NOCs and 11 obsolete NOCs), arranged alphabetically. The three-letter country code is also listed for each NOC. Since the 1960s, these codes have been frequently used by the IOC and each Games organizing committee to identify NOCs, such as within the official report of each Games. However, in this section, several countries which have long-form names designated by the United Nations are referred to by their common names, such as Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic), North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), and Moldova (Republic of Moldova).

Several nations have changed during their Olympic history. Name changes due to geographical renaming are explained by footnotes after the nation's name, and other changes are explained by footnotes links within the table itself.

Obsolete nations
Obsolete nations are included in the table to more clearly illustrate past Olympic appearances for their successor nations.
TCH. Czechoslovakia (TCH) participated in 1924–1992, from 1994 represented by two successor NOCs of Czech Republic (CZE) and Slovakia (SVK).
EUA, FRG, GDR. For the Games of 1956–1964, Germany participated as a United Team of Germany (GER), representing the National Olympic Committees of both West Germany and East Germany. Retrospectively, the IOC uses the country code EUA for this team. After the NOC for the German Democratic Republic was granted full recognition by the IOC in 1968, East Germany (GDR) and West Germany (FRG) participated as two distinct teams at the Games of 1968–1988.
AHO. The NOC of the Netherlands Antilles (AHO) was recognized by the IOC from 1950 until 2011 upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.
URS, EUN, OAR/ROC. Soviet Union (URS) participated at the Games of 1956–1988. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, nine of the fifteen ex-republics of the Soviet Union were represented at the 1992 Winter Olympics as a combined Unified Team (EUN). Since 1994 ex-republics of the Soviet Union are represented by fifteen successor NOCs, fourteen of which have participated in the Winter Games. At the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, athletes from Russia competed as Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) and Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), respectively.
YUG, SCG. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (officially the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929) participated as Yugoslavia (YUG) in three Games before the World War II. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia also participated using the Yugoslavia designation, for all but one Games between 1948–1992, and hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro), consisting of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro, participated at the Games of 1998 and the Games of 2002 as Yugoslavia (YUG) and at the Games of 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro (SCG). Now the six ex-republics and one ex-province of the former Yugoslavia represented by seven successor NOCs, of which all have participated in the Winter Games.
COR. The Korea (COR) designates the united Korean women's ice hockey team at 2018 Games.

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Alphabetical list

Nations that have never competed
88 of the 206 active NOCs have yet to compete in a Winter Olympics.

Notes

Name changes notes

Participation notes

See also

 Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics
 List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games
 List of participating nations at the Winter Paralympic Games
 List of IOC country codes
 Lists of National Olympic Committees by continental association:
 Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa
 European Olympic Committees
 Oceania National Olympic Committees
 Olympic Council of Asia
 Pan American Sports Organization

References

External links
 Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee
 Olympic Review and Revue Olympique. library.la84.org
 Official Reports. library.la84.org

Participating Nations At The Winter Olympic Games


Inside a beautiful 200-year-old neo-classical building that also houses the Portico Library, The Bank Manchester is a grand example of a Nicholson's pub. Serving traditional British pub grub and cask ales, the interior is filled with dramatic touches, including towering columns.
Since Nicholson's pubs were first established in 1873, these traditional British inns have become synonymous with warm hospitality, hearty pub food and a speciality range of ales. As well as always featuring British pub classics like beer-battered fish & chips and gammon & eggs, The Bank - Manchester menu is complemented by a rotating selection of pie, sausage & chop and fish specials for each season.
The Bank - Manchester bar is always stocked with exquisite gins, warming whiskies and fine wines to pair with favourite meals, and there's always a superb range of seasonal and regional real ales on offer. A constant at the bar is the St Austell-brewed Nicholson's Pale Ale, made with Cornish Maris Otter malts, and a hand-picked blend of English hops.
A strikingly stylish pub in the city centre, The Bank is a 10-minute walk from Manchester Piccadilly Rail Station.


Coaching according to International Coach Federation (ICF), which is the biggest and oldest organization of professional coaching, is a partnering between the coach (HRE) and the coachee (YOU) in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal or professional potential.
Coaching has a fundamental principle. That people can create their own best answers and solutions. The coach is trained to facilitate them in this process. The coach doesn't play the game; he supports players into playing it better!
The coach brings out your best, reveals your real competencies and aspirations, challenges and energizes you to overcome internal and external obstacles and finally changes your behavior for your best.
Is there proof that coaching works?
Yes!The International Coach Federation Global Coaching Client Study shows that most clients reported improved work performance, better business management, more efficient time management, increased team effectiveness, and more growth and opportunities.
The same study found that coaching clients noted greater self-confidence, enhanced relationships, more effective communications skills, better work-life balance and improvement in wellness. The median suggests that a client who achieved financial benefit from coaching can typically expect a ROI of more than three times the amount spent.
For more details, visit the ICF Research Portal, as well as press releases about ICF's return-on-investment research.
What is coaching for HRE?
Coaching is an inquiry-based approach to personal and professional development. A catalyst for change. It aims at creating awareness, generating action, and facilitating learning and growth.
We are fully committed to inspire people and teams positively while also challenge them to take courageous steps forward to achieve their goals and create a rewarding and fulfilling work life.
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We work with people and teams, managers or executives, in large or small companies of private or public sector, entrepreneurs and business owners, friends, colleagues, exceptional people who are interested in coaching and wish to change their behaviors in order to evolve.
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Reach high targets and quotas.
Accomplishing this consistently, requires a manager who also coaches the team to work together to reach its goals. We coach managers and executives and show them how to coach their people to reach these targets.
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They are newly hired or they are just promoted as managers and they are responsible for team's results.
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Make plans now to travel to Rolla for the 108th St. Pat's pre-parade party at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at Hasselmann Alumni House, located at 1100 N. Pine St. Complimentary breakfast and a cash bar will be available before the parade.
If you can't make it to Rolla, attend one of the St. Pat's section events in your area. Help make the 108th celebration the Best Ever!


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Zaraza wielka (Orobanche elatior Sutton) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny zarazowatych (Orobanchaceae).

Zasięg występowania
Występuje w Azji i Europie. W Polsce jest rzadka. Występuje na rozproszonych stanowiskach, głównie na niżu i w pasie wyżyn. Jej stanowiska podawane były m.in. z Pomorza Gdańskiego, Niecki Nidziańskiej, Bramy Morawskiej, Wyżyny Śląskiej, Wyżyny Kieleckiej, Przedborskiej i Lubelskiej. W Karpatach podano jej występowanie tylko z pojedynczych stanowisk w Beskidzie Wyspowym, na Pogórzu Wielickim i Cieszyńskim.

Morfologia
 Łodyga  Pojedyncza, zazwyczaj gruba, różowa lub rdzawoczerwona, gruczołowato owłosiona, pokryta gruczołowatymi łuskami.
 Kwiaty  Grzbieciste, 15-28 mm długości, zebrane w kłos długości ok. 30 cm. Kielich dwułatkowy. Łatki te są 2-zębne, rzadziej całobrzegie, z przodu zrośnięte lub przylegające. Korona kwiatu na początku różowa, później bladożółta, gruczołowato owłosiona. Poniżej pręcików zwęża się w rurkę, a powyżej stopniowo rozszerza. Warga dolna ma 3, zazwyczaj równe łatki, czasami tylko łatka środkowa jest większa. Warga górna jest delikatnie gruczołowato owłosiona, całobrzega lub wycięta, czasami tylko 2-łatkowa. Nitka pręcika owłosiona i zgrubiała w nasadzie. Szyjka słupka gruczołowato owłosiona. Znamię z dwiema łatkami.
 Owoc  Walcowata torebka.
 Gatunki podobne Liczne gatunki zaraz są bardzo podobne morfologiczne. Za pewne można uznać tylko oznaczenie gatunku potwierdzone przez specjalistę.

Biologia i ekologia
 Rozwój Bylina, geofit. Jest rośliną bezzieleniową i, jak wszystkie zarazy, pasożytem. W literaturze podaje się, że jej żywicielami są różne gatunki roślin z rodziny astrowatych (Asteraceae), w kilkuletnich badaniach prowadzonych przez polskich specjalistów stwierdzono jednak, że w Polsce jedynym jej żywicielem jest chaber driakiewnik (Centaurea scabiosa). Kwitnie od czerwca do sierpnia. Nasiona rozsiewane są przez wodę i wiatr.

 Siedlisko Rośnie na kserotermicznych murawach oraz świetlistych zaroślach i lasach dębowych.

 Genetyka Liczba chromosomów 2n = 38.

Zagrożenia i ochrona
Roślina była objęta w Polsce ochroną ścisłą w latach 2004-2014, od 2014 znajduje się pod częściową ochroną gatunkową.

Gatunek jest umieszczony na Czerwonej liście roślin i grzybów Polski (2006) w grupie gatunków rzadkich, potencjalnie zagrożonych (kategoria zagrożenia R). W wydaniu z 2016 roku otrzymał kategorię EN (zagrożony).

Przypisy

Zarazowate
Rośliny chronione
Rośliny pasożytnicze


They may have thought it was over when they submitted their final report on April 30 to the city. Apparently it is not.
Global Spectrum made the final report for the Holiday Market - the outdoor vendors market on Old Falls street that operated last year from November 26 to December 31.
The Market was developed by Idaho developer, Mark Rivers with $450,000 of public money - $225,000 from the city and $225,000 from the state through USA Niagara.
Mr. Rivers was supposed to match the $450,000 of public money with an equal amount of private money or in-kind goods and services to create a $900,000 market.
Global Spectrum is an international management company that locally operates the Niagara Falls Conference Center and was assigned to monitor the expenditure of public money for the Holiday Market.
Now there seems to be a problem.
Mr. Fruscione is not alone in suspecting the sufficiency of the report, and is joined by two of his council colleagues, Robert Anderson and Glenn Choolokian.
Mr. Choolokian told the Reporter, "I think it is unbelievable that they said they spent over $700,000 on an event like that…. There is no way there was $700,000 spent down there. There is no way this was a $700,000 market.
"I want proof that it was spent. I want to see every nickel. I want proof of how much money came in and how much was donated in in-kind services.
Mr. Fruscione said he was troubled by the lack of receipts for tens of thousand of dollars Mr. Rivers or his company got in reimbursements.
Council Member Robert Anderson said he wondered how $700,000 could have been invested into what was supposed to be a successful market and the city got none of its money back.
Gerry Genova, head of the tourism advisory board, was with Mr. Fruscione during the interview and agreed to be interviewed also.
He said that his board had initially voted against the market and that Mr. Rivers set up some "make believe businesses" he said would be at the market to make it look like he had actual vendors in order to persuade the city to give him money.
As early as March 2011, the Holiday Market came on the public horizon.
Reported in local newspapers as, "A European-style holiday market along Old Falls Street in downtown Niagara Falls," Mr. Rivers, president and chief executive officer of Brix and Co. of Idaho, emerged to partner with the city and state in a total investment of "between $900,000 and $1 million," according to the Niagara Gazette.
It was billed as "an indoor-outdoor market that would feature 80 vendors offering regional, national and international goods and food and a regular schedule of entertainment and events. An estimate provided to the city council (by Mr. Rivers) suggests the proposed market could draw as many as 250,000 people to Old Falls Street by year's end," according to the Gazette.
Mr. Rivers informed city lawmakers that his company would run the event as a nonprofit operation. He said he would contribute his efforts free of charge.
With questions swirling, the Reporter contacted Ryan Coate of Global Spectrum who supervised the report. Mr. Coate said Global Spectrum, the escrow agent for Mr. River's company, has nothing to hide.
The formal agreement states that Global Spectrum will provide the city, USA Niagara and Brix with a "full and complete" accounting of the event and that Mr. Rivers' firm will assist Global in the accounting and providing all relevant information.
Last week, Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster told the media that he has no concerns about the handling of dollars — public or private — by Mr. Rivers or any of the market organizers.
Mayor Dyster said he believes Mr. Rivers' firm did a quality job of both organizing and running the market under the circumstances.
Still the report leaves many questions unanswered. It does not mention that Mr. Rivers was himself a vendor. He operated seven of the 30 booths.
Were his employees paid by taxpayers? Was his inventory paid by taxpayers? Who got the money from the sale of these products?
In the report there is no proof of any of this.
The market in reality was four concerts, an ice-skating rink, 30 wooden booths, not unlike tool sheds and several tents for vendors, a 21-foot-tall Christmas tree, some decorations and scattered events – the latter mostly paid by sponsors.
One interesting detail – in terms of what was promised and what was delivered - is that while Mr. Rivers said 250,000 people would likely come to the market, the Global report places the figure at 75,000.
There were only 35, of which seven were operated by Mr. Rivers himself.
Looking further into the report, one learns that the cost of the 30 vendor's booths was around $100,000.
The Reporter contacted Dominic Cortese, of Cortese Brothers, who built the sheds. He confirmed that the price of $100,000 was accurate.
The Reporter contacted John Echel, Brix Niagara's lead operational and logistics person for the market to get a handle on other costs.
One of these media partners Mr. Rivers utilized was Western New York Family Magazine. According to Michele Miller, owner, publisher and editor of the magazine, founded in 1984, she said was stiffed on a bill owed by Mr. Rivers to the tune of more than $1,000.
Moving into the category of bizarre and foolish decisions, the report speaks of the concerts.
"There was no profit earned from any of the concerts," the Global report said "The concerts were designed to bring awareness of the event, provide a unique holiday experience, generate foot traffic and elevate the stature of downtown Niagara Falls as a venue for world-class entertainment.… The concerts did not perform well and were a large expense of the overall market.... Global Spectrum is hopeful that this series of concerts has allowed the opportunity to raise awareness to the venue as a concert destination in Niagara Falls, New York.
Here are the Facts: The Canadian Tenors ticket sales grossed $9,334.85. According to the report, the act cost $40,000, plus production.
Aaron Neville grossed $9,240.55. He cost $25,000.
BPO grossed $7,062.94 and cost $17,500.
$86,000 was allegedly spent on acts. Sales were less than $30,000.
But this was nothing compared to the ice skating rink. The alleged cost of the rink: $146.448.
During the event, the rink attracted only 366 paying customers for a total income of $6,463.
Someone decided to spend $144,448 on an ice skating rink for a 37 day event and it lost $138,000.
Where is the rink now?
Perhaps most telling is the income generated by paying customers.
Ice Rink: $145,106; Concerts: $113,220; Advertising/Marketing: $103,770; Booth Construction: $103,280; Salaries: $100,677; Tents $61,182; Food Show Expenses $22,833; Insurance: $21,000; Landscaping: $19,585; Travel: $15,100; Part-time salaries: $13,495; Retail & Ice Rink: $10,222; Propane: $8,342; Decorations: $7,122; and various smaller items totaling another $22,000.
The Holiday Market cost $782,423 and brought in $83,682, a business that lost $698,741 in 37 days.
The report raises many more questions. How much money was really spent? One item, $61,000 for tents seems high. Did the ice rink really cost $144,000? Who got salaries of $108,677?
There is no breakout as to what vendors showed up. There are no figures about who made money selling what goods.
It appears there was no mechanism in place to calculate attendance.
Were there the 300 temporary jobs Mr. Shoeplin said would be created?
Where were the media schedules, the proof of ads running and at what costs?
Of course, this story would not be complete, if we did not speak to Mr. Rivers.
I asked him about WNY family magazine.
"I wanted to try to do something good and meaningful in the community," he said.
Is Niagara Falls your community?
Was the market a success?
Did you personally pocket any money?
Is there any missing money?
The promises you made were a lot different than what the public actually got.
So what was the value of this project?
Mr. Fruscione said he, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Choolokian will be meeting with corporation counsel, Craig Johnson to determine how to pursue a vigorous legal probe of this matter.
He also said he intends to meet with Mr. Coate of Global Spectrum.
The Reporter will be following this matter closely in the coming weeks.


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Ryan Seacrest Backs CNN Limiting New Year's Eve Booze After Last Year's Insult
Entertainment TOP STORIES
Ryan Seacrest is fully in support of CNN limiting alcohol consumption during its year-end broadcast.
The host of ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published online Tuesday that CNN's correspondents and anchors reportedly no longer imbibing during New Year's Eve programming is a good decision. On CNN's New Year's Eve Live that aired Dec. 31, 2021, co-host Andy Cohen made a crack to Anderson Cooper about Seacrest's show.
"I don't advocate drinking when one is on the air," Seacrest said. "I don't know how that started as a tradition, but it's probably a good idea [to scale back], CNN. There's some pretty respectable people — or at least one, right? I think there's a serious journalist and then a friend of mine who has a lot of fun, but it's probably a good idea. Although the viewers probably wish they would drink more."
Seacrest went on to reference last year's much-debated moment, in which Cohen, who had been drinking alcohol with Cooper on the air throughout the show, noticed that the band Journey was performing on ABC in the group's current lineup that no longer includes former frontman Steve Perry. Cohen referred to the show's guests as "Ryan Seacrest group of losers" and said that anyone watching ABC that night had "seen nothing."
The American Idol host told the outlet, "But I think they had something to say about my show at one point, which was I'm sure from the alcohol because I don't think they would say what they said about our performers if they weren't drinking. But, you know, I think our show's a bigger, broader show, and we will not drink until 1:05 in the morning. Although I might send them some Casa Dragones tequila just to tempt them while they're on the air."
Shortly after New Year's Eve, Cohen said on his Radio Andy broadcast that he regretted his negative comments about the ABC show because he likes Seacrest. Cohen reiterated the sentiment during a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "It was an offhanded comment about nothing that really had to do with him. It was about Journey. I was really going after the current iteration of Journey. Because I'm a big Steve Perry fan."
Variety reported last month that Chris Licht, who was named CNN chairman and CEO in February, informed his staff of the channel's revised approach to New Year's Eve programming. Cohen and Cooper reportedly will still be free to consume alcohol during their show, but other correspondents and anchors will not.
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